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I guess it really highlights just how good twitter is.
It will be interesting to see if g+ catch up by the next melbourne earthquake (2013?).
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The claims of environmentalism seem laughable. Surely the cost in terms of increased material requirements, wasted space due to 104 elevators, etc. makes this building a bad choice w.r.t. the environment compared to constructing, say, 10 buildings of 1/10th the size?
All I have to say about this post is "Thank goodness for Readable."
Yes, the one about manipulation. It's in the title. Go ahead: read, do the opposite of what he suggests, and see how many people thank you for how "not-Dale Carnegie" you are.
>Yes, I know what the content is.

Then please point out this supposed "Back door" functionality. Should be simple.
Yes, though its possible that doing so might make the numbers even worse for Israel /Tel Aviv in the comparison.

To be really fair we have to compare roughly the same population density areas I suppose. But if we're asking ourselves if "Israel" (which may be too nebulous and maybe we should say "Tel Aviv") is the next Silicon Valley, and we can point to any region that has a greater concentration of startups (aside from silicon valley), then the premise of the title becomes a little odd.

In other words, its worth asking if the map actually presents an "amazing concentration" or simply a normal-for-a-tech-metro-area concentration. Maybe it is amazin, but maybe its simply a "just plain average" concentration.

And so I'd love to see more data here, because I would guess that its not particularly out of line with NYC/Boston/etc and, if anything, the concentration in those metro areas is greater.
I have always thought that "scrum" is a horrible name for a development method, accurate though it may be :)
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My agent told me to write "awaiting ITIN" on the line that requires SSN. I could get it in a few days.
I wouldn't worry about people "stopping". As long as companies have use-it-or-lose-it budgets, they'll find a way to spend the money somewhere.

And as for geocities, untrained people putting content out there for the rest of the world to see was pretty amazing stuff at the time, even without semantic web concepts in place.
He is talking about enterprise software startups e.g. Workaday.
Heaven forbid that someone complain that diabetes pump research is abysmally retarded due to government distortion of the free market. Heaven forbid that someone complain that longevity research is abysmally retarded due to the same thing. Etc. etc.

People who whine that someone is noticing that things ought to be better than they are suffer from a total lack of vision.
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my cofounder revealed today that if he were a billionaire, he wouldn't be working on our startup (he'd be on some island).

does that bode ill for our startup?
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This video reminds me of another of Elon's strengths, beyond just a technical mind and an entrepreneurial mind: he's very well-spoken, and he's very charismatic -- and it comes off as very natural, so it helps to close the gap with his audience whenever he speaks. He doesn't come off as some egghead academic or engineer -- though clearly he can think like one. Instead he talks like he's a friend speaking casually and calmly, off-the-cuff, with a mixture of what you might call British-style humility. But backed by confidence and a sense of persistance. One of his repeated phrases across many interviews is that he's determined to make X thing happen, and he's confident he can, that they can. If they can't make something happen the first time perfectly out of the gate, then they'll learn, adjust and try again until they do.

He probably has a one-in-a-million combination of both a strong technical mind, a strong business sense, and strong personal charisma. There are a ton of folks out there that have maybe one of those things, and rarely two, but it's extremely hard to find all three. Plus he scored big early with Zip2 and PayPal. Arguably this fourth thing -- a huge war chest to draw from, beginning in the late 90's or so -- has made him even more rare. Indeed, a Tony Stark of his age.
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I assume it's to boost revenue. Frankly I am not fazed by it until it becomes an issue.
No tall building (above 3 floors wood frame) would get anywhere close to economic viability if the plan was to only leave it up for 10 years. Think about how many buildings that are within 20 years old that have been demolished in the united states. The number would be insanely low.
"and there's even stronger evidence that low-BMI people live longer,"

Not true. If you go by the raw numbers, your BMI of 17.6 puts you at the same death risk as someone who has a BMI around 30 (which is borderline obese):
http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S014067360960318...

Article:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673609...

Both higher than typical BMI and lower BMI are associated with higher mortality risk.

I don't think anyone knows which direction the causality goes ( and that is true for a lot of things, I'm think the direction of causality is unknown for a lot of these articles that say "standing is better" or "people who walk more live longer").
> God what flamebait, how is this near the top of the front page?

Because the source is widely respected and has an amazing demonstrated grasp of what good programming involves.
I'm 5'9" 150#. I was diagnosed with scholiosis in jr. high, had lower back pain when sitting all through hs and college (back when i was 130#). I too tried the standing desk and it didn't help.

Here's what helped -- about 3 years ago I got into squats and dead-lifting. I got them up to 1.5x and 2x body weight, respectively. I didn't gain a whole lot of weight, but my core strength increased tremendously.

Maintaining good posture requires some (~10-30%) flexion of the core/abdominals at all times while sitting. Now, after learning proper form of squats and deadlifts, my body goes into proper sitting form without even thinking.

Back pain is completely gone. squats and dlifts -- highly recommended!

tldr-its not about weight, its about strength
This isn't about swearing. This is about respect for your audience and the people you are talking about. There's a huge difference between saying something like:

"Based on what I learned writing Git the people who wrote Subversion --who, at the time, created a great product-- may not have made the best choices"

and what he said (paraphrasing):

"...what you did is stupid and you guys are stupid..."

The first shows respect and consideration for professionals that built a tool that was well-received and used by thousands to great effect. Yes, as things go, a different approach could have been taken. That is always the case with technology.

The second form, which is the approach he took, shows no respect whatsoever for anyone and utter admiration for his own capabilities.

I don't know about you, but you talk to me like that and good luck gaining my engagement in anything of interest to you. It would be over in a microsecond.
It's not something that can be done in 3 days. Fixed function on top of shaders is a PITA. If you want any kind of speed you've got to generate shaders on the fly based on which features you've turned on or off. Otherwise you create an uber shaders that's show as shit.

glBegin, glEnd are shit APIs given how GPUs work now-a-days.

Worse, things like flat shading require generating new geometry on the fly.

Fixed function pipelines suck balls.

OpenGL ES 2.0 FTW!
I think this is the first high level source acknowledging authorship of Flame -- the recent big NYT piece on the Bush/Obama cyberwar only featured official acknowledgment of Stuxnet.
It happens... new product, anything that can go wrong in a presentation will.

I don't think it's an indication of anything.
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But Israel is not a tech-metro-area, that's my point. Roughly 60% desert with sparse population in the south, and rural areas in the north. The tech scene is almost exclusively in Tel Aviv/Herzlia/Haifa.
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I wonder if calorie restriction works because it slows down your metabolism, and thus slows down cell division, and effectively makes it so you are just living more slowly/aging more slowly than other people. However, I would think you would also have less energy, and get less done. So effectively you would live longer as the calendar turns but you would not live any longer in terms of life experienced.

(this is all just pure speculation, I have never looked into any of the science regarding calorie restriction)
Yes but in this case he's an idiot. Try asking Carmack. Any GPU programmer knows GL 1.x was utter crap. Good riddance.
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While that's all true - it completely ignores the externalities. It cost Jamie 3 or 4 attempts and eventually 3 days work to get his unbroken code running on the new OpenGL version. What's the multiplier needed to account for the cost this change incurred for all the other developers who wrote code using OpenGL before ES?

Sure, maintaining backwards compatibility is costly for a project like OpenGL. But if you choose _not_ to maintain backwards compatibility, for whatever reason, and then someone shows that your reasoning is bogus by reimplementing the old API calls in 3 days, you should expect to get called "idiots". (And you then should either be sure enough in your convictions that you know jwz is wrong, or take it on the chin and say "Hey, we fucked _that_ one up. Mind if we include your code in our next release?")
ok, that's the second dangerous cyberweapon from the two beacons of freedom and democracy.

...but iran is still the rogue state, right?
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China has been targeting U.S. private and government computer systems for at least a decade now. Not to slow it down, but to steal data and IP.
Ditto. I bartended a decade ago and my shifts started at 4:00PM and didn't end until an hour after close at 2:00AM. We were on our fee the entire time, with only smoke breaks where we weren't allowed to sit down.
He didn't implement OpenGL 1.3. He ported an OpenGL 1.3 app to OpenGL ES 2.0. There's a HUGE difference.
the exact same criticism applies to you. why haven't you posted it to github yet?
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If USA had threatened China with destruction and had been known to actively work towards that goal, then yes, China would be right to resist. This is not the case, and therefore your question is invalid. (It also smells like the party line of anti-Americanism, which is sad to witness on HN.)
Agreed. If you'd like to cheat and get a sneak preview of what it could be like, at least the last leg, go dig up the Armadillo Aerospace videos of their capsule VTOL launch/land successes. As a thumbnail argument, if we've seen Armadillo do just the VTOL launch/land part, and we've seen SpaceX do the rocket launch & parachute splashdown part, it's not hard to imagine the engineering equivalent of smooshing those two solution spaces together into a single entity which can accomplish both.

I will be as giddy as a lunch table of teen girls at recess when I see SpaceX pull this off.
An app changes focus and you think they should throw out all permissions? WTF?
For future reference -- "cue".
Bill Wulf who? I spent 5 years at UVA, graduating with honors and an MCS in 2005, but never had a single interaction with him. Ironically I did meet interim pres Carl Z at a breakfast for corporate recruiters last year and was impressed by his welcoming honesty. My anecdotes only reinforce what is obvious: Bill is a peripheral academic overdue for retirement, Carl Z was rightfully recognized, and UVA is in safe hands.
Do they stream the sessions as well? I know they do the keynote but it would be really impressive if they streamed the whole darn thing.
Oh for pete's sake it's an Apple developer account. Microsoft, Google, and every other dev platform that matters has the same requirement.

Can we please stop with the "zOMG my data!!1" whenever someone asks for a registration?
He mentioned that someone picked 333,667 and notes that it's a Sexy Prime, but 333,667 is also a Unique Prime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime), which makes me think someone was either being cute, or they suspected that it was a trick question.
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I don't know all of the personal details here -- but, if your muscles are underdeveloped your at risk for RSI issues. I'm taking a guess, at that height and weight your muscles are underdeveloped.

Since I switched to very basic body weight strength training nearly 2 years ago, problems I thought I would have until I died vanished. Nothing I ate or drank, no amount of aerobic exercises did anything to address those issues.

You should not be developing back pain from standing. Everything else should be getting sore. Back pain, that I've seen, generally occurs from people who either slouch forward at work, have major stress issues, or have some type of actual injury.
because you're likely to lose the flyer, and it's a PITA to carry it around. You're always gonna keep your mobile though.
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> Unless your customers are paranoid computer geeks, you should completely ignore users who disable JavaScript.

Hypothetical: CDN X is having problems, and your scripts don't load. Errors pop up everywhere. Do you:

a) realize that scripting can and will fail for anyone, and tailor a page to work without it;

or

b) continue to plug your ears and point to statistics?

I have scripting enabled, but block Google Analytics and various advertising hosts. Do I count as someone to be supported? Or am I irrelevant because I'm a minute statistic?
It does matter quite a lot to the oil market price.
Third world farmers pay the same price for oil as the "I'd rather drive the SUV" suburbanites.
Oh, I completely agree with the spirit of your statement. And my disagreement over the letter is over the interpretation of an unqualified "Windows 8" (or "Windows 7"), not about the substantive facts.

The reason I went into that level of detail is because I wanted to highlight the insanely long 14-year deprecation cycle. Is that a record for a deprecation that was eventually removed?
> How about the significant decrease in per-student state funding?

One of my beefs with the "decreased state funding" argument is that it presupposes that state funding should keep up with dramatic expansions in University expenditures.

Now, to be fair, state funding has dropped from $166m in 2001 to $140m today. Had it kept pace with enrollment and inflation, it should be about $233m today. State funding keeping pace would have allowed tuition to merely double instead of triple as it has.

On the other hand, all of the cuts have been since 2007. I.e. the greatest recession since the 1930's. During this time, faculty salary expenditures have continued to grow. In an economic environment where nearly everyone's salaries have stagnated or been cut. What should have happened instead is layoffs and salary cuts, as happened in nearly every other field.
As a 6'2" individual who tips the scales just shy of 145lbs on a good day, I am not you, but I'd strongly suggest you consider gaining some weight. If you are anything like myself, you (like myself) are so skinny as to be a health problem.

Among other things, gaining good weight (I used to fluctuate between 135-140) has clarified my mind, improved the strength of my heart, and a small host of other nice little upsides. I'm not even to my target weight yet, either.

Remember, just because someone with a BMI of 23 has better health prospects than a BMI of 27, doesn't mean a BMI of 3 is even better.
Guh, run, run away from PHP. Try ruby or python. And then a framework of your choice on that such as Rails, or whatever the lead framework in Python is these days (Django?).
Interesting, I've been using Propel for so long I've probably internalized all the gotchas. What in particular caught you off guard?
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As a decade-long reader of Slashdot, who transitioned almost completely to HN several years ago, it's remarkable how good the visible comments on /. seem after a long absence.

On discussions of sufficient size, because of the depth-first nature of HN I almost inevitably bail out around the 2000 pixel mark. I just don't want to wade through that much garbage, and that's about as much space as it takes for HN threads to devolve into a pointless tête-à-tête these days.

I think when I switched to HN, there basically weren't worthless comments, but those days appear to be over. The transition here wasn't noticeable, but going back feels like a breath of fresh air.
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Perhaps this one?

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It would create a .exe file that was a simple image viewer and give it the standard .jpg icon. You would name it something like picture003.jpg.exe and most people's computer would conveniently hide the true file extension.
in case anyone else is confused - it (a cepstrum) is the ft of the log of the modulus of an ft. the ft of an ft is the original signal.
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The sad thing is the free market is probably the main reason we have these distortions in the first place, but then again I digress (and I may just be wrong). The government is so easy to blame. It's almost too easy - like taking candy from a baby. What you state sounds like facile thinking mixed together with just the tiniest little bit of bullshit.

> "If only, if only we got rid of those damn bureaucrats, we'd have free markets and lollipops for all!".

But you know what the sad thing is, the truly sad thing? The people in the government have their own customers too, members of free market that elect them and pay for their service. Some more than others - it would seem. The real problem, it would appear, is that those in the government are too damn good at giving the free market exactly what it damn well wants - monopoly profits.

Who exactly do you think paid for those restrictions?

Think more carefully wissler. Your bias is showing. As is mine (or is it? I never quite know myself).

> When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth.

Steve Jobs - Interview in WIRED magazine (February 1996) - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Quotes.

Things are more than just black and white. The world is no place for idealists and ideologues with clear cut ideas, and simple thoughts. No, no, it's much too messy a place for that.
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If the tests are failing because the production code is confused about daylight savings time, then you may have a serious problem.

If on the other hand it's just the test code that's flaky, usually such problems can be alleviated by refactoring such that one passes the time function as a parameter. This is in preference to hard-coding calls to the system time in test, which imho one should never do.

Once an arbitrary time function can be passed as a parameter, one can provide a mock or fake system clock for test purposes. Ideally one would still want to test under daylight savings' conditions. But at the least this approach leaves one in a place where one can test the common 24-hours-in-a-day case without having the tests spuriously fail two days out of every year.
I found it a little unnecessarily complex. Also the way events are handled, tight coupling between components is unavoidable.
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If that is your entire experience with the programming community you, my friend, landed on the wrong side of town for some reason. I have never had even a small sliver of that experience, and I've worked with hundreds of people.

This is not about not being polite. This is about PUBLICLY deriding people. That's bad manners, to say the least.
YESS!!! you should fire him and file a lawsuit against him for defamation.
... Pretty much anything ugly, grey, concrete, and mid-century.

Like, say, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTS_Tower ?

(To be fair, it's pebblecrete.)
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Neither have any of those. Just because everybody does it (require registration), does not automatically make it good and ok. Sorry, you can downvote me if you like.
It seems he doesn't really understand why one typically incorporates in Delaware.
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That is a noble goal, but it's one of hundreds of often-conflicting noble goals. It's not inherently wrong to design a toaster that fails to work as a refrigerator.