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yes it is false but that was not my reasoning. I was merely trying to draw parallels between a time people are probably familiar, saying that there is no use comparing modern China to a developed country. It is not a modern country, but it is so "rich" and "powerful" people (like the OP) get that idea in their head and become inevitably disillusioned.

Perhaps I could have made a parallel to Brazil or Thailand?

No analogy is complete.
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I live in Georgia. Everyone here is really friendly and means it.
It's not just sand. It's sand with the oxygen removed. The oxygen (especially every last atom) doesn't want to leave.

Silicon has to be purified to 99.9999% at the very least to make a crappy solar cell. Add four more 9's to get to making decent microprocessors. Getting certain impurities out (that behave exactly like silicon in a chemical sense) is really difficult.
Why is "striking a chord" what matters? Shouldn't being right matter? Gut feelings may be what matters to some people, but that doesn't make those people right and it doesn't make rational people wrong. People are very capable of valuing things wrongly. This mindset you seem to be advocating here has a disturbing similarity to Stephen Colbert's famous idea of "truthiness."

And that brings us to tonight’s word: Truthiness. Now I’m sure some of the word police, the “Wordinistas,” over at Websters are going to say, “Hey, that’s not a word.” Well, anybody who knows me knows that I’m no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They’re elitist, constantly telling us what is or isn’t true or what did or didn’t happen. Who’s Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914? If I want to say it happened in 1941, that’s my right. […]

Do you know you have more nerve endings in your stomach than in your head? Look it up. Now, somebody’s going to say, “I did look that up, and it’s wrong.” Well, mister, that’s ‘cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, try looking it up in your gut. I did, and my gut tells me that’s how our nervous system works.

Now, I know some of you may not trust your gut — yet. But with my help, you will. The truthiness is that anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you.
Ha ha, wow! I thought I was the only one who read it that way.
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As mentioned in many posts, your history is a bit off.

Also, my overtime work in Beijing doesn't make my girlfriend happy; she understandably gets very angry that I never make it home for dinner or put a strong wall between work and life, this is very important in Chinese culture and I feel violations are actually more acceptable in American culture. I guess everyone is different, its impossible to generalize.

The concept of "community" breaks down very quickly in China. Sure, if you are a native Beijinger, you go to the park and do the dances in the square (assuming you are old or bored), but most of the people in Beijing are migrant workers who do not have hukou; they are basically excluded from the community. How can a community thrive when you exclude 60 or 70% of the people? Granted, 40% is still a lot of people, but something is very rotten in the society.

Everything said in the article is plausible and probably true. Once you really get embedded in Chinese society, you are as exposed to unfairness and corruption as a local is, without the benefit of being treated as a local, and it makes sense right? You can escape if you want, they don't have much leverage over you.
Atom is widely used (when you see "RSS", it's often Atom). And in any case, outputting the data in an extra format takes barely any time.

As for PubSubHubBub, all they have to do is add a tag to the feed with the Hub's url and send a POST request to the Hub when the feed has updates; that's it.

For the effort is takes (or should take, assuming they have a decent architecture), and the advantage of being automatically compatible with a bunch of existing applications, it'd seem strange not to do it.
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The TLD in news.ycombinator.org sticks out. Did he try news.ycombinator.com?
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You actually think Google with all of its resources and money is actually beholden to some always there and invisible bad group representing the music industry set to the destroy the world? I think you are probably mistaken, they are actually doing it to improve legal search results more prominently being displayed. Also there isn't any change to embrace, copyright infringement is still illegal, even if it is easy to get away with.
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Well in a startup the responsibility of research should be shared by everyone. In our case engineering actually did the competitive analysis AFTER we finished our MVP, while waiting on bizdev. What I'm asking is, is this normal or somewhat abnormal in the startup world, and an isolated problem?

Or are there startups that proceed without doing their homework so to say?
I get the feeling his essay is setting the scene for more to come, most likely around Project Grok. The name is well suited, Yegge really understands how code works.

Why hack on it? Because it's what hackers do. Steve only pushes it further and hacks the philosophy of it. I love his essays as food for thought, and I respect him for publishing his in-process thoughts about the matter to let the idea out.

To me, this post was quite entertaining and broadened my perspective a little bit again. The only downside, as is the case with most of his other essays, is that it definitively wasn't long enough.
I think one way to estimate that is to see how much media you can possibly consume per month. Obviously you can only watch one movie at a time, and though it is possible to do more, you generally listen to only one song at a time. You probably don't listen to songs while watching a movie. So judging by the number of waking hours minus the hours sleeping and at work (maybe not for music), you should be able to guesstimate the number of "media hours" per month and use that to guess at a flat fee.
Grass is always greener somewhere else. But come on, the article is about China, not America, Europe or anywhere else. This is like how the Chinese press always diverts to American human rights problems when their is a discussion of their own. "See, America has problems too, so commenting on our problems is invalid." That's not the point, its not a competition!
Yeah, I don't believe any of that is true...especially in the way you phrased it. Maybe there could be some bias, but systematically? Absolutely? No way. I don't buy it.
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Out of curiosity, why the Japanese headers?

(also, the last section should probably be 追記)
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Best political advice I ever got was "Never volunteer. Make them ask you to do it."

Every time I've ever fixed something or made something awesome, I've been punished.

The times I've played it detached and cool, grudgingly do some seemingly impossible task (which is actually easy), I get rewarded.

I've said this here before: If you ever do something awesome, tell no one. If it's awesome enough and the stars line up, convert it into your next startup and eat your former benefactor's lunch.
I never mentioned smaller sites. Still, if you mean a smaller site operating like YouTube, contacting them directly would allow it to be taken off the internet rather than just out of Google results. Still, they might contact Google as well, and thus harm their rank.
The few time I tried that I got annoyed or even angry looks. And frankly, I'd be annoyed to - I don't want to tell some random stranger how my day is doing (it's none of their business) and I don't want to have to make up some excuse to deflect the question.
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What we do is different because our work is automagically protected from everything that threatens other forms of IP. And yet it's not at all hypocritical to play fast and easy with everyone else's IP!
I don't think it's the labels that are the problem for the 'conservatives'. As I said on the other post, I fully expected that the 'liberals' like myself would say 'oh, what an interesting distinction', where the conservatives would say 'that distinction is bullshit, you're just covering for the people who are wrong by calling them liberal'.

I think the real issue is that the 'conservatives' do not see what Yegge describes as the 'liberal' position as being a legitimate alternative at all, labels or not.
All you can eat, so in the case of music/movies etc, am I owning or leasing the content for that period. That would determine the price for me.

Taking that I pay $79/yr for Amazon, with free movies, tv + shipping, then I spend about $40/mo on movies, music and books at Amazon, then I'd spend $50/mo.

Of course there are people who will spend more, and people who will spend less. I like to think of my spending as conservative. And since I get my TV over the air, I can't fathom for a second why anyone pays for TV.
I can attest that things have been getting more conservative; starting from around 2008 and continuing into the present. I don't think Bo Xilai's down fall will have any bearing on this; his mistake was populism rather than conservatism. Politics here are so opaque its very difficult for us to really figure out what's going on beyond what we can observe on the ground.
I tried vinzage, even added some extensions, but the subtle differences killed it for me.
I needed something to break up the walls of text. Plus it was an excuse to write some japanese.

追記(Postscript): You're right I'll change that right away.
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Yes. Yes I can.

Having been a competitive runner in my youth, I am big into track and field, but I do not own a television. Only mentioned that to admit that I do not know a lot about popular culture. But I do know Track and Field. When you read about the past of LoLo Jones and this girl in Shanghai, they seem basically identical. Complete with the hate from the respective national medias.

If you are feeling brave, take a gander at the Twitter comments from many men, I assume they are American, about LoLo Jones and her mother. NSFW. And NOT for the timid.
Moin,

There is one nice thing about traditional frisian greeting:

The first one greets, moin and the traditional answer is moin,moin. We often confuse people from southern Germany and the rest of the world, because we use that greeting around the clock, even if moin sounds a lot lot like morning.

But the translation of moin is just good. So we avoid all those how are you, fine thank you nonsense, and just greet each other with good and good,good.
I'd find that extremely tiring.
Bing launched this a while ago, with fully local translations. Each language pack is about 30MB. OCR and translation are local, and the translation is fairly good (not just a simple dictionary lookup).

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/2cb7cda1-17d8-df11-a8...
Would I make a bank decision based on interest rates now? Not at all.

However, there was a time pre-2008 where one could get 2-3% with ING direct compared to less than 50bps elsewhere.

Since Bancorp's rate estimates are above, and Simple must be taking some spread - I'm curious if you would share rates at Simple.
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You are speaking exclusively of the fiscal side of the current use of the word "conservative", which currently makes no sense from the point of view of the non-political definition of the word "conservative", because it would take a fairly radical set of policy changes to achieve those goals. This is why "libertarian" is a much better word for that type of "conservatism" - it refers to the goals themselves, not to the amount of policy change necessary to achieve them. However, on the social side of modern "conservatism", it truly is about conserving status-quo in many cases, even when that approach is at odds with "freedom and choice", (gay marriage, drug laws, etc.)

tl;dr; Yegge's use of the word "conservative" is not wrong, but rather the use of the word "conservative" to describe the (usually exclusively-) fiscally libertarian portion of the modern "conservative" movement is wrong.
I will agree with you on that, provided vanilla emacs ships with such a pretty GUI like sublime text 2 or like the image you posted.

I have enough work to do already. Customizing the editor to look like that has got to be somebody else's job.
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I think a more interesting classification would be which languages are favored by people who eat corn on the cob typewriter style, and which are favored by people who eat it spiral style.

I'm not joking. Corn on the cob eating style among mathematicians has been found to be a strong indicator of whether that mathematician favors algebra or favors analysis: http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-pre...

Someone should start making sure that at catered events where hackers congregate there is plenty of corn on the cob, and gather this data.
no, this is for take down notices on search results. Wherever youtube is, it's pretty far down the list:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...
Your first claims were obviously fraudulent.

That said, even after moving the goalposts (and pretending you didn't make your initial claims), your argument is still false just slightly less obviously so. Corporate income tax always costs rentiers more than innovators.

Corporate income tax is a very separate issue.
One really important point about the placebo effect that a lot of people miss is that a lot of it is not a real physiological change caused by the placebo, but is a result of bias in both the subject and the experimenter. Over any period of time, a person will have a great many variations in mood, pain, etc. (which a subject is able to self-examine), and a great many variations of biological function (which a researcher is able to measure). When those variations correspond to effects that a subject or researcher has been primed to expect, the subject or researcher is more likely to notice that effect. This is simple confirmation bias. If you think trained scientists couldn't possibly stumble on that kind of pitfall, you should read about N-rays[1].

This is just as likely to be true for the "nocebo" effect as for the placebo effect. Dizziness, for example, is a very common symptom for people to experience for myriad benign reasons. Orthostatic hypotension (head rush) is a common cause of dizziness, and it is affected by a lot of minor factors like hydration, vasodilation, how long you've been sedentary, how fast you stand up, etc. This may happen to you three times in a week, and you'd never pay it any mind. But if a doctor told you that a medicine you were taking might cause dizziness, you would notice it.

So to this extent, a placebo (or nocebo) effect can be accounted for with absolutely no "mind over matter" style physiological change whatsoever. It is plausible that some specific placebo effects like reduction/increase of pain response, anxiety, and mood could actually be real psychological effects involving suggestion. But if you hear of a placebo doing something and you think "how could a belief in a placebo possibly have that kind of effect", it's very likely that you are at least partly seeing mere measurement error.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-rays
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But cashiers/servers probably get asked that same question "how are you?" a hundred times per day. Customers who think they are being nice by starting small talk may have the opposite affect. It's all context really.Small talk in a busy line is probably not the best idea.
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Very, very rarely is software buggy and unmaintainable because it has adhered to any consistent set of syntactic conventions.
In my state it's about $80,000 for all four years. (including tuition & room and board--but not including where you live during the summer)
Yes, and if you told me it was complex because of either the conservatives or liberals, I would call you an ideologue.
Great take on the news that the industry is focusing on this weekend.
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At least they don't have to worry about the Google chef problem any more.
Companies still provide housing? Are you serious? That went out with the 90s in the big cities! And even then, how many people actually work for the government or an SOE qualify for this housing provided by the company?

Its very easy to judge China through a western perspective; you just say "it was judged through a western perspective." Judging is always relative to a perspective and is useful to evaluate your situation. The author's article is not meant for Chinese, perhaps, but for other foreigners, and therefore its useful and not "bitterly biased."

Foreigner laws in China are designed to protect us? Ya, by not letting our kids go to any but the most expensive international schools? By making us re-register with our local PSB whenever we go on a business trip? By limiting how we can spend our money..which we earned in China and paid (high) Chinese taxes on? By making us pay social security taxes and then telling us we will only see that money at all if we work here for 15 years?

Why do Chinese always take criticism on China so personally as a face problem? Its common western practice to criticize something that you don't think is working right, we just treat China as an equal topic in that regard. Its not an attack, its just commentary.
Maybe these labels don't have much meaning after all.
http://dmcarank.staticloud.com

DMCARank is a Google Custom search that only displays results from the top 50 domains with a high number of DMCA takedown requests (http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...).
Can you please help me understand the real meaning of "pivot". As you said nowadays everybody is using that term for very different things. What does pivoting mean, why people are misusing it, any case studies that i can read? Thanks!
At a high level, how's this different from what Diaspora was trying to do (other than having a clearer funding model)?
Lubuntu (LXDE) is another good option.
It's another minimalist approach.
Runs well on my netbook, but I prefer Fedora's LXDE "spin."
You know, I got my brain into a serious knot trying to understand that quote while assuming "thruthiness" was related to the "truthy" of implicit boolean conversions as in Javascript...
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I think the best (only?) point to come out of this essay is that different people have different definitions about what makes code or coding methodology "good".

And because of that you can find yourself in an endless argument with someone.

Why he dressed it up in political satire (allegory?) I don't know, seemed to me to make his point less forcefully.
Very true. And shipping software is what matters. I've noticed the best programmers almost always lack design sense. They don't think in design, they think in code. While really good designers are code-phobic and see programming as babble. It's hard for them to visualize code.
Honestly I just want to see this funded because I want to see how it plays out.
This may be a silly question, but I don't understand why the bandwidth is so low. I understand the latency will be high, since you're limited by the speed of light; but wouldn't you be able to get more bandwidth just by increasing the spectrum of light used, as well as the baud of the transmitter/receiver?
Looks like the deadline is going to be tight.

Here's hoping that sometime Sunday night circa 11:55pm Larry Paige hits pause on the Gangnam Style/Kanye remix he's been marathoning, Chromes his way to app.net and kicks in the last 75 grand to fully fund it. Like a boss.
I disagree, I really like the change.

If I'm searching on a programming problem, and google thinks the best two answers are both on stackoverflow, why shouldn't it show them both?

There needs to be a balance -- 10 links from stackoverflow in a row is no better than a "show more results from stackoverflow" link since it gives me no sense of what other sites contain -- but it also used to drive me crazy that the only option was either one result from each site or all results from one site. I'd rather have two or three from a single site if they seem like good answers.

"Dozens of results" from one site sounds like they're doing it very wrong sometimes, but the new way is much better in general.
A lot of people have looked down on me for it. Especially arts/liberal arts majors who have graduated and now make like...8-12K/year with their degree. They like to imply that they're the better person because they went to college for ~knowledge's sake~ or whatever. (Like I don't also love learning???)
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Excellent perspective.
Not a decentralized system for one.
There are a few reasons -- upstate portions of the aqueducts are larger and built in trenches. As you approach the metropolitan area or mountainous area, the trench method becomes impractical, so the drill narrower tunnels with a steeper slope to force the water to flow more quickly.
I like Emacs, but "pretty" is hardly the first thing that comes to mind when I see that screenshot.
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That's the point. If they are going to rank links to youtube the same way as they link any other sites (as gp is using as the basis of the question), they would only use search takedown requests as the signal, not requests that youtube receives directly.
And I don't understand the knee-jerk reaction against being labelled software-conservative. Yegge's overarching message, where conservatism is employed to mitigate engineering risk, is a Good Thing. Also, Yegge's specific examples of liberal features are astonishingly bad.

Half of the liberal features illustrate the worst aspects of language (non-)design. Automatic type conversion, stringification, semantic nulls? Sounds exactly like PHP and Javascript.

The other half of the liberal features are either inconsequential, or actually significant to conservative languages. Bitstrings, function overloading by arity, a global namespace, convention over configuration? Sounds like Erlang/OTP. Preprocessing and DSLs? Try ML (Meta Language), not to mention macros in Lisp-likes.
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>It's not fun to be in a situation where you have to lower yourself in your own eyes to raise yourself in the eyes of your peers.

That's exactly how I feel all of the time. If I am who I am around normal people, they get all insecure about their intelligence. Technical people tend to accept me and make me feel so at home it's amazing, but they're a very small minority of the population where I'm at compared to the non-tech savvy. I wish I could learn how to interface with normal people better without compromising my identity and interests.
We need to find some hive-mind aliens and dissect them in order to develop philotic protocols for instant transmission.

0 latency on funny cat videos from Uranus.
We launched with both Paypal and Stripe. Over about 70,000 transactions it has been an almost exact 50/50 split between the two payment methods.

I can't say for sure how many people would not have paid only given one of those options, but I'm sure it's a non trivial number.