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I think the point of sport isn't to be perfect, but to be visual, visceral, and exciting. Watching actual dudes running along a pitch with a ball is far more awesome than having a bunch of calculations done and observing the outcome.

It's the imperfection that is what is interesting to our brains, we like the analogue, the random, the warm, the fuzzy, the imperfect. Machines are bland in comparison to the rich inconsistency of our organic selves.
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Also, while I would theoretically be interested in the NYT version, it is 9 pages long. So it sits in my "to be read" tab indefinitely. The Forbes article was doable in a short time frame.
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lulz. The author's bio. This says it all.

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and is regarded as the world’s foremost expert on innovation and growth. James Allworth is a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School.
I would really need to see a screencast and or screenshots before i would ever think about joining a site like this.
Parent made no mention of PGP, only that care and thought are meaningless if the crypto is flawed, which from the looks of some of the more knowledgable commenters, is the case.

It's understandable that you have a personal obligation to defend your friend, but it really isn't necessary. Sit back, relax, and allow the author to reflect on the constructive feedback here.
The app looks promising but you'd have to show a bit more before I create yet a other account.

How much research/interviewing did you do before building the UI/UX? I ask because I'm curious to know your findings, e.g. an outline style expandable list of stories performed better than the magazine style that was popularized by Flipboard.

Also, is there an easy way to collapse similar stories. I hate reading the same story about Apple 10 times from different news sources (not picking on Apple, just as an example).
>"absolute consistency isn't a hard requirement for banks": see above. Yes it is.

There's a paragraph in the (long) article about absolutely local / eventually global consistency.

>"but they are hard to partition without extreme effort or extreme cost." ... Wh... Bu... That's not even wrong.

I don't know about Tandem but another comment mentioned Postgres-XC so I checked it out. According to the wiki its not globally consistent.[1] Care to elaborate on what isn't wrong, or name any (relational) alternatives to Postgres-XC?

"We need some research work for solutions on following issues.: Global constraint. Can we enforce unique or other constraint exclusion globally in multiple data nodes?"
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Postgres-XC
If anything you'll see the difference magnified in a complex application, but it's unlikely to turn around.

I wouldn't say so. The bottleneck in a hello world benchmark might be a component of the framework, but in complex applications it's likely to be something else. Just look at the "Template Test with DB Query": There, Sqlite is the bottleneck, and the performance difference between Django and Rails fades into background completely.
While I don't agree with the headline the points made in the actual article are great. When a business makes a lot of money from a single source new ideas can seem too risky or even harmfull to existing profits.

Jobs ability to look beyond the current paradigm above all that was unique.
Background:

http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/15/facebook-dad-says-hed-sho...
Four year old article.

Back then he was still just doing everything himself.
...what dating sites have trouble getting people to upload pictures?
Hackathons are more like fartleks, no?
> $3000 laptops that are comparable to most $1200-1500 laptops, but are slightly prettier and less serviceable

So all those people who buy them are just stupid then, are they? What nonsense. This is little better than trolling.
I'm pretty sure it has improved. People don't treat their diseases and accidents at home themselves. Old people can quite often move all their limbs, walk without support, still have at least some teeth and so on. All improvement of modern medicine. It doesn't make us live twice as long but you can't say it only creates suffering either.
Same pain, there is always times that I wanted to buy an old book from amazon, but told me it is only available in US. Then I always turn to library.nu for help. Sad it is gone.

The only complaint I have about copyright protection is they should try to make their work accessible. Otherwise, there will be another library.nu given time.
Err… I don't get the downvotes… feedback please?

Edit: nevermind.
"Every time you throw in something that seems to work, find out why it works."

This. Especially for bugs. If I don't know why its fixed, I haven't fixed the cause - I've fixed a symptom.
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Try using Zimbra community edition. You will need a server and some technical knowledge to set it up but it is good. My company's official emails are hosted on Zimbra since long now.
You probably should have sat down and figured out how to encrypt your communications beforehand.

Ofcourse it'd be great if twitter did the job for you, but I don't necessarily see why it ought to be Twitters position to fulfill this edge case rather than say a protester who knows they are about to go into a life threatening scenario and need to organize--both beforehand and during the escapade.
Tangential, but lede is an interesting word and I always thought it was just "lead".
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede
Example: In the era of Linotype and hard copy, an editor might rework a paragraph (or graf) in a story, circle it and give instructions to composing to have it moved to the top by using the word "lede." If the editor wrote "lead," the typographer might think the editor simply wanted "leading" or spacing inserted.
For me, it changed how I looked at statistics. It was irrelevant regarding programming in general.
Lightsquared, some comments
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I don't buy this argument, but you're in good company holding this belief.

Generally, I find that long names fall into three categories:

1) refactoring opportunities

Use more namespaces, write smaller functions, embrace lexical scoping, etc. You don't need to call something a foo-bar-frobber when it's being used in the foo-bar context, just call it a frobber.

2) line noise

If you're only using the frobber within a two line function, and it is initialized via create-frobber, do you really need to spell it out? f or x will do. If your function grows, rename the variable. Or refactor!

3) an absentee synonym

Maybe you've got a monster-which-attempts-to-defeat-player, when you really need a baddie. Or maybe the word you need doesn't exist yet? It's rare, but sometimes you really do need to invent or repurpose a word.

...

I always feel dirty when I have a long variable name. pg writes about this in On Lisp: long names feel heavier. They might be super cheap to call, but because the name is long, you're less likely to call it.

Furthermore, I much rather adhere to a line length limit, as I find wrapping lines far harder to read than lines with short variable names. Long names makes this harder.

All that said, I almost never use abbreviations other than standin variables like a single letter. The only exception to this is well known abbreviations, like for your most commonly used utility functions or for objects which are extremely common in your problem domain. Such a set of abbreviations becomes a part of the language you share between your compiler and your team.
I also added a feed. Then it sorted some links for me. I didn't understand how to use it or what it was supposed to do.

After that, I closed it.
He didnt ignore profit, he focussed on value.

Value that most no one else could see.
That is true. When I do Objective-c using Xcode (glorious IDE), variable length is a non-issue. Ruby on TextMate is a different story, though.
For more rigorous naming, Eric Evans (in his excellent book Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software) recommends documenting (and maintaining) your product's "Ubiquitous Language".

When developers (and the code), product managers, domain experts, and end users all use different terminology, then cross-discipline communication difficult and imprecise. A documented Ubiquitous Language enforces shared terminology (and meaning) for all communication within the team and in the code.

http://domaindrivendesign.org/node/132
You said it, not me.

There are people who care very much about the visuals. They're not stupid for paying extra.
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Once it's written, I always make the association between 'anospic' and 'average numbers picked' (using that as an example). I try to make the names both human-readable and at least somewhat related (a:average nos:numbers pic:picked).

Keep in mind that I don't do this with client work or anything that might land on the hands of another developer.
> That's a powerful thing.
I have been working with people who know relational databases and OO. And I have been working with people who could only do one of these things.

I know with which group I prefer to work.

If a technology is used as a "don't worry: low barrier to entry" to keep the challenged on board, it will become a great measure for lack of competence if you know it.

Seriously, until now nosql advocates would use specific technical merits of the different options we have now, but "developers don't grok rdbms's": its not an argument. According to some, developers also don't grok fizzbuzz.

If you can't wrap your mind around set theory you should also not iterate through a collection of objects.
Names are also critical to understanding.

It's very similar to the phenomenon of notation (including maths, sciences, and, yes, programming languages themselves):

"By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race." -- P Davis and R Hersh The Mathematical Experience (Boston 1981).

I know that my team spends an inordinate amount of time debatting the names of concepts. We've found that, since we're trying to build something unique, there aren't always words for the concepts we're building. Worse yet, there are words that are close, but not quite right! It's extremely difficult to write any code before everyone can hear a word and reach a common mental image. I've found that if you get the right names, the code is so much easier to write and reason about.
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This might be obvious to some, but I've literally only realized a few months ago that when I write text, I will consult a thesaurus, whereas for some reason I've neglected to do the same when I code. I would spend hours agonizing on how to call a module, wondering if I won't need the same word later for something else, or if it might be making things a bit ambiguous for the next guy.

So I've started also using a thesaurus when I code and so far I'm happy with the results. It's been helpful in accurately framing some of the hazier concepts with interesting names. I also revisit the naming much less than I use to, because I'm comforted with the notion that if I couldn't find a better word with a thesaurus, then maybe there isn't an obvious one. I also now use words that are clear, but that I so far neglected to include in my programming vocabulary, because other more prevalent ones would jump in my mind and put a shadow on my naming creativity.

So, if you need some help naming modules, functions, variables and db entities, a thesaurus could help. Though, take care to not abuse of it.
That's a good idea for languages that use that convention (I'd use it with objective-c if xcode didn't make using long variables so easy), but I mostly work with ruby.
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The quote from the consultant for LightSquared is taken out of context or just plain wrong. i.e. this statement:

cellular base stations have been "allowed next to the GPS band since 2003"

The FCC started allowing an "Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC)" specifically to supplement areas where satellite signals may have dead zones due to, say, dense urban areas. This would also be a low-power signal. It was put in place for things like Sirius/XM satellite radio to have acceptable performance in urban areas.

ATC is intended to (1) be a small supplement to a satellite-based service and (2) have a comparably low-power signal to the signal provided by the satellites.

Once LightSquared came along and got waivers so that (1) their whole 'satellite' spectrum could be terrestrial, and (2) could run much higher powered terrestrial stations (power levels similar to cellular towers) the amount of power they were radiating for their network eclipsed the weak signals GPS units depend on to function. The design and filtering for GPS units is fine for the adjacent spectrum to be used for similar systems/services as allocated (until the last 18 months).
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There is a little bit of information in the 2nd edition. Parser combinators get a few pages in "17.4.2 Functional Programming". PEGs and packrat parsing are briefly covered in "15.7 Recognition Systems".
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Okay, I am the one who hijack the word[1]. But I don't think this is deception. I use the greater emotional impact because it is the one that actually match reality. I would say "destruction of the soul" to a Christian because only that would convey the right idea. If I say "death", the guy would think about going somewhere else instead of true death. That would be deception (or at least miscommunication).

For the same reason, I don't like to say "passed away", "gone", or "departed". Plain "died" is more accurate.

[1]: I'm not the only one. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/191761 (Argument by authority, I know, but really, this view looks sound.)
I'm quite surprised to see the PHP frameworks near the bottom... any ideas on why that is? As much as I love Rails, I would not have expected it to beat any mainstream PHP framework in this type of test.
I don't see how anyone has implied that twitter is responsible for anything.
> media industry would scream piracy

That's actually a pretty great insight. If you think of the library as a potential piracy haven, you might even consider going as far as calling them a storefront of The Pirate Bay if libraries were invented today.
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My colleagues (developers) laugh when I pause few seconds to think about a proper name for a Java method. But I take it seriously, finding a class or method with proper name is way easier than an ambiguous name> Even a proper name with misspelling is considered bad in my dictionary.

Once in an interview, I asked the guy to write some code, he used variable names like "int ttttt=1;". I never saw him again!!
This guy is an acquaintance of mine: http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Going_Me...

He seems pretty successful at life (MMA fighter, author, software engineering degree, Oxford distinction holder).

However, I don't know how much of that can be attributed to NLP. But just giving you one datapoint in the other direction.
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I'll give you that both arguments are borne of a desire to rationalize. Death is serious business for us. That said, I believe we live and die for a reason, and that death gives life purpose. You don't have to agree with me, but you should at least acknowledge that the statement "death is bad" represents a certain worldview, and can by no means be taken axiomatically.
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True, there's a few vaguely similar things, like planet.haskell.org, the subreddits, ruby.alltop.com.

You used to be able to pull off delicious tagged URLs for e.g. ruby, that had only a few people tag those and assume they were new/obscure, but you can't do that since they revamped format late last year. Can't do with pinboard either
While he drops a lot of names in there (php, mongo, rails, etc.) I'd summarize it in a more general way - in the last 5 years the entry barrier to building highly functionable online apps has been lowered due to the rise of quality opensource abstraction layers and frameworks, and rapid exchange of knowledge/solutions through online hacker comunities.

What makes me happy is he's a proof that a programmer can spend 5 years under the ice and his programming skills are still valid, he just has to learn new toolsets. Also, I like how he quickly decided to skip the whole Objective-C/Android Java scene and jump straight to HTML5/Javascript for making mobile applications, which I believe makes sense for the type of apps I’m working on., looks like taking a break from the market isn't that bad after all.
"The opinions expressed are their own."

^^ First sentence of the article.

You don't need to cite references to give a counter _opinion_
Would you ask your bank to raise the interest on your mortgage so they can become more independent and offer you another mortgage later?
"Hackathons are nonsense" ...

... for trying to achieve /what/ excactly?

Nuance. I know. Nuance is overrated. Especially on the interwebs. Sorry about that.
You don't always know from the beginning what's going to land on the hands of another developer, and if something (even a personal project) did shift from you to someone else, you're going to not be very highly incentivized to change things then.
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Can we just agree that it's wrong to do market segmentation for electronic goods based on geographic location? It's an anachronistic model that has no justification other than for padding BigCo's(tm) profit margins.

If the big media companies actually cared about piracy they would abandon this system and see piracy drop significantly overnight. Then again I think we all know that's just an excuse to try and hang on to the overinflated profits they're accustomed to for just a little bit longer.
There is always another developer - even if it is only some future you. When you pick up that piece of code in three years, hoping to improve or reuse some of it, it will take you three minutes to remember what "anospic" was supposed to mean...
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I do this too. Though my thesaurus doesn't always have the right technical meaning of certain words.

I'd love to have a "programmer's thesaurus" with more detail on names that appear frequently in code. For one of the two hard problems in CS, the art of naming things has little reference material beyond raw source code.
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> Property rights don't vaporise automatically due to lack of use

IP rights are not property rights. They are a temporary monopoly enacted by society as a means for more works to enter the public sphere. If the copyright holders don't exploit their works in a certain country, the bargain is not upheld.

And some IP rights do vaporize automatically due to lack of use, namely trademarks.

> in India squatters could, at one time, claim ownership to property after illegally sitting there for a certain period. This seems wrong to me.

To me it seems right - property is a scarce resource. If someone does not make use of it, and lets it sit unclaimed to the point where they don't notice that someone lives there for quite some time, then why is it in the interest of society to acknowledge that property claim? But it is irrelevant to the discussion at hand, exactly because property is a scarce resource - the arguments that apply to property largely don't apply to copyright.
I wouldn't want to have to ask them to do so, I'd seek out a bank that operates soundly. It's the difference between Wells Fargo (forced at gun point to take the TARP money), and insolvent vile blackholes like Citi and Bank of America.

I would rather my bank charge a profitable, common / historically normal interest rate, than go to the Federal Government (aka tax payers) seeking a bailout at a later date or collapsing into insolvency.

For example, by keeping interest rates at 0% for so long, and driving 30 year mortgage rates down below 4%, the Federal Government is going to burden US tax payers for decades to come with hyper expensive (to the tax payer), money losing mortgages. No sane business would lend money at 4% for 30 years on something like a house after the disaster we've just been through and what's still occurring.

Fannie & Freddie are going to keep costing tax payers tens of billions for many years to come as the Feds intentionally under price the market on mortgages. I don't think that's in any way sane or fair to tax payers.
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that is not an argument for "apple ignores profits"