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Checked your profile and you seem to be smart, yet I think you are wrong again : ) (sure you have got enough sleep lately? not been talking to much to marketers?)

> "The fundamental difference here is that bikes are ridden in a way that's fundamentally unchanged for decades. Contrary to this "settled" field of knowledge, programming is constantly invalidating itself."

The most well known styles of programming (imperative, functional, object oriented etc) have been unchanged for two or more decades as well.

And a 10 year old c or html tutorial still works and still lets people start solving real world problems.

I guess I'm leaving this discussion here. You know way to many cool expressions for me: '

>"programming is constantly invalidating itself" - this holds true for Java, C and Lisp right? Or are we talking about how for loops aren't valid anymore?

> "Consider what modern linux looks like compared to the original version;" - We are talking about that "unix clone" thing from early ninetys? Has it become a Windows clone without me noticing?

> "A doctor who does not constantly improve and update their knowledge will be a substantially worse doctor than one who does. A perfect example of this is pre-scientific doctors like homeopaths, who basically do nothing with an almost frightening level of dedication and fervor." - Comparing software developers to doctors. Go tell some doctors. Try car mecanic. They also have to stay up to date.

> "I did not direct this at some 16 year old kid or a non-programmer, nor did I put it in a venue where non-tech people read."

No, but you directed it at a new programmer who shared something that a lot of people in that situation seems to struggle with. Hey, not just new programmers, even Kent Beck has blogged about a similar situation: http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/JustShip.html
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One question - was the artist himself capable of reassembling the monochrome frames into a color picture, or did he just take the pictures and stick them in an archive until someone could develop them properly?

EDIT: Answered my own question - apparently, the slides were originally intended to be projected together (with differently-colored lights) onto a wall, as color prints were too expensive.
But what about the people living next door to your hypothetical smoker? It's a good idea to have fire safety regulations, for the reason that a fire usually will not just burn the person who caused it in the first place. (Whether this fire retardent helps prevent fires or not is of course a more difficult question...)
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Whenever I've seen clips of Starcraft / Starcraft 2 played at a high level it looks a lot more like an action game than strategy.

I see a lot of "micro" (or clicking really quickly to move a unit into range to fire but then out of range of the enemy unit's retaliation).

Supreme Commander 2 seems to have moved somewhat in this direction too, most of the online games I have played are on quite small maps.

I guess this is because big scale strategy games just take too long to play and people just don't have the time.

As an extreme example of this , I remember some years ago when I shared a house with some avid gamers who were into Heroes of might and magic. I remember two of them took a week of work and played a single game of HOMM (4 or 5 , can't remember which) for the entire week and still weren't done by then end. Bearing in mind this was playing for around 16 hours a day for 7 days straight. So 112 hours in a single game.

I don't think I've ever seen a finished game of HOMM in my life.
From the subtitle of the page: "the standard unix password manager".

I had thought that in 30+ years of Unix use, I had noticed all the standard Unix components. I was quite surprised to overlook that there was a standard Unix password manager!
That you can implement them isn't impressive.

But most ML algorithms ("applying a pretrained neural network" being a notable exception to that) are compute-intensive, so in a language that doesn't have access to Lapack/Blas/etc, performance will be terrible.
Ahh, "quieting the noisy brain", that is a choice of words that couldn't describe it any better. Indeed, if you don't unplug and find "gaps" between your thinking, that you make larger and larger, until thinking is only a tiny chunk of your day, it is very hard to practice mindfulness. Will pick up this book, sounds intriguing!
Maybe adding the social factor could improve things? A platform that finds me a review from my third degree connection would be nifty. The biggest problem probably being not enough close connections who bothered to review. Sigh, back to good old asking around (maybe at least using e-mail or IM.)
Is it just me… or does this not look like it would "feel native" at all, from watching the video? (especially on iOS).

Not to deprecate the (I'm sure fast-maturing and ever-improving) work of the developer, but the lag and disconnect between its UI and the native UI just makes this completely not "native-feeling".
Wonder why they depend on jquery and not zepto?
Instead of quadtrees take a look at spatial hashing[0]. It's more simple than quadtrees and the performance is similar if not better.

[0] http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-progr...
You have a point, we are back to needing more data. Living next door to a smoker, we have at least installed a smoke detector. But I suspect if it goes off it would already be too late.
Changing definitions of the cloud? As far as I can tell the only definitions of the cloud that ever existed were basically:

1. On the Internet in a general sense. Somehow "cloud" became synonymous with Internet for many people and I can't figure out why. The weird part is that people who use "cloud" to mean Internet also use the term Internet to describe the same services the "cloud" offers. To me this makes me think marketing made this so. Somehow Dropbox is a cloud service but gmail (or hotmail or whatever email provider) is on the Internet according to many. How is that?

2. Definition 2 is basically the same as 1 but more specific. People use "cloud" to refer to anything connected to a server except you access the server through a service and all the specifics like hostnames and such are abstracted away. Like iCloud for Mac.

I just don't get all the fuss about the Cloud and I'm glad there's someone else out there that scoffs when they hear the term. How is Amazon EC2 "in the cloud"? As far as I can tell its a VPS with some neat scaling features. How is Heroku and other app hosting services "in the cloud"? Again, what I see is VPS hosting with even more abstraction on top of Amazon's abstraction.

Whenever I did freelance development work for people they'd ask if the hosting I offered was in the cloud. First off, why does that matter (well the people who ask for it claim it's better but can't explain why)? Second, what does that even mean? If it means will your site be hosted on a server connected to the Internet then yeah I suppose you can cal it the cloud.

About a year ago I noticed some copy on MediaTemple's page for either their (ve) or (dve) hosting offerings that say something to the effect of "some people call it the cloud but we prefer to think of it as... (some very same logical explanation here)". I was happy to see it because in the end, as far as I can tell there's no difference between the cloud and one or more servers accessible via the Internet.

Maybe to non-technical people having their information and data available across all devices by syncing with a remote server is novel and can only be understood by using the cloud metaphor. To them, the "cloud" is this vague thing on the internets that's all knowing and always available that's the next revolution in computing. To me it's just a client and server connecting and exchanging data. It's been there since I was a kid. The only difference is that now my phone, my car, and even my fridge can connect to it (for some strange reason) but its still just a damn server like we've had since before 56k modems.
thanks for posting this - I am behind 1.ai so if you have any question ask away :)
You're right. That was fairly nonsenical. Not sure what I meant, perhaps I read your comment as referring to requests.

Either way, long-term caching of such shims means the bandwidth to load polyfills only has to be expended once per client. And an extra Mb of bandwidth once per year is a pretty reasonable thing to do for particularly older browsers if it makes your development more sane.
I'm not really sure what the point of your assertions is. I think that everyone here understands that they did not have the technology 100 years ago to produce prints, transparencies, or projections that look this good. A seeming insinuation of what you are claiming is that we are looking at is a fabrication, rather than an accurate representation of a prior reality. That insinuation, if present, would seem to be groundless. What's amazing is that they had the technology and wherewithal 100 years ago to preserve the data that would let us accurately see today through a window looking 100 years into the past. Or at least as much so as any typical camera today gives us an accurate window into the recent past.
To the list of industries where there is a built in x10 on all quotes add Weddings...
Thanks for this contra-point! Interesting to see Elon reply to this description. Personally I have more reason to believe EM than Eric, but still, as always the truth probably lies somewhere in between.
I must say, I've been on the wall about the Model S, being a hard-core auto enthusiast and really loving my gears (e.g. I only drive stick shift). But this interview, the revelation that Elon Musk is out there personally inspecting each and every car (well, more or less), that the guy designing my cars is even more of an anal-retentive OC-freak than I am who won't laugh and scoff at me like the guy at the Audi dealership did when I pointed out the flaws in the cockpit of the RS5 (which I consider to have one of the best-engineered cockpits of consumer cars, being both practical and well-designed) has really changed my mind.
SIDS is another word for "looks like asphyxiation but we can't figure out how". There's no single cause. Babies sleeping on their tummies was one, since they just breathe back in their CO2. Other proposed causes include fungus, as you mentioned, and even infanticide.
This is a variation on the logical paradox of identifying the "least interesting item in a class."

Let's say you create a set of the numbers between 0 and 9. Each of them has associations, properties, anecdotes, each in some way more interesting than the others. It follows, then, that one of the numbers is the least interesting. But that number's identification as the least interesting member ... makes it interesting.

In the same way, someone might deliberately choose the least pleasant, least desirable, least sought-after Web site name, and wait for someone to identify it as the worst Web site name ever.

Once someone complains about how terrible the name is, they've fallen into a rather obvious trap, and made the worst Web site name noteworthy and memorable.
oh sure! I totally miss that, I will clean it for iframes, objects, applets and videos. Thanks
I guess that's part of the question - why were these products not able to generate the required revenue. Is this the type of product that people are just unwilling to pay money for and one that's not supportable by advertising?

Evernote - seems to be doing fine though - given that they have a product in a similar vein.
By "encrypted filenames" what people are clearly talking about is making it so unauthorized people can not infer from the filename of a password file what website that password is for.

For instance, to store the password for www.example.com, the filename could be derived by encrypting the website name (www.example.com) with AES using the user's master password, base 64 encoding the output, and using that for the filename.
In my opinion, this article left out the most important part: what editor or IDE Guz is switching to, or if he hasn't decided yet, what his options are.
> To presume someone is stupid if you see them laughing is certain a cultural thing. Here (US) we'd probably just assume they were happy.

But on the flip side, a lot of people in the U.S. would assume someone is sad or angry if they are not smiling. There are examples in comments here.
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If a review is littered with phrases such as "modern masterpiece", "will touch your soul" or "a magnificent book", I'm not likely to take it seriously. I pay attention to reviews in which the reviewer can (a) convince me that they've actually read the book and (b) show me that their criteria for a good book have something in common with mine.
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Contaminated pork meat has no tapeworm eggs, it has cysticerci, which is the tapeworm larvae. Not eggs

You're confusing things.
Thanks for digging that up, I was wondering about that.

The article cites a retardant advocate as saying "Deaths caused by furniture fires dropped from 1,400 in 1980 to 600 in 2004; a 57 percent reduction."

We know that almost all of these couch fires are caused by people falling asleep while smoking cigarettes.

According to the CDC, in the same period, cigarette consumption in the US adult population has fallen from 33.2% in 1980 to 20.9% in 2004. (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762370.html)

So a certain portion of the decline is due to the reduction in cigarette use.

Also, 43 out of 50 states now mandate "fire safe" cigarettes which contain substances such as ethylene vinyl acetate which increase the chance an unsmoked but lit cigarette will stop burning. The presence of these cigarettes has also certainly led to fewer couch fires.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_safe_cigarette

It is unlikely that the entire 57 percent reduction in couch fires over 24 years is entirely due to the use of carcinogenic flame retardants.
What cases are you talking about when you say "like this one"? There absolutely is no statutory fair use protection for mashups in the general case, and I'd be shocked if the case law is anything but subjective.
How much of your time do you realistically spend remote coding via an ssh connection, though?

I know enough of Vi to get by in that situation, but I wouldn't force myself into using it on my day to day just for the sake of "using the same tool" or something.
Hmmm.. bad timing, it seems 1.ai is down (at least for me).
Because, you see, nobody cares. When things go wrong in your company, nobody cares. The press doesn’t care, your investors don’t care, your board doesn’t care, your employees don’t care, even your mama doesn’t care. Nobody cares.

And they are right not to care. A great reason for failing won’t preserve one dollar for your investors, won’t save one employee’s job, or get you one new customer. It especially won’t make you feel one bit better when you shut down your company and declare bankruptcy.

All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess. It’s best to spend zero time on what you could have done and all of your time on what you might do. Because in the end, nobody cares, just run your company.[1]

[1] http://bhorowitz.com/2011/10/08/nobody-cares/
Awesome! I couple years ago I made a simple game that uses orbital mechanics too: http://burakkanber.com/orbit

If it will help at all feel free to poke through the source code!
And that TV audience for the NBA is a few times greater than even the NHL.
A quote: "In the northern hemisphere, hurricanes always spin in a counterclockwise direction, whereas in the southern hemisphere, they spin clockwise. The reason is that as the warm air rises, the Earth’s rotation creates a Coriolis effect."

No. For a low-pressure system, the Coriolis effect arises from air moving toward the center of the system. The fact that warm air rises, although true, has no effect on the resulting rotation.

As air moves toward the center of a low-pressure system, it commences rotating, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere -- classic Coriolis effect. In the same way, air moves away from the center of a high-pressure system, and commences rotating clockwise in the northern hemisphere.

The proof is that high-pressure systems also have warm air rising, but this doesn't cause a counterclockwise rotation.
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Nice job! I'm one of the people behind the LMFAO parody "We're NASA And We Know It" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c) and the LaughPong channel (www.youtube.com/laughpong). It's awesome to see stuff you create like this explode - congrats!

Just a few notes about how Youtube works:
Chances are, you got a lot more views in the first 24 hours than you think you did. Youtube viewcounts update live until 302 to 308, and then they freeze for a few hours.

It'll update after 6 to 8 hours, but it still lags significantly behind real views. It only updates views every 8 hours or so after that, and it takes a few days for the displayed viewcount to catch up to the actual viewcount (We've had instances of videos with more thousands more likes than views... which is entertaining. :p)

One way you can sometimes get a more accurate view is by searching for your video. For some reason, the viewcount on the Youtube Search Results page is NOT linked to the viewcount displayed on the individual video page. It also lags behind, but it appears to update faster.
How did you get the domain?
Why is there no paid subscription option? Do you have any plans of such?

I'd like to upgrade to a paid, supported service if my website gets any traction.
Looking at mattresses without flame-retardent led me to this provider: http://www.whitelotus.net/green-cotton-rx/

Turns out you'll need a doctor's prescription to even order a plain cotton mattress. Yet another perfectly reasonable regulation from our friends in the California Legislature! :)

My least-favorite CA regulation has to do with eye-glasses. I lost my only pair and went in to get a replacement on a Saturday, but I couldn't because my (perfectly fine) prescription had expired. I had to make an appointment to get an exam in order to get new glasses, but they were closed for the weekend and booked for a few days.

So I spent about a week with headaches because some CA legislator decided it was in my best interest to pay some practitioner to get the same prescription for glasses every year.
No, python is strongly typed.
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I just had a chance this week to see the Model S up close at the Washington Square showroom in Portland. Have to say I wasn't all that hyped about it from the pictures (and I'm more of a truck/jeep guy), but in person it is just awesome. Reeks of quality. When Tesla makes a 4x4 I will be first in line!
"In this codecast, you'll learn to create a cool single element iPhone 4S using just CSS3. Click on play now :D"

It took me a solid minute to find the "play" button. It was hidden on the other send of the page in the bottom corner in faint color.
I think the contrast between mindfulness and mindlessness is more apt than that of thinking and non-thinking. I consider his call to non-thinking to be more hyperbolic than anything else. I believe the primary goal is really that of focus without distracting thoughts, and non-thinking is a way to practice observing the present without being consumed by the stream of thoughts.

In this sense, mindlessness refers to states where one's mind is wandering or unfocused from the present task. Obviously non-thinking is not practical for all activities, but mindfulness includes both non-thinking observation and focused thinking when necessary. Many people associate non-thinking with aimless mind-wandering, which is certainly not the original message of this article. On the contrary, the article is referring to non-thinking as simple observation without judgment or distractions from the mind. Non-thinking, along with meditation, is more of a practice for the application of mindfulness in day-to-day life.
I really enjoy this article and hope tesla succeeds, but I am always turned off by plug-in EVs. Say for example, he does achieve 30 minutes charging for 3 hours driving. And say I drive from SF to LA. after about 3 hours, there is this one in n out station, that everyone stops at, are we going to have 20 superchargers at that station? in off hours of the day, those will not all be utilized, thus lose money. It seems like a terribly inefficient way to power cars. Even gas stations get lines on 5 and 101, and it only takes like 3 minutes there. EVs will always be niche until you can 'refuel' in 3 minutes or less, and you can't do that with 'chargers' because people will die. Swappable packs is the only way to go, and I hope that Tesla is at least thinking of that.
I just didn't know what I was signing up for, and the name doesn't tell me anything. But I like the name a lot. I just think you need a killer tagline or something.
You should have ordered online.
A quote: "I can almost here you guys laughing ..."

No, you can't. Not yet. s/here/hear/
But that is for a different reason... it's not increased pricing because of increased risk, it's increased pricing because of increased willingness to pay combined with a sense of "more costly must be more valuable".
"According to the CDC, in the same period, cigarette consumption in the US adult population has fallen from 33.2% in 1980 to 20.9% in 2004."

Those who smoke cigarettes also smoke a lot less than they used to, so total cigarette consumption is maybe only half as much or less compared to what it once was.
You may be right. Maybe working 50+ hours a week is always a net negative. Maybe a sane, family-friendly work environment will, in fact, maximize both the happiness and well-being of individual contributors and the productivity of the organization as a whole.

But you know what? Nobody told the kids in the garage down the street. You know... the ones who are working 60+ hours a week, and who are about to kick your company's ass, because there's no place on Earth they'd rather be than in that garage.
Hi dexen,
the reason is that there are already many excellent (or so we hear) options for paid hosting /apps deployment and we think that there isn't a need for yet another another good service (unless you can really make a difference. We had some ideas in this direction like with having all the apps cloned in 3 live servers in different locations including the mysql database but this was just an idea) but we do give some support through the forums and occasionally via email :)
The article specifically mentioned this case. The chemicals they put in the foam would have absolutely no benefit if your apartment was burning because the neighbor's started. Furthermore, there is little evidence that the chemicals will prevent your sleeping smoker from burning the place down. Droithomme's comment[1] very much applies.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4493813