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Why would one not have anything to do at the age of 80 (I'm not speaking about physical and/or mental disabilities here)?

Sure, there are people who would just sit there and do nothing, but anyone more creative should not see the age as a show-stopper. Couple of examples I have at hand, my father and my uncle, both around the above mentioned age, but fairly active in their fields (science and architecture). Not that they need to do it, they have already earned their fair share, it's just that they simply enjoy doing it. As opposed to sitting and doing nothing...

Anyway, my point is, why 'document' while you're young and then try to 're-live' the experience, if you could 'enjoy' while you're young and do something else enjoyable when you're older?
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Sort by unicode codepoint does not work well in most western languages either. It is almost only English where it works good enough to be usable among the languages with a latin script.

For example the sort order is broken for all Nordic languages.
But then more documenting is happening, increasing overload for the recipients on the other end?

I find Project Glass and similar devices rather interesting. Google claims that it decreases the friction of having to "document" and "interact" with tech. If it makes it easier, then won't that just flood social networks? And having these benefits constantly available will be taxing for most users (ie paradox of choice).

What do you think?
I'm currently focusing on graduating by the end of the year. But I do work with startups on a freelancing basis (10-ish hours a week).

Which startup I'm "with" changes every couple of months.

As for the Google situation, they came to me and I decided to go along with it. To see how far I get and have some external benchmark of my programming prowess. If I do end up getting an offer, I'll then decide whether I want to work with them. Before that I ask every engineer I get to talk with about their working environment to gauge whether Google is the type of company that has retained enough of a startup spirit for me to feel productive there.
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If I write something down I'm far more likely to remember it than if I just sit back and listen. I never actually read my notes at university - they were purely to help me fix things in my mind. It drove me crazy when a lecturer forbade us from writing "because there are handouts."

You shouldn't assume that other people's learning mechanisms are the same as yours.
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I'm not too optimistic about this either. It's already easy enough to write very cryptic Scala. The potential for well-intentioned obfuscation is huge here.

I know the academic PL people shit on Go, but I'm really enjoying it so far just for it's minimalistic pragmatism. I really hope the rumors of Go support for the Android development are true.
Wait, there's no Python interpreter for Android? Really? I even had Python on my old Nokia S60 Symbian ...
Just for reference, 'michielsikkes' posts are all showing up 'dead' - if you check 'show dead' you'll see them.

Appears to be the original author, somebody should probably unban him.
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Jeff has never had any respect as a security professional, so it's lucky he's not one. At best, he raises a lot of awareness. At worst, his advice is misleading. He generally prints retractions when he finds he was wrong (and asks why he made the mistake), and that is often more informative than the original post.

He's popular because he's high volume, reasonable quality. In the days when his blog was at it's prime, there was a reasonable article to read every day.
FYI, NoScript has a "Forbid WebGL" option which lets you selectively allow it in the same way it does with Flash, Java and SilverLight.
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Nice looking UI.

I think it's interesting and fairly ironic that using stock UI widgets in an iOS app is becoming more and more the mark of the amateur.
GAAP is nonsense. cash flow is what matters. i suggest you go look at all of those non cash charges and see if you think they are really expenses of the business.
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What if Facebook suddenly just crashed? People all over the world would look up from their screens and start seeing reality again...

I cant go into public without seeing people staring into their devices. Its kind of interesting to notice how much like sheep people are. :)
we raised a fund in 2003. i remember it well. it took us a year to raise that fund. nobody wanted to invest in internet startups. that fund will go down in history as one of the best VC funds raised. certainly one of the best of that decade. price matters. environment matters. that was a much better time to invest than now.
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we are not investors in groupon. ugh. yuck.
I would imagine that it would be quite difficult to design a 3D printer that works in zero gravity. All current designs that I'm aware of rely on gravity to either keep the base material on a level surface (e.g. SLS, SLM) or to draw the build material down from a nozzle of some sort (e.g. FDM)
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There's also a practical limit to how many businesses you can be involved in. If they aren't stooping for pennies, and they've been around investing for some time, then it's clear they're making good returns on other businesses and don't feel a need to stoop for pennies.
Into how many pieces did Ken Thompson's deer disintegrate?

That's a bit esoteric; if it's related to Unix at all, it's trivial indeed.

edit: Downvoters, enlighten me?
Sure there is. See scripting layer for Android: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
Could you expand on what you mean by closer-to-perfect price discrimination?
Totally agree with that. The only time I would use an app to interact with SO is when I go out on weekend or vacation and I just want to check if someone answer a question I left there or to check if someone reply to an answer/comment I left.
I including the number of years in the calculation. I wrote "which is 4% or 214/100K per year". That latter number includes dividing by 20 years. Specifically, "23/535 / 20 * 100000 = 214.9" or 215/100K (oops! I rounded down instead of to nearest).

Similarly, with 50 years of human space travel, 35 deaths/450 people/ 50 years * 100000 people = 156 deaths / 100,000 per year. I don't know why I wrote "151/100K", I meant to write "150/100K" and not be so precise. In any case, it looks like the source I used wasn't that accurate. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_acc... for better details. I quote from there:

"About two percent of the manned launch/reentry attempts have killed their crew, with Soyuz and the Shuttle having almost the same death percentage rates. Except for the X-15 (which is a suborbital rocket plane), other launchers have not launched sufficiently often for reasonable safety comparisons to be made."

That implies that there is enough statistics.

In any case, I recall Feynman's essay about the Challenger explosion. He recounts how one person estimated Shuttle disasters as being about 10x safer than the more common unmanned ones, which works out to something like 1 out of every 50-100 Shuttle launches. Thus, other observations help strengthen the possibility that this isn't a black swan event.
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Agreed. However the biggest pain point is copying code between workstation and another device. (This is an issue for those who work in offices where sites like SE are locked down.) If this app can make it easier, then great.
I doubt it, a lot of startups could survive on a few hundred clients. Well B2B ones can anyway.

That's never the case with musicians.
I think they probably should be. Kickstarter may not fund all types of projects but Kickstarter is only the beginning. The world works on trends right? Put all these things together and look forward 2-3 years:

AngelList

Kickstarter

JOBS Act

Software boom

Open hardware innovations (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Open 3rd printers, etc.)

I'm not really certain that things at the VC level would be a whole lot different but I would sure be worried if I was an angel or earlier. Pretty soon, we'll be far less dependent on them than they are used to. If you ask me seed stage may have so many options that they'll have to reverse-pitch ;)
HelenOS (http://www.helenos.org/) and Minix (http://www.minix3.org/) are fundamentally different. While Minix is POSIX compliant, HelenOS has been designed and developed from scratch, improving upon some of the broken legacy conventions in the way. It is not even POSIX compliant, though it has libposix library for now to ease the task of porting foreign sources!

HelenOS uses its own microkernel written from scratch and supports SMP, multitasking and multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and big-endian processor architectures, among which are AMD64/EM64T (x86-64), ARM, IA-32, IA-64 (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC and SPARC V9.

HelenOS is infact one of the most portable microkernel operating system! Currently it's not as much developed as it's counterparts but it will become a complete and usable modern operating system very soon given the amount of activity going on in there.
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What kind of stupid office has developers writing code and blocks StackOverflow?
Thanks for the very enlightening reply. :)
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Granted macros are a two edged sword complexity-wise, this implementation is no exception. I think this is generally true for macros in other languages though.

Scala's "self cleaning" reify/eval mechanism is practically free syntax-wise - even Lisp has special characters for quasiquoting and splicing.
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imho Kickstarter is best suited for projects that are essentially finished and ready for manufacturing, but need money to actually do a manufacturing run. A comic book seems like a example of a "good" project in that sense.

But basing kickstarter on just a idea seems extremely risky, and that's why I'm not all that interested in game kickstarters. If somebody wanted to kickstart a boxed copy of a finished game, that would be nice. But just kickstarting a concept gives me an uneasy feeling.
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Wait, why are generally accepted accounting practices nonsense? And, if so, why are they generally accepted? I don't know much about accounting, so this question is in earnest.
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Mensa, a worldwide organization of self-described geniuses ... Should they not be regarded as geniuses? Why or why not?

The condition for membership of Mensa is that you score "at or above the 98th percentile on certain standardised IQ or other approved intelligence tests" [1]. I don't think it makes sense to refer to the 140 million potential members of Mensa as "geniuses" no matter what your definition of genius is.

Also, if it's true that Richard Feynman's IQ was around 122, then he wouldn't have qualified for membership of Mensa.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International#Membership_...
I think reputation is going to keep down most of the scam artists.

There are a lot of kickstarter projects that never go anywhere because the creator is unknown to the scene. You're going to need some reputation to get the ball rolling. Even the watch guys have a track record.

Of course, it's the scammer with a reputation (think Bernie Madoff) that scares me. But kickstarter addresses that with the social aspects. If someone feels ripped off, they can post about it and the scammer can't hide.
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Haskell is an example of mainstream programming?!

I am all for more acceptance of languages like Haskell in the industry, but that is as far as it can get from mainstream.

Mainstream is C, C++, Java, C#, ...
I agree that, when you're learning, the "_" can be annoying since it's basically overloaded (its meaning depends on the context).

Scala is very rich in features (how many other languages need a 800+ pages book to explain just the syntax + core features like collections?). Once I got to know them though, I would very much miss most of them (and frankly I'm a bit afraid of what would be my reaction if one day I'd need to come back to Java). But, it's certainly not a language you will be fluent in within just a couple of days. As I didn't have previous functional programming experience, I'd say it took me a 3-4 months till I have gotten a feel of how/when to use most of the core features.

Hint I wish someone told me: write custom recursive functions only when you're certain the problem can't be handled with a simple reduce/fold. Basically, try to use lots of maps (the 'map' function, not the data structure) and folds, as they can solve tons of problems in an elegant (-> readable) and easily parallelizable way. It's also harder to make bugs when programming this way.
Nice post! I wrote something similar whilst observing my brother in academia through my startup lenses.

http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/similaritie...
Scala the language is not the problem, as it is consistent and the rules aren't really complicated. However, the culture around the language and the libraries are awful.

The problem with a language that has relaxed rules for syntax is that every complicated API ends up being a DSL. And you can do this with taste, or without taste.

Take SBT for instance. It is the standard build tool in Scala. SBT has many problems, the biggest one being that the chosen objective (type-safe DSL for project definitions) was the wrong problem to solve, with its second biggest problem being that it still relies on Maven. So instead of coming up with an alternative to the brokenness in Maven, the Scala folks that worked on SBT focused on only one of Maven's flaws (the XML config files, which were the least of everybody's problems).

And the DSL syntax in SBT is God-damn awful, with lines looking like this:

libraryDependencies <+= sbtVersion(
v => "com.github.siasia" %% "xsbt-web-plugin" % (v+"-0.2.10"))

The difference between this piece of shit and Ruby's Bundler is simply amazing. And newbies are exposed to this right from the beginning, as SBT is THE standard and as such every Scala library documents how to integrate with SBT ... in fact some libraries have such a dependency on SBT that integrating it with Maven or other build systems is a mystery (e.g. libraries that have a precompilation step).

So this is a language with a culture that (a) promotes cargo-culting through bad API design and (b) often breaks backwards compatibility.
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The thing is, with the amount of reliability/failure data they'll get from this, learning what fails and what doesn't and why, they'll probably get better reliability in the long term than if they'd gone for low-volume-high-cost reliability from the outset.
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They could you know, know about it, and not care. I believe the people behind this are better than that, but it still bears thinking about.
I am playing a bit devil's advocate, probably with not so much success.

The thing is, that each operating system has it own way of doing things, and many people in open source tend to think that everywhere else should be like GNU/Linux.

I used to think like that, until I got the opportunity to work with several different types of operating systems, all UNIX flavours, Windows, OS/400, Symbian, VMS and see that there are many ways to do certain things.

Here is an example how someone else did a Windows based development environment for DCPU,

http://0x10c-devkit.com/
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They will be encrypted on the server basically

And now you have to trust the server.
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the InformationWeek XSS is still there:

http://www.informationweek.com/influencer/security/616a45777...
It's really not comparable to VC money in any normal way though.

When you're raising VC money, especially early rounds, you're trying to prove and build a business model. You're trying to get market awareness and acceptance, develop your product, etc. There is a statistically high probability that you will fail entirely, or will at least fail to achieve the progress intended (meaning you may have to raise more money, affecting valuations and dilutions).

One upside to VC money is that you get to use all of it in almost any way you like.

Kickstarter, especially in this case, is people pre-ordering an already more fully defined and developed product. The money raised is going more or less directly to people purchasing product. It is assumed that there is a profit margin on the product, but it's also reasonable in these early cases to assuming the manufacturing costs may overrun estimates, and that roughly 10-25% of the money raised will actually end up being "profit".

Sure, even 10% of $7M is a nice chunk of money, but $7M of kickstarter money is way less working capital than $7M of VC money.
I think needing a 800+ pages book to explain just the syntax is precisely the problem!

Can it even be parsed reasonably? C++ sure can't be, and Scala appears to have the same silly feature creep.
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this was more than enough time to have caused significant
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Why would anyone be interested in buying this code anyway? It's not like you could put your own Facebook clone into production based on stolen code.
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Not really.

That graphics drivers are a mess internally says more about the insufficient resourcing to do it properly and cleanly and refactor than it does about the really rather trivial and well-understood APIs that the driver implements.
The same offices that live in fear about data security and therefore block absolutely everything.

The few individuals that can access anything don't have a need for it.
From what I'm seeing the macros are almost hygienic, which I guess is more than one can say about Common Lisp. But what you're describing as "self cleaning" just confuses me.

Compare the implementation of this particular macro with those in Scheme, Clojure or even Boo.
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It doesn't seem like a significant enough improvement over Java. Similarly to how Scala seems a significant, but highly dangerous improvement over Java.

Its Android support is also not any better than JRuby or Rhino, both of which I prefer as languages.
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I don't know if drivers are really under-invested. I did couple of quick searches at nVidia site (as an example) and got the following results:

Keyword Job openings
driver 176
software 387
hardware 218
asic 117

The keywords were picked arbitarily, and are probably not very representative, but it seems like at least nVidia is actually investing in driver/software developement.
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Personally, I prefer UTF-8 as well. However, I think this whole debate about choice of encoding gets blown out of proportion.

Consider the following diagram:

[user-perceived characters] <-+
^ |
| |
v |
[characters] <-> [grapheme clusters] |
^ ^ |
| | |
v v |
[bytes] <-> [codepoints] [glyphs] <----------+

Choice of encoding only affects the conversion from bytes to codepoints, which is pretty straight-forward: The subtleties lie elsewhere...
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I think it's a valid concern, but I'm not certain it would be a problem.

The social networks are already pretty good algorithmic filtering -- displaying to users what's relevant and interesting to them -- and they'll likely become better. In fact, if I had to guess whether Facebook was in more need of better content or better filtering at this moment, my guess would be on the content side. (But this is hard to evaluate as a user: how would I ever know if I'm missing great content due to bad filtering?)

What worries me a lot more is the prospect of everyone becoming a walking camera. I can hardly have an honest session of drunk karaoke without someone filming it on their smartphone. I wonder if I'd ever do anything if everyone carried cameras on their head.
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