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Banishing "wrong" individuals/customers with NLP-techniques
The way ICT-companies are usually conveived is based on their brand, overall style/behavior and type of services they offer. It's the brand that takes the hits, when something goes wrong publicly, but it is a lot harder to reverse model, who inside the company has used deceitful practises against certain customer.

By "deceitful practises" I mean to compare individuals working for a company

a) to belonging to multiple Google+'s circles (the company being just one of the many) and
b) to be willing in aiding of banishing certain individual.

Most often the deceitful practise means using anchoring technique (NLP-term) to make certain individual unconformtable while using the service or certains parts of it. Skilled user of this technique can make it very hard to prove, what has been done against someone. Actual anchoring can made by one helpdesk-person only, but sometimes the company as a whole (a small company, everyone belonging and working for it) might approve certain kind of actions against someone. The reasons vary. Might be related to ideological differences or maybe they were given wrong information (or worse: money).

For an ICT-company it is quite easy to plant a NLP-anchor as the software is often so easy to change (and break). Personally I've had these (unprovable) problems with a small company offering VPS-services and with a medium sized company offering document backup -services (for example). And no.. there were no p* or other illegal material involved.
Lock-up periods only apply to those holding a majority of stock (i.e., Zuckerberg), or to insiders who held a significant portion of stock prior to the filing of the IPO. Company employees typically fall into this category, too, even if their holdings aren't enormous, because they're insiders.

The lock-up doesn't necessarily apply to people who got in at the IPO, such as during the roadshow period. Also pretty sure the lock-up doesn't apply to people who bought private shares in secondary markets, such as the Goldman clients who bought in when Goldman offered private stock about 6 months ago.
Windows installation has been not fine by any stretch of imagination. It still has the same problems:

1) It is third party service, not provided by system (yes, I know about Microsoft Installer); it is up to the application vendors what they will use,

2) Installers can litter in the system, wherever they want (see your complaint about Start menu),

3) No 100% working uninstallation and/or repair, you will end-up with installers damaging your system and having to reinstall (even Microsoft ones; how the heck do I get rid of CJK IMEs, that Proofing Tools for Office 2010 "helpfully" installed?),

4) No update service, you end up with many updaters slowing down your system,

5) and many more.

If you think, that Windows installation is fine - have you ever seen install systems on other OSes?
The backdoor being called "backdoor" by this engineer already implies that it is not nearly as secure as the auto-update mechanism: the content is not signed by the company, it can't be disabled by the user, et c. I see no reason not to trust OP's judgement.
They are designed to be held down on the launch pad operating at full power for up to 20 seconds (looking for source) before being released so that they can verify all systems are operating correctly before it is in the air.
With HTML5 you also have to worry about the cross browser compatibility mess , which doesn't seem to work well as "rapid" development.

Not to mention that I think writing something like a scene graph in JS would make me rage.
There are some things that took a weirdly long time to happen. The pen and the torch are examples, but both are now shipping.

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/527051507/hexbright-an-o...)

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cwandt/pen-type-a-a-mini...)

There's the lockpicks, which I think are still in trouble:

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-op...)

These don't show people wilfully defrauding funders. I think they show people being overwhelmed by demand, and unprepared for the problems of manufacturing hardware.

Design for manufacture is interesting and has many small tricky gotchas. Add in bizarre export rules and foreign languages and it's not surprising that hardware manufacture is difficult.
I don't disagree, but these points needs highlighting:

> It's easy to complain about complexity, harder to offer a simpler but equally capable alternative.

Want real stuff? Check out VPRI's work: http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm Right now, they're working on a 20KLOC OS (including desktop publishing, messaging, and the whole compilation chain). That's about 4 orders of magnitude smaller than current systems. Here is their last progress report on the STEPS project: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

> The most important part by far is to leave out anything you possibly can.

This is also the most overlooked part by far. I deal with something similar at my day job: I noticed that I am relatively poor at dealing with masses of complexity. My co-workers fare better. On the other hand, they don't mind small unjustified complexities. The latest bit I saw was this (in C++):

class Foo {
public:
out_t1 bar(in_t1 in);
out_t2 baz(in_t2 in);

private:
static mem data;
};

// example
Foo foo;
out = foo.bar(in);

As it turned out, this "class" didn't have any state whatsoever. There was `data` of course, but it was never modified after its first initialisation at program launch. I devised a simpler interface (which happens to be backward compatible):

class Foo {
public:
static out_t1 bar(in_t1 in);
static out_t2 baz(in_t2 in);
};

// example:
out = Foo::bar(in);

It's not much, so they say it's no big deal, and act as if it does not count. But it adds up quickly, often to the point where I can reduce the line count of a procedure by half, without even understanding the code! (I know how to do correctness preserving modifications.)
Oops, my bad, I guess I read that wrong. It downloads the audio and video content, so each streamed video comes to around 40mb.
WAT?

The less you use this software the more it will be helpful? You can't be serious...
Amazing explanation.

It paints the visual picture where corners of a cube are more 'pointy' in higher dimensions. Another way to see this is basically that the corners basically divide the whole angle in many more parts in higher dimensions. For 2D, four corners cover the full 360 degree angle. For 3D, 8 corners. For a million dimensions, you can connect 2^(1mill) corners of different cubes to each other without overlapping each other.

So 'pointy' cubes reasons out the 'paradoxes' without resorting to 'spikey' spheres.
I hadn't thought of that. You also made me realize that existing modules written in PHP can be reused this way.
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ConscienceOverflow.

Or ThisIsAFault.
"Yes, most girls JUST don't like to go into IT."

I'm sorry but that's religion, not science. There's an observable difference, which is maybe related to biology, society, or maybe something else completely. What's it's not is magic. Things don't "just" happen; they happen for a myriad of reasons.

"Two years ago feminists said that girls are "too smart" to go into IT."

Whatever alleged feminists (of both sexes) have said at some point in time, is not that relevant. The blog posts we're discussing gives an experience and a data point. It points out that in this case, the prevalent gender-schism as perpetuated by commercial interests, might not be in the best interests of her child. And if she had not "investigated" this, her daughter might have (over time) closed of a route of development (not just by this one incident of course), that, large and by, is considered to be an accomplishment. To what degree remains an open question, but it should be clear to even the most casual observer that it cannot simply be ascribed to "biology" and be done with it.
I'm sure the girl can later on in life decide to pursue her heart-felt wish to become a hairdresser, or a nurse, if she so desires. Or maybe she will be flogged into pursuing a career in science by her "feminist" mom. But either way it is not that relevant to the question.

"Oh, and let me tell you another non-pc truth that is so unpalatable for you:"

It is neither unpalatable nor palatable for me. I don't understand why you would assume so, or whether that particular truth would interest me.

I will leave you to your thoughts.
I entirely agree with you - but I think the hardest thing is SPLITTING THINGS UP into coherent units that compose the lower level API you write about. The problem is that we can divide things in many possible ways - what makes one division better then the other? This is hard, layering is the easier part (but still far from obvious: http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2012/04/breaking-problems-do...).
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As somebody who had severe OSA for several years and didn't know it, a couple of points.

1) For onlookers, especially with a chronic condition, this is symptom-free. You might just appear to be more cranky, or forgetful -- normal signs of aging.

2) Even for the person experiencing it, chronic hypoxia doesn't necessarily "feel" like anything. I was regularly getting my blood oxygen down into the upper 60s and as long as I had enormous amounts of caffeine I was good to go. Over time, especially after getting a CPAP, I realized to look for symptoms: skipping over words in the middle of a sentence and guessing incorrectly what they were, a more difficult time focusing (both mentally and with my eyes), and so on. Hypoxia in pilots has been studied over and over again, and no matter how hard you train, it still sneaks up on people and takes over. Scary stuff.

3)You do not necessarily experience an overnight resurrection when this condition is fixed. Many do, but many do not. Sometimes you just realize that you're now entering a long phase of recovery.

I can't adequately describe the emotional transition that goes with recognizing hypoxia and getting it fixed. There's a sense of joy, sure, but also a sense of fear: you realize just how close to death you were living, and how dependent you now are on a machine (or drug or whatnot). Living low on oxygen is a frightening and life-changing experience. Once I realized I was basically strangling myself every night -- passing out and then coming to over and over again just enough to be able to breathe again -- it dramatically changed my image of my body not letting me down. Hypoxia teaches that you can be severely broken in ways that you are not able to discern. Not fun.
QR codes on name badges at conferences may be useful. But then some kind of augmented reality splotch would be better. You point a smart phone at the splotch and up pops information about the person - name, company, specialities, etc.
Thinking about this some more the part that drives me crazy is this: Facebook makes $4 per user. The users are customers.

That just doesn't follow. The advertisers are the customers. They happen to pay $4 for every person right now. If the advertisers dry up - because say, they go out of business or decide facebook isn't great value - then the facebook users are 'worth' a lot less.
The gender pay gap varies widely, but it's pretty clear from the data I gave you. Programmers make similar amounts of money, but sysadmins make quite a bit less. This isn't data from what's-her-name that had a political agenda, or the survey from the 80's that everyone quotes as if it's recent and accurate. This is from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://narrowthegapp.com/aat39.txt
I imagine it was useful simply because it was the biggest social site online.
If facebook had not existed I'm sure they would have found other ways to accomplish similar goals.

It's not as if they set facebook up with the intent on making it easy to organise revolutions.

If they could have got similar eyeballs by posting a video on xtube.com would that have made xtube a great innovation?
In honour of those across the pond - here's their last attempt at a rocket launch ;-) Worth watching the whole thing, but go to about 7:15 for the business end...
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Or because I really enjoy using it, I'm comfortable in it, and my products work?

Blanket statements like yours reek of elitism and have no real value behind them, other than "this language sucks you should use this one".
Not to be a party pooper, but firefighters hate these things, especially when people build them into their houses for kids. They get skipped over when searching for people in a burning building.
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How, you think, wiki-style government would have worked?
This is in a small Welsh village. If they haven't thoroughly checked for adequate signal strength in the places they installed these, this might be a PR disaster.
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Sudo was an example, and is certainly not the only place this problem occurs.

Variables cannot be set in the child process; the linker will have already run by the time you can access your environment. Furthermore, this scheme destroys the utility of LD_* variables, which itself is a non-starter.

All setuid binaries will be incompatible with any scheme which involves environment variables controlling the linker -- that's a core element of unix security architecture.

Over here [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995200 ] someone who I believe is the author suggested that this thing uses DT_RPATH, and I've outlined the problems with that mechanism as well.

Perhaps I'm coming across as a curmudgeon, if so I apologize. But I've worked on this problem quite deeply and there's just no way to reliably solve it. Modifications to ld.so are an absolute requirement.
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Other fun fact about spheres: as the dimension grows to infinity, the function of the area of the section along a diameter converges to a Gaussian (!)

If you are interested in these things, this survey is amazing: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/MISC/BIBLIOTECA/trunk/B...
Ahahah yeah anybody can go change the laws, rules and human rights whenever they want, from home :)
I can run into a problem which I bang my head on for a couple of hours and then fix it within 5 minutes the next day after a refreshing sleep.

The act of banging your head on a problem for several hours might help to kick the problem into your unconscious mind (your big brain), where the real horsepower is. And while you sleep, your mind sorts it out. That may be why you are able to fix it within 5 minutes the next day.

Rich Hickey talks about this in his talk on "Hammock Driven Development" (http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586).
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Either the browser supports canvas or not. It's not much more mess than that and definitely not as messy as making a normal website cross compatible.
At the same time, shoving a camera into someones face could impact their ability to perform their job. In, fact, unless your job involves working with a camera, I imagine a camera in the face wouldn't help matters.

Simply put, while I agree we should be able to records officers, I also believe that playing a game of "I'm not touching you" with a camera is out of place.

Indeed, if your dealing with drunk people as a cop, having someone else walk up to you is going to be threatening. So, why does a person with a camera automatically get a pass.

Yes, you have the right to record. But that doesn't give you the right to ignore the officer.
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Now run through getting your phone out, opening up the barcode scanning app and pointing it at a badge on the chest of the person you're talking to.

I'd prefer to just shake hands and exchange cards. Even Bump▼ is a much better solution with it's problem of ensuring people have the app.

▼ http://bu.mp/
No... just hit winbutton and start typing away.
The job of management is to get the job done at the least cost. It is a little drama queenish to call that sleazy - it's the way job is done.

I have moved in the past for more money - and I have never been worried about finding another job. I also have a huge history/legacy in the past company. I would have gladly stayed if they gave 2x. The catch was that they were already paying through their nose and they didn't have the headroom without promoting me levels. It happens.
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Thanks! I'm more hopeful that maybe I won't have to resort to a older generation model when I upgrade (which is in the near future).
Well, I think there was GC but no cyclic GC in pre-5.3.
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Yup, just because it's researched doesn't mean it was good research (from a general standpoint). Since this is Lego's 6th attempt at reaching this market, I'll assume they've tried to take extra care. It's even possible that the work was done in collaboration with university academics (with peer-reviewed papers as a result). If it doesn't work, I'm sure they'll figure out what went wrong and make a 7th attempt in due course.

The questions you pose are excellent research topics in their own right (if reworded slightly). I really hope there are people out there looking into them. I remember reading some autism-related research that described how even newborn babies exhibited male/female differences (very contentious at the time and I don't know how the field developed).
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I don't like QR codes, no matter how much lipstick you put on them.

Can we think about a better alternative? human+computer readable?

Like a hashtag or something? and let the apps do the walking?
Facebook is (apparently) worth 80 Billion and it employs 3539 people and I somehow doubt that they are employing many contractors either.

Is this possibly a scary thought for the future in terms of job creation? If you can be on track to becoming the biggest communications (and advertising) provider on the planet whilst employing close to nobody, what happens if other industries end up following this model?
>>I can only imagine the target audience being people who refuse to program in anything but PHP

Such people exist in every language community. You name the famous language and there you will fine people wanting to do everything in that language. This is nothing to specific to php.

There are various reasons for that, Once a person learns a language it becomes an investment- In time and other things and, as time grows out a person begins to think in that language, its paradigms, its idiomatic way of working. He may learn more than one language. But he will bear allegiance to one specific language.
Simple deployment is the only advantage people usually cite of PHP, and this seems to eliminate that. So, why?
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I don’t think that was intended to be an attack on PHP.
Also performance right now simply isn't up to par. I'm writing some apps right now that heavily utilize the canvas element, and I'm having to rewrite a large portion of it at the moment simply because I can't get more than 5 fps on one of the new ipads.
Agreed. I always found QR codes too awkward and cumbersome to use and theres no way I can remember or write one down for later if I don't have a smartphone or camera handy.
Not all quality aspects of language design are subjective. Even its authors fully emphasize that this is not how they would intenionally design a language, but PHP just kind of grew from a template system and very practical requirements.

There are many reasons to pick/use PHP, indispite its (lack of proper) language design. Easy to find extremly cheap programmers. Easy and cheap to host. Good and fast c based libraries.

But in no reality is its language design considered competitive by any one except by uneducated hobbyists.
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There are a lot of reasons why people coming back to php. The main is its a language for 'getting things done' in the real sense. A lot of languages claim that in their own way. But in my experience nothing comes close to Php and Perl in the raw power, freedom and ultra fast pace of development they offer.

The other neighboring competitors of Php, namely Python and Ruby are in the web development market with the help of frameworks. I have yet to see a serious programming shop that would bet its billion dollar business on frameworks built by others. Small libraries I can understand. But building the spirit of your business and betting its survival on a Frameworks is just out of the question.

Php is the DSL for the web. And it does its job far too well. It can be learned quickly and you can build things quickly with it. Its installed everywhere, you can get cheap hosting. Tons of document and help available.
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Maybe this is pure anecdote, but I've noticed that more intelligent (especially hyperintelligent) people tend to have more attention to give in a conversation. They're more present. They can follow what you're saying, or lead you in directions you hadn't considered (i.e., by surfacing insight). This makes for a dynamic, interesting conversation that -- to your point -- forces you to stay alert and engaged with them. The exchange is more engaging on both sides, regardless of subject matter. And subconsciously, we tend to think more highly of people who seem more engaged with what we're saying.
Availability of coders is another advantage. Not necessarily particularly great coders, but they have the numbers.
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Let's not forget that Intel did attempt to pull an Apple with the Itanium as the 64 bit successor to x86. However, AMD stepped in with a backwards-compatible 64 bit architecture, and the rest is history. I suppose this would have happened one way or another; the beast that is the installed base does rather like to stay alive.
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Disagree on the immediate copy. Perhaps a few hours delay. A live feed would be too valuable for evading police.