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> Moreover, sure P. S. Landis "saved the whales", but he didn't do it to save the whales, he did it to generate an enormous amount of profit for Mobile Oil, and was paid for it handsomely.

OP mentioned that with different intent: in conservation of nature, we can get better results quicker by focusing on improving technology & organization than by merely loudly protesting current uses of natural resources. Alas, it's better to align incentives with conservation of nature than to try to conserve it against 'em.

To the wit,

> Ecological activism did not play significant role in all of these developments (...)

> It was not their attention grabbing activities that stopped killing whales, but the unsung efforts of chemists finding a synthetic replacement to sperm oil.

> Suddenly, the car companies did not need to lobby [for whale hunting] any more.

and in comments below the article:

> But demanding to stop something without suggesting such better alternatives is waste of time. I'd even say that it is immoral. I see many people believing otherwise.
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No dude! It's cool if what you value in your life is work but plenty of people work to live. Jobs shouldn't require you to put in 80 hour work weeks, that should be the choice of the individual.
cilk is definitely cool, but i don't think it makes designing parallel programs any easier, it just removes a lot of boilerplate. I have worked with similar infrastructures (not the language support) and found it to be extremely difficult. I looked into cilk and I don't think that the language support would have been a game changer. Does anyone have experience with cilk? What have been your experiences?
There's a number of significant differences:

- Curing via oxygen exposure makes mixing unnecessary, which is a bit more convenient

- The cured material is elastic rather than rigid, which makes it more suited for many applications

- It can be cut and removed more easily
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I feel secretly rewriting software from scratch is rarely the right solution. Especially if management has already decided thats not the direction they want to take.

Your job as an employee is to make your boss happy. If you don't have political buy in from your boss then he/she isn't going to be impressed that you have been spending all this time on this project instead of spending that time on whatever it is that is important to them. Even if its overtime.

If you disagree with your boss that radically, then you should find a new boss because you won't be successful in your current position. And also because you won't ever be happy. Find a boss who you get along with. And be happy.
UX comment on this website: I like to click and highlight words as I read. I know I'm not the only one who does this. On this site when I do this, the article keeps drawing focus to the top of the page and its...annoying. Why would someone do this? I've never experienced this issue on any other site before.
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Here's the deal: Create something better than he does, and people use your version. If he creates something better than you do, people use his version. All copying allowed. How about that?
And his son.

Those of us who've watched "The Last Lecture" know who Randy dedicated it to.

A bit of a status update on Dylan (from last year), now 9:
http://www.cmu.edu/news/blog/2010/Spring/dylan-pausch.shtml

NB: CMU's link has a dated byline, where a news item of the same event didn't. I went with CMU's account.
Well, there were other interesting non-sequiturs, like walkability being important.

I honestly do agree there, but as we all know here, there's VC and angels who have all their investments clustered around Castro and Uni in the valley, so that they can walk to all their portfolio companies in the span of one day.
Noob question: what exactly are a /128 and a /64 ? How many public IPs do they provide? Do you have a link so I can learn how to interpret those /xx?

Originally, I was under the impression that /n subnets have 2^n public IPs at there disposal. Could it be 2^(128-n) instead?

But either way, a /64 should be plenty. However, you suggest here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3261500 that /64 are not so great. I wonder why. Is there something special going on?
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In case you didn't, spare a few minutes and read through the comments on the original article. Excellent stuff in there, particularly from the OP.
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I like some of this, but I worry about rebasing that often after pushing. I understand the benefit of keeping the history cleaner, but it also means if any features are worked on by multiple people it would become impossible to use git's best feature of auto merging things.

What do you do when feature work is long standing and worked on by multiple people?
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So your rather harsh accusation of ripoff boils down to:

* Use of a certain layout style which is literally centuries old.

* Prefetching content, an extremely common practice in computing.

* A similar font.

I think you need to seriously reexamine the originality of your work.
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Good summary. All in all I don't get why the SV comparison is even appropriate. SV is will always be a specific mix of elements. Each one NYC picks up will be replaced by another nit that shows how NYC != SV.

What is true is that NYC is becoming a place that matters for technology businesses. We could talk all day about scale (corps vs. startups vs. schools vs. many other things) but the bottom line is that NYC has a real technology sector and it's growing.
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This was the key point of that post to me-

“Streaming services are very “long tail”. It takes time for consumers to discover your music, add it to playlists, favourite it, and share it with friends. The longer a label is on a streaming platform, the more established they become, and the more time users will have had to
discover their music. Users need to dig deep and it also helps if labels market their playlists.”
How does that vary much from what Etsy did with their gift recommendations application based on your/friend's facebook profile
While "outright copying" implies far more than what is actually present.
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More != better or even good. I mean, I'd consider thinking of what really qualifies as a startup? Is it the guy who's reading PHP for Dummies in his undies in his little apartment with delusions of grandeur about how he's the next Zuckerberg? Is it guys who will probably fail but have a few VCs supporting them? Is it somewhere in between? The words 'startup' and 'entrepreneur' get thrown around carelessly these days and I'd argue that defining the post's definition of these would help us answer the question posed in the title.

I think Silicon Valley is known for its numbers equally as much as its successes whereas maybe we're just counting startups in other places and comparing them with a bias toward connecting sheet volume with the title of "Startup Capital of wherever".

I live in Chicago and only visited NYC once so the only knowledge I have on the topic is what I read about the two places (Silicon Valley and NYC, that is). That's why I need more info in order to have a solid opinion. Until the author gives me that information I take the post as just kind of entertainment fodder.

Also, I was confused about the comments regarding sprawl in the last paragraph in the PG quote. Is sprawl only something the suburbs have? I'd think New York Has just as much sprawl if not more. The difference being that their sprawl takes a different form. Sprawl to me is a vast expanse of shops and malls and just businesses every which way on every which street. I'm the suburbs we have our main roads filled with strip malls and such and in NYC there is just mile after mile of buildings filled top to bottom with the same kind of businesses minus the parking lots and hillbillies. Also, personal opinion, NYC is dirty and literally reals of garbage even on fifth avenue or just outside the trump building and even on the edge of central park. It reminded me of a slightly larger, dirtier version of Chicago. Didn't much care for it.
Whatever Hunch is really good at, we haven't seen it yet. I assume Ebay has, and that it has everything to do with crunching customer browsing & purchase behavior to offer them products they're most likely to purchase.
The demand for tech education is pretty high in NYC right now. I'd imagine those schools are already doing things on their own. I'm sure he's hedging his bets that either those schools will come around on their own or something new will fill this gap.
"We’ve heard from many of you that one of the things you enjoy most about the Chromebook is its hassle-free simplicity."

I wonder what "many" in this context means.
I suspect that you are referring to what's called "hierarchical text classification". If so then any classifier can be used for that. And it's not a simple problem. I found it to be a good way to deal with unbalanced classes if you understand the domain knowledge that sits behind your class labels. I suggest taking look at these papers:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22hierarchical+text+cla...
Thanks for letting me know, here are a few more:

LT3A7P3NJEX3

K47EP4FFK7PY

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Google doesn't "rewrite" things in the traditional sense.. they develop new versions of old systems when the old system has reached the limit (or is just grossly inefficient). The new systems generally are not at all architecturally similar. I don't think I've ever heard of a rewrite "because the code was messy" or anything other "it can't do X and we need X".
Nope, but it might be Columbus, Ohio. Don't believe me?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2011/11/18/the-best-c...

http://614columbus.com/article/2011-a-tech-odyssey-3528/

I'm a bit biased because I live in Columbus but I'm seeing a huge shift in the tech scene here and it's growing very rapidly. There is a meetup for every night, hacker spaces everywhere, and everyone is either working at a startup or starting their own. Columbus is a powerhouse for biomedical research, banking and insurance and noone here has trouble finding a job in IT.

There was another recent article I read(but can't find) about an influx of people from the Bay area to Columbus and I've met a few of these guys. Most of them compare the culture here as slower than San Francisco but similar. Everyone wants to build something. People are coming to Columbus because the tech talent is solid, there is venture capital aplenty and the costs of living are very low.
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Thanks, just downloaded! My 2 cents:

0. Nice minimalism.

1. The main body typeface is needlessly hard to read (words have weird kerning with some letters sticking together a lot). I strongly think that the body font should be as readable as possible, simply since it is going to be read a lot! Pick the most readable font out there (or maybe the second most readable).

2. The "Return" button is hard to tap when holding the iPad in both hands. iBooks solves this problem by having the entire left edge tappable; not sure what would work best in this app.

3. Are you familiar with the Flipboard for iPad? (you probably are). I think it is beyond awesome. All magazine/web mobile apps should learn from that app.

4. That every article pops out from the bottom edge of the screen (UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical ?) gets annoying after a while. The animation where the whole screen whizzes by from the bottom up every time you tap is more tolerable on a smaller screen like the iPhone. I would rather prefer an animation with a "zoom" effect with the article expanding from its location in the grid to the entire screen; or maybe something else you can think of.

5. It is annoying that comments have to be shown in a browser window which takes a while to load.
NYC isn't likely to be the next Silicon Valley if we're talking about where the next Apple, Intel or HP will spring up. There is too much of a premium on space and too little hardware expertise.

But the hot Valley companies these days are in software or services. There is no reason why a cluster of nerds in NYC can't create enough momentum to build a rival culture.
I think we need to move away from all the nonsense of "A-level engineers" or superstar developers and so and so and so.

Carl Henderson of Flickr fame looked like an A-level engineer back then (especially with his O'reilly book) yet some of the Flickr engineers baffled when they saw the Flickr codebase.

Sometime it's all smoke and marketing hype.
I just trust that nobody is using MD5 for anything important - like passwords.

Just about OK for file integrity checks I suppose.
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sync = "!f() { echo Syncing $1 with master && git checkout master && git pull && git checkout $1 && git rebase master; }; f"

I believe this is equivalent to (from topic branch)

sync = "git pull --rebase origin master"
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The article hints that GCC uses a combination of HTM and STM, if HTM is available.
If not understanding you is the worst that happens I'd say you're lucky, but watch out...

My buddy and I have been resisting "quick changes" on projects that have a lot of technical debt for a number of years, and what has happened is that managers have just gone to some other less experienced developers who have no scruples to get their changes done without the "fuss". Our reputations have taken a bit of a hit as well - we're "too careful" or don't see that the "perfect is the enemy of the good" etc. That's what they say in front of us, I'm sure they're more colorful when we aren't listening. I've learned to mitigate this by working with a couple of managers that aren't clueless but it's a danger when that isn't an option...
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This list is one of the first list that seems to really coincide with the things that bother me about the app.

I do like the idea of making the left side tappable, and I really do want to change my animation and hope to get time to fix that soon.

Just so you know when viewing a story you can tap the headline to go back. This feature was mostly added for myself, I hope to get a designer to design me something that communicates returning to the front page better than my current methods.

I can tell you've done some iOS work cause you can see some of the shortcuts I took to ship this on time. I hope to fix these soon :)
>808 doesn't use FM, but VCOs with low pass filters (aka
"analog synthesis").

There are actually two ideas at play here. Manipulating a signal from a VCO, or any other 'analog' signal is called analog synthesis. These analog signals can be used as the source in other types of synthesis, including FM synthesis. FM synthesis tends to be done using digital signals because they are more stable, however.

Using high/low/band pass filters to filter your signal is called "subtractive synthesis" because you are subtracting frequencies from the original waveform.
The paper I linked to claims they have an STM, and a hybrid HTM-STM system if hardware support is available.
Only some Android phones have that (it's part of the Touchwiz skin), or it is a feature available in CM7. I'm on an ICS rom right now and I miss the notification shade toggles.

Fortunately we still have first rate widgets, so I can have the Power Control widget, or single option toggles as widgets on my homescreen.
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A /64 is a 64-bit network mask on the 128bit ipv6 address, effectively leaving you with 64 bits for host addresses on that subnet. A /128 is a 128bit mask, leaving you with 0 extra bits (ie: a single host address).

2^(128-n) is the way it works for HOST addresses (no '-1', as in ipv4, as there is no broadcast address in ipv6, and 128-128=0, so 2^0=1, a single host address). 2^n is the way it works for networks/subnets, so a /128 leaves 2^128 possible networks, each with 2^0 hosts on them, while a /127 leaves 2^127 networks, each with 2^1 hosts on them.

A /64 is equal to the square of the entire existent ipv4 space (/32), and should be more than enough for any subnet anywhere, ever (it's roughly 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 IPs).

The issue is that many of the 'fundamental' protocols are built on assumptions that the smallest network will be a /64, and if your ISP gives you 1 /64, you can't have more than one 'network' on your end of the connection - even if you can have 18 quintillion addresses, they all have to be on the same subnet, so no fire-walling/etc. within your network.
4. Be careful, or you might get beaten/arrested/teargassed on your way to work.

Seriously, you're all smart people. Why is the fact that New York City is a completely unacceptable place to live not a consideration here?
The 808 has specialized synthesis circuits for every sound. Nowhere does it use a traditional VCO+Filter circuit AFAIK.
Most likely because it's trendy? I know that sounds ignorant so let me put it another way - Bloomberg is more of a capitalist than a mayor and he always will be. There's a lot of hype around SV startups and VCs are flocking to fund every little startup they can find for better or worse. The Wall Street types aren't always the best at independent thinking and they see this going on and so they feel that since New York is the self proclaimed "Greeatest City in the World" they have to keep up. Think about it in terms of the recent market situation. All the big banks were pouring money into bad investments without really looking at the consequences. Some even knew they were going to see a crash eventually but did it anyway. It's this kind of keeping-up-with-the-Joneses mentality that pervades the business and finance types everywhere but it's very pronounced in NYC. That's most likely why they want a dedicated Tech university. To keep up with Stanford and be part of the cool tech movement.
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I'm guessing there are plenty more but this is what we could find through initial research. If you know of any more please let me know at kenji -at- evenues dot com and I'll add it plus a mention for the hat tip if you want. Thanks!
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And sanding & polishing one:

pheatonforums.com is gone, but the 1st page of the project journal is on archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031011104839/http://www.pheaton...

The directory of photos is still available:
http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/
http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Polish/bathroom.JPG
http://planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Polish/done1.JPG

And the UBB-code version of some of the posts to the board:
http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Back/back.txt
http://planetcasemod.com/Phones/buffinghowto.txt
http://www.planetcasemod.com/NeXT/Front/Finished.txt

The magnesium "tarnishes" and requires monthly polishing. Sealing is "not the same as raw metal" http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1028300977&postcount...
Sure, for some reason standard typographic practice and tons of readability tests that show the need for narrower lines don't apply to you especially.
IPv6 privacy addresses are even more effective at this than NAT would be. Once the address is done being used, it goes away. You can still be tracked by your NAT'd address, as it will remain (relatively) static.
It looks like the simplicity is not enough of a selling point for this type of OS, which seems to be way ahead of it's time.

Google needs to make them way cheaper to get over the limiting factor of no native apps.People may not use native apps so much, but they like the feeling that they can, if they need to.
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We seem to be having different metrics for 'high-quality'. The first screenshot of the iPad version in the App Store is a list of 24 elements in a small font. I think the developer is missing the point.
This one is supposed to be good: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, by Martin Fowler
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I am trying to do the same thing as you, and I recently ordered this text based on a recommendation from a mentor.
Why is this better than duct tape? I use duct tape for a lot of these things.
There's a draft RFC. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mrw-nat66-16
Will it ever be safe to design a protocol which isn't "NAT Safe"?
>It doesn't have to be massive to be a problem or even to be significant, it just has to be out of the ordinary.

The fact that it exists, regardless of if anyone installed it or was damaged by it, is the problem. It's time to start thinking of solutions for that problem _before_ you or anyone you know is affected.
How is NAT, which requires an intermediary (the NAT router/device) be configured and put in place in addition to the router, easier than IPv6 privacy addresses, where you just turn your computer on and let the router route?
Tethering :P
A bizarre conclusion IMO. "Only in the 1980s, a chemical solution to this problem was found." At that point, the whales had already been saved. The chemist may have saved automatic transmissions, but the whales were already good by that point.
Reading the Usenix paper on SFIO, I don't see much of a resemblance, beyond what you'd expect to find between stream abstractions in general. The really cool thing about Fabian's streams is that the producer (and ultimately the dynamic structure of the underlying data) dictates how the stream is buffered, with little to no inconvenience to the consumer. SFIO's direct stream buffer access with sfreserve() is more like a traditional stream abstraction that you'd find in Java. It's true that sfreserve() has the producer reserve the memory, which means you can eliminate some memory copying when you're stacking streams, but the consumer is still dictating the size of the buffer.
Agreed. Especially on how the comparison isn't appropriate. Thank you for expressing what I couldn't find the words to say.

I would also ask why compare at all? These are apples and oranges. Let Silicon Valley have its claim to fame and don't try to make NYC fit into this mold that it clearly doesn't belong in. NYC has its special qualities. So let's applaud them and encourage them to keep doing what they do best and let them develop their own culture or claim to fame instead of comparing the two.
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