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You're probably right. It seems like a crutch for some people. Instead of battling through it and becoming stronger, they escape to the Internet and never truly overcome the issue. Personally, getting rid of the bigger pleasures in my life really helped to face the bigger pains. Maybe I'm a unique and special snowflake, but I doubt it.
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honestly...with a domain name like that i expected him to have a gandalf beard, instead i see a boring pruned poser stubble...

basically expected: http://tinyurl.com/5wmr89v
got: http://graybeardprogrammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mi...
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That has nothing to do with why the iphone is so fast.

Civilian transmission rates on L1 are 10x slower than the military L2 frequency. It takes a full 6 seconds to get a single frame downloaded and that is also hoping your almanac is up to date. (Thankfully AGPS can provide the almanac data by other menas.)

The military version it takes .6 seconds to do the same it takes us civilians to do in 6 seconds. The SA drift is gone now but still the slower speed makes fixing a perfect position slightly more difficult and less accurate.
His book was aimed at everyone. It especially applied to salesmen, but they weren't the only target.
While facebook has access to a vast amount of data, there are also a few disadvantages of doing research on their dataset:

1. You only have data of people capable of buying a computer and having internet access. And then having the time and willingness to use facebook. This places a bais in the information and obtained research.

2. The profile of users don't reflect who they truly are. It represent what they want to be, or at least how they want to be percieved by others. Admittingly this problem is also present when doing surveys.

It certainly provides a lot more information and would aid social scientist, but it's not perfect. Then again they passively collect a huge pile of information too (e.g. using their like buttons all over the internet).
I've only played with both for a few days, but to summarise: Proxino's UI is drastically nicer, whereas errorception has been around longer and is more reliable.

Proxino is still in beta, so I wouldn't use it for mission-critical websites yet. But Proxino seems to be fixing problems and iterating quickly.
They are the same thing. Government owned companies are not "part of the government" like government departments are. The CEO's and directors are probably all members of the party, but labelling every employee as a party member running the party agenda is false.

There are even 'members' (large numbers) of the party who do not agree/encourage the party agenda.
Delaware is a great state for: 1) large corporations, 2) boards of directors of corporations of any size, and 3) the investors who control the board of directors for a corporation. Delaware is also a great state if you expect to have lots of litigation over your corporate structure or in regards to corporate management activities.

Delware is a horrible state for anyone else, especially minority shareholders. The reason large companies and VCs love Delaware is because it allows them to run roughshod over minority/non-controlling investors in ways that are illegal in almost every other state. (This is also the premise behind the investing maxim, "never vote against management".)

Furthermore, incorporating in Delware does not shield you from legal liability from other states. For example, if you do business in California, you will generally be subject to California laws. You can contract jurisdiction to Delaware for certain legal items, but not all (for example, employment issues). This is relatively easy to do for consumer-facing contracts, but most locally incorporated businesses will reject jurisdiction clauses from non-essential vendors and clients.
I disagree heavily with your argument. If the student is struggling with fractions and long division, I don't think you can blame schools "pandering to the slowest student" for such a problem. If they are struggling so much with basic concepts, I'd have to argue that they are the slow students.

> We don't see these results in adults in other countries because they don't burn out their students at such an early age.

If you've looked at education in other countries, I don't understand how you can say this. Many places push their students far harder than the US (for example, Singapore, Japan, South Korea). Rote memorization is pushed far harder as well. How is the material that is taught any less "useless" in the eyes of students in these countries?

I think culture definitely comes into play here. I'm not going to say incompetent teachers don't exist or that there isn't too much bureaucracy in schools; there clearly is, however, laying the blame entirely at their feet is being dishonest. I think culture and parental expectations play a larger part than many people want to admit.
Why are Apple laptops becoming harder to take apart?
No worries. I actually went and looked for the post I was thinking of that last touched on this, and found that we'd both already commented in that thread.
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I built a windows phone app around a similar concept (http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/apps/7745a9a4-6926-4767-9e...) but it hasnt really caught on.
I concede to your superior argument. There is a better way to look at this topic but I still don't like the crippling debt cancer treatment leaves with families. Though stealing is a strong word, I'd use copying.
Their quasi-mantra of "focus" is also very reminiscent of Apple's way of thinking. I have 100% more respect for them than I did this morning, that's for sure.
Just to be clear, I didn't say anything about Chrome in my GP post. In fact, basically every other browser is much better than Firefox in this respect, and has been for a long time now.

I do take your point about using tabs heavily and the limitations of some other browsers. I too will often use many tabs if I'm researching something or just browsing social news/comment sites like HN.

On the other hand, I typically load a tab group of about half a dozen such news sites a couple of times a day, and Firefox goes into a trance for quite a while every time until those pages have all finished doing their thing, so it's not exactly performing well with even a few tabs either.
Why 'mother'? Most of these game rating organizations seem to originate in 1994.
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> Love ZFS, hate having to use it in FreeBSD or Illumos

Why?
A little bit of warning, to be fair: he mentions you should quit everything in favor of Graphite. As awesome as Graphite it is, it's not really production ready, and setting it up is an exercise in putting together semi-working software without any documentation.
Philosophy discusses human problems. Mathematics is a symbol game.

Logic is (at least) two concepts referred to with the same term and I won't answer until I know which one in specific you're talking about.
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Do you have the same opinion about Baker? I find him to be less political than Krugman (which doesn't necessarily mean less ideological). His posts are almost always based on data and seem to make a pretty strong case. Plus he called the housing bubble really early (2002 or so), again just by looking at data.

Probably the most interesting point that Baker makes (makes ad nauseum, in fact) is that the US's fiscal dilemma is almost entirely a matter of health care costs.
This is something we've been working to fix in the community! The good news is that most of the development and testing so far has been on an N36L-based Microserver, where the experimental AMD KVM support seems to work pretty well. There's a github repo -- https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-kvm -- and hopefully I'll get time soon to respin a current SmartOS ISO with the AMD-enabled bits.
As far as I see the only line with selectors is:

> return [ $($('h2 a')[0]).attr('title'), $($('h2 a')[1]).attr('title') ];

which are 2 css selectors and picking an element. That is pretty much covered by all of the available http parser libraries
Why do most people pay for cable when the free channels provide more than enough content to occupy their time?
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You could get many of the same beneficial incentives (and few of the really negative ones that your model creates) just by splitting the recruitment fee into two parts: 50% upon candidate placement, 50% once they pass a 3-month milestone.
* Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch/) - Gives you Alt-Tab (Window switching) alongside the default Cmd-Tab (Application Switching).

* Moom (http://manytricks.com/moom/) - allows you to move windows around a lot easier.

* TotalFinder (http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/) - Finder with tabs and other useful bits.

* CoRD (http://cord.sourceforge.net/) - Decent RDP client (better than the official Microsoft one).

* Caffeine (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/caffeine/id411246225) - Stops the screensaver activating at the click of a button.

* CleanMyMac (http://macpaw.com/cleanmymac) - Can strip the unwanted language packs etc from applications saving you a significant amount of space.

* Enqueue (http://www.enqueueapp.com/) - Decent iTunes replacement, with FLAC support.

* Flu.x (http://stereopsis.com/flux/) - Warmer screen during dark hours, makes it easier to work in dim light.

* SourceTree (http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) - Decent GUI Git/Hg/SVN client.

* GrabBox (http://grabbox.devsoft.no/) - Instantly throws screenshots into your Dropbox public folder.

* iStat Menus (http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/) - Memory and CPU utilisation in your menu bar.

* YoruFukurou (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/yorufukurou/id428834068) - Decent Twitter client with muting rules etc.
Will this just push more Koreans away from WOW/D3 and back towards Starcraft 2?

I cant win as it is =/
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And why do you think they do not do that?

Because someone else would offer a free alternative.

Facebook is doomed as a business. They've had over eight years to find a novel business model that won't drive users away and they still do not have one. They are walking a tightrope.

Let's just hope that when the company goes South the data does not fall into the wrong hands. Spam could get a lot worse. Imagine direct marketers knowing all your friends and family, plus all sorts of personal details about you. Imagine all the desperate salespeople who have no reluctance to make cold calls that would love to get their hands on Facebook data.
The majority of cable channels still have tons of advertising; consumers are paying for the channel, but I doubt the subscription fees are the majority of the revenue for the channel.

Regardless, it's a very different issue if your core value proposition is "using this is super useful and awesome because everyone you know is also using it". What would be the optimal pricing model for a TV network that was exponentially more enjoyable the more people were watching it? $0.
They're set up very well. Can't say more than that, I'll leave it to their team to give the details they choose.
Selling both of those benefits draws a lot of attention to the fact that Facebook is making money from selling your attention and your data.
I'm not going to get into the technoppression debate, but I will say that the use of computers under Apartheid is quite similar to Immigration and Customs Enforcement program known as "secure communities".

Secure communities is a data sharing initiative between ICE, the FBI and several other agencies. Participating police districts now automatically pass on the citizenship status of detainees to ICE. Under President Obama, secure communities has deported more "dangerous illegals" than any other administration.

Talking with a friend who works at the county jail, this is the same protocol that was previously done by a human being, only made much more efficient by the data sharing initiative. Instead of having an officer look through a list of names for dangerous criminals, the system picks up people with really minor offenses.

To date my state of Washington has deported more people for having an expired fishing license than for murder. Secure communities has certainly upped the ante in terms of who is deported when pulled over by a police officer.
tl;dr: Your conventional wisdom is out-of-date.

"Mozilla needs to focus on making its browser consume less memory and CPU when idle"

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy

MemShrink has been going for a year. Snappy has been going for seven months. Both projects have made big improvements. You really should try a recent version.

Also, http://gs.statcounter.com/ suggests that Firefox's marketshare drop has flattened out and it's starting to grow again.
I haven't implemented logstash or graylog2 (yet) but I've implemented Splunk multiple times, at multiple companies since back in 2006 and it's a simply fantastic piece of software. Unless the pricing model has changed significantly since the last time I bought it, I don't see it as that expensive. The licensing model is based on daily volume indexed but the licenses are perpetual. It has all the features you'd expect built-in and the reporting/searching/alerting and other integrations are the best that I've seen. I am curious to see what can be accomplished with open source software though.
Using Thunderbolt in tandem with discrete GPU
We can keep wondering how Apple will implement TB on the new Mac Pros ;-)
But you have control of that.
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Back on my computer (commented from my phone earlier). I don't know if you just added more screenshots already, or if you were just hiding from the mobile view! They look good tho!

Unfortunately my old version is not generally available, but you can take a look at a few screenshots! Feel free to leave comments with questions: http://flickr.com/gp/aaronpk/LAMz1d/
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In large bodies of water, do you not observe oscillating sounds? I can't explain it very well (I forget the official name) but it's like pushing a wave onto another wave at just the right frequency so it creates a huge wave, could the same thing not happen with sounds in water? It might explain the ones that build up and then gradually decrease. I don't know much about this and am probably wrong but it's something I've always wondered.

If you had enough random sounds going off in the water, given enough time some would group up together I imagine to create freak sound waves.
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"The avoidance of side-effects is one of the key objectives of functional programming. Advocates of functional programming claim a number of benefits for the absence of side-effects including a greater ease of reading and reasoning about the code and an increased ability to execute parts of a computation in parallel."

You know I'm sympathetic to this line of thinking, but I wished he would have actually used this VM example to back up these statements.

Why is the version without mutable state better? That's not explained at all. I can think of some reasons why it would be worse -- e.g. more memory allocations. For this VM, its semantics are inherently serial, so the concurrency argument doesn't apply.
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It should be noted that this isn't quite true. The default (production-grade) KVM module shipped in SmartOS presently only supports Intel CPUs with both VT-x and EPT. SmartOS itself runs fine on AMD CPUs, and you can use everything except KVM for hardware-accelerated virtual machines.
My favorite use of a treemap viewer: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/3297
The effect is called superposition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition_principle
Actually that is not true. Cobra Tag works with iOS:
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/15/phone-halo-shows-off-the-cobr...

We also were the first to show the 4.0 technology last January at CES: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33369_1-57354528/bluetooth-4.0-powered-cobra-tag-g5-needs-only-biannual-recharges/
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This is pretty good. What's the game plan with it?
I don't think I've ever read anything purporting to offer insight that was quite as banal as this.

"This was amazing to me, to realise that there are different ways things are done, and that the overlap of different methods and cultures can be so powerful."

seriously? I shudder to think that there might be grown adults who didn't already know this.
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I get where you're coming from but I just want to raise two quibbles:

> If arch linux doesn't include it, it's not a 'unix'

...but according to that version of SUS, I'm sure the original unix isn't unix either. In any case, I don't think you can just assume any particular spec when someone says the word 'unix', most people usually just mean *nix-family (and if the spec is relevant they'll probably cite it).

> it's not even a good "not unix".
I imagine arch is much closer to compliance if you install everything in the 'core' repository (which is recommended and includes ed). In any case, if lacking ed makes something a "bad not unix", I'm not sure most people mind being wrong ;)
I agree but I myself cringed at the "true hacker" bit - it's not just "true hackers" (w/e that means) who cringe at Carnegie quotes so much as mature human beings in general.
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Well most people are not in business to just break even on their costs.
We've used a whole heap of tools to try to track brand pages and it's always a pain the arse. No one has a clean interface like this and guys like SocialBakers charge like a wounded bull.
The most obvious symptom of the malaise is the huge debts we have managed to accumulate in recent decades, which - unlike in the past - cannot largely be blamed on wars.

U.S. Defense spending is around $900 B/yr (including veterans health, etc). That is the post-Iraq War cost. Social Security is net $0 (what comes in, goes out, either today or tomorrow, and with relatively minor adjustments and the elimination of gov't "borrowing" from SS funds, it can stay that way forever). Medicare is perhaps 1/4 the cost of defense spending.

I fail to see how debt can be attributed to social services simply because you might decide to stop calling things "war".

"Young" people might consider austerity if, firstly, defense budgets were cut down by orders of magnitude. Let's see how much debt is accumulated when we're not throwing away (bombing away) nearly 50% of revenue.

The heart of the matter is the way public debt allows the current generation of voters to live at the expense of those as yet too young to vote or as yet unborn.

No. The heart of the matter is the way public debt allows relatively few to massively and outrageously profit via post-9/11 escalation of defense spending.

If young Americans knew what was good for them, they would all be in the Tea Party.

Even excluding the complete failure to acknowledge out of control defense spending as the #1 cause of economic issues, there are many, many aspects of the Tea Party that simply have nothing to do with economics, and are in themselves completely out of sync with large swathes of people (perhaps most particularly young people). And now, with consideration that defense spending is the #1 issue, the attraction of youth to Occupy makes a lot of sense.

If older American's knew what was good for their children, they'd run as fast as they could from the Tea Party, and perhaps Occupy would be less viewed (inaccurately) as naive.

And all that's leaving aside the fact that a significant portion of the economic downturn was due to the machinations of the financial market leaders. Yet these leaders are the least affected by austerity measures. Perhaps some minor tangible steps should be taken to address those leaders before asking the rest of the world to pick up the slack.
I always liked to dig into hardware. I customized and assembled my own PCs from bare-bone kits. But with Apple products it doesn't make sense anymore I would rather have a new laptop/iPad/phone every year or so than try to revive outdated piece. I guess this trend will continue and computers will become more like microwave ovens or TV set. How many people upgrade their microwaves?! :)
I think people tend to generalize things. I, for example, have the mentality that if I understand\learn something with little effort, then others can do the same. The truth is, the others usually don't bother to put forth that little effort, which makes me the exception to the rule. For example, I recently made a decent chunk of money by creating a simple WordPress site that was valuable enough for my client...I would've paid a fraction of what my client paid if I was him. So I definitely concur with this post.
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Here is what Jupiter sounds like, (electromagnetically):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs
Actually, I work in a lab where I'm investigating ELF 'whistlers' that we've detected. It's really interesting stuff - we're not sure what causes them, but we've found some correlation between events and certain limits on the solar elevation angle. We think it might be ions getting trapped and moving along a field line.
I understand and mostly agree with your sentiment. R&D is important.

However, I do feel it's important to bring up the point of making generic drugs more accessible to the masses. Sure, cancer is a big beast, but the masses out there mustn't die of tuberculosis, malaria, pneumonia, etc. just because the drugs are too expensive.

It seems like there just isn't a one-size-fits-all kind of solution. Officially licensing drugs for cheaper sales in developing countries might be a reasonable road to go down.. got any other solutions ?