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Distro wars was why I was trying my hardest not to comment.

Personally if someone would have put LFS in front of me when I was just starting out with Linux, I would have freaked out. It's just too complex (although not complicated) to get up and running. But it's a good learning experience once you're comfortable with the basics.

As for Arch, it was one of my stops when I migrated away from Slackware, and while it's very similar in some aspects, I feel it has an added layer of fat that's missing from plain Slack and its one man vision of what a distro should be.

YMMV and all that, but IMHO Slackware is a Goldilocks distro. It maximizes learning without the pain of being overly onerous.
It's not competing against the price straight out of the ground; it's competing against fuel that's been refined and delivered to a moving ship somewhere potentially very far away. Instead of $3 a gallon, it could be up to 10X more.
Microsoft is obsessed about backward compatibility. They have to be to continue being the dominant force in the corporate market. They won't even have a choice not to support desk-top style apps for the next 20 years, even if at some point they will run in some kind of virtualized environment.
As Apple and Samsung dominate, Japan’s tech giants are in a free fall
Tasks for the 24th International Olympiad in Informatics held this week in Italy
You cannot possibly win. It's hard to move around with so much momentum. If you try to maneuver the sides to try to get the little circles, then you have a higher chance of hitting a big one because they absorb everything and anything. As you get bigger, the circles that spawn are bigger and just are absorbed by the huge pieces and increase exponentially before I can get any pieces.
Interesting article, especially the part about the maximum time it takes for bankruptees to be freed from debt (makes you feel sorry for entrepreneurs in France who have to go into debt to start their business).

I think a lot of this stuff is due to the attitude of the general population towards entrepreneurs. If the only question that matters to people is "Have you made any revenue yet?" there's probably not much hope for Europe ever catching up with the US in terms of new fast-growing tech businesses.

(I'm hoping the UK is something of an exception, but I'm not really sure. Lots of people here are still very sceptical or pessimistic about new tech companies, especially very small, innovative ones.)
I'm sorry but were you alive during the last couple hundred financial crises?

I mean if your entire field is dedicated to predicting the future of finance and economics and you don't predict them - it kind of shows that you really don't know what you are doing.

All I'm doing is pointing out that the social sciences have no clothes on.
Economists rarely make predictions. Predicting stuff is hard.

I think it was the RBA (or maybe the Australian Treasury) which admitted that their DSGE model was no more accurate than trend modelling in terms of it's predictive power, so they could only use it to give policy advice.
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2011 growth rates for the US: 1.5% UK: 1.1% EU: 1.6%.[1] Now the EU is more than the eurozone, but with the UK dragging down the non eurozone component, I can only imagine that euro-nations averaged above the 1.6% EU wide average and so outperformed the UK and US by a large margin (more than the 0.2%ppt margin of error anyway).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_g...
Submarines are a good point. But with submarines you have the whole hide&seek thing going. That's a lot of suspense right there. However in space there is no hide&seek. The problem is that space is so huge that unless you assume really fast spaceships there is no way of hiding. Planets and moons are too far apart to be really used as cover or tactical element.
I think the point of this challenge is to encourage fledgeling developers to learn how to sell their games, and think about the money side of things, instead of treating sales as an afterthought.
I'm also having problems with the spell-checker. It just stopped working with the "English (United States)" language. When I switch it to Turkish, it works fine.
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I'm not sure that bankruptcy is not an exception rather than rule. The cases I have seen in the EU where 'done' after the court case. Which didn't take long at all. But it is true that it is a stigma; to US entrepreneurs if you tell you have a bankruptcy it means you tried, in the EU it means you failed.
Subtract the population growth rate and EU looks even better. Population growth rate EU 0.212% vs. US 0.97%.

Economic growth per person US = .5%, EU 1.4%.
I think Apples long term plan is the same: make a closed ecosystem on the Desktop exactly like the one on iOS. There is no incentive that I can see for them to keep it open. It worked well on mobile, why not do the same on the desktop?

But of course it's only speculation at this point.
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This is correct and very common knowledge. However traditional apps can be linked from the store and regularly are already so no one is missing out.
Publishers are Google's product. The bans are a product quality assurance exercise for them.

They do not really lose any business when they cut out a publisher. They almost always have plenty of other options to display their inventory on.
I think it will be more along the lines with how they got rid of DOS. The command prompt still exists, it's just hidden away. You can't exit windows to dos like you used to be able to do.

Same thing will happen with the desktop. Today on the Metro start screen the desktop has a first-row tile but I imagine eventually it will have no tile and you'll have to search for it. Effectively making it not exist for the common user.

But Microsoft is still investing a lot of money in desktop software. Not user-facing software. But much of their code assumes more capabilities than what WinRT allows. All of the developer tools, for example. Think about a memory diagnostic tools, that is of course impossible in WinRT. Powershell is impossible in WinRT.
How will one develop apps in such an environment?
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It gets worse. Apparently the photon torpedoes are 60 megaton antimatter warheads.

You wouldn't want to be within 20,000kms of such a beast going off, let alone a few hundred metres apart.

And pity whatever poor sucker is on the planet below.
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right....because the field of math has never changed course (see: Godel), nor physics (see: Newton, Einstein, )...

You're reading too much into the disproportionate effect mistakes in economics have had on society. Science get things wrong all the time...failure is part of the learning process.
Yes, this was the incident I was referring to. Pardon for omitting the source reference.

EDIT: And yes, I'm aware that Google and probably all the other providers as well do this with the publicly shared pictures. But they should have no business monitoring privately stored data. Maybe hash checking for known illegal files (CP and similar) could be an exception.
> A missile would probably be seen long before it reaches its destination and could be shot down. There's no way of hiding in space unless you develop some sort of cloaking device.

Everyone says this, which should be a red flag. There's nothing in the physics that precludes this. You just need to redirect your thermal emissions in a direction it doesn't matter and spoof any detectors that could spot you by your occlusion of distant objects. Then it becomes a tactical problem, not a physics one.

If all of your enemy's assets in space are visible, then such stealth is easy. Then you can calculate directions to aim your thermal emissions and spoof the enemy occlusion detectors. So the only way to make stealth difficult in space is to have stealthed sensor platforms.

I think this gives rise to interesting tactical situations.
Similarly to how you do on Windows 8 just now, I would imagine. XCode would work fine, can compile apps, run them for debugging locally. You just can't debug apps without getting a developer key, and that developer key would only be valid for your machine.
No idea if that is actually Ewa Dudzic, but this post is similar to past responses to previous hakin9 spam. All useless in stopping them. She also appears to no longer be listed as their chief editor on their website.

Also - hakin9 has only been around for 7 years, not 15. Sigh.
> i wish i am brave enough to use slackware,

The only thing holding you back is your own fear.

If you don't want to commit a full machine, try it out in a VirtualBox instance.
And has been for years. News?
Only with Apple's tools.
Maybe it can't be done.

I'm serious.

The strategy of parasitism is the one strategy that has been around almost since the beginning of life on Earth. Any evolved system which is as efficient as possible is necessarily vulnerable to parasites and so constantly changing and adapting to repel parasites is considered to be one of the most important -- possibly the most important -- of evolutionary drivers.

But parasitical behaviour is fractal. It doesn't just happen to organisms, it happens in social structures too. Sociopathology is a high successful minority strategy and so will always handsomely reward whoever rediscovers it once it has been defeated.

And just as you can see the whole history of sexual reproduction as a response to parasitic organisms, you can see the rise and elaboration of civilisation as a response to parasitic social behaviour.

It will never go away.

(There's also the fact that we evolved as predators, and predators basically live in a strictly zero-sum world vs other members of their own species -- which has irreversibly shaped us to see things in those terms).
Not this. Unless we have explicitly and fairly advanced education, and are disciplined enough to apply it to all we do, we - the human species, every single one of us - suck at statistics, are terrible at understanding or predicting the behaviour of complex systems.

Read Kahneman's "Thinking,Fast and Slow" to get a better idea as to why.

Our biological heritage has left us - oh, OK, the vast majority of us - fundamentally incapable of understanding complex systems and making predictions that have any value beyond the immediate short term. Our intuition - our System 1 heuristics (read the book) - is completely ill-suited to this, and our reason - System 2 (ditto) - doesn't fare much better without advanced training.

Kahneman and others also cite many cases where trained experts make the same errors of judgement and analysis as the rest of us when they stray even fractionally from their areas of expertise.

The GP is right: We get a lot more of this "soft stuff" wrong than we get right because we generally don't bother to apply hard science methods to the problem.

Personal anecdote: I stopped listening to the news because I used to work in crypto. Well, that's the tl;dr reason.

I worked for a company that did PKI and noticed that tech journalists, who might be expected to at least have some greater technical background than just folk made egregious errors in their reporting, in reports that were researched and drafted and edited and considered and fact-checked prior to publication.

While PKI is complicated, it is not complex. Not like the economy. So if these "specialized" journalists with a technical leg up could get so much of something so simple so wrong, what were folks with degrees in English and/or journalism doing to something as advanced and out of our grasps as the economy?

Truth be told, I haven't stopped reading the news - I read it differently. Should an interesting headline catch my eye, I look for a few more. The more interesting the story, the more sources I check/read before accepting to learn anything from the reporting. This is a necessary side effect of how complex the world and its news are, and how simplistic reporting is.

Economists had no idea why their theories of rational actors were so flawed (but flawed they knew them to be) until Kahneman and Tversky came along. Hard science can only cast light on the dismal and dark, and the dismal and dark will remain so, will remain largely speculative, until they adopt our tools.
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That sounds like a pretty scary future where one can only use "pre-approved" apps from a couple of entities like Microsoft or Apple. Android will remain the only open system from this point of view (Linux, too, but it's not very popular with consumers right now).

Sure people will still jailbreak stuff in the future, but making jailbreaking illegal is just one bill away. If you remember, that almost happened about 2 years ago, but fortunately a lot of people protested against it that time.
Really? I'd love to hear more about that.

I think this type of thing is exactly what LD is about. Anyone who's tried to build a game knows how easy it is to get carried away with adding new features or updating things with the latest technology. Having a hard limit gives you a kick up the backside to get that kernel of fun out the door.
True but at least the hard sciences modify after being falsified.

The social sciences don't have to because they aren't based on the scientific method - mainly the design and independence of repeatable experiments with controlled variables.

Hard science equations have no room for bullshit whereas the social ones do - hence EMH is still taught.
Agreed. It's all win; testing it on some pretty old hardware and it's really smooth.
The averages can hide all sorts of things. Without the mighty German industrial powerhouse, how do things stand?
We're in a global battle here and it seems like we're loosing some of our smaller players.
I really like Foundation based on the same points you raised.

It does support IE8, minus the responsive stuff, it's < IE8 that it doesn't (http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/support.php), and that's a deal breaker for me and why I've never used it since most of the sites I build still get around 10-12% from IE7.

You could use the older version of Foundation, but that doesn't appeal to me either.
See David Weber's "Honorverse" stories. (Yes, they eventually gain carriers, but it's plausible)
For the Love of Physics: Walter Lewin's Last Lecture
I wouldn't say that economists have no idea about this, or that their theories aren't useful. No falling object you'll ever encounter actually matches the equation h = h0 - (1/2)gt^2 perfectly, but the equation is still useful. If the efficiency of a market is limited by computational constraints, well, we already knew it was limited by transaction costs, so while this finding is interesting it doesn't change how we should view the world.
It doesn't matter. When people say efficient market, they mean that the market knows whatever is knowable by the present time using current technologies. They don't mean that the market knows everything that's theoretically knowable using unknown/impossible algorithms.

Before there were computers in an efficient market (supposing one exists), the current prices would reflect everything that is known and can be computed/deduced without computers by the present time.

Anyway, the paper misunderstands "known" to mean "anything which can theoretically be known", which obviously includes solutions NP-hard problems. It's just that nobody claims that's what efficient markets are.
I am not using Slackware myself, and obviously can't speak for the GP, but I think the old adage means that Slackware is so low level and comes with only the bare minimum, that it forces its users to understand lots of things about linux, as opposite to, say, the package manager of a given distro.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see IOS devices canabalise the desktop and laptop markets over time. My guess is Apple would be quite happy with this.
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The grandparent described the environment being "exactly" like iOS. That would mean no terminal, for example. It would mean no 3rd party dev tools that can do much of anything (except SSH into another computer and do dev there). No Homebrew. Web development would be impossible - all web devs would leave.

Sounds like a lot of negatives for Apple and few positives. Makes more sense to make it difficult for common users to do the things they don't want them to do.
...which is completely fine when is not used as an attempt to debunk the argument, but show that the information is biased.

Any form of critique towards a biased source can always be countered with claims of it being an ad hominem argument - which it strictly speaking usually is - but that alone does not make the critique false or the original source any more reliable.

As an example, many of the points Yossi makes are subjective and opinionated and as such FQA is nowhere near an unbiased and reliable source of problems within the language. Nobody who actually wants to be serious about the subject cites FQA as a whole. At best, individual points he makes with which many agree with. Including Bjarne himself.
Honestly - since your profile advertises "Calling out bullshit in your own thinking and everyone else's is a very important skill."

Let me help try help you out :). Here are some more of your quotes:

'Everyone is ruled by incentives'

'If it's a derivative of a psychological bias <...>'

Rather strange to be making claims involving incentives and psychology, for someone that rules everything outside the 'hard sciences' as bullshit.

(FWIW I studied math, cs, applied math and physics at varsity but learned a great deal of knowledge that corresponds well with reality, outside of those fields)
As an avid Spectacle user, I look forward to giving this fork a try!
Oh, I noticed, allright! And here's why you SHOULD NOT use it!

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Exactly what I've been needing! Downloading it.

I've felt so useless on OSX after having started using a dynamic tiling wm at work.
This stuff shows absolutely nothing. The author misrepresents what an efficient market means and then "proves" a tautology about it. (see my other comments, but it basically erroneously understands an efficient market to be one which knows everything that is knowable about the past, and then shows that that must include NP-hard problems.) Whether economics has any merit or not is a different issue, but this paper proves absolutely nothing.
Well, it's a lot of factors (I am currently in an European country, YMMV between them)

- Lack of "drive". Young people mostly want to find a nice job and that's it. In my perception this is less in France, where people may want to "kick ass" more (historical pride maybe) and maybe in the UK or Germany

- People are 'naive', and by that I mean the sentiment "this is the way it is, don't bother changing". Since everything pretty much works, it's difficult to see faults (or maybe faults enough to motivate a change)

- People in Europe need more hand-holding. They are usually more theoretical as well instead of "go there and do it", something is much stronger in the American continent (which goes from Canada all the way to Uruguai/Argentina/Chile in the south)

- Labor laws, difficulty in getting talent outside of the EU (depends on the country really - still, usually easier than getting an H1B)

Also, every country has its quirks: French cannot speak english to save their lives (usually)

In the end, Europe has a lot of opportunities, they have only to think outside of the box. But don't be so quick to count them out, they have literally thousands of years of experience.
Sure, the default environment would be. But I expect they would do something where, if you had a paid developer license (or some sort of free "local debugging" license), they would unlock the Terminal and some form of IDE.
Thank you for the post and the comments. I am a new Arch user (having used it for about 6 months now), and while I am happy with it, your comments are making me want to try other bare distros like Slackware or Linux From Scratch.
"Do we have a model of what markets are like under this
type of model? It is not clear to me that prices are even
close to what efficient ones might be under this situation
(though they could be)."

I don't know what markets are like under this type of model but here are a two papers recommended by my lecturer on how efficiency is not an either-or proposition.

Adaptive Markets and the New World Order

"Under the AMH, markets are not always efficient, but they are highly competitive and adaptive, and can vary in their degree of efficiency as the economic environment and investor population change over time."

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1977721&#...;

Efficient Markets II (by Fama who was the one who originally came up with the efficient market hypothesis describing the three forms of market efficiency)

"A weaker and economically more sensible version of the efficiency hypothesis says that prices reflect information to the point where the marginal benefits of acting on information (the profits to be made) do not exceed the marginal costs (Jensen (1978))."

http://efinance.org.cn/cn/fm/Efficient%20markets%20II.pdf

"Also of course most of the missing markets are the
contingent and future ones, which suggests the ways in
which things might be biased (forward planning, the firm,
the business cycle etc) which are quite important
inefficiencies."

You can often find sets of stock options' prices that you can arbitrage and make a profit, but only if there were no transaction costs. Information will only be taken into account of if the cost of the information (after taking into account all costs including opportunity costs and risk) is less than the benefit from exploiting that information. So, there are probably lots of information from the future that are missing in the market, which if properly exploited will provide a lot of benefit; but the costs of gathering that information is even greater, possibly requiring the use of a time machine.

My thinking: It could very well be that markets are only efficient only as far as everything else allows it to be; If investors are not able to evaluate information over more than one business cycle, (due to the cost of doing so, economical or psychological or otherwise), then so be it. The market will move its efficiency to match the environment and its participants.
You'll notice I said until further notice. This does not preclude from a) understanding psychology or b) being wrong.

Hence - until further notice everything I have ever stated is probably wrong and biased.

Just like everyone else.
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I don't know. We've seen the idea of rational agents in economics go away, right?

Also...I'm not an economist so I don't really know what's going on in this area...but maybe EMH is still being taught because it's the best model we have at the moment?

Are you sure it's being taught everywhere? Maybe some places have already dropped it? Change takes time.
maybe cos of a redesign? looks different to when i last saw it?
Microsoft has protected itself from the next Netscape Navigator. Now every software vendor for Metro/WinRT is effectively running a market research for Microsoft: what feature should be included to the next version of Windows? And after adsorbtion of that feature, third party app can be kicked out off the MS app store.

The golden age of Windows shareware and ISVs is coming to the end.

Or we will use Windows 7 for 20 years as we did with XP for 10 years from its release date.
> That is incorrect. If the fusion source is compact, and can produce a lot of instantaneous electrical power, and is quick to throttle up and down, then a "Back to the Future"-style Mr. Fusion would be the best way to power cars.

There's also safety to consider.
Is there a binary available? App store?

edit:
Ah, just saw the link to http://spectacleapp.com/