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codeblocks is free and I don't get paid for it. If someone is so lazy that he won't even have a look at the doc in the code (as suggested in my article), I don't want to have anything to do with him or her.

1 click --> bitbucket

1 click --> source

1 click --> codeblocks.py

It's that too much to ask?
Basically, there is no scope or block ending token anywhere else in python. And Guido thinks inline multi-line anonymous functions make programs harder to understand.
What we don't need is a bunch of stupid TLDs that do nothing but make existing domain owners feel like they need to buy more.

What we really need is a single new TLD that is distributed so that it cannot be controlled by any particular government or corporation. Something like dot-bit.org, but with more momentum behind it.
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The money quote: "In an effort to bring more suckers in, they just passed a law that makes it legal to pimp these startups to people who don't know anything. You will be able to take their investment by swiping a credit card. Probably using a $4 billion valuation Square dongle for an iPhone. ... It just doesn't matter if the businesses are any good, not to satisfy the bubble. As long as more suckers are coming in."
Agree strongly about the floating point being a problem. I much prefer languages like Erlang, Python, and Ruby where the default numeric type is arbitrary precision integers.
My suggestions (of greater or lesser value), although they don't pertain to big data:

Ask him about remaining a private concern. I know this was a big, um, "concern" for him (stay private vs. go public), and his perspective on the matter might be very interesting.

Also, looking in from the outside and rather superficially, his personal focus vis à vis O'Reilly Publishing seems to have shifted more to the conferences. Is this an accurate perception?

More recently, I've encountered a few less than satisfying titles in the O'Reilly lineup, particularly around the latter half or the end of the last decade. Has this been noted within the organization, and if so, are they addressing it?

As for big data, his son in law is in renewable energy. What has Tim been learning from and about that sector WRT data collection, analysis, and application?
Surprise surprise, the next paragraph: "PayPal also had a hard time hiring women."

This kind of thinking is what Mitch Kapor calls a "Mirrortocracy". It can work, in the sense that maybe you can recruit enough people just like you, down to quirks of phrasing, and succeed in your mission. There are advantages to belonging to a cohort. It is the reason why people in the military wear uniforms and go through bootcamp.

But categorically stating that diversity is wrong is, well, typical of the provincial attitude that caused Levchin to run his companies the way he did.

But just because he's rich doesn't mean he's right.
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I still can't get over the fact that Diablo 3 will require an Internet connection to play it in *single player".
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How would one go about setting this up in their own house? Privacy concerns aside, I can think a some cool uses for this (more finely-grained location based reminders for instance).
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He's explaining it correctly: some amount of inconvenience is worth some amount of adherence to principle. Different people put that bar in different places -- jwz is willing to compromise in places where rms isn't. And neither is about to light themselves on fire or blow up a building for free software.

Now, you can argue with his metrics if you like (I happen to like Chrome a lot, though not so much Firefox or Safari these days). But that's just an opinion, it doesn't make what he says a contradiction.
While there are a lot of AWS offerings/cloud services which have vendor lockin, the core EC2 API is supported by Eucalyptus (http://eucalyptus.com) and OpenStack (http://openstack.com).
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Most valuable thing for me in that interview was this pearl on how a successful person raises kids. We do the time outs, but I had never thought of the bathroom. Great idea.

> I think the kids have grown up really well, and I don’t think it hurt them that we had rules in the family that were fairly strictly enforced (usually with a five-minute timeout in the bathroom). We had a very strict “no whining” rule, for example, and I’ve seen kids that should definitely have been brought up with a couple of rules like that.

> That said, maybe they’re just naturally good kids. I don’t remember the last time I sent them to the bathroom (but it’s still a joke in our family: “If you don’t behave, you’ll spend the rest of the day in the bathroom”)
Anyone tried the code in each of the various implementations forked in the dcpu16 github? It sounded like the sprites may not be compatible, but just curious:
https://github.com/dcpu16
> Do people really think that?

People have been investing a lot of time in this. That certainly indicates someone considers it a worthwhile endeavor.
You know, it's not in the same class as a macbook air, but my Thinkpad x61s has been my tiny performant champ for 4 years now. Roughly the size of the netbooks of the time, but tons more power than a netbook and the initial macbook air means it's still powerful enough for anything I throw at it. The one bummer has been screen resolution, but I still get 6 hours battery life on it (I did have to replace the battery once), and it was just a bit over three pounds with the larger battery.
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"You" vs. "other people". In bubbles, the investors just trade the shares among each other.

In a Ponzi scheme, there is a central party that refunds investors on demand, and does so with money from new investors.

A Ponzi scheme is always a fraud, frothy valuations in a bubble might indicate market manipulation, but not _necessarily_ fraud.
I wouldn't say this article is generating FUD - it is pointing out FUD that already exists. One of WP7's selling points over Android was supposed to be consistency of updates. Now it looks like that is falling apart with carriers blocking minor updates and no one on the record about upgrades to Windows Phone 8 (and Microsoft passing up more than one opportunity to confirm upgradeability).

Look, there are plenty of things you can say about Android's update situation, but at least you can get manufacturers on the record saying they will upgrade some devices to ICS. On the Windows Phone side, you can't even get that for the most recently released flagship. That's pretty bad from a support perspective whether or not you care about "fragmentation" (which I'll agree is generally overblown).
That's awesome, did you see the blog post tutorial for a very similar project? http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/03/doers-in-action-behind-th...
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On reddit one of the best things about the ads there, which include job postings, are that you can offer constructive feedback on the ad, which actually helps the advertiser better understand the message they are sending.

For example, for today's job posting, I'd like to offer them the feedback that "Social Hacking" has some very negative connotations, even amongst the HN crowd, and they may want to reconsider their wording.
That should be our new tag line :)
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No way. Being the third game in the series, they're not selling to casual gamers as much as they are to the huge existing fan base, and that huge existing fan base is more than willing to pay for the game. Blizzard would be stupid not to take their money.

Maybe in 2 or 3 years they'll be selling it cheap, but in the meantime they're going to try for every penny they can get.
It doesn't use jQuery or any other library; it is framework-agnostic.

We had originally written it in JavaScript, but decided to use CoffeeScript simply because it's nicer to read and write.
With the game due out in three weeks, my guess is there's very little "beta" about this. Anyone have an educated guess when the game is sent to publishers for production? A day after beta ends? Already?

I think this is more like a demo or a way to get the game installed on millions of computers so that buying it is as easy as possible (a click away). I don't know about their publishing relationship but perhaps they get a better cut on electronic sales and this definitely helps increase those.

That said I'm downloading it now :)
I feel that the category specific speech recognition will help accuracy compared with a general service like Siri.

On a separate note, how does one go about creating a speech recognition backend like this? A point in direction would be helpful. Thanks!
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Its author, Paul Hudak, is undergoing a lung biopsy today. Send your best wishes his way.
Again, depends. For me NameCheap comes up at 7th place in incognito mode. GoDaddy isn't on the first page but are on top for the advertised results.

EDIT: I'm in Sweden (Europe)
Twitter API Hackers Wanted
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), is excited to announce its 2012 Public Health Challenge; Now Trending - #Health In My Community. The Challenge asks participants to create a web-based application using open-source Twitter data that will automatically deliver a list of the top-five trending illnesses from a specified geographic region in a twenty-four hour period.

This challenge, complete with cash prize, is the ideal opportunity for the nation’s brightest computer science and technology students, professors or individuals to test their abilities with real world issues.

We’re looking for:

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The Challenge:

At a recent Forum hosted by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, state and local health practitioners expressed their desire to more easily access social media data. The Now Trending Challenge was created to help fill this need.

The Challenge asks participants to create a web-based application using open-source Twitter data that will automatically deliver a list of the top-five trending illnesses from a specified geographic region in a twenty-four hour period. This data would be sent to state and local health practitioners to use in a variety of ways including building a baseline of trend data, engaging the public on trending health topics, serving as an indicator of potential health issues emerging in the population, or cross-referencing other data sources.

The winning submission will receive a grand prize of $21,000, as well as a $1000 travel stipend to attend an event announcing the winner. In addition to the monetary prize, winners will have the chance to present their tool at a Fusion Forum and will ultimately benefit from national visibility and recognition as the tool is used by state and local health practitioners throughout the nation.

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This tidbit from the interviewer made me laugh:

> Surely there’s an opportunity there for the global Linux community to influence laptop design for the betterment of everyone?

Yes, because Linux-influenced hardware has worked out so well in the past. Do we really want to reenact the Android catastrophe in the laptop space?
I don't know what a numpty is, but I quite enjoyed this allegory.
With GoDaddy listed furthest to the left, which is the #1 spot in L-R languages..
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I don't understand the allure of WP7. It's the worst of both worlds. If you want long term updates and a simple interface, plus the biggest mobile app-store with all the latest and hottest apps - get an iPhone.

If you want to pick whatever hardware you want, and through many variations, with software that gives you maximum control over it, especially if you root it - get an Android phone.

What does WP7 offer? Much weaker ecosystem, more expensive applications, less visually appealing games, the hardware is pretty much the same on all the phones (which makes me wonder why they even bother having multiple models), the technology is at least 1 year behind, sometimes 2, and it doesn't even get updates in the long term like the iPhone.

If Nokia didn't happen to make a nicely designed phone, we probably wouldn't even be talking about WP7 at all right now, which also leads me to think what a strategically poor decision Samsung and HTC took when they decided to support WP7. Because Microsoft is now only helping Nokia and Nokia gets all the credit for WP7. If they didn't support WP7 for a year, they could've gotten rid of one of their largest competitors (Nokia) for good by now.
This is an interesting suggestion, but I have significant questions that I'e like to see answered.

1. Most multi-armed bandit algorithms assume that the potential reward for each lever is the same each time you pull it. Unfortunately web traffic does not look like this - there are daily, weekly, and monthly cycles in conversion characteristics, with large random fluctuations on top. An A/B test can ignore this - who got the better traffic is just another random factor that comes out in the statistics. How much would this impact a multi-armed bandit approach?

2. My understanding is that multi-armed bandit algorithms assume that feedback is instantaneous - pull the lever and get the answer. But this is often not true. You send a whole batch of emails before getting feedback on the first. Depending on the business, incoming users can take time to convert to paying customer. I've seen places where the average time to do so was weeks. What decision should be made in that time period of uncertainty? Worse yet, what if one version speeds up conversions relative to the other? I know how to tweak an A/B test to handle this issue (just wait then look at cohorts that should have converted under either), I don't know how to modify a multi-armed bandit algorithm to do so.

3. As a practical matter, companies don't want to keep tests going indefinitely. There is a real technical cost to maintaining a complicated mix of possible pages that can shown. You want losers to be removed from your code base. A/B testing is well-suited to doing that. A multi-armed bandit approach does not.

4. Most companies don't even do A/B testing correctly. I fear that pushing a more complex scheme makes them less likely to try it, and increases the odds of mistakes.
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I can't imagine how this would allow for that functionality (Although I agree it could be cool). With current Drupal 7/MySQL setup each site has absolutely no knowledge of the other sites. I worked about 40 Drupal sites (most on the same domain) at my last job. Many had very similar structure, modules, themes, etc, just a different content source and it seemed to make the most sense to the devs before me to create separate sites (I don't necessarily disagree).

To make updates to core, modules and the like, I wrote a couple scripts and a config with a list of the siteroots. It would cd to each directory then run the drush (the CLI client/module) commands we wanted. Before that, we had each engineer grab a couple sites and run the commands after we deployed. Less than ideal.

Seems silly for common modules or core updates.

First, the sites would have to have some kind of knowledge of each other.

If you're looking for structural sharing, you can export views individually, but the majority of the core settings can be exported as a module with the features module. Users can be shared through the use of shared tables in the settings.php file.

If you're looking for content movement/sharing, perhaps Organic Groups is worth a look.

(edit: forgot the letter y)
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For reference, here is the original blog post on Data Gravity:

http://blog.mccrory.me/2010/12/07/data-gravity-in-the-clouds...
I read HSoE a couple of weeks ago to see what more adacamically oriented Haskell books were like. I'm glad I started with RWH, and LYaH covers a lot more ground, but HSoE is excellent in the clarity of what it does cover, in using graphics quite nicely for examples (dated graphics library though), and especially for teaching how to do proofs using Haskell (which also includes teaching well how to evaluate haskell code in your head, and how to think about space leaks).

If the new book does the same, and also teaches something about computer music, it sounds like a real winner.
Sounds then like I'd have an issue with the software's author, or possibly with consumer protection laws.

Punishing the store is still wrong.
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"name" is also in the URL of namecheap. It is very hard to counter legit sites with the exact keyword match in their URL, even if you have many more quality links going to you.

Try "hosting" and you'll see what I am talking about.
late-loading content is a scourge that is especially noticeable on mobile.
EC2 is one thing and is fairly simple to move away from, more problematic is S3, DyanmoDB or Google App engine or anything like that. They touch only lightly on the subject to be honest. ORM's lol will not solve your problem in this case.

This article is way to fluffy to offer any proper advice.
> Anyone who truly understands UI design realizes that every preference option is an admission of defeat: it's there because you couldn't just get it right the first time.

No, it's there because "getting it right" is subjective. If you're happy with Apple's defaults, the only thing it means is that your ideal of UI happens to coincide with Apple's idea of UI, no less, no more.

If you would like everyone to respect your subjective preference of one browser over another (and there's nothing wrong with that), let's keep it all consistently subjective and avoid using moralizing phrases, okay?
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Wikipedia's definition is a bit problematic because it doesn't explain why it is fraudulent, and leaves out the precise elements that make it fraudulent. Namely: promising a non-existent return and the ability to refund, and secretly doing so by refunding (as a central party) old members.

Note that Wikipedia later in the article does clarify some of these points. To quote:

- In a Ponzi scheme, the schemer acts as a "hub" for the victims, interacting with all of them directly. In a pyramid scheme, those who recruit additional participants benefit directly. (In fact, failure to recruit typically means no investment return.)

- A Ponzi scheme claims to rely on some esoteric investment approach and often attracts well-to-do investors; whereas pyramid schemes explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial investments.

In the case of Groupon founders cashing out, that was even publicly announced, and quite certainly not fraudulent in itself.
Apple’s iPhone and iPad barely hits the mark there.

Do you actually believe that the magical "retina" mark just coincidentally happened to be 2x Apple's original resolutions? How convenient!

It’s a petty good approximate term

It's a marketing term that the stupid embrace. Is a 64Kbps mp3 "eardrum audio" in a standard room with a fan? Is 128Kbps eardrum audio on a crummy mp3 player?

That was an uninformed rant on your part

What was uninformed about it? Desperately curious to hear what.
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Go Daddy was catching some flack[0] when it was discovered that they were appending their link to the bottom of web pages built with their web page builder tool called Website Tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if Google caught on and devalued a lot of their links with similar anchor text.

[0] http://yoast.com/godaddy-link-building/
So for example a simple .pepsi controlled by Pepsi rather than a whole bunch of .drink / .food / .crappy_sugar_stuff that pepsi have to buy 'their' name in?

And all controlled by a company whose income mostly comes from making up new ones of these?
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"They're the Perez Hilton of tech journalism."

Thank you, good sir. That just made my day. I will have to use that one in the future.

On topic:
Fragmentation doesn't always mean the end of the world. A lot of people could not spot the differences between iOS 4 and 5, or Froyo and ICS. As far as development goes, MS has gone on record to say that all WP7 apps will run on WP8. Personally, I'll just wait and see what will come of this before throwing my lot in with the Perez Hiltons of tech journalism.
What is the language that you write in that doesn't "wrap another language"? I always find it amazing that it's possible to get programmers to argue against not just some specific abstraction, but abstraction as a general principle. What do you think programming is exactly, if not layers and layers of abstractions?

[edit: that's not to say I think the MobiRuby syntax is looking very good at the moment, but don't toss the baby with the bathwater]
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As I mentioned, I used a different computer to see non-personalized results. You can check it out on a proxy search tool like NewIPNow.com to see unpersonalized results.

Incidentally, I have 100+ names at Godaddy and bid on their auctions, while I do not have an account at NameCheap.
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He makes a compelling argument, though I think the analogy to digital computers is rather labored.