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>If you develop a compiler that, say, parallelizes the hell out of code, you'll have a group of massive companies breaking down your door and throwing money at you.

I speak with some fair knowledge of compilers, PLs, runtime systems, and OSs when I say: massive companies will also throw money at me if I can turn lead into gold.

A compiler cannot transform an inherently stateful, sequential program into an inherently parallel program that can be easily parallelized-the-hell-out-of. This is why there has been actual interest in shifting over to functional programming among those who need lots and lots of concurrency.

There do exist systems that will, for example, guarantee the determinism of threaded applications -- making them more predictable and debuggable. But DThreads still won't take a fold and turn it into a map.
If you seriously feel a need to ESCAPE from women, I think you should consider seeing a therapist of some sort. A lot of the things you're asking people to feel sorry for do deserve sympathy, because they are signs of mental illness.
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Fair point if you're talking about buying the O/S separately. However I bet a lot, if not most computers, will sell with Windows 7 pre-loaded for a few years at least.

Looking beyond that, I'm not sure what the growth predictions are exactly, but I suspect the chances of the average consumer buying a tablet will be greater than them buying a desktop/laptop. At which point you'll want an interface which is usable with a tablet.
They're all creeps. Some just get away with it.
But there's no reason a good developer can't be a good manager. They may not have the skills in their current role, but everyone should be able to acquire those skills.

I see no problem with developers becoming managers in theory. But something goes wrong in that transition. Management skills are just like learning any other skill. Skill-learning is something that developers (or the good ones) typically excel at. So why can't developers learn management skills?
Wait, you mean you wouldn't sacrifice the workplace happiness of your entire office to satisfy the hypersensitivity of one employee?
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Wow. The difference in the two images speak volumes.

I may be mistaken but, having happened to install Chrome several times recently, I'm pretty sur that they even randomize the order of the entries so as not to favor any one position. Can anyone confirm/disconfirm?
Meh. If it was really revolutionary, you would have to spend a few pages explaining what the hell it is, or make people go read research work from 30 years ago to understand it.
How many people do you need to affect, and at what level of salience, does a business need to hit to graduate from low impact for you? Just give me a number and a suitably important problem, I will find you high impact lifestyle businesses and low impacted funded businesses.
I have my criticisms (or concerns to be more charitable) with PG and the YC model, but I don't think this is fair. In addition to people who have pointed out the survivorship / selection bias, as well as the number of companies YC has funded that are aiming very high, there's also the issue of YC only being able to fund what people apply for.

Though I guess they could convince people to drop a good idea for a pie-in-the-sky idea, but I think what happens more often is that they get them to drop a mediocre idea for a better one.

But anyway, YC gets like 2k apps per cycle, but most of those are going to be for non-devastatingly-ambitious ideas, and then the ones that are have to have great teams behind them. If you don't see very many coming out of YC, it might be because there weren't that many to start with.
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Add to that www.apple.gr as well.
The Austin, Texas police department wanted to do this in 2011 but pulled back after the EFF got involved.

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SPYWorld result. What did you just tell us about yourself? :)

Edit: I see it too, seems they have invested lots in SEO.

And: where did the [ Normal | SPYWorld ] buttons go? When Google started SPYWorld it was possible to switch between normal and spyworld searches. I don't see the buttons anymore in my search results. :-o
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Sounds neat. I just use my phone.
Samsung has recently become the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, yet you think they don't "get it"?

Your carrier decides which phones they will carry, and what software those phones will include and exclude. Samsung's job is to do whatever the carriers want. The carriers in return give Samsung support and precious shelf space.

Your carrier also wants you to blame Samsung and not them for all the things that suck about your phone. So well done.
There's quite a difference between complimenting someone's shoes vs. saying she looks cute.

Would you feel the same if someone said, "nice haircut" vs. "you look cute with your new haircut"? I highly doubt it. And further, try imagining it coming from differing genders, and differing sexualities.

One of the compliments objectifies, and that is why it doesn't belong in the workplace.
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I am curious about a certain point.

In China, the big players crush small startups by cloning them within a few days of them getting popular, and in some cases deploy dirty tactics against them (I'm thinking of an antivirus being interfered with on users' computers because it was removing part of a giant's software - was Tencent involved?). The point is that in China, everything gets cloned really quickly and the big players keep winning the market by pushing the new services out to their existing users, who don't seem to care that much about not letting one company dominate. It's a horrible model that I believe is entrenched by the big boys having influence with those in power.

How come this doesn't happen in the US, where copying does take place, but less directly and quickly? It's not like quickly copying a startup idea is illegal, and anyone can claim they've been working on something similar to a new idea for a while. Is it perhaps because there's a diversity of channels and forums by which new startups can market themselves, whereas in China everyone uses Baidu/QQ/Renren/Weibo and some of those sites possibly block out competitors' marketing?

I don't know, just thinking out loud and looking for more-informed opinions.
Out of curiosity, how do you A/B test understanding?
That's what people who speed (ie: most people) say. "This is evidence we should raise the speed limit". And so we do, and state after state runs studies showing that the result of doing that is traffic fatalities.
Seems like ipad magazines are made by people that don't read on the ipad.

Why can't they be more like instapaper & flipboard ?
That's the best thing to steal? But when you think about it, it's tough to come up with something smaller or lighter that's still 20 bucks. Apart from razor blades, but those tend to be behind plastic these days.
I think your point about a "killer app" has some merit. I've certainly found no reason to stay in Metro so far. However, I just can't see where the value is going to come from.

Metro is neat looking, but I just can't think of anything that could be done in Metro, while maintaining the "look and feel" (and the tablet-accessibility) of the interface, that wouldn't be better as a web app. Sure, you might have a Metro skin that dumps you into the desktop to do complex tasks, but then there's no real value in the Metro component.

Take a look at the Metro-based ERP app "concept" MS has apparently demonstrated: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shows-off-wind....

Literally everything about it looks like a (reasonably sexy) web app. Plus, it's an ERP, so there shouldn't be anything running locally, or very little. This is basically just a platform-dependent web application. In some ways, it even smacks of Active Desktop all over again. Aside from extremely loyal, MS-only shops (of which, I admit there are probably quite a few), I just can't see anyone using something like this for anything important enough to reach "killer app" status...
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You seemed to have skipped right over the first few sentences from the section you cited: "Nolan confirmed that the ambiguity was deliberate, saying "I've been asked the question more times than I've ever been asked any other question about any other film I've made... What's funny to me is that people really do expect me to answer it....I put that cut there at the end, imposing an ambiguity from outside the film."

:)

I agree that resolving the entire film as simply a dream would be a huge let down. If it were another film, would be content to stop there. For my money though, resolving that the ending puts Cobb firmly back into reality is also highly unsatisfactory. The more interesting (and I believe) intended result is force the viewer to question their own sense of reality. Haven't you ever had a dream that was so realistic that you were certain it was real - until you woke up? How do know for sure that we are not simply living a dream that we will one day wake up from?

There is a book by Stanislaw Lem that beautifully explores this sort of idea. In the story, there is mad scientist fellow that has a room full of electronic brains, each being slowly fed a life story via a series of slowly rotating magnetic drums. To the individual brains, the story that they are being told IS their life - they have no idea that they are simply boxes in some mad scientist's laboratory. The book goes onto suggest that our own lives may simply be programmed by a mad scientist who exists a level up from us.

I believe this it is this sort questioning of reality that Nolan is trying to impress upon the viewer. Reducing the whole thing to just a sci-fi film about a couple of dreamwalkers makes it seem frankly one-dimensional and uninteresting.
This is similar to http://notepad.cc but not better than it.
Powerset and Aardvark both seem like pretty compelling responses. A 9-figure talent acquisition! I concede my case.
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MythBusters covered this one in one of the earlier seasons. They couldn't produce any sort of effect even with unlikely high metal concentrations in the ink.
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Echoing patio11, but yes indeed you can have an impact with the sort of business Matt is advocating for, here. For example, his own site: Metafilter. It's made a profound impact on me and many others. There are tons of personal stories, but here's a topical one from the past hour:

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/21571/Thanks-to-the-community...
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Sorry for the late reply.

>What's the rationale behind that assumption? I imagine salary/compensation will make the short list for most commonly occurring response to the original question.

My rationale is based on the sentiment that I see repeated around HN and the blogosphere that surrounds it. Granted, this may be a case of people who spend so much time talking about X aren't out doing X, but its a pretty clear impression that anyone who expresses salary as being overly important is not "passionate" enough or just sees programming as a job. I think anyone who regularly parses these blogs for hiring advice, and thus who would actually ask this question in an interview, are precisely the ones to eat up the sentiment that "the best programmers don't care much about salary". And since every startup thinks they need rockstars or ninjas, they'll happily write off anyone who seemingly expresses this sentiment. Admittedly, I don't really have any first hand experience interviewing for the typical Silicon Valley startup, so I'd be happy to hear that my impression is totally wrong.
With jQuery now weighing in at ~150K, I would really like to see it split into smaller set of modules that can be picked a la carte. Sometimes all I need is animate() for a DOM element that I already have, and sometimes I need to select a set by a contrived selector, but nothing much beyond that.
This shit is awesome!! I have been wanting something exactly like this for a while now. I even tried building it myself but then never finished. My use case was communicating with my roommate and this works perfectly for that.

In my opinion it doesn't matter that it doesn't update automatically. Its not for chat or real time collab, its for notes. I totally get it and I think the simplicity is beautiful. Really great work!

edit: didn't notice the add till I looked at comments and turned off abp. Is it even worth the couple bucks?
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Or as FakeSteveJobs [1] put it: "You know what? I love competing with Microsoft. I really do."

Microsoft was never really a consumer product company. It's main money makers, Windows and Office have always depended mainly on business and enterprise. Compare with Apple who always had their eye on home computing since inception.

[1] http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/10/whats-the-1-most-crazy-idea...
This is quite true, with existing technology the graphic designer always has to touch up their Illustrator PNGs in Photoshop (conspiracy theory: does Adobe do this on purpose so people will buy photoshop?). But at higher PPIs, the aliasing effects of rasterization are much less, you could almost turn anti-aliasing off at retina display levels, so vectors begin to make more sense.

Of course, the problem is that there are still a lot of displays out there where anti-aliasing is necessary, and for some reasons our algorithms always screw it up if done in real time. Perhaps we just need better algorithms (e.g., see Direct2D).

The final problem they mention is one of physical size, but it makes sense that you'd have a lesser detailed vector for something that is really small vs. something that is very big; its a design issue.
Same is happening with me. I have over dozen really good startup ideas that I would like to pursue but can't do that right now due to lack of time. Apart from that I also get few requests from other hackers/startups to be their co-founder.

I have been thinking about it from some time now and have found a way around. I will do something similar to ycombinator minus funding. I will give my full attention as a founder to only one startup at a time but for other startup ideas (mine or other people's) I will work as technology/business adviser for 5%-10% equity. I will give them technology/business related advice or will code/design on weekends. Networking with other hackers/founders will be important as I would need people who can give their full time and take these startups forward with little guidance and help from me. I'm sure there are many hackers looking for good ideas for startup or stuck with wrong ideas.

For my own ideas, I will quickly develop a functional prototype using bootstrap/django and will look for hackers who can take the work forward.

I'm not sure whether this strategy will work or not but there is no harm trying it.
The Google-Yahoo-Bing order appears to be fixed. That being said, the MSIE search provider install process is much more complex.
Fist of all, get help, understand that your situation is temporary and that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary situation. Don't wait, talk to someone tomorrow, suicidal thought can magnify quickly. YOU NEED TO TALK TO A PROFESSIONAL! there is someone that loves you that will be hurt very bad if they loose you, keep your mind fixed on that fact until you are better.

As for the other issues many developers are bad at extracting their worth from a company, but remember if you don't ask no one will give it to you. Think about it this way if you are at the point that you feel like you have nothing left to loose and could kill yourself, then what do you have to loose in asking for more money and if they don't give it to you, talk to another company don't convince yourself that no one will pay what you are asking you would be surprised at how many that will if they believe that you can deliver.

You are in a high growth country where things are projected to get better and better keep focused on that.

Front-end skills are in high demand, try to find some remote US work and charge US rates, get a US PO Box and bill from that address have it forward to your address in Brazil. Charging US rates to US companies will give you the advantage of not having to find as much work.

If you are suffering from depression then take an easy project from one of your many uncompleted projects and finish it. Don't focus on the fact that you have a bunch of half implemented projects, focus on the fact that you have one project to complete look at the rest of them as learning projects that you extracted value out of them by learning.
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A thought, iPad magazines would be an excellent place to implement many of Bret Victor's ideas for interactive numerical content, i.e. adjusting variables and seeing how they impact a final result and perhaps seeing that graphed. This seems like a more easily updated model than really unique interactive content in each issue because the artwork can be generic.

The iPad would probably be more usable for this than the web, because it is easier, more natural, and is a more common interaction paradigm to interact with sliders and such on the iPad versus the web. Popovers would also work well here.

It would probably work well for the Economist, which is known for having many great graphs and charts, but I think it would be fun for any news outlet because it isn't gimicky.

Small edits for clarity, popovers.
How to talk to women in the workplace: Treat them first and foremost as persons, not as sexual beings, attractive or otherwise. Imagine she's your sister, your mom, a CEO or Secretary of State, and proceed normally. Be a gentleman.

And I'd say the "person-first" rule goes for how to treat other men, too.
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I have subscriptions to Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Wired. All three are pretty good and I have few complaints. I believe I paid $15 for 1 year for each one. Barely more than $1 an issue which is quite reasonable.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding something, script/runner could be used instead of script/console. Then the whole Rails environment is properly loaded but in a manner that's actually meant to be used for prewritten scripts instead of in an interactive environment.
Really? In that tileset, bodies of water are like toner cartridge death. I bet my printouts will start looking banded and faded after a few dozen pages of it.
A lot of people can't handle jokes. And a lot of people can't handle sexuality and playfulness, or confuse sexual jokes with sexism. Of course, sometimes somebody goes too far. But also sometimes somebody is too sensitive. It's probably better to err on the safe side and not risk offending somebody unless you're already pretty sure it would be okay with them.

I'm having flashbacks now to the video on Reddit yesterday where the black female college student went psycho apeshit in class when the professor was lecturing about evolution. She seemed to think there was some kind of persecution going on involving evolution and black people, and became violently angry at both the professor and the other students, interpreting things seemingly 180 degrees opposite, almost hallucination-like, compared to everybody else. Compared to the sane, healthy, objective people. They recorded it on many cellphones too. The point I'm making, in relation to the OA, is that yes there is sexism and sometimes inappropriate things are said. But yes it is also true that sometimes some people are wacked in the mind and/or misinterpret things. And without really knowing the specific person directly or seeing the events directly with our own eyes, we can't really know which it is.

I'll just close with the observation that there are probably at least 10's of millions of Americans, if not 100 million plus, that believe the Christian God exists, lightning bolts and all, angry man in the clouds, all the miracles, etc. Some of those folks also work in offices and post on the web. Some program. Some are "scientists" even. So take everything you read with a dose of skepticism.

I'm also having flashbacks to all the times I've been asked to take notes in meetings. I'm pretty sure I'm male too.
Darn. Looks like it doesn't have the jaw-dropping sharpen feature demo-ed here:

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It's prettier than 99.9999% of the things I see on the web.
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"I have done like 9000 projects that I didn't finish, my fault."

This is fine, but that 'fault' needs fixing if you are to get anywhere in life. Effort put into a project without finishing it is mostly wasted.

Select one or two small projects that will provide some, even minimal, value to others(ideally along with teaching you something). Finish them. Put them online (github, hosted whatever). You can use your long commute to plan and think. This will help you when you try to find better work.