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I'm not mocking him. I just said it is amusing. ;-)

At first, I wasn't sure if it was serious. It sounds a bit like a parody of "rock-star" consultants.

On the other hand, for all I know he could be doing something really valuable and having repeat clients. After all, there are lawyers out there charging $300/hour.
>> You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this:

You've posted some great information here, but actually viewing all 22 players from a birds-eye-view affords an exponentially superior quality of analysis.
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If college or Canadian football started doing it and fans responded extremely positively and started asking for/expecting it elsewhere, that could force the NFL's hand a bit. The XFL's crazy wire camera rigs almost immediately made their way into the NFL, so there's at least a little precedent.
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Let statement, mostly for side-effects, sufficient for what you need:

Sadly it's not. JS has some semantic foibles, but I find myself up against syntax more often than I'd like. Every time I write it I'm impressed at how ugly the syntax is vs for such a good language (modulo the standard library.)

The very thing I'm trying to avoid is the use of blocks within parentheses. (Aside: I changed my font to Monaco for JS because of the frequent appearance of `})`, and went to the trouble of fixing it up in Fontforge so gvim et al. would be willing to use it.)

I never want to see this:

anything(block {
// ...
}) <--- this
^^____this

but I still want the definition to be short-lived (more for self-documenting purposes than anything else, now that I think of it.) Your last example almost has it, but the parens are right there where I want them gone.
You're assuming he knows how to use email, his staffers have little choice and would just killbox it (no doubt a forthcoming button addition to Blogger for potential terrorists). Note the "article" said he put pen to paper to write to Google, unless that was a tongue in cheek comment. :-/
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I agree. Ebay, Amazon, and Paypal eat up every penny of profit that you would make as a reseller.
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That was an amazing hook and I feel like the book was talking exactly about me. It was actually very reassuring to know how normal I am.

Not sure if you're associated with this book, but I think I'm sold.
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Autism sounds like truly a bad thing, truly a disease or bad health condition. But some of what the psychology profession considers to be in the autism "range", like Asperger's, instead sounds an awful lot to me like someone who's just smart and intellectual, and actually has a better/higher-functioning mind, than the average person. This would seem to be borne out by the fact that these "conditions" are more prevalent in scientists, engineers and their children. From my perspective, yes, people who have a much more powerful mind, greater analytical abilities, people who can think visually, three-dimensionally, hyper-logically, etc. are going to sound/look/act strange to people who don't do these things and don't have these abilities. But that doesn't mean it's bad. Or rather, it doesn't mean the "strange" person has something wrong or non-ideal about them -- it may be the "normal" person who's defective or non-ideal.
I don't think the NFL has a Congressionally granted monopoly.
Wonder how many of those 14m brazilians are actually users. Almost everyone I know has received, at least once, an email from badoo saying everyone else is there (e.g saying I am, which is not the case). Fishy, very fishy...
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I have always been a football fan but when I was in college I lived in the Football dorm and it changed how I saw the game forever. (Back story, I lived in those dorms because I'm a big guy and the coach wanted me to play for the team. I told him yeah because I noticed that at registration all of the Football players were able to skip in line. I never did play because I loved Basketball more than Football at the time).

Anyway, when you live around Football players 24/7 you start to learn facets of the game that you never knew about. You learn what every position is doing on every play and why they are doing it.Now when I watch Football it is more like a game of chess than a brutal grudge match. The real excitement in the game comes from watching the linemen and not the skilled positions.

On another side note, you would think that all of this football knowledge would help actual players when playing Madden (That was all that was played in those dorms. Hours and hours of Madden). It does but only to a certain extent. Football players take Madden too literally and try to play it as a simulation. They forget the video game part. I would use that to my advantage all of the time.
Facebook has the benefit of showing that you are the type of company that engages with its customers and users. It is also scalable in the sense that you can answer a question once and many people can read it. Email is quick, and most people are comfortable with using email.
its a joke mate. the next big thing is your own project.
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I completely agree with you. On the other hand, good knowledge and understanding of them can be very useful when formulating ones own arguments.

But running around telling people their argument is invalid because it is X, simply makes one look like an ass.
HP has a program where they hire new law school grads. See http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/hp_opts_for_training_... .
There's supposed to be 42 trillion "voxels" in that demo.

If each "voxel" took only a single bit to store, this works out to require [42 trillion / (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 8) = 4 889.44352] gigabytes of memory.

How do you store that while you calculate the screen pixels? Modern PCs only have 4 or 8 gigabytes of RAM!
Try explaining the concept of paper money (as it is currently used) to most people and they'll be very confused. But they still use it.
Go ahead and write your self-congratulatory blogpost when Ruby "withers and dies". If HN is still around in 40-50 years, I'm sure it'll hit the frontpage.
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I'm a Product Manager in the social space and really eager to work on something more challenging and solve hard problems. Given the current status (uncertainty) of the US economy, would it be wise to join a new company/industry at this time? Should I wait till mid next year? Unlike most of you Software Engineers, our jobs are not that layoff-proof especially when we are new hires.

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they have no direct influence unless they are a customer (paying money to Wikipedia), sure they can try to game the system, but Wikipedia isn't going to do some action at their request. If a company pays a lot of money to Wikipedia its possible someone within the Wiki organization would be willing to bend the rules a bit to cave to their request because it may keep the money flowing whereas otherwise tough decisions would have to be made (laying people off, etc)
Alternatively...

Excerpt from Blogger Changelog:

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exactly. This would be all too easy for someone in their organization to do to keep a favorable relationship with a client.
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I remember seeing something similar to this before. After a quick google search, turns out it's by the same people actually[1].

[1]: http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/03/22/running-out-of-usb-por...
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This is one of those times where I kick myself for not thinking of this myself. Currently my solution for this involves emailing myself PNGs and then opening on the phone phone by one.

Thanks for the tip!
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The "Wikipedia submitter vs script kiddie checkins to an OSS project" analogy is incredibly tired, and the amount of presumption going on here is a huge contributor to why people get so frustrated with Wikipedia's process.

That tired ass analogy is too busy focusing blame on hypothetical idiot submitters that it fails to look at the problem it's incorrectly ignoring about the other half -- potential idiot reviewers.

Open source submissions are vetted by programmers. Are Wikipedia articles related to Ethiopian cuisine reviewed by Ethiopian chefs, or by food critics or historians or the editor of a culinary publication, or even just by someone who likes food? I imagine on average they are reviewed by a person whose credentials are more or less I'm Some Dude Who Is Involved With Wikipedia.

Imagine an open source software project so valuable and interesting that it drew in the most legendary programmers working today, but the person vetting that code was me, a graphic designer with some outdated HTML markup knowledge and enough surviving scraps from my high school Pascal class that I can express an idea to an engineer, but couldn't actually write a 'hello world' to save my grandma. I imagine those brilliant programmers would eventually stop submitting code to my project. It doesn't matter how qualified your submitters are if the gatekeepers aren't. That is especially exacerbated if the gatekeepers are super inside and uppity about it (which is not uncommon in the case of Wikipedia).
Senator Lieberman means well but he doesn't understand technology. A terrorist flagging button isn't going to do it.

I'm certain that all the blogs in the world are scraped in real time by various intelligence services in the federal government.

What Senator Lieberman should be asking for is to have Google send them several engineers to improve the algorithms that flag the terrorist blogs for them.
If the encyclopedia world's equivalent of Linus Torvalds was vetting Wikipedia entries I don't think there would be as much of an issue.
Yeah... no... I tried that one too... and all I got was "What's this Firefox thing?" "Does it cost me money?"
If you click the close button [X], they won't appear again. It's not a big deal.
That may very well be, but then what's his excuse for his goofy policies on Internet policing where people are encouraged to label their fellow citizens? Being able to flag "inappropriate content" is one thing, being able to flag a blog as "terrorist" is another.
I was expecting some sort of Google Adwords box in the browser or something. Not a small tooltip advertising Chromebook. Please choose a better title: "Google advertises Chromebook in Chrome" or similar.
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I'd like to know what you guys think about it.
Personally I am in this situation and really don't know what to do about it.
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This is addressed in the article: they used many replicated objects. They stored one rock, then rendered it a gajillion times. They claim they were able to do this by applying something like a search algorithm to the objects being rendered.

That's the magic of it -- they are able to create worlds with insane amounts of detail, but in an intelligent way that means they don't need an insane amount of computational power to render it.
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Oh, it is older than I thought. Wikipedia says version 0.15 was released in 1996.

Either way "bz" stands for Big Zipped and is unrelated to bzip2.
Is that a terabyte, or are you just happy to see me?
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It is not about how we are wired by evolution. It is about whether or not, according to the guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html this is an acceptable article. I say that it is not. The article is fluff, does not reference any actual scientific research. It says only "Scientists have discovered . . ."

I have flagged this article.
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Education plus time to think drives innovation.

In your 'real' world where everyone must frantically scamble to survive, civilization never leaves the caves.

We have massive surpluses across the world, 98%R of the wealth is owned by a tiny fraction of the people, food is piled up and wasted to protect markets, and yet there are still idiots claiming that we just cannot afford to educate everyone.

We cannot afford not to, if we want to survive into the 22nd century and beyond.

Its not a gravy train, our surpluses drove our technological advantages, which in turn drove our surpluses.
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What kinds of strategies do you find that work out in real life but not in the game?
How would files on different segments be presented to the OS? Would the directories on each disk be merged together into one root directory, would each one get its own directory, or something else? To make the "just pull out the one with the vacation photos on it" use-case work, you would have to be able to see and control which segment a given file is on.
This is an ad for something related to the product in the product you're using. Banshee has an in-browser affiliate link for the Amazon MP3 store (pointing at GNOME or Canonical, depending on which distro you're using). Skype will gladly advertise Skype credits when you're using its client. Hell, even videogame DLC works this way.
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Wow, this is pretty cool, thanks for sharing. Interesting to see a name put on all of these argumentative structures that pop up.
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Are you asking whether you should negotiate your salary or not? Then the answer is a yes every time. Unless the offer made is higher than I was going to ask, I always ask for a higher salary. For example, a few years back (my first full time job in programming), I was offered $50k and I really wanted $55k. So I asked for $60k and let them offer to "meet in the middle" at $55k. I negotiated a 10% raise in a 5 minute phone call. That is the easiest raise you'll ever get. Most people don't get a 10% raise after being on the job for a while unless it comes with a promotion (and additional responsibilities). If you think being a new grad is a negative, try to spin it in a positive light. Since you are fresh out of college, you are used to working with little sleep, meeting deadlines, and following instructions, and by definition you are still in "learning mode" so you can get up to speed quickly. More experienced workers may be a little harder to mold into what they need. In fact, they should pay more for these qualities.
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Is it significantly different from Riak? They seem very, very similar based on my superficial knowledge.
> I've wanted to see that for some time. Want it for every sport on earth, really.

For tennis I recommend a book by Brad Gilbert called "Winning Ugly". A treasure trove of tennis tips and tricks; opens up a whole new perspective at the tennis game - both yours and the pros' you watch on TV.
What is the legal basis that gives them this ability?
There is a neat trick where you can zap an old lithium-ion battery with an electric welder, it does something to the old chunky crystals or something like that.
His question is what law gives the NFL this right. You can't just claim "I own" this.

As far as I know I am allowed to record anything I want. Perhaps not with audio, but I am not aware of any law that gives someone the right to prevent video recording.

They have the right to kick you out (if they catch you), but not to prevent recording.

If you know of such a law, please post it.
I know it's not technically computer science and it's more vocational, but I wish my school offered classes like these. Something like this would be more beneficial to me than, say, Theory of Automata, I think.
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Do you have any research about this inverse proportion?
The bubble was in the news the whole time. People just didn't care. http://seattlebubble.com is entirely funded by real estate advertising.
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That's puffery. These courses are not Stanford quality. The lectures maybe, but not the homework and assessments, and there is no research at all.
Anyone know about the idealogical leanings of the project 2049 institute? They seem to be focused on rocking the US-asia boat perhaps to increase military spending?

http://twitter.com/#!/Project2049

http://www.uscc.gov/hearings/2011hearings/written_testimonie...
Yeah, you should always negotiate your salary. I'm still in college and about to start my first development job (an internship) and I negotiated my hourly rate for that. You're a talented developer. People like you are in short supply in this industry, so I see no reason to just take what they offer, without at least trying for more.
I remember an article about a guy who lived in the middle of nowhere (small town, population 17) -- and some dating site claimed to have 16 singles in that town waiting to meet him.

Oops.
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I am aware universities can charge what they please for a law degree and that they benefit from exclusivity (less people studying means more money for the ones who do). But what if the price was reflective of the cost plus a profit instead of cost plus a very generous profit? Law is a cash cow for most universities. Do you think society would benefit from a greater supply of people knowledgeable and qualified in the field of law? Is a society better off with law in the hands of the many or of the few?
I am especially fond of the make money from your customer advice - under boot-strapping. Sure there are biz that will make $ in the long term from having large volumes of something, but for the rest of us, charge early!
Don't get me wrong - I'm absolutely of the position that education can, and must be cheaper for society to function.

But what should and shouldn't be is of cold comfort to someone leaving high school right now, who is forced to make this choice in a world where education is expensive. I'm sick and tired of people shaming everyone for getting a "useful" education.

I'm all for education reform - note in my original post I mentioned that comprehensive education died when it got too expensive. But can we, for once, stop booing and shaming people who choose rationally within the existing system? Can we also stop giving people excuses for choosing poorly within this system?

We have a society where it costs six figures to get a degree. This is a damn shame and should be fixed. But knowing this people still get degrees they can't afford, and then tell a sob story to the press about how their $100K+ degree can't find them a job. Well, shit.

The solution to this problem is to make education cheaper, not to shelter and coddle people who are incapable of making a rational decision.

[edit] To address your point:

> "Education plus time to think drives innovation."

I agree, but I do think that we are inevitably returning to a state where education plus time to think are going to become rare luxuries. Our innovation will suffer as a result - has already suffered as a result.

But I don't think there's anything we can do to stop this. The US gained an incredible industrial lead over the rest of the world early on, which allowed to elevate its quality of life well beyond anything the world had seen, which in turn drove the wheels of innovation and invention.

But decades of mismanagement, rampant robber-baron capitalism, and simple globalization has meant that the US middle class is gutted. It's getting more and more desperate out there - more and more people working multiple jobs, more and more people making large cutbacks to their quality of life to make ends meet. This is a vicious cycle, to be certain, but I can't see how to stop it.
The most obvious thing is not always the most obvious thing. And the distinguishing characteristic of a vote isn't that people express opinions; it's how the opinions are counted.

Go read a number of closings of tricky AfDs and you'll soon see that it's the arguments that really matter.
MIT has been doing it for a decade, except for the coordinated enrollment (study groups) and automatically graded exercises (both of which are nice enhancements, but the ML class exercises are mostly pointless.) http://ocw.mit.edu/
If you want type-checking on your objects, but with full polymorphism, use zope.interface.

If you want dicts to be accessible as objects with attribute access instead of subscript access, either create a real object which mocks/wraps/encapsulates/etc. your dict, or modify your desires.

This is not Pythonic. Sorry.
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