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Yes, this is standard and useful behaviour. When I started using OS X, it really confused me that 1) it didn't source .profile on login 2) it sourced .profile (instead of .bashrc) whenever I opened a new terminal.
The article, which I wrote, backs up every fact with a source or explanation.
Thanks for the feed back. Actually I'm not good at explaining things,Sorry that's not an excuse. I'm always trying to improve my language and presentation skill.
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From here - http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=568

Who funded the work and how much have you invested in these inventions?

This area of research is an example of an Intellectual Ventures program called Sponsored Invention. In Sponsored Invention, an outside sponsor picks the particular problems they want addressed and pays us to come up with the inventions. The sponsor gets a license to the inventions, but we can also license them to others. For these Malaria related projects, our sponsor is Bill Gates.

So it isn't as though they decided one day to go out and fight malaria. It is a commission.

[edit] Also, looking at all the pictures of their "photonic fence", they seem to have neglected the fact that mosquitoes have been found at heights of over 1000 feet, so they might just fly over it.
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Instead of hacking Wired journalists and remotely wiping their devices (much to their consternation), black hat folks should do this sort of thing. That I can get behind.
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It's a trade-off between optimization for speed of machines and optimization for speed and ability of humans who need to maintain the code over time.

If it has been prematurely optimized for speed, by all mean yes :)
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Or I can use a text editor like TM2 or ST2 and turn on vim bindings and get 80% of the way there (that's a generous 20% for all of the vim hotkeys that don't work in the emulated modes).
That's interesting setup. Waiting to see how it looks like.
Flash also dropped Linux. Together with Mobile, that makes 2 of my favorite platforms it doesn't support, making it useless.
Encoding != Encryption. Encoding is on a line level, so for example, 8b/10b is used in HDMI to prevent a DC bias on the line. The way it works is by making sure within a certain number of 8 bit inputs (I think 3), the resulting 10b outputs will have an equal number of 1s and 0s, therefor preventing the physical wire from charging itself closer to V+ or V-, which in turn helps prevent bit errors.

8b/10b has exactly 25% overhead, this is the difference between baud per second (what the line is capable of transmitting, which is on the 10b side), and bits per second (which is the decoded 8b data). If you have a 10kilobaud/second line, you'll have an effective data rate of 8kbit/second.

Encryption is done before the encoding stage, the encoding scheme doesn't care and isn't affected by the encryption.
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Written by a guy who was attending university level mathematics courses at the age of nine. Perhaps the sentiment is better expressed as being a genius is not sufficient. Hard work is still required (but so is being a genius).
This has been on the front page since yesterday...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555
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So where does Git Bash for Windows fall into here?
Wow, he was young, wasn't he? Tragic...

I will always remember him as American Muscaley Supar Hero Paul Steedve.

RIP Paul Steedve. Jason Hall, King of teh Monstars salutes you.
I remember enjoying this the first time and on this visit I was like woah btilly wrote this!

I am row, algebraist, functional.

What I find interesting is, if your correlation is true and given that Analysis and algebra are duals (in the category theoretic sense) to each other - what does this say about what the brain is doing?

I will also suggest that functional programmers are algebraists and OOP are more likely to be Analysts.

From day one a functional programmer is taught about disjoint unions, product types, and structural recursion on algebraic types. The more motivated (typically most via self selection) go on to learn all about initial algebras, monoids, monads and algebras in general. Functional Programmers are algebraists and not just by allusion.

Then we have OOP. I don't know how to place it since it is so broadly defined and is not as enamored with mathematics as functional programming tends to be. Hmm. Abstract Data types are very close to objects and are known to be coalgebraic - like objects from analysis. OOP also has abstract classes that are kind of like a final object.

Erlang is typically stacked with functional languages but is actually more co-algebraic and so closer to OOP. Which says something about OOP done right - I hope the OOP bashers don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What I've found with "vim modes" is that I get the wrong 80%. It's really about how you approach development; in my world, it's very editing-centric. For others, it's tool-centric. If I can get 100% of the editing environment I want with 80% of the tools I want, I'm happier than I would be with your suggestion which would be reversed.
Every word of advice in this blog post by Terry Tao applies verbatim to many other fields -- including entrepreneurship. Here are two key paragraphs from his post, with just a few words searched & replaced so the text refers to "entrepreneurs" instead of "mathematicians:"

Even if one dismisses the notion of genius, it is still the case that at any given point in time, some entrepreneurs are faster, more experienced, more knowledgeable, more efficient, more careful, or more creative than others. This does not imply, though, that only the “best” entrepreneurs should start companies; this is the common error of mistaking absolute advantage for comparative advantage. The number of interesting business opportunities and problems to work on is vast – far more than can be covered in detail just by the “best” entrepreneurs, and sometimes the set of tools or ideas that you have will find something that other good entrepreneurs have overlooked, especially given that even the greatest entrepreneurs still have weaknesses in some aspects of business. As long as you have education, interest, and a reasonable amount of talent, there will be some market opportunity where you can make a solid and useful contribution. It might not be the most glamorous idea, but actually this tends to be a healthy thing; in many cases the mundane nuts-and-bolts ideas turn out to actually be more important than fancy ones. Also, it is necessary to “cut one’s teeth” on the non-glamorous parts of a field before one really has any chance at all to tackle hard problems; take a look at the early efforts of any of today’s great entrepreneurs to see what I mean by this.

In some cases, an abundance of raw talent may end up (somewhat perversely) to actually be harmful for one’s long-term professional development; if success comes too easily, for instance, one may not put as much energy into working hard, asking dumb questions, or increasing one’s range, and thus may eventually cause one’s skills to stagnate. Also, if one is accustomed to easy success, one may not develop the patience necessary to deal with truly difficult challenges. Talent is important, of course; but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.
If you're using a language that (practically) requires an IDE, or, you really want what the modern idea of IDE is. You probably want to look elsewhere.

That, or grok that Unix is the IDE. Vim is just the editor component.
Yeah, the "little game industry that could" turned into "triple-A game industry clusterfuck" that eats its own young.

I'm sorry, but I'm not really enthused about what game development has become.
Web browsers have a much higher standard of quality here. It's ok if a local app like Blender uses an OpenGL driver that has security exploits - it's a local app and almost always running trusted content. It's also not so bad if Blender crashes rarely due to a buggy GL driver or has rendering glitches because of it.

In a web browser though, you need to be sure of security - you are running arbitrary content from the web - as well as stability and consistency. So WebGL-powered browsers blacklist drivers known to be problematic.

You can override the blacklists if you dare, but it is very dangerous.
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Through perverse incentives set by the government, he immorally amasses a whole bunch of money at great expense to society, then attempts to allocate some of it to win the favor of the general public.

I guess he learned that trick from Bill Gates.
I always optimize new code for readability. If the old code is on a hot path, I'd suggest adding comments explaining why did it end like it did and leaving it alone (unless you readable version is equally fast). If it's not and it's structure starts to interfere with maintenance, replace it with simpler code.

Of course, before you touch it, make sure it's adequately tested and, if not, make it adequately tested.
> RT is, as usual, full of shit.

"As usual" really? They are not an objective news source, for sure, but they are decent. They often provide a good counter point on any US based and so called "free" media news sources.

> TrapWire is no secret,

Not "secret" as in classified. Secret as in your average person on the street probably doesn't know about, unless they of course read the "full of shit RT" source instead of relying say on Fox News.

> Sounds nice, but I'd be surprised if it works

Alright so if we found out that China was using the technology would you be saying the same "they have it, but no worries, it is probably not usable, so we shouldn't worry about criticizing China for it"
I was using Vimperator for a while, but it didn't give good experience, My chrome has also its vim plugin but it has slightly different key map, because of that I stopped using vim plugin on both browsers.

I surely want to try out the new vim plugin Pentadactyl for firefox.
Interested as well. debian + awesome + vim + urxvt and I am always looking for more ways to make it better.
Yes, taxes are eventually paid. But they aren't harmful to the innovation process, rather they provide an incentive to innovate for as long as you can. The corp tax actually provides a net advantage to innovators over rent-collectors.

It's exactly backwards of what briandear was claiming.

As for the rest of your nonsense, you're arguing against things that weren't said or implied.
If you want proof, I suggest you read the 1939 Tax Code, then the 1984 Tax Code, then the 1986 Tax Code. What do they all have in common? Corporate rates went down, and deductions and credits went up. 99% of the complexity of the federal income tax code relates to corporate taxes.

Companies are not paying taxes because they are reporting losses. Tax losses are not the same thing as economic losses. Tax losses are good and desirable; economic losses are not. GE, for example makes billions in profits each yet, yet is able to pay a negative tax rate. Apple and Google make billions each quarter, but avoid taxes on it by parking it overseas.
I've switched FROM vim and all this crap to real IDE's and the productivity is much greater.
Weird, usually when I submit a link that's already submitted I'm redirected to the original submission. It posted so I thought I was the first
uff sorry. unfortunately i can no longer edit that post.
If you ask this question, then no. Otherwise, you know the answer.

Further explanation on #1 You lack the experience required to understand the ramifications, make the judgement, change the code. Gain experience, learn more about this codebase and you will "know" one day.

Given that, one of the "best" ways to gain experience is to make and suffer through recovering from mistakes, change away!
I was going to write a detailed explanation of the trade-offs and cases where you might want to make such a change, but turns out, the article did an excellent job of hitting that question from all conceivable sides. Really quite good.
Arch + DWM + URXVT + VIM here and love it. Tiling WM are so convenient. I am a little too apprehensive using Xmonad, dont have enough time to mess with haskell.
This is definitely a per-person sort of thing. I was a maths major who took several physics courses and I tended to find that they muddied my mathematical understanding as often as they helped whereas I found algebra and number theory (my foci, admittedly) to be easy enough to understand on their own that the classes were just on this side of trivial.
Peer to peer? I guess I am getting old. I can remember when peer to peer meant that one host would communicate directly to the other host and not store the file transfer on a centralized system. Or that an application would not use a centraliozed third party for authentication.
What are you running on your tablet?
Looks so simple, it's hard to believe it's really true. Good job! Can't wait to get my invite.
Great. Now I want to replicate the moskito-killer-frickin'-laser-beam anonymously and "sell it for free"¹.

My dream for global good, including pissing Mr. Myhrvold off.

¹ Reverse Nigerian Scam : « Hi, I'm no king, did not win the lottery, don't need you to transfer funds for me with 20% reward. What I need, though, is your address to send you a bunch of frickin' laser beam to keep you and your folks safe from malaria. »
I love seeing apps that replace what we misuse email for -- e.g. sending files to a friend -- and looks like you guys have that spot on.
The biggest issue with other solutions is that they grow to a point where it's no longer easier than just emailing the file. Hopefully you guys don't outgrow the ease of use!
> The difference in this case is that you're not just bringing down the guild, you're bringing down the blacksmith and the carpenter as well.

I'm fairly sure that when these kinds of transitions happen the associated guild blacksmiths and carpenters, or artists thriving under royal patronage, or live musicians who did not adapt well to recording in the studio, are the ones who get the brunt of the pain. Although, as a group they always survive, while the hangers on and various big guys sometimes don't.

That's nitpicky though, I didn't mean to imply that there isn't/won't be significant damage to artists livelihoods, just that the damage to society and everyone else is greater if we continue down the road to the panopticon society necessary to continue to enforce our current copyright system.

> if they provide a better incentive than copyright, and almost no-one does

It's hard to beat a large scale monopoly distribution scheme. It's entirely possible that artists won't be able to make as much money under any new system as they did in the current one. Maybe there will be lowers highs and higher lows as the business moves away from being so hit-oriented. The one thing that's almost certain is that the distribution of music revenue among artists will be different, I find it more likely that the new technologies influence will be to flatten that distribution. Like you said, Kickstarter is a good example of an experiment that would do this if it does succeed.

I also agree that no one has figured out how to make blockbuster movies without a distribution monopoly to fund it, and they might never figure it out. Our generation's era of movies would probably be considered a bit of a golden age for high cost spectacle, like the old studio system was for serials and creating hollywood royalty.

> The trouble is, if we don't pull it off, those new business models are going to be things like always-online DRM schemes and locked-down hardware and walled garden app stores. Exactly none of these things ultimately results in better experiences for the public. They just happen to have defensible bottom lines for the businesses.

This is a good point, taking the path to locked-down hardware and DRM is an escape route that the existing industry can take/is taking. On reflection I agree, anti-SOPA/anti-surveillance sentiment pushes the industry to ramp up what Doctorow called the coming war on general purpose computation. Depressing thought, but at least some of the ideals that would motivate people to stop one will also motivate them to stop the other. And open hardware will still exist, and have benefits that consumers will like so that's winnable as well.
OK, sorry if I was took it the wrong way. What I was responding to was more the seat belt usage isn't too common and people feeling offended if you as a passenger put on a seatbelt. I did not experiencing the particular situation with the key holder. China is no doubt worse, but my point was that this particular thing (lack of seatbelt usage and negative opinion about them) says little about China given that it's a fairly worldwide phenomenon.
It's a great article. Assuming English isn't your first language, I think @insertnickname is being unfair.
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I imagine he would say being a genius (which he clearly is) is neither necessary nor sufficient for working in math.
Yes, very much. I'm deving with Eclipse on OS X, but have been wanting to move away from Apple/OS X since Lion appeared and a linux xmonad setup seems intriguing so have been reading up on similar things and every extra helps.
Serious question: why do app developers choose iOS over Android today? I vaguely recall reading about developers having trouble with paid apps on Google Play. Any other reasons?

I was a hardcore Apple fan for the first few years of the app store. However the novelty of the iOS polish that Android is partially missing (but slowly gaining) has long since worn off.
Well, naturally. It was originally a popular question on programmers.stackexchange.com, so the answers got a lot of eyes and a lot of editors.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/152392/is-it-...

That covers all the cases, then the second half of the article goes into more depth on the underlying reasons. It's a nice formula for an article.
I also think it's good to point out that this is exactly what we mean when startup culture talks about "disrupting" an industry. That means putting the people who work in it out of a job. Robbing them of their livelihood.

We understand that this is true, but that it's still the right thing to do.

Why do artists get such special treatment? Is it because we all like some of them? Is it the huge PR campaign they've been running since cassette tapes and VCRs?
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"All our files are encrypted with top of the line 256-bit AES encryption. We use Facebook to validate your identity and send the download link directly to the recipient's Facebook message inbox. No one but the recipient will ever be able to access the file."

No, thank you. Above is a turn off. First of all, the files can't be yours and you can't make people use Facebook to use your service.
We use Facebook to validate your identity and send the download link directly to the recipient's Facebook message inbox.

You might want to consider offering a couple of different options; none of these file transfer services have a FB requirement:

http://wetransfer.com
http://yousendit.com
http://letscrate.com
http://ge.tt

Or perhaps you want to position this as a FB-only service? It would certainly differentiate your service, but might also limit your user base unnecessarily.
I hope this would be helpful to you - https://github.com/sjl
I'm sure. There's no way they'd kill one of their biggest properties. That's the problem with search converges with conflict, you necessarily create conflicts of interest.
donniezazen: I got home with my ipad and immediately bought issh to try out this setup: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
It was disappointingly terrible.
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Terrible news, very sorry to hear.
I remember he was quite the personality back in the day. Also, who can forget he was the creator of the 'Crackwhore' Q2 model. :)
Certainly hard work is required, but equally certainly, being a genius is not necessary. I'm a mathematician, and I'm no genius.
Most mathematical genius in my life (in others and me) has been the direct result of DOING. Doing maths at that stage was the result of joy. Joy was often the result of a feeling of newness. A feeling of newness can be the result of a great number of things. Another reason for joy in mathematics can be emulation of ones parents.

In an interview in BBC Music Magazine British violinist Nicola Benedetti says quite bluntly "If you sound like rubbish at age 13, you quit."

It's lazy to say that this initial "sounding good" is "genius", and leave it at that. To come back to classical music: where is the Mathematics equivalent of El Sistema[0]?

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Sistema
You are not? How does one tell?
It would certainly differentiate your service, but might also limit your user base unnecessarily

Limiting user base? I don't think it would hurt much. Half of internet users use Facebook. I think they have a good chance at giving better user experience by tying with Facebook.
Every time people think about a solution about this (to my mind) huge e-mail issue I'm really happy to be not the only one who is sick of the existing solutions out there.

I used to use things like Dropbox or other syncing services and then share the link of a file, which is for me an okay solution. But not what makes me really happy.

Your idea looks also interesting, but how do you want to manage things like the file storage time? Do you want to store them permanent?
What will become also some interesting challenge is to make the "send file functionality" everywhere in the world fast, regarding up- and downstream.

Really looking forward if other people will find an idea soon.
I've been thinking for a while now about it and still never found the kick-ass idea.

I wish you all the best for your product.

Ps: on the bottom of your website is a "-->".

Best,
Felix
this post might be interesting to some looking into zsh + vim + tmux

http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/24784023641/beautiful-tools
I don't see anything but through-hole components here, and I don't think anyone would encourage a beginner to dive into a surface mounted design as their first project.

http://www.element14.com/community/themes/images/raspberrypi...
I'll never use a service that requires a FB login exclusively.
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Ah, got it. Sounds like a rationalization based on envy and resentment.

As in, their college experience isn't paying off financially, but they are better than you for pursuing pure love of knowledge rather than chasing the filthy dollar.
This is the first iteration, you may use it yet.
I did mine. 25k followers: http://www.twitteraudit.com/joshu - I definitely don't buy followers, because who cares?

There are a LOT of follow robots out there. Fake followers that follow lots of people, hoping to get followed back. If you don't, they unfollow.
When they took off, the autonomous navigation wasn't even close to complete. They pushed that software once the two Rovers were already on Mars.

(I was working on the Rover team at the time)
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So the NASDAQ dumper should accept a structured query as its input. This is an architecture issue, not a data format issue.
You are absolutely correct. I started to use Vim as main editor (Around 6 Month) only after realizing the easiness of its command based editing, not looking after its plugins. I tried to explain that in the blog summary portion. Then why we need all those plugins ?. It just add extra features, who don't like it ?