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I was mistaken. What I meant to convey is that I do not support At-will employment as long as unions are weak.

(I believe the power of unions has been artificially weakened and corrupted by government interaction. Therefore I self-describe as libertarian, despite liking unions and disliking at-will employment. I concede that my politics are likely at odds with most self-described libertarian politicians.)
The point is that the difference between 1900 and 1960 is fundamental on every level.

Carriages -> Cars

Land Travel -> Aerospace

Iceboxes at best -> Modern refrigeration

Pen and Paper -> Computers

Newspapers -> Ubiquitous electronic media.

Living at the mercy of infectious diseases -> Antibiotics/vaccines.

Coal (at best) -> Nuclear

Outhouses -> Modern Plumbing and sanitation

Etc. You could make similarly great comparisons between 1840-1900.

What do we have now? Looking at atoms? WTF does that matter in any practical sense? And even if you want to get sciency, it's clear that 1900-1960 was when the big changes in physics occurred, at least since Newton.

All of the big practical changes since 1960 have mainly served to isolate us, as amusing as they might be.
The issue is not innovation, per se. the Issue is more like "progress" or improved lifestyles, culture, families, etc. The critique of the past 10 years is that there has been plenty of <empty> innovation. Lifestyles are "worse", despite more stuff. People are living in the same houses, but they are 3x as expensive. The mobile phone was very useful, but the crackberry/iphone has become more of a ball and chain, than a tool of freedom. The internet has turned into a giant blinking neon light, meant to be stared at, so our attention can be "leveraged" by advertsisers. Every thing that is meant to be an improvement ("contextual, personalized content") has an orwellian alternative case (GPS Tracking, DeepPacketInspection, rogue cookies). So the issue is not "innovation" per se. It's innovation on the upside. Innovation that is absent the downsides. Much (if not most) of the innovation in the past 10 years has been on these downsides. Thus, the things that are better (ipods, retina displays, amazing batteries,macbook air, dslr, etc) are sort of bitter sweet. [Flamesuit Donned!]
I don't think elimination is reasonable. I do think that massive reduction in, numbers, reach and powers is.

As and example: I don't want to be at war with ANYONE. I don't want my government to have the power to unilaterally start them or get involved in them. If there's conflict it should be US, the people, who vote on these things. Why? Because these kinds of things can and will affect us, our children and their children. I don't want a vote-grabbing whore to be able to make those decisions.

War is just one example of what I see as government over-reach. It happens to be one of the best examples that everyone can easily understand.

Look at the history of the World Wars. Government started them. Governments. Not people. Tens of millions of people died. Imagine the entire population of California, Florida, Illinois, New York state, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas killed off. Everyone dies. That's probably less people than those who died during the World Wars. Isn't that sickening? You an imagine that, right? Well, governments started these wars. Not the people who died. Not their kids.

We've become overly permissive with those who govern us. They get away with, almost literally, murder. Not sure what will stop it or change the course.
I know about the DC taxi commission a little bit...they will go anywhere, and do anything to protect their bottom line.
Just a guess but the JIT may be detecting the recursion and replacing it with a loop. The recursion signature is the same for each method so the JIT may be able to catch that.

Letting the JIT warm up is enlightening though, I looped the 3 tests 1000 times and also looped my ruby test 1000 times and I get this:

Explicit type w/@CompileStatic took 5 ms
Groovy w/ explicit types took 11 ms
Full dynamic took 75 ms

Ruby took 464ms
See, I think comments like that are why libertarians are marginalized. There is such a thing as thinking someone is both incorrect and coming from a good place with the best of intentions.

I feel that insight has been buried somehow in recent years.
Exit to where? Treasuries at all time low yields?

20% of people invest in stocks, and these people control almost 50% of wealth in America. A major goal of QE is to pump the market up to generate a wealth effect for these people, and (hopefully) pull the economy up with it. You can see that this happened by checking out the SPY chart from Nov. 2008 (QE1) onward.

As the other commenter noted, don't fight the Fed. Contrary to what you read in the popular media, they know what they are doing. If you hopped on board in '08, you got massive returns the past few years.
I find your kind quite revolting as well.
The elimination of the rent-seeking corporations is the better answer.
No analogy exist in the known western world. To do so would be an injustice to the word 'corruption'. In fact there is so much corruption in india, we should invent the new word for it, more like "Slow Cannibalism".
Baffling how there actually exists a section of the BBC website that UK citizens don't have access to.

Don't bother if you are from the UK...
Your assertion is incorrect:
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/03/libertaria...

"What unions seem to be asking for is governmental protection from the free labor market. They are attempting to collude with government to force workers to pay up or lose their jobs. Voluntary union membership is a fine thing. Forcing people to pay for membership to a club they do not want to join as a condition of employment is not in the best interest of freedom and liberty."
A unit conversions utility that has a very nice, clean UI with a focus on functionality, not on "what trendy widget can we force in there next?"

Well, had, anyway.
I'm asking a question. Did you think the article was useful? I'm interested in why.
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To me, it feels that it's the everyday life that isn't changing much.

* I got my first computer 16 years ago

* I bought my first mobile phone 9 years ago

* I drive a car that is 18 years old

* I still shop in physical stores

Today :

* I can surf on 20 different websites at the same time as downloading a movie in 1080p

* I can search wikipedia from my phone

* I can have a car that parks itself

* I can shop for some things on the internet

But these aren't revolutions. I like what I got now and wouldn't trade it for what I had 10 years ago, but it hadn't changed my life much. They are improvements that I've come to like. I feel that with so much knowledge and some much technology a real revolution should come faster. I'm not nostalgic, I'm impatient.
> 5 years mastering C is an investment in your future. 5 years mastering MongoDB probably isn't.

Replace C with COBOL and MongoDB with MySQL.

I've thought about this recently, and I think Java may replace C as the investment. There's so many companies now that depend on it, that knowing the JVM and it's... oddities is an investment.

I think MongoDB now is a bet. It may actually pan out, but we will not know until 10+ years out.
>I wouldn't bet against Facebook just because some cranky financial experts want me to believe they know where Facebook is headed. They don't know. Nobody knows.

The last two sentences are precisely why analysts are "cranky" and institutional ownership of this stock is so faint.

A reasonable investor makes an investment decision based on the info they have and the prospect of discounted future cash flows. At this point it is clear not even Facebook management really knows where they're headed. Just where the money is. How does a reasonable investor value that? I wouldn't bet on facebook at any price just because they have critical mass on a free social network today.

Edit: What I meant by the last statement was that valuation matters. Obviously there is a price at which Facebook stock is fair or even undervalued.
I think the more recent trend is that we need to be competing globally more, so you have to maintain your game. You can't sit around and do the same thing anymore, especially in computers.
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You only say that 'cause you love me.
This would be the hidden cost of not having Bart-around-the-Bay.

(A somewhat wonkish assessment of what Bard-Down-The-Peninsula would look like: http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-10-reasons-for-...)
Yes, I'm sure that my analysis was correct. IE8+ on Vista+ run IE renderer's in Low Integrity, which means read-only access. It's not possible to further compromise (ie, install malware) on the exploited machine without a second exploit that escalates integrity levels to medium.
I don't think Ubuntu has really thought this through.

Besides the privacy problems, making your software into adware is incredibly destructive to its image. Ubuntu can no longer be used by any self-respecting or privacy-conscious company or individual. Imagine the CTO of IBM - "So, this Ubuntu is adware? And it sends all our searches to Amazon? Are you kidding me? Get out of my office and get me a list of real OSes, you know, business-class operating systems."

I mean what I say when I say, "can't". The image of adware is too low to be considered business class. Would you buy a bottle of wine that had an ad for hemorrhoid medication on the side? You might for yourself, maybe, if you're a wino, but would you buy it as a gift? Would you buy it for a restaurant? Would you buy it for a dinner party?

Ubuntu has just classified itself in with the Netzeros of the world, as bottom-of-the-barrel software. It marked itself on the forehead with a big tattoo that says "substandard software" - they set the brand on fire. That change is going to hurt more than any extra revenue is going to help.
It's funny -- except for the seats with holes, I count all of the things that you mention as downsides of traditional taxis among the things I love about traveling by taxi and other public transport through Asia, Africa, and yes, New York and DC.
Yikes, that is strange.

The article essentially points out extreme overfishing, examples of extinction already occurring, and outlines some conservation efforts. Suggests that we may be the last generation to fish from our oceans.
I'm not the only one that thinks your claim is left wanting. I cannot speak for them but I am interested in why you think apt-get is preferred over dpkg in this case because I am a decade long loyal user of Debian. My original point was that the dpkg command is shorter and that is why I have used it over the longer apt-get invocation. I am generally interested in learning more about Debian. If the way I have been doing things is wrong I would like to know why so that I can improve my skills. Does that make sense?

I'm not being snarky, I'm generally interested in learning more about Debian and it seems that you might be able to improve my knowledge.
Can you source that last claim? It's a rather large claim, and one I'm not willing to take on face value. I can believe that TV is fading, but that the under 30 crowd "mostly" watch video on those mediums is a bit of a stretch to me.
And twist the knife.
No. Moving violations are not necessarily crimes. In Massachusetts, I think that reckless driving is a crime (usually interpreted as 20MPH), but I know that plain ol' speeding is not. If you contest, you see a magistrate; if you appeal the magistrate's decision, you do get a trial with a judge, but the ticket itself is considered evidence of your speeding.
what is this nonsense?

"If you compare US education with the european model, you’ll quickly notice that american kids are getting more confident of what they are doing very early in life."

Yes, this is a failure of metacognitive skills. They are too ignorant to realize their ignorance.
You got a down-vote from me.

pulseaudio works fine for the majority of users.

pulseaudio actually brings some nice features to the linux desktop

pulseaudio bashing was cool a couple years ago, you're late to the party

And - quite frankly - the GP didn't state his problems at all, so you were just trolling (-> 'Remove this software package that really is just an elaborate hoax to destroy sound. The internet says so!')

And .. 'you're welcome' is really low..
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This is really well done. But it saddens me that out of thousands of companies in SV, there are only about 5 represented on that graph. And 101 is sitting still, clogged with one-passenger-cars for the entire peak period. What we need is some enterprising company, or even a municipal effort, to figure out how this can be handled as a venture. Every major SV company conglomeration (say Redwood Shores) will surely have hundreds - thousands of people commuting everyday, in a fairly set routine. Even at a premium price, I'm sure many of those people would opt in for a luxury bus service (reliable wifi would be key). Why aren't there any of those?
| Pen and Paper -> Computers

Computers existed in 1960, but they didn't replace pen and paper (and electric typewriters) until the 1990s.

| Newspapers -> Ubiquitous electronic media.

This obviously happened after 1960. I do not consider TV and radio in 1960 to be functionally the same as the internet.

| Coal (at best) -> Nuclear

The first commercial nuclear point plant in the US was in 1958, and had a very primitive design. Nuclear power as we know it came about after 1960.

| What do we have now?

Several of the things you mentioned as coming before 1960, for a start.
Thanks! As for the SSL certs, I saw that yesterday, and I thought I fixed it. But I'll dig into it further. Thanks for the notice!

Edit: I fixed it. Somehow the intermediate certificate wasn't installed. Thanks for the notification!
This is great run down of uber. Here in NYC, where cabs are much more common-place I still use uber from time to time. The thing is it's not meant to replace taxis, it's more of a luxury item than anything. When I can't find a cab or just would feel better hopping in a nicer car, I'll use uber to get somewhere. Not to mention that the drivers are more than happy to wait while I run in to a store to grab some beer or whatnot, whereas a cabby would never be ok with that. I'm very happy that they've been licensed in NYC, as it means they will be around for a while.
Strange (and boring... you've been warned) little anecdote.

Yesterday (like so many days, ha) I spent too much time typing out silly posts for HN. Last night, I couldn't sleep well because of some noise outside and I had this dream. One of those dreams where it is so vivid and the story line is so clear, and there are "scenes" almost like a film where the "camera" zooms in on some aspect, that you wake up remembering the details and go "WTF? What does that mean?"

So I thought about some of the things I remebered for a little bit. Some of these details made absolutely no sense. They served no purpose in the storyline of the dream. And suddenly it hit me they were derived from words I had used in HN posts. Not topics, but individual words. My brain had woven them into the story. And it had done so with some pretty crafty storytelling. I'm not sure I could have done it so well if I was awake.

As if you gave someone a list of random words and said, "Make up a story and weave each of these words into the story."

I guess this is nothing unusual. Probably happens to people every night. But it left me thinking about how just how "self-driving" the brain is. What the heck is it doing when we go to sleep? It is running on its own software, to use a computer analogy. And it's not exactly "open source" code. I would love to see how that code works.
That's what you say to all your serfs.
Fascinating. D
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Exactly. And the previous problem wasn't that doctors and nurses weren't washing their hands, it was that they weren't washing them well enough. A quick wash as one might do before eating a meal is not the same level of washing as required for someone who has had their hands exposed to, say, MRSA or who is about to interact with a sick patient.
By hand? Seems a bit un google doesn't it.

Everyone looks at it. That doesn't solve any problem.
Fascinating. Not sure on the numbers but does this imply that google just dominate everyone else in terms of numbers of engineers or have they just spent more on busses?
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I vote Gevent because of its speed, small resource footprint, and its simple synchronous-looking API, but be aware of its limitations. The greenlets (threads) spawned by gevent run in a single OS thread, so you won't be able to take full advantage of all the cores on your server with Gevent alone. Also, Greenlets run cooperatively meaning each one gains control of the CPU until it's done with its computation or hits an IO call. This is great for IO bound computation, not so much for CPU bound work. Even with these limitations, I still think it'll work well with in your application.

Check out this comparison of Python servers:
http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers
Unions are market participants in this case attempting to enforce cartel structures on an entire industry for their paying constituency - no better than the RIAA. Regulations should break this but not at the cost of consumer protection - cost cutting, not safe etc.
I would vastly rather pay through somewhat higher taxes. I was able to absorb the financial hit in this case, but was lucky that my injuries were relatively mild. But besides the financial side of it, the amount of administration the patient has to go through is absurd, not to mention the ethically dubious gathering of financial information and legal agreements from patients who are in shock or heavily medicated.

In countries where the government runs public health (in which I have worked as a medical aide, have a parent who has been a CEO of a national health organization, and have a sibling in medical practice - so I'm not pulling stuff out of thin air), hospitals typically seek to minimize the number of different doctors and nurses that interact with the patient, so as to minimize confusion, miscommunication, and of course cost. Here the opposite seems to be true, as if every doctor on duty felt obliged to provide (and bill for) their medical opinion. Now, I don't want to make a case on a few anecdotal data points, but my personal observations of my own and family members' treatment experiences over the last 10 years, supplemented with observations from friends who are paramedics, nurses and doctors, are that American healthcare is really wasteful and inefficient.
Um, that was a sorta counterfactual post-I'm very familiar with that website, and I'm pretty sure it was merely a hypothetical, and that Clem and most people there prefer Caltrain. Which is faster. Roomier. Has restrooms. And you can eat or drink.
My issue is not with the unions, but with the governments that afford them special favors. If it weren't the unions in this case (Is it even?) it would be the taxi corporations themselves.

I think it is therefore important to focus the criticism not on unions but on the politicians themselves who try to get in Ubers way.
Technology sucks http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EverythingsBrokenAndNobodysUps...
DC taxi driver aren't unionized.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your uninformed rant.
I have to say, your tool is awesome. I used to use it all the time.
I believe that (ab)using parantesis are a side effect of having the engineer mind -- we have to quantify exactly what we mean, otherwise the mean compiler growl at us and so it becomes a habbit of our work.
Nice, I learn something today.
Because Canonical has repeatedly screwed this up. Remember when they "took money away" from some music player. Now this. Canonical is basically at odds with the providers of software for its platform (eg browsers, music players).

So either they can be an adversary, or they can work with them. It is a far better story that Google kickbacks for the Firefox usage on Ubuntu go to more than just Canonical.

You didn't buy a phone or a car (both of which are hardware and have large per unit BOM and manufacturing costs) from a company that is community oriented and where the vast majority of the components were provided for free by others in the spirit of openness, freedom and community.

Now Canonical can (and has the legal right to) take every cent and modify everything so they are the only ones to gain. And in a short term oriented business sense that is the right thing to do. But it doesn't help in the long term. Canonical depends heavily on its users and its suppliers.
TL;DR someone had a really complicated problem. Some of it involving electricians, cleaners, breakers and how they formatted a USB drive installer. His assortment of computers that are somewhere between 8+ years old don't work perfectly the way they might have otherwise. A DVD he had was worn out somehow.

Then he blames it all on Apple for not making it all work magically and blames it on planned obsolescence.
It had surprised me when Lion came out that the installation was done by an "app", not as a bootable image. This is an unnecessary complication for those of us that need to maintain machines. Earlier, when updating a different machine, I had learned how painful this could be when the installation app destroyed the boot sector and I needed to reinstall Snow Leopard from DVD, and then upgrade that to a version of the system recent enough to run the Lion installer app. As will become apparent, had Lion come as a bootable image things might have gone more smoothly.

Lion and Mountain Lion installers contain images which can easily be converted to ISO:

http://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/201209130700_convert_dmg_to_iso...

and there are many more options and approaches:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2628/install_os_x_from_dmg_fi...

http://0xced.blogspot.com/2009/08/booting-from-dmg.html

http://blogchampion.com/2011/03/12/how-to-create-a-bootable-...
Part of the problem is that affluent tech workers want to have their cake and eat it too-everyone wants to live in cool, trendy neighborhoods in SF, and commute to their fancy jobs in the Valley. The problem is, its often a pain to get from those neighborhoods in a time efficient manner to a Caltrain station. Which...I"m not sure is a problem, since public transit in San Francisco (MUNI and BART) exists for more than just getting tech workers to a Caltrain station.

There's also the radical suggestion of people actually living near where they work, or (horror of horrors) people living near public transit and taking that, rather than fancy private buses.
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There is always Caltrain. Anyways, even if Bart went all the way to south bay, I'm sure these buses would still run as Bart would have too many stops, would be too slow and uncomfortable. If you have a lot of people coming from the same places and going to the same place, why not provide a dedicated bus that is virtually point to point?

Seattle had (has?) express buses to Boeing that worked under the same principle. These were provided by the public transit agencies, however. Then Microsoft came out with the Connector, which is similar to the Google model.