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I still find it terribly ironic that a free DSCM wound up at the heart of such a massive drive toward proprietary centralization. I think a lot of people envisioned things heading in a rather different direction.

Which is not meant as backhanded flame of GitHub's product, by the way. Rather, as far as observations go, it can only speak to the opposite - given that everybody can roll their own, they may be doing something right. OTOH, I think it does call for vigilence on whether they're going to start adding lock-in systems, unless they have already.
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Ergo, JavaScript isn't the fasted language for that matters, because matrix multiplication is too important.
I always feel weird about these Google interviews... The day I got out of college I would have been very strong on most of the stuff mentioned here. Nowadays I'd fail, although the years spent in the industry have improved my experience under so many aspects...

Is Google's interview biased for 'right out of college/phd' applicants?
I disagree with the logic behind this piece and I believe it's conflating expected value with utility.

Basically, if given a 0.1% chance of earning 50 billion dollars or a 50% chance of earning 3 million dollars, one could convincingly argue that the most rational choice is the latter because the marginal utility of money diminishes rapidly.

However, if given the choice between a 0.1% chance of saving 50 million lives vs a 50% chance of saving 30,000 lives, one could argue that the former is better since the marginal utility of saving lives is much more linear.
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> The success of this kickstarter project shows that there's no real use case for tablets except surfing/reading/consuming/procrastinating on the sofa and thus, people want their keyboard back

I would say that a little over 1,100 backers for some iPad keyboard does not say much when you consider the tens of millions of iPads out in the wild.
PyPy is often faster than v8, so a more complete benchmark should include it.
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I thought the real issue here is that you either need server infrastructure or sufficient intermediate nodes to do NAT hole punching (like Skype)?
or there is no dedicated library for matrix multiplication compared to the other languages..
Aren't all major manufacturers except Apple struggling to get access to a aluminium lathes.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110803PD222.html
How many source code bases are larger and have more authors than the linux kernel?
Especially since hg exists, is extremely similar to Git and arguably has a better UI.
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Honestly, ask your parents. I can't imagine that decent parents would have an issue with their kid needing a bit of extra money to spend some time learning an extremely valuable skill.
If you have used Blender some time in the past but you did not like it, you really should give it another chance. Blender has improved a lot and keeps on improving very quickly.

The biggest change is the completely new UI in Blender 2.5. It's very nice and my favorite feature is the good keyboard accessibility. All actions in the editor should now be available through the UI and the keyboard, with helpful tooltips and all.

That being said, I think it's time for me to go and grab a fresh blender source from their repos and take it out for a spin.
I feel that Kap-Slap is too close what you hear to radio on every day.

For working there is nothing better than repeating, simple melodies and patterns. What I consider to be a good song is something that you can work along with and not even notice it. This can be classical (Arvo Part, Philip Glass), but I often find that electronical music with a baseline beat is more mellow and fluid.

Here are my recommendations (some really good stuff):
http://soundcloud.com/juliengray/julien-gray-gondwana-extend...
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1. That case was a social justice witch hunt. The purpose was to prove the political piety of the plaintiff.

2. The microscopic number of black engineers have already run the gamut of cognitive testing. An IQ test would not have a "disparate impact". This is why big corporations ask for university degrees: the degree itself is an IQ test.

3. FizzBuzz will screen out virtually the entire African race, and is provably related to actual job performance. After that an IQ test will not appreciably change the statistics.
Late to the party on this, but I highly recommend the imaginatively titled musicForProgramming(); over here: http://musicforprogramming.net/
It does mean that there might be mileage in a native tool wrapping LAPACK et al in v8.
Except that the matrix multiplication benchmark uses pure javascript (see the source here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/test/perf/per...). I wonder how JS would do with bindings to LAPACK.

And then there is a bias in those benchmarks, see for example the ones for quicksort: in Python they only time the duration of the sort itself, whereas (at least in Julia and JS) they time both the creation of the random array and the time needed to sort it.
This centralization has occurred out of different people's individual choice and so it is quite different from any other centralized system.
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So is it also really scary that the mods/admins on the Starcraft 2 forum could also see his IP address?

The risk of being DDOSed when you share a contact on Skype and they find out your IP address is hyperbole.
What about using https://github.com/rbranson/node-ffi + clapack?

Not that I know what I'm talking about, I've never used Fortran.
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Yes, but why does it actually matter if someone has your IP address?
See: https://github.com/NaturalNode/node-lapack (haven't tested it, just to say that it exists).
Curiously, American minorities score more poorly on culture-neutral tests like Raven's Matrices. They do better on culturally biased tests because they can pick up mainstream culture knowledge from TV and movies.
Ooh, ooh, what about phosphorous?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
> typesetting and typography done in html is far superior

Did I miss the irony somewhere? Last time I checked (justified) line breaking was a mess, protrusion is not supported and generally it's quite hard to handle font metrics without using a canvas. I guess you're right that this is changing, but it's nowhere near the quality and the ease (yes even that) of TeX or InDesign. And if you use some content preprocessor like pandoc or xslt the limitation of static information on paper isn't a problem anyway.

Btw, if you like to have more control over the layout have a look at ConTeXt, it's quite nice especially its modular approach.
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> no-one (sane) is going to rewrite all of those linear algebra libraries

Is it because it would take a long time or because it's inherently hard?
Oh man, reminds of the time I was working on an intranet app for a big furniture company and all test user signups were coming through as 01/01/1970. After several frustrating hours trying to track down the source of the error I had the client enter a new user in front of me to see why it was happening for them & not me. I watched in horror as he set the birth date to January 1st 1970.

He had some limited exposure to development in the past and had got into his head that this date was the Universal Developer Test Date.
As many as you like, if you don't mind overcommitting the cores. CPUs overcommit quite well - it's when you start overcommitting RAM that you get into trouble.
Which is what the Mac once claimed to be, but Apple relies on unmarked, multi-fingered "gestures" and two-handed hotkeys. Yeah, it's a clinic of hypocrisy from the company that claimed two-button mice were "too complicated." Then it comes out with one inept, piece-of-shit mouse after another, culminating in a "multi-touch" mouse that you're somehow supposed to hold in place while swiping horizontally with multiple fingers.
It's easy enough to do a basic implementation, but getting good numerical stability and good performance is hard (and in Javascript, it's pretty much impossible with current implementations). See also the matrix multiplication benchmarks in the post: JS is 60x slower than Matlab, even though it's already using typed arrays. A naive triply nested for loop in C would probably perform similarly to the JS, which is to say a lot slower than something optimized for the characteristics of the processor (number of registers, vectorized floating point and cache sizes mostly, I'm not sure if Matlab is using multiple cores here).
Note that this is python-core - which has an obvious python bias for a variety of reasons, and also doesn't pertain in any way to github (see the fact they self-host HG). In actuality, having HG be written in python has helped python-core write plugins and resolve other issues.

So; in summation pick the right tool for your team not due to some techno bigotry, which is what that PEP outlines.
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Also if you look at its economy which is arguably an even more important characteristic.
That's scary if they really show the local IP. It becomes quite handy tool for hackers. If they have breached any computer in a company network and want to target the CEO's computer next they can just use Skype to get his IP.
Yes, and after you cobble this asinine frankendevice together, you have something with no proper I/O. Crippled Bluetooth. No user-accessible file system. No way for third-party apps to sync data with companion apps on the computer (without some hokey wireless or Internet-based workaround).

It's incredible how this ridiculous gimmickry is playing out in 2012. Downright juvenile.
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I don't know much about javascript implementations. Is there no foreign-function interface available ? If you can interface with C you can interface with Fortran (with a little extra work).
Well, one might have reached the same conclusion about the millions upon millions of shitty cell phones that were sold right up through 2005. Cell phones with abysmal UIs, retarded ergnomics, and no working sync software.

Sales figures don't prove something is good (or bad).
As long as you control the product entirely, I believe that it's possible to break tasks down into one-week chunks. But what happens when you depend on external parties to complete your task? If they don't delivery, or if it just takes a lot of pm legwork to get things moving, a technically simple task may well take many weeks to get through.
c.f.the banal argument often put forward by OSS zealots, "why use Windows, Linux is so much better".

In brief, bash, like mysql (or Windows) is always there. Most people know how to use bash and wouldn't notice any difference by switching (except for a possible unnecessary learning curve).

Lets turn it around. Assuming (and a big assumption) that zsh is more powerful, why does this matter to someone who probably spends most of their time at a terminal thinking and puts anything half way repetitive into a script? Its like telling a carpenter than a brand X chisel is more powerful than a brand Y chisel.

Show me how a skilled zsh user is 'more powerful' than a skilled bash user at anything that matters. Perhap some people spend too much time typing and not enough time thinking.
"Chip lock-in"? What do you mean?
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A CV in LaTeX does not have to be typesetted in Computer Modern nor have a dry "LaTeX feel". Using XeTeX, TikZ, fontspec and Open Type fonts you can do fun stuff that look gorgeous.

The great thing for me is that I can directly import my .bib and all my publications are automagically included in my CV. My attempt: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3809633/cv_adrien_friggeri.pdf (slightly out of date, should recompile and update)
It's more likely the battery that is causing all that weight. Nearly all tablets are about 1/2 to 3/4 battery (in terms of mass and volume).
Well, at least SOAP uses XML which has defined the basic formats. I hate that there are at least three different datetime formats in JSON and they are all used. WTF!
SOAP isn't that bad if you stay away from WS- extensions
I launched my first successful startup within a month after we went broke failing with two previous startups. The need to get stuff going helps A LOT!
SMTP is pretty simple I would say
Achievement 3 is awarded for "find the right combination," but there are 137980 combinations (assuming order doesn't matter) and I'm not that patient. :x
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Yeah, or even Qt, since their UI toolkit is also highly optimized for all kinds of plattforms. The advantage of the blender approach, of course, is that the app feels the same on every platform, since it is not bound to platform-specific UI requirements. So it doesn't end up in an uncanny valley, where it is kinda like the native UI, but not quite like it.
In physics, a discovery claim needs five-sigma level of certainty in the measurement of mass in this case. I fail to see the mass of the particle named. Am I missing something from the PR? (Edward Bernays)
The so-called browser wars were irrelevant really - Netscape's strategy was to seed the world with browsers then sell servers. My employer at the time spent millions on those servers - but as of version 3, they dropped the ball, and all their customers deserted them. That's the real story of Netscape's failure.
From just looking up the IP to that account?
I do startups because I like the challenge and like to show others that I can dominate the system and run things with little effort involved.

I dropped out of a regular job in a design company after half a year and will never return to something like that.

For me a startup is a challenge to do things better, smarter than established companies.
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Actually, xetex-pstricks has been in TeX Live for a long time now. It will not give you all of pstricks in XeLaTeX, but for the simplest needs it's more than sufficient. Microtype is a bigger problem.
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I think that reason is mostly inertia.

Also, because it's GNU. Just as IE is the Microsoft browser, bash is the GNU shell, and most Linux distributions are built around GNU userland.

But that's just Linux. The BSDs don't see bash as the best default, where it tends to only be available as an optional package.
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Everyone I know complains most about having no file system, but I agree the average mom who looks at her recipe app won't miss it.
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Knowing why you do something, puts the soul in your work. Without it, it's just work. I refuse to believe life is simply a long grind of do-ing with an eventual not-doing as the reward. No. Love for your work, passion for what you do, is the thing that fathers beautiful things. It's the thing that makes great companies work. Heck, it's the thing that makes life work.

You list power, status or passion as possible why's. Which leads me to believe you misunderstand what true motivation really is. Wanting to create something beautiful for the sake of beauty, to contribute in a meaningful way, to add instead of substract. These are transcending human endeavours. Status, power, money; just side-effects to the medicin that is purpose.

Even you've had a reason for pushing yourself to create. Perhaps it was that in the back of your mind you believed that you deserved to live a better lifestyle.
It's your vision of the future that moves you to act. The belief that things can be different, and that you are able to effect that difference. Having a why isn't important?
Having a why is the goal.
Um, a lot of that stuff most people don't use? Juvenile?

Why get angry about people liking their iPad but wanting a keyboard? Looks pretty cool to me. Like a laptop with a detachable keyboard.
"Find the right combination" huh? Kind of subjective, right? How do you do this?

[edit]: http://www.howtocircle.com/2012/04/incredibox-find-right-com...
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This is pretty clearly criminal not just civil. Remember he is stealing from MPAA members and exporting the stolen goods to a foreign country.

The US is supposed to be a "country of laws,not men." That means it is NOT supposed to be up to the opinion of one person whether an act is legal or not. What is legal needs to be decided by our elected officials.

Anyone who wants to see copyright fixed should be pushing to see this blatant scofflaw thrown in jail, maybe that would focus some attention on the problem.

I believe there could be some solution to the US IP legal problems both for patents and copyrights. Have you ever wondered how bands are allowed to "cover" other bands songs, even record and sell those covers? They do not need to seek permission because US law says the owner of the copyright must grant a license to whoever wants to cover the music:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_State...

The license fee is 1 1/2 cents per minute of recording per copy.

Rather than having completely uncapped damages at stake I can imagine some form of compulsory licensing for patents would stop all this wasted effort on patent lawsuits
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"Similar, familiar, comfortable look and feel across platforms."

Then you'd better get rid of the keyboard on the computer.
I don't think you mean intuitive, I think you mean discoverable and consistent. One good example is using only symbols to convey meaning, like the new gmail interface. I've not met one person who found it 'intuitive', or even able to easily figure out the functions without hovering to reveal the text. This is because symbols are good for visual searches and being a unique 'landmark', but not for conveying meaning.
My problem was the page appeared to randomly change whilst I was reading the text.

Of course, what had happened was my mouse had crossed over the wheel, but it took a second to figure that out.

Looks a like an interesting product. Good luck.
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In the case of email, the easiest way to get a user's IP is to have them load an external image.
No, that's the point: That's what it is NOT. No straightforward way to get files or information on or off the device. That's not a suitable computer.

It's a design dictated by Apple's fear and refusal to learn from the failure of DRM. More hypocrisy.
My mentor works at http://www.salescrunch.com and from what I've seen they have came up with a very slick replacement for WebEx.
Until she wants to send the recipe to her friend. Or move it to some other app after the vendor goes defunct. Or print it.

Apologists for the crippled user experience act as though a file system is some kind of arcane "nerdy" or "geeky" facility. It isn't. It's how people organize information. That's why we have file cabinets and recipe boxes. It's also how multiple applications can act on the same files.

In iOS we have mobile, handheld Unix computers that are ironically cut off from the outside world on purpose. On those computers we have applications that can't interact with each other or each other's data. This is not progress.
Ok, you brought it up. IQ tests test one thing - can you do an IQ test. Scholars love them, write them, and they filter for ... yes! Scholarship!

A human mind is multidimensional. The idea you can find one number to measure it is downright ridiculous. You wouldn't even buy pants based on just one number, say waist size. You'd get home, they'd be too long or too short. Obviously!

But folks buy into the IQ cargo cult big time. Totally baffles me.
Japan is pretty clearly part of the imperial US having ceded all military protection to the US.

Have you ever heard anyone in government use the acronym CONUS? It is supposed to stand for Contiguous United States:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States#CONUS....

But it is more commonly used opposed to "United States Interests at home and abroad" - i.e. the imperial United States
It's interesting that you use the word transcend. I believe its 100% appropriate in this case.

Money, power, passion, and status are wholly human motivations available to anyone. The desire for beauty for the sake of beauty really does transcend the far more practical goals of majority of people, and places as an ideal something completely abstract.

Now, I wouldn't call it "true" motivation because that'd lead us down the angle of a "no true scotsman" discussion.
Definitely not against building a startup. However instead of building another photo sharing social media site why not build a better way to raise money for charity, or solve a difficult problem in your field of expertise.

Why kill yourself for five years on a problem or pursuit you are not 100% passionate about?
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Using "if myvar is 0" exposes you to more implementation dependent behavior than "if myvar".
Sounds like you've been burned, sorry to hear that.

On the other hand, of course, if your house has been burglarized, you want just his guy on your side, ignoring the lame folks babbling inanities and looking for the one that won't meet his eyes, has a cut from broken glass on his hand, or too much cash in his pocket. Never mind socioeconomic theories. And when he finds him, he brings him in, even if it takes the truncheon.

Everybody thinks they know who should be running things. Scholars think scholars would do well. Merchants think they should rule. Soldiers want to rule all the time.
Most of the time they're wrong.

It takes a certain mindset to survive any job. Assembly-line, sales, engineering. Even police work. You have to be pretty thick-skinned for that. More important, you have to go where angels fear to tread, confront argumentative people pretty much all the time, and be willing to be yelled at afterward because you gotta do what you gotta do, out on the street.
Pypy should have direct access to lapack. No need to bring in Pandas. Lapack is just that fast.
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