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> Cuil seems like a case study in launching too soon.

Nowhere was this more apparent than with "Cpedia" - a project they made available to the public at some point after the main launch. What it was supposed to be was an online encyclopedia (like Wikipedia) based on data automatically collected from their web crawler. What it ended up being was a gigantic pile of Markov spew; ridiculous, rambling, often incorrect, and useful to no one.
Another quote in the same vein:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein.
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An individual human of times past might have been able to capture his meat, [get the females in his village to] forage for his vegetables, make his own shelter and clothes, etc., but he also probably died around the age of 30.

Specialization is one of the reasons people have the time to devote years of their lives to the research that gives us things like medical knowledge, the computer that the above essay was typed on, and the vast majority of the knowledge the author wants to attain.
Great article, I learned a lot from http://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/05/translation-from-haskell-... as well.
You also need to learn some economics. There is substantial evidence and supporting theory to suggest that absolute material wealth (once it exceeds a certain level of basic needs) makes relatively little difference to quality of life. See the "Easterlin paradox".

In particular, even if absolute material wealth does have some positive impact on quality of life, a culture that optimises solely for efficiency is almost certainly sub-optimal for quality of life.

I bet if you search your own experience you will find times when you did something that you weren't good at (and could easily have been done better by someone else more specialised) and found that you enjoyed it. The feeling of achieving something new and different and surprising? That's called quality of life my friend..... and many nomads a few thousand years ago probably had just as much of it as we do today
I know that's what the upvote button is for, but man that's funny.
This is silly. I highly doubt Google is having any luck convincing average users to install Chrome Frame. This is not a counter argument.
So Google have bought up a bunch of patents for search UI. Presumably Google won't use any themselves -- they're just storing them up as legal weapons.
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I think this highlights the difference between justifying to yourself that you are doing everything possible to make it work... and actually doing everything possible to make it work. The difference is significant but often hard to see when it's yourself.
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Maybe yes, maybe no. It is really hard to understand what author has in mind. That's actually poorest and most unclear part of manifesto.
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In that case, you should probably read this to understand ... cough, a bit grey people. :-)

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1. Another way to raise $28K is to move into a smaller apartment.

2. That $28K was almost certainly not legally reported to the IRS as income. Does anyone found a startup these days without breaking the law?
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Not really. The low expected life expectancy of the past times is significantly skewed by the extremely high infant mortality (and high death rate of women following childbirth as well). If you survived until you were, say, 15 years old, you could expect to live a pretty long life (unless you were a woman that would give birth to many children).
Their new startup is Grove, which is hosted IRC for teams. I'm guessing this is what most of the YC batch switched to to replace Convore, since it hits more directly on their need.
I don't suppose anyone can shed some more light into what is actually happening with this treaty?

This opinion piece feels rather inflammatory
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I also like this "How to safely store a password" post from a couple of years ago that has similar advice, although it concentrates on bcrypt:
http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
I was in a similar situation a few years ago, but I opted for Monotouch [1]. I still had to learn UIKit, Foundation etc, but I didn't have to learn a "new" language. I did have to hack together a Visual Studio package to trick it into loading monotouch project files, but it was like 10 lines of code, and now you don't have to.

I did spend several months developing (and shipping) two Objective-C apps for the few months that Apple banned Adobe AIR (and everything else along with it), and despite having spent 30 years programming, and a good part of that in C and C++, the full awfulness of ObjC was a surprise. But if all you've ever done is C#/WPF, ObjectiveC is going to be quite a shock. In fact there'll be a lot of cognitive dissonance.

[1] http://xamarin.com/monotouch
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I'm in the US and I recently went through the same process. I'm sure other countries have different problems.

Just prior to quitting my job to start my own company, my wife was diagnosed with a health issue. My wife and I were both on the company plan. When we went looking for insurance, she was denied because of her 'pre-existing' issue.

So, we've had to keep her on expensive COBRA until it expires and then there is something after COBRA that we can hopefully switch her to. I hear that there is legislation to prevent insurance companies from denying people coverage if they already have it, but who knows when that'll happen, if ever. I've been able to switch to my own plan, but it still seems really expensive since I very rarely need medical help.

That said, the industry is a mess. The plans are very confusing and definitely directed towards getting the most out of you. No plan is a 'good deal'. The fact that there is three different insurance plans that you need (medical, dental and vision) shows how broken things are. I ended up using a broker who helped explain things a lot. The fact that I needed a broker to explain it is also broken.

Sites like ehealthinsurance.com are massive spammers (try putting your real information in, you'll get phone calls, emails, etc.) and are really no less confusing. It is like they purposely make it hard to figure stuff out by using terminology that nobody else understands and burring it in their website behind forms which ask for your information first. You better figure out what hmo, ppo, copay, coinsurance and deductible mean and how they affect office visits and prescriptions. Then, chart it all out and if you are lucky pick something that seems like what you might need. Once you've got that done, fill out 20 pages of forms with all of your medical history.

Grrr... just thinking about it all makes me so angry. It is such a huge waste.
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Nonono! You're a taxpayer. (Sigh)
Ah, I see what you're talking about now - it's the appeal to nervous patriotism: "Look, Aussies can perform on the world stage, too!", in an article that really has nothing to do with the nationality of the folks involved. I agree, the editors should be shot for letting such a crap heading through.

Check out the wikipedia link - it also has this gem: The cultural cringe can be expressed in the almost obsessive curiosity of Australians to know what foreigners think of Australia and its culture. A quick way to most Australians' hearts (unless they're counterculture hipsters) is to compliment the country... just make sure you sound sincere when you do it :)

(clarification: You're right to cringe at that, but it's the article displaying the concept known as "cultural cringe", not yourself)
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IIRC, Twitter brought in Steve Souders as a consultant for improving the performance of the Twitter web interface and the main recommendation he offered was to have the tweet content in the HTML page instead of loading them dynamically.
Export worked for me, but it's moronic. It seems like every user gets all his utterances.. which are utterly useless without context.

They're basically treating the data as if it's email or facebook posts and comments (those last also mostly useless without context). But it's not, it's a far finer granularity of interaction.

Convore, please let users download logs for the channels they're members of.
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I dunno, for most people in corp environment it is a total nightmare

So, exactly the people that any new e-mail solution won't be able to help because they're locked into a Lotus Notes/Exchange server with a bunch of backend integration and a proprietary client.
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Can someone explain why TC labeled this story with "EU" ?
that was a cool hack :)
Ahh good point. I stand corrected.
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Well, reduce is a recursion with an accumulator. Did you had something special in mind?
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What makes us think of jettisoning the gadget which many a time appears to be the alter ego, the Man Friday or both? It is really painful for many of us to get rid off the cell phone. As a result, when our gingerly used cell phone goes off, the roadside vendor grimace like a seasoned doc who is about to write the death certificate, they ask for the recycling of the cell phone as a sane choice.
Oh, I certainly support and enjoy a bunch of activities you and the other have mentioned. Personal development, pushing one's limits, et cetera can be very fulfilling indeed.

I just don't confuse those with productive efficiency—which supports the first three level of Maslow's pyramid, enabling man to enjoy relatively useless activities such as rock climbing and romance—and then go around and claim "inefficiency is wasteful".
Exactly. In the case of mathematics, if you aren't doing proofs yet, you don't even know what math is. Most high school math curricula are completely devoid of proofs or abstract reasoning with the exception of at most a few months during geometry. How many college students have wrongly expected "Modern Algebra" to be a rehash of what they learned in high school? The distinction between mathematics and what gets taught in high school is very similar to the distinction between computer science and computer programming.
>You would lose interop with existing email infrastructure.

Yeah, when I mentioned the ability to associate email addresses with public keys, I wasn't very clear. I did't mean regular email addresses, but was actually thinking of bitmail-only email addresses. Perhaps ones based on Namecoin .bit domains.

But I wasn't suggesting interop with existing email infrastructure, this would be completely separate. In fact, the idea would be to disrupt and supplant the regular email we all know and love, at least for some use cases where privacy is paramount.

Everyone would have their bitmail client which they could use to send encrypted email, as well as their regular Gmail addresses and whatnot. Most people have multiple emails anyway, this would just be one more.

One nice thing about bitcoin, which would carry over to bitmail, is that despite the core technology (the official client) being completely outside and orthogonal to the current financial system, it's very easy to use for its fundamental purpose. Sending and receiving bitcoins is just simple. I envision the core bitmail client would work similarly and be similarly simple. No need for interop as long as there are specific optimal use cases for it (say, Arabs and others coordinating against oppressive regimes, stuff like that).
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I'm a little curious about some of the style choices in python code. For example:

# used by Sebastian
for k in range(len(measurements)):
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vs

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for m in measurements:
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I guess the old aphorism applies: a good Pascal programmer can write Pascal in any language. (Not to criticize Sebastian's programming ability, only to wonder about the pedagogical choice.)
Perhaps because the writer is in London. You're right though, it shouldn't be.
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Email is not the bane of your existence, people using a communication platform to do things other than communicate is the bane of your existence. Your problem could be solved quite easily with changes to policy (which is just as likely to happen as your company moving away from email).
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If this popular post was an article, it is not surprising that majority or the survey takers preferred articles since they were already reading an article. This is called sampling bias. How would the result look like if the survey was conducted on a page with a screencast. In that case people might favor screencasts.
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Yes, this does require you to compute string length multiple times...but keep in mind that getting string length is very cheap in languages with good strings. (That is, basically everything except C's null-terminated strings.)

Since this is a discussion about Haskell, too, I feel obliged to say that computing the length of a String type in Haskell is an O(n) operation, because String is really just

type String = [Char]

i.e. a linked list of Char values.

Typically, if you want performance out of strings in Haskell, you'll use the Text or ByteString types BUT the length operation of Data.Text is still O(n). Only ByteString offers

length :: ByteString -> Int

Which is O(1).
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They give a course on negotiation to people being promoted to upper management in the multinational I work for. The first rule is that if you quote first, you lose, because you are setting your worst case.

I strongly suspect all of what is written in your comment is aimed at boosting the market for domain names, because you own lots. There are so many good domain names available (http://blog.nametoolkit.com/domain-names-taken), that the only reason you would buy one in the secondary market is because you are already trading under that name in real life.

What famous site do we know of that bought its domain in the secondary market?
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Yeah, the data size is a big problem, but the bitcoin dev team is working on a bitcoin-lite client to solve that problem. Their eventual solution might be repurposable for bitmail.

And here's another thought about that - just delete all messages from the blockchain after they're read, and only store them locally in the clients. As soon as the receiving client unencrypts the message, store it locally, then delete it completely from the blockchain. Unlike bitcoin, this wouldn't be an accounting ledger with the necessity of storing all transactions in perpetuum. All that needs to happen is the message get delivered to its recipient, once that is verified to have happened, it can be deleted. The clients can keep copies and organize them into conversations or whatever.

That wouldn't quite solve the issue of hardware eventually being able to brute force the encryption though, since an interested party could store a running record of everything put into and deleted from the blockchain. But it would have to be a very interested party to store that amount of data in the hopes of being able to decrypt it years or decades later.

Bitcoin wasn't really designed for deletions though, and that would also double the rate of blockchain diffs, so would have to think more about how or if that would work...
Not for me just yet as I want to finish my studies first, but I wondered what experience you expect from candidates.

My personal experience is that I have no problem understanding data mining and machine learning in theory, but translating that in practice on my own is quite another thing. Is the market open for would-be data scientists with very little experience?
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Wow, quality advice. Maybe I should contact you, eh? :)
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As you say, responsiveness and user experience are important, and 37 Signals decided it was worth investing a significant amount in. Adobe have decided, over the years, that it is not.
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I've long established the opinion that the right way to go is to store all versions of the binary files on a separate disk/share/website and use git to version the paths to those files. Then you just suffer to have one local copy of the binary archive and you can access the individual files a thousand times via git without bloating the git repos.

It seems that git-annex does exactly something like that, and apparently even more while being more sophisticated.
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A common mistake is to conflate hunter gatherer societies with the primitive agricultural societies that came after them.

Hunter gatherers were happy, healthy, and relatively long lived[1]. Unfortunately, they faced very sharp resource constraints - if you travel around gathering nuts and berries you need a lot of land for a pretty small tribe. Still, it wasn't a bad life.

But for whatever reason, some hunter gatherers developed the secret of agriculture. This changed everything - it was so phenomenally productive that for the first time there was a surplus. One person could produce enough food for himself and have some left over. This allowed the creation of an elite (priests, beauracrats, soldiers, scientists) who were not engaged in food production. Unfortunately, it came at a cost: A vastly shortly and unhappier life for pretty much everyone, but especially the non-elite. Let me reiterate: Being a peasant is just about the worst possible existence we have managed to come up with.

Modern society has, more or less, only brought adult mortality back up to hunter gatherer levels. (Of course, it's done wonders for child mortality, which was pretty terrible under both hunter gatherer and primitive agriculture.)

What the original post is pining for is a return to the hunter gatherer societies, without any specialization. Life expectancy would be MUCH higher than 30 in that scenario. Of course, there's probably only room on this planet for about 0.2% of the current population. Something tells me the 99.8% wouldn't be too happy about any attempts in that direction. :)

[1]: Life expectancy data is hard to come by for obvious reasons, but it's seems that for modern hunter gatherers you're looking about 50 years. That's a little misleading, because only about 2/3rds of children made it to 15; of the 15 year olds about 4/5ths made it to 45; of the 45 year olds, mean remaining lifespan was around 20 years. In other words, if you survive childhood, you're likely to see, at least, your 60s, and you've got a decent chance of seeing 80. That's radically different than what we think primitive life was like, because we're thinking of privative agriculture, which was entirely different.
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