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I agree about the global warming. My worry is that continued political pandering and posturing (at least in the US) will result in an effective "stalemate" that prevents anything from being done about it until it becomes undeniable to those who refuse to believe it is happening. As a father of 3 I really want to believe that their future is brighter than ever, but in my gut I worry that we're racing towards a cliff with no brakes...
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This is similar to cookie stuffing and is an ancient blackhat internet marketing trick (which is now usually detectable) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_stuffing
Adobe just figured out a new scheme to make themselves even less appealing. Bravo.
I haven't looked at the code and how they implemented vector field support, but couldn't a library like Sylvester have been used?

http://sylvester.jcoglan.com/

Paper.js looks like it could work as well:

http://paperjs.org/about/
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There is a lot of attention to distribute between them though. At this point the audience at dday is roughly the entire startup investment community.
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I felt that this article was aimed at companies to suggest different strategies for "hooking" (which I took to mean "intentionally addicting") their users. I meant what I said only in that if the company were to have a good enough product in the first place, they wouldn't have to resort to these methods ("psyche tricks") that I consider to be underhanded.
My personal experience is that, while Java has a lot of great technologies associated with it, such as Hadoop, they're hard as hell to learn. The problem isn't the systems. It's that large systems in Java become cluttered with accidental complexity, which makes easy things hard to write and read and hard things nearly insurmountable. I'm a major fan of any effort to put support the best parts of the Jawva ecosystem on these new, far better, JVM languages.
Or justification for funding?
I'm from the IM community and $1000 a day is not unheard of, but most of the other people using pinterest are not making this much, especially since they stopped sending all pins to the front page (now only 1 per hour or so). The traffic coming from Pinterest is also not converting that well, it seems that the women like to browse and aren't that into buying. Regardless, pinterest traffic can be used in a clean way to send traffic to a legitimate store, and those people are seeing positive results...
If you have to create fake accounts to fly under the radar, pretty sure that's more "spam" than "marketing".
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Regardless of what is said out loud, I believe the author's intent was to annoy her tormentors into submission.

I do not think that writing IRC bots is wrong (though I would consider them irritating), I do not think quotes from famous women is necessarily wrong (though one could suppose a non-curated list could potentially go awry).

I don't have a problem with polite discourse, but I don't think that's what this was. I assume that she was polite when she brought it up before, when she was ignored. Had she stopped there, or gone to a superior, or an HR department, then I believe she would have been in the right.

Again, I'm not saying that what she did was offensive. Just that it wasn't the high road. It isn't the right thing to do.

She isn't Rosa Parks refusing to sit in the back of the bus, she's just trying to turn their own antics against them. As a prank, I'd applaud it. As a means of peacably resolving an uncomfortable situation, I consider it a failure, at best.
You'll feel better if your work has a purpose. Find a big problem and help solve it. But focus on one problem to solve, dont spread yourself too thin. And give your brain a little time to decompress.

Its hard to discern your goals from your post. I'm guessing that you are striving for recognition as a great developer (could explain pouring all your spare time into open source, and corroborated by your self description). If so, thats a painful goal that won't be satisfied.

Any time you spend to benefit others will feel rewarding. A bus driver directly sees who he benefits, but you can too. Maybe the problems you're solving are too arcane. Maybe you'd feel more rewarded being more involved with end users.
no - resentment leads to "being pissed-off enough to go work somewhere else".

please, lets keep "burnout" for burning out. you know: when you're in a foetal ball sobbing, begging for it to stop; when you need years before your work is enjoyable again; when the client liaison goes on leave after an "accident" with a knife.

there is a difference between that and "resentment".
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The American law of finds applies in only two situations: "(1) where the owners have expressly and publicly abandoned their property and (2) where items are recovered from an ancient shipwreck and no one comes forward to claim them" [1]. I don't think NASA ever satisfied 1.

In international waters it seems like the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea does "little to impinge on the applicability of the law of finds and the law of salvage," though "commentators have suggested that the law of finds is implied because there is no alternative ownership principle delineated in the provision" [2].

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer

[1] http://www.rms-republic.com/reference/Volume67No1Article6.pd...

[2] http://lawreview.wustl.edu/inprint/86/1/Curfman.pdf
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where I'll be soliciting feedback about how to nail this.

This feels awkward. Paying for this seems very much unlike the OSS model. Not that I'm complaining, but it threw me off a bit.
I don't live in America and haven't been for years. Noticed I have logins with "tch network services" and have no idea why that would be the case. I don't use any VPN services (esp. not to login into my accounts). Anyone have any ideas?
Water is a huge problem. Even in the U.S. the southwest is already fighting over diminishing supplies of water, and global warming is only going to make that problem worse.

The irony of the situation is that states like Arizona and Texas, who stand to lose the most from climate change and environmental damage, are politically the most intransigent about taking the measures to avoid it. When water supplies start drying up, people in those states are going to feel the pain far sooner than the dirty hippies in Washington and Massachusetts (though total pandemonium in the southwest isn't going to be good for anybody).
That's been my experience with the ATI drivers myself. Nvidia is far far better, but you can't exactly change a laptop graphics chip. I'm using the open source ones just so that I've got a usable system.
My friend works for Google and I have definitely seen him work from home. I am not sure whether they would be okay with doing remote (you would have to ask them) but I am sure if you knock off early and logged on from home and got your stuff done, no one would care.
crazy talk.

this is a great DEMONSTRATION. leave it at that. if you are really that annoyed by the points you mentioned, why, it's open source!
"Google proposed paying Oracle 0.5 percent of Android revenue on one patent until it expires this December and 0.015 percent on a second patent until it expires in April 2018."

It's only for six more years and 0.015% could very well be much less than $100M. In fact, it might be less than Oracle's legal fees.
I suggest you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabola
Exactly what I was thinking. Can't wait to plug this into our custom Opsview (nagios) pages :D
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What obtu meant is that:

"SPDY adds a session layer atop of SSL that allows for multiple concurrent, interleaved streams over a single TCP connection."

From http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
How does it do on rainy days and at night?
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I haven't signed in yet, because there is no information on the web site at all. It seems unlikely that you'd ship to Europe, for example?

In any case, why not make it any timeline, not just the user's? It would make for a great gift, for example.
Thank you for informing me about the existence of Pandoc.
Depends on your POV. "How can we make the product better?" is usually synonymous with "What do users want?", which, following the rabbit hole down enough, you reach those psych things.

Look at all the terrible gamification implementations. These are responses to seeing a certain pattern in design, but they're not backed up with any real idea as to why users seem to respond (I'll avoid using the word like) to these systems, and they usually suck. Knowing exactly why one strategy is good and why one is poor can help create a better product.
They responded.
they paid Howard Hughes to build the Glomar Explorer

It does not take away from your point to point out that one of the reasons they paid Hughes - instead of just banging up Glomar Explorer themselves - was to provide a cover story for the salvage.

Sea-bed mining was where it was at, according to 'My Weekly Reader' from then.

Its very different world, and I could imagine folks who would sign on for orbital 'work' or excursions knowing that 5 - 10% of them would end up dying horribly.

Work, yes. I don't imagine too many honeymoon flights would be booked unless it was safer than that.

Younger Me would have signed up for working in orbit, given those odds. Probably not now - I'm married, have a mortgage, and kids.

Although the pay would be good and the death benefits would set my heirs up pretty well.
In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus predicted food shortages as population grows geometrically and food arithmetically. but here we are today with plenty of food :) in fact we have so much more that it causes us health problems...

I think these predictions overlook technological advancements just like Malthus did.
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I want to live next door to a Thorium power plant. I'd be perfectly safe because I know that it would just decompress and stop fissioning, but the land prices would be amazing. And while everyone else is dying and other nonsense I'd have electricity to last me a millennium.

I easily see us using thorium powered desalination plants. Or my favorite, drop a giant turbine in the gulf stream and use that to power the East Coast + desalinate water to sell as a commodity.
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(1) I don't believe in burnout either but a 130 hour work week is 18 hours of work a day. That leaves only 6 hours for food, drink, cleaning, sleeping and socialising. It is possible if you enjoy your work, don't require much sleep, are able to mix socialising with work, and pay for somebody else to do your cleaning. For the vast majority of individuals it is unrealistic, depression inducing and unlikely to make their bosses or themselves richer.

(2) If you're trying to become more productive this is an extremely stupid idea. Using more of your time is at most a linear improvement in work output; if you wish to do more work you should spend time reading about and practicing methods of doing more in an hour. Technology and knowledge have the capacity to be multipliers, so: learn how to scale repetitive tasks, learn quicker ways of programming, learn better ways of analysing problems, learn how to automate as much as you can. An extra couple of hours spent practicing these things will give far superior gains in work output.

(3) We should optimize for happiness. Don't spend all of your time working unless you enjoy working.

I quite happily work 60-80 hour work weeks and will push myself a little further if there is a deadline. This number includes lunch times, a very short commute and non-fiction books and articles to help keep my mind sharp. I have time to go out with friends to eat or have a drink and also can get my affairs in order. This, so far, has given me the greatest enjoyment out of life but I wouldn't push it on others:

Find your own work-life balance.
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It's still around as "exp/ebnf" (http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse#hg%2Fsrc%2Fpkg%2Fe...), but the exp/ tree is not considered part of the official Go 1 API, so it may change in backward-incompatible ways.
With barely any oversight, non-existent checks and balances, no social responsibility, an the power to sway the laws that the rest of us must live by,

What could possibly go wrong?

We know what's going wrong - we're living it. The Federal Government has never been so dismissive of the law than it has been since well before 9/11.

Consider that we've gone to war six times [1] since 1945, never have declared war the way God [2] and the Framers said to in the Constitution.

[1] Maybe five. I'm counting really big efforts, involving at least a division of grunts. Libya made the cut because it irks me that there wasn't even a pretense of asking Congressional permission.

[2] Irony.
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This is what I really want to believe - that technology will ride in and save the day. I even think it is likely that new tech will emerge that can do it, but (and maybe this is my cynicism showing through) I believe powerful interests that stand to be harmed by the "new tech" will make sure it never gets off the ground. I sure hope I am wrong though!
Also wouldn't mind seeing high pressure/low pressure systems, fronts, so you can see how they generate/impact wind.
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I agree with your overall sentiment, but those concepts are hardly java trivia.

I think the intent of that article is to use those questions as a 0-pass filter. You don't hire based on getting them right, but you damn sure don't let them pass to the next phase if they get them wrong. Like FizzBuzz.
I posted the following in another thread the other day, but that thread was deleted. I think it is relevant here:

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I worked for a company that was acquired by Lockheed. I ran IT and had already spent a few years 100% rebuilding the infrastructure of the company when I joined.

As we were assimilated I worked with IS&S and their security teams closely to ensure our security measures were up to snuff with Lockheed's requirements (we built the RFID tracking system the military used for shipping pretty much everything)
In our security meetings, we were briefed on activities that were happening, what we needed to do and why.

China was constantly attacking Lockheed and all other defense contractors.

They were pretty sophisticated in how they did it; targetted spear phishing was one of their successes:

Chinese spies would attend defense contractor events - meet and seek out lockheed and other employees. Get their business cards and spoof mail from one employee to the other, referring to events that occured at the convention to get people to click on shit that would be a trojan.
These trojans were rather sophisticated in that they would operate very very slowly to trickle pieces of information out. Sometimes they were very specific pieces of information.

I don't recall exactly how this was found out, but someones machine was being checked out - and in the process the trojan was found. When the chinese were alerted to the fact that the trojan had been found, they turned whatever their bot-net was up to 11 and attempted to just mass send out as much data as they could.

(All of lockheed only has (I think) 3 connections to the internet)

They cut it off and had to get rid of these trojans.

Another time, a supplier (I think it was in Taiwan, I cant recall exactly) a supplier was hacked and its machines would install stuff on any USB sticks used.

Lockheed machines were not allowed to connect to non-lockheed networks, via Wifi or any other means. So they would use USB sticks to transfer stuff.

The chinese went after the suppliers machines as a vector to get connected with the lockheed machines.
I have mentioned this stuff here on HN before, and in light of China's 50-100 year vision for where they want to be, we are basically fucked.
The chinese have been securing access to all major natural resources in Africa, as well as being the manufacturing hub for EVERYTHING - while the US government is squabbling over petty short term profit efforts and securing a diminishing resource (oil).

This is not to say the US is some slouch in the cyber security space; Stuxnet and Doqu are clearly US/Israel cyber attacks that are amazing.
But anyone would be a fool to not be very wary of where the online digital war is headed.
Hence the use of the phrase "extra effort." In a theoretical world where Microsoft offered "Microsoft Map Reduce" as a Microsoft-sanctioned way to run map reduce jobs, one could imagine the licensing cost for a single box could well exceed the cost of hardware, ops, etc, if SQL server license fees are any indication. How much extra engineering effort does this translate into? Is it worth it?
Malthus's prediction was also not based on science like contemporary predictions are.
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Joel Spolsky [1] beat XKCD to that punch by several years:

> (By the way, for those of you who follow the arcane but politically-charged world of blog syndication feed formats, you can see the same thing happening over there. RSS became fragmented with several different versions, inaccurate specs and lots of political fighting, and the attempt to clean everything up by creating yet another format called Atom has resulted in several different versions of RSS plus one version of Atom, inaccurate specs and lots of political fighting. When you try to unify two opposing forces by creating a third alternative, you just end up with three opposing forces. You haven't unified anything and you haven't really fixed anything.)

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
This seemed a little odd to me as well, but mostly because I haven't been a noob for a long time and so am out of touch with that feeling of "this is hard" when it comes to installing rails.

I don't think that installing rails got any harder relative to where it was in the 1.0 days. vanilla rails locked to one version with globally-installed gems is just as easy as it ever was, so I don't know if its quite fair to say step one is "make rails hard"; the current state of the ruby world is a lot more enterprise-ready and that comes at a complexity cost and automating that away is inconvenient.
Have already been working on an app for this (just for lulz); haven't had time to finish it yet. I pull from public DOE data regarding generation locations.
To say nothing of snow.
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Not really. There's a big practical difference between "X is minor" vs "I believe X is minor."

With the former, you're suggesting that anything else is false; with the latter, you're leaving room for other possibilities. Statements like the former often lead people astray, which is why some people suggest avoiding them entirely.

If you don't get the difference, try speaking in E-Prime for a month. I did, and it was really educational:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_prime
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If you want a raw HTML file, what's stopping you from using CURL to get your raw HTML file and uploading it?
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The intro where they used their hacker names made it worth it.
Hmm, sorry.. i thought it allowed an intial viewing of one article.
Enjoyed! 10x ;)
Even more specifically, the US government. There are many governments on Earth you can escape from, but not the US. If they want you bad enough, they'll get you.
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Good idea, but probably can't be relied upon given liability issues (in addition to the whole "print wrong barcode and sabotage restaurant with crashing cars thing).
I decided to learn Rails this week, and just went through the process of following http://railstutorial.com (actually I'm about half through it.)

The tutorial made it extremely easy. I was up in running in an hour or two, and it only took that long because I am taking it rather obsessively slow, following all reference links, and brand new to Ruby.

I, for one, do not see the need for this.
I believe that's the point ovi was trying to make.
Back in the 90s, at Naughty Dog, we worked 100 hour weeks. After three years, people started to go crazy. By the end of Crash Bandicoot 2, one of the artists went completely ape about something random on a level we were working on and threw a chair at me. It was at that moment that I realized that our limits were biological and not simply a matter of will.

We pulled all-nighters in which only a handful of us were doing more than one trivial task per hour. 100 hour weeks were sustainable if you didn't mind the occasional psychotic outburst. All-nighters were uniformly unproductive.

I do not believe that working 130 hours is physically possible for more than a single week. This sounds like "no, really, I deserve to have hundreds of millions of dollars," because "I just worked so hard." I don't believe it. I also think it's a horrible model for entrepreneurs.

If you want to produce great work, get enough rest, exercise, and perspective. If early Google employees really did what Marissa says, they should be thankful that they were lucky enough to overcome it, not credit their success to it.

We all know early Google employees made an absolute crapload of money. But not because of 130-hour weeks. Because they had the guts to work on a search engine when, in Marissa's words, "There were already twelve search engines and it was unclear why the world needed another one."

I remember everyone thinking that. Kudos to Larry, Sergey, Marissa, et al for improving search just because, and later ending up with the most lucrative business model in the history of the world. But shame on Marissa for perpetuating the myth that working stupid hours and abusing yourself (and others) is the path to success. It isn't.
That's funny, but I'm not basing my comment on only this one event.
Ouch - something must be very bad to yield so much noise. It might be worth running the headphones through a mixer instead of straight into the computer. If you want a pro solution, it starts at $59: http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/category/110/...
This is truly revolutionary. Or at least revolving.
If you're interested, I have a rails template with extensive documentation on setting it up on a server from scratch.

https://github.com/Hack56/Rails-Template/wiki
It's strange; I feel like I would be offended by that joke if anybody whose opinion I care about took it seriously, but since they don't, I'm just puzzled by how pointlessly counterfactual it seems.