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To be honest, I think I'm kind of in the same boat as you.

I don't really 'see' it, as I would a scene I was actually looking at. I don't see items in the periphery of it to the extent that I could describe non-essential items in the scene, but I know what I pictured, and I know it's there.

For comparison's sake, I know that my guitar is brown, and I know that it has chrome hardware, and I know it's got that classic Les Paul shape, but I don't really 'see' it in my mind's eye very well. When I look over at it now, I realize several details that I didn't envision in my head, but I generally know what it looks like.

In summary, it sounds like we might be similarly minded, and I can say that mnemonics have definitely helped me to learn certain things very well. I feel like it would be a bad all-around memorization technique for me though, because the act of creating the memory takes quite a bit longer to 'encode' than it does to just remember. While I realize that encoding is more reliable, it isn't practical for every day memories, and there are certain types of things I think I would be very bad at encoding.

Your mileage may vary.
Don't give cocaine a bad name by comparing it to sugar.
As a PalmPilot 5000 owner (and Pro, and V, and a few Clies).. when the iPhone came out, I screamed

"THIS is what we meant!"
I dropped out but was not at a school which even had a CS Major, I have been programming since 12 and dropped out as a Junior in college because I sold my first software company.

I actually just took my first "real" job (start tomorrow) and having no degree was not much of an issue at all. It seems like to me if you can write code and answer the silly brain teaser questions that you should know reading absolutely any beginning CS books than you are good to go with getting a job.
There was the small speedbump of Sun dying and being purchased by Oracle in the process.

I'm no Oracle fanboi, but I bet without the legal and corporate circus, they will iterate faster.
I'm just annoyed that you said "effected" instead of "affected"
The difference, near as I can tell (since I'm talking about what two other people are saying and thus quite likely could be misreading either or both of you) is the method by which this wealth concentration occurs.

To use extreme examples, in one case, the concentration comes from enslaving a populace, while in the other case the concentration could come from a pure free market where only contracts are enforced (and thus some people become extraordinarily wealthy by benefiting large numbers of people, as Steve Jobs & Bill Gates have.)
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Don't be silly. For every repressive law you can find for the UK, I can find 10 for the US. Despite your nicely formatted constitution, your rights are fucked. Ever been to an airport?

What you need is not greater adherence to a bit of paper, but sane elected officials and sane people electing those officials.
This. IE8 still has the largest market share among IE versions, with IE9 growing [1].

IE8 is way too painful. IE9 is starting to go from "huge pain" to just within the realm of possibility.

IE10 is a different story. Maybe.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/browsing-behavi... - as of Feb 2012, IE8 had ~25% and IE9 had ~15%, source: Net Market Share
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about Julia, except from reading a couple simple programs just now, and seeing that it uses syntax that looks somewhat like Algol.

I don't think there's any inherent contradiction between the two, depending on what you mean by "the power of homoiconicity" (1). Homoiconicity doesn't mean you need to use lists: you could make a language like C but with native structures to hold all of the syntax. It's just that "cons cell and symbol" happen to be a really simple set of tools from which you can build everything you need.

I suspect that languages that try to have both do it by sacrificing simplicity. They have syntax that looks like C, and then make it homoiconic by building essentially a DOM for all of that syntax. Perhaps the idea is that writing and reading "x = y + z" is deemed sufficiently common that they're OK with making metaprogramming more complex if they get to keep Algol syntax.

(1) By "depends on what you mean", I meant: is simplicity requisite for power? I would say "yes", but I can imagine there's someone who would say "no" and consider Algol-plus-DOM (is that what Julia is?) to be as powerful as simpler languages.
The cool thing is, he could back into a programming job. Intern, QA, semi-technical gopher, job got through a friend, whatever. He seems to have some chops. If he's there for M months, and moves himself into a programming job for N months, he gets to say on his resume:

JobCo
M to N
Role: Programmer, etc, etc

It's an option among options.
That's because Americans, unlike Europeans for example, aren't really bound by any pre-state history. There were no American tribes uniting, no real ethnicity, just fairly random people from around the world (though white Europeans mostly mattered). So the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, some other writings) is like a deal signed by those people with their government and they treat it like a deal -- it shouldn't be changed without a very good reason and consent from parties involved, the original intent matters, etc, etc.

The whole idea of a social contract makes much more sense there.
Define "non-cs related".

I have a linguistics degree in which I did a good deal of computational linguistics, as well as a minor in CS, and grad classes in both the linguistics and cs departments at my university.

This is the trouble i have with "non-cs related" degrees. NAFTA doesn't recognize me for the degree I have, although at this point I have enough work experience that it doesn't matter.
Kind of duplicate from 2 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744138
However, genetic differences between certain groups of people can be quite significant. Sometimes, they are clustered geographically, like immunity against malaria. Other times, they are clustered based on a shared history and selection pressure, like the Jews. Or math professors.

Afterall, humans came from the same small genetic stock, and races generally reflect adaptation/mutation to particular geographies - not to the very recent economic developments.

Not to mention that diversity and specialization is generally good for trade.
Hopefully the distribution of this indie version will be unconventional and disruptive - in true Steve form. Even better if that leads to it outshining the Sony Pictures version.
I'll probably get down voted for this, but in every sense the guy is a fing ahole.

If he is not, his view of the world, and his decision process that brings him to rationalize supporting some of our most destructive legislation is truly disturbing.
It seems like there are few, CA's two Senators are not amongst them. Ron Wyden and Al Franken are up there in my book. Previously, Paul Wellstone was, prior to his passing.

Some would say Ron/Rand Paul, but despite agreeing with them on more than a couple of things, there are aspects of their positions I can't get on board with. They are probably less delve serving than some of their peers, though.
True story, although once you're spending enough on AdWords you'd have to do some pretty egregious stuff to get your AdWords account banned (and to some extent you're much less likely to get a major, lasting ban in organic search).
Buy disability insurance. My insurance is professional so if I can't program anymore, it covers me.
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"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again.

"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
That doesn't express the same thoughts at all though.

I guess what it comes down to is that some people perhaps see it as pompous to place the precise expression of one's thoughts above the simple and efficient conveyance of information.

To these people, I say: read more poetry.

To find true opacity-for-its-own-sake one must look to the french postmodern "philosophers" of the 1960s:

We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this multireferential, multi-dimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously.

Utterly unforgivable.
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"If the rewards go down over time, eventually it won't be profitable to mine bitcoin."

Yes.

The idea is the following: If the amount that can be mined per unit of computation is decreased, then fewer will be created. And if there are less of them being created and more of them demanded, then their value increases. So this balances out. Also, computational power gets cheaper with the passage of time.

The largest caveat I see there is the part about more of them being demanded. (or equivalently, the market equilibrium of demands for bitcoin holdings shifting towards greater demand)
I'm in the early stages of starting mindfulness meditation. Would you recommend one form of meditation over another for dealing with guilt?
I have a (non-sarcastic) prediction: Kutcher will be excellent in the role.
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Not to mention how Chicago (codename for Win95) was delayed and how MS was attacking OS/2 in the meantime (look up "Microsoft Munchkins" for one example). And it helped continue MS's legal troubles with Digital Research/Novell over DR-DOS. In contrast, OS/2 did not run on top of DOS at all, and DR-DOS 5.0 was released not long before Win3.0 was released. And MS released the OS/2 2.0 SDK to developers at the end of 1989. Yea, I am talking about the JDA break-up circa 1991. The MS-IBM JDA was not perfect, but the alternative MS chose was a lot worse and delayed native 32-bit programming by years (Intel released the 80386 in 1985!).
Ah, ok. Very helpful. Your description of thinking about your guitar is exactly how I would think about it, so I think you're right that we might be similarly minded. I'll definitely have to check out Moonwalking with Einstein, then, if it worked for you.
Inflation is not directly proportional to the supply of money. If a bitcoin's value versus the US$ drops (as it has since June), there is heavy inflation as the price of goods and services (measured in bitcoins) goes up.
"What’s the most recent site you’ve come across that you visit every week? And, how long ago did you first come across that site?"

A lot of sites for me. But this is a common trap for web developers, they think everyone uses the web like they do. I never click on ads either, but clearly there are a lot of people who click on ads.

The bottom line is that an Iphone / Android app is just another tool in the toolbox. In some cases people will want to use a smart phone app, in other cases people will want to use a web app. This is just like desktop apps vs. web apps.

Web developers aren't going anywhere. I have never built a smart phone app, but I believe many of them (most?) still pull data from web applications. So, the difference between a purely web based app and a smart phone app is where / how you build the front-end interface.
I would argue that 1/7 of your business != getting fired. While it's going to be tough, it's possible to recover from. You still have a significant portion of your business, and are extra motivated to do more (again, that depends on you). And when you get fired, you end up with nothing and have to start from scratch.
I don't know if this is a troll post, but I'll humor it anyway.

> The first is that it is insecure. As seen by the constant incidents of stolen and lost bitcoin's.

If this is the standard by which you deem a currency insecure, you may want to be more specific. Physical goods are also susceptible to theft.

> Physical currency is much more secure than a string of bits sitting on a hard drive

This isn't really substantiated by anything, and I implore you to read about paper wallets. But you're also ignoring another useful characteristic of bitcoin: coins cannot be counterfeited, unlike any other currency. They are crytographically ensured.

The security of your funds is not inherently endangered by the network by any means. I can accept bitcoin donations anonymously and there is no way they can be targeted without additional context. With physical transactions, there is always location.

> The second is that it's much less convenient than cash.

Cash is much less convenient than digital transactions. Have you heard of a credit card? Cash is only useful for anonymity.

> The third is that the distribution system is set up as ponzi scheme where early adopters reap enormous amounts of wealth if they recruit more bitcoin users(which is why the bitcoin astroturfing is so persistent), people generally don't like participating in ponzi schemes.

The currency incentivizes its own operation, yes, but this is not even close to a ponzi scheme -- you should look that term up. The technology does not distinguish early adopters from other participants.
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Yes, there is already a CoffeeScript fork that makes asynchronous code less cumbersome by making it look like synchronous code. It's called IcedCoffeeScript and is at http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/.
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It's ultra-minimalist hosting. A bare HTML document and a short url. Built it to scratch my own itch. Bought the domain and opened the repo on March 5th. Launched 2 days later.
What? I thought Jason Long had that role nailed! :-)
This one time I replicated Dave McClure style in verse. It was spectacular.
Not a lawyer. I have a question:

Joe tells me "Frank just killed three people and is a thief".

I go to a well attended town meeting and say "Joe told me that Frank just killed three people and is a thief".

Am I liable for defamation of character if Joe did not tell me the truth?

Am I liable for any damages caused to Frank for this?

How is this different from a blog posting something that a third party said or having its users post their own content?
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I originally saw Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners give this "10 Hypothesis for Technology Investing" presentation while working at Yelp early last year (2011). The forward-thinking nature of some of these hypothesis were definitely thought provoking, and even humbling to a point.

I found the presentation (dated Nov 16, 2011) again recently and I came to HN to check out what the conversation around it was like. I was surprised when searching that I couldn't find it. So forgive me if this is a repost, but it's absolutely thought provoking and insightful. Thought you might enjoy :)

Video of presentation can be found here: http://bit.ly/w0qpeh
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If the lunatics are not running the asylum they sure are trying very, very hard. And we keep letting them.
Being invented more recently isn't sufficient to make something better, it must also have compelling advantages.
Yes. For how smart the shell looks, the windows and its contents look very bleak, sterile in the best of cases. I guess they aimed for neutrality there, but I can't say I dig the paper-polypropylene look.
Their marketing message is very weak. I love the message, but it could be done better.

Most people would never imagine online banking and shopping without encryption. Neither would the financial institutions or the stores.

However, widespread use of encryption seems to come to an end there.

I thought differently about this in the past, but today I wonder if widespread encryption for the mass market would weaken their own security. Sending someone an encrypted message does not protect that message if the receiver passes it along on unencrypted channels.

The rumor of Wikileaks collecting a good deal of secret documents through Tor nodes makes one wonder if even few of the "elite" really understand security and encryption.

I would like encryption to be mandatory. I would like to not have to avoid public Wifi for concern of being hacked. I want to be able to send my employees server credentials via email.

I think we will move in that direction, and the big companies will be responsible.
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"... If you are looking for a free solution, you can read the Posterous API documentation to create your own backups. ..."

Love this, because the pain point costs way more than the cost of your service.
Thanks for your explanation. I disagree with your conclusion, but now better understand your reasoning. I'm more of the theory that rather than avoiding this conversation, we should confront it head-on: so long as it's accurate, prejudice can be beneficial, but should never trump individual reality. Instead of arguing against all bias because bias is bad, we should argue against false bias because it's false and misleading.

If you're in the mood for an excellent book on these topics, with what I think is good representation of both arguments, you should check out http://www.amazon.com/Defenders-Truth-The-Sociobiology-Debat.... It's one of the best books I've ever read.
Be careful what you say here. ;-)
See this too:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441885

Lot of stuff about the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco in MS anti-trust exhibits, in fact.
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But at least the risk is spread around. Having a fraction of your original income still coming in is far better than having absolutely no income coming in.
From my own experience with buying them, they solve that by saying "machine is down, i can't print any tickets". Not a very high tech solution but it certainly solves that problem completely.
This is the answer I was looking for. Thank you.
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Thanks for the response!

This was a more generalized question for the community to think about. I actually am an engineer, and was seeing if there might be a positive way to help startups ease the pains you mentioned.

It also seems that topics like this would be useful to discuss in the HNN feedback loop, given that many people on here are experienced engineers and entrepreneurs who are well acquainted with these pains.
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There are several problem with your theory. Most importantly those in power don't know how long they will stay in power. Dictators don't last that long on average and if you assume there is a 50/50 shot your going to last 10 years investing in the economy may not actually benefit you. Secondly taxes are just one of many ways that the connected extract resources from society, often favors or bribes are an easier target for those with some but not total power.

Finally, the state's real power has little to do with direct force. Functional society's run on softer forms of coercion. Such as propaganda, tribal allegiance, religion, or even entertainment. Consider, over 10 million people live and work in america without permission from the government to do so. And even those with citizenship the largest crop in many states is marijuana and such income rarely makes in on the old tax forms.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784216
I'm reading/working through this book now and can't recommend it enough, especially for those with limited time (or limited ability to focus and study due to environmental factors). I've worked through most of the first two chapters of SICP, but honestly felt a little overwhelmed at times. TLS has been enlightening AND fun. The format is genuinely unique and well-suited for reading/thinking in the small slivers of free time I have between work, kids, freelance, Khan academy, etc.

Most exercises don't require an interpreter, which is nice if you need a break from screentime. But I do enjoy working through some of them in Racket or even Pixie Scheme. TLS isn't free or available in a digital format (AFAIK), but the book is inexpensive and very portable.
So, what you're saying is that we all of parametric polymorphism, ad hoc polymorphism, and subtype polymorphism, right?

You'll get no argument from me, but that doesn't mean that there should be an unfortunate syntactic distinction between the three.
Then why did it take so long for them to announce how many winners there were? First they said "at least one", and then they said "three". If everything was stored in a central database, they could have found out the exact figures (and a lot more) as soon as the last winning number was announced.

Maybe it's due to lack of coordination between states? Or maybe they need to do fraud checking, etc. by watching CCTV footage from the point of sale?
He's so advanced at the process that he's done what you might think is impossible in the U.S., and gotten elected as a third party candidate, because he couldn't get the nomination of either of the two major parties.
As I loudly and frequently observe, Graffiti still beats the pants off of modern touchscreen keyboards, especially if you want to type anything with punctuation. (Like code, for example.)

PalmOS also doesn't get enough credit for an amazingly "discoverable" UI. I've used an iPod Touch and an iPhone for over a year, and learning to do things like organizing app folders, deleting apps and how to show play time indicators in iTunes took a ton of frustrating trial and error. I still have no idea how to select text reliably, let alone copy and paste. Most of the time, I have no idea in advance if tapping on something will show more information, move to a different screen or start dialing a number.

On a Palm, every dialog has a help icon that provides detailed explanations. UI widgets are simple, consistently applied and convey exactly one meaning. The menu is always a tap away. PalmOS doesn't look flashy, but it's tasteful.

If you ask me, new devices have become much prettier, gained better battery life and obtained faster CPUs, but we've slid backwards substantially in usability.
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actually, the more I think about it, maybe they needed someone young...