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Ockham basically meant that the "simplest" explanation that fits the facts is the most likely. And as a matter of fact, we do have a precise definition for "simplicity": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

You will note that this is a quantitative reasoning, not a qualitative one. An equivalent way to come up with the same results is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_inference

Anyway, it all boils down to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability , with what we commonly call "Occam's prior". Probability theory is wonderful, but to use it, you have to start from a set of prior probabilities. When you have zero knowledge, starting with probabilities "inversely proportional" to Kolmogorov complexity seems the most reasonable thing to do.
How is compatibility a problem? Google Docs, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice can all save their spreadsheets in .xls format.

Also, if I have to worry about this kind of thing, it means I'm working with people who voluntarily use NT. Nothing good can come from that. ;)
In little Sweden you can. See http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=... for example of the tax-services you can do online, including tax declaration and printing birth cert.

There are also many other governmental services, mentioned in the article, that you can manage online but through other websites, using the same log-in though. For example pensions, health insurance, road-tax, car-licence and student loans.

Most of it actually works very smoothly, you can even register a company without touching a paper. But it doesn't solve the issue of all the rules you have to know beforehand and admittedly, doing your taxes on the computer is almost as boring as on paper, there is no way around that.
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Instead, play a truly annoying sound (rickroll?) when the build fails…

…on the computer of the developer that broke the build.
I think you mean PC3-10600?
Try Wubi (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer). Then you can simply choose between Ubunutu (for Rails development) or Windows (for everything else) during the boot up.
We could look at the OP's point and take it a bit further to ask, What are the biggest problems humanity faces today and how can software contribute and co-operate with other disciplines to tackle these problems?
Most of the problems, that humanity today faces are in some way or other linked to Geo-Politics, unequal distribution of resources/wealth/well-being among the world population, non-optimized consumption of natural resources and we are running out of them and so on and so forth.
So can software or software startups think about finding the problems they are trying to solve by taking into mind the global perspective? Or are they even willing to? I am not a startup guy and I don’t even have many friends in the community, so I am not in a position to answer this question, but I am sure others here can.

But problems alone can’t take up whole of the domain of human interest. So, the second part of the question, would be, what are the most interesting problems/technologies software could solve teaming up with other disciplines? I guess, many people are already working on such things, but the tech is still not mature enough or marketable enough, to be presented to the world, e.g. Google Xlab.
Sure, people argue on the semantics of IP infringement and while many feel that intellectual property laws are woefully one sided, most of what I've seen suggests that at least a fair number of people feel that copying material in contrary to the creator's wishes is wrong. Do some folks do it anyway? No doubt. Regardless, I think much of the hard assedness has been in response to the media companies and lawmaker's approaches in addressing the issue--- poor legislation that overreaches, failure to address the actual issues that leads to piracy, copyright length extension, circumvention provisions & fair use implications, etc. In the end, I can be against efforts like SOPA while also being against ip infringement. Similarly, I would assert that it is not inconsistent to feel that curebit's approach to publicly using another other company's design w/o permission directly in their commercial product is unfortunate while also feeling like IP in the US needs to be retooled.

Ultimately though, this forum compromises many viewpoints. While there will be trends, consistency when dealing with large numbers of folks seems unrealistic (but again, I don't think having issues with contemporary IP law and being against using another site's design in a commercial product demonstrates a consistency issue. It's more of a "dude, not cool" thing to me.).

In regard to the lack of detriment, certainly at least one representative of 37Signals is unhappy with it. If it were my design, I'd prefer that my efforts remain tied solely to my products given the time and money spent on them since I think there is marketing and branding value in developing a reasonably unique look and feel even if the products themselves are not direct competitors. Do I recognize that designs will inspire other designs? Certainly. The line between a copied design and inspired one is blurry. Would I personally give more leeway to someone who was just experimenting for a non-commercial, personal project? Probably. This, however, was a commercial entity that just received a big check for their (and 37signals') efforts. That said, if I were an employee of curebit, I'd probably have felt uncomfortable with the approach they took regardless of any legal implications that may exist. It would just kinda feel wrong, ya know?

Anyway, my initial reaction was along the lines of "well, that was stupid of them" and progressed to "WTF is wrong with this guy?" due to Allan's tweets in response to dhh. Some of his tweets have almost felt like he was trolling for controversy/publicity. Regardless, I really think he should simply stop tweeting at this point and let further public responses come from someone better equipped to NOT dig themselves deeper.
This is Matthias Duarte at work. A "bar" has been present in webOS since the beginning. In 1.x and 2.x, you could press the app name or swipe down from the top of the screen to view the app's menu or other options like Cut n Paste, logging in or out, etc. In 3.x, the top bar was expanded to include notifications and dashboards, greatly improving multitasking. In all three versions, the top bar also had quick access to system settings (again with a tap or a swipe down) such as WiFi, Bluetooth, VPN, or airplane mode.

Such a shame that Palm/HP let Duarte go. He's really bringing the best of webOS to Android. The classic webOS experience (which was a little muddled up with the Touchpad) only had buttons for power and volume. Everything else was done tapping or swiping on the screen or gesture area. Now, Duarte is doing away with hardware buttons on Android and who knows, maybe a gesture area is next.
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There may be some obscure things Excel can do that Calc can't, but I've never had to do anything on a spreadsheet Calc can't do yet. Besides, Calc can use Python macros.
I was originally thinking of staying with gmail and switching search. I love GMail even more than search. But then realised I'd have to juggle browsers or they start logging all the random youtube clips.

Worse still you then realise that your stackoverflow account is linked to your gmail account and you're going to have to open yet another openid provider just to stay logged into there. Oh, and Trello, I wonder if they even let you switch OAuth provider. I wonder what else I've forgotten.

Bollocks, all of a sudden OAuth doesn't look so brilliant now.

Sad that I have to choose between the two.
People have been suggesting the time stamp counter, but that's actually not ideal, because it has a lot of overhead. On my desktop at work (a very beefy Intel Xeon) it adds about 30 cpu cycles. It also drains all the pipelines.

For a microbenchmark like this, I find it's usually better to call it in a loop 1,000,000 times, and compute the total time. That's often a "best case" scenario, where e.g. the cpu doesn't need to decode the instructions every iteration because they fit in appropriate cache. But it avoids the overhead of the timestamp counter.
I can relate to this a lot. The amount of support requests we have to handle for our libraries originating from Windows users is staggering and the kind of question is sadly often close to something that was asked before (how to link, how to build) and no amount of documentation and installers seems to prevent it.
Could it be the reverse?

That is you didn't have a natural gift, she had a problem learning the way everyone else was?
One of the most common similar occurrence I meet regularly is people grossly underestimating how many bytes per second you can really get from basic hardware such as hard drives, gigabit ethernet cards, etc. People often still remember that in 1998 the fastest FC 10k rpm drives hardly topped 12 MB/s, and that you needed an 8 CPU Origin2000 to push 80 MB/s through a GigE link (given that you had a terrific RAID array at both ends).

Nowadays, even the most basic PC can saturate a GigE link (115 MB/s), and the slowest hard drives go 100 MB/s. Any SSD sustains several thousands IOPS, and so on.

One of the most unfortunate result is that people often buy hugely powerful hardware when very basic stuff would have done the job just fine. How many people have I seen running puny workloads on 100k bucks 3Par or EMC arrays, where a handful of SSDs in a server would have done as well or better? Pulling 40Gb fibre across the room when cat 6 cable would have sufficed?
> the home button — the sole physical button on the device’s face

Isn't this a bit silly. The most expensive phone on the planet has one big button you barely use and they can't build it to last a year even after 4 iterations of (almost) the same design. Older cheap phones have plenty of tiny little keys, they last for years and years and those keys you use all the time because you don't have the touchscreen. Maybe that's the solution, press your home button more often.
At Buffer we have the mario coin noise every time a user upgrades. It's just often enough to be pleasant rather than annoying!
Everyone's talking about initramfs as if it would replace a self-contained /. Have you ever been there? Usually all the relevant repair tools are missing and the shell gives you a headache. Its the point where you usually give up, walk into office and boot a rescue disc.

So no, it does not replace a working /.
It is a daft valuation - for $100bn you could buy the big three quoted supermarkets in the UK (Sainsbury's, Tesco and Morrisons) and control 50% of a market whose main product (food) is a necessity. Or you could do the same in retail banking, again a necessity in the modern world.

Or you could buy Facebook, with $2-3bn in revenue and a big database of users which they haven't really worked out how to monetise yet.
I'm curious how this 'born programmer' thing works.

So you are basically saying there is a gene (or sequence of genes) that predisposes you to programming. Could you elaborate on how that might work?

Twin studies have shown a lot about personality being more genetic that was thought before. But I don't know of any brain studies that have linked knowledge/intellectual capacity to genetics... Do you have a reference?

Or is it literally as you say, just a belief? like "I firmly believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrabook

That should answer most of the questions you asked. You can find about the ultrabooks with backlit keyboards by doing a simple Google search (yes, 'ultrabook backlit keyboard').
I would love a rails plugin which gave me jekyll hosted blog for my rails app on heroku. I would even pay $20 for this.
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You somehow expect a world where governments lie to it's own people to function?

(Not only that, you seem to accept that governments lying is fine, but exposing those lies is a violation of free speech...???)
Just to be sure: the wave function is still a distribution of complex amplitude over a configuration space, right ? If I understand, you are saying is that if we have a Dirac peak at some point, then the momentum spread everywhere (the infinite momentum). I don't dispute that.

I only meant that we could describe (in principle) a hypothetical wave function with infinite precision. Meaning, at each exact point in our hypothetical configuration space, we would specify an exact amplitude. (With the usual caveats due to the fact that we're talking about a distribution, not a function.) From then, we could predict the experimental results, which are bound to yield finite precision.

Now, current physics say we will never infinitely accurately measure our wave function. But it also says that this wave function behaves lawfully, with infinite precision, from some (I think?) unknown initial state. Is there a problem left ?

Edit: it just hit me that there is a problem if you don't believe in Many Worlds. Just know that I think the Copenhagen interpretation is crazy (I don't believe in the collapse of the wave function), and that currently, I find some form of Many World Interpretation most likely.
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Seriously? A wikipedia entry? I was asking for specific experiences and models...
Yeah, I figured 3D printers won't really go mainstream (adoption by early majority) until it can hit the $300 mark like a PlayStation or XBox!

Once we've announced we're designing the MakiBox within the $300 budget, we get lots of feedbacks like yours. I was doing a Google+ Hangout last week and Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com) said:

"I was considering buying the Makerbot, but yours is $300?! And you can print bigger?! You win! I actually don't know what I can do with a 3D printer, I just know that it's cool!"

I thought that pretty much captured what I'm hoping for MakiBox, which is to get it into the hands of people who have little idea what they can do with it. I think the unbounded mind of these users, who hasn't gone through the trouble of building a RepRap or Makerbot and are aware the limitations of a 3D printer, will be so much more creative!
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MacOS (not that it was then branded as such) - 1984. Windows 1.0 - 1985. So not quite years really.
Look we either talk about the exact pi, or not pi at all. In my computer there's no pi.

You'd be surprised to hear about the wonderful concept of approximation.

As for the "alternative", sounds like bogus science to me...
I'm tossing up the same thing. I think it pretty much comes down to if you want to use windows or OSX + budget. Specs aren't much different.
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If you don't need OS X then the Sony Vaio Z looks pretty awesome. Biggest differences:

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Thanks. Such a great word, lost forever :)

So if I said "take a punt", would that be to take, or not take?

I should build a guide of "words not to use on presentations".
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Exactly my thought. This is a huge difference compared to mortgages; with mortgages the originator gets perhaps 2%(?) of a good loan but with student loans the "originator" gets a very large share.

The skin in the game effective tells a mortgage originator that if one loan in five goes bad they lose all their revenue(!) but the same message to universities would be that if one loan in five goes bad they have to raise their prices by 2% to compensate.
What specifically did you need/want integrated with Rails? Do you mean you have a blog in rails and you want a way to automatically port it to Jekyll? Can you expand on your specific use case?
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Damm that is annoying. I really liked the dedicated hardware button and considered it a great improvement over IOS.
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january 1984 vs november 1985... you going to get pissy about 3 months?

My point is still valid.
Keep in mind that the screen illuminates the keyboard in the dark, so a backlit keyboard may be more for aesthetics than functionality. I never use it on my MBA.

Something I don't like about the MacBook Air (13"): Dedicated audio in/out -- there's a "hybrid" jack which annoys me. I thought lack of firewire would be limiting for older drives and external interfaces, but I don't miss it. I do run Windows when I need it for (minor) updates to files in solid modeling programs such as SolidWorks and animation such as Maya while traveling with a VM. Works great.
>Stealing a design outright, on the other hand, is not growing or improving or adopting a concept (e.g. "contact management that tracks deals", "it should x when you y") but their actual IP.

Can you cite legislation within the US, or a successful civil suit?
To guarantee on-disk consistency, programs like database servers call fsync for every transaction. By definition an fsync involves events on the hardware level and even in an SSD this gives a slowdown. The SSD can use a write cache to speed this up. However should you lose power and the write cache is not backed by a small battery, you lose your most recent write(s) even though the latest fsync call guaranteed that the changes were on disk. The battery allows the SSD to successfully flush the write cache to disk in the event that the computer shuts down.
i have a pure python regexp implementation that you can use in pypy (and it passes almost every test used by the cpython re package - only the LOCALE flag is not supported). however, it's around 100x[1] slower that the re package (on simple matches; it's not backtracking so it can be similar in speed for pathological cases).

also, when i looked at pypy the re implementation was in c and looked so similar to cpython's i assumed it was the same or closely related. but i didn't pay much attention, so i may be mistaken.

[1] roughly. it actually runs 6x faster on recent pypy that cpython.
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Kind of ironic that The AOL Way was supposed to be the reason The Verge guys left to start a new blog. It looks like the only thing they were tired of was Engadget's layout. The AOL Way doesn't deserve traffic.
Sadly I'm not familiar with C++ but yes this is definitely the feedback I'm looking for. I would imagine kickass, painless, and beautiful syntax highlighting would go a long long way for technical blogs. This is something I want to (but haven't yet) dedicate a lot of focus on assuming it would motivate more programmers to publish content.
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This is why you should avoid developing for the Android for at least 6 more months. It has been too liquid and fragmented so far. The yield for your effort is not very optimal.
Possibly the Linux platform offers advantages to them that makes problems less likely to occur - for example, maybe they find the package manager more reliable than Windows Installer, which I'd well believe.
Sorry, I was a bit imprecise with my pronouns. What I meant was that the person who hit you is liable. What I'm getting at is that MU disclaiming certain liabilities doesn't (or at least IMO shouldn't) give other parties license to do whatever they want without consequence.
This is 100% why you shouldn't work for a big corporation. You're a resource rather than an employee.
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I don't understand what your definition of stable is. Obviously anyone can not upgrade any distribution or software. If I want to upgrade I have to check the mailing lists to see if there are any major issues. That sounds like a source of instability.

How can I update Arch, on a semi-regular basis (at least yearly), without having to worry about upgrade issues? If I can't, then I don't think you can call it 'incredibly stable'. Of course, you can accept the trade-offs, but don't try to 'rethink stability'.
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The most important thing to take away from this is "These functions aren’t suitable for cryptography". The requirements for a cryptographically strong hash function are much stronger than one just used for hash-table performance. That's not to say that you shouldn't use it, rather be careful that there's no scope creep.
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