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If that's the question you wanted answered, it should have been the question you asked. Instead, you asked which goodies are provided by a society with a complex government structure.

Leaving aside the direct governmental involvement in the creation of the internet. Leaving aside the governmental influence in promoting the widespread use of electricity in the early 20th century. Time Warner and ConEdison don't exist without the complex governmental structures that define a corporation and provide the framework for them to operate.

There is a reason why corporations don't exist in places like Somalia. There is a reason why corporations who incorporate in places like Bermuda don't actually do anything in those places. It's no coincidence that the most technologically advanced nations on the planet are also the ones with the most complex governmental structures. They are inextricably linked. Without one, you simply don't have the other.

There's also the matter of the impact complex governmental structures have in protecting your private property. The little old lady at the county records office provides far, far more protection for your property than any gun ever will. Your private property exists because the government provides the framework for it to exist. Without things like car titles and property deeds, how long do you think it will be before someone just comes along and drives you out of your home so they can have it?

If libertarians ever really thought about how much of their comfortable existence relied on the government they hated so much, their heads would explode.
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I reckon that the challenge involved in reducing the problem to one line (as in one single Python statement) has little to do with how many characters long it is.
I'm guessing it would look 99.99% identical to these 36 top languages.
Yes, but they could probably be automatically parked in tightly packed parking lots far out of town. As peak approaches, they could drive themselves back into town.

Because the customer doesn't require a specific car, these parking lots can be FIFO queues or FILO stacks and won't require maneuvering space.

Also, the cars could transition to a much cheaper, non-maglev parking system. This might even be done using a robot to lift and store the car into a slot in an otherwise "dead" grid. One expensive robot that can move in 2 dimensions and a lot of simple steel rails is a lot cheaper than heaps of maglev track.

Finally, the 333k car estimate was based on a subway where there is only one place that people are leaving from. There was an assumption that EVERY car must return EMPTY to the source of the trip afterwards to pick up the next passenger. This is not true, the percentage of returning cars is probably much lower (30%?) And even those cars could be useful for part of this trip.
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Holy cow that's fast. I had no idea it was so actively edited, even when you restrict it to >= 100± characters it's still more than one per second. And so many more registered users than anonymous!

In the about page:

>Hopefully wikistream provides a hint of just how active the community is around Wikipedia.

Mission accomplished.
Wow, what a story. Thank you for sharing that.

Did your mother have any say in the acquisition of the vacuum, or was it a hand-me-down or something?

I take it she didn't write a letter to Dirt Devil complaining that she had been "abused" by being exposed to the word, though?
This is wrong on so many levels it's hard to even start criticizing. TL/DR: the guy wants more or less the semantics of decimal floating point numbers (with NaNs and all) in integers, and believes that such "integers" would be "better" in his words"to make it difficult for those specialized integers to flow into allocation functions, array indices, etc. That sort of thing is the root of a lot of serious bugs in C/C++ applications."

In fact, integers that we have in current CPUs are product of let's say at least 50 years of engineering and they are optimum, even if somebody declares them "the root of a lot of serious bugs in C/C++ applications." I've got the news for him: a lot of other and older languages have the same behavior because that's the local optimum for a hardware implementation and it will remain so even once we have decimal fp numbers of the same speed as integers (even if we ignore that actually we won't). Before two's complement there were other integer variants implemented in hardware and they turned out to be less functional as two's complement representation.

Then gives the example that if this code

result = result * 10 + cursor - '0';

were evaluated as

result * 10 + (cursor - '0')

there won't be overflow, totally ignoring that the languages often have exactly defined order of evaluation and that if the language has the defined order of evaluation from left to right for + and - then the only proper evaluation is only

(result * 10 + cursor) - '0'

It's as simple as that.

Then he ends with the loop that wouldn't work with floating point NaNs (and therefore wouldn't fit in NaNs for integers too):

for (x = INT_MIN; x != iNaN; x++)

because every number is not equal to NaN, so the above loop would never end.

I'd say everything he wrote is not even wrong.
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Absolutely. And your comment doesn't even mention the tens of thousands of lives that could be saved yearly, nor the millions of acres of paved wasteland that could be re-claimed for use by humans and real human communities.

I hope someday an america jammed to the gills with empty, idle hunks of steel looks as bizarre and wasteful as it actual is.
Both. His response is a proof by example (not a proof) and sounded a lot like, "Oh my black friends don't mind when I use that word". Counterexample... I am asian, my "pragmatically authoritarian" father did not encourage me to play violin in order to win money for his bloodline. Thus forensik is wrong. QED.

Also, I DO mind. I found what he said to be VERY offensive. My family is not some conniving, money-grubbing machine that was carefully molding me from the start to take the helm of our empire when my father dies. My parents are supportive of whatever I want to do. Additionally, Asia is huge. Really ridiculously huge. I cannot fathom how anyone can feel justified in casting such a narrow stereotype upon everyone who arrives to the USA from the East. Maybe before conducting a racial ethnography you could read the American Anthropological Association's statement on "race". Basically, race and culture should not be conflated.
http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/racepp.htm

I'm sure nobody is trying to be a bigot here but forensik is sure coming off that way.
Or pretty much any other technology.
Communism as the only opposite to corrupt, massively unequal crony capitalism? Sounds like you're a communist, comrade.

Except of course, that your whole response amounts to "waaah, Julian called me a sexist". Yes, I did. You are a sexist.
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Ah sexism. I love it when I sees it. This thread just oozes it! In fact, most of the posters here write with the exact sexist bent the writer warns about.

* Explain she overreacted; tell her she is wrong.

* Claim her feelings have no merit; tell her she is wrong.

* Tell her you know how she should feel; tell her she is wrong.

* Flatly deny she encountered sexism; tell her she is wrong

* Change the discussion to center on men; minimize her response by associating it with a trivial issue "everyone" has to deal with
This is a great point that I haven't heard yet. Reducing the cost by a factor of 4 might be a bit to optimistic though.
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Does your company's competitor copy even your visual design? What I see here is some bullshit makers trying to promote their product by trolling. This is not the common case.

By the way, I'm not against copying. I distribute my website, multiplayerchess.com with WTF License to let people clone it easily.

Again, what I see here is bullshit. It's unethical, it's not honest.
Propagating NaNs?? Gah, at least exceptions provide a backtrace.

What's needed is a dependent type system (like that of ATS or Ada) that allows the range of allowable values for an integer to be decalred. A halfway-smart compiler can then statically check (using e.g. abstract interpretation) that the intermediate results of arithmetic performed on such integers does not exceed the system integer size, and that the results do not exceed the declared size of the result variable.

(In fact, if the programmer places runtime checks at the right places, such range declarations aren't even necessary as they can be inferred by the compiler.)

Such a system would statically guarantee that no overflow will occur. This means no spurious hard-to-track-down NaN results at runtime.
Yeah. There are also a lot of families who quietly choose to dress their kids as angels, pumpkins, or any of the other things that are not in direct conflict with their religion.

Around here there are also large churches which put on "fall harvest festivals" as an alternative to Halloween. Makes it sound even more pagan if you ask me!
I think it's interesting that the emphasis on defending something like Rails is based on a comparison to J2EE. My real gripe with Rails is about how it disparages good enterprise-class database practices, and so this is why I'd call it a "toy" system.

That doesn't mean you can't do interesting things with it, but rather that you are essentially talking about an application closely tied to the db schema it stores its data in. The idea of enterprise-class applications sharing their data in a common database is something entirely foreign to (and incompatible with) the Rails way.

This doesn't mean it can't be used in an enterprise environment. For example, you could have a Rails/MySQL app with data imported periodically into a PostgreSQL multi-application database, but I wouldn't call the former "enterprise-class."
Remind me not to hire anyone this guy has taught.

Oh. My. God.

[I'm kidding, of course. I learned a lot from teachers who had obvious axes to grind . . . just not the lessons they wanted me to come away with. Finals were an interesting exercise in remembering to cough up the party line, and even the TAs were snickering in some sessions.]
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Different possible Zendesk(ZD) responses and their outcomes :

- Keep quiet and wishing this episode to go away
In my opinion ,this is not the best option.At some point ZD would have to come back with a response,atleast to their customers. Not responding keeps Freshdesk(FD) in driving the discourse and makes ZD look timid.

- CEO should make a short tweet ( & no more) ,IMMEDIATELY.It should say " Still stand by my ripoff comment.IMHO ,a crappy ripoff. " . this will prevent this issue from becoming any more sensational and will stop adding fuel to the issue . ZD CEO should stick to his ground by saying that FD IS A RIPOFF

The ZD CEO made a subjective,nasty comment about a competitor's product - this happens all the time.
ZD DID NOT make any of the nasty comments like "indian cowboys" etc. Ben keepes and the personal comment by ZD is the only connection with ZD. FD is trying to make ZD look guilty by association.

- Next they should go on the offensive by targeting FD customers and prove that FD is indeed crappy. eg FD customers will get 6 months free.
Would be nice to be able to use it without signing in...
I don't get it. Do you expect me to read the entire Wikipedia article to infer what your response to some part of that paragraph is?
Just stumbled onto this article here, which is even more terrifying, and yet I've already believed at least half of what he's saying was true:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/01/the-truth-about-the-...
Really? It looked to me like he did: http://twitter.com/#!/cloudgroupsyd/status/14253941437406412...

You can argue if that apology was enough or if it was a full apology. But I feel like saying "he didn't apologize" is an oversimplification.
I have to confess, that links and discussion like this are my secret number one reason to visit HN regularly.

By reading the comments on swiftprt.com I also found the interesting project of electric airplane takeoff
http://electrictakeoff.com/

Is there an online community that discusses such questions more frequently?
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The son of a friend of mine. Helluva family.
We really need to port Homebrew to Windows so that projects like this can be the base, but people can pull in packages on top of it, like a lightweight Cygwin but more Windows'y.
Would it work on firefox if you just remove "webkit-" from the code?
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Yep, you can! Any url on AngelList works on AngelSquare e.g. http://angelsq.co/uber-1
Having dealt with programming teams in my teenage years, yeah, ego is always an entertaining problem.

That said, you come off as a needy manipulative little shithead.

If this was such a big deal to you, and you cared so much about self-improvement, why didn't you learn the skills yourself instead of manipulating Paul into doing stuff for you?
I also recommend looking at his other visualization, WikiPulse - http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/ - also built on node.js.
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It appears one can hack the ePub to change font settings and include an embedded TrueType font (maybe also other formats?), and the Kobo firmware will successfully process this.

I'm waiting for the battery to finish charging to see how Proggy Tiny Slashed-Zero looks. It may be too small, in which case I'll try one of the other Proggy variants, or Dina. (Both Proggy and Dina have TrueType implementations, although I'm uncertain how complete they are. I may have to look around for a better choice of a small-format fixed width font implemented in TrueType format.)
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I was thinking of writing something like this literally just yesterday. I look forward to contributing.
You should consider moving back. I think its a lot easier to find tech gigs when you are based here.
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Definitely not. Once you got past CON, LPT1, and COM1, it was BIOS calls and I/O ports all the way.
That's pretty neat visualisation of data, but of course it doesn't represent the whole story. I could imagine that some people might've been on a particularily long support call or something. But if all you're employing the people for is to resolve tickets, then it's great.

Needless to say if you tried to apply this to programmers, by integrating it into the bug tracking and source control systems, it would be gamed pretty damn quickly.
hmm. I thought it's impossible to block that solution since a coder should be able to get the computed value of a style property. I'll try it soon.
I think the the "normalcy" of smoking is much more similar to how the suppression and shaming of normal sexuality was, until relatively recently, the norm in modern western civilization.

IMHO, the article you linked to is about as enlightening as an article saying that overindulgence in cakes and cookies is harmful. Well duh! In normal, moderate consumption both cakes, cookies, and porn are completely normal and healthy.
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An obvious PR campaign that damages Freshbook's brand perception in my mind. I had no opinion of them before, but this sleazy tactic creates a negative image. I think it helps them to build awareness, but at what cost...
Taking a tweet from someone with 73 followers, throwing it front of thousands of people (maybe more) and saying that the tweet "reflects poorly on the intellectual ability of the person making the judgement" is a personal attack to me. You can argue that they're right, but does the punishment really fit the crime? It seems in poor judgement to publicly shame some dude who's comments would of otherwise gone unnoticed.
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Off the top of my head, the only things of value on a seastead are the salvageable materials, which would be a hassle to collect and sell, and the net worth of the various residents. They have no strategic value, it would cost a lot to keep them supplied, and you're in the middle of the ocean.
To me, it would be much easier to to just bill them 10 mil a month for protection against a low-risk to non-existent threat until they can't afford it anymore.
What image would that be?

The image that they interpret in their minds. Not what it says in the literal Bible, or on Wikipedia.

I'm sure there's a great deal of depth and diversity and religious scholarship on the topic of devils, Satan, etc.

What they all tend to agree is that this figure represents a direct conflict with God. All Christians (and plenty of other major religions) are thus in opposition to it, by definition.
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I was identifying an unfair rhetorical tactic on your part. Not every criticism of abusive corporate and government practice amounts to communism, not every criticism of religious intolerance amounts to witchcraft, not every criticism of homophobia amounts to pedophilia, and not every criticism of a vague, venting blog post vaguely complaining about sexist treatment without really illustrating it amounts to sexism.

I really don't give a shit whether you think I'm a sexist or not: frankly, the fact that you jump to that rather than actually engaging any of my points says more about you than about me. What I do give a shit about is people like you outright sabotaging reasonable discourse through nothing more than personal attacks.
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Is it truly faster? I don't know. I do know it feels faster and in this context feelings trump facts when it comes to most users.

I'd also add that a developer edition sounds good but I'm not sure if actually is a good idea. While its true the addons are what bogs down speed, having separate editions makes Mozilla's job harder and it will make the temptation to continually add new developer pet features greater which can only hurt in the long run. A better option might be to simply have one, stripped down edition with optional extensions just like how things pretty much are.
Excellent work. Bit confused though, what determines a good choice of a startup, from a bad choice? What is the game dynamic, once invested in a startup?
The biggest problem is that the author seems to be completely ignorant (willfully or otherwise) of the issues involved at the hardware level.

They go so far as to point out that high-level languages shouldn't have these limitations (sure, agreed), but then is baffled that something like C/C++ does (and should).

C maps more-or-less directly onto assembly, which in turn maps more-or-less directly onto command bit vectors for an ALU. There is no magic decision in the industry to use twos-complement, wrapping arithmetic, or fixed-size integers (which map onto machine words).

This person needs to spend some quality time with low-level architectural stuff and gain a better understanding of why things are the way they are.

(not that the points are bad, necessarily, for a DSL or something--but stay out of our systems languages!)

EDIT: Okay, author is clearly somewhat knowledgeable about the field, but still... these are interesting ideas that don't really make sense for low-level stuff. It's not a matter of allocating enough memory (for bignums or whatever)--it's how the mapping occurs to the actual hardware instructions and datatypes.
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I didn't accuse anyone of getting "bent out of shape," the phrase was part of a non-rhetorical question.

I think the phrase is warranted in light of the story here.

The more I think about the mascot issue, the less sense it makes to me that a person who truly believed it was morally wrong to invoke the Devil would allow such an exception.

The fact that a crowd of 10,000 screaming fans is (arguably) doing something very much akin to worshiping the mascot just makes it about 100,000x worse.
You're very right. I suppose Chrome feels faster and that often counts more than facts. I still love the separate processes. Really cool idea, I think. Everyone's mileage will vary when it comes to this I suppose.
And as a bonus when used against a man you will at the same time question his manliness. So actually I think this low blow argument might be even better used against men, but works against women.

And for the specifics of the article. I see no explicit accusation of being emotional. "I was being hard on S" does not necessarily mean that the people being hard on another is emotional, since it could also mean almost the opposite: that you do not care about people's emotions. And this argument ("being too hard on") can be and is used on men.

I do not see how this article relates to sexism, rather it relates to various low blow tactics in corporate politics.
Sleek and simple interface. Nice work guys!
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> I've observed this sort of behavior in groups where the group is invested in the allegation not being true.

Bingo. Men in tech are supposed to be evolved, egalitarian, meritocratic, all that.

So it stings a lot to have to face the fact that many of them are sexist pricks. Better instead to find some way to deflate that so they can continue celebrating themselves without interruption.
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Every time a startup exits, it'll be marked as a "WIN" on your profile (if you got in early enough). The multiplier will be a best guess from a team of AngelSquare judges.
Thanks for the interest! I wrote up some high level notes at http://inkdroid.org/journal/2011/11/07/an-ode-to-node/ if you want to know a bit more.
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I'm the same. In fact, I track my hours but only productive hours. It usually comes out to about 4 hours per day. There are those great days when it could be as high as 6 or 7 but those are rare. In fact, I've found that if I try to push myself and do more than 25 hours per week, I tend to get sick much easier.
Not sure if this is applicable, but an aggregator of sorts was put together for a local hack day a couple of weeks ago:

http://occupywhere.herokuapp.com/
https://github.com/markturner/Occupy
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Any way to put a quick hack so we can play without using FB login? Would love to try it out...
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I read this as "A mature programmer mangles their time and productivity well"
I know you're a reasonable guy. I'm just trying not to have us lump hundreds of millions of Americans into the same bucket as the crazy person who can't stay in the hotel with the BSD daemon logo on it. It's an easy trap to fall into, especially in a place like HN, which suffers grievously from the base rate fallacy on this particular topic.
I took a very brief look at the Touch and 4 (ads version) while breezing by them in a Target (I know -- and they had some Sony's and Kobo's as well; these things are really going mainstream).

Anyway, after spending a few seconds with them, my impression was that page turn on the Touch and 4 were about the same. If so, you could use your Touch experience as a basis for comparison.

EDIT: Reading his article, now. Apparently, I didn't spend enough time with them to form an accurate observation:

The Kobo Touch is the slowest at page-turns, followed closely by the Kindle Touch. In fact, my old Kindle 2 turns pages slightly faster than the Kindle Touch. I’ll come back to that in a minute.
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