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I'm kind of worried that the images you are generating are just artifacts of your approach rather than getting at the fundamental nature of what is going on. The first thing that worries me is that your fractals don't look properly Mandelbrot-ish to my eye. Admittedly I've only ever looked at integer power Mandelbrot-like sets before, but all that I've ever looked at were either completely uninteresting or had snowmen somewhere.

(I'm afraid I'm having a hard time putting into words what's bugging me, and alas I need to work, so I'm skipping what would be a much longer middle section to this post in an ideal world.)

So I'd really like to see what happens if you make a particular branch choice and stick to that branch, for non-standard branches. And I'd like to see Julia sets. And I will try to get on implementing that stuff myself when I get the chance. :)
Sadly, it seems Igor only wrote that one, almost 12 years ago, and stopped writing on that website. You can read some more from him at http://www.stanford.edu/~teper/writing.html
I don't know.

I see it as a kind of entertaining academic game - a Glass Bead Game, if you will, and I intend the deep allusion - but I wouldn't put too much faith in it teaching you much about the mechanics of compilers. It's one way of decomposing semantics into more simple elements, but it's not the one chosen for almost all practical languages, which after all have to execute on silicon, not in the Lambda calculus.

It doesn't teach anything about parsers, and nor does it exercise much thinking in trees. It does emphasize recursion, but in a way that makes it seem like an absurd roundabout way of doing things, rather than something that more usually simplifies the expression of a program. Above all, it doesn't really demystify how the text of your program changes the coloured lights on your screen. It's a splendidly constructed wonderland, a pyramid of abstraction with nothing but function application at its core, but I don't think it leaves you with a lot more than a sense of having seen something very clever.

(FWIW, nothing in the presentation was new to me, so any residual sense of wonder has faded. Take that into account in my perhaps cynical judgement.)
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Unfortunately, the industry standard recording contract leaves artists with no rights over their own music. They can ask nicely, and a smart label may be reluctant to offend a cash-cow artist with a maverick streak, but legally the arrangement is totally one-sided.

On the off-chance you haven't already read this: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
> .. so if LHC was million times more powerful it could explore such instabilities i.e push the vacuum out of the metastable state and trigger the scenario above!? It seems I wasn't giving enough credit to the religious nuts saying that LHC will destroy the world

Note that if LHC was capable of this, it would have already happened. Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are detected occasionally, and statistically, they hit Earth more than once per day. The highest energy ever detected was a particle with 3*10^20 eV, or 300,000,000 TeV, or roughly as much kinetic energy that a baseball has at 60mph, in what was likely a single proton. It was aptly named the "Oh-My-God particle".
I guess I was more meaning the artists (or even group of artists) hiring their own marketing people, i.e. not contracting out to an agency, but actually having their own staff, probably people that have worked at labels before. No idea if that could ever work...
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As Larry David told Ari Gold in Entourage: "I dont know what you talking about, youre talking chinese!" in all seriousness, i agree and am thankful there are people dedicating their lives to answering some of these fundamental questions.
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I find setting up a bot to scan for keywords and submitting legal documents under penalty of perjury without checking its output, even when notified of its mistakes, to be pretty odious.
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Couldn't you just release a VLC app with an in-app link to the source code from the VLC servers?

I've never understood the problem with the AppStore anyway. For example, if I bought a copy of Red Hat Linux from Best Buy and it didn't include the source code, I would go to Red Hat for it, not Best Buy. To me, the AppStore is just a middleman.
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I am the IT guy for an office right in the middle - 30 users. As much as most people don't want to admit it, Microsoft owns this space, and Microsoft small business server paired with Office is an excellent solution here. Sure, you need a dedicated server, but SBS is very wizard based almost to the point where a receptionist can administer it. Sharepoint is the logical next step, a step we're going to take this year, probably.

Specifically, look at MS Small Business server, which includes about 30 user licenses, exchange server, file server, dns active directory and just about anything else you need, and is made to run on one server (most versions include a second server license too, for virtualization or backup).
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That sounds implicitly like most other programming / software / engineering workgroups out there, to be honest. With the exception of hackerspaces, which in my city seem to successfully remain relatively gender-neutral and respectful.
Same here - I actually checked the comments to be sure this wasn't a joke, actually. It's just a series of identical pictures to me. I guess I'm a born Van Gogh fan.

(I did a wall mural once involving a large green sea monster; I had a friend tell me when the shadows were getting red so I could compensate back to "normal-brown" - they all looked fine to me.)
The 99% are more well off today than at any other time in history. You only need to look at the costs of essentials (such as food) as well as luxuries (iPhones, kindles, big screen TVs, etc) to see how much Americans have prospered. See the article below for a quantitative analysis of what low income Americans can buy now.

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/08/young-americans-luckiest...

Capitalism matches products and services to consumer demand. Entrepreneurs find the gaps in current offerings or create completely new offerings that create demand. They find and execute on those ideals. Saying they don't create jobs simply isn't true. Saying they destroy jobs is not true as well. They may make industries more efficient thus lowering the costs and increasing the buying power of everyone. The US used to mostly be an agricultural workforce until the advent of farming machinery. Crop yields increased, labor costs decreases, food became drastically cheaper. People in those industries were forced to find jobs in new industries. Now manufacturing has gone overseas and now transitioning to robots following the exact same pattern as farming tech advances. That is the life cycle of capitalism.

As the markets become more and more efficient and technology enables more to get done with less than income will naturally be concentrated in smaller pools.

Final note: I am in favor of progressive tax rate structure and a drastically simpler tax code.
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Can't believe they cut back on risk management IT even tho they knew the risk was increasing
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The whole damn valley is a pussy just waiting to get fucked.
I hate Azerty. Switch to a qwerty keyboard and use compose key to type accents.
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I believe you mean 'consent' not "content"
I can't see a future where the majority of people (knowingly) opt in to having their personally identifiable web histories stored and analyzed by anonymous nerds. Sure, that's happening already if one has a facebook account, and the battle's already over and lost there, but a lot of friends, more than I have on facebook, avoid social networks for that very reason.

That said, it seems like google's focus is now desperate imitation of anything remotely successful on the social web with subsequent bundling of the winners into one uber-product within google+. And it would be a real shame if this is as good as it gets. Is it?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/06/15/introducin...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2011/12/01...
True, but it's easy to download a lot of music you don't listen to so it may be closer to 1:1 than you might expect.
A footnote: AdBlock for Chrome is a completely different project created by Michael Gundlach (who also created AdBlock for Safari). I happen to know that he doesn't have any deal with advertisers; he just thinks that users should be able to allow non-annoying ads to be shown.
until it's your job to make 10 top-notch programmers who are each convinced they are great architects to all write code that somebody else is going to pay for.

That makes no sense. That isn't your job, it's your CTO's job.
This is all good, until you want your program to be really large and/or use some serious external libraries which bash lacks. Or, if you need to attach some kind of non-CLI UI to it (GUI or web), or (heavens forbid) if you need to port it to windows. Then all your plans crash and burn, and you either suck it up and port the app to Python/Perl/Ruby/C++/whatever, or just keep building an un-maintainable mess. And don't forget someone else will probably have to maintain it at some point.
The way you frame it is a catch-22 but data shows that when matched for age, marital status, and children single women with no children make more money than their male counterpart.

As soon as a man becomes married this switches. A man is more likely to take on extra hours/responsibilities and a woman is more likely to work part-time at this point. It's the over-time and hazard pay that is associated with the wage gap. A person working 80 hours per week should not have the same hourly-wage as someone working 30 hours per week regardless of gender.
You've misinterpreted the "hurt your workflow with split windows" bit. You understood it as if NERD Tree's split window is what hurts your workflow. I was saying that my existing split window workflow was hurt by presence of the NERD Tree.
I agree, but I never see these kinds of posts stay up very long.

If it gets too bad, it shouldn't be too hard to add some code that would accelerate their trip off the front page.
Love caniuse.com but unfortunately there's lot missing from this support matrix.

More important than which browsers support the API is which underlying protocol version the sockets speak. A lot of major browsers support the API but very few speak the same protocol.

I believe today's announcement is a finalized protocol standard which means that there's finally going to be a lingua franca for websockets.
parsing is in my opinion the crappiest part of compiler writing. I feel pretty safe saying that because we have made tools to automate or near-automate the act of writing parsers for compilers ...

I would argue that there's a big difference between "demystify how the text of your program changes the coloured lights on your screen" and "demystify why the text of your program changes the coloured lights on your screen". if you are interested only in the first question, you might be an engineer. if you are also interested in the second question, you might be a computer scientist...
The "applied" number theory reminds me of a couple other stories:

-the Laundry novels (Charlie Stross). Here's one novella: http://www.goldengryphon.com/Stross-Concrete.html

-Luminous/Dark Integers (Greg Egan).
I think a big thing is to be able to see growth. If you have 100 customers last month, and increased to 150 this month, even if you are only charging $10/mo, at least you are seeing that it'll take you X more months to hit decent revenue

If on the other hand, your whole future planning is based on some huge event that'll make you, then you need to think long and hard on whether or not it's likely to happen. If it's been 6 months, and you've done everything in your power to make that happen with no results...then it's probably best to throw in the towel, since it's unlikely that it'll actually happen
Is it just me for whom the scrolling "ITworld LIVE" thing just inside my field of vision makes the article really difficult to concentrate on?

Why do I need to know that someone's just joined their site, or 'shared' a completely different article (with whom?). It's just an overload of irrelevant 'information.'
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it wasn't just religious nuts - i was worried myself (i may be a nut, but i am certainly not religious!) - and most people dismissing the worries on the internet were "science groupies" without a detailed understanding of the issues (in my experience, at the time, as far as i recall, etc). thankfully, there was a good report written that addressed the concerns in substantial detail. if you haven't read it, it's very interesting (and moderately reassuring) - http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/613175/files/CERN-2003-001.pdf?...

[ps an example of how simple arguments are not necessarily right is that any black hole created by the lhc would be almost at rest in the frame of the collider, unlike expected products from astronomical processes; that means that it would be gravitationally bound, allowing the effects of a small cross-section to accumulate over time. this isn't advanced physics, by any stretch of the imagination, yet people never seem to address it. another issue is that planets may indeed be destroyed by cosmic processes - at the time the lhc was being designed we had very little in the way of statistics on the number of planets or their lifetimes, outside of our own solar system.]
For tweaking plugins, you should use .vim/after/plugin/NAME.vim files. Otherwise, clone the repository, make your changes, and initiate a pull request.
Apparently it has been made into a film (12 minutes, mind you):

http://secretnumber.colinlevy.com/
Motorola is being bought by Google. And while they aren't involved in this lawsuit, they are probably present as advisers, so a settlement will probably have to apply to all Android phone makers, as it's in Google's interest to do so.

Considering how fierce Apple is fighting Android companies, I don't think they'll settle. I'm seeing this fight going nuclear.
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RE #1: Even if Google grows thanks to indexing Facebook pages, isn't "Where do people search for these pages?" the question that matters. And I'd bet that if people are trying to find a friend or a group or whatever on Facebook, their first attempt will be searching with Facebook.

That being said, Facebook's search could definitely use some help, and the more they improve it, the less anyone will need Google to search for things inside the Facebook ecosystem.
I wouldn't be surprised if every leading mobile device gets banned in at least one country or another.
Because that minimizes futzing around. Certainly if the colorscheme makes a difference to you, and you can't find one that satisfies you in the defaults, then you should try to find a better one, but I think you should try the defaults first. Trying to use what's already there is in keeping with minimizing the urge to "install all the things!"
Have you ever looked at the vote tally in American cities?

In my city, there was only one candidate (running for judge) in the last election who didn't run on the democratic line. Another candidate was running on the Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Working Family and Independence party lines.
Seth Godin wrote a great book on this exact question. How to know when you should push through the dip and when you should decide to quit. It's an insightful read:

http://www.amazon.com/Dip-Little-Book-Teaches-Stick/dp/15918...
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"you can bet that option gets turned on every time they release a new update"

That's a rather unfair assumption.
It also takes more than 1 purchase for an artist to make 1$ on iTunes as well. Still, for a lot of people Spotify is a substitute for the Radio and Piracy not just music purchases at which point Spotify is probably a significant net gain for artists.
The SAT (SIM Application Toolkit) is... surprise, on the SIM card itself. It won't go away when flashing a new ROM - it will appear in any SAT-aware phone you stick the SIM into - even a 10 year old feature phone. It's mainly a relic of the noughties and dumbphones, think of it as a simple menu wrapper system which can compose and fire off Short Messages and USSD (xx#) codes on your behalf, so you don't have to remember that 101# is "check my credit" (varies by operator and country, there's no standard). They have some useful stuff (menus and shortcuts to check your balance or control functions like voice mail or sms-to-fax ), lots of less useful stuff (news, sports, weather etc.) and of course sleazier operators love to include menu entries which will fire off non-free SMS or subscribe you to crap without you realizing it.
We're already seeing "we can't ban you from doing this, but we can make it impossible for you to do it" such as locked and signed bootloaders.
Anyone doing something about the UX of security is a friend.

I agree with various commenters' would-be-nice features (larger word list for more bits represented per word, better phonetic distance between items in the word list), and have one of my own (an implementation in C with no library dependencies would be nice).

Solid effort overall.
Let's just say that regardless of whether I have any actual knowledge about this specific situation, I know that what I outlined is what happens from other, similar situations where I definitely have actual knowledge. Let's also say that if I did have any actual knowledge, I would know better than to confirm it and I would definitely know better than to say what I know to a blogger.

I do know that knowledgeable people will probably be more open-mouthed around this time tomorrow.
This farce has surely got out of control and just makes the manufacturers look extremely foolish. All of this is powered by greed.

Lets hope as you say that it pushes this debate out to the general public, although I doubt that it will happen.

Makes me want to not buy any of Nokia, Samsung or Apple's products.
I work with designers often, and while I can't speak from their point of view, I have observed some trends from my icon designing friends:

- You want to design multiple sets, if for no other reason than to give people multiple ways to find you. You don't necessarily have to create a brand new site for each icon set, but it doesn't necessarily hurt either. Each of those pages should cross-link to the other sets and/or a master portfolio site.

- Aside from the sale of the icon sets themselves, I've seen a number of icon designers contacted for creating icons that don't exist. If I'm building an app, I might need a 'battery depleted' icon or a 'the app is ready' icon that doesn't exist. Make sure you have a way to be contacted for this, and publish that you offer it as a service (if you do).
"If anything, the music culture may be even more vital in the absence of extrinsic motivation."

Dead on. If any amount of extrinsic motivation is removed from the music industry with the death of record companies I will be a very happy person.
Given the gross disparity between the number of women having children and the social acceptability of that act vs the number of women working in startups, we can conclude that one of those two claims of "difficulty" is full of shit.

There is no mass epidemic of women excluded from childbirth due to female targetted promotion of startup culture.
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I don't see how that is possible. Aren't election results released as number of votes per party, instead of percentage of votes?
I actually hadn't thought of this. So it's okay to do this because of the idea that most men are not interested in nursing, and most women are not interested in programming?
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Sorry the site is still in beta and there are a few bugs now and then, we addressed the android issue and it should work on your phone now. Thanks for looking!
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Not bad. I quite like the idea of screening applicants with essay questions however this brings two issues. First, I would be amazed if your response rate was as high as 10%, in fact I'd be shocked given the fact that the kind of people you are looking to hire probably aren't using Monster and craigslist in the first place to find work.
Second, the point is almost counterintuitive. You said yourself that the best people are already in work and probably have a stable job. Most of those simply won't bother to jump through additional hoops when all they want is to speak to an actual human about the position.

Shameless Plug: I've written a pretty extensive post recently on making your start-up more appealing to potential hires which works nicely with your post: http://voltsteve.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-should-i-join-your...
Who is more insane: a madman, or a sane man who invents a madman?
The after/plugin thing is new to me, thanks.
>> Office documents don't seem to be a make-or-break feature for social, and Google Docs has had very limited success competing with Microsoft Office.

If any app being social means being popular among general web users than yes Google Docs / Office document is not make-or-break feature for social. But when you use Google docs within an organization for team collaboration there is no better tool than this I've found so far. I doubt whether they are working on Google Docs desktop or not but I think that will be a one on one competition to MS Office.

>> (in fact, my favorite Google office productivity product, EtherPad, was killed in favor of Wave)

Etherpad was simple tool. Yes, we can't run it on etherpad.com, does it means they killed it ? I don't think Google killed it, they opensourced it. There are plenty of other hosted options available and are linked at the same domain http://etherpad.com. Why don't use them, they run Etherpad as well.
What is with the developer antipathy towards Wordpress? It might be ugly spaghetti code but it's fast, it works, and the plugin ecosystem means you can get pretty much any functionality under the sun for free.

The author could have had a working solution up and running in 5 minutes. I don't get it.
Fair enough. I'm currently using Freya since I have a love of low contrast dark schemes with muted colours.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1651
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true, if you're optimising for an academic discourse. But that also limits its accessibility for any potentially interested who don't know the academic language. I can't be the only one who stopped reading an Ocaml paper merely for not knowing Ocaml. Its clear he's optimising for knowledge transfer as he spent the time to not only post code on github, but provide different branches for those with different backgrounds.

I think this tutorial shows what we really mean about Turing equivalence in languages, about how data structures can be represented as functions, and presents a wider point of view that opens up other possible program designs.
Excellent tip, thanks. Actually I was planing to make this service in the future, so people can ask for custom drawn icons.
I can't imagine the talk of vacuum instability and universe-destroying explosions will make the general population very supportive of this project:

"World's Most Powerful Laser to Tear Apart the Vacuum of Space"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8857154/Worl...