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He was indeed in favor of free markets. However, your statement is factually wrong on two counts.

1) He was in favor of some government action, most notably monetary policy.[0]

2) His arguments were consequentialist and had little to do with morality. For instance, he once described Ayn Rand as "an utterly intolerant and dogmatic person who did a great deal of good.".[1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_and_Objectivism
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Yes agreed. There is so much curated data, and so much experience from mathematics at Wolfram, improving their viewer would not be a big challenge.
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it would be more apt if it was big pharma behind the war on drugs
I also found Ready Player One very entertaining. My favorite Vonnegut book is Cat's Cradle so I say start there.
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I'd be curious to know if there any CSS/HTML experiments going on with typesetting academic papers. LaTeX may be beautiful and powerful but it may also be too hard.

And it really doesn't handle very good HTML output -- aren't we supposed to be on the internet already?
You own the copyright. Unless of course you explicitly transferred it to the college newspaper, but then you would know.

This is a good example why a registration based system is bad: as a student you would likely not have bothered registering for copyright on your humor column, while in the present system you enjoy the protections and can republish as you like.

(If you had worked for a commercial newspaper, you would have created a work for hire and the newspaper would detain the copyright. I'm not sure what happens to copyright when the newspaper disappears but this is unrelated to copyright registration)
If you've got $1.6B on the books, I would hope you could afford the talent to manage those books.
the article is link bait..

How do I know? Because the same fragmentation exists on iphone but smaller in quantities..to say it is not there on iphone is a bit somewhat lying like republicans..

Now lets see someone be honest about this on both platforms or STFU
If I read a site with a large female userbase I might expect an unknow commenter to be female. Hacker news? Not so much.
I was curious about the "More people now speak Klingon than Esperanto" thing, but from what I can tell it's emphatically not true. The number of fluent Esperantists is somewhere in the tens or hundreds of thousands, whereas the number of fluent speakers of Klingon is closer to a few dozen.

Here are some sources, including a particularly cool 2009 Salon article on Klingon, Esperanto and conlangs in general:

http://www.salon.com/2009/06/03/invented_languages/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228012811AA...
They can plan like this because they are the new cobol - they have an assured install base.
If they make 100% back-compatible, and definitely better, everyone will upgrade.

As for the very vague improvements mentioned (GPU, no primitives), these can be seen in response to clear technology trends. Even the embedded GPUs in x86 are getting pretty powerful, though not every business has them - but by 2015 most will.
Java has primitives primarily for performance and memory efficiency. Absolutely crucial at Java's inception, they though remain important today, many applications can get away without them (e.g. ruby apps). By 2017. even more apps will be in that category.

Most of the others are similarly responses to clear trends, such as hypervisor-aware and large data support. However, true generics seems problematic because it would break back-compatibility.

My prediction: if they plan to break back-compatibility they will change their mind.
The end of the story looks like 'space invaders', and I have the urge to shoot the letters.
Same here. Chrome doesn't.

However, since it's on an eeePC netbook the animations way to slow to be useful.
The analogy isn’t perfect. But it works in that enforcement alone isn’t the solution.
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I had a similar thought a while back when reading "A Clockwork Orange". On page one the slang ("droogs", "horrorshow", "moloko", ...) is rather jarring and it's not entirely clear what it all means, but over time the meaning becomes apparent.
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(25c, not .25c)

Hell, I'd pay 25 cents more just to have the privilege of not being handed back a quarter. Lugging around change is crap.
Omg, there should totally be a game like that to help people learn!
Not almost; unequivocally. That the wording got polished over time is just what happens in popular discourse.

I don't see the connection to Deleuze. Eliot isn't talking about mistranslation or about how audiences receive art. He's talking about Dylan lifting the melody to "Don't think twice" from some other song.
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I don't think W|A is going to disappear (I work on W|A). We do a lot more than plot functions of one and two variables -- after all, Apple chose us to power much of Siri's factual question answering.

We're pioneering automatic analysis of new kinds of input, from images to long-form text to raw data (what I work on). We can out-innovate Google, even if they do a really nice job of copying our old ideas.

Of course, sometimes, like with Google Squared, they don't do such a nice job.
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> The downside would be the moral rights of authors.

That isn't worth restricting everyone else's free speech.

> but some authors would be a bit offended at their characters being used in slashfic, or whatever other weird use people could think of.

And copyright law effectively prevents this how? (Key word there is effectively.)
At those prices, and with the locations being right next to each other, I would buy 1 slice from each! Best of both worlds (or less bad from any single world).

A worthy slice is $4 here!
Ah yes, it's fun to say those words while listening to a little of the old Ludwig Van. Maybe even a little of the old in and - alright I'll stop there.
Yeah no kidding. That's one thing people seem to forget about that Joel article ... the new code base he's mocking went on to become the only browser capable of taking on Microsoft's juggernaut for many years. It was faster & better than everything else out there. Eventually the only thing capable of overtaking it was WebKit ... another from-scratch code base!
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I really like that 16th & Valencia slice too. Super cheap and tastes like NYC.

I'll check out Zante's this weekend. Serrano's (21st & valencia) is cheap; Pizzeria (17th & mission, looks like a front) is delicious. The one across from Zeitgeist at 14th and Valencia delivers past 2am, but tastes uncannily like Domino's.
What I'm curious about why it is fragmentation is such an issue on mobile devices, when it was never this big a deal on desktops. Outside of cutting-edge 3D games, Windows developers don't need to have 100 laptops to test all the different hardware permutations for their software.
The quote from 2 bros "We have enough power to wait them out. They’re not going to make a fool of us." when they have 11 other stores charging a higher rate to make up for the loss of this one that's fighting with another store makes this seem like textbook predatory pricing, which is illegal, for very good reasons.
There is one way in which you are at an advantage. You're gaining domain knowledge, and a programmer with domain knowledge has definitely leveled up. Assuming of course that you would enjoy writing software for said domain.
Do victims of this feel like they had their privacy violated? If yes (and I strongly suspect the answer you will receive in a non-trivial number of cases is yes), than this is as real a privacy violation as they get.
Copyrights are restrictions on the rights of everyone. We can do without restrictions today. What we need is a system for reimbursing the authors, not a system for restricting copying.

In my opinion we need a flat anual fee (a tax) levied on everyone, then we could do away with all restrictions on all media. The only problem would be to count the usage and distribute the money. This could be achieved by some technological system.
If I'd had a site that lived off ads, and someone would come with a Do Not Track option, I would display a "Then get the hell out of my site" message.

Collecting data is fine, as long as it's handled reasonably. What Washington should be focused on is what happens to the data after it's been collected? what control do I have over my own data? These are far more important than what they are currently focusing on, of coure the advertising group is deliberately misleading the debate.
I wish someone would make something like this but automatically transfer to your bank account. I don't see why PayPal doesn't have that option. Whenever I receive more than 50 bucks or whatever I always want to withdraw it to my bank account.
Thank you, Google, for making me uninstall some nVidia packages from Ubuntu that were apparently stopping WebGL from working. The tool you built is also kinda nifty, and I might even use it when trying to help people online with mathematics.

Nonetheless, my day-to-day search traffic is still being offloaded to DuckDuckGo and my day-to-day image traffic is still going to Blekko. It's not you, it's me.
Its only if you don't take the time to think about it for a minute. After thinking about it, I may become more reasonable. Especially in food, too cheap prices are not a good idea, because they will cause all kinds of problems, especially with quality, and may cost society a lot of money in the long run. "Free market" might be a nice marketing slogan, but it world "ain't that easy".
Having a coherent design requires making decisions, and sometimes those decisions require ignoring niche preferences. http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/
This is very weak. We should not burn books because it might hurt the feelings of authors? Surely that means it's ok to burn the books of dead authors?

The reason why we should not burn books is because

- it deprives potential readers of the benefit of reading them

- the free circulation of ideas is the cornerstone of a free society, and trying to restrict it is the beginning of tyranny

- arguments should be fought with arguments, not fire

But the feelings of authors really don't have anything to do with it. KV shouldn't have felt insulted that someone burnt his books. He should have been ashamed for the human race that anyone would burn any book (and not just his own). He should have punched the guy in the face.
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Seriously, if I saw two places next to each other, one selling for 0.75 the other for 1, I'd go to the slightly more expensive one. Its almost no difference in price, but at least I know that the owners don't have to sacrifice the quality of their ingredients and well-being of their staff in order to make a profit.
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The degree of variation in iOS is nothing like what you find on Android.
Ridiculous spin that inhumanely minimizes the innumerable deaths and misery the war on drugs has brought down on entire generations of families throughout the world.

If we could end the war on drugs at the expense of loss of net neutrality and ten thousand years of existing copyright laws persisting I would find this to be favorable a million times over.

When you attempt to draw distinctions between piracy and the war on drugs you are exaggerating on a scale so large that it can only detract from your cause. You do not help it. The piracy issue is not going to go away, but the cost of you not being able to watch what you want when you want to is in no way shape or form as serious a problem as the drug problem. You come back and tell this story when piracy has destroyed whole city blocks, has contributed to a death toll in the tens of thousands, has destroyed the security of nations the size of Mexico, and funds the particular madness of mass murdering drug lords that carry out their violence in impunity.
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Exactly, the key point about good pizza is good quality of ingredients, (and a wood oven, no good pizza is possible with electric oven in my opinion). How many pizza can you eat every month, considering it's full of carbohydrates? Not enough for 0.75, 1.00, or 1.50 to be that different after all. Quality is the first feature one should search in food.
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Dropbox had this problem actually, where certain versions of Windows would give them trouble. Luckily it wasn't hardware specific as well (AFAIK).
Can you support these claims? Just because "it worked" doesn't mean it was better than the present system.

The upside of automatic copyright is clear: you don't have to bother registering every blog post you write if you want to prevent people from copy-pasting them.

The downside is less convincing: tons of material "unworthy" of copyright are automatically protected? Well, who cares if I cannot copy some HN comment...
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I run a 10-person development team, split 50:50 Android / iOS, under a digital agency. We build apps for carriers (account management apps), brands, etc.

From my own personal experience, which having built apps since the first iOS SDK and Android 1.6 is hopefully fairly reliable, the QA and testing burden on Android apps is considerably higher than iOS.

That in itself isn't totally surprising, because there are far more handsets on the market. But that's not the real issue: say I'm writing an app for a network carrier. Carriers typically want their apps to run on all hardware they've sold for the past two years (ie, everyone who's still under contract).

On iOS, that's iOS 3-5. Very soon, it'll be iOS 4-5 - 4 was released in June 2010.

On Android, that's 1.6, 2.0, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 4.0. Because the key difference is when Apple release a new version of iOS, they stop selling the old one. But that's not the case with Android. Even today there are still phones on the market running 2.1.

When you say "the same fragmentation exists on iPhone but smaller in quantities" - I don't really think you know what you're talking about. If you're developing an app now you can pretty easily support iOS 4.3 upwards, which would cover all handsets being actively sold by Apple for the past 21 months or so (the 3GS onwards, or three phone models and two tablets)). How many Android phones running how many versions have been released in the past 21 months? Far, far more.

This doesn't inherently make Android a bad platform: lots of people choose to develop PC games even though there's a much higher testing burden that consoles (in terms of the varying environments and OS versions). I think Android is great: I'm not arguing against developing for it. But I think you'd be very hard pressed to find someone experienced with both the iOS and Android platforms who'd disagree with the notion that fragmentation on Android takes up a lot more time to deal with than iOS.
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25 cents is a lot. If the difference in location/quality/texture/etc. isn't enough to favor the $1 pizza, I'll buy the cheaper pizza. And I'm different than you, a slight difference in quality isn't enough to shift me one way or another, I need a reasonably significant difference. Anyway, if I eat only 200 slices in a year (not unreasonable) at the cheaper place, I can buy a video game (or something else for $50) that I couldn't have otherwise gotten (all else equal) if I bought the more expensive pizza every time.

I don't see what's so amusing to you about saving money, even if $50 is a trifling sum for a programmer...
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> This looks exactly like Chinese.

Looks more like a worse version of Hangul.
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The field of problem solving that Fedex applies to routing packages is called operations research. As you may have noticed, this discipline can be used by companies with simple business models that want to improve efficiency or reduce risk. A good place to start would be the Wikipedia article.

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- Dell, HP, Compaq, Acer, etc didn't invent entirely new UI's for the computers they sold: everybody's OS looked basically identical and had similar interface elements and metaphors.

- Screen sizes and resolutions increased slowly and didn't involve taking over the entire screen as with smartphones. Software that previously took up the whole screen at 1024x768 simply ran as a smaller window at 2560x1440 and wasn't forced to scale up to full screen.
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Yes, Android is a free-wheeling mess. But I am not concerned.

I see this as a replay of the 1980s. Apple was the dominant player with a premium option on nice hardware, a consolidated set of software options, and facing fragmented opposition. (Then the PC/Windows landscape. Now Android.)

Then Steve Jobs was yanked from the picture (then by being fired, now by dying), Apple lost its focus, and the fact that so many people were on the messy platform caused it to win in the marketplace.

There are big differences. Tim Cook is hopefully not as incompetent as John Sculley proved to be. Google is not Microsoft reborn.

But we've seen this before. The rule of thumb in computers for decades has been, "the commodity always wins". And Android is better positioned to be that commodity than Apple is.
Reminds me of Marain, the language and alphabet invented by Iain M. Banks for the Culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Language

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Ahh, I didn't encounter any profanity… that sounds like quite an unfortunate situation.
That makes sense. If you make copyright automatic for a short period before switching to your registration system, I'm in.
What they need to realize is that price isn't everything. Or doesn't have to be. There are more ways to compete:

* Better pizza

* Better customer service

* Better facilities

* More variety in ingredients

* Fresher ingredients

Just like people pay more for Apples computers for equal reasons in the computer-world, even though the competition is cheaper, I wouldn't mind paying a (much) higher price than the one mentioned in the article if the points mentioned above stood out against the other restaurants.
They don't have to, but for sure they can. Higher price doesn't mean anything.
You're both just choosing different places to draw the line between developer responsibility and browser responsibility.
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> What I'm curious about is why is fragmentation such an issue on mobile devices, when it was never this big a deal on desktops.

Stable APIs and abstractions, better renderers, ability not to go fullscreen and nobody caring about dpi. Resolutions changed very slowly, especially before the 00s and 3D games. Also culture, somewhat, probably: if the game does not work due to a bizarre combination of drivers it's the users problem.

And it's definitely not true that "it was never this big a deal on desktops", stable hardware target is regularly mentioned as a reason to go console by developers.
What makes you so sure that the research around IQ is not flawed? Never mind that there are probably thousands of researchers with differing opinions.

I am still waiting for your refutations. But honestly, your initial assumption that every internet commenter is wrong will make it difficult for you to communicate or learn stuff.

Frankly, I fail to see how pointing out possible flaws in a theory can ever be "a bad idea". In my opinion to doubt everything should be the default stance of a scientist.

You mentioned RAPM, I looked it up and it says it was invented 1934 in an attempt to avoid cultural biases - therefore it uses more graphical elements than language. My examples show that even graphical elements can have a cultural bias. So while it is a nice attempt, you can not be sure RAPM succeeded, even if their intentions were good.

The 2d box vs 3d box thing is an actual event from the history of IQ research, where IQ testers apparently got it wrong. So these people are fallible, too. Finally, cultural bias is one of the standard mistakes people (Even if they are scientists) make.

Note that I didn't even claim the IQ tests are flawed. It bores me if people confuse my comments with stuff other people said.