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I don't mean he got lucky. But as a programmer, I believe that there are far more success stories to learn from than that of facebook.
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Thusly, I have always signed in with my yahoo-ID "defdac2" to access my flickr PRO account "defdac".

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The only interest I have in DDG is that of a satisfied user.

I bet that's not the case for a lot of the other people commenting here on Google. More than a few of them are probably Google employees and/or have some other financial interest in Google and aren't disclosing it.

"I don't work at Google in case you're wondering."

Working at Google is not the only way you could have a financial interest in them.
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Little known fact: Sweden has a bunch of American football (and cheerleading!) teams.

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http://www.cheerleadersofsweden.se/

(That's right people: free money, blonde women, socialism, cheap Ikea furniture, cheerleaders, AND proper football. Paradise on Earth?)

If the sport can survive in a country where there is absolutely no tradition for it...
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One example is president Jimmy Carter. Brilliant thinker, scientist and business man. Mediocre skills in leadership and absolutely dismal in working through beauracracy. He had the one-two punch of having an oil crisis and recession, unlike Obama he just couldn't get it turned around in time for the next election.
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I can imagine this being a real issue if it happens at the toolkit level; for example, GTK dropping X11 support. But until Wayland proves itself in the field as a real and superior competitor to X, it's absurd to suggest that even a significant proportion of distros would abandon X altogether. And as long as any distro of note (Linux or otherwise) still ships with X, it seems really unlikely that the major toolkits would indulge in such madness.

I wouldn't worry about it for another decade or so.
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> the variation of first having everyone brainstorm alone, then combining and grouping the outcomes

This. A thousand times this.

I find the biggest common issue with brainstorming is that you end up with an incoherent amalgamation of things that people think are individually important. People have a hard time evaluating options unless they are part of a coherent whole. Brainstorming beforehand, alone, allows them to figure out what's important and then imagine a coherent story around that thought. Otherwise you end up with solutions that technically contain individual important details but make no coherent sense as a whole. It's like saying "well, Suzie like dragons and Jimmy like potatoes so we put them together in a story." If Suzie had brainstormed before she could propose a backstory and context that the group finds more compelling than Jimmy's context about potatoes and they could have a more fruitful discussion than "I don't like potatoes," or "Dragons are dangerous."

Edit: Now that I think about it, this might be at the core of what the article describes as the optimum collaborative environment for innovating - people who exist separately and have their own coherent problems and solutions to worry about such that when combined they lead to even more innovative solutions for problems they didn't initially realize had any overlap.
While I'd definitely want to see more people with science/engineering background managing countries, I keep wondering, whether this wouldn't be solving a wrong problem. How much problems are there because western politicians supposedly are morons who can't handle the complexities of this world, and how much problems are caused by Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"? The latter case would probably affect scientist-politicians as well.
The most extreme minority gets their second choice votes counted first. This leads to some absurd non-monotonicities.
http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
'Anyone who [...] uses critical judgment and appropriate tools to make evidence-based decisions'

Except for the experimentation part, that could describe a lawyer. Which begs the question,

Where does it go wrong?

Why do people from an evidence-based career become embroiled in the kind of back[stabbing/scratching] politics that seems to be the norm today? And how can it be fixed?
I agree with the sentiment, the interface seems to be aimed at looking nice more than being usable, which would make it so much easier to use as a reference. But if you follow the check-list in the "book", it is not actually a web app itself. It's aimed at someone reading its content, not really using it as an application. So I guess they kind of found a loophole for themselves.

I do think it's really pretty though.
I get the feeling this will go the way of Plan 9 i.e. its only flaw is that it was trying to replace something very entrenched that was "good enough".

I really like Wayland and would like to see it succeed though.
My wife is a medical doctor doing a Phd right now. By her own admission, doctors are _not_ well-versed in the scientific method _by education_. The others in her lab are all biologists, and she spent the first year playing catch-up in terms of being able to do science, and says she still feels like she'll always be behind compared to the biologists in the lab who got a regular scientist training in their 5 years at the University. She's certainly being pessimistic though, her lab is headed by a medical doctor...

Anyways, my point is, doctors are not trained to be scientists.

Disclaimer: This is Hungary. I have four doctors in my close family. I'm a physicist.
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If what Dan Lyons wrote here is correct then this article is the most useful and interesting I have ready in years about Silicon Valley. It is describing / implying a widespread problem of "payola" (pay for play) in the tech media.
Always interesting to read about real-world usage of different tools and languages.

From the article:
...
• MySQL (plus sharding) scales, apps don't.
• Redis is amazing.
• Scala apps perform fantastically.
...

Some of the organizations (Including Tumblr) using Scala were discussed as part of this talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQNqIy5LdM
and slides here:
http://mrkn.co/s/video_martin_odersky_what_s_next_for_scala,...
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> There are a handful of platformers on Linux and they all have the problem of being too hard. The games in the first few levels are so hard that the player quits before they can explore what the engine can even do or find the "fun" in the game.

When you're developing a game by yourself, you play it 1000s times to test every small change, debug, etc. So you're becoming pretty good at it.

So you balance it to be challanging, and it's too hard for regular players. At least that's what happened to me.
I felt that the words like 'legacy' and 'dated' were a tad overused, and the article felt biased. A particular example was how X's protocols were described as "complex, asynchronous", contrasted with Wayland's "violently asynchronous" protocols !

It's always thrilling to have a blank slate, and you have a euphoric feeling that this time, we're going to get it right. But there are the essential complexities of any problem, and I would say that for the end user, X has delivered in spades. It will be interesting to hear developers reactions to a battle-tested Wayland code base 5 years from now.
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I see your point, but since "brainstorming" is used also in "design" environments, we are not always talking about efficiency here, but simply straying away from the too obvious ideas and avoid repeating the same old stuff again. I guess it really depends what you expect from the brainstorming session.
I don’t know. Weirdos scream the loudest, probably.
My MacBook Pro maxes out at 16Gb. Putting that much in would have cost me 4-5x as much as going for 8Gb! RAM is cheap, but there's a definite sweet spot much of the time.

8Gb is more than enough for the time being.
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I happen to have a definite, knock-down argument in favour of a particular semi-column free style: mandatory indentation (which also eliminates curly braces).

http://okasaki.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-praise-of-mandatory-i...

I'll grant you that's not a large scale experiment on a peer reviewed paper. But I trust Chris Okasaki on this one, and to me, his experiment counts as strong evidence against semicolons and brackets. (Specifically, semicolons and brackets are error-prone, especially for beginners.)

Now for Javascript, I'd probably write the semicolons. Because there is some ambiguity in the way we humans would parse Javascript without semicolons. But really, the root of the problem is that Javascript's syntax is suboptimal. Sure, Dennis Ritchie didn't know better at the time he wrote C, but this is no longer an excuse.

If I had a say, I'd simply write an alternative syntax with mandatory indentation. It's not hard[1]. If Bootsrap's maintainer dislike semicolons so much, he probably should do so as well. He will likely lose contributors, but someone who cannot get past a Python-like syntax is probably not someone he would want to work with anyway.

[1]: http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/ (Quite the tool for the job. Plus, it already features a Javascript parser you can modify.)
I really have a feeling that X11 is beyond "good enough". Embedded systems wanting to use Linux have mostly had to do their own solution (Android, qtopia before that) because X11 was to heavy.

Changing Screen resolutions on the fly (think: "projector being connected") still is a lottery, mutli-monitor support usually requires a lot of manual intervention, bad drivers still can cause X11 to crash and take everything else with it, there are still graphical glitches when the system is busy.

For years - heck - decades, Linux distributions have tried to make this work, but I think that we are now at a point where everybody agrees that it can't be fixed within the framework of X11.

So the question is: "is clunky behavior good enough? Is being forced to use completely different technology on mobile devices (= less code sharing) good enough?"

While the answer was yes 5 years ago, it's not longer true and that's why I'd give Wayland more chances now.
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In my experience (again), we do have two rounds to separate them. But both of them are voting-based rounds. One vote to narrow down the 30+ ideas to like 5 or so, and a second one to reduce it to one or two :) The outcome was very minimal compared to the overall time wasted on the process (5-6 people in a room, for one hour, ending up with a not-so-interesting idea... there are better ways to spend a team's time).
It's still single seat. It has most of the same problems as straight plurality single seat elections.
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It doesn't come as a surprise to me that the group dynamic of bringing lots of talented people together in the same building is superior to brainstorming. However, that seems like a false choice to me. Brainstorming is often used to solve a problem now; you don't always have time to wait for something genius to emerge (which might not even be related to your problem). Brainstorming tries to emulate that situation by having people interact more.

That said, in my experience the quality of a brainstorm session depends a lot on who are participating and/or who is facilitating. I find brainstorming works well when the problem space is clearly defined and people with different functions or backgrounds participate. As the article says on the interaction between Chomsky and Halle: “We became great friends,” Halle says. “And friends shouldn’t be shy about telling each other when they are wrong. What am I supposed to do? Not tell him he’s got a bad idea?” For this to work, people shouldn't be afraid to tell each other things that can be shot down. For friends this is natural, but for random people put together in a team it often isn't.

In a way I think brainstorming is a way to simulate the sort of discussion that would take place in a group that the article refers to as having a high Q. This means both feeling free to give your opinion, but also leaving room for discussion. Maybe brainstorming focuses a little too much on the former, though in my experience a good facilitator will also stimulate discussion. Personally I'm planning to look into the 'debating' technique the article describes as well.
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The whole confusion seems to be a lack of information in the arguments as to what exactly they are brainstorming about. Is it a new movie/book idea or solving a programming problem, creating a software architecture, planning an invasion or just discussing how to improve a process etc... All of these are different situations and in some cases, brainstorming might work better, others are best left to individuals. You could try and guess which is good for which as a practice and you will still probably have some subjective cases where one might be better than the other. So, lets not make generalized statements please.
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I don't think this can be construed as 'fanboy dismissal', though the term 'fanboy' itself is controversial.

Post purchase dissonance reduction is a well known cognitive bias[1]. And what can be better for dissonance reduction than someone telling you that you have good taste, and anyone who buys the competition is a philistine?

I should point out that this does not impute anything to the quality of the products themselves. I just posit that blogs such as Gruber's play a active part in the ecosystem due to our cognitive biases. They are not merely a passive observer.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization
There are numerous examples of politicians who have the matching formal education but make horrible politics irregardless. Here in Germany the minister of health was a physician and despite that he mostly was a lobbyist for the pharma industry (among other wrongdoings) and many of his decisions actually worsened the situation of regular patients. We also had lawyers in the ministry of justice who without blinking an eye issued laws which later were proven illegal by the high court.
From a politician I expect a clear political vision and use expert knowledge to find the best way to achieve these goals. The necessary expertise can be acquired by, uh, experts which has to be done most often anyway as the minister himself does not usually have the time or specialization to deal with specific complex issues. What I expect from a minister though is to make a wise selection of experts he draws knowledge from and still make the final call whether he will follow the recommendations.
Yepp. =(
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I also played in high school and every year the training season began with an all-league screening of a version of this video, Heads Up:

http://www.nata.org/Heads-Up

I truly enjoyed football and the friends I made playing it. I've played many other sports and IMO there's no other team sport like it: no room for ego, a lot of pain and a lot of perseverance and discipline required. But I got my bell rung a lot and I was just a "skill" player. Several times I walked back to the huddle after getting hit on an across-the-middle route, not really sure where I was. Injuries happened all the time. It's a fast and violent game.
If complaining about the startup times of JVM then i believe a solution exists laready i.e. ClojureScript running on top of Node.Js be a better fit?
It was releazed a few weeks back, and its called the RealTimeCommunication(RTC) API, no longer the P2P API, getting a client from this is possible, especially now that other browsers would be supporting it soon. Windows8's IE10 browser looks promising in this direction. But the API isn't written on stone, which could be a problem in getting a commercial app in the near future.
Glad you liked it! Co-op is the big focus for us. The insane levels are twice as insane when there are four people on the screen.
Note to dead responder mark_up (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mark_up): your account (and every comment you have posted) is, for whatever reason, flagged. Was your first comment massively downvoted and/or flagged, then deleted?
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And thanks to DRM, the TV industry will also give all the power to Apple or Google, just like the music industry did, and how the book publishers gave it to Amazon.
I could remember that Carter was in the US Navy - turns out he had a pretty interesting career there - including being in charge of a team disassembling an onshore experimental reactor after a meltdown!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter#Naval_career
An insane idea: run this on top of CLPython on top of ABCL on top of the JVM.
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Experimentation is mandatory to conduct Science. You need to be able to form theories or hypotheses from data or observation, and then conduct a controlled experiment to validate your point. There can be no science without validation and repeatability.
There's also the fallacy that scientists will only make pure objective decisions but scientists are in the end only humans and have their own believes, failings and political agendas. The whole system of peer reviewing and the acknowledgement that every scientific theory can be falsified is a testament to this realization. Unfortunately I have the impression that in politics too often individual experts are only heard and thus the whole system of checks and balances in science is circumvented and particular scientific opinions might get more weight than justified.

Still, I believe that the scientific methodology (not necessarily individual scientists) is still our best hope to actually achieve improvements as shown by our rapidly expanding knowledge since it was more formally defined. It just has to be tempered with clear political goals.
The fire spinners have been in the game for 3 years, and we've debated them for 3 years. I can see both sides. They're clearly a direct homage to Mario, but it's just one small piece of our game, and the overall package is really nothing like Mario at all.

There have been a few procedural platformers over the years, which is awesome. We're not the first to scene. But I believe we are the first to offer provably possible levels that can scale to any difficulty, both casual and insanely hardcore.
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I know it's irrational, but I tend to avoid JVM languages after some bad past experiences. (Yes, I know, Java is great, and the JVM is vastly improved! I said it's irrational.)

On the other hand, I've been wanting to learn Clojure. It'd be nice to see this project mature.
That is actually an unknown. There are many theories that postulate discrete space, but there has been a dearth of reliable experimental tests for it.
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You're right, I was over dramatizing things a bit. It's only getting easier for small indie studios to get their games out and be successful. This really is the indie golden era.
I will gladly take your money, sir/madam! Things sounded pretty solid when we talked to Valve, so a PC version will definitely be in the works.
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I simply don't have this problem of X being slow or laggy, so I cannot comment on the rest.

(Edit: I use XFCE, not GNOME)
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A short comment on why scientists are usually not interested in politics. Scientists are in pursuit of the Truth, not power. Politics is too narrow field to play on. Carl Sagan used the picture of the Earth from Space to show that great leaders are basically men whose reach is limited to borders and time, while astronomers were above all those considerations. That was a powerful way to describe this.
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One of the most useful features of that site used to be that you could tell at a glance which browsers the XSS payload would work on, and which it wouldn't. It hasn't been updated for modern browsers so now you have to test each browser yourself.

A lot of the payloads aren't based on browser "bugs" as such, more just the way browsers loosely interpret mangled HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Newer browsers tend to be stricter on what they'll interpret, especially when it comes to a potential XSS vector. The site doesn't seem to have been updated for anything after IE7 and Firefox 2, but I'm not aware of any better cheat sheets. Anyone got any?
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Initially when I first saw this I thought "nice but...really?" then I read the blurb about writing scripts/automating system tasks and remembered the pain of the JVM startup.

Will definitely be keeping an eye on this.
I'm stunned by the traffic figures as I don't know one person that uses it (and I suspect the majority of my non-tech, Facebook loving friends have never heard of it).

Is that anything to do with my demographic (41, M, UK based)?