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He is nitpicking on pharmacies, claiming that big chain model is better. But we have something called Preisbindung with both books and pharmacies in Germany, so the same book costs the same in every shop, with the result that we still have small book shops and pharmacies. So this small business protection is also usual in Germany. And Germany is certainly not a poor south European county. Even worse, lets nitpick on taxi cab licenses in NY. A system that makes taxi drivers poor and license owners rich. I wont call this 'better'.

He next blames corruption. But we have a lot of corruption in Germany, its just not as open, as in southern countries, and more accepted and hidden by the people. Things often fail, if corruption is the only business design. We had the same in our town.

The article fails to address the real point: The Euro-Zone. Germany has an extreme low cost of work. Only 5% of cost in Germany is wages, while this is more like 15%-30% in other countries in Europe. Those countries had been able to devalue their currencies prior to Euro-Zone, to evade German price dumping. But now the can no longer, and wages became even lower in Germany, thanks to a law called Hartz IV, and our exports are now their dept.

There are only two ugly solutions: The better one would to reinstall social wellfare in Germany at a level of 1970-1980, or even better install an unconditional income grant in Germany. European economy would be much healthier, if we send on 3rd of Germans home to drink beer, watch tv and play computers, permanently! And the wages for every job would rise above the unconditional income grant for those who still work. The evil alternative would be a coup de etat in Greek. The military replaces the government with a junta, Greek is thrown out of Eurozone, Greek junta claims that they wont pay the debts of prior corrupt government, and prints drachmes again.
You should get right on those then.
It is also very hard to program in Assembly nowadays, because there is no longer a 1:1 mapping between the instructions and what the processor does.
Worse, people exchange mouth bacteria regularly. Provides the perfect rapid evolution landscape to build super bacteria.

So even if perhaps a few % start using it, it might be enough to set off a situation where people that didn't use it get harmed by people that did by acquiring super bacteria that they then have to treat / fight.
very nice. good to see this as an open js library which uses canvas. seeing these kind of visualisations always makes me wonder though... is the amplitude of the spectrum all the info we can obtain and use for visualisation? How difficult would it be to make an api that can detect the different types of sound in a sample and put out different data streams for each?
Very good question!

The reason is that I found that it better matches what you use them for in Celery,
since they are used e.g. to forward results from the previous tasks to a callback.
Often you have a signatures like: def blur_image(image, amount=1),
where the partial is used like render_image.s(file) | blur_image.s()

functools.partial is usually used the other way; it's most common
to create functools.partials where the first argument is satisfied.
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Quesera; "No one asked for the name change." Not true, I'm afraid. The lawyers for the media organisation that want to use the story asked me to change the name of both Apple and Jonathan Ive. I've been in discussion with them, through my agent and the editor involved, for the past couple of weeks; my agent has been trying to get through to Apple's senior legal people, with no success; and it's only after that process was exhausted and we only had a few days left before the publishing deadline for final version of the story that I wrote the open letter.

Tichy: "...and claim it is in the name of universal design principles (not money?)." As I explain in the post, going public with this could cost me the already agreed publication, and the associated fee.

I'm very fond of Apple, and as I make clear, they have done nothing wrong, and have raised no objection. The problem is with an overcautious European law culture; and I believe this incident it raises wider cultural issues. Also I like my story as it is, and I don't want lawyers to force a rewrite.
This realization is not new.

This debate is not new.

If you built applications for IBM VM/CMS or GECOS systems, you used proprietary APIs. If you built for VMS, DG/UX or HP-UX, you used proprietary APIs. Same for applications built for Windows or OS X.

Yes, open protocols and APIs and standards are preferable and "open" is great. In theory. In practice, things always get messy. "Open" doesn't solve many of the problems that the customers (the folks with the money) have.

Linux - while not proprietary - has its own hassles with application portability. Try deploying with GNU autoconf/configure anywhere other than a GNU/bash system, for instance. Linux is inherently very open, but can also be surprisingly constrained.

For larger and more complex and longer-lived applications, the only viable long-term approach I can see involves a mix of open (eg: writing most of the code in portable C, Python or Lua or...) where that's possible (such as in the application kernel), and then using vendor interfaces where it's not.

Certainly presenting web interfaces or connecting to Twitter where that's appropriate.

For the smaller and "throw-away" applications, or when specific customer requirements such as gonzo-level I/O or graphics performance is needed (to have a product that's viable for, you know, your customers), then you're using the vendor APIs; you're writing non-portable code. The whole discussion of "open" is moot for these applications. (And I've seen many 4GL application generators come and go, too; you can be portable and chained to one vendor, at the same time.)

Application portability and controlling your stack is a very old topic of debate. And it's one filled with trade-offs. Of the trade-offs that a commercial developer makes involves determining what customers will pay for. And with most customers, "open" just isn't a priority.

This is a very old discussion and debate. Look at your history. And more importantly, look at your customers needs and expectations.
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In part 4 of this series we look at Mercurial - a distributed source-code management system very similar to Git, but written in Python. Many projects choose to make the switch from Subversion to Mercurial because of its gradual learning curve.
IE9 should work now. There are some other goodies as well. Just a FYI. :)
This discussion doesn't reach quite that far, and actually I'm not sure how one would work such things into a discussion of 6502 assembly

The 6502 supports function calls easily: JSR/PHA/PLA/RTS

(Better even than some modern microcontrollers…)
Clearly the Banana iHole is the superior name to go with.

Maybe call it a Banana Macinhole instead.
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The 10-15% number that always gets quoted can almost always be traced back to Kinsey (I believe his actual numbers where 13% for men and 7% for women). However if you look at the actual data from Kinsey you'll find that those numbers include both people who have conducted any sexual act with someone of the same sex (even if it was only once when they where young, and they decided it wasn't their cup of tea), and people who fantasize about the idea, but have never done anything about it.
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See also "The importance of being prolific" [1], also posted here yesterday [2].

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-0624-proli...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212680
No, it's about trying to kill the standard. Many institutions can only buy epeat certified hardware. If the standard doesn't say what Apple wants it to say, then Apple will stop them from buying any of their products, even the ones that comply. Should be an interesting standoff.
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> But what makes you 10x better?

here pharmacy and book chains define: Better = cheaper

There are some states in US, where alcohol can only sold at special dealers, thus protecting their small business. Books and medicals have a fixed price, and medicals must only be sold in pharmacies in Germany. There are some chains also. They have a better profit, because they buy in higher numbers, but competing at the customer most small shops survive, because they are better in terms that are a family doing a lifestyle business.
Benford's law strikes! I was all set to read about crazy, complex data analysis that detected this, but instead check out the abstract below:

"With an eye to providing a methodology for tracking the dynamic integrity of prices for important market indicators, in this article we use Benford second digit (SD) reference distribution to track the daily London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) over the period 2005 to 2008. This reference, known as Benford's law, is present in many naturally occurring numerical data sets as well as in several financial data sets. We find that in two recent periods, Libor rates depart significantly from the expected Benford reference distribution. This raises potential concerns relative to the unbiased nature of the signals coming from the 16 banks from which the Libor is computed and the usefulness of the Libor as a major economic indicator. "

Abrantes-Metz, R. M., Villas-Boas, S. B., & Judge, G. (2011). Tracking the Libor rate. Applied Economics Letters, 18(10), 893-899. doi:10.1080/13504851.2010.515197
I've said things about genes and cavities to the few dentists I've seen in my life. They get so pissy when you do that. And I understand - it's in their interest to have you in their office regularly.

At any rate, I've also known people with nary a cavity. One was a heavy candy eater. It absolutely must be genetic. The dentist can stick his little scraping tool someplace else. I've also known people that seem to do everything right but can't keep from having cavities no matter what. I'm somewhere in the middle: Keep them clean and scrubbed and flossed and I can pretty much stay out of the dentist's chair.
Yeah, that's going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of businesses. Some of them actually take confidentiality of their own and clients' data somewhat seriously. And for good reasons, too. Besides, you're not just trusting Google with your internal communications and sensitive customer data, but it's also an American corporation that's been known to willingly share data with government agencies. If you're not based in the US yourself, why place such trust? To illustrate, imagine there's a service like "Yandex Apps" (maybe there even is, I don't know), of course some businesses would not care as long as the product is good, but you can also imagine there'd be many that would be rather hesitant to host their sensitive business data on a Russian webserver on a different continent... :)
Ah, I see. Thank you. :)
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People have been arguing the same thing about investing for a long time: is it a game of luck or skill?

On one hand, there are academics saying it's always mostly luck, and their typical argument goes roughly like this: Say 100,000 orangutans enter a coin-flipping contest in which 'heads' wins and 'tails' loses; so around 50,000 orangutans will win on the first throw; of those orangutans, around 25,000 will also win on the second throw; and of those, around 12,500 will also win on the third row; and so on, until after ten throws, there will be close to 100 orangutans who will have won every throw in a row due only to pure luck -- just like investors who have only a string of hits in their track record.

On the other hand, there are successful investors like Warren Buffett who say that luck is a factor in the short run, but skill becomes the more important factor over long periods of time. You can read his detailed response to the 'orangutan argument' in this article he wrote for Columbia Business School's magazine in 1984: http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/null?&exclusive=filemgr.dow...

Edit: corrected typo.
Feeling like a (comparative) failure can help one to sympathize with people who really are less fortunate --- you start to realize that maybe it's not entirely their fault.
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Thank you for this post. I'm in nearly the same boat (41 years old, < 1M net worth, on my fifth startup with < 100k to show for those efforts) and watching seemingly complete idiots pass me by. I'm too old to be infuriated by the vagaries of chance, however, it does make me wonder if I've done something wrong. I suspect that the numbers are slightly skewed - that there are far fewer people having wild success than the media would have us believe.
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But that doesn't get to the standard of "asking people in arranged marriages" right? The previous poster said that should be the basis. It sounds like the one that was dreading to go back either didn't have good prospects there, or had very bad relationships with his parents.
Hold off for a few months.

Canada is one of the few developed countries who hasn't seen their housing bubble burst yet, and the bubble is most pronounced in coastal BC and the Greater Toronto Area. Vancouver, for a time, was riding some of the highest housing prices in the world.

But that tide is turning, as it has everywhere else in the world. Sooner than later there will be deals to be had.
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The thing about soda isn't just the liquid sugar in the soda, but also the acids in the soda itself.

For example, most colas contain phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid is the same thing your dentist will swab on your tooth during a basic reconstructive filling procedure, because it softens the enamel a wee bit, ensuring a better bond to the filling.
I recommend also the 6809 as an example of another very well-designed processor from the same era. Most notably, it has post-increment and pre-decrement addressing, and basic 16-bit arithmetic support.

http://www.textfiles.com/programming/CARDS/6809

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6809

The modern Atmel AVR is in many ways a spiritual successor to the 6502 and 6809:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AVR_instruction_set

(That said, I cut my teeth on the 6502 and it will always have a spot in my heart!)
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I think the truth of it is just that (and few people will admit to this) it's better to be a VC. They're diversified. Some fail out and never get rich, but they get to play more chances.

There's nothing generally wrong with not getting rich, but there are certain things people only do in order to get rich, and VC-istan startup life is one of them. If you're a writer and you make $100,000 per year mid-career, you're kicking ass, because most people never get anywhere near that point. If you're a stock trader or VC-istan denizen (whether engineer or founder) and that's where you are mid-career, you're a fuckup.

Actually, I'm simplifying quite a bit. Most people in VC-istan don't necessarily want to get rich personally in the same way that traders do, but they want to become the social equals of the VCs and established founders. They want their ideas to be taken seriously, and that unfortunately requires social status. So there is a bit of difference. A derivatives trader who makes $25 million and retires could give fuck-all about social status, whereas most VC-istan types would rather have a mediocre financial outcome if it got them access and status. They'd rather be at $2 million net worth with the contacts to try another "game changer" startup than $25m without it. Still, though few people will admit this, VC is a better life. You already have status and access, and if you want to start a company as a Real Founder, you can do that any time you wish.
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>Wrong, marriage was a religious ceremony all along. Maybe you have "mating" in mind, not marriage. Check anthropological accounts. Actually religion predates most forms of even government and cultural practice.

I think the problem here is defining religion. Many people here equate it with belief. Certainly religious marriage in the Protestant sense of religious only comes around after the advent of Christianity, perhaps after the advent of Protestantism....

But as you point out, ritualizing (almost always with religious symbolism, again for anthropological definitions of religion, not Protestant definitions) procreative marriage is universal. In fact I would point out it is more universal than is ritualizing remembering the dead. Fewer cultures don't have rituals involving procreative marriage than don't have rituals for funerals, etc.

>Religion is a "Big Fucking Deal" in all fucking cultures. Visit any archeological museum of any civilization to check this out. It's just that there are many forms of religion, and not all involved a bearded deity in the clouds. Even confucianism serves the role of religion, with several societal norms and guidelines etc.

I think again the problem is defining religion. Here in the West we see religion as a system of belief. Outside the sphere of Christian influence (Christianity, Orthodox Judiasm, Islam, Sikhdom, and derivatives), religion is a far more flexible concept than that.
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I still have somehow trouble with these high numbers. By looking at the front page, the points for top stories are still staying relatively at the same level. These relatively low numbers of votes makes it still seem to be a relatively close community but maybe just many of the new visitors can't be bothered to participate.
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In addition to Concrete Mathematics by Knuth, which contains a lot of Mathematical tools and techniques useful in areas of Computer Science, I'd recommend the following to learn how good problem solvers approach Mathematics:

1. The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz.

2. How to Solve It by George Polya.

I'd also recommend learning any of the competition Mathematics topics like number theory, combinatorics or geometry as base material to improve your problem solving skills. I have also found the Schaum's series on Combinatorics and Graph Theory concise and useful.
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There is a Stanford lecture on Human Sexual Behavior that is related to the discussion of neurobiology of homosexuality http://youtu.be/LOY3QH_jOtE#t=1h13m27s (the relevant part starts at 1:13)
I have a business background and use Project Euler to evolve my programming, math and problem solving skills. :)

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About two years ago I picked up 6809 assembly while writing an emulator for it, to assist in reversing a device built around a 6809. Amazingly simple processor/architecture.
The Khan academy (www.khanacademy.org) has plenty of videos and exercises, and if you're looking more at the CS side of things udacity.com runs a few online courses looking at algorithms, discrete maths and the like.
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I think we are in the "as a shareholder I have mixed feelings about this" subthread, though? What is the point o considering the downsides (all economical, not moral) if you are not implying economic considerations should be the main priority?
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They are telling other countries that they must engage in a certain legal structure that has not been accepted universally in the nation they are based.

I would have a problem with them doing it anyway even if it was, but the fact that it is directed to Singapore more than Nebraska makes it not only culturally imperial but culturally hypocritical as well.
I'm going to second Arun2009's recommendation for How to Solve It by Polya. And then I'm going to recommend Haskell. I recently realized how much my understand of set theory improved and was solidified purely by programming Haskell a lot.
> Wow, I sure do hope he finally does that one thing that nobody, absolutely nobody can deny is important -- something as big as, say, a Twitter knockoff for the enterprise. Then he'll never have any nagging doubts about himself ever again.

In my experience, the degree to which you're successful has no effect on those doubts. I've put out a number of highly successful pieces of software, had a ton of attention in the press (technical and not), etc; I still feel like I'm largely failing to live up to my abilities, and that I peaked when I was 17. Maybe I need something hyper-successful that makes me a ton of money, but I doubt even that will kill the doubts.

At the end of the day, it just comes down to saying "this is what I've done, and who cares if I could've maybe, possibly done better?" but that's not so easy.
Presuming Nokia had the desire to sue them, it would more than likely be about trade secrets (assuming there's a Finnish equivalent) vs. the software itself. Bunch of ex-Nokia employees, it'd be easy to make a case (despite any merit) that one of them is using some Nokia secrets they shouldn't be.