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Same here with the popcorn. And cranking the speakers up in anticipation of a good roar.

It's a little dissapointing, but the most important thing is that the launch be successful, no matter the layers of safeguards and tests that need to happen. It's fascinating to see just how precise a level of control and automation that exists over all aspects of the system.

Well, to truly butcher a saying of our former rulers across the pond, "The launch is dead, long live the launch!"

Deepest, deepest apologies for that one.
You are confusing positive and normative. The question I asked, and which lomegor was responding to, was a normative one - how should the world be and what moral assumptions are made to derive this conclusion.

You are discussing a positive question, namely why individuals might have certain preferences.
There's nothing keeping men from wearing skirts in public either. But most of us do not do so because of gender differences ingrained in out society.

Identifying yourself by your gender can be harmless and doesn't need to be detrimental to society or equal treatment.
But the premise of the blog is "the virtues of Legos for teaching math and engineering concepts to children."

If this premise is taken as true, this particular distinction in gender is harmful to equality of the genders. It's not just that the particular pink set reinforces certain stereotypes, but also that it's simpler and requires less abstract thought to put together.

That said; I'm sure the people at lego have done their market research, and have found that girls (or their mothers) find the "girly" sets more pleasant. Also the people at the outlet will have their reasons for a "blue isle" and a "pink isle".

I guess the morale of the story is for the parents. To not let themselves fall into the trap of the largest common commercial denominator, but to drag your daughter/son at least once through the "wrong isle" when buying toys in an unbiased manner.
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Such a wonderful confusion of libertarianism with technology :-) Libertarianism makes sense only for freely acting independent entities (not necessarily "rational", by the way), meaning there is no objective way to establish an entity more "rightful" and more "reasonable" - hence the policy of no aggression.

But in the operating system everything acts according to a command of a designer. Programs run because user has launched them, memory is paged because the designer wanted so and the user freely agrees to trust his judgement.

There is no ground whatsoever to compare virtual memory to fiat money. In some systems virtual memory makes a lot of sense even with non-desirable side effects. In some others, it makes sense to have a direct access to the memory. But in both cases the solution is completely determined by the somebody's choice. There are absolutely no "free actors".

Even if you design the OS with a policy of "no policy", it's still your particular choice, not a laissez-faire for the "actors". And, of course, Linus Torvalds has nothing to do with your decision to use a particular kernel for your particular use. If the computer belongs to your employer or customer, it's not the Torvalds, but you and your counterpart who decide whether to use the system or not (and how).

EDIT: What a fool I am :-) I didn't see the irony in the above comment.
What is Instagram disrupting? Non-grainy photos?
It's useless for absolute perf but to compare 2 solutions doing the same job, it's a good start.
I don't understand what we should be 'pissed' at.

From a previous article when 'girl Lego' was announced:
"The company embedded researchers with families around the world, to shadow girls and boys and watch how they play. Based on this research, it came up with Lego Friends, a line that features five characters with back stories similar to those of the wildly popular American Girl dolls."[1]

Lego did some actual research and is making something that fits the market as it is today. Who should we be pissed at and why?

[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/12/15/143724644/ith-new-toys-lego-ho...
I had the reverse happen to me. Since my teens, I had been lethargic and constantly tired. I could sleep for 9 to 10 hours a day and still be exhausted. I'd nap if I could. Throughout the day, I'd just feel constantly tired, even in the morning.

At the prodding of my wife, I saw a physician about it and got a sleep study done. I found I out had obstructive sleep apnea. They put me on a CPAP device.

I remember the first time waking up after using it. I felt like a new person, like I was a walking zombie who got a second chance at life. It's been a year since I started using it, and it's hard for me to imagine how I survived previously without that CPAP device. Life has become so much easier. I feel smarter, because I have the ability to focus my attention much longer, participate in conversations more easily, and not be so easily confused during meetings. When you're just a bit smarter, it has compounding effects on your life.

The worst thing about this, was that since my tiredness was so chronic, and since I had never experienced being totally rejuvenated, I never thought I had a sleeping problem. I just attributed to being an immutable property of who I am, or my physical body, and never something that could be corrected.
Argh. Deserved that.
> massive complexity happens through many small, unintended consequences

Accidental complexity.
Sadly, the author doesn't understand the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy and neglects the possibility that boys and girls are simply "wired" differently. Modern science supports this view as there are significant differences between the brains of both sexes. If you accept biology as given, then wouldn't it be "normal" that boys and girls prefer different toys and children, and that men and women flock into different occupational areas as adults?

Also, why are those feminists only lamenting the lack of female engineers? There are many fields that require that kind of analytical thinking, albeit on lower levels. Heck, why not start a, "Get more girls into plumbing!" campaign? Of course, the feminists are only after the cushy office jobs.
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"most girls just don't like technology"

The "just" in that line needs a [citation needed], and a pretty good one at that.

"There are differences between male and female brains, and this is why they prefer different activities."

That might be true, but unless it's shown that these differences lie in the mental faculties that govern the skills for math and engineering, these differences are moot.

"Read up on science before making your absurd statements."

Not to sound too smarmy, but it should be easy for you, all read up on the relevant science, to cough up the relevant citations then eh ?

"just as most guys have little interest in playing with dolls."

We just call them 'robots'

"Blame biology but not society."
The larger point is not to assign blame, but to improve the situation if possible.
This is awesome, congrats! Long polling coming soon to pure PHP with 10,000 times less memory consumption.
Yes, but money is the power to create change. It's an accelerant. Elon Musk is a good example of the importance of money when doing big things. Bringing down the per-pound costs of launching a satellite is a really, really big deal. Sadly, it costs a lot of money to tackle that class of problem.
Yes, and discussing a positive question might reveal that discussing how the world should be according to some people is a futile concept as it denies biology.
Any links to such projects?
It's definitely a shallow argument, but still a pro for HTML5 nonetheless. If I can make a game that's more likely to be played simply because of the tool I use, it's more lucrative to me.

I listed various other arguments for why I feel it's the "best" out there right now. I think the strongest arguments however are the two games in < 24 hours each.
You can hardly measure the impact Facebook has on society. Of course, FB and Zuck have their dark side. But people are looking on FB for the people they love for a reason. And hundreds of millions like to use FB in their everyday life - that's why the IPO is so celebrated. FB is now a huge brand.

I firmly believe the social networks - including FB - have a lot to do with the uprisings in the arab world. I think it contributes a lot to make the world flatter, allowing people to live where they want to while staying in contact with their family, former coworkers, etc. It also inspires so many other social tools that allow to transfer knowledge much more efficiently anywhere on earth.

Truth is, FB is still struggling to make money. The banks kept the stock at IPO level with huge bids. But whatever, they brought a fantastic story. And they extracted huge money from the ad market, for sure. But who knows if Zuck will not follow Bill Gates path later?
My search engine(s) have much more private information about me than Facebook. If I had to disclose one of both dataset, I'd go for FB anytime. Facebook is the friendly persona of us, the search engine - the real private one.
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I think it's the opposite -- they're less in control of their emotions. Impulse control is correlated with IQ AFAIR. Which is why the author had a chance to practice self-control.
I'm fascinated. I didn't even know that rocket engines could simply be shut down like this. I guess that's because they don't use solid fuel engines?
Could you clarify the numbers here? I thought it would be interesting to compare this to the cost of constructing a Nimitz-class carrier here on earth, which seems to be around 5 billion USD.
Facebook(the platform, not the company) was pretty instrumental for the Arab Spring.
Easy: Look at the gender balance in engineering, and you'll find that there are not many women. Conclusion: Women don't like engineering as much as, say, political science, medicine, or communications.

Re.: brain differences: it's called spatio-relational reasoning. Another issue is, and this is a highly non-pc one, that the female IQ distribution doesn't reach the same highs (and lows) as male IQ distribution. This isn't some arcane knowledge I am referring to, so I'll leave it up to you to fire up your search engine of choice and type in a relevant combination of nouns and adjectives to unearth the answers to your concerns yourself.
That's the point. Facebook brought social network to the masses. In my environment, Twitter is still a tool for geeks. Facebook has brought to hundreds of millions the broadcasting and sharing features. You can't deny that. It could have been something else than Facebook, but it hadn't. Someone else than Neil Armstrong could have landed on the moon, but he was the guy. And he deserves the credit rightly. Past and events are what they are.
If it's only played due to the platform it is on, then it's due to a novelty factor. I got that you were after "viral spread", but imagine a world in which people cared a bit less about rapid deployment and more about quality. I rather play a finely-crafted game than one that was put out in less than a day. This is not to say that it is not possible to put something decent together in a short amount of time. Just check out Ludum Dare for some examples.
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They said 82 million shares were traded. That doesn't mean 82M trades. A trade often has a quantity higher than 1 share. It could be (say) 82 thousand trades with an average quantity of 1000 shares. As far as system performance is concerned, number of trades matter, number of traded shares don't.
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Agree with your first statement. But there is quite a reason for that - Zuck succeeded at making FB a brand people like and are emotionally bound to. Every entrepreneur should aim at that. Hackers are often low on emotion (so is said to be Zuck also), but they succeeded at that. That's why everyone is so crazy at that IPO and letting all reasonnable calculations go.
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Ben & Lee are a great team, from parlaying the winnings of a business plan competition into a hit app (tap defense), to building a successful company around app marketing using their app to gain traction (tapjoy) and now karma. Can't wait to see what they do with Karma and what comes next!
Paul Graham has a similar premise in this essay: http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html, where he mentions that the default mode for startups is Death. Dixon argues for surrounding yourself with extraordinary people, Graham makes the case for being in a startup hub.
The post was on "rapid game development", not "polished game development". It's up in the air which platform is best for a more generalized game, each have their strengths and weaknesses. Ludum Dare is a good example of games developed quickly in various languages -- it's certainly possible to create a quality game under time constraints in C++, Java, what-have-you, my thoughts however are that HTML5 is the optimal platform for that.
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"our abstraction mechanisms are failing us... There are four or five projects working on this and, literally, hundreds of photo-sharing startups."

But it's the same thing! It's the same problems

And IMHO in the technical places it's getting worse every day.

The reason some photo sharing apps are bought by a billion dollar is the same as why lots os people use PHP even though "it sucks". User experience and ease of use.

You don't need to limit yourself to a high level abstraction (like gnome) or provide the whole "under the hood" controls like you're flying an aircraft.

Complexity has to be managed and split into stages. C'mon, even VIM has a smooth learning curve (and not a learning abyss, or being shut out)

And stop the very prevalent mentality in technical circles of "if you're technical you have to read the manual". User experience has a place even when editing .conf files or using a command line tool, but some people make it out of the way harder just to make it accessible only "to the true believers".
Also, the rocket is held in place during the first moments after ignition, giving a window of time for the launch to be aborted without loss of the vehicle.
BCD is not a bad idea... It's not great, you can pack arbitrary precision values more tightly, and you rarely need to display them (even when you do, the screen is slower than the maths), but it's useful for a bunch of things and it's nice to think about.

But does it really need an instruction on every modern computer's processor to make it that tiny bit faster?

When was the last time you used a program that used that instruction? I've never run in to it (and I spend a decent amount of time looking at x86 assembly). Nonetheless, it shows up at the top of every instruction reference - you need to implement it if you want to simulate x86 correctly.

But at least I can run some old 8086 code on my computer... Right?
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Similar story posted some time ago.
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The $18bn is not cash raised for Facebook, it is mostly (can't find if entirely) existing investors selling out. It can use its shares to buy companies though, plus existing cash.
interesting thanks. so freedom of speech and lots of other stuff has been incorporated, but not everything in the constitution applies to states automatically
Doesn't surprise me. In that circumstance, I'd quit via a letter to the shareholders.

That's what I did when I worked for a large nefarious killing machine provider when I had a tony stark moment, grew some balls and worked out what they were doing was utterly wrong.

I informed them that I was bound by British law as well which supercedes any corporate rules and contracts.
Let me make sure I understand...

Is this meant to be run on a web hosting service that supports PHP in the 'traditional' way or do you need permission to run this as a daemon?

If it's the former, I can definitely see its benefits, but if it's the latter I can only imagine the target audience being people who refuse to program in anything but PHP and people who are by some bizarre policy required to use PHP but are allowed to run their own HTTP server.
I'd suggest pastebin rather than a security firm. Security firms will shop you in 2 mins if they feel it's profitable.
> Being dumb came with a shocking loss of privilege. This was humbling. Smart people, like the very attractive, get special treatment they do not know they are getting.

I think this is the most impactful part, could you elaborate? Describe a few of those experiences? People talk a lot about privilege, how taller people make more money for no apparent reason, how good looking people are treated better, particularly women, but IMHO it's intelligence that gives one the biggest boost in (non-romantic) relations with others in today's society.

Sure, there's an awkward geek who doesn't get as much as they could with their IQ scores but if you're relatively intelligent, and especially if you're also talkative, you can see the attitudes of people (from the cable guy and cashier at the store to course instructors and priests) changing in real time as your sentences get longer and not corrupted with filling words, as you with drop a few two-dollar words or describe an even relatively simple physics mechanism.

Their eyes light up. Maybe it's just because they have to give you more attention to process what you're saying but the difference is more than noticeable.
> Star Wars deserves some love!

I disagree. They should sport the Pan-Am logo.
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I read this stuff in "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose. It not only talks about this, but introduces to Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Phase Spaces. It also builds up all the mathematics required, so if you know what complex numbers are - that will be more than enough to follow and understand the concepts introduced well enough. Very highly recommended.

The second part somehow was not as interesting though.
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Nice idea but I wonder how long it'll be until the local school kids replace the QR codes with links to 4chan and 2 girls 1 cup.
Depends how good the research is. But, knowing how much money is in the toy industry (an eye watering amount, even compared to some tech businesses) I suppose it's good.

But then just because it's researched doesn't mean it's good. Why do girls now prefer the narrative form of a previously creative toy? Why do lego blocks need a back story? Is that something that girls have always wanted; is it something that's created by changes in society; is it beneficial to girls? Is it possible harmful to boys to not have the narrative toys? (Although, with all the ROBOT BATTLE IN SPACE stuff hat lego has done for years I suppose they're just re-balancing an existing skew).

There's a lot of research about the "princess phase" which is why most toys for girls are boxed in that disgusting pink - purple combination.

This book is quite good. The biases are clear.

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Real-Toy-Story-Consumers/dp/0552...)
Or a spectacular ground based explosion which appears to be prevalent in the leading edge of rocket development :(
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5.3 and 5.4 are a lot better, but I can't say I'd use them for long running daemons. Personally, I usually use Python daemons that spin up a PHP instance if they need.
A lot less expensive than an explosion on the launch pad. Plus, this demonstration of ability to detect a possible problem and abort the launch in progress will likely pay off with NASA trust down the road.
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If he thinks the Valley is bad he should try to get investors to invest in something long term on the east coast (Boston).

On the East coast the first question is "What are your Sales number?".(yes they really are like Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank). And "How is this going to scale?" (Cause lets face it social scales very well yet ironically in the east we didn't have the vision to first invest in it :) )
"Easy: Look at the gender balance in engineering, and you'll find that there are not many women."

True but irrelevant. It's the "just" in "most girls just don't like technology" I object to, like it's an innate aversion against technology that can't be overcome.

"Another issue is, and this is a highly non-pc one, that the female IQ distribution doesn't reach the same highs (and lows) as male IQ distribution."

Irrespective of being true or not, engineers, for example, would mostly be placed in the higher ranges. If any difference in the distribution of intelligence could account for the gender imbalance in technical occupations, the difference would be markedly less than would be expected from a potentially deviating IQ distribution.

Regarding "brain differences: it's called spatio-relational reasoning."

Seeing how there are, in absolute numbers, even if not in relative numbers, many women who excel in highly technical occupations and environments, this does not account for any differences, unless it could be shown that this particular subset of women have a different "male spatio-relational reasoning" part of the brain, as opposed to other women.

I do not agree or disagree that biology might have part in a difference in interest in technology in men and women. The point is to identify which part if any.
And even if it is ultimately shown that there are biological limits to technology adoption by women in the high ranges of (say) 75%, that still means there are 25% who might be persuaded to become involved in technology by a change in societal behaviour instead of being "sucked into" what at this time is a stereotypical profession for a gender.
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In my reading I certainly saw insight, I think you're not pulling your 'world view' back enough when reading it and looking too closely at the examples.

I think his point is not that "ls" needs less flags, it's that it needs no flags.

Or that libpng is low-level versus high-level, it's more that there shouldn't even be a concept of low-level.

And the other thing he seems to be saying is that backward compatibility should be abandoned to allow libraries to actually mature instead of just bloat.

It was certainly food for thought to me. And you even seem to agree in the paragraph of Let me tell you what it's like to design small and simple software...
I think so, seeing how they ripped off the nodejs.org site.