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The price skyrocketed because of some spectacular crop failures, price of oil, etc. Biofuels contributed but do not explain the price changes we saw in 2007-2008 [2]. That is more industry FUD. A further problem is ethanol and corn. Corn is subsidized by the tax payer, so naturally everyone wants to use it for everything, including biofuel. Unfortunately its incredibly inefficient to turn into biofuel [1]. Its actually incredibly inefficient period - but humans don't like to eat palm oil.

So yes you are correct in worrying about biofuels affecting agricultural prices: low yield corn was affected by its use as a biofuel.

This is why I argue for biodiesel from high yield crops that can produce 700 gallons per acre, instead of corn's 17 gallons per acre.

[1] http://www.progressivefuelslimited.com/PDF/PFL-Biodiesel%20C...

[2] http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2009/967/ifdp967.pdf
This article seems like a strawman. When was the last time you read people complaining about startup work ethic?
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If electrical devices can be used to bring down a plane, why am I not being stopped from bringing them onto the plane?

My 500 ml bottle of water is strictly forbidden.

Couldn't a terrorist could come equipped with a collection of gameboys and tamagotchis to bring the plane down?
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You could download the PDF, weird problem though.
I've never understood the inclusion of GPS on tablets. It's one of those features that you imagine you could use but end up not having any real world application. Most people use a tablet indoors, guess where GPS is utterly useless?

I imagine it's like people that buy an SUV for the potential off-road capabilities.
Nor does it make those who produce crack "talented".

The only drain is the one caused by Farmville itself. The one that the time goes down.
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Interesting.. I've never used "Go to line" in that way, probably because my text editor never has line numbers showing. For me it is always to jump to the point of an exception or somesuch.. maybe I'll try it for a while.

PS. I use Emacs for virtually everything so C-N, C-P and M-N, M-P get used for that kind of navigation.
I'm an EA spouse. The culture depends very strongly on the particular studio. It's mainly the old studios like Redwood Shores and Tiburon that have the really bad reputations, though they have gotten a bit better. I'd say it's partly the lawsuit, but also partly Riccitiello's effort to create a healthier culture.
It's clear that I get benefits from going to the toilet. I'm not so sure about the TSA.
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Yet another example of the kind of abuse of power that writers for "well respected" publications get away with all the time. That shitty NY Times article would have been ignored/laughed at on its own, but hosted on nytimes.com it becomes credible and generally beyond reproach. A permanent black mark on Zynga's reputation.

Now Arrington reveals that it's essentially a hitjob by scorned investors and direct competitors. Big fucking surprise.

All hail independent writers. Down with "well respected" media brands.
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I also had a dream job for a while. But tendency is that quality of engineering positions slowly deteriorates as company matures.
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It's not about time or training, it's about basic problem solving skills and intelligence. A shocking number of people really are complete idiots. I'm not just talking about not being good with computers. Everybody doesnt have their own set of skills, some people really are good at nothing.
This is a pure guess, but I think it's about right when I look at my own dismal performance.

If your own avg Karma drops below 2 (because people downvote you for example) you cannot upvote anything.

The problem with that is that if you only get 1 point per submission I sense that it might just be mathematically impossible to get back above 2 again, and worse, the more you participate the lower your average Karma gets.

As I say, just a guess based on my own score. I could be completely wrong. In which case this post will probably be downvoted out of existence!
I feel exactly the same way. I had the experience of working with a designer on two projects, both of which he gave me pixel-perfect mockups for. One project was an iOS project, the other a web project. Getting the pixels to match up for the iOS project was fairly easy, just a matter of getting the right values for text shadow opacity, setting up stretched images, etc. The web project (which only had to run on newer WebKit browsers) was much harder. I was able to get a first draft very quickly, but getting every last pixel to match a mockup was a painful process to say the least. My takeaway was this: CSS is great for quickly developing styles, but when you need everything exactly perfect, it's a pain in the ass.
choice paralysis. One of my favorite TED talks. Barry Schwartz covers this http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
And funnily enough, the reverse scenario played out at least once also. In 2009 in New Zealand a very controversial 1st prize of $15,000 was awarded to artist Dane Mitchell in the Waikato National Contemporary Art competition.

Dane did not even come over to NZ from his residence in Berlin, or send any artwork to the competition. He simply phoned in instructions to the janitor to wait until all the other exhibits had been prepared and their packing and scraps had been cleaned up, and then told the janitor to empty the contents of the rubbish bin and enter it as his sculpture :-)
If I could create active time I'd put it all in my currently active occupation, and when I'm done with one occupation I'd switch. One at a time is good enough for me.

If you had more time in a day, how is it different from having more days?

Why do you think that you don't contemplate while sleeping or being about to? I do, a lot.

If you would not sleep it means dropping a vital link in your information processing chain.
Wait, what? Don't all radio devices always get tested by the FCC before they are approved for sale?

I'm sure they could test airplanes to never be influenced by, say, a sub 2 Watt signal and certify cellphones of never exceeding 2 Watts of signal power.
There's a lot of empty space in between the West and the East, which is where plane travel is the most compelling, and train travel would still likely not be.
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> My point is simply that such job changes are costly in time, money, and effort

And that's where I disagree. When I said there's no downside, I meant it. Changing jobs has been only an enriching experience for me. As long as you're savvy with your finances, it's no sweat to find another job. On the other hand, if I ran a business that started to tank, I think that would be far more stressful (thankfully mine never did).

I agree that running your own business should be a desirable goal, but I think you can make a great living working as an employee. It depends a lot on your interests. Both approaches have their benefits and pitfalls.
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Thanks - trying it now! The MRU behavior is spot on, including across Spaces!

I'm finding the list style still has high mental overhead compared to the Windows/Linux style of bringing the target window (or it's outline) transiently forward.

Still, looks like it's 80/20 enough that I'll be parting with $14 soon!
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when I searched that, Google is showing results for "loc state law". :-)
Also, these 15 objects will in the event of an emergency become flying objects bouncing around the cabin.
I use MacVim. When you want to edit or add some code, isn't it more common to want to do it at a particular spot rather than reacting to a exception/warning?

That's how I do it anyway. The only reasons I can come up with off the top of my head to do otherwise is if someone is doing heavy TDD or banging code into a Smalltalk debugger instead of a browser.

How do you do it? (Genuine question. I almost always code by myself and have never been around anyone while they are productively working with an editor.)
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They will save you time in the long run, because they automate your testing. If you spend some time writing a unit test to cover some code, you never have to worry about testing that piece of code again: it will be automatically tested every time you run your test suite.

I also agree that they can be hard to write, however this will make you a better programmer as it forces you to really think about the code you're testing (for example if it can't be tested in an isolated fashion by a unit test, then it may not be modular enough).
Modern GPS chipsets actually work ok in a lot of buildings. Some of it is higher sensitivity, but a lot is that they get location opportunistically (when entering/exiting) and then remember location. A-GPS helps a lot too.
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Try and get some non-fluoridated water too, sodium fluoride is neurotoxic - move to Europe or http://findaspring.com.

"Drinking fluoridated water is linked with reduced cognitive ability in children. There are also over 30 animal studies showing that fluoride is a neurotoxin which reduces learning and memory. Essentially, fluoride makes you a bit less intelligent."

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/whats-the-deal-with...
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It wasn't really in the sense that Clojure is the the logical step up from Haskell. It was the next logical step for me as I was learning to program. Lisp and Haskell are the two of the big scary functional (though not purely functional in the case of Lisp) languages. They both warrant knowing.

Furthermore, I'd probably disagree with the assertion that Haskell is more powerful once fully grasped. Lisp gives a lot of power to programmers (exhibit 1: the Lisp macro system). However, that means molding the definition of 'power' to suit my needs, and I don't really want to go there. I think that Haskell and Clojure are both very powerful and amazing languages. They are not mutually exclusive. I just happen to like Clojure more. Plenty of people go the other way. I, of course, still have a lot of respect and love for Haskell and hope to have time to do more with it in the near future.

As for why I switched in the first place, I guess it was mostly because Clojure looked like it would be so much fun. When you're young, what others perceive as weirdness can sometimes be exactly the thing that appeals to you. The reaction I had to parentheses is exactly the opposite of what experienced developers tend to have in the beginning. I loved them.
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Now that you've taken on investment, won't the investors want to force you to maximize profits (possibly at the expense of your users' privacy)?
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>>Whether Ritalin is 'worth the risk' is a personal judgement

If Ritalin becomes legal for enhancement purposes, as you recommend, it won't be a personal judgement to use it or not; it will be something you will have to use just to compete.

Edit: That said, I'd love to get my hands on Ritalin legally. :-) (I'm not going to start doing illegal drugs.)
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The NYTimes article was rather bizarre, with all the EA references and connections. (And EA Spouse worked at Zynga! hah)

Mike as linked called out Zynga for their scams, which are arguably worse than being hard on employees.
For those speaking German, there's also quite an elaborate version using hexagonal pieces at http://www.dreierschach.de/
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Thanks - using these settings!

I get a warning that some apps might not like command-tab being taken by Witch - have you faced any issues?
> I can remember having conversations with my parents where I'd bring home a 90% in a test and I'd get asked "what about the other 10%?" I don't think this was asked in a way to be mean. In a strange way, I think it was a weird way of showing pride because all you can "complain" about is a missing 10%. Whatever the case and in spite of well-meaning intentions, the message that was hammered in was that nothing ever seemed good enough.

THIS attitude has scarred me for life. Even if I came first in the exams, first in coursework, and got 90%, my parents would be disappointed in my failure to get the other 10%, which'd frequently result in beatings or expulsions from the household.

As a result, I now work myself to the bone, constantly abuse myself mentally, and can never get a sense of satisfaction or achievement from anything I do, as I've been trained to believe that everything I do is worthless.
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Because a cup of coffee has a known consistency.

A paid app might or might not deliver the functionality, and if it doesn't, after one $1.99 app purchase you need to buy another app, and the first one is a realized loss. Psychologically we don't react well to realized losses.
It's not that somebody signed a urinal, it's that that urinal was signed. If you can't appreciate art, that doesn't invalidate the artistic statement being made.
>we all know what supply and demand are

Of course, but it's worth mentioning here b/c people don't normally apply it to money.

>Thats not really the question is it? It's not about better utility. It's about where you can unload the currency and for what/how much.

For what and/or how much you can exchange the currency is a function of the level of trust in the currency, which is a function of the general demand for it, which is a function of several things - utility, soundness of the algorithm and system implementation, size of the network, etc. All these factor into its value. At any one time, different factors may be weighted differently by market participants, but those weights and the resulting market values can and do change.

>It's not about usefulness it's ultimately about money. Real money.

What is real money exactly?

>Gold and silver don't compare. They're not currency

Considering that gold and silver have been currencies for most of recorded human history, until just the past ~80 years, I beg to differ. But I wasn't attempting a strong 'comparison' there anyway, just a tangential observation.
Not only that, Google also does keyboard-layout mapping if you forgot to switch your keyboard layout before searching.

For example, if I want to search in Hebrew for "חיפוש בעברית" but accidentally typed in English and typed "jhpua gchcr," (same keys as the Hebrew chars) - I'll still get the results I was looking for [1].

[1] - https://www.google.com/search?q=jhpua%20cgcrh,
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"I don't understand why people do this. I mean, overcommit to activities which would unlikely produce money or fame."

In a quite fucked up society, everything seems to be used to become more fucked up.
Perhaps all these activites are just a way to dispel the fear of death,
that you have to get the most out of this one life.
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I actually never turned off my phone/gameboy/mp3 player and that since ages.
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I started reading this but couldn't help but think that it was all b.s... anyone else actually follow this book with good results?
I'm so glad they wrote about piracy and made the points about how Not all software should be free. Honestly, I'll never understand that sense of entitlement people have. I was once in the same boat as the author, pirating everything under the sun. Then I got a job writing code too and I haven't pirated a single thing since. I don't sell software but I appreciate the work that goes into it and understand that these guys lose out even if I didn't have money to pay to begin with. The no money argument and the free marketing arguments are bunk. The poor will save to buy if there's no pirate copy and the majority of marketing you get from a pirated app is marketing that links to the pirate download, not the legit one!

Excellent post!
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No, but I sometimes wish I was dead for just that half an hour.
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The choice of language is not so important here, but the choice of a language implementation is. If you're doing a lot of network I/O in parallel, you need a language and a framework that can take advantage of hardware concurrency (multiple threads and/or processes), but should be able to do fast switches between your tasks (not requiring a full OS supported context switch, which is slow).

This pretty much rules out e.g. Python and Ruby, because the CPython/CRuby interpreters suck at concurrency (there are other implementations available, which are a little better). You can still do many Python processes, which do lightweight switching between I/O tasks somehow (e.g. with Twisted), but then load balancing between processes becomes a PITA. Node.js is similar, there's only one thread running at once. With Node.js (and twisted) you also have to manually "compile" your code for asynchronous style continuation passing style, something humans suck at but compilers do very well.

Now given the task you said, you could take C and epoll/kqueue and write a small framework yourself, but processing the data you got with C might not be too nice.

Or you could use an interpreter or a compiler that does this automatically for you. This is where the choice of language kicks in. In order for the language implementation to be able to effectively organize parallel execution, it needs some information from the language. C doesn't have any helpful information, which is why it often relies on full OS context switches where all machine state is stored and restored (or a non-portable hack with the stack). Something lisp-y with first class continuations might be helpful, but many lisp implementations don't really do concurrent execution well.

So, for a language that concurrently executes network I/O efficiently while still being high level and fast, my recommendation for your task would be: Haskell. There's years of research and engineering work done on just what you're looking for in Haskell. Just forkIO as much as you wish, write your code in regular sequential imperative style, compile for multithreaded execution (ghci --threaded) and let the compiler and runtime do all the hard work for you.

Erlang might do the job too. If anyone knows of other languages with smart I/O multiplexing and co-operative userland threads or fibers (with concurrent execution!), please reply here!

NOTE: my assumption was that you're actually processing the data you're receiving and you're more or less CPU limited. If you're I/O bound, you don't necessarily need concurrent execution and may get away with Twisted or Ruby fibers or Node.js (without using multiple processes and load balancing or task queues).
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In addition, long term use of amphetamines is extremely bad for you, and can lead to psychosis.
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That being said, my mom was prescribed them for about a decade in the 60's (for weight loss) and she turned out OK.
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> my mother would need to travel with me (for obvious reasons)

I dont get it, why?
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>It's arguably unethical to mention solidcoin and link to their PR material without at least a little word of warning:

True, my bad. I know of the scam accusations, just assumed anyone reading a Bitcoin thread in HN would have as well and that I didn't need to. But in case not...

https://www.google.com/search?q=solidcoin+scam

I still think their FAQ page that explains their criticisms of Bitcoin is instructive, though.
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