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Considering that the only reason GNUStep isn't considered a totally failed project is the existence of Hurd, I wouldn't bet my money on creating a reasonably up-to-date cross-platform Cocoa/OpenStep clone. Try to see if the base Objective-C++ is working alright and create a GUI-independent layer, at least that way you'll get your native look-and-feel for free. But looking at the code, I think that'll excisce a lot of the core TM tech, so whether it's worth the conversion effort instead of just starting brand new is a pretty good question.
What's your point?

That shows that volume increased. Which means higher competition between market makers resulting in smaller bid-ask spreads and higher liquidity, meaning the market can correct itself much faster.
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I agree that it's better for kids to be supervised then un supervised, but disagree about the age thing. That isn't realistic in terms of the real world.

You don't work with people that are the same age as you, and will most likely have friends with different ages as you get older.

Other than that however, I agree with you. My opinion is one I can only hold personally. I would hate to see certain parents attempting to educate their kids when they aren't intelligent or street smart enough to do it.

I do however think school can do much better. Some sort of Montessori without the pompousness.
This was in the 80s, during the Cold War. As such, it's not really surprising that most people (especially Americans) have not heard about it. It is a Soviet accomplishment after all.
I must admit the biggest thing I took away from this is how disappointed I was at the sheer refusal from some authors to fact check, read up or even visit the site. One apologised on Facebook as they joined the angry mass without understanding the site at all, and now they do they retracted their previous complaint.

EULAs are long unwieldily things, but if you're publishing digitally understand what terms you agreed too before raging out at some slight.
His website still has the binary on it.
I apologize. I should have said, "hosting configuration". I can't edit the headline now. I would rather delete it than leave it as is.
But there are also plenty of businesses with millions of users that only get revenue later in their life. For the first few years, traction besides revenue is certainly acceptable evidence of progress.
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also, I apologize. I should have said, "hosting configuration". I can't edit the headline now. I would rather delete it than leave it as is.
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I'll believe SCO are dead when Netcraft confirms it.
I've grown to love my own bad judgment. It's led me to the most fascinating places.

This appears to be the root of all that is self-taught.

Trust your technolust.
Oh nice, this looks slick. Do you know of the functionally similar http://youtify.com?

It’s an open source web app, see http://github.com/youtify/youtify
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Let's declare July NASA History Month
bandcamp as a source would be great too. lots of great music there.
In high school I taught myself x86 assembly and reverse engineered fortres.exe, published the results in 2600. Good times.
The Fortress Programming Language team is wrapping up
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Incorrect, a bunch of students with failed/successful experience is better than a bunch of students who go to college, because they were "suppose" to.

I think its best to opt for more freedom, when it comes to picking who they want to spend their adulthood. These new paths aren't for everyone but that's why we should consider this an alternate solution, not a one size fits all one.
Personally, if I could combine the TM modules into BBEdit (which uses Applescript for scripting), I'd be perfectly happy.
This is the most accurate description of the app.net phenomenon. All politics, no product.
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Indeed, blocking Facebook Connect or disabling Javascript makes the page show empty (on all browsers).
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Do fonts affect people's opinions? Yes.
Founder Dating consistently does a great job in keeping the quality up as they open in each city. Agreed that the exclusivity aspect of it is one of the most valuable aspects.
Of course, this ends up very similar to wikipedia, where you have to learn how to complain correctly, or the Meta post also gets closed as a duplicate.
Thanks! I can't believe I never noticed Youtify before, it's amazing. I think we'll see a lot of similar functionality to go across different services.
It seems to me that the validity of your statement hinges on the definition of success.
Couple of suggestions (I eat Paleo)

* Corn is a grain (not a vegetable)
* Peanuts are legumes (not a nut)
* The Paleo preset needs to NOT include dairy products (eggs are OK), no fruit juice, no peanuts
To be fair, it is not exactly clear if college scales either.

Around 25% of the working population have a college degree and about 50% have post-secondary training of some kind. Only 5% of the working population earn more than $90,000 per year and the top 25% start earning at only $45,000 per year or so. It's a livable income in many places, but that is not what we generally consider successful in business.
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Anyone with a little bit of education in sciences, and philosophy of science, should be aware that the theory of gravity and the theories that make up what is known as evolution, have a very different theoretical background.

The theory of gravity has put people on the Moon and a rover on Mars. The theory of evolution creates plausible scenarios of why we see what we see.

There's much politics in the plausibility part. And there's a lot of politics in putting gravity and evolution on the same shelf.

It's sad to see how someone, even scientists, are considered to be anti-science for even doubting evolution.
It's not so much branch prediction as the increase of CPU speed relative to bus speed. Loop unrolling increases code size. Unless you're running a lot of iterations of a very tight loop, fetching the extra code from RAM will take longer than unrolling will save you.

If you are running a lot of iterations of a very tight loop, it might still be worth trying. Just remember to profile.
... will have to be done in places with relatively cheap energy if oil runs out. Solar in deserts, geothermal in Iceland, hydroelectric in many places.
I've created an account. Saved a meal plan. Now I want to generate a grocery shopping list, but it appears you can only do that with a paid account. I've been looking for an app to do this for quite a while.

Could you post an example of what a generated shopping list looks like?

Edit: Thanks chrishas35
The funny thing is that you can't just fix typos like hz to Hz because it's under the update character count, so people end up making other changes just to get around the rule. A bit silly, that.
If you read the article you'd see that this site was not shut down because of Amazon at all.
Agreed.

I think Thiel was probably creating a program with a knowledge of the PR the initiative would generate without much thought to long-term outcomes. Obv. he is a smart guy with plugins to higher-ed, and clearly someone who believes in the positive possibilities of innovation. In that sense, he is someone I would like to collaborate with.

That said, he may have shot himself in a foot here in picking people who were good from a short-term PR perspective yet will blow up and look like idiots in the long run. I heard of Dale Stephens before, but didn't take him seriously until Thiel sponsored him. Then I subscribed to his Facebook and blog email feed. What a joke. The whole thing is tailored for a bunch of angsty underachievers and provides zero positive value.

In this sense, I think Thiel has also done himself a disservice by pandering too much ultra-libertarian tech crowd which wants to see everything privatized -- the ultimate goal is a "Halliburtinization" of the US, where all governmental and public functions are provided at speculatively higher efficiency by the private sector.

Obviously, as the Halliburton saga in Iraq illustrates, this is very rarely the actual outcome. Enrons and their ilk create private monopolies on markets and spike the price to their own benefit.

This sort of short-sighted approach to higher ed is just a symptom of a similarly flawed way of thinking about the world that emphasizes profit (a short-term metric that is rarely the most important), instead of the other values which can be fostered within the context of higher ed. In this sense, I think the East coast Ivy League establishment often does a better job than Stanford in emphasizing some of these other elements -- for example, the library at Stanford positively sucks and it is very difficult to find the books necessary for anyone who reads widely (Cal is a bit better, but in general Californians seem not to read very much).

In any case, I think Thiel needs to step up his game a bit. Initiatives are needed to make better, more well-rounded people, rather than more little entrepreneurs who want a quick buck at age 20. In his book on Stanford educational system, he appropriately references Caliban and the need to "chain the beast" so-to-speak, but it seems that he hasn't taken his own lessons to heart.
Textmate2 needs one thing for me to use it prime-time again: split screen in OS X full screen mode (just like Sublime Text 2).

Now I can code that myself (oh joy :)
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It's all about risk. It's not about "leftover money".

Cost, schedule, risk. They are the fundamental resources for a project like this. Cost and schedule are more familiar than risk.
How can we expect to be competitive globally if we ignore two important pieces of science that every other globally competitive nation teaches?
That's exactly what I don't want to see. Yet another device tied in to Google. For me, all the promise of the Ouya is in doing things independently, not tied to the mission of a corporate behemoth.

If corporate behemoths want in, they can do the same thing as everyone else and write SN app for it.
It's a famous Joel Spolsky essay: Things You Should Never Do, Part 1 [1]. Never do a full system rewrite. Pain and sadness follow.

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Taking your idea further, we'd expect mass shipping to continue as manufacturing will be much cheaper in countries that aren't so hamstrung about nuclear energy.
I would be leery hiring anybody associated with SCO. I'm not saying that it would be a "No-Hire" - but it is a big red flag would involve a lot of questions. It's far enough back now, that I would not mention them on your resume (Typically resumes don't include every company you've ever worked for) unless you were applying for a position that requires "100% disclosure" of all companies you've been associated with. cstross, though, is one of the few people who has told the SCO story in a way that it probably might not hurt him too much... In general - just agreeing that what they did was bad, might be enough in most "Side of Light" companies.

On the flip side - if you are applying for a job at a Patent troll (Side of darkness) - then maybe a person's time at SCO might be a bonus?

SCO really is a very, very toxic company - and there are a number of senior managers of that company that I wouldn't eat dinner with, and certainly would never shake their hands. The way I explain it to my friends - As Enron was to manipulating markets and shady financials, SCO was to open source software. Good riddance, one of the very few companies I'm happy to see die.
In the UK at least, public libraries have to pay a small amount each time they lend out a book, not just buy the book and do what they want with it.
That's not the case. The difference in driving laws (right vs left lane) makes it fairly difficult to move cars between GB and mainland Europe, because cars have to be physically modified.

Insurance companies are just out to make as much money as possible; in Europe their life is hard because they don't enjoy the ridiculous margins from crazy markets like US healthcare, they have to obey stricter regulation, and suffer from heavy rates of fraud in many countries.
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If they were to leave out evolution & climate change, it would bring any statistics into disrepute. If they did it and the statistics showed some of the best science education in the world it would be laughable if a large percentage of students were taught the world is only 6,000 years old. It would reek of soviet era bullshit statistics that everyone else laughs at.

There isn't always 2 sides to every story. Sometimes there's 1.
I thought these wunderkinds were supposed to change the world. :) No one argues that these are bright people, the problem is I think this "fellowship" was a lot of hype to promote an idea that ... I don't know, where's the fruit? Sure, there are autodidacts, but as I always say, they are outliers.

I do find the education focused ones interesting, in "oh boy" sort of way. We're just taking something as dogma (anti-college) and just running with it, where we're going I don't know. There's no "there" there. I feel like this view is so prevalent in our world of computing because there are really 1) many outliers that are great autodidacts and brilliant programmers (but not as many as is claimed) and 2) there are also many that believe they don't need any kind of education because they saw a YouTube on making RoR apps and follow JS blogs but I don't think the rest of the world is really like this.
I did something similar in high school using the PC speakers of Win95 machines. The music was controlled from one machine that would send out broadcast UDP messages.
One of the dirty little secrets is that a lot of all the easy money was made a while ago. The media's just kinda catching up now. The increased cost of playing this game means fewer and fewer firms are able to chase fewer and fewer dollars.

They're squeezing themselves out of the market. It's like any other thing in the market: as people see profits they get into a market and accept a lower profit target until the market stabilizes on the marginal cost to produce the good. In this case the good is liquidity for the market.

Just give it time to play out. The "problem", if there is one, is kind of taking care of itself. If you want to direct your energy at a real problem, focus on the old-boys-network of getting stuff done in banking: commoditize the crap out of the financial sector's business by breaking down the moats and walls that allow high finance to run scams like the dotcom bubble, the housing bubble, and manipulating the LIBOR.
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I don't think one person would make a case study. Whatever his reason is, it would be a very specific personal reason. A case study of this will be just be like profiling a patient in a lab.
These results can obscure as much as they reveal. The demographics of the US differ from European countries - the US has proportionally more students from lower scoring ethnic groups, as compared to most European countries.

If you look only at non-immigrants in European countries, and whites in the US, the US looks quite a bit more competitive.[1] Not to mention, Massachusetts and Minnesota have more of the higher scoring groups (principally whites) and fewer of the lower scoring groups (Hispanics and blacks) than the US as a whole.

It's important to understand where the differences in scores lie, and not just mash it all together and shout cliches like "More money!" Though it does seem like Finland's got something special.

[1] super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-about-pisa-scores-usa.html
I'm sure the argument goes that ouya users are "proper gamers" - which is great but it's only really worthwhile if you also can charge "proper game" fees of $10+

The scale isn't there for a freemium or $0.99 app economy.
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Thankfully a native player for http://console.fm, congrats on releasing Amir!!!!
Or payments is such a massively hard problem that it's not "easy" to beat the incumbants.
Am I the only one surprised by total lack of history in the repository?
Certs are good in that they provide a reason to learn things you might otherwise overlook or not use on a day to day basis. In that sense I look highly on them. However, many other people I work with have absolute contempt for any sort of technical skill, so no cert is going to impress them.
So if it’s about cost it’s about leftover money. That’s one and the same. (One just doesn’t sound as professional as the other.)
Fair enough. If anyone wants to build the other site, let me know.
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Under UK employment law, there's a precedent that says that, just as an ex-employee shouldn't libel their former employer, employers have a duty not to bring their former staff's resume into disrepture. I'm told by a barrister of my acquaintance that if I was still working in IT, and SCO was still doing business in the UK, I'd have a reasonable claim against them in court ...

(The precedent was set when former employees of BCCI sued that bank in the wake of its collapse in the 1990s. They cleaned up.)
What you're remembering is that, in 2007, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in which an insolvent company tries to rebuild its finances to avoid bankruptcy.

Apparently that failed, and they're now actually filing for bankruptcy.
That is a terrible way to measure utility, there are so many other factors to consider.

I use my keyboard for work constantly, but it is not worth more than maybe $10 to me.

I'd say his measurement of utility makes a lot more sense than yours.
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I doubt it's due to the Creative Commons nature. Amazon allow publishers to sell non-DRMed and creative commons books on the Kindle Store, and have done for years.
For me, LibreOffice has trumped NeoOffice on the Mac. I just have no reason to support that project. Does anyone know if the NeOffice guys return code back to the LibreOffice master? If so, I could see that as a reason to continue supporting them.
Exactly. I was just a hypothetical price but you proved my point even further. Side note, I have actually not bought RAM for like ever. Its been ages :). I guess did not need to.
Were you the person who commented a while back on a few people heading off to Courtenay? Not that that's necessarily recommended (200+ km up the coast, pretty remote including culturally, and small potatoes IIRC), but to stay on the island while avoiding Victoria's costs? And/or some people moving into the island's interior?

My apology if not, but I seem to recall someone commenting on developers relocating to different parts of Vancouver Island.
Browsing through the code, Objective-C seems to be used for the UI, but the guts of the code (the Frameworks directory) is in C++.

I have mixed feelings about TextMate going open source. If QuickSilver is any indication, it will now definitely take forever for a new release. Dang! and I seriously don't like ST2.
Meh. No modern QR decoder operates as described.
tldr: Because I want to and because I can, I do.

Reason #1 is the lamest reason I've ever seen: "I am taking that mental capacity and putting it elsewhere." -- yeah, that capacity is spent writing a 700+ word rationalization for not dressing up.
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What about the flip side of this, which is catching and dealing with the hooligans who screwed up school lab machines? It involves trojan horse programs and hex editing DOS binaries, too. I wrote about it not too long ago.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/06/13/lab/
You're overestimating the anti-science critics. You can teach all the spectroscopy and thermodynamics you want and they won't care, because they don't know what that stuff is.

It's purely the words "climate change" that they'll attack. And picking that fight is not a winning solution.

The winning solution is to show children how awesome science is, give them the fundamental tools to participate in it, and let them see for themselves the validity of conclusions like climate change.

We're in the mess we're in because too many people's science education was purely focussed on the conclusions of science without the methods of science. When "science class" means memorizing facts it's no different than catechism, and truth becomes a question of one authority vs another.

The conclusions of science are of secondary importance to the process of science.
Scenario #2: the passenger in the front seat starts paying attention, shouts "Watch Out", grabs the wheel, and causes an accident.

I still think this is a bad idea.
Mars is also windy, and microphones can be made to be very sensitive. Plus, there might be some interest in hearing the dust from one of the common dust storms hitting the rover.

Not a high priority in terms of data, but potentially interesting nonetheless.
> Remember, the contrast between white and black on computer monitors is greater than on the printed page, because computer-monitor white is brighter than a page usually.

Only if the lights are off in the room.

There may be such a thing as too much contrast. I haven't encountered it. But it doesn't make the text completely unreadable the way too little contrast does. When I copy+paste the text of a website into a text editor, it's always because the contrast was too low.

When it doubt, increase contrast.
I get your point and agree. By politicizing the standard (even if that's laughable in other countries) it virtually guarantees that half the population will be against it. It becomes a waste of time.

But except for the wastage I'm not concerned. I don't want my kids focusing too much on chemistry or physics in school anyway. There are few jobs in those types of science and plenty of competition for those jobs, so it's only entertainment value for my kids. I'd like the schools to focus on Python and web development first. That's not going to happen, of course, so it's Codecademy and similar sites to fill the gap.
Vast amounts of money are being spent on HFT with no benefit to the market, but only to the firms that are currently the fastest at the time. This is a pure greed move and demonstrates so much of what is wrong with much of the modern banking and investment industry.

I would be incredibly easy to come up with a workable compromise, like a throttle or minimum time an order must be maintained, but vested interests will keep that from happening until something truly disastrous happens.
It looks like it. Building houses from wood is not very common here in Holland, but i was told that many places with the right climat and soil build using wood.

I even heard that you can kick through walls in many places in the states. Blows my mind, but appearantly its common.
It's pretty easy to surmise that Amazon doesn't want to facilitate crowd-source funding for a group whose purpose is to provide free e-books.
How much sleep do we really need to work productively?
Just to be clear, LendInk facilitated lending through Amazon, not a service they were providing. They were simply matching users who had the same reading interest.

I doubt Amazon pressured them into shutting down considering LendInk is sending business their way.