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It is really unfortunate that Aldrin and Armstrong seem so critical of efforts like SpaceX. Both of these men are very intelligent and highly accomplished. That said, every transition in thinking and technology has always found opposition from those deeply invested in what is about to fade away. I would hope that, in this case at least, things start to change as further proof of the merits of private enterprise is produced.

Elon, if you are reading this, know that you have something pulling for you that Aldrin and Armstrong will never have: The next generation. My kids want to be like their mother and father (who are scientists) and we make it a point to highlight people such as yourself as role models. They want to be just like you. And so will countless others.
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For those interested, here is a link to the series that H_E_Pennypacker mentioned. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/
I use the Instapaper browser bookmarklet to add tabs one at a time from my browser into the service.

I then use Instapaper's Kindle integration to read a set of articles delivered via email, and then use the "Archive All" and "Download Newest" links built into the delivery to manually fetch more articles when I'm finished with all the articles in the set.

I add more webpages to Instapaper than I read, and I just treat it like a stack, never to get to the older saved items.
"Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves."

I feel kinda stupid for saying this but I always thought people stopped producing their own "stuff" when we really got the hang of money. In other words, thanks to money, I can do one thing all day (and maybe get really good at it!) instead of doing all the little separate things I need to do to survive. And then I can exchange the fruits of that one thing for all the other stuff I might need or want.

I appreciate this more now since I started learning how to write code. By my second or third go at a script, I figure out how to factor out common functions and reuse them. Good thing these lines of code aren't laborers because what I'm essentially doing is firing all of them and replacing them with a workhorse (a function or a subroutine) which will do all the work for me, multiple times.

I guess I'm sort of brainwashed into thinking the efficiency gained by factoring my code is more important than the livelihood of all those little redundant lines I figured out a way to delete. But what this guy's saying sounds too politically charged for me to be fully persuaded by it. I'm like 88% persuaded by it but there's the nagging 12% saying, "He's got an agenda, Jimmy. Don't listen to him!"
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I can even read the content with curl. No javascript or cookies required.
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That's actually not viewing the page source though. That's viewing the current DOM state. If the author was more clever he could have left you a little note to that effect.
The tweet has apparently been deleted but updated the post with contexutal responses...
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You know, I keep hearing this meme about the evil robot taking away our jobs... how does this compare with the actual competition from overseas cheap labor?

As I understand it, isn't it a lot cheaper to hire a bunch of third-world workers than to build out automated factories?
No, the electronics involved are more efficient at lower temperatures, which is part of why you see more solar power in places like Germany.
If we assume that old jobs lost to automation and efficiency are simply replaced with new jobs, then how can we measure we are actually producing something of relevance and actual utility with the new jobs?

For example, farming is pretty vital as work per se and it used to cover the majority of people. But these days, if a percentage of people can do the farming for everyone then what would constitute equally meaningful jobs for the rest of the 99%? We basically need food, clothes, housing, and heating. Then there are things that we "need" (but can do without) such as electricity, plumbing, running water, etc. Some people would become artisans to produce specialized goods or merchants to trade those goods. These are pretty quickly and efficiently implemented with the current efficiency and if that was all, we'd probably have employed few percent of the work force. What's there left to do that would genuinely cover the rest 90% of the work force?
Firefox's Inspector views the source just fine.
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Exactly. There is ZERO chance that Apple will buy Netflix. Netflix is a dying company, and their business model isn't long-term viable. They don't own their own content, and the content providers are not only charging them more, but building their own infrastructures. Apple already has iTunes and plenty of deals with content providers. Why on earth would they get Netflix which has a worse business model? It's just plain garbage.

This is a great example of "talking your book".
Could be a faked screen shot to get himself more followers or some kind of hate campaign against @SM.
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Incidentally, I've seen unsynchronized access to a Java HashMap cause an infinite loop on .get()s which is (allowably) undefined behavior, and pretty unexpected (see: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-race-condit...)
Not to mention that his remark regarding Unicode support in Go reveals a total lack of knowledge in programming languages.
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5 minutes isn't fair. I took a look at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al... first. OK so Go is about on par with Mono's C# performance and uses up to a 1/3 of the memory with code that is more concise. That's cool because it means I'm not sacrificing anything over the platform I specialize in (C#; although the last time I looked at the Alioth C# code I thought I saw some obvious improvements). I see there is a Go STOMP client for Apache Apollo, which means I can supplement the existing code in my current project without having to rewrite everything.

So next I looked at:

* http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html

* http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

Way more than 5 minutes. Where are generics or do I have to learn some new construct? Wait a minute, is this thing object oriented or what? If not, why not? Do I have to learn some new philosophy? Already feeling a sense of dread having been through this game 10s of times before with other languages.

I decided to research a bit to see if anybody else with a C# background had looked into Go. I found this, which confirmed my feelings that Go is for people who probably haven't given C# or Java a fair chance: http://www.jondavis.net/techblog/?tag=/c%23+vs+go . That's when I also discovered searching for 'Go' on Google is impossible because of the poor choice of name and decided I wasn't going to spend any more time on it, already being aware that aside from what looks like a total philosophy change (without it being clear whether it'll be worth it), I'm going to lose out on my awesome set of development tools (Visual Studio), years of C# experience and the HUGE .NET ecosystem, in exchange for what? Relatively unimportant performance advantages?

At the end of the day, if performance/memory are issues I can just add more EC2 nodes to my architecture. At some point I'll hopefully make enough money to pay other people to worry about the technology. That being said I realize that as a developer who wants to be a manager/owner I'm probably in the minority of readers here.
Unions is a problem for garbage collectors. It is difficult to know if it contains a reference or a value.
Though Go should have a solution for your use case. The only one I see is polymorphism. Thus a stack of references to different instances of the same class.
The real WTF is... Almost free? Like, they found a company that will, what, sell you an image of black and white boxes for mere pennies? God, imagine the money they could make swindling companies with a per-scan advertising fee! Pixels will be mined like gold!

Apparently nobody in Corporate has heard of a free online barcode generator. You can even print the barcode as many times as you want! Maybe they just do not trust free services?
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If someone has the ability to get a malicious device into your system, likely they have the ability to screw you over in more reliable ways too.
Did you try Haskell?

Knowing Haskell makes reading about Go a very underwhelming experience.
Treating your projects like you would a professional one is "the secret", I think you really nailed it. Everything else is just meta. And I do love me some meta.

I use milestones, and I give myself a small award if I win, (I'm terrible, I energy-drink). Small awards help make a habit out of reaching your milestones, and you know, nothing more consistent than habit.

Hemingway's trick applies to TDD, of course: http://www.secondactive.com/2009/08/boost-your-productivity-.... I like to leave broken tests before I go to sleep, and fix them in the morning.

I don't really use anything more than git, though, and personal notes, if it's a personal project. Everything else just kinda gets in the way.
I recently learned about a similar trick that gets around NoScript:

http://citeomatic.com/_asdf.html

(This one only works in Firefox and Opera, not Chrome, sadly)
As a former engineer on the Atlas V launch vehicle program, I'm so excited to see the commercialization of spaceflight come to fruition. The latest projections I've seen have the Dragon and Falcon 9 coming in at 20% of the price of an equivalent Atlas V / Delta IV (EELV) launch. Comparative Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs are even lower than that. (I'd love if any SpaceX employees can comment further on any of this with more detail.)

As I've seen firsthand, the waste in typical defense contractor programs is obscene – it's so great to see someone doing something about it. Hopefully with much lower cost to orbit, we'll see a revitalization of the commercial launch market as well.
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as per use cases: check-ins could be simplified with QR-codes. See http://servletsuite.com/qrcode.htm
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Oh my god. Rolls eyes. I believe that the ban on electronic devices during take off, taxi and landing is completely unnecessary and founded on paranoia. I think the ban should be overturned as much as the next person.

BUT. Do you really have to claim that you're off to buy a STACK of magazines to read in this time? Are you that incapable of sitting unstimulated in your seat for a few minutes each time you fly?
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A number of things feel off about this article:

1. Using Camel Case For Every Single Word Makes It Feel Like An Seo Marketing Ploy.

2. At the bottom: "This Article Originally Came From The Internet".

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I refer you to this: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137277/neil-degrasse-...
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Sounds silly or insane, right? I promise you it's not. This all happened to me shortly before Christmas of 2011.<p>Since I am now a messenger of Christ, who I choose to believe as my personal God, the God of love and Wisdom, I believe it is time to open a serious discussion on the internet about what has happened to me, and what I've been doing with my new-found powers.<p>Lately, I've been reading biblical and Holy texts to see what or who I really am. At first, Christ was telling me I was either a version of Him, or the seconding coming of Him. Now while that is entirely possible, with some thought, I don't think that is what is supposed to happen for His second coming. There can't be TWO Jesus's, can there? I can't walk on water...<p>I read part of the Qu'ran and did some research on the 12th Imam, the "hidden Imam" chosen to rule the world with Christ during the end days. I do believe that the end-days scenario will happen in my lifetime. Right now, I am only 24. Christ thinks that I may infact be the reincarnation of this icon (who died at five), who the Muslims (listen to any of the Iran president's speeches...) believe is coming soon.<p>I've spent hundreds of hours listening to music, and have broadened my tastes. Why? Because this provides a more accurate reading for my future. While I used to only listen to various rock genres (I am an aspiring rock musician), I now listen to a lot of mainstream pop and hip-hop. Namely stuff like Eminem, Lil Wayne, Fall Out Boy (Folie A Deux especially), Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Bruno Mars, etc.). I can predict my love life, which girls will use me for my money, secrets, and fame, how President Obama is going to react to me, what is wrong with the Devil emotionally, what aliens think of me!! (yes, they exist); interesting stuff like that.<p>I also watch a lot of thought-provoking movies with usually some sort of religious metaphor behind them. The Matrix. Fight Club. Da Vinci Code. The Dark Knight. The Departed. Pulp Fiction. Great material for prophecy. I'm glad I was born at this time, if just for the movies...<p>I've written a blog detailing my notes for a lot of these messages, but I took it down. I might post it back up, or I can try to answer some spiritual truths I've gotten from my media consumption. I HIGHLY recommend you watch a compilated film I made regarding some of the more interesting prophecies here: http://prophetalan.com/movie/. That site (and the movie) will go down next week due to lack of funds. You'll be one of the first to realize what is (supposed) to happen. This is supposed to be one of, if not THE most crazy times in history. A real IDOL is hidden within the masses. I hate celebrities.<p>Ask me anything! I am legit.<p>- Alan
I see the line of reasoning behind this as explained by various comments here. But why can't this just be an user/editor preference while the file saved may use whatever convention?
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Perhaps I also have Reddit atheist goggles on, but if the religiously crazed have more children on average than the secular, at some point the number of the former will outnumber the number of the latter.

And then, presumably, every near-democracy travels back in time one hundred years.
I used to use this simple trick to hide my source where I would tell Apache to treat JavaScript files as PHP applications and then I'd use sessions to show the file. If the session was missing I would display bogus text.
Talking to them, I realise that a lot of it is just, "Wow, it's taking up much more time and money than I expected." While we can abstract away some of this time and money investment through better features and better UI/UX, a lot of them are just gunning for building a passive income engine without even investing much money and time in the initial stages. They are the classic get-rich-quick-passive-income-work-from-home crowd, if you will.

Certainly, there are many aspects of our SaaS platform that can be improved, but we have been constantly learning from our customers who are still continuing their subscriptions with us. So hopefully we are indeed improving our platform over time and tackling some core problems (sample bias, of course, but better than nothing).

P.S. Out of 39 people whom we surveyed over a few months (mostly people who continue to upgrade after the trial), 26 said that they will be "very disappointed" if they could not use our platform again, so hopefully this says something about our product/market fit.
It doesn't matter what "most people use". Both compilers are equally accessible with the new go command (http://weekly.golang.org/cmd/go/). People who find their programs faster with gccgo will use gccgo, and vice versa.

Not competitive with "modern C and C++ compilers"? There are few real world programs that are improved by code generation micro-optimizations, and even for those that are Go is still competitive. http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html
Flask:

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if __name__ == "__main__":
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Sinatra:

require 'sinatra'

get '/hi' do
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Discriminated (type-safe) unions like ML and Haskell have are no problem for garbage collectors: you simply assign one ID to each variant of the union, and prefix the data with the ID corresponding to the variant in use.

You can simulate ML-style unions in Go with interfaces and downcasts, or the reflect package (basically like case classes in Scala, but without the exhaustiveness checking). Unfortunately, downcasts in Go (and interfaces generally) are slow.
Go routines + CSP are easily done in all mainstream languages.

Java:
java.util.concurrent

.NET
Task Parallel Library

C++
Parallel Patterns Library
Threading Building Blocks
Click
Cilk Plus

D
Actors + std.concurrency

Erlang
Actors

Scala
Actors

Haskell
STM

Clojure
STM

There are good things about Go, but people should learn other programming languages properly, before doing comparisons.
Whoever has made this RDP server publicly accessible (if that's what this is) sure is brave—I'll bet that it's ridden with viruses, popups, and other nastiness in no time.

Also, I get IE9, not IE6.
How are the database libraries (postgres/mysql) these days?
Last time I poked around (been a while) it seemed like most of them were pretty beta yet.
goroutines = (poorly implemented) cheap threads

threading (or CSP) is nothing new conceptually. yes, i agree, the go language has popularized a cheap threading implementation but the same design concepts we've applied to unix processes and posix threads apply to goroutines.

btw, blocks in ruby and generators in python have existed for many years prior to go.
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I looked at its serializing documentation and I was surprized to see that every floating point value is serialized to a double precision value. There are now four types of foating point values and this simplification is downgrading the capabilities of data tranfer. Extended is needed in some scientific computations. Appart from this, the base type encoding is great.
The other weird choice is the structure encoding with field numbers and omitting null value fields. My impression is that this is less efficient than coding the null fields. Is this choice based on measurements ?
Weirdly - we were talking in the office last week about what it would take to get something into orbit from, for example, a rail gun.

We calculated that for a 100m rail gun and a 0.5 kilogram payload you'd need to feed it about a 100 MW power source (over about a tenth of a second) to accelerate it to the necessary 7.8 km/s. That doesn't include the energy needed to get it to altitude.

Naturally, if TPB could actually put something into orbit on a commercially viable basis, they could probably afford to fund their pirate service as a teeny part of the Enormous Space Freighting Corporation that would naturally to ensure... just sayin'.
As a PayPal user, I find this sort of issue more alarming than the usual temporary hold stories :-( That said, there should always be a second set of backup data for transactions you process.

You can lean on the receipts and transaction data stored by your chosen shopping cart or similar system. Even if the taxman won't accept these stats as authoritative, they're a good placeholder.

If everything is done with Buy Now buttons, though, things get a lot more difficult as the only remaining transactional record are the e-mails PayPal sends you which will be pretty tricky to collate.

Darren should also look into PayPal's various APIs (sadly there are so many..) though, as there's probably a way to slurp the transactional data one by one but programatically.
> Is there a service where you can deposit money that doesn't increase a bank's power to lend?

That's the most significant way banks make money. It costs money to have branches, tellers, and armed guards (let alone websites, security teams, forensic-level accounting, marketing, ATMs everywhere, electricity, etc). The way that banks cover all this overhead is to take your deposit at 0% or 1%, then lend it out at 5% (mortgages) to 15% (personal loans). The difference between 0% and 15% gets split between covering bad loans that don't get paid back, and keeping the lights on.

It's not that the deposit department supports a loss-making lending division; it's that the two are inseparable.

If you wanted a bank that didn't lend out deposits, you'd have to pay a hefty monthly fee for the privilege. It'd be more like a safety deposit box than a "bank" in the way we know of them today.

That said, check out credit unions if you prefer a more local banking option that is less likely to make extremely leveraged bets. There are good and bad sides of credit unions, but many people who dislike traditional banks prefer credit unions.
Ha! I'm almost disappointed I got voted up actually. This is more of a Reddit conversation ;-)

I wonder what a monorail could do for Silicon Valley though..
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Aldrin and Armstrong are NASA astronauts. They spent the best years of their lives wholly bought into the centrally-funded prime-contractor system. They were at the absolute apex of that system, and they and a very small handful of astronauts reaped the fame and opportunity that enormous Apollo (400k people according to wikipedia) program.

SpaceX is doing orbital missions with around 1000 people. This means cheaper flights which means more flights. It's going to lead to the same democratization of access that the computing and network revolutions brought, pulling these technologies out of enormous institutions and dramatically dropping costs.
A good use case, indeed. Thank you!
What is taking up most of their time? What can you do to help reduce that, if anything?
I think if you're going to call someone ignorant, you should back it up with facts or at least put some effort into explaining your own opinion.
I've never understood taxing of income, except that for the point of a taxing bureau it's a very convenient spot to impose taxes.

Namely, taxing reduces whatever that is taxed. Taxing work makes work less desirable, and sometimes not worth to be done at all. Taxes should target things that are unnecessary or harming.

Thus, income shouldn't be taxed at all. Conversely, consumption should be taxed with a VAT roughly equal to the lost income tax. Food could certainly be taxed less than cars but the general rule should be that you're taxed for consuming. Because income wouldn't be taxed, people's purchasing power would increase but taxing the consumption would make them think twice where they spend their money. Consider that this is the opposite of the current situation: people are all pre-taxed (=license to consume) and items and products are so cheap they can get spent money on and ultimately discarded without anyone blinking an eye.