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Economic "theories" and "research" make me laugh, because the system is so complex now that it's quite obvious no one knows how to control it or analyze it, except when they're taking credit for their foresight after the fact and shouting "I told you so!" while 10 other equally-likely-at-the-time wrong predictions go un-noted.

Further, there is no free market, supply and demand never works like it "should", and the emperor has no clothes.

Markets are all artificial and manipulated by those who have the most to gain. Very relevant: US wireless ISPs ("telcos".) Their product is bandwidth since everything is digital now, yet we still have "minutes", "SMS", "mms", and "3G"/"4g" (and the inherent ambiguity in those terms deserves another article entirely...)

Make no mistake, you are being conned, you are being lied to, you are being manipulated...every day, for the profit of the ultra-rich. People die and generations are enslaved so a few thousand sick bastards can be kings in the "free world".
Lisps are designed such that the need to work on language things is minimal. Clojure actually has more "language things" than your typical lisp. But anyway you're gonna see more things belong in standard library land, because having a good standard library is part of what makes a good language.
Where did I ever say that I didn't do those things? I'm railing against the people that think that just because that's not what you do with every day and every hour of your life means that you're not passionate about it.
Macs integrate with iOS devices, but there's a clear schism in Apple's world view: Mobile devices are for content consumption, Macs are for creation

Yeah, this is true. But I don't think that Android, let alone Windows Phone, are any different. Are developers going to start writing apps with their phones? No. At least not anytime soon, and definitely not with Windows Phone.
The profession of science is really, really hard, and generally does not pay well. But, when you learn something new in science, you have learned something that no one else knows, that is fundamental to the very structure of reality.

To be a happy professional scientist, the emotional stimulus of that kind of discovery needs to be strong enough to carry you through all the hardship.
I have never, ever seen "Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors" used in an actual conversation with someone who is trying to learn monads. The phrase is and always has been a joke; surely part of the joke is that most of us who use monads don't understand all that jargon ourselves. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870088/a-monad-is-just-a...

BTW, the article asks about design patterns that structure functional programs. Well, monads are one such pattern. That's why they're important, not some mathematical jargon.
It was a disappointment to check the downloads page and discover that there isn't anything other than a windows version available.

EDIT: It does seem to run on wine.
I think that's the point that everyone is missing. Just because you put in 40 hours at your job, doesn't mean you're not passionate! Because at the end of the day the 8 hours I give to someone for a paycheck "is just a job."
What's interesting is that I agree with everything you said!

My view of the job is that you should be passionate about what you are creating. That is not at the exclusion of personal or family life. Not at all. At times this dedication to the task will result in sacrifices. I am saying that, so long as these are justified this is OK.

If working long hours is normal there might be something wrong with the process. My view was more about that case where "Hey, I am really into getting this state machine figured out. I should stay and get it done 'cause I'm in groove" or "we really have to ship this by Friday, let's get it done and take a few days off next week".

In my view of the job the team is a team and everyone looks after everyones interests and well-being. I've let employees go out of town for a few days (fully paid) to go see a concert by a band they really liked. When asked, if nothing horribly pressing is happening I'll almost always say "yes". Why? Because I have those interests and passions outside of work too and it would not be fair to treat others differently. This is not a religious view, BTW, as I am most definitely not religious. When someone takes a few unscheduled days off to go do something they love the business does not loose money, you gain by fostering a stronger relationship as well as having someone come back from their trip re-infused with energy.

Robotically clocking out at 5:01PM has never made sense for me, even when I was the employee. I don't think I have ever worked 9 to 5 in my life. Maybe I'm lucky 'cause I've had fun jobs that I wanted to keep doing.
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(Tim Fox here, project lead)

The core api is similar to node.js, but that API is available in not just JavaScript, but in Ruby, Java and Groovy.

Unlike node.js it also includes websockets and sockjs support and a distributed event bus so you can link together multiple nodes on the server side and extending into client side JavaScript.

Since it runs on the JVM and has real threading (unlike V8) it means you can scale with a single instance far better than you can with node.js. And you don't have to resort to hacky forks in order to scale it over multiple cores.

In my perf tests so far, performance (far) exceeds node.js for some simple HTTP test cases. I will hopefully publish some results in the next few weeks when we release 1.0 final.

So one way of thinking about it is node.js, on steroids and not just for JavaScript.

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Instead of explaining that they can't do business with XP users, explain that supporting XP users incurs the additional cost of an IP. Let them decide if it's worth it.
Before I was a software developer I was an auto mechanic and this ethic is what makes the good people good in both fields. Sure, you can make decent money doing flat-rate brake jobs that pay 1.5 hours in 30 minutes, but if you like to fix cars, you crave those problems where you've got to dig deep and experiment, and are more concerned with solving a challenging problem than what the $/hr turns out to be for that job. In an auto shop, the people who are willing and able solve the hard problems when they come up generally get assigned the best(easiest to finish under book time) of the other work. From what I have noticed in both fields, the happiest and most successful people have a sincere interest in their craft (knowing how, and wanting to know how things work), and this interest often carries over into how they chose to spend their personal time.
This didn't sink in until my recent trip to the States.

"So if you're poor and you get sick you just... die?" "Pretty much."
If Amazon decided to sell e-books for $9.99, that’s surely not the revenue maximizing price for the publishers in the long run, or the profit maximizing price when looking at e-books in isolation.

Amazon had a huge interest in locking users in to the Kindle platform. This is something they were willing to pay a lot of money for, and so they would rationally have priced e-books below the revenue maximizing price.

After they “won”, Amazon would either have raised e-book prices to take advantage of their monopoly, or maybe kept prices low as a loss leader.
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GDP was invented in the days when trade was ships full of iron ore - it screws up the figures for any country with significant banking/financial services

By GDP, Luxembourg and Lichtenstein are the worst countries in the world - with national debt ratios of $10M+ per person.

It even effects large economies, one of the (many) reason for the UK not joining the Euro was that the size of London's financial industry meant that it's debt/GDP figures would never meet the requirements even if the government never borrowed a penny.
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And it's worth adding: a pretty large proportion of these people who don't work jobs they love are still pretty happy. They have families and hobbies and lives that are full of more than their work.
In the sense that flows are taxed to provide income for the government, GDP is analogous to income.
I believe it's more because they had the first mover's advantage and naivete
It's worth noting what law enforcement wishes they could do and what they can do is pretty different. The only time this has been tested in court, the Sixth Circuit said it was unconstitutional. Which is because it's blatantly unconstitutional. My money says that any other appeals court will agree, including the Supreme Court if it gets that far.

Now, the government certainly does things that are unconstitutional sometimes, and manages to avoid having any court review them. I'm sure there are abuses here. It's disappointing that the Justice Department tried to oppose a warrant & probable cause standard for electronic searches as if there's room for dispute on that one. But the minute they try to take much advantage of this law it'll be struck down, and they know it.

It's possible that I'm (weirdly) less cynical about this as a defense attorney than most people are. In my line of work the constitution is constantly standing between police and what they wish they could do. I'm thinking of a particular case, not uncommon, where a three-hour confession was basically thrown out because the judge looked carefully at the recording and the police didn't quite handle it right. They didn't beat the guy, but they didn't do what they needed to do to make sure the confession was voluntary. And of course this drives the police nuts -- the executive branch's position is always that any limitation on their power is a threat to public safety. Resisting that position is why we have constitutional standards and separation of powers in the first place.

Incidentally, the DOJ testimony[1] is a little more nuanced than Wired makes out. The testimony makes some legitimate points -- that agencies like the SEC rely on their ability to use subpoenas (as opposed to warrants) to enforce financial laws, and that it's not clear how much evidence you should need that a particular email account contains evidence of criminal activity in order to obtain a warrant to search that account. (If I have 100 gmail accounts, and you know I've used five of them to run drug transactions, do you need independent evidence to search each of the others?) This means any law governing search of emails would have to be written carefully (or vaguely, so the courts could figure it out under the Fourth Amendment). But the DOJ's conclusion that maybe the law should try to exempt electronic records from search and seizure protections is typical executive branch posturing -- both absurd and unenforceable.

(This is not legal advice. It's just a thing I wrote on a forum. I could be totally wrong. Consult your doctor if effects last more than four hours.)

[1] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/04/bakere..., page 11.
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Consider the experience at Uni as a challenge. Try and do your best to make it through, it is valuable and it gives you the confidence to make it through something your not particularly enjoying (which will happen again either in the work place or freelancing) but it will also keep your social network quite large and give you a qualification which in the UK does matter. See if you can transfer onto a course that is more interesting to you, or at least some modules. The uni probably has an advisor you can speak to about it. What year are you in?

I struggled with exams, but I found that at uni a large percentage of the assessments was based on assignments and projects. This meant I did not have to worry so much about the exams and was able to get good marks.

Enjoy uni, it really is a good experience and I wish I could go back (I am aware that technically I could, but age wouldn't be on my side this time)!
In the 90s, tho', everyone looked to the future. Some anecdata, all my friends were cybergoths back then. Now they wish they lived in the '30s... The 1930s. It's a cliche, but it was 911 that turned the world from a certain to an uncertain place. Now people are hankering for simpler times.
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It sounds as though you are now claiming that Google has already turned the Internet into a Walled Garden but are simply nicer in their policies than anyone else.

This is the first time I've heard anyone make this claim.
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Also sphinx as real-time indexes.

You send data to sphinx (when you update it), and its indexed right away.

The original disk-indexes (updated by a batch process is still available)
I like this idea. MS should drop the price on Win 7 Starter / Home Basic to something like $9.95 after Win 8 is released. Then run a massive campaign to promote the security benefits of the "freshly outdated" version. If they do this well, they could easily rake in a few dozen million dollars without hurting the Win 8 market.
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If I were investing in a company that had these things, I would be concerned that the patents were now no longer licensable - that their value had been decreased by waiving some of the rights granted by the patents.

In certain situations, I could see investors trying to undo this agreement so they could unlock that value. If the value is great enough, they will try really hard (and given how vague this agreement is, I bet they'll succeed). That's all I'm saying.

In the end though, I don't see how this agreement is anything more than twitter saying "we won't sue people over patents, and we won't sell them to people who will". I don't see that as particularly significant. Just that twitter isn't pursuing licensing revenue as a strategy.
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That's pretty cool. I was thinking about something similar. Just the ability to easily blend video signals. Say two inputs on the TV.

It would be good to then plugin a 'computer' something like the Raspberry Pi, that would overlay the existing signal, or merge two video inputs (Would this be simple digitally?).

It would be nice if there was meta info available alongside a program, that you could hook into somehow, so you could do something useful with it. A cue sheet or something. Having meta info about a playing scene could be useful. Digitized credits would be nice.
Back in my teenage years I worked at Bluehost and they did this exact thing for their shared hosting platform. It was simple and worked well.
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I'm drowning in email. It's hard to tell which email is important, and it's hard to tell which important emails haven't been dealt with. Gmail's priority inbox thing is useless for me. If you solved this problem, actually solved it, I'd pay whatever you asked. $25, $50, $100/month? A bargain.
Of course not, that wasn't my point at all. I think the community picture would be very different if Android had inherited the infrastructure and community of desktop linux instead of charging ahead with needless and inferior reimplementations of glibc, udev, init/upstart/systemd, rpm/dpkg, etc... in a way that cut them off from the rest of the linux community.

Ubuntu and Fedora users can package stuff for others in a robust way, including modifications to the system libraries. How nice would it be to fix the awful accelerometer polling on the Galaxy Nexus and point users to a RPM repo? Try out some new gesture tuning? See the point? That kind of work exists, sort of, in the Android world, but it sucks rocks.

And the reason for all this breakage was, ostensibly, "IP purity" and the desire to avoid law suits and ambiguity about the software licensing. Which, as it happens, was a fools errand anyway as the platform is being sued regardless.

Is it clear now what I'm saying?
Seriously, I feel like we're trapped in a meta nightmare. Who cares? I feel like I'm wasting a non-negligible amount of time reading about meta discussions of how I must find value in my life or do my job or assign levels of passion so that I'm legitimate or respected or some shit. I do my job. Most days I enjoy it. Some days I don't. Sometimes I have to put in more hours than I like. If that continued and my job became, on average, more of a nuisance than not, I'd find a new job.

I have to believe this is how most people are who don't have the time or energy to write long-winded blog posts about "be like me so I feel better about how I live".
I feel like I'm wasting my time in my college classes. I love being at college and would never give it up, but classes don't challenge me and aren't interesting.
... for 31 days.
There's probably a decent amount of money to be made on Windows Phone apps. A smaller market, but far less competition- and lord knows the current batch of apps aren't up to much.
I'm guessing that most of the people who see long hours as a badge of honor are salaried employees or people who manage salaried employees. One thing I noticed when I switched over to contract work is that once a company has to pay for each hour you work, they are a little less enthusiastic about you putting in long hours. In fact, some of the contracts I was on had caps on the total number of hours you were allowed to bill. Long hours are seen as a sign of passion when companies don't have to pay extra for that time, and seen as a sign of poor time management when they do.
Because the US has to pay interest on the loans.

And because while you and I have no problem with the idea of saving for retirement, saving and buying that car in a few years, creating a college fund for the children before they are even born, etc, the US is run by politicians and politicians don't give the rear-end of that prostitute they are fucking about what happens after the next election.

So they will spend the money on frevious things.
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The OutOfMemory issue is a pretty big problem, but I'd say it's quite lazy to just dismiss it as something the framework needs to fix so that you can effectively do your job. I ran into this problem a lot early on in my Android development, and as I studied it further I found tons of resources and information to make it work in all cases and there are plenty of creative solutions documented in blogs and discussed on StackOverflow about it as well. Half the time you can get around this error by recycling your bitmaps when you're done with them and/or rethinking your approach to needing really large bitmaps in memory at the same time. There are two things I've done commonly in apps to get around this.

(1) If I'm just expanding included resource files (compressed images) into bitmaps for display, I write my own intelligent cache. Backed by a simple HashMap, I can even include in my cache keys the desired height and width and downsample intelligently and cache the downsampled version. Funny enough, when I presented this to my coworker, he had just done almost the exact same thing and we had never discussed it. In one case I needed to categorize my images to flush some and not others from the cache, so I just wrapped a bunch of instances of the same BitmapCache into a BitmapCacheManager class and it worked like a charm.

(2) To get around the fact that you can't just set the source path of an ImageView to a web url, you can use a custom class that wraps ImageView and just handles downloading the image on a background thread. I wrote a pretty complicated system that pumps the urls to a queue and broadcasts a notification when each download completes, but a single google search pointed me to an awesome apache licensed library that does exactly the same thing (and is admittedly cleaner than mine).

https://github.com/loopj/android-smart-image-view

It's totally doable. I never looked at it as a limitation of the framework - I actually saw it as an opportunity to do something more challenging than just drawing within the lines of the framework.
True but in a country of 300 million people the measure is meaningful. There are not[1] a lot of such examples. It's not merely tweaking an accounting identity. It can be but in the aggregate, with a sufficiently large number of people, it isn't.

[1] Added the important word "not".
Definitely. Rails.app (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp) was a hot topic here in the past weeks.
I completely agree, I noted it too.

Basically, what he is saying is "It's not going to be open source or free software." but in a way that makes it sound less bad.
Well, SSL definitely incurs a performance penalty even these days when actual encrypting is relatively cheap: http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/ssl-latency.html
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The graphs are meaningless. What they measure is how strict the government is at collecting unemployment figures for young people.

It simply shows 3sets of countries.:

Spain/Greece/Portugal it's presumably very easy to claim unemployment and 50% of those 50% listed are also working for cash

Italy/UK/France it's relatively harder to claim unemployment while working and most of the 15% are actually unemployed

Germany has a much smaller youth population and managed to absorb more of them in youth-training-schemes. And it got doubly lucky that birth rates fell fastest in the east where the unemployment is. It's as if in the mid80s the UK had persuaded everyone outside the M25 to stop having kids.
No, not pretty much.

Usually you end up in a lot of debt. But it is actually illegal in the US (last I checked) to actually turn away a dying person at the emergency room because of a lack of coverage.

Now, they may wish they had died when they get the bill, but that's another argument.
Hardware keyloggers will still defeat the USB linux boot drive idea.
That's where the problem lies with this 501 developer manefesto. In an effort to slam overtimers he's also globbed in those who simply have passion and want to use their free time doing something they love. It's a terrible manefesto in my opinion.
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That's still 21% too much they got to keep.
> I really hope there's some effective structural or procedural safeguards that we're not aware of, because the obscurity is gone.

Not yet, their terms of service have a clause that (paraphrased) says "if you don't follow through we might pursue legal action" but nothing concrete.

They really need contractual obligations to complete the project if you get funded, otherwise where's the accountability? The ability to threaten someone with breach of contract is at least some bargaining power.
> So the obvious problem with the movie Minority Report

... was that the screenwriters weren't smart enough to write consistent time-travel logic, and therefore the plot made no sense whatsoever. Also Tom Cruise.

The short story didn't really have a problem of precrime being imperfect per sé.