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I think it's silly to continue this without using (better) concrete
examples, but I'm don't think it'd be worth the effort.

>> [Author is better at Haskell than C].
> This does suggest that the author is right to use Haskell [...].

Certainly.
That's absolutely correct, thanks for pointing that out.
Scott Aaronson has blogged about the misleading claims of D-wave in the past. Here is his take on the Nature article they published back in May, which he found to be their least bad effort to date, i.e. the only one that he wasn't able to immediately discredit as a computer scientist.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=639
This probably depends on the local culture. When I was at Microsoft, in the groups I worked in, we were explicitly evaluated on criteria such as "makes others better". My reviews actually stated that actively mentoring and going out of my way to be genuinely helpful to others contributed to my score, and I ranked on top almost every year. When I think of other colleagues who I know ranked highly, the people who come to mind are the ones who had both the ability and willingness to help a lot of other people do their jobs better.
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No kidding. Sure feels like bending the statistic to fit your argument. I will concede that larger teams are less cost effective and the cost goes up exponentially compared to productivity as the team gets larger (per Steve McConnell: "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art"). BTW the "Software Estimation" book is really awesome and in my opinion a must read for anyone in a tech company with a leadership role.
It's true smaller teams are more efficient. But I feel like it trivializes the complexity, comparison, especially when a lot of good detailed works on the subject already exist.
I have all this equipment for you use. And by your price breakdown i can pay your $0 hour.

when can you start working for me?
How is this app different one WPTouch which also turns your WordPress into something iPhone friendly: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/ I know you turn the site into a native app, but WPTouch works just fine with HTML and CSS. Is there something I'm missing?
Good summary by everyone above...China does many impressive things but examples like this are also possible due to lack of oversight, lack of regulation, and corruption (obviously the 'correct' level of oversight and regulation is a struggle in many countries, USA included).

My most recent stay in Beijing (20th floor of a hotel/condo building) seemed wonderful (all things considered) until I discovered an oddity one day. My door had no way to disable the door lock from the inside except by key. It took a minute for the implications of this to dawn on me (hint: there is a fire, you can't find your keys, and you like to keep your door locked). Took about 5 weeks before I even noticed the issue (one day I went to leave the apartment and couldn't find my keys and I went to talk to the front desk and realized I couldn't leave the suite).
This looks like an ad for a load of iPhone apps. So much for innovation.
Sorry I didn't get to this earlier, no idea if you'll see it. One aspect to the answer (and I am not a patent expert by any means) has to do with the much longer time-to-market represented by hardware development--hardware innovation would not be economically viable without the protection that patents provide. The same is not generally true of software development, and many argue that software patents are instead an impediment to progress (because other programmers are unable to build on existing innovations).

Note that software is still protected by copyright regardless of its patent status.
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If you were to design something to sabotage team effectiveness, I can't think of anything more effective than stack ranking that wouldn't be a criminal offense.
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You might as well say that scarcity of energy is the only
thing between us and free ponies for everyone.

That's exactly what I'm saying, with the caveat that it will take time to get to the situation where everyone can turn the energy into free ponies. As you rightly point out, there is infrastructure required to make use of the free energy. However, if you would have free energy, that infrastructure will get much cheaper. The richer will sponsor infrastructure for the poorer, as has started happening more and more. We are slowly but surely succeeding in improving the living conditions of the poorest. The component cost of energy in everything is not to be underestimated. If you could eliminate that, things would drastically change.

The energy is there for the picking, but no country or company is trying hard enough. And why should they? What would they gain? That's the problem.
If I remember correctly, over 83k calls.
It's not like we didn't see this one coming: a new attack vector on cars
Exactly, or they're just making a mistake - like Logitech did with their Google TV boxes, which cost them $100m in operating profits.
Startups need to sell, sell, sell
He's making the point that she just doesn't GET it. He took a confrontational tone specifically to get her to spit out excuses for her continued use of Facebook.

His point is not just that users are contributing to the problem, but that users REFUSE to believe they're contributing to the problem. It's the whole "a little bit can't hurt" excuse, which is why he used littering as a metaphor.

In the end it doesn't matter what she writes about the evil banks. It's impossible to stop them from using information YOU PUBLISHED against you. If you don't publish it, it can't be used against you. His further rant is against your friends publishing information about you that can be used against you.

So yeah, she can write her story about banks denying loans based on photos of your frequent trips to Vegas, but it's not going to help anybody because people will focus on the evil banks, and will still fail to grasp the concept of NOT PUBLISHING PERSONAL INFORMATION.
Thanks, that is just the type of information I was looking for. I do wonder whether non-technically savvy users would run into firewall or redirection problems, as tahoe runs as a simple server. Perhaps it could use bittorrent?
>More problematic was the seemingly simple fact that when a big block of text comes up on the screen the game effectively needs to pause so the player can read it. You can’t just “hit pause” but need a separate state. This simple feature caused a lot of bugs. A lot. But we stomped them out eventually.

I would love to hear more of the gory details here.
WPTouch doesn't put you in the app store, it just makes your site usable from a mobile browser.
AMD support removed from Underscore.js and Backbone.js
Since your asking here, I'll second the suggestion to share a little more. As a .NET developer myself, feel free to ping me privately too.

Otherwise, some suggestions would be to look at Tinyproj (https://tinyproj.com/), Forrst Jobs, Stack Overflow (Careers), ODesk, Guru, or your local .NET user group.
http://www.economist.com/node/15393714 - check towards the end of the article.
Many on Reddit are probably in agreement with the anti-SOPA movement, but that is why they are good to reach out to. Is there a phrase for "mobilizing the choir"?
And you shouldn't allow confrontational people on your team anyways

A lot of great hackers are very confrontation, it comes from love of truth. Look at Linux and Linus Torvalds, Linus freely calls himself an asshole, because well, he is one. Many hackers are.

You can't just magically decide not to work with confrontational people when you're in the software business. Not unless you have infinite amounts of money to hire whomever you want.
The Real Estate industry needs to evolve its marketing strategies
Another Iranian nuclear scientist killed by magnetic car bomb, fourth in 2 years
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The IT department can't maintain it themselves, because they didn't write the program and don't have the source code. So at least some of the support has to be from the vendor.

Some customers will have competent admins, who like to solve problems themselves, they probably won't be a huge issue (except for the ones who do crazy and insane things). Other customers won't, and you'll get contacted all the time.
It's a good effort, but unfortunately it won't address the real reason corruption persists. Corruption is socially acceptable.

Here is an American perspective on corruption: none of my friends or family are corrupt. This statement is tautological - if they were corrupt, they would cease to be my friends or family.

Corruption will persist until India takes the same attitude.

Creating an anti-corruption website is great. But you'll probably do more good if you publicly disown your corrupt relatives.
I think that #1 is the more important "pro" for ARM, while #4 is the most important "con" for Intel.

How many times have we seen Intel announce a hardware partnership with a company (especially in mobile) that ultimately went nowhere? I think this comes down to, I'll believe it when I see the devices shipping.
It's been done: http://naldzgraphics.net/inspirations/30-cottony-and-fluffy-... also iCloud and related.
Google might be well served by some sort of partial blackout on its home page, but Facebook would need to get more creative -- and, dare I say it, more social.

A blackout of any kind on Facebook would create a minor to major annoyance for an audience that we can presume is largely ignorant to apathetic about SOPA. If, instead, Facebook released profile widget of some sort -- say, a standardized black box as one's default profile image, with a solidarity message or link -- they'd probably see better uptake. People would be curious about why their friends were blacking out their profile pictures, and they'd click to find out more. Even if for no other reason than to see what the fuss was about, or to jump on a trendy bandwagon. In this way, Facebook would be piquing interest, rather than creating confusion.

Anecdotally, I've seen friends use this tactic to great effect when promoting anything from parties, to launches, to causes. It works because it spreads easily, it's hard not to notice, and it's less easily ignored or tuned out than generic site-wide messaging. And, as the folks at Facebook know all too well, we tend to notice what our friends are doing more readily than we notice what disembodied corporate messages are saying.
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Difficult to say. The implementation details are probably different enough that it wouldn't count, and it was for an intranet site that was never seen outside the walls of that employer.
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No, you are not ‘running late’, you are rude and selfish
This probably depends on the local culture.

Yep, and what I've heard (and only heard, never worked there myself) is that Microsoft has some of the most programmer friendly corporate culture around.

A lot (if not most) big companies are not like that. The reason Joel's writing on company culture is so popular is because such simple things are still quite rare in the world.
Can I please have my old Google search back? The one that returns unpersonalized search results by default, didn't use javascript tricks in the URLs of search returns just to track clicks, and didn't have an annoying hideaway thing on the right side?

Pretty please?
Yes, thank you! Especially the line about "here's what I hear" line.

I'm also a bit worried when startups throw equity around like it's water... because technically, there's only so much equity...
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Another key MMM point is it naive to expect build large systems on a meaningful schedule with small teams.
(Re)creating ancestral forms of current proteins. Seems obvious once you say it, but I don't recall hearing about it while in grad school recently.

What a beautiful thing it would/will be to see the evolution of a complex protein complex like the ATP synthase as a series of animations, such as that linked to by @polyfractal. A first glimpse into the development of complexity.

I like to imagine the billions of these little machines spinning around inside me right now!
You should add to your marketing more info about how you are good in handling traffic and most importantly why. In a way that will make sense with both tech and non tech types. (Non tech has no idea what aws is or a cdn is for example). I've looked at your site a few times (even right now) and that isn't the thing that stuck in my mind from your marketing. The takeaway for me was "expert at WP" not necessarily "expert handling of traffic and here's why". I'm not saying it's not mentioned. I just think that point has to be driven home better.
Reddit hopes 'blackout' will help build opposition to SOPA
Furthermore, the major proprietary player (Apple) will likely never give up on their ARM chip to favor Intel. Unlike in the 80s where IBM used Intel chips and Microsoft software and created two heirs to their monopoly, this time will be wildly different.

ARM (and the mobile market) will crush Intel. Intel is seriously late to the game here, and never took performace/watt seriously for decades, and ARM is going to disrupt them hard.
Have you asked them for a copy of the source?

They are only obligated to give out the source if someone asks (if it's not available with purchase/download).
Apple confirms Anobit acquisition
If you copy a photo of mine, I haven't lost anything. It's
a bad analogy.

If people consistently copy your photos with impunity, you've lost your job. The same goes for writer and movie makers.

soon you'll have cameras that take a billion photos all at
the same time with every available setting, then allow you
to navigate through and select the best.

Good luck navigating through a billion photos...

(And can also be automated by surveying people or doing
A/B testing etc)

... or autoselecting through a billion photographs. What's a good photograph is independent of how many people feel it's a good photograph. If you ask the general public to pick the best photos between some Cartier-Bresson's and some of your own black-and-white shots intended to appeal to the general public (assuming you have a moderate ability to make such photographs), I know what the outcome is. Entirely independent of what are actually the best photo's.

And even if you could auto-select the best shot, a billion photographs of people on some village square wouldn't include the shot this guy made. A billion photographs taken around noon would never have included this shot. A billion photographs with a different cliffline would never have included this shot. A bajillion monkeys will never write Shakespeare in the lifetime of the universe.
SOPAthetic
Hi rdw! What are you up to now? I don't have any contact info for you and haven't seen you on irc in forever.

(You might not recognize this nick, this is Donovan)
I would go even further to suggest that some scientists find the fact that they are not required to publish their methods and data openly convenient, as they avoid scrutiny that might falsify their claims. Bloomberg has an interesting article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/scientists-share-se...

Regarding incentives: incentives are created, it's not like the current status quo is not based on incentives, researchers seek prestige journals because they want to get funding, and in effect public funding bodies enable these incentives by inaction.
I'm sort of biased towards ARM, but I'm still very impressed by how well Intel is doing. The history of computers is littered with the corpses of the companies that brought down by competitors with cheaper, not as good solutions. Look at 3.5" hard drives, x86 vs the RISC machines, etc. And mostly they failed to do anything because competing when they still could would have eaten into their profit margins. But here Intel is devoting actual resources to a smaller, cheaper, less powerful offering.
Have you done Android development? Have you ever changed a file outside of Eclipse? That's where the unreliability comes in.

I've said above, and I'll say again: With respect to helping you out with Java, it's really nice. It goes beyond what SlickEdit does, though SlickEdit does a few things for you.

ctags sucks; that's a given. SlickEdit goes beyond simple regex highlighting, but it's not completely AST-based syntax checking etc. Of course Eclipse only gets THAT right in Java, not the languages I actually care about (C++ and Lua).

Most of my coding these days is in Lua. Instead of having an editor write code for me because the syntax includes lots of tedious manual labor, the syntax itself is clean and I write fewer lines of code.

>It's sad that there is not a modern, GUI based, editor, with pluggable language support for multi-language use, using full AST power (regex highliting and ctags is so last century) while also being lean and mean...

Not sure if you're being ironic here, but I think it WOULD be possible. Almost certainly not if it's written in Java, however. You lose "lean and mean" the moment you start up the JVM, IMO.

Another thing I haven't tried is the SlickEdit plug-in for Eclipse:

https://www.slickedit.com/products/slickedit-core

Though since SlickEdit itself is heavy, I'm not sure that layering one heavy environment on top of another makes any sense. Maybe the plug-in isn't as heavy? Don't know.
Twitter Slams Google: Social Search Changes Are 'Bad for People'
Skyhook Brings Location-Based Services To the Kindle Fire
Bobsled. T-Mobile's cross-carrier version of BBM/iMessage + Calling
Not a bad article, some good points there.

- It's not easy to find a business partner, but it's awesome to have one, it is very important to have someone you trust and has stake it in to share opinions.

- Start any ways, will be easier to find a partner once you have a more solid vision and have something to show.

- Have a good network? Get freelancers to work for you for a reduced fee and in exchange get them good paying gigs with other companies.

- Stop thinking the equity is gold, it's worthless till you have something that sells.

- Learn to do more things.
The Trouble with Social Computing Systems Research (MIT paper) [pdf]
"Posting something on the internet does not make it public domain."

This is where I find your point to fall apart. The internet is NOT under the laws of any given nation and I doubt very much if some nations even have a sense of Public Domain or copyright. And even the ones that do can hardly agree on common terms.

So really your statement should be "Posting something on the internet does not make it public domain in certain jurisdictions if covered by applicable copyright laws"

And that is why it is stupid to expect something you post on the internet to not ever be copied without your permission.
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calling a title heavily produced by Sony an oddball in Japan is weird.

But takes little away from the feat anyway
"Start any ways, will be easier to find a partner once you have a more solid vision and have something to show."

This didn't occur to me until I was almost finished writing, so it's last in my list. But thinking about it, this may be the most important point.

After all, why would you go looking for a co-founder right from the start? If you're a coder, you should at least build a prototype yourself. If you're a designer, you should design some mockups.

It'll be much easier to convince someone to join you if you can show more than just an idea.
>Men have spent centuries using this kind of argument to deny women equal rights in all sorts of fields. Over the last century we've seen tons of evidence that this isn't true elsewhere, so why should it be true in software?

True. But are underrepresented groups being actively denied access as was the case in the example above? Apple and oranges. Not saying there isn't a problem, just saying it's a different problem. I think in this case more passive cultural than active cultural problem.

There are imbalances everywhere. Line cooks. Where are the women line cooks? Photography. Where are the women in professional photography -how many women street photographers do we know, other than Vivian Maier? Where are the straight people in fashion? I think, at least in some cases, there is self selection going on. Different airports have different pluralities of ethnicities doing lots of the service work. SFO is different from JFK is different from BOS, in that regard.
One thing that appears to be glossed over is how easy this device makes hijacking data from organizations. High-speed, tons of storage, and inconspicuous.

This underscores the importance of having proper access controls and alerts in place to identify anomalous data access.
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We're (literally) working on a website refresh right now, which hits that and other points. Sample factoid: One of the customers was on 20/20 recently and sustained 2,500 requests per second for 15 minutes.

Boring technical details: Varnish caching, automatic load balancing, redundant servers (beefy physical hardware to avoid poor disk performance on virtualized systems), "Death to KeepAlive", etc.

(Ooh, it is live now: http://wpengine.com/our-infrastructure/ )
Apple's January 19 "Education" Event steals attention away from CES, again
I believe a similar question was asked on Slashdot a while back. Someone had some GPLv2 code that another company was selling. The general response was that it was completely legal, because the company only had to disclose the source code to people who bought the product. Source had to be made available, but it's not so strict as to "publicly available."

I'm not a lawyer so I'd go with one of the links posted for software legal advice.
Interesting that you mention Apple/ARM -- don't forget that, eventually, Apple had no choice but to shift from PowerPC chips in its laptops and desktops to Intel. The performance difference was just too vast.

I am fairly sure that the same thing will now happen with x86 and ARM -- it just depends on the timeline.
I wonder whether the anti-thesis of such sites might be more effective than these "complain away" ones. By that, I mean sites where people can post appreciative notes about job well done by particular government staff. If the ratings there then translate into something tangible for the staff, then they may be incentivized to do well.
We've got a system in place to ensure very few people kill each other. It would be nice if that same system could ensure people wouldn't just copy photographs (for commercial purposes). And it actually does a reasonable job of that.

This guy wasn't arguing he has a hard time making a living, which is the argument that people seem to be replying to. He's arguing that people shouldn't copy photographs for commercial purposes. It's hard to see how anyone could disagree with that: I don't want my code copied either (well, specific parts of it). The question of what you should do when people in fact do copy your photographs is mostly separated from that.
I feel like this imbalance is going to correct itself over the coming decades. As people become more connected, and are introduced to computers at a younger age, the diversity of those interested in them to the point of wanting to work with them as a career will increase.

The stereotype of the white pasty male computer nerd is vanishing. With it is the pressure for those who don't fit that stereotype to choose a different field (Fowler mentioned this). I feel like this lack of diversity was almost purely societal and as society changes this will.

You are already seeing the enrollment of women at universities increase from its post-bubble years. It will probably keep going up. I don't think it will ever be on par, but it will get closer.
I've heard two interpretations of the "going dark" idea; one is to completely shut off the main functionality of the site, and the other is to simply _change the background color_ of the main landing page and have a banner about SOPA. Something that's eye-grabbing / shocking and encourages users to act would be immensely effective, and doesn't necessitate turning off the site.