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But it does an absolutely terrible job for another pretty large chunk of use-cases, mostly because it's closer to objects than relations.

For example, Django's ORM has no concept of explicit joins for example, which are necessary for avoiding O(n) # of queries in several cases. The only way to do it is to write SQL, whereas with SA the query is trivial to write in Python.
The algorithm actually picks the resource you would expect there so that is a bug in the note. Filed a bug:

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17057
Perian is even recommended by Google on their WebM page when you start looking for a way to get WebM content on Mac OS X.
Because it is way more verbose and does not address the pixel density case.
I think it's a complex, and nuanced subject with no easy answers, and agree with you that things are likely tilted too far in favor of content producers. Draconian solutions are not a solution I favor.

That said, I have been here a while and see an awful lot of commentary that seems indicative that the authors neither think nor care much about the fate of content producers. There are plenty of other intelligent comments too, but I really did notice a big difference on this thread compared to one about piracy.

See mikeash's comment for instance, which says that piracy just isn't as bad as plagiarism.
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No, it is extremely slow and laggy AFTER I've downloaded the full content from the web!
I started looking into libraries for a Node-based model layer this weekend. The two most interesting after my initial reading about are Tubbs [1] and Resourceful [2].

I won't have a chance to actually play with them properly until this weekend unfortunately. Anyone else have any experience with these two (or other options)?

[1] https://github.com/dandean/tubbs

[2] https://github.com/flatiron/resourceful
That's true, but as long as either of those is true, I'm fine:

1) I have internet access to get to dropbox.com.
2) I have my iPhone handy.

1Password syncs to both of these over the air. So, bare a catastrophe, I should be fine.
Where is the money to be made?
A comedian, on stage in a comedy club, can say whatever they like.

A representative of Dell, standing in front of Dell employees, should not be telling a chunk of those employees that they are worth less because of their gender.
His jokes were along the lines of "Thank god there's so few women in this business, keep up the good work!"

It's hard to see when that would ever be acceptable
I wonder if all these companies registering their domains in Libya will get bitten by it at some point.
How can I make this work on Windows? My office laptop runs win7.
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Wouldn't me and me's consciousness diverge after a few hours experiencing different things in different places? If so, would me agree to suicide knowing that me is still alive?
It's not that you are unable to control yourself from visiting these sites. You just do it subconsciously. When you see some sort of warning you are reminded that you really don't want to go there.
According to temporal motivation theory (TMT), perceived utility of a task diminishes with growing temporal distance to the reward. [0]

The reward of working is usually distant and sometimes low in expectancy, as is the punishment for not working. At the same time, rewards of socializing (as one example) are almost immediately available anytime. The value of working is originally higher—you get paid for that, after all—but its utility after expectancy and time discounts may well be lower. It would rise as potential reward or punishment gets closer, but we will procrastinate until it beats the utility of posting comments on HN.

So, in order to fix that, we would like to reverse the ratio of utilities.

One solution is to artificially restrict access to distracting activities. In terms of TMT, their utility would be lowered because of some effort necessary to overcome the restrictions. However, over time we need less and less effort, and the utility is up again.

Conversely, ideamonk's suggestion—enjoying the process of doing—effectively raises the utility of the task so that distractions can't compete. It might take effort to learn that, but the effects are arguably more pleasant and permanent.

[0] Utility = (Reward Expectancy × Value) ÷ Delay. See Integrating theories of motivation by Steel & König and The Nature of Procrastination by Steel.
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Could you describe an algorithm that a human would fail to decide wether it will halt or not?
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But pixel density is a property of the media, which should be dealt with by media queries.
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Why not like the video-tag

<img>

<source src="house-hd.jpg" width="100px" height="200px" density="2x" />

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Or something like that.
But I don't know that the quality of the estimate is important in the case of putting golf balls on bus without a reason.
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Querying the pixel density of the device is not the same as describing the pixel density of the resource. This has been a common misconception in the discussion of this feature.
Not for me. For me that's a brand new old car.

Yes, it has all the parts of the old car, and only those pieces, but it was assembled anew from zero.

A more difficult dichotomy would be: what if we exchange parts between two cars until each one is the other one. That's hard to decide.
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Check this HN story 2 days ago, for an account from the audience: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3965084
+1 to the picture syntax.
So what you mean is: "Lighten Up"?

http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/
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See necolas comment above - ie the propose picture element.
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I'm one of 2 people in a contract iOS development agency. We have about $500,000 in the bank. We want to make products.

We have 3 clients still active, with around $100,000 to come in over the next 3 months. Then we have nothing (by choice).

What do we do next? We have ideas. We have passion. We have a little money.

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Quora's Q&A format is a lot more permissive than the SE one though. You're allowed to have questions that don't have correct answers, and are asking much more general questions - discussion is more accepted.

Surveys and polls are the only question-types banned on Quora that I can recall.
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Obviously this depends on your phone. Using an html5 app on a 4s vs. a 3gs is a totally different experience, that probably explains the discrepancies between your experiences.
That's precisely the point. Silicon Valley is saturated by a bazillion products, so the audience here is extremely discerning. Most people will try most things, but to gain critical mass like that within Silicon Valley is very, very difficult.

Empirically, there's a very good chance that a product with critical mass here will tend to spread like wild fire to the rest of the world (and I suspect Peter Thiel has much better data on that than you do). Since the purpose of investment is to buy low and sell high (and the purpose of early stage investment is to buy very low and sell very high), putting money into Quora is as good an early bet as one could hope for.
Apologies - I misunderstood the proposal. However, what is the pixel density of a PNG?
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So, instead of syncing them to your phone, and having them encrypted on DropBox, or a USB stick or something, you force yourself to remember redundant staff that would only prove useful 1 in 100 times?
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I thought it was a hired comedian, not a representative of Dell. Of course it was still a very bad choice.
Devil's advocate:
"I am a famous comedian well known for humour type X; Dell hired me to MC their event knowing this; which is at least tacit approval of my routine. Otherwise they obviously wouldn't have hired me"

If you have to hire someone and tell them not to use their trademark humour then why are you hiring them in the first place?
That's my point: the biggest density problem is the Valley sprawl, and that one's not caused by rent control, because there isn't any rent control there.
This was theoretically a professional partner event. You wouldn't get a comedian on stage cracking racist jokes at those, so why should sexist jokes be acceptable?

Perhaps you should actually read the original report by the Danish blogger: http://elektronista.dk/kommentar/dresscode-blue-tie-and-male...

Then, perhaps, you should put yourself in women-in-tech's shoes and ask yourself why this might be offensive. We're a small minority which is, on the one hand, desperately in need of encouragement, yet, on the other hand, continually set back by the sexist, intimidating attitudes of some men in the industry.

For some other examples you might want to see http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/
Fat-finger downvoted you, meant to upvote, sorry. Hope someone can undo.
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With titles like that it will be soon embarrassing to call yourself a hacker.
From what I can tell, Dell hired a known, misogynistic and offensive comedian called Mads Christensen to work as the event's moderator:

http://elektronista.dk/kommentar/dresscode-blue-tie-and-male...

Taken from the blog post:

[The] moderator starts to rejoice the lack of women in the room. “The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy” he says. “What are you actually doing here?” he adds to the few women who are actually present in the room.

...[He] finishes of by asking all (men) in the room to promise him that they will go home and say, “shut up bitch!”.

Goodness only knows why Dell hired him as their corporate voice. Shocking.
He is a comedian. It's difficult to judge his show because I think he is danish or something, so no idea if he is really anti-women or in fact making parodies of that stance.
I don't think the cause of women would be served if pointing to the problem would not be allowed anymore. In fact that has traditionally been the role of comedians, to say the things others dare not or may not say.
Again, I can not really judge his performance, as I don't know it, so I certainly don't want to defend him. Just adding a word of caution to not judge rashly.
Remark to the link: The report especially questions, how far major cloud storage services are recommendable for corporate use.
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Sadly, some of this is just the way it will always be - "its cold and loud in my data center" gets you a coat and set of ear plugs, not an overhaul of the design of expensive real estate.

However, the security issue is an enormous one.

We designed and owned data centers back in the day, and physical security was modeled on network security. Once you were past the firewall, life was pretty open.

Lockable cabinets - maybe. Actually locked? Not once the admin for that rack schlepped 2 hours at 3am to find he left the key in the office.

And yet, I see things getting worse with cloud deployments. Great I am locking down my www as it talks to the MQ server, but they are both plugged into the same cisco switch that 10 other idiots are plugged into. Root one of those and you are a lot closer to sniffing my traffic.

We just have to make the assumption for cloud deployments that our virtual box is in a sea of sharks. Actually having a shark open up the back and plug in a network sniffer is just one more worry.
What would be the better apology? Giving one million dollars to everyone in the audience, for mental pain inflicted?
is it just me or reading this article in whatever reader it is kinda ugly?
"Sorry, Mixes are not available in your country"

Never had that problem with torrents...
I don't think anyone is saying that the comedian didn't have the right to say what he did, or even that he shouldn't have said it. The lapse in judgement is on Dell, not on the comedian.
This is probably why everyone still relies on Google
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Absolutely. I don't blame the comedian for the situation - he was carrying out his job. I blame the people who booked someone without checking they were appropriate.
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This is seriously madness. As an expat entrepreneur living in Berlin, I can honestly say that I'll leave Germany and take all my tax money with me if this law passes. Being an entrepreneur and a foreigner here already has many drawbacks including the obligation to pay for the same health insurance Germans enjoy freely while paying the same or higher income taxes. I have little intention of retiring here, but even if I did, the chances of social security even being around by then is slim and wouldn't be enough to live on anyway.

This is especially bad news for the Berlin startup scene which has been experiencing such incredible growth in imagination and momentum lately.
I always try to have a simple "..., mono" suffix to my CODE and PRE rules for this reason alone.

For BODY or HTML (whichever contains my global font-family rule) I finish off the list with "..., sans-serif".

I've never had amazing luck w/typography outside of Mac/Win, but like you point out, its poor style to leave everyone else without even a base style to work with.
This presents an opportunity that other cities in the US should be taking advantage, but aren't. There aren't enough engineers in Silicon Valley? Move somewhere that has enough engineers. If a city provides enough incentives for tech companies to move there, and attracts enough recognizable companies to increase its reputation, then that represents an opportunity to bring some of that Silicon Valley money home. I wonder what it will take for entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors to consider other locations instead of Silicon Valley first.
Please, do step into my handy dandy time machine. We'll set it for thirty years in the future and then step out for a moment and count the number of hip, low-rise brownstones that we can see and then try to pick out the Brooklyner from amongst the other highrises.

I think that you're living in Brooklyn and enjoying it, which is great, and idealizing it without thinking about how Brooklyn is actually changing right around you.

[The Brooklyner is a 51-story skyscraper recently built in Brooklyn: the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyner ]
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Here's an interesting example with <img srcset> http://junkyard.damowmow.com/507

When I saw the last line in the doc linked above, I realized that <img srcset=""> is probably optimized for adding one (1) "retina" image for iPhones and other high-DPI devices.
Agree completely :-)

It was the idea that "Fundamental ideas are portable ideas" I was having problems with. Some are. Some aren't.

I love Lisp - and love the fact that other languages do more of the things that Lisp does. But in some cases it's taken decades for those features to get general acceptance. Fundamental ideas don't seem any more or less likely to become portable.

To pick another example - I can remember being actively mocked by many different people in the eighties for the idea that any of object-oriented languages, garbage collected languages, or languages running on virtual machines would ever be used outside of academia (despite the fact that I was working on a RAD environment that included all three with some very happy industry customers :-)

Fundamental ideas don't seem any more or less portable than any other kind of idea as far as I can see - the context and the language used to express the idea is much more important.
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Yes, that's the point. Dell are the ones to blame for putting that guy on stage, and they are getting the criticism.

MC, however despicable, just did his thing as advertised.
I'd be willing to bet that the average Facebook engineer isn't going to be stellar at putting those millions of dollars towards extra personal happiness. They will buy material possessions, not necessarily life experiences.

If you take a couple weeks to travel and meet young twentysomethings hopping from hostel to hostel, working for a week here and there to gather enough money to go to the next city, cleaning the bathrooms just for a free bed that night, you'll see that they are probably achieving greater happiness with a few thousand dollars than the average FB engineer will with millions. The happiness multiplier per dollar they spend is insanely high, I suspect, compared to what the average millionaire in the valley will get.

I'm not saying that the solution for everyone is to go hostel-hopping in Europe, but given that it is possible to be happy with thousands of dollars, you should look for the experiences that will make you most happy. Is going hiking on the weekend more fulfilling if you drive there in a fancy car? Is a board game with friends more fun in the living room of a $5 million dollar home?

There are folks who are far less fortunate than you having a lot of fun in life. I think that if you give it some thought and try to maximize your happiness per dollar spent, you will find yourself less envious and perhaps even envied.
Coursera are currently running a whole course on Automata [1] and some similar material is covered in their Compilers course [2]. I'm not sure if you can still enroll or if they'll be repeated in the future.

[1] https://class.coursera.org/automata/

[2] https://class.coursera.org/compilers
> How come you don't have python?

It's just not installed on OSX and I have no use for Python and I am not familiar with Python.

I could just install it with 'brew install python' but I still prefer a clean and slim command line interface for this application.

EDIT: I understood from reading the thread that for better customizability it's better to have some scripting environment
Good question. You can write a language in any other language. Say you create a language called LASERD and chose to write it in C:

You write a program in C that is able to transform LASERD source files in to a form that it can interpret and then execute.

One way to do this is to create a simple virtual machine as part of your C program that is sort of like a virtual CPU (with registers, pretend memory and simple opcodes like ADD, SUBtract, MOVe etc.

The C program takes the LASERD source file interprets the syntax and generates code that can 'run' on the virtual CPU.

This is basically how Lua, Python, Ruby, Java etc work.

Does that make sense?
>On the other hand, even if half of that 1 MLOC is still relevant to new ways of building systems (and given that SQL databases are a 70s tech, I doubt it's that much)

SQL is not a technology in the sense of a specific artifact (say, a PDP-11), it's a design based on relational algebra, a formal specification for relational data.

A specific RDBMS implementation might "age", but Math do not age. For as long as we have relational data (data with relations to each other), the relational algebra will be the best, and formally proven correct, way to model it. Period.

The same holds true for every other "tech" that is based on Computed Science. All those technologies are older than the '70 and will be used FOREVER: garbage collection, hash maps, linked lists, regular expressions, b-trees, etc etc, ...

Even specific artifacts remain relevant: TCP/IP, C, UNIX, windowing UIs, etc etc...
You will find that any repetitive design eventually becomes annoying, as do songs that receive continuous airplay.

The bootstrap framework is what is important, the design can be customized. Most people don't bother because they have in invested in Twitter Bootstrap in order to fast prototype.
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It's a shame it took an Internet outcry to get Dell to acknowledge they made a big mistake and needed to apologise. They should have known better to start with.
This would be a cultural change, a big one. Jobs said many times he considered his products as perfect and was against the ability to be able to open them (hardware and software). This obsession not to be able to open the system extended even to the new Apple building which is designed without any opening windows. You can see that everywhere in the Apple products.

This is the philosophy of Steve Jobs, he even said he did not want to go through surgery first because he did not wanted to be "opened".

This is really interesting, in fact, these points are the ones I found the most interesting in all the media frenzy we got after his death.
It certainly doesn't work "out of the box" - looking at the error messages and source code there a are file references to /etc/resolv.conf etc. - which aren't there in Windows.

Might work with a bit hacking about though.
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