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The archival of digital photography is unsafe. Photographs that are 100 years old and made out of glass are more resilient that a photo that has been updated to Facebook. I'd like to see a more secure form of digital archiving - better than cloud computing as that is still data and moving parts.
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In my experience, if you introduce kids to Linux, they learn pretty fast.

In my college days, I used to help students of a government school. It is a very undeveloped area and kids don't have computers at home. All school computers ran Linux and students (aged 11-12) didn't face any difficulty in using Linux.

I used to give this example to my classmates when they blamed Linux :-)
Can you imagine the magnitude of the political shit storm on both sides of the border the first time a US drone operating in Mexican airspace with the blessing of the Mexican government blows up a few Mexican kids?
Ooooh - I love a good bridge burning!

(I hope this wonderful rant gets you the boost in app sales it deserves. 70% of my 0.99c is headed your way - and I _never_ play puzzle games…)
Apple has your $0.29 and Shay Pierce has your $0.70... unless you just sent him a $0.99 donation =]
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* Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience. - My friend/cofounder has been inspired by the codeyear thing and have been bringing to me a lot of silly code issues... guess i was being a bit rude with him lately.
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The VZ-200 (contained a TRS-80 rom) was atrocious!
I did put "vaguely related" in the rant warning, didn't I? :-)

Though news.google.com is what I was thinking of with the current affairs example, it generalizes to the whole Google edifice, and to Facebook too. I really suggest having a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s to see what I'm talking about, with actual examples.

Minor quibble: autocomplete isn't to aid in searching common topics, it's to help Google avoid failed searches through misspelt queries. ",)
I actually did buy his game too. Seems like something I would enjoy playing :)
It is progressive to have a gay computer scientist and mathematician on a note. A lot of current British national identity and history is built around WW2, so "fought the Nazis" will also help the chances.
The lens was just probably not color-corrected.

Early BW films were mostly sensitive to the blue and green side of the spectrum. Only later did they become more sensitive to the entire visible spectrum (including the red zone, which we consider warmer). They were called panchromatic films (as opposed to earlier orthochromatic films).
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I've previously considered some kind of social website built around the idea of annotating arbitrary sections of existing content instead of replying postwise. I can't help but suspect it'd deteriorate into a Derrida-esque anarchy of words, though.
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Why is direct mail marketing unethical, but ignoring the very real distress linking this man's name to suggested criminal history isn't? We have to consider the effects what we do has. When we only had local impact, if we did something silly or damaging we could guess the impact, and quite possibly see everyone affected. In these Internetted times, if a product can do something silly or damaging it may have spread around the globe before it's found out. We need to be aware of this.

(Note: not debating the morality of spammers; merely asking a Socratic question.)

And jlarocco was only using spam as an example of an algorithm; telling someone "I can't turn my spam-sending program off" is as silly as saying "I can't stop that autocomplete result showing." It's a difference of magnitude, not of kind.
Can't remember the last time I saw an unresponsive Javascript box, actually. Must be years ago though.
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I decided to learn Python a few days ago. I decided not to go with version 3 because I wanted the Python Image Library and mySQLdb module (or MySQL-python) and want to learn Django 1.4 later on. All of those, if I have read everything correct, do not work with Python 3 yet.
So first decide what you want to do with your new programming skill and then decide the version.
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I suppose it depends how you define a successful bushiness plan. In my book, if a company can create a business that employs a few thousand people, turns a healthy profit and does all that while remaining true to the ideals of open source, it's a pretty successful business plan.
And if Google were at all willing to engage with users who have complaints, government wouldn't have to.
This makes some sense if they are truly worried about national security, but Australia shouldn't limit its doubts to Chinese technology since any country can in theory (this includes the US, Korea, or any other technology producer).
His app says "powered by flixel" which looks like some Action script library. Maybe a port is easier than most.
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Regarding articles like: "The Fibbing Point: Separating bunk from fact in Malcolm Gladwell's performance at a New York storytelling forum."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2008/03/the_fibbing_point.html

Take a look at the dramatic differences between versions of Moran Cerf's story. Cerf's story is about when he was a security expert who was paid by banks "to hack into them".

A. The Moth LA Grandslam - The "telling an entertaining story at a party" version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVHTQSvUIo

B. In Leading Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz, the more factual version
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You are solving the wrong problem. What you are doing, is searching for an environment for a person unfamiliar with computers. This should be a second step really.
The first step should be (I think) "what should I buy for 10 YEAR OLD".
First of all - I think that netbooks AND notebooks (from 7" to 20") for a child is a bad idea. Netbooks (7" to 10") is especially bad idea.
You should consider her eyesight - small, high dpi display very close to the eyes is bad.
Consider scoliosis probability - because keyboard is fixed right below the screen and can't disconnected (except 1-2 special rare big notebooks).
Consider RSI (repetitive strain injury) to hands, neck etc., hands especially. This can be caused by bad keyboard (all notebooks I think), screen keyboards (on extended use, like writing code, essays etc.), even bad mouse (cause hand position on the mouse is unnatural, it is a 90* turn from ideal position). Developed hand RSI is unbearably painful, considerably limits keyboard usage and heals very, very bad.
This is just what I would consider. Ask a medic and he'll tell you more.

tl;dr
No notebooks and probably tablets for 10 year old. Buy adjustable table, adjustable chair, classic desktop with some ergonomic keyboard and mouse (both with wrist support). Set up timed lockout on the PC, like 10 minutes every 1-2 hours. Lockout after 24:00 and lockout on total uptime per day. After that choose OS from your experience, it doesn't matter really (I think).

I promise, she'll thank you 15 years later.
It is better for company to have people of both types.

Depending on situation we can show ourselves as introvert or extravert. :) People thought I was more extravert as I successfully worked with people but according to tests I am more introvert.

People can change and show those points of their character which are useful for current situation.
That 'rubber band' scrolling is present in many other environments, such as Windows Phone 7
There's an Emmy Noether Programme from the German Research Foundation [0] promoting young researchers:

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You're right, Shay posts:

One clarification: I didn't choose the title of this article and I am not confirming or denying any sum of how much the Zynga/OMGPOP buyout was for - I honestly was not privy to what that amount was, and I don't know anything more than the public information on that point.
Was it relevant? Maybe not.
> Don't rewrite code without consultation.

This is linked to a pet peeve of mine, especially with restless, young developers. There's a significant difference between the two statements "I don't get this code, it's crap, let's rewrite it." and "I understand this code, it's crap, let's rewrite it". I don't know how many times I've seen someone go down the path of seing battle-tested code, not understanding it, thinking they can rewrite it better only to spend a month falling in to all the same pitfalls that lead to the original code. The middle road is of course refactoring. Cleaning up the code in small, discrete steps to something you can understand and work with is many times better than just tearing stuff out and restarting.
Maybe the new semantic Google update will solve your problem: http://www.seoconsult.com/seo-news/google/algorithm-update-g...
As much as I hate to do this:
http://xkcd.com/793/
Anonymous seems to like it also: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/14/duckduckgo-the-defa...
Maybe they'll have money/lawyers to run the awesome tetris (blockles) OMGPOP had and pulled out because of the Tetris-troll company which thinks it owns some sort of copyright on game mechanics.
> where I live, nobody thinks it's cool to be the CEO of the next mobile social local photo sharing startup.

And I still would love to be an astronaut. Just in case someone is hiring around here ;-)

I'd change careers in a blink.
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My fear as a pessimistic engineer is that unless there is more regulation of HFT, sooner or later someone big (a bank, an exchange, a country) is going to be financially wiped out by a HFT-gone-bad incident, and the resulting mess will take years to unravel while everyone else (pension funds, private investments, etc.) gets to suffer for the sins of their masters.

I propose an exponentially decaying tax on trades - the longer you hold a purchase, the less you pay when you sell it. If you WANT to trade at sub-microsecond levels, you can bloody well pay for the clean-up fund when your system goes bad.
I'm imagining that will cause unpleasant friction between the two.

The Feature group get all the credit and are heroes for solving things quickly, while the Maintenance group have to clean up their bloody mess without getting any recognition.
People generally seem to assume that mathematical and CS theorems are named after men rather than women. I'd be surprised if most programmers could tell you that Liskov (of Liskov's substitution principle) was female.
If I'm genuinely honest, I'm not sure if I would have made the same decision. I actually thought for a minute or two that Connectrode was a city, and he didn't want to leave his family. That I get.

But I mean, its OK to love something and we all love our creations, but I wonder if I'd have viewed the thing that I loved, as a platform that was moving me onto the fastest growing, possibly largest game platform of our generation. The biggest player of the industry "I" belong to.

It would have been a sad moment perhaps, but I'd have sacrificed it in a ceremony if it meant that much, but tailed it into a drinks of celebration and the start of a new zynga-charged chapter. Just my 2c.
I sort of agree with you; Code to find the edges of the problem, design to work out what to do, and back to code to implement. Sometimes the only thing that saves my sanity is a nice process diagram in the design phase, which makes me realise that something important has been missed.
>It would be a hell of a lot smoother if you would print out a shipping label from 99dresses which has the buyers address etc on it. The cost comes out of the buyers button credits etc..

And how exactly do you propose the company profiting off their own buttons? (Items in a database they can create at will)
> Let's be fair, people up-vote the stuff they like/agree with whether it contributes a lot or little.

But they shouldn't do this either. Personally, I try to downvote--or at least not upvote--comments which I agree with but which add nothing to the discussion. (I'm sure I'm far from consistent, of course.)

I mean, the functional use of votes is to organize the comments page. It just makes zero sense to organize the page based on the average opinion of the community rather than constructiveness/usefulness of the comments.

PG is wrong here.
Yes, they are. I raised three girls and got them all through college on my dime and by next year they will all have either MS or MBA degrees that they paid for themselves.

A much tougher job than anything they could throw at me.
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Liking the app, would be great if he kept up with the independent games.
Advice from a long time ago that took me way longer than it should have to understand fully:

"Always throw the first one away."

I now consider the entire first prototype to be part of the "working out the design" process, and all the code written for that is considered disposable (quite often I write a prototype in a different language to the intended delivered product, partly to ensure I throw the first one away, but when I'm honest with myself - at least partly 'cause I enjoy rapid-prototyping in Perl.)
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I'm frequently in a room with people that know less about mathematics and programming than I do (and let's be clear, I don't regard myself as exceptionally talented in either field). It's not surprising, that's usually the reason I've been asked in to consult.

The great joy is discovering what these people know more about than I do: electronics, cartography, avionics, wet film processing, fire fighting, violin making, linguistics, ... it's always a surprise finding out just how much some people know about their particular interest and how well they can make you appreciate it.

I'm get a little tired of hearing "the IT Crowd" cackle on about how stupid their users are, maybe that is true for them but it is possible to go out and find end users that stretch and challenge you as a programmer to meet their needs.
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Totally agree. The whole Agile farce is about treating programmers as idiots who'll end up putting a flight simulator in your spreadsheet unless you nail them to a task card, and program managers as drooling morons who spin a wheel of fortune to pick the direction.

Now, there are some companies who DO develop like that - I'd venture to suggest they aren't the successful ones.

Hire better developers, hire better managers, incentivise the lot of them to care about the thing they're building. Ditch the Agile crap, it's about minimising the damage incompetent people can do to your project, while compromising the best people until they too are just mediocre.
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Have you read Charles Stross' Accelerando? The main character holds the patent for "using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain". I really, really hope it counts as Clarkeian prior art.

The book is here: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html
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> When one designs a solution well, the amount of code that one has to write becomes minimized.

It can also be noted that a really well designed solution may require no lines of code at all.

For example, engineering away parts of a process that are no longer required within an automated version of that process.
How about writing something quick and then refactoring aggressively? The prototype code would kind of be the design specification. After the second or third big refactor my code is much shorter and starts making some sense...
There is this magic process which always surprises me (really, I can't get used to it): the process of melting a well-performing team of strong and motivated individuals (not only software developers, but also including bizdevs, sales, etc.) into a monolithic sluggish disgusting structure promoting acquiescence and submission where you more value your payroll and pension plan than the actual work your doing every day.

It is really, really sad seeing these transformations affecting nearby companies almost every month. And it can be really sudden, it may take even 6 months to change your software think tank into a wannabe-corporation with timesheets and firewalls.

And I ask myself each time - is there a way to avoid this? I understand we need to standarize "the business" at some point to make it scalable but is it the only way? Can't we build seperate team of strong individuals and just allow them to do their best giving them some financing and office, and let them grow to a specific point of splittage? Wait, isn't it actually similar to what YC is doing?

What do you think? Don't we all dream of building a giant soul-eating monster at the of the road?
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I agree with you, I just mean... as big as Redhat is, it is a shockingly small company.
being the only tech guy in the room sometime sucks. But you are right.. there is more to just math and programing.. You are right^
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Hi everyone:

Learning probability – encountered hard question, seeking help.

A man bought a basket of carrots at $150 per basket. He sells each basket for $270 but the probability of that a basket of carrots will be unfit for sale is 1/12 and he will lose $150. Find the average profit per basket.

This is my solution:
P(unfit) = 1/12
P(fit) = 11/12

Profit when unfit = $270 - $150 - $150 = -$30
Profit when fit = $270 - $150 = $120

Average Profit = (1/12 * -30) + (11/12 * 120) = $107.5

... but the answer is $97.5

Does anyone know why?

Thanks!
To borrow a chan phrase: this post gave me cancer.

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I think the key is that Cancerous cells expressed a higher level of this marker leading the Immune cells to destroy them specifically.

However there is also this line "Although macrophages also attacked blood cells expressing CD47 when mice were given the antibody, the researchers found that the decrease in blood cells was short-lived; the animals turned up production of new blood cells to replace those they lost from the treatment," so this seems like a very valid concern.
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Not all. 37signals makes a common counter example.

I guess the message is simple: if you want your business to not either become or get acquired by a nasty big monolith, don't take VC funding.

I've yet to find another way.
> In general, when one works out the design well in advance before writing code.

One tool available is Behavior/Feature Driven Development which forces you to work out the design well in advance and then implement only the code that makes that design "pass".
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The title "mighty mathematician you've never heard of" is odd. Aren't most "mighty mathematicians" people we've never heard of?

It isn't surprising people in the mainstream have never heard of her. Virtually everything she did was abstract algebra and the only connection her work had to real life was studying some invariants of relativity (read: very high level, very specialized). Similarly, how many people have heard of Sierpinski, Voronoy or even Hilbert?

While important, the sort of work she did doesn't lead you to fame. As an applied mathematician I never directly used any of her theorems. The word "ring" (let alone "noetherian") doesn't even appear in my thesis.

There is only one famous mathematician in the world. His name is "that crazy guy played by Russel Crowe".