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You said: Which is pretty much exactly what the article says:

Not really. In this one paragraph he's actually suggesting there is no great skill to being a receptionist other than being social (which I believe to be a bit elitist btw). That is why it differs.

But in every other part of the article the author suggest hiring people who are obsessed with their area of expertise so much so that they spend their spare time on it (even the last sentence you quote about Greg Davis alludes to that point).

The point I was making is that some people are useful because they are contradictions. The programmer who spends his free time playing guitar in a band might bring perceptions to a discussion that the programmer who codes at night would never think of. Even though being in a band at night does not fit the rigid ideal this article suggests.
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Many houses today are built in tracts. The designs are standardized and many of the parts are prefabricated in factories. The line between site-built and factory-built housing is blurring. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tract_housing

Early tract homes were often identical, but more recently built tract homes no longer look identical from the exterior; variations range from mass-produced homes with superficial, cosmetic differences to multiple variations in footprint, roof form, and materials. In addition, floor plans may be reversed or rooms or garage bays added or removed. Builders or buyers of new homes may also be able to specialize custom upgrades.

So, it seems that modern tract homes are made similar to the way cars are: based on standardized designs, but available in various models and with options. From the wiki link above:

Components such as roof trusses, plumbing trees, and stair systems are often fabricated in factories and installed on site. This allows contractors to reduce prices, which in turn can make homes more affordable

Here are some new housing tracts in the Bay Area: http://www.lennar.com/New-Homes/California/San-Francisco The prices are locked-in before construction, so the customer will know what he will be expected to pay.

There are also tract homes that have been preconfigured and completed (built) before sale, and have definite prices: http://www.lennar.com/New-Homes/California/San-Francisco/Pal... Purchasing such a home is analogous to purchasing a new car off of a dealer's lot (instead of ording one shipped from the factory with custom options) - it isn't custom configurable, but it is available right away.
Checkout http://www.gomtv.net/ if you are interested in "studying" independently, but don't know Corean =). They flew an English speaking guy to Corea to provide live commentary on their league matches. Recommended!
Not sure what the point of implementing monads in Ruby is. It's like implementing 'pointers' so that you can talk about programming in C.
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I would love to take this course. Starcraft has got to be the only game that after 10 years I still frequently play.
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Yeah, you are right. I have setup a live broadcast netwowk using TVAnts in my school's Intranet, about 3k-5k peak users. I think it's easy to expand it to 10k.

Report says
http://news.sohu.com/20070320/n248849308.shtml
in 2007 the peak viewer of QQLive reaches to 1650k during the Chinese New Year Spring Festival. I guess this year they may reach a much higher number.
Watch out for the rush to sign up. Why am I thinking suddenly of zerglings?
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In this one paragraph he's actually suggesting there is no great skill to being a receptionist other than being social.

Really? What an incredibly long bow to draw.
so this is just game theory right, on -riods.
Here's the course list for this semester:
http://www.decal.org/courses/index.php

Other DeCals include: The Ethics of Star Trek, Bookworlds: Introduction to Mythological Creatures - Here There Be Dragons, and I Keeps it Real: Race Relations in Chappelle's Show
Most people don't have time at the same time and will watch stuff timeshifted to one another.
Wasn't there a YC startup ClickFacts that was tackling this problem? Anybody know what they are upto?
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Well-written, but it ignores that the main use of tags are for individual users. I tag my photos in Flickr so that they're sortable within my photos. So Flickr.com/unalone/tag/mike (that's not the actual URL) gets me every photo that I've taken with Mike in it. No, it doesn't help the omnipotent Mike searcher - perhaps I'm mucking data up - but it means that as I continue to photograph Mike, I get a quick pool of photos that revolve around that theme.

Not everything is about creating an indexable, searchable database. If anything, I'd think that some level of user moderation for searches would be more logical than tag sorting. No - tags are best used as a more flexible version of taxonomy, for localized sorting and filing.
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I was always going to work on the online version first, since I had to solve my own problems getting ideas and concepts across with developers in USA, India and Australia. Since it's written in Flex it's easy for us to create the desktop app, which is what we are working on now...
Or, possibly, perl6 rules. One of the things I keep meaning to have a go at is taking Larry's gimme5 stuff (a slow but working implementation of much of the rules system in perl5 he's using to bootstrap the grammar) and bolting it back into perl5 so we can experiment with it more easily.
Giant python powered robots.
This is a great tip about starting your own fires, one that I've phrased as "setting artificial constraints" instead, which doesn't have the same ring to it.
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iPlotz was upgraded last night and the masters feature is already there - within the next day we will also have a feature where you can import and export your own sets of graphics (like stencils in omnigraffle)
I feel much better now knowing that I wasn't the only one.
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I was hoping to see a cheat sheet, but 170 pages...
It's nice to know what's possible.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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They do get credit for it though so I guess it's reasonably serious. According to the guy leading the course, there's some high level math involved, and:

"How to get a professor to sign off on a "gaming" class? Well, I did a few presentations, one to the sponsoring professor, to demonstrate the rigorousness, analysis and thought that this class can provoke. Then, I submitted various papers to the dean of the business school. After that, registered with various university offices ... it was a pain, trust me."

So it's not just some crazy whim.
pygame ( http://pygame.org/ ) was also used for a control interface.

I wish I could control giant robots.
I'll be honest, I have no idea what the sentence means (long bow?)

But let me try to elaborate on my point. The author gives several examples and in each example he cites the person's job and then points out how the fact that they spend their time using the same skills in their personal life makes them the best qualified for their job. Examples

Greg Daniels: Job: Fishing Guide - Free Time: Spent Fishing
Captain Sullenberg: Job: Pilot - Free Time: Accident Investigator for Airlines

So his premise is that people who spend their spare time using the same skills as they use in their jobs make better employees. He then brought up the Receptionist example and cited "throwing dinner parties" meaning the skill behind throwing parties is what he think applies to being a receptionist. But his thesis is the same he just sees the skill behind receptionist as socializing

My counter point to his argument was that diversity is valuable and that people who hone skills other than the ones directly related to their job are just as valuable because they can generate insights from those unrelated skills. That's why it's important to have those people along with the people who spend their free time on work related skills.
Reading this, I get the feeling that Mr. Pyeron never really understood how BugZilla works, even though he was using BugZilla to post his comments and tickets. Am I alone here?
Ariane 5 blew up thanks to an unhandled integer overflow exception, not anything related to floating point.
Streaming can be useful if:

1. You just want to have a preview
2. You have a fast connection and you don't want to wait for the download / you just want to watch it once
3. You just want to click and watch
I looked at the syllabus - I couldn't find the section where they teach you how to hurl abuse at other gamers while lanning.
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He probably means the amount of acres required to support the suburban lifestyle. For example it demands more roads, more mining operations, more resource extracting for goods and energy. You don't see it as much because that gets outsourced, too. China is already suffering the consequences of this with the worst pollution levels in history. Remember this affects us all in the long run.
That is just personal space, not the whole system to support it.
Well, that game been around for longer than quite a few computer science theories, so I suppose a class on Starcraft is ok :-p.
I would pay $1/month per brand with a single user
Linux used to be 2GiB/2GiB too, just like NT. It changed because people with big processes were unhappy; for a while there was an unofficial kernel patch for the 3GiB/1GiB split. Maybe NT didn't change because not as many people were running supercomputers on NT, or because changing NT is harder.

You don't have to relink your userland binaries to do this because they don't contain virtual addresses of kernel data structures, only their own data structures. Expanding the space available for mmap won't force those data structures to move.

You can pretty much load Wine libraries wherever you want; it's pretty rare for a program to break if memory it assumed was unmapped gets used for a library, and programs that break that way will have a lot of trouble when Windows versions change too. Generally programs are only linked with knowledge of where they themselves will be loaded in virtual memory. (Linux ELF shared libraries don't even know that.) All the other addresses are given to the program at startup. It is unusual for Linux binaries to believe that they will be loaded above 2GiB; the usual start address is 0x08048000.

Here's the memory map of a process running under Wine: http://gist.github.com/53853 --- note that there's a lot of Wine and X11 stuff loaded below 2GiB (0x80000000).
This is a course about the theory of the game -- very analytical. Lots of math, apparently. What you're describing is much more art than science.

So if you wanted to get better at it, you'd take a studio type class where you and other enthusiasts would practice together, show off your technique, and "critique" one another.
That is just personal space

No, it is all of the required space. Most of the linked page regards farming space. Did you read it?
I don't have any issues reading technical stuff (Apple framework docs, random Cocoa/ObjC ebooks, etc) on my Kindle. Its only a minor irritation for code; Its still a fixed width and I have my font size fairly small, so theres not a huge loss in formatting. And hey, how often do you really read code written by others thats exactly how you like it?
The name Economic Denial of Sustainability is clunky. But the idea is interesting, something analogous to DDOS.

Where once synthetic traffic was most likely to cause something to reach implementation limits and fall over, now smooth scaling in the cloud may mean the first thing that breaks is not your service but your budget.

Fake CPC clicks designed to deplete a competitor's budget is a related idea. Fake downloads from S3 in order to 'infinitely scale' your expenses would be the cloud/EDOS equivalent.
I got credit at Berkeley for some pretty silly things let me tell you ;)

Sure, you have to have reasonable content, but for example, I had a friend who led a decal on Asian Soap Operas. Any professor can sign off on pretty much any decal, and she managed to get an EE professor to sponsor said decal, so its not as if the bar is all that high. ;)
Reminds me of the time when someone asked Linus to port Git to C++. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...
We are not "dangerously close to having a government without newspapers". There are still hundreds of newspapers left. Heck, there isn't even a major US city without its own newspaper headquartered there! What other major business can you say that about?

When there are less American newspapers than American car companies, I will be concerned.
Korea with a K ;)
BitGravity has an API they call Advanced Progressive that allows progressive download with stream-like seeking.
Behold:

http://www.suckless.org

http://xmonad.org
I applaud their effort, but it's a bit sad that their idea of 'searchable text' is hundreds of pages PDFs you can download and "ctrl-F" through, rather than a Google-style online full-text index with phrases/stemming/synonyms/etc.

(I suppose when Google indexes the PDFs we'll get that, at least partially.)
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Soda here in Argentina‚ especially the cheap stuff (Suitty and Pritty), uses HFCS too, although it's called "JMAF" (jarabe de maíz de alta fructosa). Also, apparently HFCS is easier to handle in manufacturing equipment, maybe because it's liquid. Therefore I am downmodding your comment due to factual incorrectness.
to support the suburban lifestyle [...] demands more roads, more mining operations, more resource extracting for goods and energy.

A mine is not a permanent use of land. Greater demand for mined materials does not imply greater numbers of mines. Existing mines might simply be made deeper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Canyon_Mine And the minerals in greater demand might also be substituted (e.g. copper for telecommunication wires by silicon for fiber optics).

Regarding the potential for being paved over by suburbia: http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR0...

of the 2.3 billion acres in the U.S. as of 1987, all the land taken up by cities, highways, non-agricultural roads, railroads, and airports amounts to only 82 million acres - just 3.6 percent of the total. Clearly there is very little competition between agriculture on the one side, and cities and roads on the other.

Concerning the trends: from 1920 to 1987, land in urban and transportation uses rose from 29 million acres to 82 million acres - a change of 2.3 percent of the total area of the U.S. During those fifty-seven years, population increased from 106 million to 243 million people. Even if this trend were to continue (population growth has slowed down), there would be an almost unnoticeable impact on U.S. agriculture, just as in past decades (see figure 9-2).

Concerning the notion that the U.S. is being "paved over," as of 1974 the U.S. Department of Agriculture's official view was that "we are in no danger of running out of farmland."
What you're describing is much more art than science.

Which is funny, since this following phrase comes direct from the course syllabus.

The primary goal is for students to learn, enjoy the art of competitive StarCraft, and have fun.

Seems like psychological warfare (when circumstances permit) would be a valid tactic given the above course objective.

I could quote Sun Tzu about robbing a whole army of their spirit, but at best I'd be paraphrasing... poorly.
Cuban's point is largely specious--the cost of distribution is high. The Internet doesn't magically make things cheap. Granted.

However what the Internet does do is level the playing field (at least compared to traditional media distribution methods). This means that cranky old white men clutching yesteryear's business models will have their lunch eaten sooner or later.

Even though scalability is an issue, it hasn't been solved because the demand hasn't been high enough yet. How many events have to scale that big? In this case, the long tail of content (meaning anything that needs to scale to more than a million simultaneous views) is the vast majority of content. Hulu doesn't have any trouble streaming the most popular television shows. How many Superbowls and Obama inaugurations actually happen?

Furthermore, the solution for massive scalability already exists. It's called BitTorrent, and Cuban was remiss in not mentioning it. BitTorrent makes scalability a function of total Internet bandwidth. It also transfers the hardware costs to the users (who don't see it as a cost). The bandwidth is still more expensive than television broadcast, but I imagine reaching everyone in the US via television is not exactly cheap either.
It seem like the author does not differentiate between compiled (To machine code) and (To intermediate/byte code). Does that mean the pyc(114 bytes on my machine) generated by python for 'print "Hello world"' can be compared to the others?

It is still interesting though.
What is a fair price for permanently giving up a piece of the only brain you're ever going to have in your career in exchange for a job from which you can be laid off at a moment's notice without, it must be noted, getting back that piece of your brain you had to sign away?

If I were (which I am not) gullible enough to buy into the kind of rules that applies the same logic to ideas as fixed property [1] I would certainly start the conversation by asking what kind of rental you think you can afford!

[1] ...and then everyone acts surprised when both the market for ideas and fixed property suffers!
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It's a gamble you have to take. Facebook has enough users and enough people depend on the platform that they can make a change (not too drastic) and not many, if any people will leave.
Even in combinatorial game theory, people tended to focus on simple games that could be solved.

My friend was considered doing work on game theory for more complex games like Starcraft. Apparently there was one research group at the University of Alberta, and not a whole lot elsewhere. However, I do know that Stanford has a videogame competition: in particular, you make games. http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-videogame-competi...
I know some people with a lot of "passion for technology" (Linux, Mac, iPhones) who are essentially idiots. Luckily, the only programming languages they barely know are Bash and the like, so they can't do much damage. Ass-kissing keeps them employed though.
The critical issue is not whether there exist people existing willingly in a state of oppression, but whether there exist people wanting to get out of it.
It's a strawman argument -- tags do not replace library science, film at 11 -- but she does say some interesting things along the way. If you replace "tags ought to do" with "archival systems ought to do" it's an interesting meditation.

Although, her notion of encoding potential narratives into images seems like the old AI dream. Like you could somehow query "triumph against adversity" and get a picture of a schooner crashing through a wave. I think after the last 50 years we have to be more humble about what machines can achieve.

P.S: this is the fault of the hosting magazine, Tekka, but they are certainly failing even at elementary archiving and contextualization duties here. The date of publication is not noted, nor is there any link to describe who Cathy Marshall is. There's an issue/volume header at the top, without any other context. They're thinking print, not web. The tagline of "serious hypertext" is silly.
Why do the majority of people never get cancer?
For some background information, the course instructor started a thread on a popular Starcraft forum:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=865...
Anyone know of a site where the crowd votes to make someone famous every day?
Or some variation on that theme?
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This must incredibly frustrating, but I don't think it has anything to do with Gmail, Calendar, etc. It sounds as though it's a domain registration problem due to Google acting as a domain reseller for eNom, or something. If anything, the lesson is, "don't use Google as a registrar", though I suppose you could argue that the bad support is an overall issue.

In general, I would avoid any of these reseller situations, since the error could occur in multiple places and both parties would probably assume that it's the other's fault.
Actually I think it's the lack of moderation. Reddit was (is) very proud not to be moderated, and look where it got them.

I've seen you moderate submissions here, and I appreciate it.
This only solves part of the problem.

If you have ever used JetBrain's IntelliJ IDEA, you will understand why standard text editors are grossly inefficient. IntelliJ is a Java IDE, but imagine for a moment that it was an "all JVM powered languages" IDE. It's a very interesting vision, and I for one am confident that JetBrains can produce something compelling. Their products are top notch.
The most reliable general solution on linux is 3Ware RAID cards, but linux software RAID generally works, as other posters have noted.

If you are having persistent problems, you should search carefully for a flaky hardware cause. Are the drives in an external sata enclosure that might have a barrel-type power connector that is sometimes jiggled ? Are all the problems always on the same motherboard -- perhaps it has a bad IDE controller ? Are the drives overheating ?

If your drives support it, try to use the smartmon tools to see if one or both is having errors. Also, consider writing a script to dump and archive the output of smartctl -a . Next time you have an issue, look at those outputs over time, and in addition to the badblocks and so on, look at the recorded number of times the disk has been powered up, and see if this is consistent with the number of times the computer has been rebooted.

I have done a lot of RAID stuff, and currently I am moving away from it and making servers that have just one disk in them. The reason is, is that I have decided that the best way to acheive reliability is to have two copies of any important computer. RAID sometimes seems to introduce more problems that it solves, and switching to a second machine that is maintained by rsync is quick and always works.
We are not "dangerously close to having a government without newspapers". There are still hundreds of newspapers left.

Every print newspaper in the world is going out of business. http://news.google.com/news?q=newspapers+declining Their owners - like the owners of homes lately discovered to have been built over toxic waste dumps - are stuck with something they cannot sell.

Yes, they still exist. Soon they will not.
You conveniently skipped the outsourced bit (China.) And that is a very shallow investigation. For example, the fertile arable land available is running out. That is as hard a fact as there is.

Cities grow usually on fertile land, and large suburbs make this problem several times bigger.

In the last couple of years there were thousands of protests around the globe because of food prices. You might not notice it as it's probably only a fraction of your costs, but for many (most?) people in the world it is their main expense. And most of the food gets sent to the best payer automagically. The quota system to cope with hunger is gone:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2008/11/24/081124ta_...
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And good news for Php developpers. I didn't know PDT was so popular.