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It's possible that the art in question is ahead of its time, or expresses radically unpopular ideas.

I'm not saying that a piece of art that no one ever cares about after it's created is valuable, but it's hard to judge the value of art based on current popularity. Plus, the judgement of popularity is influenced by the culture at a given time, and the existence of a given work or works might have a pretty big impact on the course of that culture's evolution -- regardless of its initial ability to gain funding.

There are also the practical difficulties of making sure that the funding request gets in front of the people who'd appreciate the work in question, and that they have the money to be able to afford to donate, and that they're not disinclined from donating for reasons that have nothing to do with the artwork in question (e.g. they think kickstarter is some phishing site, or think there's no point since they can only give a very little bit).
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"Common sense limit to free speech" is why you are French, not American. There's no freedom to not be offended.

There's a reason the Church of Scientology loves suing people in England.
Surely he's not responsible for that feeble Metro initiative, is he? That could be the end of Microsoft for real.
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Ah, ok. Then I would serve ads. How much more the library pay?
We've reached the point in scientific discoveries where you can't expect an apple falling on a scientist's head to eventually lead to an explanation (I know this story isn't true). The proposed theory is more complex and therefore requires lots of money. You have no idea what this potential discovery could lead to 10, 20, 50, 200 years down the road. And neither does anybody, it could be a steal. How much is the truth worth (or a glimpse at why things happen)?

By the way, what was the common man's response when Newton first explained gravity? Probably, "Things fall, what more do you need to know"
> The NEA is about funding things nobody wants.

That's an interesting perspective. I see it more as a tragedy of the commons situation. It's possible to make important and influential art which is not commercially viable. NEA is great for funding art that wouldn't look good on a T-Shirt, but is beneficial to the culture as a whole.
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Arguably having separate waves and particles would be more complex, since there would be more entities.
It doesn't exist. But it would contain all the classic works of hackerdom.
The problem is that the people who would loses out if NEA was closed would lose a lot, whereas those who would benefit would benefit only a little bit.
When I see 40+ voice search's by various accents, including Socttish - THEN I will be amazed.
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all chinese ghost towns fill up. That's what I heard.

Source? That's not what I've heard about China in particular. Rather, what I have read in a variety of sources is that economic statistics in China may not be reliable,

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/business/global/chinese-da...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-29/chinas-lates...

so that the housing market in China

http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/02/markets/chanos-china-bear/in...

http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/global-property-market

http://bx.businessweek.com/china-real-estate/

http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Wen-Eases-O...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870476440457528...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-26/china-gamble...

http://www.kanzhongguo.com/news/12/06/17/455914.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/06/03/chinas-hous...

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/13/business/la-fi-china...

faces huge uncertainty, with many Chinese workers unable to afford housing at current prices, but many developers sure to lose money if prices drop.

Everywhere else in the world, when empty developments were built ahead of demand, as happened in Ireland, Spain, and some parts of the United States, that was a reliable sign that the housing market was in a bubble that later burst. I have not heard any persuasive argument that China differs from other countries in this regard.
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I didn't write anything about MS.
I'd call that an app that is ebook-like in some ways. Maybe if they made it a platform that third parties can make content for that drops into the app without further programming, then those files may possibly be considered ebooks. Probably still not, though.
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Understanding of how things work, so we can bend them to our will.

Better understanding of the standard model will buy us many things, most of which we don't yet realise will be interesting, useful, fun, exciting, and important. Better understanding of the standard model will possibly give us:

* Quantum computers

* Room temperature superconductors

* Substances strong enough to build a space elevator

40 years ago we had no idea how to build 'planes that were bigger, stronger, faster, and more efficient than the ones we had, and yet people did the basic research anyway, just because they thought it might be useful. They found composite structures, and we got the 'planes and other things. The metals used in car engines have improved enormously, in part because of what was seen at the time as being basic research that might not really go anywhere.

But in the end it's basic science, and we don't always know how - or whether - it will repay itself. For every advance that has gained us something there are other efforts that have led nowhere, but we never know in advance which will be which.

That's the nature of research -- you don't know
what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be
called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein

So who knows what will come out of this. The research could give us teleportation, or Star Trek-style replicators, or dirt-cheap solar energy harvesting paints that cars can run on, or electricity storage devices, or plastics that can be made without oil, or entirely new substances, just as plastics once were.

I have no idea how old you are, but I'm fifty, and stuff exists now that didn't when I was in my teens, partly because of people doing basic research.
Well you dont have to worry about heathcare as the NHS takes care of that.

Incorporating is quick. Taxes are simpler than the states theres only one sales tax, one income tax and none of this complex mixture of 52 state taxes.

Housing and Gas is more expensive like for like
It seems like with Sinatra if you do it right, you'd be doing MVC* anyway. Your route handler functions are the controllers, and your models are basically domain objects that handle business logic. Of course, if you do it wrong, you end up with request handler functions that are full of business logic, which is what a lot of MVC apps end up looking like anyway.

* Or at least, what web developers refer to as MVC.
This one is wicked. Lincolnshire public library lends self-destroying books. http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2011/...
love this! it's like khan academy on steroids. It must have taken a lot of work to create. great way for Jorge Cham to get his name out. I'll be subscribing to PHD Comics
I read a story once about a book on Amazon had an outrageous price due to two competing sellers that each had an algorithm to automatically adjust their prices based on the other. I don't recall the exact logic on it but the first would purposely set their price slightly higher than the second. And then the second would rest their price to slightly lower than the first. But the the percentages used caused both stores to keep rising. eventually the book got up to some insane number.

Edit: here it is - http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
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There is no lesson here. "It's déjà vu all over again".
Art may be massively funded, but I generally evaluate art based on two criteria:

- Skill (how much skill did it take to produce?)
- Expressiveness (how well does it convey something or evoke emotions?)

Neither of those criteria will necessarily make something popular, which is why I think a completely crowdsourced approach to funding art may not give us the best results.

Not to say that the NEA is the best solution by any means, but I do think there is some value to funding art that "nobody wants" because that is the same art that has the potential to be priceless in the future.

Additionally, art is very different from business. The quality/originality of the work and its popularity/commercial success are almost completely unrelated. You just have to look at the same industries you pointed out earlier. How many of the works of art those industries produced were made for the purpose of capitalizing on an opportunity to make money? How many were made to be truly expressive of ideas?
I wonder whether the offline performance is comparable?

If it was then surely you'd do all the voice parsing locally so I'm guessing that it's not. Unless anyone can think of another reason you'd push it through the servers?
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Buy a quality kill-o-watt - you will know for yourself (it's fun).

My take-away after few weeks of measurments:

- Mind your old devices! (My old Sony midi-hifi was running 20W on standby! Killed.)

- Make a shortcut to switch off LCD monitors everytime you go AFK - energy consumption can drop 80W for two monitors (havn't checked LED monitors)

- Don't obsess about chargers left in sockets (0.1W)

- Modern big LCD TV is around 5W in standby; changing options of image (vivid vs. cinema vs. energy saver, etc.) while watching can make a difference of up to 50W.
Could we please cite some facts in this mounting tirade against public funding of the Arts?
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I didn't know that Apple bug tracker is private. They are more secretive than CIA and FBI together.
Microsoft’s strategy has, for a long time now, seemed to me to be one of pure reactivity. Look for what others are being successful with, then try to emulate it just well enough to turn a buck. A vision for the future? Someone else will take on the big risks and figure that out.
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Blizzard claims that the specific users complaining were in fact cheating.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=21#40...

via the /. thread:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/141208/linux-users-...
This has nothing to do with MVC.
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For what it's worth, I thought the name is quite clever. I'm more impressed with the name actually :)

I am, however, feeling cautious about the internet as well. There are so many curated/aggregated content sites these days; Each one claims to be the best at stringing popular content together. For instance: Reddit, HN, Digg, Slashdot etc. Obviously new sites further break this down into specific niches.

I hope there isn't less of an appetite for original content creating platform going forward (or else my officecheese site isn't going to be fun!)

-V.
Maybe people should get discounts for running their cron jobs at the 50-minute mark.
I trust Google. I have been moving all my data to Google.
One thing I wished the article addressed was the usability of responsive sites vs. dedicated mobile sites. In the majority of cases, I find dedicated mobile sites more user friendly on smaller (smartphone-like) devices than most responsive desktop sites.
Actually, it's the non-feebleness that's annoying about Metro. If they only pushed it where it made sense, it'd really work well. WP7 interface is really slick. But, instead, they seem to want to make the entire desktop take on the Metro UI there, and it just looks horrible. I'm starting to use VS2012 (need the F# improvements), but wow it just makes me cringe.
What I think the GP is saying is that its unfortunate that this experiment only confirmed our understanding of physics rather than increasing it. We only learned that our suppositions about QM were correct, there weren't any of the anomalies that have led to new physics in the past.

Personally, I'd say that $9B is a fair price to pay for confirmation, but I'd have been happier to get more.
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I have strong doubts about the effectiveness of this method: Why do I need complex algorithms to know Xavi is the pivot that drives Spain forward? That can be ascertained by either watching the game, or looking at his passes received/made stats.

But if we already found ourselves talking about soccer, I would like to shamelessly plug a wonderful soccer tactics website: http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/04/17/bayern-munich-2-1-rea...
(I linked to what I think is the best recent article)
It's not as simple as that. Confirming something will make it more attractive to build on and extend. And it will save time that would be spent looking for fundamentally different theories.
I am no physicist, but i have been following particle physics as a hobby. And as i understand it, there is this standard model which which describes how particles behave and groups them, and hence like periodic table (extreme simplification) helps predict particles that have not been discovered yet but that can be proved following the standard model and it's calculations. But There needs to be confirmation that standard model is itself correct. One way is to find particles that the model predicts. If they are found then we know that the standard model is in fact correct and the other implications can be that much more "correct". So Higgs boson will not only explain why/how matter has mass and hence makes everything possible but it will also re affirm that standard model is on track, for now.
ITIL is a problem. It's extremely rare that an organization has problems because nobody's ever thought about how to do things better rather than having broken internal structure or incentives – ITIL can't help with either of those but the huge amounts of time and money it soaks up will make it much harder to actually do anything about them.
This is actually a pretty shortsighted perspective. The understanding of the mechanism responsible for giving all particles the property of mass will have far reaching consequences for further research and technology in the future.

I'm pretty sure that the invention of much of the communication technologies we have today were not readily predicted in the mid-1800's when Maxwell was developing EM theory.
Is it?

The majority of art created today isn't founded because it doesn't look good on a T-shirt. It is because it is crap.

And you art doesn't have to fit on a T-shirt to be founded. Stories could be printed in beautiful books, movies and documentaries made available as high quality downloads, paintings as posters, etc.

The only art you couldn't found this way would be art that didn't say anything to anybody. §100/year from 10 thousand people is a pretty good wage. If you can't get 10 thousand people to see something in you art, then it is properly because your art is crap.
What car would ever use a clock for anything essential, instead of a timer?

You could say the same thing about the futex option that caused this issue in Linux in the first place. If the futex call specified a timeout in duration rather than an absolute time, this bug wouldn't have been hit (I observed the two different kinds of futex use during the leap second event).
In my experience you get an IP returned as an A record for each AZ you have instances in. Inside each AZ traffic is balanced equally across all instances attached to the ELB. The ELB service itself is implemented as a Java server running on EC2 instances, and it is scaled both vertically and horizontally to maximize throughput.
Pure speculation, here, but some of the transcription looked like it relied on pretty heavy statistical inference stuff (like knowing that "Worcester" comes before "Mass" but "Wooster" comes before "College," even though they're both pronounced the same). I would be really surprised if the client-side recognition was that smart, so I'd guess that they do it server-side if they can.
Can't take this seriously -- this guy can't even convert a unix timestamp to human readable date on his blog.
OpenEra.net looks like it could be a killer service, especially if they can integrate with more services (Google Drive, Skydrive, UbuntuOne, etc.)
If all or nearly all of the developers of the product are staying with the acquirer (and that's usually true, hence the term aqui-hire) the level of difficulty of (a) recruiting an entire dev team, (b) recovering the months of lost time and (c) having that team learn the codebase well enough to restart development would almost certainly kill a product's market opportunity. Maybe existing users would be happy but the new sales would be very difficult.
I think they're making a more specific, snide point about how Microsoft employees would watch IBM become less and less relevant for general consumers and think on some level that they were less vulnerable to the same fate.

In general, I'm sure you're right. Even today, IBM and Bell Labs still represent the majority of the private side of innovation in computing history.
> "The problem here is not with MVC per se..."

Even the article admits this isn't necessarily an MVC problem.
holy crap, i need to build one of these. just to see how it works.
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I am really hopeful for the future of Microsoft. They have the potential to do something really awesome with Windows 8/Windows Phone 8/Xbox.

We've been promised ubiquitous computing for years and Microsoft has finally developed a common platform that might make that possible. It's all going to be about execution. The things they've announced so far seem promising, but we'll have to wait and see if it actually works.
As others have already pointed out, that has nothing to do with MVC, but is more a result of how template engines usually work.

E.g. in Rails, by default, due to the fact that you can have views provide content for your layout (using content_for), it has not been possible to start sending your rendered HTML before the rendering was completely finished.

There is an experimental Fiber based solution in Rails Core, that shipped with 3.2, that kind of fixes that issue, but only to a certain degree (see http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Streamin...).
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How do you then handle negotiations? Contracting rates are often a lot (2x-5x) higher than fulltime employment. Do you do the contracting on a really low (contracting) rate, or do you succeed in explaining they will go down 3x in salary once they get the 'real' job?
By definition a browser can't see what's happening on the server side. There's a lot of things that can block loading (io, database, network ...). Pointing the finger at an architectural pattern using data collected via a browser extension is pure speculation.
Best Krugman comment on China I've ever seen, although it's inspired from reading someone else's analysis.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/financial-repres...
Wow. 62mph? There are many roads in the country I live in where going only that speed makes you VERY dangerous on the road, with people around you going 70+. I imagine there are even parts of Southern California (not where I live) where you'd get a ticket for pushing your car to it's max speed ... for driving too slow. Driving that much slower than the cars around me would be just horrifying. You'd be a road hazard and others around you would get very angry at you and as a result drive more aggressively, or poorly. I know you can say plenty about how that's their fault and that they should let your car drive, but really driving too slow on a highway is still a road hazard.

Max speed of 62mph... ... just ... wow. What's the fuel economy at that speed? My car gets mid 30mph around 70.
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"The problem here is not with MVC per se, but how it is commonly implemented."

So why give it a linkbait-style title?
You've just discovered the fundamental question about basic research.
I'm pretty sure it was done on purpose judging by the title of the blog and the type of font he used.
They take really good care of their developers, unless you're talking about C++11, C99, or OpenGL support.

In which case, NIH-syndrome kicks into full gear.

Their C++11 support is laughable compared to Apple's at this point, they could have bothered to support some of the most basic things in C99, and their continued, purposeful rejection of OpenGL ES on their mobile platforms shows they just don't get it.

Don't get me wrong, they're doing better than they used to in some areas (Windows Phone 8 is proof of that), but they still do some laughably crazy things that are not exactly "tak[ing] really good care of their developers".
Oh my god, really? Doing server side processing means that nothing is being sent until said processing is over? What have I been doing with my life?!

Seriously, stop posting and upvoting these stupid as hell blog posts, install Varnish or load your content with AJAX. And most importantly, don't put your real name on posts like these.
Post rationalised nonsense. Microsoft's problem has always been, and always will be, that's it never had an original idea, it's never understood why it's doing the things it does. It got lucky with Windows which has always been a shoddy product. Microsoft is no different now to what it was when Windows launched.

Put simply, Microsoft isn't a very good company. It's a blip on what is at present a very short timeline.
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You would have to express an idea that you couldn't get 10 thousand people to support with 100 usd. In the entire world.

That seams a pretty damming statement against your art, from my point of view.
You certainly weren't shy about generalizing about HN and telling us what is HN worthy!

Then dont generalize about HN because it has an anti-MS focus and once we start talking about what is HN worthy, then we have to admit that criticism of big players is the status quo not the exception.
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There's a difference between getting funding from the NEA for the purpose of pursuing your work and starting a Kickstarter campaign for designing consumables. Yes, artists "make great T-shirts," but how is that the same as receiving a grant to pursue your work?

Let's say I have some large sculpture I'd like to create, but it requires more money than I have. I could find someone privately to fund it (and likely own it when I am finished), I could apply for an NEA grant, or, could I create a Kickstarter project? Maybe, but at that point, it's just a donation service, right?

Related, as far as "art no one wants": can you back up assertions that every dollar the NEA gives out is to hacks that no one cares about?

http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/12grants/12AAE.php?CAT=Art%...

Certainly we can all find some recipients in that list who think aren't worthy (art is subjective, right?), but no one cares about jazz performances at the Lincoln Center?
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