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I'm not aware of a term for this specific behaviour (other than "a mob"), but it reminds me of:

Party Line:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_line_of_the_party

Self-reinforcing groupthink:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_reinforcement

Cognitive dissonance technically means to believe two contradictory things at the same time, but I've seen the term used to describe the effect when someone's beliefs are threatened by new evidence and they either change their beliefs or ignore the evidence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Some guy on slashdot once noted that people tend to believe the first thing they read about any subject. In the case of these forums, that is the original post. This belief is reinforced by subsequent comments agreeing with the original poster, and from the trust and other social effects from the original poster's earlier writings. Apparently, this belief can be raised to such a point that anyone disagreeing is presumed to be wrong by the majority of users moved to rate the dissenting comment.

Another commenter mentioned emotions versus logic. From similar experiences, I've found that people don't like to have their outrages and sob sessions interrupted by a skeptic questioning whether the circumstances justify such an emotional response. I'm not aware of whether there is a term for this reactionary dismissal or not.

As for how to respond, I know of no positive strategy other than to to have people on your side that the community trusts, but I consider that dishonest. Responding to your accuser in kind with similar emotions and accusations going the other way might be justifiable and entertaining but the irony will be unappreciated and you will dig yourself a deeper hole. Defending yourself lends justifications to the attacks; notice how society has decided that "some of my best friends are black/gay" is something that bigots say rather than evidence against bigotry. At the least you can lend no ammunition to the charges, stick to the facts, and try not to be rude.
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I think this also feeds on the question of the recent article that was released showing that there is no new Mac or OSX team leader - maybe showing that the new version of OSX will be primarily iOS like. Do you think that Apple is shooting for a system where they control the rules on all platforms and the developers cough minions cough work within the setup realm of Apple?

It seems somewhat sinister, but after what they've done with the controlled iOS environment, I don't see any reason why 11.x won't be restrictive.

I do agree, in the case of the article. It think Apple is so powerful that they don't need to worry about being creative, because their role in the world defines innovative thinking.
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You don't "upgrade" from WebForms to MVC - it is a different tool-set. I don't know a lot about the Ruby web world, but it's probably like going from Rails to Sinatra. WebForms still works for the corporate devs, with an IE-only userbase.
If you go by the Clayton Christensen definition, a disruptive company is basically one that starts off selling a product that is inferior to the accepted standard along most dimensions, but not all (usually it is much cheaper). Eventually the dimensions that were previously considered important erode or become altogether irrelevant, and suddenly the company focused on the lower-end segment finds itself in a position of dominance, while the former heavyweights are playing catchup.

I agree that it is an often overused term and one which is too often used to describe innovative business models or small startups. I don't see how it applies here. That said, a business certainly does not need to be disruptive to be successful. Disruptive companies are extremely rare and only come along once in a while.

I once had a professor who said that a great way to spot the potential for a disruptive product is to look for situations where you find yourself using a hybrid model- that is you use two or more solutions to solve a single problem. One meets a single need but not enough to replace the others.
With all the buzz about the new iPad recently, I was wondering why our PC monitors have failed to advance very much in the last few years. The article linked in this post describes it very well, quote from article on why there isn't demand:

• 100 ppi is “good enough” for the majority of PC applications.

• There are almost no examples of monitors over 100 ppi to create desire.

• Most consumers and business users have never experienced a high-ppi monitor.

• There’s no broadly applicable “killer app” for high-ppi monitors

• Because the Windows UI doesn’t scale well, higher ppi makes Windows harder to use

• Higher-ppi LCDs are more expensive.

7 years later and we are exactly in the same spot while most of the display R&D has moved to mobile. Let's hope this starts changing soon, I really want an affordable 200+ ppi 24" monitor.
Ahhh, "4th generation languages" come to mobile apps.

I'm _so_ glad all those "idea types" and "business cofounders" won't need my advice or services anymore, 'cause now they can make their own apps without needing any of us annoying technical types telling them "actually, you can't do that"…

(Who wants to port RAMIS to iOS?)
The most effective setups I've seen and experienced are those that keep noise and distractions low, communication easy and incentives to drop into and stay in the zone maximized. Incidentally these factors are not limited to just workspace layout. I think overly focusing on work space at the expense of other crucial factors is another case of "sub-optimization"
and thereby not "lean".

Some of these factors are:

* Gathering the team in one place and ideally at the same time. Standup meetings do this, as well as catered breakfasts and lunches.

* Open spaces that provide ready access to other folks, engineers, designers, product owners. It's amazing how high the hurdle of having to get up and open a door can be and how amazing the cost of inferior decisions made by coders is when asking someone requires overcoming hurdles. Remember that the desired behavior must also be the easiest behavior.

* No employee-specific workstations. The easier it is to move around and the more common the computer setup the better collaboration can ensue.

* Subdued noise levels. This can
be accomplished through white noise generators, Dj Tiesto, sound swallowing wall fabrics and carpets, etc.

* Systems that capture project data in structured ways, minimizing the need and role of email.

* Separate gathering spaces for socializing, ping pong, lunches, meetings, phone calls to not disturb the main work area.

* A prevailing practice of pair programming and TDD.

Interestingly, some of the most successful development shops like Pivotal Labs and Hashrocket do exactly that.
Has anyone pointed out that wind direction makes a hell of a lot of difference to this - if he was running into a strong headwind I'd say this is almost possible. Ever try holding onto a big kite like that in a strong wind?
They were not uploaded in a batch - the first of the 14 videos was uploaded on Aug 5, 2011 [1]

So either
a) he planned to make only 14 videos in advance - culminating in the flight video
OR
b) he went back and edited all of the titles.

So I checked the cached version of the previous videos - and it does appear that it is (b) - he edited all the titles adding the 14 after the fact.

[1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cocLpRzZnvk&feature=chann...]
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I thought that opening was really similar to Louis CK's $5 standup and that grape drink joke - that's Chappelle (around 1:50 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTjQLfU6Gk).
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I also have similar problems with Google, but I think it is dangerous to extrapolate from a sample of us. Most people are not going to have multiple accounts in the first place.

However I had assumed that almost all Google employees would have multiple accounts - a personal one a work one - and would be experiencing this pain. Maybe Google employees don't actually use their own products like the public and customers do?

The user feedback thing is what will lead to Google's demise. I was absolutely shocked that I could I could actually submit an electronic issue for Android Market issues (the pagination doesn't work, any app ever installed even if uninstalled a few minutes later is shown forever). However the resulting support was the standard thing you get when it has been outsourced to the lowest bidder - your text is parsed for the closest match to the 10 canned answers they have which doesn't help, and then you get a 'satisfaction' survey where it is obvious what metrics they are measured on.

Android is not quite as bad, but still problematic. A public bug tracker where issues are ignored for years, and Google+ hangouts which of course require using G+ and participating at an exact time. I still want some very misleading text on the Google Analytics for Android page to be addressed: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9694639/more-than-one-bro...

Seth Godin has some good wisdom on the whole issue. I like his description of companies having "a stall, deny and avoid policy when it comes to customer interaction".

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/03/reorganizing...
One day, Google Plus's suggestions for "friends" I should add to circles included 2 people I'd already circled, 2 versions of another person, and even another version of myself!

So, yes, multi-account Google stuff is painful. I don't know why they don't see that and fix it.
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I am curious to see if this gets traction, after some many attempts to unify the login experience.
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It's not the power output of the motors I was questioning, but the overall strength of the system. A back of the envelope calculation (from a commentator at Wired) suggests we're seeing a lever ratio of around 30:1; simplifying greatly that implies each side is moving a 1.5 ton weight back and forth multiple times per second. This is challenging for far more than the motor.

Mind you, 2000w does sound low. The Festo SmartBird weighs less than 500g, and uses around 25w to fly. If you scale it up linearly, that says 2000w would be enough for 40kg, which is less than half what we need. But the Festo SmartBird is a vastly more sophisticated design, and among other things actually flaps its wings in a way which generates lift, unlike this guys design. (Very useful, that.) It's going to be much more efficient than this wing design, so we're actually looking at a much larger power deficit.

Incidentally, the Festo SmartBird is a pretty amazing project; anyone who found this wing design interesting would probably be interested in it. Check out this writeup with a brief video of the bird in flight[1] or this much longer video of the design process[2].

The second link, in particular, underscores just how impossible the idea of some guy on his own throwing together some wings and managing to fly is. Bird flight is an amazingly hard problem to solve, even for a bird sized model.

[1]: http://www.robaid.com/bionics/festo-smartbird-mechanical-bir...

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7PNQiHT1Q
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That's a good argument - but it does not really resolve the definition problem. It seems that some people think that 'functional programming' means 'programming with mathematical functions' - while others think that it means 'programming with first-class functions'. I can take this or that definition - but if wikipedia uses one definition - this sounds like a good argument that more people use the 'mathematical functions' definition. I also think that 'mathematical functions' is a more useful definition - because it implies 'referential transparency' and probably other interesting things that are usually quoted as the advantage of using functional programming.
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Agreed. The editing and camera angles make it seem fake, but it doesn't look rendered. And, honestly...I think it's too bad to be rendered. The motion is just too artificial.

My money is on this being done with wires and some basic rotoscoping, not CGI. Everything fits.
I'm just a beginning hang glider pilot - but everybody at the largest national hang gliding site (http://hanggliding.org) calls fake. The main clue from a hang glider's perspective is that the wings absolutely don't look loaded. Assuming power source, batteries, etc all were available there's no way those flapping trailing edges are actually bearing weight by pushing against the air.

Yes the dream of human flight is alive - but it looks like this - http://vimeo.com/20775072
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It has nothing to do with market research etc. You can say he is not "market savvy" maybe, but not unprofessional.
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Here's a much rougher version (skip to 1.45) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tKFOcHyrI&feature=relmf...

Notice the camera pans down as it transitions to what is clearly an animation.
Have you ever tried to video kids trying to launch a kite or a glider?

They really do act just like that. The camera person stops to video and everybody runs in front of him. The camera person needs to change position quickly so you tape the grass whirling for a few seconds.
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I don't believe there is any specific limit, as long as you give enough time to change the pressure gradually. However at higher pressures you need to reduce the oxygen and co2 concentrations (since at higher pressures they dissolve too easily). (You want to keep the partial pressure constant, even though the absolute pressure goes up.)
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Here is a less polished version of the thing 'flying': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tKFOcHyrI&feature=relmf...
Skip to 1.45 and tell me that is not CGI.
In earlier videos a guy even walks in with a cardboard box full of batteries. I think they're zip-tied low on the backboard.
Coming from a mobile ad network myself, we read the paper and there are a few points we'd like to make. Mainly that the study only tested the first 33 seconds of the app launching, which is the shortest session time I can think of, especially for a chess game...

Read the rest:
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That project timeline raises even more red flags. Prelim sketches to build in little over a month?
' … it's because the point of the article was "Don't cry about piracy if you can't give me an option to buy."'

Keep in mind there's no obligation on their part to sell it to _anybody_. Taking matters into your own hands and choosing to download something you want-but-can't-buy happens to be different to physical goods, in that you're not depriving the original owner of the use of the file, but assuming you've got the "right" to have a copy is a particularly advanced sense of entitlement.

It's probably easier to have come to this realisation from Australia, quite a lot of "the internet" doesn't believe you exist if you don't have a US credit card billing address, so it's not just music and ebook downloads that I've had to make the choice of "Pirate? Use VPN & fraudulently-obtained-pre-paid-credit-card*? Bother a friend who does have US internet-commerce-existance? Or do without thing I was about to buy?".

Maybe I should pot a graph of my major label music purchases by year, and do a blog post explaining the recent steep decline?
That opens additional way for malware find its way to non-technical user computer... Until now I could explain my granpa never to run any executables or downloads that come in emails.

I think you're opening a can of worms. The email is HTML, so it would be very hard for my granpa to verify that the link is actually to your site. As you can imagine it is very easy to make the email and site look exactly like yours, and even make the link URL itself look similar.
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OK - I can agree with the interpretation that the 'impurity' is not inside map - but rather in the argument it takes. You can reconcile it with the mathematical definition of function by saying that some 'programming functions' take the implicit 'state' argument and that map is not one of them.

It still does not resolve the definition problem - is functional programming programming with pure mathematical functions - or is it using first-class functions (not in mathematical sense)? Which definition is more useful? Which is more widely used?
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None of these wysiwig editors work properly on an ipad. I bet it is the same for smart phones.
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Look at the left tip on the mechanism as it moves slowly as the woman holds it.

I know it's supposed to be light, but it appears to jitter as if it's massless.

The lighting on the mecanism doesn't seem so right either. This looks a little like the early Star Wars' to me.
I just fixed that paragraph. It will hopefully avoid some confusion.

By the way, x264 isn't really a codec, it is just an encoder. I'm also not sure calling H.264 a video format is really correct, it's more like a codec standard to me. But I guess all of this is just wording bikeshed :)

Thanks for spotting anyway.
I'd like to see this as well. They could implement a tiered tag system with classification tags and content tags. There are few things as off putting as a smarmy, self-important moderator power tripping by telling me my question belongs elsewhere.
Anyone have investment ideas in this area (virtual reality and/or augmented reality headsets/glasses and software) among publicly traded stocks? Google is supposedly coming out with a display this year. Sony has the best consumer microdisplay through investment in camcorder viewfinder tech... Whoever hits on this first could be the next Apple (or Apple may just do it like you say), ultimately software seems like it is going to be the key determinant. Microsoft has Kinect.. Sony, Google, Apple, Microsoft... anyone have some more underdog guesses?
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I insist that what is important is how much of the purity you have - because it is a more widely used definition (as supported by my wikipedia quote) and also this is what implies the nice computational properties of the code, and what is not important is if you use first class functions (not in the mathematical sense).
The main delay issues are in head movement, hand tracking etc. is much more forgivable. Thankfully head tracking can be augmented with low-latency accelerometer data.
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