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"Since technology hasn’t solved the problem it has created with e-mail, it looks as if some younger people might come up with their own answer — not to use e-mail at all.
So I’m taking a cue from them."

What Nick Bilton is really saying is not that email isn't good. But that the people that are sending him email aren't important enough to reply to. I'm sure he's not going to fail to reply to an email or (change the method of communications) with Arthur Sulzberger (Times publisher) or Larry Ellison.

I'm sure if he looses his job at the NY Times, and has to find a job, email (and the people that write to him) will take on a new importance.

While I don't get 100 important emails per day I do (as many people) get plenty of emails and I almost always respond to any that are personal (and not spam or sales pitches to which replies are optional) to the best of my ability as quickly as possible. I'm glad I get emails.

Nick (with all the out of work journalists) sounds a little like the celebrity who is tired of being hounded by paparazzi. Or the pretty girl who doesn't like all the attention from guys (see what Cybil Shepard has to say about that now.)

Email still has a place in communications and serious business and many other things as a communication medium. It's different if you are a teenager of course.
I was hoping to find something more substantial and was disappointed to read what is essentially a piece of PR fluff.

One point got me curious though: what kind of apps are built in one day? Anyone in the app-space care to elaborate?
Not really. "It doesn't really use any parts of Wave's collab stack...We only really use the Keyboard signal event stuff from Wave since it is a pretty great library" -Jamie Yap's comment on g+ post.
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Thanks a bunch for your feedback.
With limited resources, what would be a best way to get tech-passionate early adopters from Small/Med biz?
How to approach them? Door-to-door knocking (cold-call) is resource intense and time-consuming.
Any ideas on these would be highly appreciated.
Thanks again.
Ignoring the baseless FUD in the first part of your post, your last point is actually valid: it is hard to find good, maintained packages on Hackage. Right now the standard solution seems to be just asking somebody with more experience, but this is clearly not scalable.

Happily, a new version of Hackage creatively called Hackage2 is being worked on which should ameliorate this problem (along with some other improvements). Improvement is just around the corner.
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Definitely. I know RubyMotion currently supports XIBs and Storyboards, but yeah there's no integrated solution with Xcode or Instruments right now. I personally like the Rake-based approach, its more lightweight than booting up an IDE, but I would bet that better Xcode support is possible since MacRuby already does it pretty well.
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There's a pretty strong argument to be made that most people playing Farmville are not, on the whole, having fun.

Certainly the psychological prods that Zynga deploys to keep people constantly returning are not all (or even mostly?) fun-based.

I also wonder how many treasured memories of hours spent clicking on cows the younger generation of current Farmville players will fondly recount to their grandchildren, many years hence.

Of course there's a short-sighted argument that "people pay for it, therefore they want it, therefore they must be enjoying it" to justify this sort of stuff. It's a shitty justification, though, if you even think about how human psychology seems to work; no advanced study required.

I guess there's always "if we don't sell it, someone else will, and they'll get all the money instead", as well, though that doesn't even really pretend to be creating a moral good anymore.

[side note: sorry to seem to fire this at your short comment... it's a topic that troubles me deeply, and I'm leaving just this one comment in the discussion.]
Good news for Canada then. The odds of the US coming up with a rational immigration policy are pretty low.
There really needs to be a YC-style company for scientists. Costs have come down - e.g. DNA sequencers are a lot more affordable today. What is needed is mentorship and some kind of exit that leads to employment.
Of course you can make something similar if you're a) willing to build it and 2) don't care about the tremendous amount of complexity you're adding to your application in order to do so.

Both of those sound like bad deals if there's a packaged solution like Datomic that's built specifically for the use case.
True. Same reason if you go to a restaurant and they started charging for the tap water a fee, even a nominal fee, you would have a negative reaction (unless of course all restaurants did that and it for some reason became accepted practice).

People don't want to pay for something that has no value to them but they will accept features that have no value if they feel they are included in a total price of what they are buying (except of course when they can compare products and make a decision not to buy a product because a competitive one is cheaper etc.)
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Find something that really interests you, and work on it. Visible open source is fine, and maybe even preferable, but do not let visibility rule the decision. Do not let how common a language, or how familiar you are currently with it rule your decision. Without compromise, attack the problem. Choose tools and methods to attack the problem, and if you choose wrong then change.

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Thank you very much. This is very nice to read. I may contact you later in the week. I am currently hipdeep in trying to contact lawyers and straighten out the latest financial drama. My mother is a former maid and financial genius. One call to her and I now have a path forward. Though there is work to do, this drama might fizzle out in a few days.

I have also gotten a lot of good feedback on metafilter. Between freelance work and my websites, I have made something like $1200 online this year. I just need to be making that more like monthly. But it is the first year I am actually making money online. I have possibly failed to convey that given how stressed out I have been. There is clear evidence this can work. I just need to improve on what I am doing.

Thank you so much for posting this.
Do you want to be good at code or do you want to create software? Those are two different things. For the latter, observe what people do and create software to help them do it faster/cheaper/easier/better.
I never promised a solution. I'd completely agree with you that it is a hard problem.

Just because I don't have a solution doesn't make the fact that having the poor, out in the open, begging for a living any less "bad".
If you're complaining about the memory usage, lower the max heap size with the arguments: -Xms512m -Xmx512m. If it's CPU usage: turn off some of those addons. You can't say Java 7 is the root cause of the CPU usage and not Eclipse.
While I don't disagree with the validity of your statement, I feel like you are splitting hairs... I was mainly using that as a demonstration of the relative differences in corruption between the two countries.
You know what is cool and hip? Having something meaningful to say and keeping a open mind. If a company is taking a step in the right direction, learn to appreciate it regardless of its past mistakes.
You can do it all yourself if you want, but Datomic does it for you without you having to do anything.

Also as it does it on a datom level it is a lot more efficient than versioned rows.

Interestingly one of the early selling points of Postgresql was this time travel functionality. But it was yanked out in 6.2

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.3/interactive/c0503.htm
It looks like it's shaping up very nicely to solve the problems it was designed to solve--namely, making every frame of image on the screen pixel-perfect. However, I don't know if it's going to solve other outstanding problems (or regress on some fronts).

Despite the pains, X allows window managers to arbitrate over window management policy relatively effectively. From what I see so far, it seems that this will be a less clear-cut scheme in Wayland, given its clientside window management and decoration setup. Individual applications will have more freedom to misbehave in terms of custom titlebars etc. and refusing to cooperate with management actions. In an environment where GTK, Qt, wrapped X programs, and other toolkits will be coexisting, there's a lot of room for implementations to behave differently in ways that will confuse and upset users. Whether this will actually be the case is yet to be seen, but I've never seen three different software projects implement a feature in exactly the same way without sharing code.

As the saying goes, we live in exciting times.
I think the value add of a `when` style isn't saving keystrokes but improving readability. What happens when the event fires is right there in-line with the button, not somewhere else on the page. Yeah there are editor tricks to command+click to it and such, but that's still some overhead.

TBH I think it really is a matter of preference at this point. There could be a killer, must-use RubyMotion framework in the future, but for now I simply feel more productive and flexible in Ruby.

In fact, the most impactful change of RubyMotion (and I somehow neglected this when I wrote it) is testing. It ships with a really powerful port of Bacon which is lightyears better than UIAutomation, KIF, and every other iOS testing framework I've tried. `rake spec` is a seamless, regular part of my workflow in a way that Xcode failed to achieve.
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There was a very good general overview of this in Scientific American in Feb. 2003 by Koza, Keane and Streeter:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rad/courses/cs266/papers/koza-s...

The table listing patented inventions that had been recreated by the process was affecting.
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Well, that's just not true. India was unified all the way from Afghanistan to Andhra Pradesh for very long periods of time[1]. After the Mughal invasion, pretty much the entire North India was unified under the Mughals. The end of the mughal empire was when things started getting a little fragmented and the East India company was there to take advantage of it playing one king against the other. But to say that India was a bunch of smaller countries all the time is false.

EDIT: Wiki actually has a pretty good summary with pictures and the like. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India#Early_Middle_K...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maurya_Dynasty_in_265_BCE....
Nonstandard Analysis is an interesting side note. But pulling out the axiom of choice to differentiate x^2 is a bit much IMO. (Yes, I'm aware that there are different ways to construct the nonstandard model. But the subtleties needed to really understanding NSA are substantial. I far prefer the little-o approach that Knuth recommends.)
Fair points, mostly.

I would say that it is a new trend for pick-up instructors to distance themselves from the pick-up industry mostly for marketing purposes. I think it's mostly semantics and at the end of the day, you're just fearing the phrase "pickup industries" focuses too much on the negative and not enough about the positives.

On the otherhand, as someone who's spent fair bit of time observing pickup companies, I will say that your marketing page seems very reasonable and not full of false promises common on most PU sites.
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Yes, the efficiency argument can be taken to justify anything. In truth, competition will always increase efficiency more than just scale alone.

The comparison with nodes is important and one which most people don't quite get. Banks should be limited in scale. If they need to undertaken large financings, then they can always form a syndicate that exists for a specific project, and is disbanded afterwards.

Everyone wants to sheet home the blame to the junk mortgages, or something else, but in reality any financial system is going to encounter shocks, whether they be man-made or perhaps natural disaster.

What is important is that the structure of the industry is robust enough so that one or two failures doesn't crater the industry.

Think of it like scaffolding - occasionally accidents happen on construction sites. But you don't want the entire scaffolding to collapse as a result. Any failure should be localised.

Warfare changed forever when the Generals couldn't sit in a bunker far from enemy fire and send cannon fodder in. It's time to have the finance generals out of the bunker. Ruin a bank, and you should be financially ruined as well.
He lost me when he equated Grid and MPP. I know Larry Ellison tried to hijack the word Grid, but that doesn't excuse anyone else from being as dumb.
I think it would be more valuable to question your assumptions. You have changed the topic and conflated several different issues - it is not the case that doing one thing wrong means doing everything wrong. There's a lot rotten in banking, but selling a bundle of mortgages with varying quality - without misrepresentation of this, and to another financial institutoion - is not morally or legally questionable.

If you really want to talk about the other issues, I find it highly unlikely that 'mis-selling' in this sense means lying. That implication is yet another easy way to join the narratives to sell papers. Small and medium business are generally protected in the same style as consumer purchases - they are not sophisticated investors, and should not even be sold complex products. When they complain about the consequences not being explained to them, they were in fact quite plain in the contract, but they didn't bother to read it properly, or did not understand it. I can understand why we protect them like this, however - same reasoning consumer purchases.

LIBOR - trying to manipulate the market is a crime. Actual effect? Maybe none? Previous investigations and a couple of academic papers found no effect. The Economist also considers the more important thing the 'second type' of wrongdoing - where the ire directed at Barclays is that they initially didn't lie, and then later lied less than everyone else (possible at the suggestion of the government?).

At the stage of 'not lying as much as others', it's getting pretty silly in my view. Much like the financial crisis's beginnings, the public is sold nonsense and hyperbole and cartoon villains. So we focus so heavily on the bankers that we don't really look into mortgage brokers, ratings agencies, government monetary policy, regulators, etc. Conclusion is to velify one group - exactly what the other groups want - without fixing those that set the wrong incentives/hold them accountable. See you in 10 years for the same story.
Your reply greatly exaggerated how much I dislike the title. It was rude of you to attribute a straw-man worldview to me and then snidely insult it. Your reply implied that I did something like call for the deletion of the article because of its title, though I had even stated that “I don’t mind reading about safe-cracking”.
Thanks! For some reason, the .fr wouldn't load, but .com seems to work fine. Actually in France at the moment, and have been regretting my letting it lapse since school, so this might serve a dual purpose :-)
Well I'm too new at this to be able to give you a good answer. It probably depends on exactly which programming market you're trying to get into.

And yes, that's my site.
As someone with an interest in the programming world, I'm slowly "learning to code". I don't intend on ever developing in any occupational capacity. I'd just like to be able to have both a better understanding of what goes on under the hood, as well as be able to cobble together tools.

But I'm having trouble finding my own tipping point. I've worked through tutorials, online classes and introductory texts. Most of these things have you typing code in an editor, solving very minor problems, and seeing the results. But there's a big gap between, say, typing a little program in an editor, and a full blown web page or game. I understand that when you drill down in an iPhone app, for example, there's code back there, most of which I can't recreate, but can understand on a basic level. But what I don't understand is how that code gets there; how do all the pieces of code fit together to make a finished product, and how do you get it there? It's still sort of a black box to me, and haven't found the resource that can get me across that chasm.

I bring this up because I'm waiting for the epiphany, when I can say what the author does:

>"What had previously been a mysterious and confusing world suddenly started making a little bit of sense."

It's difficult when learning from scratch.
Plus Java feels like it has a target painted on its back by malware authors these days.
Yup. Ignorance and arrogance masked as pride.
Wayland may improve the speed of compositing on the Linux desktop, but it's very unlikely to improve consistency or reliability. Wayland applications draw their own window decorations (rather than a window manager), which obviously doesn't encourage consistency. And last I heard, when a Wayland application hangs, its window will become completely immovable. No, really.
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The University of California system has actually decreased its per-student spending in real terms by around 25% over the past 20 years, so there isn't really a case of where the money has gone there (they never got it!). It's true that there are likely to be future problems with pensions, but they don't at all explain the current increases in tuition. Those are due to state funding cuts.

More specifically, if you take the total UC system budget and divide by the total student population, the result for 1990 (inflation-adjusted) was $21,000 spent per student. The result today is $16,500 spent per student.

Tuition has gone up anyway, because taxpayers stopped funding it faster than that rate of per-student cost decline. In 1990, state funding amounted to $16,000 per student (inflation-adjusted) out of the $21,000 total cost, leaving $5000 to be made up by tuition, donations, and other sources of income. Today the state contributes only $9,500 per student, and is in the process of cutting that to $8,500. So even with a more frugal $16,500-per-student cost, that now leaves $8000 to be funded out of non-state funds. So it's not surprising that tuition has gone up significantly.
Depends on what time you are looking at it. India has had several large empires established before. Maurya, Gupta, Mughal, Pala, Maratha. But you are right, India as a nation state came into being as a consequenc of the British raj and yes Europe is not a bad metaphor at all.
Seems like there is a good chance that the Internet will end up encouraging this. The same thing happened in magazine publishing. General interest magazines fell off a cliff, but special-interest magazines generally survived.

The same could be done with television. Instead of buying a subscription to 200 channels, you could just buy a set of comedy channels, or channels related to cooking and entertaining. Of course the whole idea of a "channel" is really a legacy concept, but the concept would be the same.
BBC BASIC tokenised BASIC keywords before the line was stored in memory, e.g. PRINT was represented by a single byte. Some tokens needed more than one byte, especially in later versions.

But I'm talking about assembler here. BBC BASIC has a built-in assembler, e.g. 6502, Z80, or ARM, depending on the CPU it's running on. The assembler source in the BASIC program is not tokenised on input but stored as plain text. Instead, when those lines of BASIC, since that's what these embedded lines of assembler, wrapped in [...], are, get run the machine code is assembled at the address in BASIC's P% integer register variable and P% is moved on. At that point of execution BASIC must hunt for the mnemonic, stored in the "tokenised" BASIC line as plain text, in its table; the table I reference in the case of ARM BASIC. That table can be laid out as it is because each mnemonic is three characters long, e.g. mov, ldr, stm, and bic.

You mixing tokenising BASIC, which BBC BASIC did, and the embedded ARM assembler, which it didn't, and then adding in an "assembler's editor", and there wasn't one of them. Just lines of BASIC program, 10, 20, ..., some of which switched to assembler with a [.
I usually don't like to put "beautiful" and "terse" next to each other. "expressive", maybe, but terse? That sounds like an insult.
What a great example. I am going to remember that one.
Do you have any book recommendations for a nonstandard analysis treatment of probability? I'm really only familiar with the measure theory approach, myself. (In fact, I've been known to say that probability is the study of measurable functions with finite, nonzero integral over the real line.)
I thought the original post was wrong to choose 6502. "So, it was designed to be written by humans. More modern assembly languages are meant to written by compilers, so let’s leave it to them. Plus, 6502 is fun. Nobody ever called x86 fun." I assume he's never written ARM. It was designed to be written by hand, is delightful to write, much more orthogonal than 6502, and still relevant today.
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In fact, I don't know if what I did really corresponds to "real" double-buffering: at any point, the next move is created in an alternate buffer, which, when ready, is then switched as the visible portion of the video RAM (at vblank, using the raster interrupt). It works ok, but it's also quite possible that this mechanism might be a bit overkill.