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I really like the idea of multirotors taking off, literally, to be part of a delivery team.

Incidentally, I'd really like to be able to use those rotors to recycle things - literally to shred, perhaps, my plastic trash - such that the remaining processed materials can be used in .. say .. a 3d printer.

Also, lets get the 3d printer and quadrocopters pretty much working smoothly together so that one provides resources to the other. Oh, no wait, lets just make the 3d printer print quadrocopters, and the quadro's feed the 3dprinters .. and .. well now lets just make a flying recycling 3d printer robot, and be done with it.

On Mars. Because if we do it here, the damn thing will take over our planet.
Definitely a great documentary. It reminded me of the importance of a passion for your craft and a sincere desire to do great work.
See: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090619161307529

I agree with you, Linux as it stands is crap for the desktop. However, if you think no corporation wants to distribute it you are crazy.

If you want to make a coherent argument, use something besides System76. There will always be a niche market that panders, the problem is that no large corporation currently does with a small subset of their offerings.
So what's the difference between 10 guys with multicopters and 10 guys using the tactics of the crazy you link?
Time for a change: disconnecting.
Your trust in humanity is admirable if you think that everyone is emotionally capable of telling the two apart ;-)

Also, the problem is that upvoting is accepted as an expression of agreement. So it's a bit counter intuitive to reject downvoting as a form of disagreement.

I for one have decided to never downvote under any circumstances. Downvoting can be unnecessarily humiliating, even thuggish when posts become almost invisible. Using words should do the trick, even in cases of really bad behavior.
Well, ok -- I guess (after a bit more googling) I see what you mean:

http://www.catalyzed.org/2009/05/dawn-of-a-new-age-in-perl-h...

Now, while power obviously is power -- I don't see many immediate uses for that, that can't be done better within in python via magic methods etc.

But in case others are interested, here's a couple of links I also came across:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214881/can-you-add-new-st...

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-add...
(Most definitely in the "don't do that"-category from a python point of view :)

If this (writing a new language) is really what you want, you would probably be better off playing with pypy and its restricted python, though:

https://bitbucket.org/brownan/pypy-tutorial/src/8cfb3cd72515...
(Tutorial for writing your own interpreter with rpython)

https://bitbucket.org/cfbolz/pyrolog/src/aa127d31df0c/prolog...
Working implementation of Prolog, built with pypy/rpython
> We are not talking "condition" from Lisp here

Of course we are.

> And what the author is doing is asking for a "with" statement

No, he most definitely is not, a with statement (or Common Lisp's version, `unwind-protect`) does not provide resuming, only restoring a previously-stored context.

> the post doesn't show the power of "condition" to Pythoners, because the feature used in the example already exists in the core language.

You should try reading the post again rather than stop at the first paragraph, because you're wrong.
And, incidentally, I was wrong:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463536
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Adding a feature people want to AWS isn't a business, they'll always launch it eventually :)
Yes, it's impossible to get rid of "false positives"

But my perception of Google interviews is that it's very picky about some areas but leaves huge gaps.

Let me guess, the false positives are the ones that know big-o for all sorting algos but can't implement them.

Or create a "Car" class inheriting from Wheel, Engine and Door
I didn't say they were friendly. They just don't sound like typical legal boilerplate.
That kept getting sillier right up until the end, but this last bit is very true:

Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"

Bullhorn: "You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!"
A company that doesn't spend money on training, and spend it to pay staff more.
The UI/UX for g+ is not very well designed. Such a let down, because gmail works very well. Now LORE, its is beautiful. Given how Facebook has also dragged its behind in terms of UI/UX, it wouldn't surprise me if LORE takes over them in the college niche/market. What will be interesting to see is how will FB react to this. I don't think they can keep buying competitors.
I haven't read such an influential article in a long time.
Oh oh. This is going to get ugly very quickly.

The Galaxy S3 is the first phone I've seen in 5 years that people I know actually prefer over the iPhone.

At the fund I work at, of the 14 employees, 9 have switched from iPhones to the S3 and only 1 has gotten a new iPhone.
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You could disable user-scalable in meta tag viewport. Painting Application didn't work in iPad.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
No, the response to controls, the "feel of the games" is just bad. The originals where an order of magnitude better.

The games look like subcontracted creations without artistic supervision from Atari just to advertise IE. They are not remakes for the sake of remaking old games, replicating and improving gameplay with modern visuals.
After the last time I was interviewed (unsuccessfully - in 2007) by G I feel I have been blacklisted by them

Apparently there's a period before you can apply again (can't remember how long this is, 1 year maybe) but then again feeling like every contact you make goes to /dev/null is not nice.

Thankfully I know better today about what's it like to work at Google and probably won't be applying again (not that I find it bad, but it is not what I want).
Why do you want to work at Google? This is a serious question.
Part of the problem is supporting more than one distro is not as easy as people think, even different versions of the same distro are a challenge.
Compare to Windows and Mac OS where they really take good care of developers in this respect.
I'm not saying its impossible just that's it's hard enough to make developers think twice, slow them down or target only one distro.
It's surprisingly dense given it has had a prohibition on tall buildings since forever. Of course, some buildings are more equal than others and their project went through: tour Montparnasse, some residential projects. If this restriction was removed, I'm pretty sure new developments would resemble dense asian cities and real estate prices would drop. But hey, falling housing prices are bad in political economics, 'mkay ?
Just tried to same with a recent cover letter, scoring 0.44. I wouldn't worry, although you (and me) can always try to bring it to a more down-to-earth level, making text easier and more pleasant to read.
Unfortunately, a job application isn't the right domain for some scientific analysis on correlation between bullshit-measurements and interview invitations, if you're really interested in the job :-)
Animal meat, which has an enormous ecological footprint, is on its way out. I'm not a vegetarian, so I'm not saying this on top of some moral high horse, but it's inefficient and the way animals are raised and slaughtered now is insanely cruel. We'll have credible plant-based meats in 20 years, easily. In 150 years, eating actual animals will be this nostalgic and slightly goofy thing that rich people do, like fox hunting in England, because cow steaks will cost hundreds of dollars (rarity) while plant steaks that taste exactly like the real thing (or better) will be effectively free.

No one knows when Peak Oil will hit or how it will play out, and I'm concerned about it, but I think the long-term outcome is that (a) we'll be fine (although we may get hurt bad by it in the short-term) and (b) objections to nuclear power will vanish. In 50 years, we'll probably be using very cheap, environmentally safe nuclear power, and able to produce food in vertical greenhouses.

The world's population will likely peak around 9.5-10 billion and then begin declining because people are having fewer children.

So I don't think we're in danger of a Malthusian catastrophe, aside from the fact that the developing world is already in one. We're actually coming out of the Malthusian era. Malthus was wrong about the mathematics (economic growth is exponential; it was just so slow-- below 1%-- before the Industrial Revolution that it looked linear) but he was right about the population dynamics of pretty much every pre-industrial society.
Something I was wondering a few days ago is which is better to avoid duplicate names, [first initial][surname] or [forename][surname initial]eg: pgraham@ycombinator.com vs paulg@ycombinator.com.
Bookmarked it and shared with a few friends. Just don't put too many ads on there, and I'll probably be coming back a few times.

Maybe you can make the ads themselves entertaining by scraping the web for the most unusual of those as well...

Anyway, nice work!
Is it worth learning? Depends. Do you want to get gigs doing Rails? What attracts you to it?

What benefits over CI does RoR have?

Right now, none. You dont know Rails, but you know CI. The time it takes you to learn RoR and its use of "magic" might be better spent writing your application and testing if there is demand for it.

Sure, RoR has a lot of "reusable code", but you don't hknow the framework. And that will just kill your project.

Build your basic app with CI, and then translate it into something else. I wouldnt stray away from PHP if you are proficient with it. You may try other frameworks like Laravel, which is very nice and is more modern that CI. It is also dead-easy to work with. You might also want to check out Python/Flask or even Django, since they are a bit easier to work with than Rails. Im not saying they are better, so put your pitchforks back in the barnyard.
I think it's more being against validating ridiculous patents than being pro samsung
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The legalities are still in the works (in the United States), but my brother has been using drones for 6 months to take photos of real estate.

http://aerialfly.com/

(P.S. - he can only get 20 minutes flight time with two li-po batteries)
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Sorry, the example wasn't completely literal and a bit clumsy. Completely acknowledge the importance of those approaches and methadone programs in place that allow for a transitional pathway as well.

Your second paragraph is further into the balancing act I suppose, you could push people to full withdrawal symptoms but when we have the tech. on hand to manage the process, it raises a similar set of questions about which approach you'd perceive to produce the best result for someone.

It's why I'm glad I'm in a tech field, at least most of it is deterministic. The friends I have that work in social services have a nightmare of a job sometimes in terms of failed outcomes or unexpected results from treatments and approaches.
Note that at least Adobe has started to put significant amounts of Lua into their user facing applications, as the glue on top of C++ components.

Outside of the lack of bindings to proper UI frameworks, I couldn't say why you shouldn't write e.g. Word in a higher level language than C++. You might have to be careful with memory usage in some components, maybe even write those in native code, but for the vast majority of interactions something higher level should work, shouldn't it?

After all you can implement something akin to Word in JS + HTML (Google Docs).
Standards vary widely, in part because of the lack of trademark protection mentioned above. It's critically important to observe in person before sending your kids to any "Montessori" school.

We've sent our daughter to Montessori for a year and a bit, and it's been a joy to watch her blossom. We're moving soon, and keeping an eye out for a Montessori school that goes up to 6th grade.
This has been covered multiple times.

Good employees just won't do contract to hire. WHy give up a good job at MSFT or Goldman Sachs where you earn $150,000/year to do contract for hire for a couple of weeks with the chance you'll be out of a job?

The upside is you have a job that pays about the same at a company with about the same "brand name" value, ie working at all 3 is about equivalent.

The down side is you loose your job.
What about 3D printers making guns? And chemical construction machines making drugs and explosives?

We're heading for a very interesting future.
(due to be released next week).

I will be eagerly looking forward to that!! Is the 0.4 version a step ahead of the past alphas? Is it finally becomming a beta?
Yeah but my parent poster described Apple as a bully, when Samsung initiated this whole thing.
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Your information is completely ridiculous, and doesn't become less so because it has appeared in some books. It has been debunked not by some random guy on the internet, but by the Albert Einstein Archives at Hebrew University, to which he willed his documents - as I cited earlier.

Einstein started in the second grade of elementary school at age 6 1/2, was one of the top students in his class, and was admitted to a competitive gymnasium at 9 1/2. He studied not just "math", but Latin, Greek, art, music (he was a very talented violinist who could have played with any number of orchestras), literature, history, philosophy, and theology. He did very well in all of these, was not "fast tracked" to anywhere, and tried, on his own, to enter university more than 1 year early. This failed, largely because French was not a strong subject for him. He studied it in Munich, where it was a lot less important than in multi-lingual Switzerland. After half a year of schooling in Switzerland, he passed the university entrance exams with flying colors, both in sciences and humanities. He was not an incredible child prodigy, but he was doing fine, and nobody ever thought he was mentally retarded. Enough.
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Thanks for a good laugh. FYI fox hunting is banned and your horse is high enough to use for hunting.

> credible plant-based meats in 20 years

What is a plant-based meat? I don't know of any plants with muscles.
Linux Mint 13 with MATE is what you're looking for.
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I don't think that's true at all. Useability guru and generally big-headed man Jakob Neilson says you can get the majority of content from user testing as few as 5 people. Granted this isn't user testing, but small sample sizes are not pointless, they're directional.
If the cost of copter + payload is low enough, there is little incentive to steal. It should be similar to shopping cart theft or most probably less. The system can be built to go up, travel horizontally above the reach of most people, and then drop down at destination.

You could buy a perch like they show here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7X0_6o9J10&feature=playe... - the perch has a GUID, knows its GPS location, and carries insurance. When you order from any vendor, you just give them your perch ID along with your credit card. If the order is lost before it reaches your perch, it's the vendor's problem. Once the copter touches down on your perch (and informs the vendor of the safe delivery), you press 'Go Home' to launch it back. If it doesn't reach the vendor, your perch insurance takes over. Too many lost copters in your neighborhood and vendors will be able to deny service based on risk.

I think if the copters are no louder than a car pulling up the driveway, this can work very well.
The movie is free for Amazon Prime subscribers.

http://www.amazon.com/Jiro-Dreams-of-Sushi/dp/B008ODZEQ0/ref...
No. The problem isn't that the jury wasn't smart enough (they may or may not have been), but that they had a foreman that was just a bit too smart.
I'm hoping for cloned meat mass grown in some kind of installation, which is for all purposes real meat, rather than plant meat that supposedly tastes like real meat.
He keeps calling it octopress, even though that's a blogging engine.

The software is called octogit, and I submitted a pull request to make it not store your password in plaintext months ago that I believe still hasn't been merged.
Perl 5.18 may have the following:

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class Point {
has $x = 0;
has $y = 0;
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}

ref: https://github.com/stevan/p5-mop/blob/master/t/000-examples/...
Capitalism is based on there being a customer. All the capital in the world doesn't do any good if there's not a buyer on the other end. Another argument for a strong middle class.
It doesn't mean "to disprove" as much as it means "to posit a condition under which the statement would be disproved". In other words, a falsifiable claim is one that can be empirically tested, not one that's necessarily already been proven false.
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Really appreciated this point too. None of his vendors seemed to have a genuine interest in anything outside of the quality of their craft and the honour of their relationships. It was incredibly refreshing, and seems to be part of quite an old set of values for the region that might not pop up as much these days. Or at least, be promoted as widely as more capitalist ethic.
Many European cities have height restrictions for buildings within the old city center to preserve the traditional architecture. The financial district just outside the center has no height limit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_D%C3%A9fense
I downvoted you because you made zero effort in researching what the OP said before acting so dismissive. Depending on where you live, it's possible you never eaten nor seen meat substitutes made of soy, but before refuting a claim you should check some facts, not make a claim based on your own lack of knowledge about the subject. "I've never seen something therefore it must not exist".
In the case of skyscrapers, I'd think pneumatic systems would be more appropriate. Since it's a highly controlled environment anyway.
IIRC, you can grow fish-steaks in petrie dishes. The researchers who first did it claimed not to have eaten it (for legal reasons), but claim it smelt OK, when fried in butter.

Mince would be easy to make. A real cut of meat (like a rib-eye) would be much harder, but if it's $5/pound for mince "steaks" (patties) and $30/pound for real steaks (massive world-wide demand for tender cuts, but no demand for the tough bits which used to go in hamburgers) then ... well ... people will go for the mince.

And science will eventually give us 100% artificial steaks. Delicious, lab grown meat.
You could also go to a rooftop and just throw granates on the street.
I don't think they want to get in the hardware business.

Instead, what I would see them doing is develop a software package that any cheapo hw manufacturer can drop on a pile of x86 hardware and call the result a Steam console.
I totally agree.

I have similar issues myself. It always seems that there are glitches all over the place. I really wish the desktop was as stable as windows (or osx). Don't get me wrong - I like KDE, GNOME, and Unity ... the problem is that they are not that stable. There always seems something that is off.
"john.smith@startup.com <– The founding team is all from Microsoft and can’t shake it if they tried."

Alternatively, one or more members of the founding team has a name that doesn't map easily to a name + initial for English speakers. I know that jsmith@foo.com has a first name starting with J and a surname of Smith, but who is balaswaminathan@startup.com? Is that a first name and a last name, a first initial and last name, or just a last name? And where is the demarcation between first and last names?

You can argue that it doesn't matter, but then why have a systematic email address at all?
Kindle DRM is why I bought my last 3 books in paper instead of my kindle, even though I believe it presents a superior reading experience. Pragmatic programmer, for instance, prohibits sharing of books on kindle, so I now avoid buying then in paper and kindle.
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Take a look at one of @biz's investments:

http://www.thekitchn.com/twitter-co-founders-betting-big-on-...
Meat substitutes are not meat.
This kind of "skill" elitism will not help google create products that people want to use. They do not live in the same reality as their average user. The consistent failure of most of it's products in the past few years was caused - in part - by the complete lack of understanding people in general.
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A lot of the subreddits on reddit?
I'll repeat my statement from when the 1 billion dollar verdict was made, since it seems like little will change before people vote with their wallets:

Today Apple went down in history as the biggest patent-troll of all time, stiffling innovation and competition like nobody has ever done before.

If you are a software-developer you should recognize the fundamental threat which Apple represents to your profession.

Boycott Apple if you want to be able to stay in business in the long term future. Throw away your Macbooks, iPhones and iPads. Ditch your iTunes and iTunes account. Get rid of everything Apple. All of it.

Be vocal about your code of ethical software conduct and how that prohibits involving anything made by Apple into anything you ever do.
Prepared by a college freshman, as it seems.
AFAIK gamut can not be represented as a percentage. Where are you getting that info?
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The website retired some time ago. It's possible that the comments just don't work anymore.
This seems to be a ery cool and useful project. Code generation is a killer feature for me.

Also check out the Sympy Live Shell: http://docs.sympy.org/dev/modules/utilities/codegen.html
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I guess if you provide so little value to your users that your testimonials are too distracting, then there's good reason to be so insecure.
To all people complaining about unstable apps, poor performance and buggy drivers: I purchased my last laptop from Dell because I was aware it was well supported on Ubuntu.

This alone makes a huge difference, trying to install Mac OS X on a frankenmac will result in an troublesome experience too.

Doing your own transition to free software is also a key for success, and if you're not tied to a proprietary technology, you should try it. I've been a full-time Ubuntu user for 5+ years, working as a developer using Java, Ruby or Python, and I'm very satisfied. Even further, when I had to use Windows 7 or even Mac OS X it feels odd.
Depends on the ethnic composition of your employees. Some cultures have only a small number of first or last names.

40% of Vietnamese people have the surname Nguyễn, if you use the first initial + last name system then by the birthday paradox, there is a 50% chance of a first initial collision with 6.5 Nguyễns in your organisation. That means that if you have more than about 16 Vietnamese employees, you have a 50% chance of an email id collision. It's actually higher than that because Vietnamese-American first names are often English, so the distribution of first initials is not evenly distributed.
Wow - this is so close to the FLOSS ideology! I'll need to read that book.