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I was also going to note that I have worked shifts that are hard on sleep. When working an overnight shift, for example, I found it impossible to sleep more htan 4 hours per day (day because you get to sleep maybe 8am).

The funny thing is the impairment isn't linear throughout the day. There are times when it is really bad (1-3am) and times when it is pretty good (dawn, during the daylight hours etc). In general the only times I found myself impaired was at work. I have talked to people who worked in other industry overnight and their experience was the same.

As far as I can tell, without tremendous amounts of caffeine, the brain seems to go partway to sleep, able to recover from approx. half of the outstanding sleep debt per day. Part of the problem is the way in which we use caffeine to compensate.
Is it that large? The true estimates I saw suggest less than 400,000 people? Is that bigger than the tech industry?
Where I live normal people are using Direct Connect for downloading pirated stuff, a protocol that's more popular than torrent here.

Direct Connect uses IPs for connecting to hubs. There are no web interfaces either. Instead you have to download and install the DC++ client.

Lots of people that aren't in the "99% of the non-nerd population" are using it - in fact by my estimates there aren't a lot of nerds as the nerds have moved on to torrents.
Agreed. MIT is an amazing institution.

I hope to somehow use their open source video course infrastructure at the university that I work for.

MIT is being a leader for all universities in this field. And it's not like they are 'giving away the milk for free'; because the most valuable part of MIT, besides the diploma, are the people sitting next to you in class. Networking is king, and where better than to network at MIT?
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> All these issues should be decided by the states, not the feds.

Rather OT, but I have a major problem with this line. The population of the U.S. around the writing of the constitution was ~3 million; if it was a state today, it would be one of the smaller ones. In many cases, states are not in any better a position to decide these issues than the federal government. (And with things like SOPA, per-state regulation would naturally be disastrous.) I think at this point, very few things can be well decided at the state level; thus, either the national gov't is needed to keep states from stepping on each others' toes (tax law and internet taxes), or the national gov't is needed to keep states from stepping on the rights of citizens of that state - which they are just as capable of doing as the national gov't was when the idea of state sovereignty was taken for granted.

tl;dr: states are as capable of screwing things up as the national gov't, and tend to be less transparent about it.
Cool. I've done some work on things like this before. Some of the things I do to make it work on multiple images:

Template matching is your friend in this case, because most Waldos look similar. You already tried this in a basic way by searching for the stripes of a given color. You can make it more powerful by making the template include more properties, and work in more contexts. For instance: what if Waldo's a different size?

The other option is to pretend you don't know what Waldo looks like, find him in a bunch of images, label the subimages as "waldo" candidates, measure certain properties of those subimages, and find which of coordinates of feature space have similar properties. Then use these properties as your template.

Finally, you could train a classifier on subwindows like sergeyk suggested. This has some difficulty because where's waldo images are difficult to subdivide into subwindows on the scale of a single person. Do you move pixel by pixel? Do you divide it into a grid? Each grid will contain weird parts of people in each box. Etc. If you do find a way to divide the image into "people" -- perhaps by doing a preliminary "person"-template sweep that identifies locations of people in the image -- then you can use a supervised learning algorithm to say "yes, this person is waldo" or "nope, FRWONG!", based on the image properties in the subwindow around that person.
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I am currently a CS student at MIT and heard that one of my classmates is actually not a student, but paid just to take one course while working full time at a big tech company. If efforts like MITx become very legitimate, it could be a good way to formalize training for employees and educating them on specific subjects. e.g CS generalist takes a graphics course to help in a new endeavor at his/her company.
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On "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!", which is a comedy make-fun-of-the-news quiz show. They exaggerate everything in that way for comedic effect.
Look at the comment elsewhere about how even those who are opposing the bill have similar distributions of donations. It would seem to be more likely that (in general) the majority of the lobbying groups (pouring money into Washington) are in favor of SOPA.

That said, regulatory capture is the real demon (moreso than campaign contributions).
Wait, is 5-6 hours a night considered insomnia? Or am I misreading you, and you used to sleep less and have improved?
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Seconded.

Sadly, as a paid lobbyist, I expect Florian has more time than the rest of us to look for news in his niche and try to be the first to comment on and share it (plus there are probably times where a client notifies him directly). Which is a big reason journalists end up citing him, I suspect.

BTW, for those wanting an example of Florian's bias, he posted about BT's lawsuit without saying a word about the highly-relevant "hyperlink patent" background. I'd say that is a pretty good example.
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For ISVs it properly doesn't matter much. They usually have rather few expenses.
Sure, if it does the job then it does the job - but if there are two bits of software that are pretty much equal then I'll choose the one more pretty!

As an example, I just switched from Colloquy to Lime chat as my IRC client. Colloquy matched my needs perfectly, but so does Lime... So I switched based on the UI.
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I recently made the same move, Lime Chat supports full-screen and is much simpler than Colloquy.
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That's what they say. They cite economic theory that higher risk bets return higher on average. The idea is less people can take them and so there is less competition.

This might be true - I don't have the data. But either do they as this is an impossible experiment to perform.
Here are a few books I recommend and have read:

Finance and accounting for non-financial managers. A great intro for beginners.

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A first year accounting textbook like:

http://www.amazon.com/Accounting-Principles-Jerry-J-Weygandt...

Then either buy a book on QuickBooks or put yourself on a course. QuickBooks is the best accounting software for startups by far. Only dive into QB once you have a good grasp of accounting principles because it abstracts away the basic accounting equation and double entry system and will give you a false sense of security.

Then to get a solid grasp of finance and how investors focusing on fundamentals view your business, read Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd. The '09 edition has some wonderful additions and updates from the finance gods.

The financial statements of public companies are available at sites like ycharts.com and I recommend reading them and testing your knowledge by spotting things like dips in net income with no corresponding dip in revenue and figuring out why.

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There was a bit I'm reminded of in the write-up on the Crash Bandicoot series,[1] where they mention 'Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment.[2] Essentially, fail enough times at a given point, and it gets a little bit easier (sloppier timings, more power-ups nearby, etc) until you get past it.

"Good player, bad player, everyone loved Crash games. They never realized it is because they were all playing a slightly different game, balanced for their specific needs."

Reminds me a lot of what I'm sure was a Mariokart64 behaviour - that the powerups you received were directly proportional to your race position, giving everyone behind you much better options to ruin your day.

[1] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games-archive/

[2] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/07/making-crash-ban...
Someone posted the question on StackOverflow and it got closed as "not constructive". Is there a way to browse the "not constructive" questions on SO? They seem to be all the best ones.
Once robots are growing the food, a lot less of it will be imported. Even with the cost of maintenance, robots will be cheaper than human labor, eliminating a major reason for importing.

I guess if you think of robots as they are today, it may seem like they'd break down a lot. But agricultural robots will eventually be more like insects and, like many living things, cheaper to replace than repair.
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That's not quite fair because you have to include the size of your decompression routine with the description.

Also, there's the whole "not computable" part.
I couldn't find the article, but I read somewhere that the rate of success for older entrepreneurs is higher than for younger ones, because of their accumulated experience and wisdom. There's definitely a flip side.
Could anyone explain the icon.png file? How is he extracting out the individual pieces into the game?

Also, it's really interesting watching someone else live code. Get to see how they think and the order in which they write their code. Schools should do more of this kind of stuff.
I found this to be a very useful, extremely basic (read oversimplistic) account. However, it would be very helpful to start out with single entry vs double entry and accrual vs cash basis (which makes the income statement vs statement of cash flows make a lot more sense).

Of course some fundamental ideas (debits vs credits) are complicated enough to explain that most who try are just confused and confuse the reader.

Disclaimer: I write accounting software (LedgerSMB) so pretty sure I am a geek who has a decent working knowledge of finances or maybe even a accounting geek.
But one issue is that very often times you do value intangibles on the balance sheet, so it is a fair criticism.
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The reason you won't find many articles is because the male perspective has been marginalized from gender studies. The generic argument being "the male perspective dominates all other domains so there is no need for a mens studies".

>the historical gender bias is undeniably pro-male, so people have focused on the bigger problem

You're comparing apples to oranges. What's worse having a 5-15% risk of sexual assault or having 15% of your gender die like Soviet men in WWII? Trying to turn this into a pissing contest isn't a logically valid way to approach this topic. Both genders face hazards that are qualitatively unrankable.
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It's funny you mention that because I use both Linux and OS X but not on the same machine. I feel my Mac is too pretty to sully with as a dual booting system. I know it's nuts but that's how i am.

I'm one of those who stayed away from Linux for UI (read: ugliness) reasons. It took me a long time before I became comfortable with it. I finally stumbled on Crunchbang Limix which gave me all the great things I loved about Debian in a light system with OpenBox as the window manager. I mention this because my Linux machine still has an ugly UI but I like it. Why?

I think it's because it embraces its ugliness. It's meant to be light and fast and is all about function over form. So now my Lonux machine is used almost exclusively for getting things done. I mean really freaking working hard. I definitely get things done on my Mac but I use it for pleasure (maybe leisure) whereas the Limux is For Work Only.

I think a UI can put you in a certain mentality that affects how you work. In a world where you've got two UI's that both have equally great UX (because the two don't always exist together) the subjectively prettier UI will probably lend itself better to play time whereas the "ugly" one will get you more focused on the task at hand.
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Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6916011/how-do-i-get-wind... (By the author)

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Unless a hardcore windows systems hacker comes along, you're not going to get more than partisan comments (which I won't do) and speculation (which is what I'm going to try).

1. File system - You should try the same operations (including the dir) on the same filesystem. I came across this which benchmarks a few filesystems for various parameters.

2. Caching. I one tried to run a compilation on Linux on a ramdisk and found that it was slower than running it on disk thanks to the way the kernel takes care of caching. This is a solid selling point for Linux and might be the reason why the performance is so different.

3. Bad dependency specifications on windows. Maybe the chromium dependency specifications for Windows are not as correct as for Linux. This might result in unnecessary compilations when you make a small change. You might be able to validate this using the same compiler toolchain on Windows.
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Currently though the Greeks have crazy* auditing rules regarding VAT, and while this doesn't necessarily hit the finance reports, it is extremely important to be aware of if setting up a finance solution for a business in Greece.....

* As in all invoices are printed on government-issued, numbered sheets of paper and you must track the paper invoice to the sheet you purchased from the tax office, and the same goes with packing slips which are called "transit vouchers"

So I don't think it would be a short article at all.....
It would be a delicious irony if Google, Apple, Microsoft, and IBM collectively checked their vast patent portfolios and discovered all the ways BT violates their patents. Sue them out of business.
We also try to do a decent job in the LedgerSMB manual:
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Well, the banks pay wages which are comparable to what you'll get in SF/NY. You'll get more benefits and more job security. That said, I'm sure your mileage will vary, but it wasn't for me and it won't be for a lot of folks. It was easily the worst job I've had.
I have known about these yellow dots for years, but it never occurred to me that DARPA would have used color printers for this competition.

I need to fire up those 'orthogonal thinking' neurons!
Well, this article seems to be asking "why is the Windows file system so slow?" and generally complaining. A better name for the article might be "Windows FS performance sucks" or similarly polemical title.

There are parts of Windows that are implemented just the same as Linux, and parts that are faster. Some parts are slower, notably the file system. But there's more to Windows than just the file system.

So, I'd say that's why it's not constructive.
Interesting. I wonder how many "Linux-bashing threads" (that contained valid questions which made perfect sense) were closed as not constructive.
Is it better or worse when they include expenses but don't amortize capital ones?
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Nice if it integrated with an online supermarket, so the shopping was done and delivered for you. Also, help you stick with it, if it required discipline/commitment, e.g. to diet, economize, enforce variety, or learn to cook - perhaps that's a user-problem/need it could be presented in terms of.

A bit bizarre though; your iPhone tells you to make a sandwich.

Sorry just thinking aloud here: if it used an online database (perhaps social/collaborative), you could specify criteria (cheap/diet/interesting) - it would select, plan and shop for you, like an active recipe book. Of course, with social, you could select for most popular, rising, new etc. And have some very interesting culinary experiences. i.e. ask what people actually want from a recipe book (what need they are trying to get met through the book, not what a recipe book currently is), and see if you can serve that better in some way.
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I'd look much more at how founders saw failures than what their ages were.

Great point. A failure in itself is not as valuable as the lesson learned from that failure.
Right. After all how relevant are questions like "how much did I spend to earn my wages" in personal finance? I am guessing one could get some benefit from asking these questions, but not at all sure that most people would care enough outside of a business setting.
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Well, I used three version control software: cvs, svn, mercurial. While I agree that the latest is better, I feel it is a bit of an exageration to say that previous to git/mercurial, versioning was difficult or impossible. Many people say git and github are the best invention in the latest years, but I don't see that it had really changed the industry compared to good ol' cvs.
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The author doesn't mention whether he is using cygwin git, or msys git. msys is faster. But even with msys, UAC virtualization is a common cause of slowness with git:
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This.

And anything else you can find that registers with the kernel for file system calls. Logging mechanisms, etc. Anything the kernel has to talk to about file i/o is going to slow it down.
Wow.

Does anyone know why Google/Apple/Other-super-giant-billion-dollar-companies aren't more proactive in influencing congress?

With all their billions, competing with $50 million seems like it would be a pretty insignificant cost for them - especially if the cost was shared among a consortium of companies. A few million per company seems like it'd be pretty cheap to ensure greater influence in preventing malignant legislation like SOPA.
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Hmm.. Think it is a good idea indeed... But does remind me of Stanford's online courses effort. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/online-computer-sc...
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Heh, I started reading this comment and was ready to jump on something I disagreed with, but remarkably we're in full agreement!

Somehow I'm always surprised when two vision people agree on the right way to approach a problem =)
The problem is in seeing it as a single competition. Have small sub-competitions with a higher luck component, so that people can experience winning a game, or even a round on the way to getting good enough to win a whole season. Make those wins satisfying and people will happily take a beating overall.
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