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It means the lifetime of the system it's placed in. DRAM will last until you've thrown away all of the other bits of your system.
"-specifically designated LGBT safe spaces"

That's hilariously bad. Every place should be equally safe. You want to herd the LGBT kids into a corner?
Agreed. For things like pharmaceuticals, where there are lives in the balance, absolutely. But for all the hullabaloo and crap that the MPAA throws up about its industry, it's still entertainment.

Just as nuking the internet isn't an acceptable way to deal with the MPAA's problems, dampening property rights isn't a responsible way for me to insist on watching my TV shows (no matter how tempting it gets).
This is part of the reason I've always found harder sciences/engineering classes way easier than say languages. Physics, math, etc. classes have very little "laws" that need to be memorized; everything else is linked. Languages though have thousands of words that need to be individually memorized.
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"But for serious fabrication, good old machining is still the best bet"

Obviously you are talking about the present, not the future.

I believe that 3d printing metals is the future, recycling your shavings is not a bonus, it is a serious problem when you waste from 50% to 90% of your metal blocks, not only if you use expensive metals like titanium, but also when you need to wear expensive tools and a lot of time and toxic lubricants to get it done(you need the lubricants to make the ultraslow process fast).

In 5 axis CNC you also have the problem of having to design the order of the operations and grab positions.

The good thing about 3d printing is that you have the geometry, you print it, you are done, no hassles, very small waste.

Of course, once you have the main geometry done, you could use 5 axis CNC to make it perfect finish, just wasting less than 0.5-1% of the material weight and time.
The terms restrict scraping without permission. I'm pretty sure that the FBI would be able to find a way to get Fb's permission. And for good reason. Again, it's public information. No harm done.
> the OpenSSH impl falls terribly short as a FTPd replacement

any specific reason?
Pinboard needs to filter some of the bookmarks that are coming in the site. In the recent stream I constantly see links to depraved sexual acts, including physical and sexual abuse.

Often these links are fan fiction but sometimes they are not.

Who is reading this stuff and why? What kind of behaviour does this inspire? And why do all Pinboard subscribers need to be exposed to this?
It is marginal if you want to transfer a file from time to time but if you are in a business where you transfer thousands to millions of files everyday it makes a big difference.
FTP is still used because its interface is simple and well-known: good old file-directory paradigm that everybody knows.
It is also used because it runs on every platform.
I am in favour of having a new protocol but it should:
- be faster than FTP (would have to use UDP instead of TCP here).
- Firewall friendly. For that, you could use one port to do everything and forget about the data connection (Is it feasible with UDP as you would need to control the flow ?)
- Being FTP compliant from the interface point of view. You should be able to replace your ftp client with your fastTP protocol and everything would run.
- Add optional strong security. Possibility to encrypt or not the data stream and encrypt the password negotiation.

If we have this and it is marketed well then it could replace FTP.
Good on you for citing ethics, but your point misses the mark.

Modern Blackberries include components from Samsung, Texus Instruments, Marvell, Cyprus, Renesas, Infineon, and dozen of other companies that may or may not be "ethically" manufacturing components.

As far as I'm concerned, there are no "responsibly built" electronics, but maybe I'm picking nits. (Or maybe I'm not picking enough nits! Are we responsibly sourcing our Lithium, Indium, and Tantalum? Seriously, search for "blood tantalum")
this is quite contradictory to the way I've been learning (especially in classes where a lot of memorization was required, eg. law or business administration). I'll definitely give this a shot the next time I'm cramming for an exam.
If I'm understanding correctly, the device makes certain neuron pathways more likely to fire. What happens if, for example, you enable this device every time you enter a potentially frustrating situation? Would you become frustrated more easily?
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This article is mostly just lazy hypotheticals, but I was surprised that the author thought, "the sexual predator moral panic kicked in in 2005." I'm not LGBT, but I was pretty much 'not cool' for most of high school, and I spent a lot of 9th and 10th grade hanging out in this sci-fi/fantasy collaborative writing forum on AOL (yep, that's how 'not cool' I was), so this was like '97 and '98. Eventually I did end up meeting with two of them, a very nice couple who went to a college near me at the time, and had a fun time.

And then I told my parents I had met them through the internet, and my mom flipped her shit because all she reads about the internet is how everyone the hangs out in an AOL chat room ends up getting raped and murdered, or something.

So 'stranger danger' seems like it's been around since it became mainstream for minors to use the internet, but I would have expected it to dissipate with time, much like people used to be generally sketched out by online dating, but I don't know a single person who hasn't tried it today. Then again, as other commenters have indicated, there is pretty much no factual evidence presented here one way or another.
Personally, I think increasing productivity is a huge reason to implement some kind of Guaranteed Minimum Income.

This guy puts it better than me: http://www.xamuel.com/ten-reasons-for-guaranteed-minimum-inc...

Also, I think it's a bit cruel to expect former factory workers to just "skill up" and become programming ninjas or whatever. Not everyone is born with the same cognitive assets.
So what it's impact on page performance?

Your Telerik controls for .Net have a terrible effect on performance for example.
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Data collection is not evil and Google's intentions may not be evil today. But storing too much personal information in one place is evil waiting to happen. Data could be stolen, subpoenaed or lost for instance. Or Google could turn evil (I'm starting to hate this word) down the road. I'd rather pay in a different currency.

About the factories of Apple's suppliers: I think the way towards better health and safety conditions for workers in developing countries is via local laws and rights. You can't rely on some corporation to police this.

The problem is if a government is known to be a bunch of thugs with guns whose children are the super rich owners of the country, can you rely on that government to play its part? What if that's not the case? Do you leave the country and maybe cause more poverty? I'm not sure.
I don't have Timeline yet, for some reason, but I don't think it's stupid because you get to be reminded of stuff you posted and wrote years ago. That's just you a few years ago. Part of living here is about not being the same person now as you were five years ago.

Why I think it's stupid is the damn layout. I used to be able to linearly scroll back to someone's recent history to check back what s/he said or posted. Now it's all sort of mixed up in a horrifically heavy layout that slows down tablets and less powered machines, and requires a large screen to be viewed properly.
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The trick for me is just to be willing/able to work for Bangalore wages, go on odesk or whatever and find gigs that have actual specifications (they are relatively rare but there are enough if you keep paging through). Find one that you can get a good start on in a day or two and just do as much of it as you can before you have to move on. Then send them a link to the prototype you started. Usually after doing that a few times someone is smart enough to take advantage of my cheap labor.

Once I did something similar with a prototype, but it was on reddit instead of odesk, and turned into a great high-paying gig.

Of course, it would be better if you networked.
Ours is not curated either (our sources should be). We take data from the likes of Flybase, Ensembl, UniProt, BioGRID and really anything you want and make a more coherent picture using various graphs and widgets.
"3d-printing is limited by the need to additively deposit on top of existing layers."

Not really, you can use another material as support, then dissolve it.

"How fast the production process is. Neither process is particularly fast, both are far behind injection molding."

Well, if you consider that injection molding usually require WEEKS or MONTHS to get the first matrix mold done, then 3d printing is super fast.
Any survey which ranks manufacturers according to their labor practices?
NYT's report on the labor conditions at Foxconn, which manufactures Apple products among others, has raised a lot of concern among people, rightly. The problem is that most manufacturers build their goods in the same factories. Is there any independent survey which ranks manufacturers as per the working conditions, following environmental norms etc?
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In an ideal world, every place would be equally safe, but that LGBT suicide happens is evidence that we don't live in that world. A GSA or similar program is important because it is the one place that is guaranteed to be safe. And, if you're gay and you don't want to participate, you aren't required.
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question to any - is there a start-up working toward hosting generic teachers/courses? ie, say i wanted to set up my own certificate and have some vid lectures hosted and then have the site take care of the sign-up, details and perhaps the multi-choice questions etc and take a cut.

as far as i can tell, there are a lot for programmers, but nothing for anything else.
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I'm going to put this bluntly: I had a number of teachers that were assholes. I think being around kids all day, every day, does to some teachers what sitting in front of a computer all day, every day, does to some tech workers. They get sucked into their environment -- which happens to be juvenile drama -- and they lose the ability to remain mature and objective about respectful behavior.

Incidentally, a cousin of mine has been bullied quite badly. Sure, he's weird and obnoxious, but allowing people to bully him to "teach him a lesson" only exacerbates the cycle. And now he's even the victim of bullying about bullying from some jerk family members. Unfortunately, the a-holes sense the easily bullied like sharks to blood.
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That's not entirely true. Disney is not anti-streaming. They appear to be anti new release streaming. Toy Story 1 and 2 are available for rent. So is Cars 2. Curiously Monsters Inc is not so its still a little random.
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I find it sad that he is asked to defend Facebook's decision to continue to use PHP. Given that Facebook is probably the largest website in the World now, the real question should be why other sites are not copying their software stack choices?

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So, asking questions (fleshed out with personal opinion and anecdotes) isn't research?

OK, there's no study or links. It's not really her area. Her first point (moral panic has stopped LGBT youths from seeking advice from strangers in the LGBT community, especially online) is probably true. The second ("It Gets Better" could have an unintended affect) is tricky. The third (media harassment is bad) is obvious, and the forth (adults should also blame themselves and society) is kind of broad and meaningless.

You're taking umbrage at the second point - that "It Gets Better" can make things worse. Just because it's a well intentioned (and in some ways effective) movement, does that mean that no-one can question it without bullet-proof evidence? Well intentioned movements often make things worse (in some way), and you can't rely on "real" research to uncover this if nobody is asking questions.

I'm all for supporting "It Gets Better" until it's proven to be a bad idea, and supporting whatever it morphs into if a better idea is found. I also think that questions should be asked; even stupid ones. Creating an "us and them" mindset is the fastest path to groupthink.
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I really don't think SOAP is very ok with HTTP. It misuses the protocol and subverts its goals. For example, version 1 used POST for safe, idempotent requests.
Also, reddit used to have different budgets for servers (lots) and people (very little), so anything that reduced system administration was a win.
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I get offended easily as well, however I will buy the devices that suit my needs best. Right now I have a Playbook. Developing for it is extremely annoying, but I have to admit it works really well. No Android lag, which was a deal breaker when I got it.

If I could have something that runs my *nix stuff out of the box or almost out of the box, worked decently and wasn't too expensive, I'd just ship immediately. This isn't even close to that, at least not so far.

Device makers and software developers all want their share. That's only natural. However when I'm wearing my user clothes I cannot be thinking about that all the time. Now I develop SaaS and also, as a user, running my own stuff easily is a big plus. I've been in the hardware and software fences and I can understand the fight. You have to admit software devs got the short end of the stick in this particular market more often than not. If you're not Google, Microsoft or similar.
Yes, the sync interface is universally derided. You can read all about the problems on various ford owners forums.

Apparently there is a software update which addresses some of the responsiveness issues. And another, more major software upgrade is coming later in the year.

But in this age of iPhone style responsiveness, this hardware/software is underwhelming.
> In a perfect market every entity tries to get as much money as the market is willing to pay.

Where did you ever see such a thing as a perfect market entity? In the wonderful magical Hollywood kingdom where you can't watch the DVD you bought in Europe back in the US, certainly not.
When you put it that way, as the current generation ages, sounds like you are talking about one or two decades down the line.

Call me crazy, but I think that within two or three decades, its not just going to be "old" programmers who are worried about their jobs. I think that actually sooner than we realize, artificial general super-intelligence will arrive, and make ALL of the humans (at least version 1.0s) obsolete.
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You mean they are not doing it already? Weird.
Thanks, I am more thinking about stuff like weekend projects.
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This can be built easily by connecting 9v battery, a potentiometer, and a multimeter on current mode in series. The potentiometer basically controls the current and the multimeter displays how much you are putting in yourself.

I'm curious on what the benefits of this is but also scared of the side effects if there are any.

Anyone else tried this?
I got it over a year later, just cancelled a flight and got an email reminding me of the credit they set me up with. My login and password were in that email, so the above scenario does not seem like what is going on.
Is there a way to get by without going to the gym?

The whole idea is loathsome to some people including but I expect not limited to me that think a sentient being investing in its meats is infeasible. Boring, too.
"There's no reason that we COULDN'T each print a personalized copy of the day's newspaper at home, but the fact is that we don't."

We do. We print ON A COMPUTER SCREEN a personalized newspaper at home. Once we read it (we don't need it anymore) we make it disappear.

You should try it, it is magic!. :-)

"I just don't believe that the average user will take on the technical knowledge, space, upkeep and supply costs to run a 3D printer in their house. "

The same thing was said about cars or computers before. The biggest users of my 3d printer are non technical women and girls! They love it to make cooking , shower and closet hooks, for making their own earrings, bracelets, rings, and necklaces, things for the garden and cute flower vases.
Here's a nice stimulus bill for the US economy: mandatory switch from MDY to DMY. That should keep "a few" programmers busy for years! I'm not joking, that's how you move the economy: it's the digital equivalent of building a new bridge.

(It'd be more forward-thinking to actually switch to YMD, but I can imagine the reactions at the idea of aligning with Iran and China.)
I don't see how you are going to fit those registers into CPU. This new kind of RAM will still be used for main memory.

The good news is we don't need hard disk any more. This will indeed change a lot of what we know about operating system.
was at the meetup when you lectured, think its a very important feedback "from the other side".. thanks!
Yes, it said it was as fast as DRAM, not SRAM (the latter is what is used for cache and registers).
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I agree. There is no excuse for using FTP when we have brilliant alternatives like MegaUpload.
Try cutting out some of the stuff people tend to find boring. Or change the way it's presented.

Maybe your audience doesn't understand what you're trying to tell, maybe they already know.

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$100 is low end. It's easily affordable for consumer purchase. You no longer need to be the NSA with a budget of $1,000,000 to do this.
It's still not a replacement for DRAM, though. The article says it can only take a million rewrites before failing. Depending on what a computer is doing, I'll bet the main memory can easily hit that limit in days to weeks.
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That may be, but OP was talking about having 32 Gb of registers and obsoleting load/store instructions. Current technology doesn't have 32 Gb of SRAM in registers, it has less than 1k. Even if the cost of SRAM wasn't an issue, I would be surprised if you could increase the size of the register file by 30,000,000x while maintaining the same latency and throughput characteristics.
Thanks Lior. Happy you enjoyed the session. Indeed the questions and feedback drove me to write this post as I think it's an important concept to think about early on.
I agree with you entirely; I just think we don't want to set a dangerous precedent here.
> Imagine 32Gb of CPU registers.

Sounds like the most expensive context switch ever.
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