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Their students are smart. The'll figure out there are better solutions.

And having seen how not to do it is also an invaluable lesson. ;-)

(Burn, karma, burn)
I think it is because the Drake equation[1] over-estimates the chances of intelligent life forming.

A common average result for the Drake equation is 10,000 habitable planets capable of sending signals in our universe. But if you look at the equation and estimates they are a bit optimistic.

If you take fℓ from the equation, I don't think simply being of the right composition in the habitable zone is enough. The Earth formed life because of the moon, because we had been shiften off our axis which formed seasons, because we were made of enough iron to form a magnetic field, and we just happen to form a moon which protected the Earth from space debris and gave us tides (in short, the moon and magnetic field are essential to life on Earth, as well as the composition of the planet).

That is a lot of 'ifs' to add to the equation, which brings the chances of a planet even in the habitable zone having the same life-bearing characteristics as earth much, much lower. Even with thousands of planets in the habitable zone the chances of finding one that has a magnetic field, the right temperature, a moon, etc. are very very slim and when multiplied back into the Drake equation brings the result back to lower than 1 - meaning we are a complete fluke.

There is also the time portion of the equation. The Earth is 4.6B years old, and we have been capable of sending signals for only 100 years of that time. Even if our civilization survives for another 10,000 years it is still 10,000 years divided into 4.6B years - so even with the complete fluke of an Earth-like planet being created in a habitable zone takes place, we are still 1 in 460,000 chance of being around at the same time. If Drake gives us 10,000 possible habitable planets with life, the 1 in 460,000 factor of time brings it back to a lot less than 1 again.

I believe that Keppler will continue finding planets in the habitable zone, but they will look more like Mars and Venus than anything like Earth.

I find it interesting that the Drake equation, created to show that there must be other intelligent life, can today be used to show that we are very unique when it is adapted with what we know today.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#The_equation
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Given he is the CEO, I think he's making many more non-technical hires such as Operations, Sales and Marketing folk. The secret sauce is that he's getting info that the candidate hasn't presented himself or hasn't cherry picked people to provide on his behalf.

Of course, I have a major problem with it because it can "blow up someone's spot" as they say - alerting people you may not want to know you're on the job hunt (current employer/clients).
The x86 is the easy part (and, mind you, it's hideously complicated). Then you will have to emulate the rest of the PC - VGA, USB, peripherals...

Isn't it much easier to just have compilable source code?
I prefer 'Summary' or 'Abstract'. 'Executive Summary' _forces_ me to think of gentlemen in suits as if only their time would matter. Its used in business contexts, where it rightly belongs (where person reading the paper will make some decisions based on it, ie. will execute.) Abstracts are abstractions (makes sense for scientific papers). Summaries... well... summarize.

Plus... calling Summary a 'tl;dr' is somehow informal and ok, me thinks.
> They usually make it pretty clear that you are not permitted to do outside research on the case or the laws in question.

Grand juries operate under vastly different rules and assumptions, and for very different (and varying) purposes, than petit (trial) juries. The role of a grand jury has been anything from a limited sanity check on prosecutors all the way to an autonomous body empowered to investigate all aspects of governance in their jurisdiction.

There have even been grand juries that were long treated as rubber stamps for prosecutors, but found the laws of their state envisioned much more, went "rogue", and started bringing down corrupt politicians, prosecutors, judges, etc..
One obstacle might be that by entering the VR, you'd be ceding a lot of control to the people "outside" your reality--they might gain physical advantage over you or hack your VR.

But if that concern could be definitively answered--and I think it could--then quite possibly the VR is a good move. Maybe any preference for our outside, non-simulative reality will in time be seen as narrow-minded chauvinism.
Last time I read about IndexTank I noticed that their query language isn't that sophisticated, it could basically find only matches. Did it improve, is it possible to do fuzzy matches?

ADD: also, does it support non-english languages at all?
Dude. This is a technical forum not poetry night at a coffee shop...

Also, out of curiosity, would you be in favor of anti-female sentiment in a future with the technology for asexual male reproduction?
I really hope not. By now, one would have to be seriously delusional to believe OOo will catch up with LibreOffice.
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I'm going with the majority opinion on this.

It's perfectly fine for you to look up my past work relationships for people you know and trust for an objective opinion of my skills - but you damn well better let me know and get my permissions before-hand. I'd like to know whom of my associates you're calling and get their permissions for it beforehand. Skipping this step is just an unbelievable dick move on your part and will make me seriously reconsider working for you.
> ...it encourages bad coding...

I would love to explain to my boss when I introduced some bad code into our repo: "But the PHP made me do it!". Really, if you can't use a tool without blaming it for when you use it badly, well...
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At least they aren't doing what Indiana University did - use both and let the students decide which system they want to use. Now they can choose between Imail (Microsoft) or Umail (Gmail). But on the administration side, IU is still pretty much a Microsoft shop though with the faculty having an Exchange setup.
If that reduces vendor lock-in, I'm for it. But knowing Microsoft since the Altair BASIC days, I have to wonder what they are trying to accomplish.
Nit: 47 billion light-years in all directions; 93 billion light years is the diameter.
ENI seems like it would be simple to implement without VL2. Why do you think it's related?
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Why does Office need to be quite so complicated? It it purely to sell upgrades or are there people out there who look forward to this stuff?
This is not just about absence of social skills, but something much more aggressive, and she's not primarily talking about tech in general, but SEO and social media in particular, which sounds like a cesspit that marries the sexism of tech with the narcissism of sales conferences.
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There is this assumption that the ambition of humanity should be to physically expand far into space. But why exactly? Spanning large distances isn't a very interesting goal per se. We will learn a lot of cosmology and physics in the process, but I would imagine that once you've seen a few thousand stars, nebulae, and black holes up close, you've pretty much seen them all.

The idea of building a giant computer (or turning into one) seems a lot more interesting. If that's what we're doing, then those people making social networks and video games are on the right track. In this case, we probably wouldn't expand physically until we run out of energy for computation, and our own sun has enough of that to last us a long time.
I remember something about injecting toxins into off-the-shelf medicine (maybe Aspirin?). Perhaps that's what you're thinking of?

Apparently this was longer ago than I thought: 1986. Here's a link: http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/19/us/batch-of-rite-aid-aspir...
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All written languages are essentially logographic in the eyes of a literate user of the language.

Given his "dragon" example, A literate native speaker of English, who is familiar with the word "dragon" would not read "d. r. a. g. o. n.", then put them together, but would see "dragon" as an atom.
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Isn't Gmail white boarding the same thing as Google Docs Drawings? Except Drawings are vector-based, obviously.
Well, we don't have booths, never mind booth babes...

I'm more talking about the kind of harassment that Jane describes happening in the bar / at breaks in the conference etc.
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Actually that's the code for an older 20% project:

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I don't think most of the people taking, say, a class on Nabokov will complain much about needing Microsoft Word. In fact, I suspect the only inconvenienced person will be the lone EECS major using Linux (me :)).

As long as professors want hard copies, it won't be an issue. (Using MLA format with LaTeX is really, really easy.) However, some do expect digital copies for whatever reason. I've seen them ask for docs uploaded to the internal class website system, which is itself pretty horrible. I just hope I don't have to deal with it--even opening LibreOffice is more annoying than one could hope.
What I'm still missing here is how this links back to technology.

A lady has a deeply unpleasant encounter with some some jackass, and also notices that in an industry which is mostly men, you get some creeps putting together sexist things like the "sexiest women in technology".

But: what's the relationship with this to technology conferences, other than: you're going to meet a lot of men? What's the take-away here for the tech industry? What does she want us to /do/ about this?
Some more options:

-Life is around but it's nowhere near our way of thinking and functioning. Maybe it's a gas cloud which takes a billion years to "think" a single thought. Who's to say that an alien lifeform's "neocortex" and utility function is going to be anything but incomprehensible to us? (Counter-argument: certain patterns repeat independently in nature, for instance I read somewhere that the design pattern for the eye has been created independently by evolution like 40 times).

-Life is around and we've already made contact with it (ie UFOs).

-Life is out there but it's consciously avoiding us (Prime Directive-style).
It's still faster to recognise it in a language like Chinese/Japanese though.

For instance, I see your nick and I can remember you from TechReport many years ago. But if it was in Chinese the match would be faster, and especially so if it appeared surrounded by other text (alphabet-based text looks more self-similar).
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I'm not very familiar with how the whole VC cycle works, but I've always been curious...

When a company gets funding from a VC, what is it typically used for? Is it mostly a fat raise for the founders, or is it spent on infrastructure for the business? other stuff?

I'm especially curious to hear from people who have actually received investments, about how they use it.... (if they're willing to talk about it).
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I know someone earlier said this program isn't available to non americans, but is there some special policy set up for Canadians (since we're so close....and have been bffs for so long! :D)
Myself (web applications developer) and my gf (band teacher) were thinking of throwing in an application, but if Canadians also don't qualify then there's really no point?
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I remember older versions of Office making HTML; two pages of some cryptic stuff after exporting Hello World doc...
You're right, and it was the same in the other medieval institution he doesn't talk about-- the Church. Unlike today, you didn't need a Master of Divinity (M.Div) to be offered a job as a pastor or priest. You presented yourself-- and were usually sent-- to a bishop (or consistory or presbytery) as one prepared, usually with Latin and Greek, to "read for Holy Orders." Often, the student was taken into the home of the bishop (!) and ate all meals with his family while being tutored in Greek, Hebrew, biblical exegesis, and Church history. Before the advent of the theological seminary in the early half of the 19th century in America, all ministers were educated this way. It worked very very well up until recently.

I mention this because it parallels the University exactly. They changed the system, and educationally we are all the worse for it because the most important thing now is the credential rather than knowledge. To get the credential you have to go into extreme debt if you happen to be poor. If you don't believe that there's been inflation and the system has gone soft, just take a look at a McGuffey's Sixth Reader. Shakespeare and Dryden at that stage! Something very important has been lost, but most Anglo-Americans don't realise it.
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When I did a CS degree in the 80s we did roughly the same amount of maths as engineering courses and all of the more difficult CS classes (generally the more mathematical/formal ones) were mandatory - there was a relatively small amount of choice and certainly no way to graduate without being a fairly decent developer and quite happy with formal abstractions.

Unfortunately, as the article describes, many CS courses have become "customer focused" so are now, as far as I can see, attempting to become vocational training courses, which universities are generally pretty awful at. When I finished my undergraduate course (with a 1st) the only thing I felt qualified to do was go into postgraduate research - which is pretty much what the course was oriented towards, although this was only apparent in retrospect.

"Real" CS is irrelevant to 98% of development jobs. In my opinion anyone believing that a CS degree will train them to be a good developer is going to get a nasty shock.

Having said that, some of the very best developers I have worked with did have the combination of awesome raw talent and CS degrees (often PhDs). Of course, I've also worked with some equally good developers (in their own way) who didn't have a degree.
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Number of words in the vocabulary is also important for nuance: English has loads more words than any other language.
The article's last point strikes me as a bit odd. The religious fundamentalists will be the ones who make scientific advances that are necessary to travel across the universe and meet alien species? Judging from the fundamentalists' past actions, allow me to stay sceptical about that.
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They are millions of light years away, but there is no absolute time frame in which our observations could be called "old" or "new". You can choose to think of far away things as "the past", if you like. But the point is, that doesn't make it any less cool.

EDIT: Actually, I missed your point, which was that far away things have less history in which intelligence could evolve. This is true, but the amount of history we can observe is still staggeringly large. Far too big to eliminate the paradox.
There are lots of business uses to being able to automate documents. Being able to do so in JS rather than VBA would be a bonus for companies that have a need to do so, but don't want to train people in a language that's not used anywhere else.

It might also allow MS to do nifty online things.
Even something as asinine as, say, "Wow, you've got huge boobs!", might be a one-off extreme lack of social skills -- the first and only time it happens. But the kind of things she's talking about are the symptoms of much more fundamental dysfunction. These are adult men treating women as though they are objects for the pleasure and amusement of men, and doing so openly and habitually.

These people should be pariahs in their industry, but somehow they're not. That does not reflect well on the culture, and says there is a serious problem.

(Edit: By the way, I have asperger's syndrome and seriously deficient social skills, and I've said stupid things a few times to women when my mouth got ahead of my brain, but nothing even remotely like the creepy "It's not fair!" guy or the threatening "hook up" guy.)
There are sooo many factors about this that its hard to make a point that covers everything, and its had to stay partial when explaining your point. From reading the comments etc and various reports about SOPA, it seems everyone is going on about the music companies rather than the artists they represent. IMO the music companies are the ones who have been making the money off of someone else's talent for a long time now, perhaps taking more than their fair share. Do I feel sorry for the profit driven record labels? No I don’t. Its no coincidence that all of the richest artists in the world are the ones who have built their own record labels and cut out the middle man, and hats off to them, the ones with the talent are the ones who should make the biggest share. With the opening of apple's itunes it gave (even the smallest) artists the chance of putting their content on the internet to buy, without having to necessarily deal with the companies who have have been making millions/billions off them for years.. Several artists (and i would go as far as saying most) have now accepted that downloading music is the new norm and itunes is the way to keep the money coming in, whilst also being able to appeal to the masses. When you read (https://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-m... take into account that alot of music artists have actually uploaded their own albums to torrent sites prior to release to gain attention, it would seem the artists know exactly how to play the market. I can truthfully say I have been to many gigs I wouldn’t have known about etc had I not downloaded the artists albums, I have also bought merchandise as a result of this.

then you read something like https://torrentfreak.com/retired-computerless-woman-fined-fo... , and realise this is what would happen if the music companies had their way. Profit at any costs, even when it cant even be proven that any crime has been breached.

At the end of the day I see the music companies fighting a losing battle (the megalupload takedown certainly didnt help), the musicians still "making it rich" and the consumers who buy music STILL buying music, though direct from the musician, thats why the companies are trying to have this act passed.
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I'll upvote this because the question is worth answering , but the answer is far too complicated, since the writer assumes that all research is not just scientific, but also empirical psychological research that is conducted in a certain way.

Research is the activity of trying to find out things that other people might want to know.

Research is worthwhile if you do find things out that you communicate to other people, and some of these people find your results useful.
It wasn't. At least in the UK in the 80s, you could go out to any town center, walk into a shop, and buy a "home" computer. They were everywhere.
They don't know the bounds of their own ignorance

Other people never do, do they? It explains everything. You need look no further.
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While each Chinese character is 'denser' than an English alphabetical letter the analogy that should be drawn is that one Chinese character is closer in equivalence to a whole English word and whenever Chinese characters are strung together to create compound words they are recognized by the native Chinese reader as logographs themselves.

Native speakers of English don't phonetically sound out words they read. We recognize whole words, I remember reading a Cambridge study on this years ago, here's the best link I could find http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

You can print more Chinese characters than English words to a page, if you read emails in Chinese they're often much much shorter but I'd say it takes native readers of both languages roughly the same amount of time to comprehend 2 equivalent passages. Mind you I said 'comprehend' and not read out aloud to control for differences in the rate of speech for both languages.
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You're conveniently ignoring the fact that the + operator also means string concatenation.

Javascript thinks to itself 'hello' string concatenated with a 1 value.