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Yeah. Sounds fairly similar. You forgot to update the sentence about middle management, further strengthening my point about indistinguishability. Thanks for underlining that private sector isn't "much" better. :)
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The "making lots of stuff whether it's good or not" is my biggest issue - frankly, being prolific results in faster iteration on ideas, which contributes to genius.

I find that I tend to self-edit before I've even started on something, which prevents me from doing what I want. I chalk this up to over-ambitious perfectionism, which is a negative trait in this case.
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Re: triggering the missiles, did you read the article? It talks about a scenario where the soldiers are tricked into firing the missiles.

Re: doing more damage if they dropped bowling balls from the roof, that's just flat out wrong. For a start, the missiles travel at 2800 miles per hour which is an order of magnitude higher than the terminal velocity of a bowling ball, so the impact alone would be much more damaging. Secondly, the warhead is housed in a tungsten shell which is designed to fragment on impact to maximise damage inside the target. And then there are the explosives as well. The source for all this, by the way, is the wikipedia link you posted.
What was left unsaid in that article is that it's also a lot easier to get acquihired or patent-acquired or competitor-extinguish-acquired when you have no concrete commitments to any paying customers and can shut down anytime.
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There is room in the world for more operating system choice, most certainly. The modern hardware landscape being what it is, the OS is the App, pretty much, so work that out .. Haiku has its place.

Maybe after Web2.0 lights are faded, we will enter "OS War 4.0" and see where it takes us. I'm ready! (Still got my aging BeBox, to boot!)
You have Code School in there twice. Awesome site, btw!
My Linux distro of choice is Arch. I know a lot of people who have switched to Arch and everyone seems to like it a lot.

If you don't want something quite as hands on as Arch, I've also been hearing good things about Mint.
Yeah, I left that a bit in the air.

One can see COM as a kind of operating system OO ABI.

OS/2 SOM was better, but never got much following.
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I totally agree with you about data-sharing. I wanted to spend more time on that in the article, but didn't because I didn't want to make the article longer. I think the ability to share and ask questions about data really has enormous potential to drive science forward. The fact that enormous amounts of scientific data remains private to the lab, and not shared, is really a big loss to science. It's going to be very exciting as that data starts getting shared more.

The key to making that happen is disrupting the credit system. Right now scientists aren't incentivized to curate and share their data, so they don't put in the work to do it. You can't put data-sets on your resume, much like you can't put blog posts, or anything that is not a paper. As soon as scientists start getting credit for sharing data-sets, I think we'll start to see it happen.

Similar points apply, as you mention, to instant distribution. Instant distribution will happen more as scientists start getting credit for scientific ideas that they distribute instantly. You are already seeing some disruption to the credit system. In the last 5-10 years, since citation counts have been made publicly available by Google Scholar, citation counts have started to play a much larger role in resource allocation decisions, e.g. decisions by hiring committees and grant committees. I did my PhD at Oxford in philosophy from 2001-2007, and remained involved with some of the hiring decisions at the Oxford philosophy department until 2011, and it's been very interesting to watch the increased influence, over those years, of citation counts in hiring decisions.

Citation counts aren't perfect, but they are another signal. Hiring committees, I have experienced, are desperate for more signals that they can take into account when comparing candidates. Comparing candidates is a tough job. As with any signal, to wield it properly, you need to know its pros and cons. Fundamentally what the community is looking for here is a variety of signals that show how much a highly respected chunk of the scientific community has interacted with a piece of your content, and found it useful.

To get data-sets, and other media, to attract scientific credit, we need to develop metrics that demonstrate the traction that those pieces of media are getting in highly respected parts of the scientific community. I think those metrics will get developed, and that new metrics will play an enormous role in allowing different kinds of media to be shared, and everything to be shared faster.
Well, in the summary he cites some evidence that "geniusness" can be learned, at least if your teacher himself is a genius. "J. J. Thompson and Ernest Rutherford between them trained seventeen Nobel laureates" - quite a coincidence.
It's worth pointing out that some business models only work at scale, which isn't a reason not to try and start those kinds of businesses.

That's one reason to not try and squeeze nickels out of a growing business when you know you'll get quarters or dollars later from greater opportunities that were previously unavailable.

Had Instagram focused on trying to be ramen-profitable early on, it's possible it would have impacted their meteoric growth and successful Android launch. Moreover, at massive scale, their revenue potential and avenues to generate revenue change dramatically compared to what they could do when small.
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The problem is not C++ specific.

Any OO language with native code generation suffers the same problem.

It is one of the consequences of the fragile base class problem in OO.
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Iam trying to open from my Macbook pro and the safari browser keeps crashing. Is there a issue with safari?
"Keeping large amounts of text data in memory as efficiently as possible is one of my greatest concerns"

Depends on what you consider efficiency. If it's size, sure, store it using UTF-8. But if you're worried about speed, then UTF-16 or 32 may be the way to go, since you're dealing with data that fits a CPU register. For example, on ARM comparing one byte is much more work than comparing one 32-bit value.

"True, so ignoring it means that your code will be correct ... most of the time."

No, not going to ignore it! But on UTF-16 more code points match the UTF-16 encoding of it (easier for debugging)
A classic substitution, substituting an argument that government should exist for an argument that a government should get a given bit of money. It's not the same question, and following that substitution to its logical conclusion leads to the government needing 100% of the money. (And I do mean logical conclusion, not extreme conclusion. This is a fallacious argument.)

Those libertarians he references are strawmen.
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Can someone explain to me how UTF-8 is endianness independent? I don't mean that I am arguing the fact, I just don't understand how it is possible. Don't you have to know which order to interpret the bits in each byte? And isn't that endianness?
Most people don't understand basic finance either but they're still allowed to use credit cards and take out loans. A capitalist economy depends on a well educated population to function correctly.

We've got to fix the right problem.
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I'm as big a critic of the "Security Theatre" as the next guy, but trying to fight bollocks with even higher-grade bollocks isn't really very helpful. And Charlie's "white-hot supersonic shrapnel" is bollocks of the purest sort. A surface-to-air missile -- after its fuel is burnt out and its payload is detonated -- is basically nothing more than a thin tube. The "shrapnel" would consist of lightweight scraps of carbon fibre and sheet metal, fluttering downward like ordinary carbon fibre and sheet metal. Definitely annoying to have it land on your roof -- but fairly inconsequential.

Disappointed in Mr. Stross for this one.
i wonder though -- if geniuses think a certain way, will training yourself to think along those lines increase your brainpower by teaching you to think more critically? I've read a lot of stuff recently on the ability humans have to actually increase their intelligence (though it's still a pretty controversial subject).

No emulation doesnt make you a genius; but maybe it can help to bring you just that tiny step closer?
Admirable cause, but the author doesn't do themselves any favors by dramatically overstating the role of publication in knowledge sharing (informal channels & conferences exist, publication serves more of a recognition purpose), and with somewhat offensive, unsupported claims like,

"The stakes are high. If these inefficiencies can be removed, science would accelerate tremendously. A faster science would lead to faster innovation in medicine and technology. Cancer could be cured 2-3 years sooner than it otherwise would be, which would save millions of lives"
I admittedly have a poor understanding of corporate taxation and offshore avoidance, but this example makes sense to me. Though government is not a family, and it is safe to say all parties will act selfishly. This may further his argument that there should be no tax exceptions or render it irrelevant, I'm not sure.
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I fell into this problem a while back with the domain I use for my mail. Everything was set up nicely in Namecheap's DNS so that the MX records were pointing at GMail and the root CNAME was pointing at my webhost. After a couple days not getting mail, I figured out what the problem was.

Oddly enough, unlike the article, Comcast's DNS was working fine with my domain fine on the root CNAME.

Most services like Heroku or Google's AppEngine (where you set up a CNAME for your domain rather than an A record) recommend that you have your DNS provider to a redirect to the "www." version. Namecheap's DNS will do this (a lot of providers offer redirects in their DNS system which isn't really DNS, but is a simple value-add for them to provide).
That's basically the premise of Good to Great and Built to Last.
Does anyone know if any commercial CPUs have been packaged factory fused to a heatsink?

There are 200W Power 7 CPUs, and they don't have to worry about aftermarket cooling like high end x86 CPU manufacturers do. It seems like it could really make sense there.
It's telling that the writer included a screenshot rather than just stating what he did. He believed the GUI was doing something for him when it was not.
I'm pretty sure I could incorporate a business virtually anywhere I liked (within reason - there are obvious exceptions). No one is going to throw me in prison if I try to start a company in Singapore, or Chile, or Hong Kong, or any other whatever. You don't have to physically MOVE there in most cases...and even if you did...what's stopping you? And as to Visa issues...there's ways to gain residency in most countries...you can make it happen if you want.
Appreciate the discussion here. You all may have just solved an occasional and annoying issue on my website. I'm a Dev at www.theblaze.com and we've had varied reports over the past little while that the site is inaccessible on Comcast. I use Comcast as well at home and I've noticed intermittent failures. My first thought was DNSSEC errors like those that took NASA down a few months back, but we don't use DNSSEC at all.

Just checked, and our root record is indeed CNAME'd.

One question though. Is there a single source to reference for the discussion I'm starting with our host?
For those who don’t know it, UTF8-CPP[1] is a good lightweight header-only library for UTF conversions, mostly STL-compatible.

[1] http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/
Yeah, for anyone who doesn't believe this, do a search for _WebThreadLockFromAnyThread sometime. All those Stack Overflow questions are from people who thought it was safe to have threads anywhere near UIKit.
Sadly, the pervasiveness of JavaScript means that UTF-16 interoperability will be needed as least as long as the Web is alive. JavaScript strings are fundamentally UTF-16. This is why we've tentatively decided to go with UTF-16 in Servo (the experimental browser engine) -- converting to UTF-8 every time text needed to go through the layout engine would kill us in benchmarks.

For new APIs in which legacy interoperability isn't needed, I completely approve of this document.
These seems to be really ruby and python centric.

Is there anybody who knows any good ones for IOS development?
>It's probably my non-native English then. I didn't realize it's such a common wording, thanks for pointing out. Just sounded a bit odd.

A, no problem. I'm a non-native English speaker myself. It's so known a use that it's even in the dictionary:

Post Mortem: 2. Informal An analysis or review of a finished event.

Funny aside: in my language we have a similar half-joking phrase.

When someone asks "How did it go?" after you've done anything that you're uncertain about it's outcome (a job interview, exams, your book getting published, etc), a common answer is "The autopsy will show us".
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OK...skilled plumber...he might not be able to move...I studied economics in college and there are examples of industries that the professors would always cite...like hair stylists...plumbers...etc. Sure.

BUT...that plumber could create a company hiring local plumbers in 20 different countries, and sell plumbing services locally in each of those countries, and incorporate the overall business in a friendly tax country.

So your example isn't really valid. I argue that ANYONE can take advantage of globalization with a little thought. If you choose not to, and Apple chooses TO do...well its really your own fault and choice...isn't it?

That's just one simple example...that plumber could create a digital course that teaches others to become plumbers...or teaches plumbers to market their services better...he could package that digital product, incorporate a company in singapore or WHEREVER he finds the best corporate tax rate, and take advantage of the same things Apple does...

I could go on and on...it's all choice. You chose to be proactive or you choose to snipe at others who do...A thing is not unfair if everyone has the ability to take advantage of it...and some simply choose not to because it's hard.
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No, that’s not endianness; endianness refers to the ordering of bytes within a multi-byte value—least significant byte first or most significant byte first, generally. The order of octets in a UTF-8 code point is fixed, and because a bit is not an addressable unit of memory, the storage order of bits within an octet is immaterial.
It's endianness independent in the sense that the order in which you interpret the bytes in each character does not depend on the processor architecture, unlike UTF-16.

If your processor interprets the bits in each byte in a different order, that might be a problem, but it's not what we're talking about when we usually talk about the endianness of character encodings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
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I wanted to get your feedback on my recent project : it aims to unify Vim configuration by aggregating some common plugins in order to provide an easy-to-use « package ».

It's called vimified : https://github.com/zaiste/vimified

The idea was to make it simpler than Janus (e.g. vundle instead of submodules et al.); it is also somehow similar to spf13-vim.

What do you think? Thanks!
> I know people are going to say "what about iOS/Android" but why the hell would you want to write anything on those devices.

Writing on an iPad is very convenient. I would love to transfer as much work as I can on iPads (from laptops).

And replying to your child:

> I was thinking the same thing. Seems like a niche idea that only people with money to burn and nothing better to do would buy into.

Money to burn, really? $10/month for people in an industry where earning $8000/month is the norm? If anything it might be too low.
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This graph is apparently from the Forrester report quoted in the article. How does one come up with this? So in 2015, Windows8 (9?) will all of a sudden gain some good traction at the expense of Android market share but not iOS? How do you interpolate constant demand for iOS devices 4 years into the future when the first iPad is only 2 years old?
Thanks, mooism2. Good points. Would you use a new app that makes the "search contact(s) → call/write/message" faster and more beautiful?

If a friend also uses your app, can you mark their contact details as being guaranteed-up-to-date?
→ That is the idea that I want to build the app around.

If a particular friend doesn't use your app, can you remember when I entered their details and keep track of how stale they are?
→ Good point. One solution would be to regularly send them an email (maybe once every three months) with the request that to send you their updated information (via email).

If I text them and the text doesn't get through, can you highlight their number as possibly not working any more?
→ That wouldn't be necessary after they use the same network as well. Otherwise: Cool idea, I will add it to the list.
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I'm using Linux Mint at the moment. I chose it after upgrading Ubuntu to 12.04 when things became unstable. Linux Mint is pretty good so far. It's stable, and uses a mix of Gnome 3 and MATE for the desktop environment.
OK, definitely agreed. I honestly could not tell you about the different kinds of tree structures, but of course I know the difference between a list, linked list, tree, graph, (hash)map, and so on.

I find it hard to believe that someone could even competently do front-end work without some level of understanding of this. Last week I came across an issue where performance for $(".foo") selectors was problematic in IE<=8, which don't have a native document.getElementsByClassName() so jquery had to search the whole DOM. Solution was to select as $("div.foo"). Without knowing about the algorithmic complexity in searching a tree and the corresponding algorithmic simplicity in searching an indexed hashtable (such as {"div": [list of divs]} which I'm sure the browser keeps internally) this solution would have been non-intuitive.
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Thanks for that! We gave up on chef when one of their version updates failed to work with a prior version, both of which were the OS package defaults. Chef silently failed, no error message, nothing in the docs, nothing even in the source code. Had to do a fair bit of searching to find out why.

When open source projects like chef have nobody interested in even documenting much less testing backwards incompatibilities we move them to the bottom of our to-eval list.

This also illustrates a problem in article's blind enthusiasm for the latest revisions and libraries i.e., it dismisses the headaches this causes end-users, who often don't have staff or budget to fix whatever breaks during an upgrade. That said we are at least talking about python, which has had better release QA and backwards compatibility than perl, ruby or, gasp, php.
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Treehouse[1] has some iOS dev lessons and CodeLesson[2] has one intro course so far.

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[2] http://codelesson.com/courses/tag/Mobile
I take your meaning, but I am not looking for a interest group tax deduction. I am really wondering about what all of us need out of a tax system. It is more about when is it ok to tax and when is it just moving money around (SS and Unemployment are two I can think of off the top of my head).

I admit to being in the flat-rate tax camp with exclusions for one time capital gains (selling stock not dividends) and estate tax. I also wish they just gave a large basic deduction ($15K or $20K) and had everyone file as individuals.
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> converting to UTF-8 every time text needed to go through the layout engine would kill us in benchmarks

So what? Is your goal to create useful software, or win at worthless benchmarks?
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We aren't talking about emigration...we're talking about corporate domicile creation...the red tape is substantially less...

But even emigrating...why not? My girlfriends brothers wife emigrated from China to the US...my brothers exwife emigrated from Sri Lanka to the US...I have lots of friends who's families have done this...what's the problem?
I agree with you in concept, but the Web is actually not strictly tied to javascript. In the short term (say, next decade), JS is probably not going anywhere, but in the longer term I hope someone creates a more well-thought-out replacement. (And for the record, I kind of like javascript, just a few things I would change with it.)
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I'm sorry, but this is just ridiculous. It seems to completely misunderstand the nature of "venture" capital: (potential value + progress toward that value) x risk = valuation. 40 mm users and growing for Instagram (the example du jour) WITH revenue model would have been worth 2-5 billion, but since they weren't making money, they sold for 1.

Come on NYT!
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Genius is a sort of myth. For example, people seem to have the idea that before Charles Darwin, biology was in a dark age without any ideas other than intelligent design or some such. Well, no, Darwin was actually relatively unoriginal in his ideas about evolution, which was already commonplace in biological circles. He really just added a bit of sciency-but-not-quite-scientific rigor and coined the term "natural selection", then got famous for it.

I know several drastically unsuccessful people who exhibit the traits in this article. None of them have stumbled upon an idea or work that would cause society to label them a genius.

I don't think a genius is very different from any other person. It's just that a genius gets lucky with their novel ideas. Society calls them geniuses really just because people know their names.

I guess my gripe is simply that genius is a social phenomenon, not a trait of an individual, and that it's really quite embarrassing that everyone goes around licking the metaphorical feet of everyone they can think of who did something interesting, or "genius".

That said, I do think this is an interesting article, and knowing how to think like a "genius" is probably worth quite a lot.
I'm running Lion too. If you have repeatable problems, there should be some specific source for it. Tried "Activity Monitor" when it occurs?

Common problems can be: Spotlight doing indexing at the time, Flash fucking around, too little available hard drive space (less than 5GB), some rogue app, etc.

MBP 2007, 2GB RAM. I have now open: Chrome with 7 tabs, Sublime Text, Terminal (2 tabs, one SSH), Mail, iA Writer, Adium, iTunes, TunnelBlick VPN, Photoshop, Transmit, Dropbox, Alfred, Little Snitch and VLC and the movie plays just fine. I use either VLC or MPlayerX though, very rarely QuickTime w Perian.

Now, some people open 50 tabs and think that the browser should automagically handle them all, with 20 instances of Flash running in videos and apps, etc. Not so. VMs are also very resource hungry.

That said, the laptop is noticeably slower than my 4GB / i7 iMac, but not to the point it swaps --unless I start my 1GB linux VM (VMWare).