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tl;dr: Believes poor attention to detail is imagined, doesn't properly set HTML list. That's the poor attention to detail we're talking about.

Which sounds snarky, but if you are going to be a blogger publishing on the web and want other people to take the time to read your stuff, to not properly use (or understand?) the basic building blocks of your craft is disrespectful to your audience.
...and empty packages pretending to be security updates do not cause a lot of problems for people? ;P
My friend's daughter, 8, has this kit[0] and it's one of the most awesome play kits ever. She's already added a heap of extra modifications to hers, and only yesterday it was transporting a load of camels for Princess Tamina(?) who happens to be from Prince of Persia, I think

[0] I'm assuming it's 7965 http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7965_Millennium_Falcon
I've been watching this for a little while. With powershell, a lot of the *nix commands have been or can be aliased to the windows commands (e.g. ls and Get-ChildItem). Judging from his notes so far, he isn't taking advantage of this, but hopefully he will.
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Well there are now, but you have to admit that Josh started it. Seems like a good time to bring up other things that have been on your mind...
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This seems like a huge bug fix. What is the likely hood that the memory will be read by malware in previous versions? As in, does the malware process need administrative privileges to read the other processes memory?
> Remember, if people have Sun's Java installed now, it's because they deliberately opted to install that over OpenJDK

Sort of, the number of "setup ubuntu" or "add codecs to ubuntu" tutorials out that that include replacing openJDK with sun's JVM is very large. While technically people that find such tutorials and blindly copy and paste the commands into their terminal have opted to install Sun's JVM it doesn't mean that they know what they did, why they did it or that it was even necessary.
While I very much like the word "grit", I feel like opting out of 6.001 is huge mistake.

Even if you know how to program, and have been doing so for years, this is an awesome class.

In fact, I'd argue that if you've been programming for years, it is an even MORE awesome class.

Go get gritty. Don't skip 6.001.
This is why I like MG's writing. He says what he thinks. I'm a fan of Josh too, but I must admit I do get a sense of fake balance from his writing.
This acts as a cheerleader for companies with designer co-founders. That's great, I really appreciate the effort.

The problem is that many of the companies you highlight are -inconsequential-. If you're going to make a claim about how much impact these companies have made, you can't turn around and name a bunch of duds[1].

You start the list with mega successes (Android and YouTube are ubiqutous products that have made a huge impact on millions of people) and then finish up with failures and unproven startups. To be clear, I'm not saying anything about design cofounders. It's just that there's this weird implication in what you've communicated. You're sort of saying that all these companies are in the same league due to the skill of one of the founders. Something about that just doesn't sit right.

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[1] -

Sold in a talent acquisition after product failed: Hunch, Gowalla

Sold before they ever did anything: About.me

Niche community product: Forrst, ColourLovers, Foodspotting

Unproven product: Path
I wonder if this exists as a feature request for locate to hook into inotify for filesystem changes. Great idea!
Gender is entirely a social construct very loosely tied to biology but not at all determined by it.

I personally think the same thing is probably true of sexual orientation (which really is sexual attraction to gender not necessarily the same sex).

I would add that many anthropologists don't think people are born with a gender.
Let's suppose there is some ratio of Android victories to Android failures in the mind of the "typical user." I'll wave my hands at the exact measurement of that ratio -- it would probably be some product of the number of instances and the magnitude of each instance. But there is a ratio.

If a journalist covers mobile devices in a given category at a significant rate, I'd expect their stories on that category of device to have a similar positive-negative ratio as the actual wins the category has achieved. I wouldn't trust a guy who had 90% negative articles when the win rate in the eyes of a typical user is more like 50%. I also wouldn't trust someone who posted 99% about the losses when the typical user sees about 90% losses.

I don't have enough data on Gruber to know exactly how far off the mark he is, but I do know enough not to trust that he is anything like objective. Now, if his blog was titled, "Apple news and Android criticisms," fine. You can post 100% criticisms if that's the domain you're claiming to cover. But I've never seen such a disclaimer from Gruber so I can't give him a pass on that one either.
I would have a few alternatives ready to go, and then send over an offer about 1/2 of what your max offer would be.

The whole thing about not being interested in resale is completely false. They are lying to your face. They are completely 100% interested in selling, and are only saying that to give justification to ask for a huge price.
Certainly there's no technical problems with it, but there's clearly a practical problem with it. Laws are rarely simply removed. Clauses may be struck, future laws may rewrite (and inevitably expand!) past laws, but it's very, very rare for something to simply be unambiguously removed. When's the last time the government simply eliminated an agency, for instance? It's not zero, but it's one of those cases where simply the fact that one must hunt for an exception to argue against the point is something I'd cite as evidence for my point.
Actually, I do think the Ubuntu solution is more reasonable. I installed sun-java6 for precisely the use case mdeslaur described, and I'm pretty sure that the errors from a missing JDK will be much more clear and noticeable than the subtler (but still work-killing) ones from OpenJDK.
Marriage alone is a major productivity killer, then there are also kids and general life problems.

Leonhard Euler managed to be a productive mathematician for decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler

He had children and grandchildren, and that didn't stop him from working on mathematics even in their presence. Blindness didn't stop him either.
Removing packages seems to be the way Linux distros handle this type of issue

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0368.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1045.html
Alternatively, reliable numbers for those metrics are generally not available for private companies.
What possible reason would the Lego corporation have for discouraging 50% of their potential market from buying their products?
I work for a local-government IT department in the DC area. We're on IE7, but we have automatic updates turned off.

At first, a few years ago, it was because there was one specific update that broke our Oracle software, so everything got turned off. Now, we keep them off because of inertia. We started pushing out selected security updates in the last few months because the security folks insisted.

Oddly, it's our policy to install the full set of updates (except IE8) to all machines that have issues. We also update our images with all the latest stuff from Microsoft Updates.
It's not marketed specifically to boys though... Sure, some of the sets are obviously more male-oriented (perhaps even the majority), but there are also sets that are either specifically designed to appeal to girls, or which appeal more to girls for whatever reason.

This trend is really nothing new, either. More than 20 years ago I wanted the Lego spaceships, and my sister got pissed off at me for making wars against her happy little Lego town people. Even 20 years ago there were more sets that appealed to boys than girls, I'm reasonably sure.

We also had a pile of the plain old "gender-neutral" bricks, which either of us might have employed to augment our various constructions.
It's what everybody else does
see?

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0368.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1045.html
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You can agree or disagree with Siegler as much as you want, you can like or dislike his clear bias towards Apple, but geez, Siegler doesn't seem to be able to defend himself.

Against the accusation that Siegler is part of a "class warfare", the only thing he has left to say is that the Nexus is actually more expensive, which was not the point of Topolovsky since he was criticizing the notion of condescending behavior against Android (re: they just dont see the polish).

Also he quotes a long argument with the Mercedes vs. Honda analogy and the only thing he has to say is:

"Okay Josh, I read my words out loud. They still sound pretty good to me as an (albeit simplistic) comparison. Your entire post, on the other hand, makes you sound like a fool.

Moving on."

Nothing. No defense.

Siegler, no one accuses you of having an opinion. But of unfair treatment.
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I'm not that familiar with MG's writing, but based on this he seems to need the world to be black and white. It's not black and white and I don't have a lot of respect for that sort of thinking.
We are only forcibly removing the plugin for now. Hopefully you will no longer be running your mail servers on an ancient JDK that contains multiple security issues once we do decide to remove it.

Believe me, I would have preferred to simply push out an update to the newest version.
Tell PG: The RSS for Essays is no longer returning any content
I noticed this today where the RSS that @aaronsw created no longer seems to work.
http://www.paulgraham.com/rss.html
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss

Is there any other way to read essays via RSS? Or am I doing something wrong?
Buy the right thing for your daughter, that you think will influence her in the right way? How come the responsibility to raise a child lies not in the parents anymore, but rather in companys and what they want to sell to them. Nothing is stopping you from dumping a big pile of mixed LEGO pieces in her room for christmas.
I reread Josh's response and other than his use of language in his title, he seemed mostly respectful and not angry. I think MG might have missed the point with the analogy since he mentioned that the nexus was more expensive.

But really, android vs ios is the new emacs vs vim.
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Thanks for that, as well as all the other contributors - I've been using Arch for about 1 year now and I'm so much happier than I have been with anything else.
Project Wonderful, man. A couple bucks on a bottom-feeder campaign goes a LONG way towards getting new eyeballs on your work.
Yeah, but they used to market stuff to girls, and generically, but they started doing analytics and switched to marketing stuff that sells more- branded toys to boys. A minor variation in natural preference is expanded by the feedback loop.

That said- you can still buy all of the plain bricks you want from their website. If you don't want the complicated sets, don't buy them. The blocks on their own are fine.
claiming that the domain was bought for resale could severely weaken their case in a udrp/trademark issue, as well.
I like how the Android card has "Chris White" listed, but Andy Rubin's dashing face.
> if they're equally capable but prefer shampooing dogs
> then is that really a problem

The problem is that their like/dislikes/personalities are not formed in a bubble. Society has influence over these things.
I think the important piece of quote is this one (the words Siegler is supposed to read out loud):

"It's probably hard for a Mercedes owner to describe to a Honda owner how attention to detail makes their driving experience better."

If Siegler doesn't think his analogy of Mercedes vs Honda to Android vs. iOS is not some kind of "class warfare", then why doesn't he tell us what his analogy should tell us. And i think Topolovsky is pretty dead on:

"More insultingly, it suggests that as a person who is not part of whatever elite group MG believes exists, you couldn't even really understand why the Mercedes is superior."
Here were the terms of the compromise:

* that you read the textbook, and take the quizzes and final exam in the course;

* that you can skip the online problem sets and projects, except for project 3 (which will deal with Object Oriented programming);

* that you engage in some independent project. One possibility is for you to read "Code" by Lessig and work to design/implement a system informed by that perspective. A good example might be a Scheme implementation of an information/document management system -- perhaps modeled on DSpace -- with (a) encryption/DRM in a strong "IP owner" centric fashion, or (b) with a user-centric/fair-use vision. (N.B. this was 2003.)

(The independent project ended up being a failure.)

You're totally right about the great content in 6.001. SICP was amazingly meaty.
I'll go one better than that. If Siegler thinks I should read him for his opinions, then I don't have to read him anymore. I know his opinion on the iPad 3 already. I know his opinion on the iPhone 5 already.

I suppose the answer is obvious -- there's a large market for firing up the base. Sorry, but that's not what I'm in the market for.
You can download all the previous versions here:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+publishinghi...

Easy to undo if an insecure version is acceptable to you, and once installed, use apt pinning so it doesn't get upgraded anymore.
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"Why don't car manufacturers offer an electric vehicle? "

Really? After the early attempts were basically just cover projects doomed to be cancelled? After car companies bought up streetcar companies in the US in order to run them down and close them? You really think consumers should be taken to task over Big Oil and the Big Three?
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I have no idea which one makes more, but

1) Scott's popularity is partially related to his friendship with Penny Arcade.

2) Scott's "expertise" didn't save his best friend Kris Straub from giving up the dream and getting a job.

3) Howard Taylor has a full family, so him having financial trouble is simply more likely even if they were close in income.

I like Scott, I just wouldn't hire him for this.
Or maybe, just maybe, "why don't girls want to play with Legos?" Children aren't just blank slates to be shaped by their parents and advertisers.
All I can say is my son hacks lego sets. He also hacks M4 science kits occasionally too. The fact that it is a model kit doesn't mean that after the model is done, you can't tear it apart and put it in a spare parts box that can be used for freeform building.
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Everyone interested in Bernays and how modern Marketing and Public Relations came into existence (and how they are used to control/manipulate us) should take the time and watch the four part BBC documentation 'The Century of the Self' by Adam Curtis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM
A couple years ago a prominent user with ~9000 karma was hellbanned for getting picked on by Zed Shaw, and pg went as far as adding new code to news.arc afterward so he wouldn't show up on the "leaders" list anymore (he was unbanned a month ago).

You'd be surprised, it doesn't take much to get pg trigger-happy. He's threatened me with banning a few times myself!
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Learned so much today!
I guess there is a live stream of the tree lighting up in different colors, but I haven't seen anything (yet):
http://www.austinrobertson.com/projects/index.htm#live
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I actually don't think people are born gay or born straight. I think there are biological factors in sexual orientation but these are hardly determinative. Instead most people are born somewhere along the bisexuality spectrum and end up defining themselves as gay or straight as a way of dealing with unacceptable sexual urges.

The fact is that if you look at male-male sexual relations in a place like Greece or Rome, the differences in structure and approach to gender and sex are markedly in contrast to how we approach things in our society today.

I personally think that one element of the argument that people are born gay, in the context of a culture which aggressively sells the idea that heterosexuality is normal, is to tell people, "you aren't born gay, are you?"

Edit: I could point people to longer write-ups I have done on this subject but the above I think is a fair summary of what cross-study and trans-historical comparisons have lead me to believe.
The UK, France and Germany will follow suit within a few months. I'm German and I'm absolutely certain our politicians and lobbyists are already working on their own version SOPA which they'll introduce as soon as the US is done. You guys need to understand that you're the Western precedence society. Whatever you do, we'll copy it, especially if it's something authoritarian (which is kind of "our thing" here in Europe anyway).

Another problem is that it doesn't matter how many times a SOPA-like law is stopped in time. It will simply return as many times as needed until it finally passes. And once legislation passes, it becomes immortal.
two reactions:

1. yes and after you buy that specific-model-guns-ships set you can (b) build anything you want with it; (b) build model put on shelf never touch (or play with it); (c) build model then tear it apart and use pieces to make something from your imagination, etc. there are no rules. there are both generic brick-like pieces and special-purpose pieces and they can be put together in literally millions of ways, and now you can even see and share photos on the web, both for ideas and showing off.

2. girls really are different from boys, overall, and in the general case; I've lost track of the number of males I've known that like/liked LEGO and the number of girls/women that were like, "meh"; and I've seen first-hand, with my own eyes, over and over again, that my young nieces LOVE to play with dolls and dresses and princesses and jewelry, whereas LEGO's and guns? meh

LEGO is like a shining beacon in a sea of sludge and noise, in terms of educational value for kids and long-term replayability into adulthood, compared to most other toys. Criticizing LEGO is a bit like criticizing Michael Jordan for missing some shots in a game. It's Michael Jordan, mmkay?

Instructions show you how to build what's on the box. You are not required to do that, nor are you even required to buy LEGO at all.
Sure, but it's significantly easier for a small group of people (a government, hackers, whoever) to remotely disable someone's car than it is to mobilize enough police to have the same effect. Believe me, I want self-driving cars. But I want my car under my control, even if I'm not literally at the wheel.
We plan to be around for a while. :)
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Sure, but that's a sample of one.
Careful, you might trigger its berserker mode.
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> And it also seems like they're offering the same "girl
> themed" play sets that all the other toys offer, except
> you have to put it together first. Who plays with lego
> that way?

You could easily describe all the boy-targeted movie tie-in Lego sets that same way. Heck you can describe any Lego set that way. I had a Lego train set and a freighter with a dock as a kid (as an example). You could easily claim that these were no different than "an HO train set that you have to put together first" and "a toy boat that you have to put together first."
Its important to keep in mind that while lobbyists are a major factor in corruption of the political system, one of the reasons they are there is that they politicians rely on them for providing technical expertise.
I like tech and I really don't care who it comes from. I love Windows 7 but routinely use Ubuntu in a VM. I think the Mac Air and the IPad are some of the most revolutionary products in my lifetime. C# is my favorite language but always find myself using Python first. I like to read a lot of tech reviews and I understand that each reviewer has their own set of biases. I used to find myself getting upset with commentary from MG & Gruber. Even Scoble for that matter. And yes honestly, their style of writing came off to me as almost a bit classist some of the time.

Now, I just don't care. I realize that I was getting upset by their writing because they are such good writers. Its the same way that the democrats get mad at Rush Limbaugh. You may know that he said something wrong and on the border of crackpot but he is just so damn good at doing it. If someone else said it, you would write them off as a lunatic. His style is partly meant to convince but it is also partly meant to incite as well.

So yes, MG and Gruber are bias and when it comes to tech reviews I just don't trust them. Whether it is pro Apple or anti another product. And in the case of Scoble, his silicon valley tunnel vision turns me off. But I will still read their articles because they are good at what they do. And if I start to get a "WTF?!" moment then I will just calm down and realize that it is part of the entertainment package that comes along with reading them.

P.S. If you're a sports fan, Grubers sports tweets are way more maddening than his Apple lust.
Cool. Browser search sucks, though. Can type in distros -- but good luck finding them!
Was talking about going Linux soon, and this'll help me work from Terminal exclusively. Thanks!
Slightly off topic, but its a pet peeve that gadgets don't actually show (the limitations of) their product. See for example, their video camera: http://puu.sh/aKx3. The "video" taken is obviously not by the built in vidoe camera.
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I noticed that too. I was actually patenting after I published my post on this earlier today because I thought such a quick turnaround was impossible and the patent was not in fact granted. But it was! Really mind-blowing considering we've seen some take four or five years.
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git clone git://gitorious.org/the-cli-crash-course/the-cli-crash-course.git

Use dexy with a Tex install and it's a cinch. Only hiccup might be a few specialized Tex packages it complains about needing.
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> For example: why doesn't Lego sell to girls?

LEGO has and has long had a line of sets that are focused on girls and traditionally feminine fantasies/archetypes. pink and ponies and kitties and hair brushes, etc. and if anyone wanted to buy them they can, and if not, they don't. a guy could get a "pink" set and a girl could buy/get a guns/trucks/cops/ships set. there's no evil conspiracy or gun pointed at anybody's head, honest.
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One interesting experiment is to try HARD to create a realistic person of the other gender in an environment like Second Life. It's remarkably difficult but once you do, it's quite an interesting experience to see how socially conditioned so many things are.
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