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I agree the problem is in the definition of the phrase. But taking it a step further, it may be that this is not an apt comparison to begin with. "Moore's Law for Software" It sounds witty and fantastic, and I had this tingly "Ooh, aah, interesting point" feeling when I first read it, but it's hiding a lot underneath all that brevity.

We can look at Moore's law and get and easy metric: The layman may know it as "The speed of computers doubles every X years" (where X changes depending on the person retelling it). Those more familiar know it as "The number of transistors we can cram into the same space doubles every 18 months." We get something concrete to look for, something empirical to measure: Transistors.

With software it's far less clear not only what we're measuring, but how we measure it. And even if we ("we" being necessarily a mere subset of software users) settle on a measurement, it's almost certain that any one measurement will not matter to all people in the same ways.

Moore's law for Software. Does that mean Moore's law for the usefulness of Software to its end users? Does it mean efficiency of achieving some result? Does it mean the capacity of the software to be intuitive? Enjoyable? It's ability to spawn a series of companies that create new jobs? We might as well be in a social sciences seminar debating definitions of "utility". Put into an example: A redesigned UI for an internal tool at a major corporation could lead to hundreds of people doing their jobs twice as fast. Maybe even thousands. That's Moore's Law-esque doubling, but is it really what we want to measure? If it is, where did it come from, and how do we continue to reproduce that improvement in the manner that the word "law" would require?

I won't try and go any further down this rabbit hole, but I just wanted to elaborate a bit on the points you opened up.
Very insightful.

I have to point out one little oversight though:

> Seriously, we need depressed folks, autistic folks, OCD folks, and all these other kinds of people in our world in order for progress to happen. Happy people won't fix what they don't think is broken!

It almost sounds like you're implying that people are either happy, or have one of n classifiable psychological disorders. The reality is that the disorders are statistical classifications that fit an infinite number of shades of the human condition. Umbrellas.

Personally I consider myself hapilly-awake? I guess I know we live in a very suboptimal world but I am happy to exist and do my best to change what I can about it.
I've had to replace battery at least once and buy a new power adapter for each mac laptop I've had since and including the tibook, which is a white macbook and a 15" mbp. The 5 or so different powerbooks I had never needed replacement anything, but maybe I used them less hours/day.
I just wanted to point out that non depressive people is not necessarily happy people and have hard times when life's shitty, they just have emotional rewards (not only emotional punishments) when confronting (and overcoming) the shit.
Yeah, it's common to have bad url or email address validation. Many sites do not accept short email addresses at all. As example a @bc.de (space is there intentionally). When it becomes a @ bc then it's interesting to see how many sites will fail with that.
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I worked in the laptop battery pack industry for a few years, your description is fairly accurate.

6 cell packs cost ~$22 to manufacturer. 9 cell packs cost ~$30 to manufacturer (outdated numbers). Yet, 9 cell packs MSRP for easily 50+% more.
Plus the labour cost of setting up each new machine and transferring your gear, plus the labour costs of posting and selling the old unit.
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That seems to be one of the major laments in Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman). Us humans, even when we're 'ready for it', tend to be remarkably inflexible in adopting concepts which conflict with our basic or social intuitions...
Or you just accept you alone can't solve the world problems and take the small steps you can.

For the record, I get angry at the world problems, not depressed.
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You didn't include an email.

I've been having success with Go for backend work, and easy C integration in this kind of database like this would be useful for what I do. I'm not sure if R integration should be a priority though, since most R users I know are ambivalent about it (whatever, small sample size), and because Julia development continues to improve.
With the current trend of combining the address and search bar I doubt browsers will let you go to e.g. http://lol when you type "lol" in the bar.

In fact I just checked that typing "ac" in the Chrome omnibox makes a Google search for "ac" as I would expect. So the value of having an A record on a TLD is limited.

Edit: Somehow I missed the bar on top of the search results that says "Did you mean to go to http://ac " so there's some value after all.
I really don't like the way Tim Cook is handling Apple :/ he seems to care more about profits without any real vision

Note: I'm not an apple fan-boy and this article seems a bit bias since his business revolves fixing hardware
And neither of them are theft.

Calling it "stealing" is political propaganda as part of an agenda aimed at poisoning any constructive debate about the future of copyright in the information age.

Language matters, especially in this context, where people go to jail for doing no harm whatsoever.
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So, how does this impact Web Components? It seems to fill pretty much the exact same role, but with a rather different implementation. Should I expect to see this become the new standard because there's a polyfill for it so people will start using it already, or am I gonna end up with a bunch of legacy code when something else becomes standardized? And, again like Web Components, it's duplicating functionality that's been in Internet Explorer of all places since IE5.0 with DHTML Behaviors.
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But if their virtual economy is stabler than a real world economy, this changes, right? I'd rather own ISK than Zimbabwean dollars. Even if it's not strictly stabler, the ISK reflect a certain amount of wealth that's retained in the virtual economy.

Taking another contrived example to make the point obvious, if Eve players basically controlled the equivalent of a trillion dollars, and they all decided to shift half of it to dollars (e.g. Because CCP has decided to print more ISKs), this would have a very real impact on the real economy.

Those are all contrived examples, so regulation shouldn't be based on them, but they show the question is worth considering.
It used to be the case that device nodes for serial ports and lock files for those were owned by that user/group. Historically uucp (uucico - uucp call in call out) was the only sensible thing to use the modem for anyway...

Personally, I never used uucp over serial links, but for several years fetched my emails via uucp-in-tcp. It was a homegrown system with sendmail, later qmail, later exim and it worked very reliably.
Thanks for your comment. My email is terence (at) siganakis [dot] com if you would like to chat.

The R integration stuff is more for the data science crowd. I feel it would be useful to have a streamlined way of writing a query to return a subset of a large database and then be able to manipulate it in R as if it were a data frame / matrix. I am interested in seeing how Julia plays out too.
Knowing a bit about Alan Kay's work I have to say that some posts here are missing the point. In my view when he says that there isn't a Moore's Law for software he is asking why haven't we abstracted software development to the level where we can double our productivity every few years or months.
I wouldn't say biology so much as psychology. Simply put hardware has laws of physics to bound it. Software doesn't such strictly defined limits. It's only bounds are metaphors and underlying mechanism to implement it.
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The way I would test the parser would be to input a string representing a representative line of CSV and then assert on the object that was output. Then you just do the simplest implementation that could work (which would probably look similar to your last code snippet), and only refactor that into multiple classes if you have a good reason.

I don't think the "right" way you describe is somehow not following the principles of clean/GOOS/test driven code. They are still good principles to follow, but I think you've demonstrated that you can't follow them without weighing many different concerns at once - and that it's really hard to tell which ones should be more important than others until you've had some hard-earned experience.
What you need for a migration from one social network to another:

1) The existing platform being annoying/uninteresting/distrusted.
2) A small but "cool" section migrating to a new platform.

Facebook won by being adopted by an effective wedge group - college student. Those who open source might (or might not) be a different but effective wedge group.
1) There are many references to the word "copyright" on this page (so it's not all about plagiarism), and the comments certainly don't hint that it's seen as "universally" fine. The post on attrition.org complains about "profiting off the plagiarism and copyright violations." [1]

2) Even if it were, I'm sure film-industry workers have a very different consensus.

Therefore, most people are just talking their book. Web graphics and css are terribly precious, but we'll militantly defend megaupload.com, who profited hugely from enabling copyright infringement, because we want nice things. It's only simple when it suits us to think it is.

[1] http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/thehackernews/
This very thing happened when I was working at $LAST_COMPANY. Another company took our entire site design, fiddled with it a bit and published their site. The didn't change the Google Analytics and we found a new competitor because they showed up in our Google Analytics reports.
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This is what I've wanted for a while. I don't remember to carry my diabetes notebook everywhere, so I've been using these iphone apps for storing the measurements. It's still kind of clunky and I haven't found any apps with good UI and ability to export the result in a way I don't have to spend time in a spreadsheet program.

Want.
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WhatsApp FTW? Most of the impromptu meets for food and drinks with friends are organized using that instead of Facebook. Takes way too long to wait for people to check FB, RSVP, etc.
"The process is clunky and uncomfortable — and dangerous due to potential errors." -- No, it's not. Not anymore dangerous than the presented solution anyway, which seems to be a common glucose meter connected to an iPhone.
To track your glucose levels with the phone is a good idea, but safer? No, the testing method is exactly the same.
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For any constant load applications dedicated servers are definitely much cheaper then ec2.

Amazon wins for APIs and convenience but not for price.
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My wife had some kind of proto version of this. No iPhone connection, but the glucose meter could save a few measurements (around 50 I think) and they were then transferred via Bluetooth to a 3G enabled box that uploaded the measurements to a server.
Where's the 1/1500 annually stat from? I googled, to no avail
For those of us that don't spend every waking moment on Hacker News and thus have no idea what Meteor is, could someone please give a quick rundown of what this is and what it means and why I should care?
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But look on the (not so) bright side, you know how us Lispers feel!
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Yesss running s/==/===/g...very semantically different ;)
This would be great - if anyone used Google+
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Oh, no... Not that thing again.I don't want to go too much off topic but to quote xkcd "More harm has come from people decrying societal decline, than societal decline ever has."

I like how Carr's own sentiment mirror the sentiment of people who thought books will stop people from remembering things. And he wants us to return to books?
You're mistaken. There are several Android phones with comparable DPI, as well as others with higher DPI. Edit: For example, while the iPhone4 is 329 DPI, one LG display for thi years phones is 440 DPI.
Clickable:

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http://maps.apple.com/?x=1
My DNS provider (also on my VPS) can't resolve both domain names.

I can 'dig' the domain names though and at least visit http://ac/ through it's IP-address in the A-record (http://193.223.78.210/).
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Depending on your location you can get one now: http://www.boots.com/en/iBGStar-blood-glucose-meter_1253400/
I disagree with all the negative comments here, if I understand the article correctly, they found a correlation like "IF you are depressed, THEN you might anxiously check your emails all the time'' They arent saying this internet use pattern makes you more likely to be depressed (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens#Justification_via_...)

In my personal case, I have bipolar depression and I have gone through several depressive episodes and have definately changed my internet usage during them as described in the article. So I believe this research has value and I will probably build a tool for self-tracking these variables...

What I disagree with is that there should be a central software to notify "counselors'' of this behavior. I believe there would be too many false positives and it would be a huge intrusion of privacy.

Maybe a system where users by the software get an automated "Need help?" email once where they can schedule an anonymous appointment with 1 click at the student health center or something would be fine. But it should really just be a relatively cheap way to screen for students who might be in trouble and contact them proactively, the internet usage itself shouldnt be logged or discussed as a problem ever...
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I was under the impression it was going to remain open source unless terms have changed. On their Kickstarter page under FAQ, that seems to be the case still.

That said, its too early to tell.
Apparently they are not supposed to exist any more. I think they are not allowed on the new ones but can't find source now.

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What makes the author think that the new drug wouldn't be illegal?

Behavior-altering medication like this isn't common or available now, why would it be in a few years?
And what do you do when multiple companies have the same name and there's no top-level country domain to distinguish between them?
Actually, it is about Mac vs. PC.

A bit of history:

The classic Mac OS Finder never had a tree view. Heck, for a couple System versions, the file system (MFS) didn't support more than one level of folder hierarchy, so it would have been completely pointless. With HFS in System 4 (IIRC), that changed. Still no tree view though, and I don't think it was until System 6 that there was a list view, and not til System 7 were there disclosure triangles so you could drill down. (fun fact - though on OS X, you can adjust a slider to change icon sizes, back in OS ≤9, there was also "Small Icon View", which used 16x16 icons instead of the traditional 32x32, and put the labels to the side, rather than underneath) Despite a few other miscellaneous additions to the Finder over the years (tab view, At Ease (not really the Finder, but it shipped with certain Mac lines)), for System 7 through OS 9, most folks' file systems weren't that deep or complex. Having a tree view would have been mostly unnecessary and very Windows-like, which was something to avoid back then. There was even some outcry in OS 8 when the system got menus where you didn't have to hold down the mouse button to keep them open.

Come at it from the other side, NeXTStep Workspace's primary view was column view. So naturally that was left in the OS X Finder along with icon and list views from classic Mac OS. If tree view has ever been discussed at Apple in the past 15 years (and I wouldn't be surprised if it hasn't), it was almost certainly rejected as a throwback to the old Windows Explorer ca. 1995. Anecdote: in 2008-ish, at WWDC, there was a feedback forum, and while I can't remember what prompted the question, I asked if there were going to be resize handles on all the corners. I actually got boos from the audience and a look of horror from most of the panel, and a straight up "No. We're not doing that, probably ever. No way." as an answer. (Years later, I couldn't help but smirk when Lion had resize handles on all corners and edges.) The point is, if something potentially useful has too many associations with Windows, it was (and still is, to some extent) taboo.
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The fact that the GPL uses copyright law is just an implementation detail. In practice, it really turns copyright on itself. In general, when somebody infringes on a normal copyright, they are making some work more accessible. When somebody breaks the GPL, they are making some work less accessible, because all the GPL does is ensure that anyone can practically and legally modify and redistribute the software in question. If we imagine a copyright spectrum where the default copyright is x and public domain is 0, then the GPL is -x.

So opposing copyright in general but supporting the GPL is actually an entirely consistent and rational position.
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Sure. If I were at Hitler's trial and I had witnessed some of Hitler's good aspects, I'm sure I would cry too.
True, I remember one study (I can't recall the link sadly) that measured performance of several programming teams and found strong correlation between women in workforce and team performance.

Another study in the book "Imagine" by Lehrer Jonah implies that creativity depends on the Q factor, inside a group. Here is a quote:
"Uzzi’s data clearly demonstrates that the best Broadway shows were produced with intermediate levels of social intimacy. A musical produced at the ideal level of Q (2.6) was two and a half times more likely to be a commercial success than a musical produced with a low Q (<1.4) or a high Q (>3.2). It was also three times more likely to be lauded by the critics."

I can see how hiring only rockstars which probably knew each other would increase the Q beyond the ideal level.
> Amazon plans to do the same with .search. So if you have a search site and it's not Amazon's you can't be part of .search.

Am I the only one who doesn't understand why it is Amazon - and not Google - who wants to have .search?
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(we're working on the same problem, so thanks for bringing this up).I think it is a real and HUGE problem.

There are various startups who are trying to attack it from different angles. E.g. checkout Path.to, geekli.st, branchout.

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Exactly what I was poised to write. After a howler like that, reading on is hard.
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