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So when you look at how poor people spend money, the rational economist would never advocate spending the money on the lottery. The utility is low [...]

This misses the point of the article, which is that gambling should not be regarded as an investment, but as entertainement. But I agree that poor people are possibly more likely to see it the wrong way, i.e. as a good investment.

The result is that the lottery has become a regressive tax.

By the same argument you can conclude that potatoes are a regressive tax since they cost a higher fraction of the poors' revenues.

When you give money to the government with nothing in return (except as a member of the collectivity), that is a tax. Not when you give money to a private company in exchange for some kind of entertainment.
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Well, one way to elaborate is that I have never in my life earned more than $50k/year. Or anywhere close to that for that matter.

Then again, I've never had a salary salary either. The only time I've worked anywhere completely full time, was a two month internship that paid mostly with the fact that "Holy cow I'm spending two months in the US for free, this is awesome!"

These days I freelance ten hours a week while finishing my degree. The pay is good, but there just aren't enough hours to build any sort of proper savings.
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One thing to bear in mind is that Opera employs "web openers" who will lobby and actively help Google to support the browser (so that "try me" link may not be as superficial as it looks). That said, blocking IE is silly.
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Interesting post which showed how badly configured linkages between private google docs and S3 caused an accidental DoS.
I think you miss the grandparent's point: when DOS first came out, it only supported 8 character file names and didn't support directories.
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You can click on any username on the Front Page or Newest page and read the profile, which may or may not contain something of interest. A majority seem not to put much there, but some do.

You can also check out the users with the top 100 karma and do the same.

I do note that you haven't filled out your profile information. If you don't provide your information, why should anyone provide information for you?
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I think the idea is you incorporate this into a wider backup script.
And there I am, wishing the headline was "Dell Announces a Linux Laptop Developed for Designers" instead.
es you are correct. We need 4:3 laptops. I hate these HD screens.
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See "Out of the Tar Pit" by Moseley and Marks http://web.mac.com/ben_moseley/frp/paper-v1_01.pdf

It's a great idea for a new paradigm of functional relational programming.
Don't feel bad: databases and object-oriented programming are also at odds. It's no accident that object-relational mappers are so leaky.
Hmm -- never heard of them -- neither has Quantcast or Compete. Alexa knows who they are -- says their users spend a whopping 86 seconds on the site.

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If it's not Florain, then at least someone loves him.

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So basically what you are saying is you don't believe in the self-driving car? As far as I understand, Google already build a car that is completely self-driving without human intervention, so your point is moot.

You can't compare the car google is building with semi-automated transportation on rails or in highly regulated air space. It is using completely different technology.

Also humans are notoriously bad at supervising technology. I would much rather drive myself, then having to pay attention all the time and step on the break, if my car does something stupid.
Thats nonsense, a broken Linux distro is not cost effective to fix because the number of breakpoints is innumerable. Zounds of configuration files, buggy software any an extremely branching entry point and shared dependencies make it quicker to wipe your install and start again. This is what I do with my installs; if it breaks wipe it.
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This is one of those things few people seem to get. I keep encountering small companies with a nice product idea whose idea of a market segment is "everybody". "But who are you selling to now?" I ask..... "everybody".... bah.

It was a real pleasure to talk to a founder with a marketing background last week who had a really solid plan for their product's initial launch to a small targeted group of users.

I think part of it's driven by the idea that investors are going to look askance at a company that's addressing a small market. The opposite seems to be true from what I've seen.

Who would you prefer? Somebody trying to sell to a large market with few/zero sales... or somebody selling to a small market, winning sales, and with a plan to grow the market. I know which I'd pick :-)
Where did ya here that? My favorite algorithm is patented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo...
Can you talk a little more on that? The author's stat of 16 hour days for six months sounds inflated
That's the point. You can't change the format strings to a different word order if the selection of values used to fill the fields is entirely dependent on word order (i.e., how the basic printf syntax works), unless you have a separate line/block of code that executes when the word order of the current locale differs.
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Agreed - I feel that as we have more filters, customisable searches, auto-folder moving and so-on then we're actually creating a big headache of curation, categorisation and taxonomy-creation for the end recipient.

What would be great IMO is for some of this to happen a little bit more automatically with the option for me to give the system feedback as to how well it did with it's filtering attempts. This would allow me to, over time, state my intentions (e.g. I really only want to be bothered with REAL problems) rather than implement the mechanisms to do so. I often feel I work for the machine - not the other way round.
I feel like your product is possibly amazing, but for some reason your front-end stuff just isn't hitting the spot or communicating what you're about enough.

I think you should try out your site on some random everyday folk, pretending like you're not hugely emotionally invested in it, and watch, listen, and ask lots of questions. Just go to a cafe or pub, and ask nicely, people are often kind. Even if you don't get any golden information, it's amazing to see what you do through someone elses eyes.

I'll be brave, reveal what an idiot I am, and honestly explain my "man on the street" experience:

* I follow the link on your blog post

* land page
* What is this? "have the best vacations..." hmmm, maybe holiday booker (meaning flights + hotels)
* 1. blah 2. blah blah 3. blah, video. whatever, no time, I'm ignoring
* oooh, I like this search box. I type: "berlin on sunday" (true, I do in fact want to buy a flight to Berlin on Sunday)

* results page
* I get "Birmingham to Berlin" results
* I happen to have my browser window small. All I can see is something for typing in an email. I don't want to type in an email or read the text about why I should type in my email. Also I'm in London not Birmingham. I wanted something better than a box to type my email into. I think, "this is rubbish", and go back to the blog post.

* After finishing blog post. I think "maybe if I say I'm in London it'll work better". So I go to front page, and scout round for something to say I'm in London. Find it, and use it.

* results page again
* I get "London to Berlin" results
* I heard someone say something about a graph in the blog comments, so I scroll down
* Ooooooh, nice graph! Wow, I really like this.
* Now what?! Another scout around, and I figure out to scroll down some more to view the flight details
* Top item is a cheap and correctly timed flight. I am extremely pleased and impressed.
* I find myself opening up another tab to go to that airline's page directly. It was done automatically. I'm not sure why, I think it's because I don't quite trust your site enough and wanted to go to a "proper" site to do the actual buying.

So some clear problems:

* I totally didn't notice/get the following flights idea
* Small UI niggles, and I guess maybe general look of the site, led to a general feeling of distrust
* You communicated some important stuff using text (following feature), and I didn't read any of it
* You're UI required me to know to scroll down
* You quickly asked for an email. But at that point I hadn't experienced any useful functionality, didn't trust you, or understand what you would do with it.
cute. though it hangs sometimes.
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Fairly light article but it makes a point I keep trying to mentor my geek friends on all the time. I often say "I'm just dumb enough to be successful". We all know really smart high IQ people who float with their heads in the clouds and never get anything done.

Another real issue in technology is that technologists have a real tendency to think the rest of the world is full of idiots because they can't code. That causes all sorts of sad and frustrating situations. We all have to realize that intelligence can't be judged by your ability to code or how many languages you can code in. I code across many systems, many languages and have done that for 30 years now and I have met many brilliant people who have a hard time using their iPhone. Often my partnerships and relationships with those people have proven to be some of the more rewarding relationships I've had in my life.
Eugenics can be practised without premature death of any person. So I'm afraid you need to do better on that argument.

Sterilisation, eg vasectomy, can be done without any loss of life; so ditto on that argument.
Actually, I think it might end up being cheaper than F1. No celebrity driver to pay millions to and no very-high safety concerns! Although given that most of the human population will probably not relate (or out-rightly reject the idea) to the sport because of the lack of driver, there might be less money in it.
I assume that if you're releasing this for Android, that Clutch for Android is not far away?
You are right - it's very tired. Also, most Python users couldn't care less about language wars.

Maybe with the exception of Java.

I'm also sure the idiomatic FORTRAN or C I wrote in college would be odd to someone who just came in contact with current versions of both languages, but all it means is that they have been around literally for ages.
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Yeah. Maybe btrfs (and it's snapshots) is a good option for system-upgrades which end into non-booting situations, but generally I think it is possible with growth of community and QA infrastructure to minimize situations like these (also, if there is not enough space, the best option is not to allow upgrade in the firstplace).
Well, plugs _a_ leak. The Memshrink team has plugged an awful lot of leaks, and slimmed down an awful lot of code over the last year or so.

They've now hit the point where they're largely fixing bugs in add-on writer's code, rather than their own.
Hmm, I think I am seeing this not for the first time..

(hint: "Year %s, the year of desktop linux?")
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Is that actually the case, or is it that the leak they've fixed is related to the add-ons API? I've only really glanced at the patch discussion thread, and this isn't an area I understand all that well anyway, but the way it reads to me is as the latter - hopefully someone can explain why I'm either write or wrong on that, though.
Reducing success to "marketing" is too trivializing and narrow. Marketing's a big part of it, sure, but the how of marketing matters a lot more than the why. Especially at the early stage, when marketing budgets are wafer thin.

If there's any single variable that seems to be best correlated with early-stage success, it isn't "marketing" so much as "hustle." How many different ways can you think of to get the word out about your product? How many people can you get yourself in front of, and in which novel situations? How can you inspire better-connected, deeper-pocketed, and more influential people to evangelize on your behalf?

I've got two friends right now running startups. The first started out in investment banking, so he's got a big ol' warchest. The second started out in relatively modest circumstances -- but she's somehow managed to weasel her way (I say "weasel" lovingly, as a compliment) into blogs, journals, conferences, Entrepreneur magazine, lectures at our alma mater, and so forth. More important, she's actually built something and is actively acquiring users, one small batch at a time.

I'd bank on her over the first guy any day of the week, and I'd have banked on her even before she started getting all her press and attention. We've all heard the old cliche about not taking no for an answer. In her case, the cliche isn't nearly sufficient. I'm pretty sure she's pathologically incapable of understanding the word no.

I say this with a lot of respect for your honesty, integrity, and bravery in putting yourself out there. But if you're the type who's constantly starting and stopping projects -- who seems to put up imaginary barriers before he even encounters real ones -- then you need to think very carefully about whether you should be a founder. Joining an existing startup? Sure. But being a founder? You need grit, hustle, balls, and borderline fanaticism. You also need an ability to break a bigger picture down into smaller, bite-sized chunks, and to tackle those chunks systematically. Most people look at the set of all activities called "marketing" as a single lump of work. Founders look at "marketing" and see 2,500 discrete activities they need to perform every month.
> a non standard waste of resources

I don't know what resources you are talking about, but it's definitely not wasting my screen resources as others do.

My vertical spaced is saved my menu-on-panel integration, on fullscreen title goes into panel too. Left-panel is also nice, it doesn't do "minimize on second click" as docky or others, it does nice "overview" on click on multi-window app. And finally, it also saves space by combining launcher and app-switcher.
I think robot delivery men are farther off than automated long haul trucks. Having a robot that can find the front door of an arbitrary residence and get to it from the street is more than a little bit beyond our current capabilities.

The safe idea is interesting, though.
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So far as I understand, there was a change made which cut off a leak between add-ons and the tabs/windows they were attached to, so that closed tabs weren't being held in memory just because an add-on had a reference to them.

However, that change broke something in earlier versions of the Add-on SDK, which means that at least one Add-on was then leaking memory like crazy. Upgrading that add-on to the latest version fixed _that_ leak.

More here:
http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-...
They did both. The leak was in numereous add-ons code, but they were able to change the semantics of the API to remove all these leaks. But that breaks things in some edge cases, but that was deemed acceptable (one time fix in some extensions, mainly those using Jetpack needing to embed the latest versions).
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If you want to put it that way, it's re-inventing the system of lots of small post-offices. But it's completely automated, so it's financially feasible. And DHL is the parcel carrier of Deutsche Post, the privatized entity that used to be Germany's publicly operated postal system.

I'm not sure that there's anything to fix here, specifically.
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The new-style formatting allows that as well:

>>> "{name} has {count} {thing}".format(
thing='bananas', count=10, name='Phil')
'Phil has 10 bananas'

It also allows for more complex expressions inside of format specifiers, so if you need to grab data out of an object, you can do something like:

>>> from collections import namedtuple
>>> Sentence = namedtuple('Sentence', ['name', 'thing', 'count'])
>>> s = Sentence(name='Phil', thing='bananas', count=10)
>>> '{dat[0]} has {dat.count} {dat.thing}'.format(dat=s)
'Phil has 10 bananas'

which is verbose and contrived here, but could be immensely useful in cases like

>>> '... {numeral[5]} {item.plural}'.format(
numeral=fr_numerals, item=animal)
'... cinq animaux'
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> So basically what you are saying is you don't believe in the self-driving car

No, I think they are certainly possible and I'd love to see some.

> You can't compare the car google is building with semi-automated transportation on rails or in highly regulated air space. It is using completely different technology.

This discussion was not about technology but about impact. Comparison with other transportation systems which are much more automated right now gives a better impression of the future than unjustified claims about self-driving cars being totally incomparable to anything else.
I guess I'm in the minority then. Unity is one of the few desktops which gets completely out of your way and uses minimum screen real estate while still remaining usable by non-technical users.

With HUD in 12.04, it's the only widely-used DE I can control almost entirely with keyboard.
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Hazel can do all of those things except add stuff to iTunes without opening the application (unless you count moving files to the Add to iTunes directory).

http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php
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Arrays, from where he took rangeCheck has a copyright notice stating that it was copyrighted by Sun, then Oracle:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/annotate/37a05a11f2...

It also states that Josh Bloch is one of the authors. You maybe right that he may have done this as not a work for hire, or even that he may still own copyrights for this code (I don't know what the contributors agreement said at that time), but Google didn't even contest it in court.
Almost all my relatives are dead. Including all who remember the Jackson administration.

Some of them died justly, others not. I'm not an Albanian and have no interest in investing emotional energy in multi-generational blood feuds. Eg, some of my relatives were killed by the Germans, who make a really fine motorcycle.

Also, life was pretty cheap before the 20th century. It's easy to appall kids these days with the death rate among chained slaves crossing the Atlantic. In fact the death rate among Europeans voluntarily crossing the Atlantic was quite similar. It also wasn't easy or safe to walk across half of North America, whether voluntarily or not. Basically, to anyone who lived in this era - regardless of race, color or creed - we're all a bunch of whining pussies.

Really the main difference between the expulsion of the Cherokees and my proposed ethnic cleansing of the Palo Alto patent lawyers is that the Cherokees didn't deserve it, whereas the patent lawyers do. Lawless force can work good as well as evil. And when we've already left law behind, what's the alternative?
Isn't SQL a functional language, of sorts? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1153397/besides-a-declara...
I think it's the date of the printed edition of the magazine.
Good point. However, I don't think that transportation systems without a human at some point will be accepted by society in the next decade, unless they operate on separate traffic systems (e.g. extra streets, or strictly separated parts of the streets). This may be irrational, but that's another problem.
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Very true. There's been a massive amount of work put in by the MemShrink team. But it looks like they've found the holy grail this time; look at the numbers: 800MB vs 230MB. That's a big big deal.
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Plenty of people in the UK have firearms (mostly in rural areas) for sporting or pest control reasons. Handguns are generally frowned on though.
I'm also a native speaker.

I do get the play on words with the word adios. But after saying it aloud my wife asked me if I was saying Odioso instead.

I actually say bye rather than adios. :)
He forgot to mention Artplant[1], who worked on Battlestar Galactica Online, and is also working on the Game of Thrones MMO.

Here's the "Jante Law", or Law of Jante, he mentions at the end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

"... a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities, which negatively portrays and criticises individual success and achievement as unworthy and inappropriate."

[1]: http://artplant.no/