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In India, most ISP's don't provide you with a static IP address. So the addresses are shared/recycled. When I opened the website I got a list of torrents that I have not downloaded.

Basically every couple of days this list for me will change and won't be accurate. I'm sure many other ISP's do the same. So this list of downloads isn't entirely accurate.
I'm tempted to write a blog post about the difference between productivity and effectiveness.

If you are working for someone whose sole focus is your productivity, take it as a warning sign. The only thing that matters is results and the single biggest contributor to getting results is being effective. Productivity is such a gross measure of performance that its relevance in today's business environment is almost anecdotal.
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Would be interesting to have an indication when a comment is in a hot debate. By that, I mean a comment that get lots of upvotes and downvotes at the same time. Unanimous good comments are on the top of the list, unanimous bad comments are at the bottom (and are grayish). But hot debate comments are somewhere in the middle, a bit unnoticed. There is a big difference between a comment with +3 points and a comment with +63/-60 points.
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In which case the failure to communicate is mutual; In OP, I said:

... this position drives me bonkers ("not HTTP, too hard")!

As professional engineers, it's my hope that opening up a persistent TCP socket and sending a small, stateless binary message should be easier, faster to implement, and better performing than marshaling everything into HTTP (for no other reason than HTTP is more familiar to you!).

If that's not the case, then I would strongly recommend that any engineers that are uncomfortable with this simple task should review UNIX Network Programming Vol 1, and Network Security with OpenSSL, rather than complain that an HTTP interface isn't available.

At the very least, such a study would provide a necessary understanding of what HTTP is doing. With that in place, opening up a connection to APNS should be a walk in the park.
It's not worth complaining about a couple of karma points when I have thousands. And to be fair they downvoted me before I realized my mistake.

I'm not familiar with this artist, but I wanted to see it out of simple curiosity because he seems to be an artist who puts fans ahead of profits. People like that usually produce high-quality work.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A1e100...

I wonder how exactly this works. I'm guessing 1e100.net has various subdomain names that can correspond to different Google servers (i.e. Youtube.)

Edit: Apparently different subdomains correspond to different IP addresses. For example, gx-in-f191.1e100.net points to 74.125.65.191 and qw-in-f18.1e100.net points to 74.125.93.18.
> banks in Australia are massively overexposed to residential mortgages and small business loans underpinned by residential property

As opposed to what, though? Historically housing and small business loans were the raison d'etre for being a bank. It is only the last few decades where they have been allowed to invest in other areas.

I think you are overplaying the exposure to housing. Our tier capital requirements were and are much more onerous than in the U.S. We (our central bank and treasury) have been telling the U.S. for two decades that their banking system was broken, and we were proven right. You can't compare a U.S. bank to an Australian one, they are very different beasts.
"Professional talent does vary, but there is not a shred of evidence that the best professional developers are an order of magnitude more productive than median developers at any timescale, much less on a meaningful timescale such as that of a product release cycle."

Nonsense. I have seen evidence of it on nearly every project I've been on for 18 years now. It's one of the most obvious facts of enterprise software development.
Looks fake to me:

http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=0.0.0.0

http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=255.255.255.255

http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=192.168.1.1

http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=192.168.2.1

http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=192.168.5.1

[...]

Has this correctly identified anyone's downloading?
The quotes under "On the production of software" remind me of Unix, which came soon after.
Yes, the browser that is doing nothing but growing in market share. Not to mention, as has been stated, it is all open source so any other browser that wanted to take advantage of this tech can do so. Some just seem too stubborn to do so for what I can only assume is because THEY didn't do it.

If things continue to work as well as they are thus far, and the other guys continue to say it isn't worth implementing, then my first point will just continue to happen.
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...which does absolutely nothing to address the situation where someone sends a message to a Facebook account that winds up in the "Other" box.
Don't know about anybody else, but I hate it - they're so ridiculously overpriced.

I'd much rather have a slightly less knowledgeable driver for half the price like in the rest of the world.
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If you want one number that tells why Australian retail is more expensive than U.S., it is retail rents.

Aust. retail rents are (among?) the highest in the world, higher than London and New York. This is mainly due to poor short-sighted planning authorities in local councils which over-manage commercial planning. The result is that, except perhaps Melbourne, all large retail is in malls instead of spread among the suburbs. Almost all the malls are owned by one or two parties, Westfield being the major. As monopoly owner, they have squeezed retail rents for decades.
Here's a slightly different model, and a funny goof on launch that made the rounds last summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVspuAJyAY
Meh, all of these debates about "the mythical 10x programmer" are missing an important point: You can't just lump all programmers into one batch in the first place. That is, I posit that there are programmers who are better at certain things, or better in certain domains, or better at certain times of day, or even better during certain phases of the moon. Whatever.

Maybe one guy is a goddamn genius when it comes to writing embedded systems code in C, but if you put him to work writing CRUD webapps in Ruby, he might just be average. Or vice versa. Or maybe one gal is shit-hot at writing statistical analysis code for dealing with scientific data, but is useless if recast into a role doing embedded systems in C. Who knows?

To use an analogy, imagine this... you have a group of football players. You take the one who's best suited for playing Left Tackle and ask him to play Tailback. And maybe you move the Quarterback to Fullback. In either case, they are going to fail miserably, even if they would otherwise be an All-Pro at their "natural" position, simply because the attributes required to be great can't be generalized to a generic "Football Player" requirement.

In other words "Fit Matters." I posit that it matters a LOT more than most people acknowledge, or certainly more than you hear anybody discussing. And let's not even get into the importance of chemistry and the "gel" factor among the members of a team. It isn't popular to talk about these factors; probably because they're hard to measure / validate empirically and so this all remains a mostly subjective thing. But I believe this discussion is just as important as - if not more important than - all the debate about "10x programmers."
I know this is a bit late, but I just wanted to mention that you most likely read that in Malcom Gladwell's Outliers. There's a whole chapter about aviation.
Informative, but strange circular arguments in that article, especially from a scientific process perspective.

There are a ton of questions that Higgs cannot answer already and yet if we find Higgs precisely, research comes to a stop?

It almost feels like there's a split between theoretical physcists and everyone else, with theoreticians saying if you take away our broken toy, you better replace it with something we can play with!

Given Nature already trumped Einstein, his contemporaries, and all since, I think we can be fairly secure that we will ALWAYS having find something new to learn or discover from practical science.

After all, that's how we used to almost exclusively learn before scientists went a bit crazy with maths. These days there seem to be many more models out there than there is good science behind it - at least to a layperson like me. :)
The big difference is that all the apps on the original iPhone were native apps, so the iPhone javascript interfaces were missing a lot of features. All the apps on the original WebOS phones were actually web apps, so their javascript interfaces didn't suck.
Writing a letter, is much more personal than sending email or texting. It means you've taken time out of your day to sit down, plan out your thoughts, put them in a package and pay to have it shipped to someone personally.

Or how a cheap, thoughtful gift means more than a $100 bill at Christmas.

It's the effort, the thought, that really counts.
I have seen evidence of it on nearly every project I've been on for 18 years now. It's one of the most obvious facts of enterprise software development.

I haven't seen any evidence of a 10x disparity in productivity myself. Of course measuring productivity is a dodgy issue in the first place, and I've never ran a proper scientific study on the matter... but my subjective observation of a decade and a half of doing this stuff, is that the spread between individual developers (excluding the ones who are so incompetent that they get fired in short order) is probably more like 3x-4x at most.
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I didn't think much of this until I realized that I couldn't find any references to CodePlex.com anywhere on the new Azure website. I definitely like where Microsoft is going with this.
I guess I must be a Twitter power user (I'm not really), but I find Twitter 4 to be excellently simplifying for my every-day usage of Twitter.

It gives me a timeline. I can quickly post a tweet.

It quickly shows me my @ conversations. It shows me who retweeted my stuff.

It shows a (much better) trending topics page. For the big important or interesting stuff I don't need to figure out what #santacon means, it has an explanation and a photo.

I don't use multiple Twitter accounts, so I can't comment on that.

And frankly, the entire premise of @ and # being hacks is absurd. The article seems to argue that these were ill-conceived work-arounds for features that Twitter was missing originally. Well, that may be so; however, Twitter is now defined by those features. Twitter without @ and # would be no Twitter at all. It turns out that using simple recognizable symbols to convey different meaning works extremely well in a 140 character medium.
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Oh, it's not about the karma. Downvoting is more a message saying to everyone: "This is not a good post".
...and use that instead of Facebook. I thought that would be obvious, but apparently not.
As a Google employee I can answer quite honestly (albeit uselessly): it's complicated.
How much for the leg muscles required to use it? :)
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The price will naturally come down as they go into mass production. Also keep in mind robots will happily work 24 hour shifts in addition to being more effective per hour.
why not? He already got paid a significant sum by the ticketholders at beacon theater, so all he has to recoup is the cost of producing the special, which he did largely himself.

The marginal cost of distributing an additional copy of his work is minimal, and his pricing reflects that, and makes people more likely to pay for it rather than steal it.

Can you elaborate on why you don't think this is a general solution?
I've been driven by cab in London to an address we later found was on the same physical street, it just changed name halfway. The folks at the destination laughed and said that while the cabbie should have just driven straight down the street, his actual route took us about four times the distance it should have...

It seems that The Knowledge isn't necessarily implemented for The Punters :)
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> only 4.3 sigma

I generally treat particle physics as a black box from which magic appears, but my understanding was that 3 is where things start getting interesting, and 5 is where it's considered pretty conclusive, so wouldn't going from 3.5 to 4.3 be a significant jump?
Your answer is good and sufficient. For people who aren't yet getting an intuitive feel: if 99% confidence means you're right 99% of the time (it doesn't quite mean that but lets go with it), then you'll still be wrong 1% of the time. If 3000 studies are published each year with that cutoff for significance, you should expect about 30 spurious results accepted as true each year. Ouch.
The style of logic used here resembles quantum dot cellular automata:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot_cellular_automaton
Your patent on a cotton gin is on the design, not the use - you don't reap patent fees every time your dickensian worker operates it.
Longer and better video ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im1iNq02Kz0

Saw this a few months back — totally cool. I'd imagine that you'll start seeing them in your highest concentration touristy beaches for rent soon.
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Actually I guess the video I linked too is a different model / company ... I like the one in the above video better ... but both look fun!
The problem in my case is that sales tax calculation easily qualifies as a big deal and so any sense that it's not working raises all sorts of alarm bells. In addition to the immediate questions of "are production versions affected? If so what do we tell customers?"

Also taxes with a rate of 0 are ignored specifically because sometimes sales tax structures change (as with HST consolidation in Canada) and consequently old taxes need to be retired.....
A typical person without a g-suit will black out at around 6 g. </quote> http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Effect-Gravity-Human-Body/165...
I've done some diving down into other 50s/60s papers, and after a while you get a sense of "New Software Methods, Same As The Old". Fundamentals of software engineering have not changed since the 60s, but languages and problem contexts have.

It's a great experience reading on the old hackers, really gives you a sense of context.
He actually means the "end of Facebook". There will be other social services to take its place, just like Facebook took the place of Myspace. Those services probably already exist, just like Facebook existed years before Myspace even started to lose users.
Minimum wage in Australia is $15.51/hour + 9% superannuation contribution. This comes out to $16.91/hour or USD17.23/hour. If these things can work 24/7 with the same productivity of a worker on minimum wage they'll pay themselves off in eight months (plus/minus other costs associated with employees and these machines).
I have no idea about the median developer, but the median job applicant is surely an order of magnitude worse than the top since the lower end spends much more time looking for work and the top devs never have to interview. So if you judge the industry by your experiences interviewing applicants it will be very bleak indeed.
there are cabs, in addition to the famous cabbies, which are half priced, and located in almost every second street. However, you will have to call and order their services, as they are not allowed to pick up random passengers from the street.
Well, a good reason to use email. I'm quite happy with the spam filtering on Google Apps and have no particular reason to go through the trouble of setting up my own server.
One type of hashing that I hadn't heard of before that I think is really cool, is fuzzy hashing.

Which allows you to compare hashes, to find the similarity of data.

For an example: http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/
Nah, then it's a bug in your user interface.
Two questions: was this move spurred by increased adoption of the non-MPEG WebM, and did they consider (or even mention) using WebM or Theora as a royalty-free baseline instead of an amalgamation of MPEG1, MPEG2, and JPEG?
Anyone able to verify the author's claim?

I only get a 2x improvement when switching LANG on Redhat linux on EC2:

% export LANG=C
% time grep done nohup.out | wc -l
152929

real	0m0.343s
user	0m0.233s
sys	0m0.112s

% export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
% time grep done nohup.out | wc -l
152931

real	0m0.771s
user	0m0.673s
sys	0m0.100s

% grep --version
GNU grep 2.6.3

Author is using grep 2.5.3, I am using 2.6.3, so not testing the same thing.
Increasingly I see the most important role online to be that of the editor. I already have far too much information to deal with. The one service I'm willing to pay real money for at this point is the one that finds only the very most interesting bits for me. So far this role has really only been served for me by a handful of genuine friends.
I'd like to see the end of the use of the word "social" as an uncountable noun.
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Would this kind of problem be less prevalent if everything was run on a linux-based OS? I feel Ubuntu's GUI is friendly enough for most people working in the hospital, and in general there wouldn't be as many viruses and the like.

Or are there lacks of software for the health industry when it comes to linux distros...? Or some sort of strange bureaucratic thing that stops this...
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I'm a conservative but I've gotta point out here. The media's guilt on this issue extends beyond Obama, beyond liberals, beyond republicans, and beyond politics.

I think the media has made it clear in recent years they are in the business of entertainment. It's a new form of the stand up routine. The media is the new Laurel and Hardy. They stopped worrying about being "fair and balanced" a long time ago.

The media doesn't call out the asinine claims of various politicians because they need those people to watch their gladiators of choice. The people need to hear the rallying cry and get behind the gladiators that way the media can make money showing the people the images of their chosen gladiators.
I believe there is one start up who is doing this.
Yup, the author an older version of grep 2.5.3. I have grep 2.6.3 on RHEL6 and only got a 2x boost doing a similar test.
> anything even close to Fabrice Bellard or Paul Graham.

Are you speaking about monetary gain or programming product?

And depending on your choice, what made you put them in the same league?
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This doesn't exactly qualify as "just another domain name".

It looks like there is actually some fairly interesting technical story behind this...
There is a good article about it here: http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/econ/dimasi2003.pdf

They peg the cost of bringing a new drug to market at about $800m on average. It's a roughly 40%/60% split between pre-clinical and clinical phases. So even without any testing at all you're still looking at several hundred million dollars of expenditures. And testing at a lower standard than the FDA currently requires can only save you so much. The paper shows that about 50% of the clinical costs are just from the cost of capital (having expensive capital lying around while waiting to go through testing). It's hard to imagine any practical sort of testing that doesn't incur these costs, even if you deviate from FDA standards and involve less patients, etc.

Also, you have to look at the cost avoided through rigorous testing. Human lives are expensive, purely from an economic standpoint. Say the average 50 year-old makes about $50k/year and has another 15 working years. That's about $750k in income alone. Since an employer would never hire someone that wasn't worth at least their salary, the economic value of the worker is probably well over $1m.

Now you have a study here about a new cholesterol drug: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6577591. On a test of 15,000 people, with half taking the new drug and half taking Lipitor, the new drug resulted in 60% more deaths, or about 0.41% as a fraction of the overall test group. And this was a drug already deep into human trials.

Now, consider that a popular drug like is prescribed to tens of millions of people. What is 0.41% of 10 million? About 41,000. At $1m a pop, that's $41 billion.

Now, I'm just throwing some numbers around. The point is that even extremely small variations in the effectiveness of drugs can have huge economic impacts when you consider how widely prescribed these drugs are (to a demographic, I might add, that's often at the peak of their earning power). And there is just no way the market would be able to uncover this information without rigorous clinical testing. A 0.4% difference in efficacy can have billions of dollars in impacts, but if you're talking about a sample group where 2-3% might die in a given sample period anyway, nobody would ever know about that difference.
Sure, it's 3.5 sigma in this particular energy band, but is it 3.5 sigma in every energy band?

It might be like expressing amazement that someone in the world won the lottery. There's a difference between someone in particular winning the lottery, and anyone winning the lottery.

Xkcd says it better than me. (hat tip to starwed)

http://xkcd.com/882/
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That isn't a copyright thing though, that is a standup thing.
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Been wanting a better way to find events in my area. Add Raleigh and I'll give it a shot :)
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We're on an adding city rampage starting in January. Raleigh is on the list!
I love the idea. I wold swear I saw another one of these before, though. Not sure how well they are doing, though.
It does matter but it needs to innovate. They are just sitting still with their features and it gets real boring being the mayor of the same place everyday.
This has actually been a part of Sharepoint for the last few years. It's called Excel Services (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms517343.aspx). It's very clever that they extended it to SkyDrive.
I know physicists/programmers who are not only 10x faster in getting anything done, but can do in a day what most programmers never achieve in a career. You'd better believe there are massive differences in productivity -- or your business will be inevitably outcompeted, and fail.
3.5 sigmas refers to the probability of some statistic being as severe as they're observing under a model where the Higgs does not exist. Regardless of the distribution, Chebyshev applies solely by assumption that sigma is a meaningful unit. It may be overly conservative though.
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