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I should clarify that I don't see technological implications as central themes in IJ, but I do find it really intriguing that rather than excluding or hand-waving issues that have to do with technology he dives in and gives them what seems to me a great deal of good, hard thought.

The book hit me really hard emotionally as well, and for me a lot of the anxiety centered around how fragile our assumptions are with regards to communication. All of DFW's exhibits to me a neurotic fixation with the other person understanding exactly what you mean (compact history of Infinity especially, where the book reads differently depending on how comfortable you are with exploring some of the proofs and concepts involved, you could skip the I.Y.I's and still get a really strong and interesting book, but the experience would be different), and it is a lot of that anxiety that hit me hard.

It just seemed interesting to me that technology and media fit so well with that central emotional point. If we can't even communicate to people in writing or speech, mass communication could fare not better.

It's sort of like talking about all of the AA reference in the book. As a topic there are a lot of things you can say about addiction and rationalization and human ritual, but AA was just a handy analogy to talk about all of that stuff, and more importantly to evoke certain feelings in the reader.

It's easier to talk about the set pieces of the book than it is to try and clearly articulate how it makes me feel, is all.
Of course. But we ought to be able to establish some kind of bounds on the number.
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I really, truly love Infinite Jest.
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Pretend you are in an operations position, in which your job is to maintain the infrastructure that routes traffic and the servers that serve requests. Wouldn't it then be nice, if you suddenly had a surge in traffic or a drop in available server hardware (be it expected or unexpected), you could alter the performance characteristics of your web applications?
This concern is only even possibly valid if you limit your conception of "the industry" to the bubble-gum pop music industry. In classical music, in jazz, in various more creative fields of music which have more readily and flexibly adopted new models of promotion and distribution, the market is definitely still out there for great artists to succeed.

If you're "a band" and hoping for one of the five^H^H^H^Hfour^H^H^H^Hthree remaining big labels to hand you a career on a silver platter like in the 80s, then yeah, you might be fucked.
The motorola Atrix had demos of this concept. There was no ubuntu- it just was moto's skinning of android & a $200 docking station for your phone/keyboard/monitor.

It wasn't particularly successful.
Which makes it easier to translate into typical procedural languages like c and c++, which is not completely irrational to assume for embedded systems like robotics. And because many tricks and concepts will be array-index-based, you can just go ahead and use them right from the start.
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Are any hardware manufacturers planning on releasing a tablet/phone with WebOS baked in?
all the lion has to do is travel directly towards the tamer. any turns that the tamer does create an angle that the lion can cut through.
of course this is the obvious answer, so i'm probably missing something.
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Wonderful, so Desktop Linux, on a phone. Because Desktop Linux, on a desktop PC worked so flawlessly, and Ubuntu was so user-friendly that they needed to replicate that awesome experience to mobile devices. (sarcasm intended)

I would be much, more interested in a raw, low-level Linux platform, upon which others can build a fresh new touchscreen-oriented UI, minus all the KDE/Gnome cruft. I really don't want my phone looking like a clone of Windows 3.1.
Ideas aren't the best source of competitive advantage.
> became better on ICS, before that it was crap. Even comparing ICS with WebOS: The latter just stole from WebOS again

Not surprising now that Matias Duarte, former VP of webOS Human Interface and User Experience, is now Google's Director of Android User Experience. :)
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One desktop to take wherever you go is the future. You can kind of do it remote desktop, but that is not nearly as cool as one device to rule them all.
Tis clock has a bug, at 12:00:00, the 12 stays in the left, although its digits are already inversed. At 12:00:01, the clock gets the desired effect though (the 12 at the right).
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Exactly. It would be great to be able to use an Optimus Prime or something as a mobile development machine. My dream for android development is definitely to be able to build and deploy on a single device.

Of course there's a way to go for that. The range of devices that support mobile docks is very small; I would prefer support for tablets with attached keyboards/mice. If they managed to get this working on tablets, I would definitely consider something like the transformer prime to replace my netbook.
Is this based on NASA costs? Something tells me it would cost significantly less (just a few septillion?) if SpaceX would be making it.
Couldn't hypothetical you just do a really polished tour? I mean, take electronic music for instance. Their performances are them moving sliders around and stuff, on things they've already spent a LOT of time creating and mixing.
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I have to say, I really like WebOS and its paradigms. What will come of it?
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My workflow with GNU Screen is something like the following:

* start my computer
* fire up a terminal
* run `screen`
* ssh into another machine
* run `screen -e^vv` on the remote machine

At this point I can control my local Screen with ctrl+a and my remote Screen with ctrl+v. Is there an equivalent workflow with tmux? Is there an alternative? The podcast hints at "tmux inception" and everyone hints that they avoid tmux within tmux.
Note: On websites other than Pandora/YouTube I automatically tune out anything that has a 'play' button on it. If there's no explanatory text, there's no interest for me.
> But seriously, what is this for?

Looks more like a campaign prop then a serious endeavor.
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That's good info, GHC is an pretty amazing feat of engineering, there are some good summaries of STG, C--, etc for further reading:

http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/docs/comm/the-beast/stg.html

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/i4jb1/haskells_...

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Also, Simon M started Google +ing about what he's up to

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107890464054636586545/posts
I wish I understood all this, I have a good product where people are truly making a lot of money but I am technically challenged. I did send a tweet with "small business" but it didnt make it to the correct page.
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ooh, best not hide those hints/buttons, I totally missed them without reading your comment here.

though, having the fonts slide show through automatically might be nice, and fonts chosen listed in a nice way underneath.
Interesting. As a Mexican entrepreneur now I see a proper growing ecosystem. Efforts like these will produce results for the years -and entrepreneurs- to come. The start-up scene is organizing better, but we have to keep the push and support.
I think this is aimed at devices like the Motorola Atrix. Considering that device never went anywhere, they're likely looking for more manufacturers to create a device like that.
Pressing and holding? I don't think you are using a phone designed for ICS...
> ICS is the only Android version that includes any of Duarte's magic

Wikipedia says "Honeycomb was the first release with a major element of his design influence."
Maybe it's because I've been using it for 15 years, but I have never thought of Apache's httpd.conf as mind-numbing. Sometimes the terminology is a little arcane, necessitating an extra few Google searches, but it's always been completely logical to me.
I just moved to SF for the startup scene, and was finding it a bit time consuming to find events on Meetup & Eventbrite. I hope this is useful. It's a WIP, but I'll continue to improve it if I get enough repeat visitors.
The guidelines are broken then if so many developers are compelled to break it.
Funny we were just discussing law texts analysis with a friend, I even replicated a bit of French Civilian Code revisions on github for further analysis.

I wonder how much will technology close the gap between society and its actual constituents.
I always find it odd that people call the hardware and OS by the same name.

My first impression was a virtualized Ubuntu on top of Android (the OS).
I think it's almost exactly the wrong impression to give.

Most people associate Facebook with hanging out with friends and general screwing around, and while there are is a certain amount of that, it happens distinctly in the context of doing work (used loosely), which is the main use case.

I guess you could try the angle of “imagine if you were able to do your job on Facebook with all your co-workers, but all the documents would also be visible to anyone else on Facebook so they could, if they chose, become your co-workers too”.
> Or maybe they did...

... which would explain why the "Get In Touch" button is in close proximity.
It does come to something when, as a 28 year old who has yet to form their first startup, I feel old and behind the times. I'm not sure how healthy this perception is, but I suppose it at least motivates me.
I checked their index page and what I got from there is that they want you to

... stop talking

... start watching/listening success stories

... start yours (What? stories? :P)
i don't see canonical and google working too closely together on this, as google has a competing OS that they're trying to push: chrome. and now with the introduction of chrome for android, there's no reason why your cell phone couldn't turn into a chromebox when it gets plugged into a similar dock.
According to http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/21/2812424/ubuntu-for-android... it sounds like there are a couple of large usability issues with the Atrix 2.
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It should if the word "sarcasm" is in the post.
Hmm. 12 to 15 years ago most laptop owners also had a desktop machine. Since then most of those users have gone laptop-only despite the fact that many (most?) of them face a similar annoyance to the one you give: they either dock their laptop when at their desk or they plug in an external monitor.

You can point out (correctly, IMO) that there were no truly satisfactory ways to sync laptop and desktop back when laptop-desktop owners went laptop-only, and I suppose you would claim that sync will work better this time because vendors and users "get the cloud" now. Hmm. Any laptop users who also run a desktop care to chime in on how annoying it is in the age of Dropbox to keep data on the two devices in sync?
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There are many ways to get HA with mysql. But what way do you use?

How do you handle unplaned failure?
How do you handle maintanace?
Do you use master->slave and promote the slave on need? Do you use a shared file system and passive master? Or maybe something else?
Or did you simply design your application to not care if the database goes down?
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Your analogy doesn't quite work because the difference between a high school swimmer and an Olympic swimmer is a difference of degree. That its, they both do the same thing, one is just (much) better.

But the difference between what people do when they take most math courses up to about their third year in college, and what mathematicians do, is a difference of kind, not degree. You can see my other comments in this thread to see what I think that difference in kind actually is.
They're both pretty slow considering the ridiculous hardware of today's computers. We're really running a lot of our stuff on layers and layers of performance-draining abstractions... I remember the days when my friends were complaining about the unneccesary slowdown of MUI apps for their Amigas and I was reading Michael Abrash's Black Book to improve my line-drawing routines. Granted, I surely don't want to go back to the days of Mode X DOS programming, but the whole web stack is really one baroque mess, despite the heroic achievements of browser and Javascript VM developers.
Well, to start, you should eat about 2000 calories a day. Also, exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen via your respiratory system is also highly recommended. Beyond that, you're on your own.
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In 2005 & 2006 nobody wanted an iOS device because nobody outside of Apple knew about it. If investors had heard that Steve Jobs was stealing engineers from OS X to work on a phone they would have been slammed in the press for cannibalizing their core products to enter a market with a lot of well capitalized competitors.
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Just when I thought I knew everything there is to know about compression algorithms, along came Pauli, and Voila, mind now blown.
While it's inspirational to hear of people succeeding despite their relative youth and/or inexperience, I'm a little concerned that it's becoming a perverse point of pride.

I've seen multiple startups pitch to VCs and emphasise the fact that they skipped college. Is that such a good thing?
I disagree that it was an accepted practice. I don't know of any technical person who didn't hate them from the very first time they saw one. Remember this was back during dial-up days and you had to wait forever for that crap to load. I can't tell you how many sites I left before ever seeing their content because when I saw flash loading I just switch back to my search engine and find the next link. Heck, I still do that.

edit: I forgot to mention my even bigger gripe about the flash intros, and that was because I was basically being forced to sit through a commercial before I could interact with the company. It went (and goes) against the very basics of web use.
The back button isn't that great in Android. I'm never sure if back is going to take me back to another screen or out of the app completely. Sometimes if the app is launched from another app pressing back doesn't take you back to the originating app.

As an iOS and Android user the Home button is still my favorite. It's what I'm used to and for the most part they work the same on both platforms.
On Android you always go to the last Activity, whether that activity is from the same application or a different application. When you get something other than the last activity, that's because the developer is overriding the button's purpose.
Although not untrue, this is also typical for the somewhat myopic HN-crowd way of looking at it.

For 99% of all LAMP implementations, the performance of the stack is not an issue.
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Yup, they're commenting on the incoming pull requests and looks like they will be accepting some. Curious to see if the original article will be updated with them!
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Docracy (basically GitHub for legal documents) is going to do exactly that at the next legal hackathon http://legalhackathon.blipclinic.org/
I learned it the same as you from someone else. Now I use it so often, double-click to switch apps, that I can't remember life before it.
My experience has generally been quite bad.

I installed Ubuntu on my mid-2011 MacBook Pro late last year, which resulted in messing up my MBR.

I had problems with being unable to delete some disk partitions, which caused hours of frustration.

If you love Linux, it can be worth it. However, I just love Unix, and now I love Darwin :)
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If Microsoft was smart, this would be exactly how their Win8 tablets should work - plug it into a dock and it turns into a Desktop PC. Ubuntu and Microsoft are in an awesome place here that Apple is going to miss out on.
So what do you do when the phone rings and you're doing something uninterruptible on the PC?
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As far as I see, this is the text of reference: Newer multi-core processors are up to the job, and Ubuntu is the killer app for that hot hardware. It’s the must-have feature for late-2012 high-end Android phones.

The quote itself is outside the text body and refers to the text body. For a marketing text like this, I don't think that kind of quoting is difficult to understand or swallow.
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Nobody sent DMCA claims in this case (at least, this was not covered in the story). It is Youtube's automagic copyright-infringement-detector falsely labeled one of author's genuine clips as something using copyrighted material.

Author need contact Youtube in this case to fix this.
Very nice. I did a day project a while ago to do something basic. http://www.binarymax.com/cube.html (NOTE: doesnt work in firefox, but is fine in all other browsers).

I'm pretty sure my algorithms would quickly run into stack and memory issues quite quickly, but I havent looked at it in 6 months.

How long have you been studying OLAP structures and algorithms? Its the kind of stuff that is very interesting, but I sometimes have trouble wrapping my head around. I'm curious if you have any favorite reading materials on the subject?

EDIT: also FYI, your link on the blog to the github js repo goes 404 since it has an extra '.' on the end
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Absolutely, except minus the dock and right now. If you have an apple TV you can already mirror your iPhone 4S, iPad 2, or Mac (with Mountain Lion) to the display with airplay. It's pretty neat, especially considering the quality of games hitting the phone (such as GTA3). I think there's a whole slew of apps that could be made (right now) to transform this paradigm into something all consumers use instead of just the technically adventurous.
Oh, please! Don't assume I'm brainwashed zombie living in Orwell's 1984 and you're opening my eyes. I can tell more stories about crimes of russian authorities, corruption and general living in country where human rights are ignored more than you would want to listen.

But still I insist on being reasonable, do not invent imaginary problems in place of the hundreds of real ones and do not paint everything in black-and-white.

Anyway, it's good that you're so concerned about russian authorities crimes.
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The back button should follow the users path; if I'm in an email, then a click a link, and then get an SMS then the back button should take me from the SMS message, back to the browser, and then back the email.

However, applications need an additional bit of UI so that from the SMS message you could go "back" to the list of all messages, etc within the app. It sounds like, on Android, there is some confusion between these two use cases and other issues that make it unreliable. It's a shame because the concept is sound.
Yup, it's a pull quote.
The thing is, for the average site run under Apache, adding 5 lines of config is all the configuration needed for the entire life cycle of the server.

On the high end, provisioning is fully automated.

Not to mention the fact that after > 15 years(!), amateur sysadmins like me can pretty much dream the config settings.

Which leaves a relatively small target audience for whom a simpler config is even remotely relevant.
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In an aside he mentions you should use bubblesort instead of quicksort for small arrays, due to cache locality, etc. I'd recommend using insertion sort instead of bubblesort - it does much better in both cache locality and branch performance (one branch prediction miss per key).
Well, there is http://megavideo.com/

Oh yeah, the FBI seized that domain didn't they? ;)
That reminds me of a prank I did with a couple friends. We had a site running on Zope and we decided to use every known extension for our URLs. I think we got to a dozen different ones.
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As my iPhone ages, the double click on the home button is becoming harder and harder to do. The physical button itself just isn't very responsive anymore. Devoting this essential function to something that can degrade over time seems like a big oversight for a company that puts such stock into industrial engineering.
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I think it's better as a thin client. Already I can (and have) used ConnectBot on Android to connect to my shell and fix webserver (and content) problems from my phone, in the field (3G).
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This is a big issue that I've hit up against as well.

For example, trying to tie a Backbone View (el, events) to a Twitter Bootstrap "Popover"(http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#popovers) doesn't work in the "Backbone way" (we are talking about the same thing, correct?).
I just had this very epiphany today. After being rejected by two potential investors because of that reason ("Have you heard of X?"). It's frustrating to say "Yes, I have, and here is why we are different", but still get written off. The investor seems to stop listening after the "Yes", which stinks especially since the main problem I see with Company X is that no one is using it! (They are very loud and in the press, so it gives them an appearance of dominance). So, I will definitely try using that answer next time, if only to force the investor to realize that while the idea is out there, it hasn't won yet.
Every entrepreneur has heard "that already exists" a million times. Next time someone says that to me I'll try the smart-ass-ish retort described in this post.