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lesswrong?

You've just repeated more or less exactly what you initially said in this thread. This probably indicates that you're not making enough effort to understand why people are saying what they're saying.

Yes, it also indicates, perhaps, that people aren't really understanding _you_. But if you find yourself repeating the same button, you're still not doing any additional work in the conversation.

Going back to your initial post:

>How does one determine whether Foucault's statements are true or not?

Thinking about them. Talking about them with others. All of the obvious answers.

>At any rate, why should I accept them?

You should accept them _conditionally_--i.e., not necessarily incorporate them into your actual beliefs--because if you want to have conversations with the loads of people that take Foucault seriously, _you will have to play nice_.

All the dude said was that he really felt Foucault was important. You pretty much just disagree with him, which is, you know, fine; but instead of saying "I find Foucault to be less useful for such-and-such a reason"--a statement I suspect you cannot construct because you actually don't know anything about Foucault--you are pointedly and obviously resisting the idea that Foucault could have any value.
The chrome(!) of the Chrome browser is one of the worst aspects. The buttons and tabs are way too small on the top. They are big enough to steal valuable screen space from the page itself but are simply too small to click reliably.

Miscellaneous issues that are shared with chrome on ios also abound. On page open, the focus doesn't manually switch to the address/search bar and requires a separate click. What a disaster. The last closed tabs are buried under the top sites that manage to be insanely hard to customize. The bookmarks cut off text and don't have any way to switch to a list view.The only redeeming feature is the ability to swipe across the screen to switch tabs.

On large pages the browser performs slowly and crawls along while Firefox beta scrolls admirably and doesn't deliver blank white spots. This way fine back in 2007 on the iphone but in 2012 it is a little ridiculous. Firefox Beta is pretty good although I would like a new tab button and some way to swipe across the screen to switch between tabs.

Flash also works fine and hq video isn't painless at all.
I agree in part with your assessment in that I can see that being the way Apple could think. I'd like to disagree with that viewpoint, though.

Many of the design concepts Apple tried are obvious as well, and have been implemented before. There's the squared-edge design, the round-edge design, and the multicolor front design. There's also an octogon-edge design (for some reason), which is non-obvious and would be noticeable if copied. All the other differences are on the back (where every vendor is different anyway) or in button placement (where every vendor is different anyway).

Apple went through 45 revisions quite possibly because they had never designed a phone before. And when they did settle on a design, they picked round edges and a screen that takes up most of the front minus room for a button and a speaker. That's hardly the most original design they put into concept. It's no surprise Samsung can easily make a smartphone casing, they could just pull out the specs from their Palm OS 4 devices.

The question is, why didn't Apple make the iPhone look like the iPod Mini? That was a seriously cool and original case. Now Nokia is making the same design.
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http://www.groklaw.net/images/Samsung-1.jpg
If that is true and 70-80 percent hit the back button before the js files load, it still says a lot about the quality of the clicks from the perspective of someone considering advertising on FB...
What would you like him to say, given that he probably does not know the reason at this time?
And, let me guess, you don't want to pay any money for this?
The case against nuclear isn't environmental; it's economic.

No, it's mostly just fear.
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If you did the BSc I know you were at least able to hand in something that met the basic requirements, on time or close to it. If all I know is you worked at Company X and weren't fired, that could mean any number of things, and I'd have to be a pretty good interviewer to figure out which.

I don't follow this reasoning. Unless just having the BSc is actually good enough to get hired instantly, you're going to have to figure out if the candidate is good enough anyway. The additional information from the BSc is slim, at the cost of rejecting a chunk of the candidate pool. Just doesn't seem like a very worthwhile tradeoff.
Anyone who thinks that it was easy for kids to program those old computers probably doesn't remember looking through thick manuals of memory addresses, which would lead me to question how much they really did.
"So we did what any good developers would do. We built our own analytic software. Here's what we found: on about 80% of the clicks Facebook was charging us for, JavaScript wasn't on."

Later:

"So we did what any good developers would do. We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it. You know what we found? The 80% of clicks we were paying for were from bots. That's correct. Bots were loading pages and driving up our advertising costs"

I think they use a different definition of bot. Otherwise they wouldn't have to use a second logger ...
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Thanks for pointing that out! Sounds like a bug.
Of course, I don't really think that, I'm sure they spend a great deal of time and effort on design. I was just struck by how many of the designs Apple thought were almost good enough to sell other companies took a look at and thought, eh, close enough.
It's also been a linchpin to the liberal argument for more funding for education, despite a lack of results http://www.human20.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/200909_blo...

Basically everyone with a political ideology wants to believe that US schools are horrible.
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Obat ace maxs - Ace maxs terbuat dari khaisat keajaiban perpaduan daun sirsak dan kulit manggis yang mengandung kaya nutrisi terbaik untuk pemenuhan gizi manusia dengan memiliki keunggulan utama ” 10.000 kali lebih kuat melawan kanker dibandingkan dengan kemo terapi” .
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Serta ace maxs dalam kandungan bahan utama daun sirsak, menurut hasil dari penelitian secara ilmiah daun sirsak mengandung anopentosin A, anopentosin B, Anopentosin C, murikatosin acetoginin A, murikatosin B, murikapentosin, anomurisin E. Acetogenins di dalam sirsak inilah yang mampu melawan lebih dari 12 macam kanker diantaranya kanker paru-paru, kanker usus besar dan yang lainnya tanpa mengganggu sel-sel dalam tubuh manusia.
I guess I'll start with a rebuttal. The stock market is a great place to invest if you understand a couple things:

* The market is high risk, people have lost half their life savings in it. You should know how to balance that risk with your needs. With risk comes high reward, the stock market tends to average much higher returns than lower risk investments.

* You will never know as much about individual companies as institutional investors and hedge fund analysts. These guys have the CEO's cell phone number and invest billions of dollars. But their analysis is priced into the current value of stocks; consider this a free service they are providing you.

My advice is to invest only your savings you won't need for at least 20 years. Invest in funds that average your risk across many companies (e.g. s&p 500 index funds) and avoid funds with high fees.

The stock market is an opportunity to own a small part of a large chunk of the economy. It's economically liberating to people who are willing to educate themselves on it, and a dangerous trap to those who don't. The fact that in 30 seconds I can spend 50 dollars and own a small part of the 500 largest companies in the USA is a modern marvel.
Guilty as charged: sometimes (depending on what the item is), I can be a super cheap bastard .. maybe too frugal. A poor startup founder can't be spending money like water :)

I've run into many startup founders who try to sell me something that (1) Is not big enough of a pain for me to want to pay to solve and (2) I'm not fully convinced that the "buy from someone else" option is better than the "build myself" option.

It's an uphill battle for them, and I tell them I just might not be in their market. p.s. Granted sometimes I err on being too frugal and just need to outsource more, but the person selling to me is just fighting an additional layer of objections, at their expense :/
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You're placing too much emphasis on completing things. The vast majority of startups won't be around for the length of time you're suggesting. The vast majority of BigCos have plenty of people who can finish projects and maintain the status quo.

Both kinds of companies need people who can start major projects and get results quickly.
Really smart hackers should go to college, if they want to, but it is hard to find a college that won't be boring for them. There are a few out there, usually small. Don't study computers, it's a waste of time, you already know them. Study something else, like Art or History or Philosophy. Keep hacking on the side (because you can't help it, you're a hacker).
Here is a WebCite copy of this HN page with all aforementioned information: http://www.webcitation.org/69Y3G0hvA
Also, may as well publicly repeat my invitation to have a chat about standardizing a protocol around this kind of thing. You're rewriting everything anyway... bre at pagekite dot net. :-)
The title doesn't do this article justice. Digg is ditching comments and rebranding themselves as "v1".
2.x, because I mainly use it for web development (and some math/gfx stuff).
It works in Montreal, Canada.
Not owning any Ubisoft titles and not really interested in opening up IE, can someone explain what it is that Ubisoft/IE users are seeing?
Using butterflies: http://xkcd.com/378/
A minimum of 700mA on USB is absolutely what a Raspberry PI takes and is listed as such on their website. Their site also says that each of their USBs port can handle only 100mA, and little more. [1]

"Generally speaking the model B raspberry PI was designed only for <100mA USB devices! That is because the PI's PSU was chosen with a power budget of 700mA in mind of which 200mA were assigned to the two USB ports, so the raspberry PI's (poly)fuses were designed only for <100mA devices, and typical 140mA polyfuses will have as much as 0.6 volt across them when drawing currents near the 100mA limit. As a consequence the USB ports are only directly suitable for "single current unit" USB devices which according to USB specifications are designed to work with just 4.4 Volt. Not only do non single current unit devices draw more current, (causing greater Voltage drops, and greater stress on the fuses) they also might require 4.75 Volt to work. Therefore any non single current unit devices will only work when powered from a powered hub."

Plugging in devices that take 150mA or more almost always cause problems. Sure these things aren't within the USB spec, but neither is my 2A iPad 3.

As for $25 vs. $35, oops. I pre-ordered months ago and had forgotten what I'd paid.

[1]:http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals
I haven't been terribly impressed with the Nexus 7, and it certainly hasn't changed my opinion of the 7" form factor. To get an idea of the size of this thing, hold your iPad in portrait orientation and then cover the top 55% of the screen. There's your Nexus. It's tiny.

One problem with this 7" form factor is that the portrait orientation isn't wide enough to display most regular web pages without having to zoom in and scroll around; it's just like browsing on your smartphone. I'm also struggling to find any software that wouldn't look and work in exactly the same way on a regular sized smartphone. It makes for a better e-book reader than a regular smartphone, but that's just about it.

There are some good things. This device exists almost solely to tie you into Google's on-line services, so if you're a Google user then the integration with their services is slick in a lot of places.

But I'm mostly interested in the quality of the software, and unfortunately it isn't that great, at least when compared to iOS. The browser is particularly poor, which surprised me. It's difficult if not impossible to reliably tap on small links. There's no visual indication of what you've tapped, or the indication is delayed, or that indication is completely hidden under your finger. Often you will tap on a link and a magnifier winder will pop up instead; I still haven't figured out how to trigger that. Taps may not register at all, and there's virtually no visual indication that the browser has begun loading a new page. It makes the browser seem fussy and unreliable, and consequently is not a joy to use. As a result, if I need to look something up then I'll grab my iPhone before I grab the Nexus. The browser is also missing some important iframe performance and usability improvements that appeared in iOS 5.

It's hard to argue with the price, but if you already own an Android phone then I'm not sure why you'd buy this device. And if you want to see the best of what modern tablet software can offer, you won't find it on a 7" 16:9 screen.
The tax breaks were set to go down on a schedule. It would be nice if the same were true for oil and gas. Right now, those subsidies for renewables are only creating a more even playing field.
Odd seeing the 'home' button called 'menu' in the p2 mock up below the Sony/Jony gallery.
That's an interesting point. I don't think it makes a small difference, though-- in particular, there's a perverse incentive to spend money marketing something you know isn't perfect rather than on making it better. But I guess that's just the story of Apple v. The Industry.
We built it for our own product, Ducksboard. Users can build their own metrics dashboards by adding widgets and arranging them as they like.

That's the use case: being able to arrange/sort a set of widgets by dragging and dropping them in an grid. Puzzles, dashboards, image collections, think of any thing built of visuals elements where order counts.
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Liberal arts teaching is hardly brilliant for many either, although teachers have a fair bit more leeway..
Similar situation here.

I went to a 5 year school with co-operative education (Northeastern University) and ended up quitting and going to work for the company I was interning in a previous semester prior to starting my final year. I have the school listed on my resume but I do not claim to have a degree.
yes sir, you are. you attract like minded people.

god damn, i WILL migrate my platform away from ruby, that's how hard finding ruby developers who arent populist or contrarian is
Yeah, maybe this portion of the vid wasn't as well thought out as it could have been.
Maybe they just need people who are capable and can get up to speed, not the A+ designineer rockstar badasses of all time. Maybe they recognize that some of the people who just do their work are underrated because they aren't spending that much time publicizing themselves as A+ designineer rockstar badasses.
The foundation did say they were planning a whole host of accessories to go along with it, and were hoping the community would rally around some of their own. This likely includes cases, mice/keyboards, and possibly small, cheap monitors.
Excellent point. I tried to get my boys excited about the Arduino and Netduino and they couldn't have cared less. But when the giant raspberry wallpaper came up they got excited.
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pg's take: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550195
“There is comparatively strong theoretical and empirical evidence that people become terrorists not to achieve their organization’s declare political agenda, but to develop strong affective ties with other terrorist members. In other words, the preponderance of evidence is that people participate in terrorist organizations for the social solidarity, not for their political return.”

Great, it's social networking with bombs instead of tweets.
More likely they haven't built up enough experience to know how few of the things they learned about writing resumes in college really apply to a job search for a serious technical job.
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I'm always turned off by job postings that use words like "rockstar", "ninja", "superstar", etc. I'm mostly a Python and Javascript dev (with some occasional PHP, Java, and Ruby) and I'd rate my ability as "average". I'm currently employed and I build websites and web apps.

When I think of a "superstar" or "ninja", I think of someone who doesn't just, for example, have the ability to write Javascript code. I think of someone who knows every little trick the language has. Someone who knows the internals of V8 and/or Spidermonkey, and has maybe contributed code. Someone who sits on the ECMAScript committee. Who gets invited to large conferences to speak on Javascript. Someone who's written books that major tech publishers like O'Reilly or Apress or Sitepoint have published. Someone who has written a library or framework that thousands of developers use. I think of people like Doug Crockford or John Resig. Y'know, superstars in their field.

I have a suspicion that many of these companies probably only need an average, competent developer, but they use language that makes an average developer think they wouldn't have a snowball's chance.
67.9 TWh in a HALF year.

Germany is a net exporter of electricity.
In other news: Quality of software rises to new heights.
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Actually, this slows down all levels of code stealers. No longer can we simply copy and paste (or download if it is its of *.js file) into our editor of choice. Now, we have to open the dev console, call getCode(), and deal with any formatting issues that might arise (such as \\n -> \n).
With VB6 you can check IP Addresses.
The magnifier pops up only when you click on a spot that's very close to two links, you then disambiguate on the magnified links. It's perfect, I love it.
linear solution? Please explain. Wind and solar are growing double digits per year... how is that not exponential?

If you're taking about Vestas, it's still worth $5 Billion, going up or down depending on the results of big sales. That share price was worth 20X more is a disappointment to investors, but it does not prove that no one can make it in that sector.
Both the US and Poland are ahead of countries like Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, and the UK. And all of those countries are still above the OECD average.

And if you're willing to get more politically incorrect (but possibly more statistically correct) http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou... "The mean score of Americans with European ancestry is 524, compared to 506 in Europe, when first and second generation immigrants are excluded."
Are you saying it's short term because advertisers would notice? Sure some advertisers would notice. However I doubt the majority are capable of performing the OP's analysis (which could use some scrutiny).

Imagine a 100 person company with 5 people dedicated to advertising. Leadership says to increase on-line presence. Some recent college grad on the advertising team buys FB ads. Next month leadership is pleased that they're advertising on Facebook. Also leadership is pleased that sales increased x%. The FB ads could be completely worthless. Some non-trivial percentage of clicks could be from bots and no one would notice.
Probably more likely to impact customer service calls here in the US.
I have no interest in arguing for psychedelics here - my interest in asking the question is exactly as stated - about truth and Enlightenment. So many people claim Enlightenment in the world today but in history only a very small handful actually have the evidence of the ability (and knowledge), theretofore unknown but necessary information, wisdom (vision), and life that come along with it. Since Enlightenment is an extremely essential thing for mankind I'm always careful to confirm what is true and false in people's words when they speak about it.
#1 has been addressed; the GAE jars are officially published to the maven central repository.

#2 is a puzzling statement to make. Compared to an RDBMS, GAE's datastore is a much more natural fit for Java object graphs because it supports hierarchical data and is naturally polymorphic. Hibernate makes crazy contortions to match up the models and this complexity bleeds through to the API. There is definitely a learning curve if you have a background in RDBMS development, but you can say the same about MongoDB or Riak or any other NoSQL store. Nevertheless, the benefits of an autoscaling, distributed, replicated, zero-administration datastore are compelling.

#2a If you really really want MySQL, GAE now offers it (Cloud SQL).

#3 is a bit ambiguous - yes, there are limitations, as there are in any hosted environment. There's a 60s deadline on startup requests, but it's not usually hard to keep even Spring apps under this limit. The missing Java classes are things like Swing - you won't miss them. Yes, things like the Servlet spec are a little old, but the servlet api hasn't changed in any material way in the last decade.

It's not perfect, but App Engine is still an awesome platform for startups. It eliminates ops and devops roles so you spend all your time writing features.
Thanks for the encouragement. If I decide to post something, I'll let you know. :)
It depends on the Chat client. The older Talk windows client supports file transfers.

http://www.google.com/talk/about.html
Access logs can't record if javascript is enabled. There are other things I would be interested in if I were doing this too, I'd check the browser's TZ, check if flash was enabled, etc. and do it across sessions.

Depends how far they went profiling their visitors, it clearly says in the article they were tracking if js was enabled, so yes, you'd need to roll something or another by hand. GA relies solely on js for example.
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http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/2/youporn-targeting-2...
What about usage of the word "use"? Surely that implies interacting with another person only for sex and we should stop using it lest we offend.

I was not deflecting, that was my way of talking about the merits of the complaint, to whit, what you object to might be a tiny subset of someone else's objections, in which case who gets to decide? By telling that person not to use that terminology, you are saying you get to decide.

I think we've also seen plenty of people who think they are the sole arbiter of programming languages, and they get called out on it.
TYVM.