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I am not the grandparent author, but I think your last paragraph describes it well.

Yes looking back Freud's theories are bogus. However, that is only looking back and taking in consideration what has happened after. However, whatever happened after in the theory of how mind and human psychology was very much influenced by Freud. A lot of it was a reaction but it was still a reaction to something. Those that came after studied Freud and it was their background.

To say it another way, it hard to predict what would have happened if Freud was not there. We could have been in a worse shape maybe today.
IMO, it looks closer to a F35.

http://images.defensetech.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/F-3...
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This sounds alien to me as well. I've been a member of a lot of diverse teams, and led some of them, over the years. While it's true that female tech people are always outnumbered by male ones, what that actually means probably depends a lot on culture. My experiences are almost exclusively in Northern Europe and Asia and generally I didn't perceive that female devs got any special treatment at all (negative or positive).

If Nerdess extracts some sort of empowerment out of this that's great for her, but I imagine crossing the line into a territory where your team mates perceive you as a shallow and malicious manipulator is a real danger here. Any person who bases their work persona exclusively on being a precious snowflake (of any kind) is not someone I'd like to have on my team.
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True that UoC does not give very much of a boost to recruited athletes. Nonetheless, that 20% estimate would account for borderline legacies, development cases (parents donated), and possibly affirmative action admits (the data is mixed on this).

As for the second point, obviously your experience is purely anecdotal, which is hard to refute (other than dismissing it as anecdotal). I suspect that this opinion might be biased by our tendency to view things relatively rather than objectively - someone in the 75th percentile would see that most first years write poorly compared to him/herself, and thus might conclude that most first years are poor writers in general, when objectively that is not the case.
It would also be seen as a good publicity move from any of these companies.

It would definitely help convince me of the sincerity of their claims that they maintain their software patent portfolios for defensive purposes.
Maybe we have worked in different environments than nerdess. I've had quite a few jobs (at software companies in the US) where most of my colleagues are calm, mature, and act like professionals without regard to gender. I've also encountered the occasional colleague (a bit more often in startup/freelance culture) who acts like females are a new and unfamiliar technology, and doesn't know how to relate in appropriate ways. But I've never felt particularly "powerful" in my workplace, until I started doing most of my work from my home office.
Standard type systems are Turing equivalent. This includes the type systems of functional languages like ML and Haskell. In fact, there's a neat correspondence [0] between algebraic data types and propositional logic (examples in Haskell):

union types (data T = mkTA A | mkTB B) <-> logical disjunction (A ∨ B)

product types (data T = mkT A B) <-> logical conjunction (A ∧ B)

function types (type T = A -> B) <-> logical implication (A → B)

the unit type (()) <-> true (⊤)

bottom (⊥) <-> false (⊥)

(And, if you were wondering, that's where the symbol for "bottom" comes from!)

Inference on richer type systems, e.g., systems that support dependent types (types built up from expressions about the values they represent) is in general undecidable, which is why some dependently typed languages (e.g., Coq) have type systems that are not Turing equivalent—the language designers have consciously pared down parts of the type system in order to guarantee that type-checking terminates.

0. This is the Curry-Howard correspondence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence#Cor...
Chomsky claims language is built-in. So probabilistic associations are the exact opposite of his claims. Interestingly, there have been some very good baby studies that show babies inherently know statistics needed to learn probabilistic associations. You can show them a couple different color balls going into a box, then take out a bunch of the rare color that went in, and they will register more surprise even long before they can even talk. Things like that. Chomsky's assertions are, well, what you would expect from someone that old. They didn't understand neurons and biology and genetics so well then, so yay, magic things are possible!
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This article is full on opinions, light on new information.

Horace, from Asymco, provided a [much better analysis](http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/29/the-iphone-and-apples-margi...) on why the recently announced lower margins are in line with Apple's historical performance during every product launch.

Also, you can get a better perspective by reading [previous comments on HN](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714473) of why Forstall and Browett leaving Apple is actually positive for the company.
Let's not forget the RSA/Lockheed data breach fiasco:
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240104688/RSA-replaces-S...

Though, it is unclear if China was behind the attack.
They have everything to do with the piracy and payment points raised, and I'd argue that a direct link can be charted between securing developer compensation and the availability of games. As for the title: being 2nd place is hardly a "desolate wasteland".
Apparently the TouchStream was beloved by its users before its designer, FingerWorks was bought by Apple along with all their patents and the device was chucked down the memory hole:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
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For better or worse, it's not that uncommon for licenses to complicate it. To take one prominent example, Microsoft Research's Z3 is completely proprietary: source-code is available but you cannot make any derivative works of it (except in-house without distribution). The famous Q array-processing language is also completely proprietary. Less restrictively, it's common for things to be released under an "academic use only" or "noncommercial use only" license.
I've long wanted to set aside a long weekend for writing a book. I really think it can be done, and am delighted to know someone did it. Of course, subject matter matters for how long it takes: a deeply creative endeavor may take years, while what amounts to a 200 page blog post could take a short vacation. There's enough material rattling around in my head that the latter should be very doable.

That said, following your progress reports has been entertaining. Looking forward to the finished product.
I agree iOS tool chain is more mature overall.

I can't imagine giving up all the code editing features of IntelliJ for any generic text editor though. All that java and XML without code completion and refactoring is just too horrible to contemplate. If you're determined to go that route then why not just ditch the IDE entirely and do everything from the command line?
Really? There is support for native code debugging if and only if you go through a boatload of non-obvious, unofficially documented steps. On Xcode I can fire it up and instantly set breakpoints - without settings tons of non-default settings, recompiling magic gdb.setup files, and hacking the built-in build scripts.

Then when you get to single stepping its ridiculously slow. Anyone that has used or attempted to use the NDK debugger cannot say with a straight face that it is up to par with modern tools.

Oh...then there is the issue of ridiculously uninformative stack traces.

Its generally easier to build your code in an x-plat fashion in C++ and then work out as many bugs on iOS as you can and then - as the parent said - leave printf turds everywhere.

Stone knives and bear skins...
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I don't see the hole being that big. For example Apple's slide-to-unlock patent, no one would be allowed to move that functionality into a dedicated chip but that would never happen anyways.
The best part is that it's becoming one of the more influential tech sites on the web now, kind of proving the point that hacking together something great (and NOW) can provide tremendous value to lots of people.
> He dominated the field of linguistics for decades with anti-empiricist theories.

But he dominated. Where was Norvig or IBM's Watson back then?

Unfortunately things like these don't happen in a vacuum. You can only say looking back that this is didn't or that was a bad idea. You should have said that at that time when the theory was advanced or came up with a better one.

We didn't exactly live in in a totalitarian regime where say some Politburo dictated what the official theory about Genetics should be and everyone else gets sacked, and now finally we have freedom from oppression and we can get back on track.
Electric may be the answer in the near future. I still don't believe it is now, but I do applaud companies and individuals for helping push that innovation forward. The electric market is in a catch-22: electric powered cars are expensive, and it will only get cheaper when more people start buying into it. I see cars like the Volt having more mass-market appeal for the next decade than the Tesla. I applaud Musk in everything he does, and the Tesla is a fine brand of high-end cars. But electric is, in my world, not a viable option at this time.

Electric is great. Batteries suck. And they're not getting better fast enough. The world got used to filling a tank in 5 minutes and forgetting about it until they've run their 300-400 miles worth of fuel. I say electric is fighting a losing battle because the best arguments I see in this thread consist of "it only needs to charge overnight", "it's about on par with the cost of a gas guzzler", and "you can fill it most of the way in 30 minutes". Sure, it's progress. But good enough isn't good enough when it comes to battling an entrenched competitor. We're looking at a decade before electric is no longer a fringe thing (basically 20 years after the mass market introduction), and in between then there's no reason something like a Volt can't provide more benefit than a Tesla or a Leaf. You might only drive hundreds of miles once per year, but do you really want to shoehorn yourself into a car that makes this virtually impossible in exchange for mild relative inconvenience as opposed to no relative inconvenience?
Wasn't that Perfect Dark with the 'face in the game' code?
> the debugging/IDE support for java is much better than NDK.

That's kind of the point; the tooling for native development is crap compared to working in Java, which, while a fine language for lots of purposes, brings a few performance penalties that can inhibit game development. Apart from the overhead of a VM, games often require precise timings that are difficult to achieve when a garbage collector can be running at unpredictable times. And I think you're dismissing the porting angle a bit quickly. When faced with the choice between converting your entire codebase to a different language, using difficult tools with poor debugging support, or starting a new project on a platform you're already successful on, which would you choose?
Shen is an example of a language with a richer type system. Dependent types can be implementated in Shen.
It's just you! The Ruby community, especially the Rails portion, is undergoing a fantastic philosophical and tooling maturation, which is pushing its viability past its former fast-paced start-up confines and into a larger, but perhaps less sexy market. I'm not sure which companies and projects you're specifically referring to, but while we're throwing out anecdotes, it seems to me that companies "moving away" from Ruby are making pragmatic decisions in response to specific pain points, while keeping Ruby in place where it better solves other pain points. That's how it's supposed to work!
I sincerely hope that I've never been a pity/diversity hire. I want to be evaluated on my qualifications as a well-rounded developer and compensated appropriately for my work.
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So are "brogrammers".

Being reality doesn't make it right, and doesn't mean it should be tolerated.
> As with most other traits, ...

Interesting point, thanks. What's 'teaching', though? Kindergarten is largely imitative. "Play" in the broad sense is imitative.
You can probably build something similar with eBay's ql.io and jsbin.
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You really need a lot of nerve to talk about how ADT is better than xcode.

I used xcode for more than three years now, wrote a lot of object c/c/c++ and even assembler, and yet to find any major bug. This year I tried to port one of my app to Android, and the biggest challenge happens to be debugging native code. Basically you can't, there are some tutorials to set up gdb, but it shouldn't be that hard, and I don't bother. I ended up with printf, of course it is a nightmare.

If Google can deliver a xcode quality IDE, it'd already ruled the world.
I like his suggestion, and it's rare to actually hear a new idea in how to resolve the patent problem.

However I find it odd that in the preamble he points out Apple, but presumably something like an iPhone would easily fall into the class of special purpose computing equipment, so Apple's case would be unaffected by it. In fact, it might even encourage mobile phone platforms to become more locked down and restrictive so as to avoid falling into the definition of a "general purpose" computer. Thus there could be a very dangerous backfiring of this if the definitions were not clear and broad.
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Sadly this all sounds quite correct.
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Saying everything is just probabilistic associations is like saying everything is made from quanta of energy and thus every higher level concept or model is useless -- just simulate the quarks and you are set. Not only that -- simulate it by recording and observing the energy patterns going in and coming out of a black box.

Yes you can get some things to work and some to work well but the idea is that perhaps there is a better model that describes the mechanism or the encoding of meaning. That's what Chomsky is trying to say in this particular article. Some stopping at a brute force approach is a fine engineering approach but that doesn't mean everyone should, it is still worth trying to find a better model for it, if at least, just to gain an understanding.
Fair. I know just enough AI to realize that this is a hard problem, so the whole news-friendly "genius self-taught teenager builds awesome app in his spare time" seemed a bit incredible - I still wouldn't want to be competing against this kid for a job, though, he's impressively smart.
The N64 was a very poor system for games. You had a few very good ones and a lot of crap. The Playstation was a way more versatile system with great games in all genres. Hell, even the Saturn was more complete in terms of software.
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I've been on a few sites - just recently Skype, and no matter what password I typed in, it says it's easy to guess. How can I use a service whose password I can't remember. It's such an idiotic practice by some programmer or entity flexing their new found validation knowledge and going overboard. BUT AT WHAT COST TO THE USER!

I could be wrong, but I'm so tired of companies dictating password complexity instead of locking their systems down.

I'm a programmer and I went through this stage where I just wanted all user entered data to be precise - BUT IT'S NOT USER FRIENDLY!

Anyone has an upside to this or am I truly missing something?
One of the things that I really, really like about electric vehicles, is that, with a widespread distribution we are also getting a well-distributed accessible reservoir of electric energy!

See: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100106/full/463018a.html
On front page already, with active discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729068
> Chomsky claims language is built-in.

In general he does. In this article he doesn't talk about he talks about approaches to AI.

> there have been some very good baby studies that show babies inherently know statistics needed to learn probabilistic associations.

Very good. Can we identify how that works and then build a robot that has the same mechanism in a more efficient way than simply simulating a brain at a molecular level. That is his argument here.

> They didn't understand neurons and biology and genetics so well then, so yay, magic things are possible!

So where were you 4-5 decades ago when he proposed his theory to propose a better one?
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Honestly the whole nerd thing is a completely western (mostly American) thing. I have a very different background and we don't even have a word for "nerd". The absolute closest synonym you can find is "really smart" which is positive, and a negative one would be "bookworm".

And these western stereotypes are absolutely non-existent. If you ask people in the streets to tell you general traits about 'the nerds' they wont be able to tell you a thing. But try that in America, they'll write a book about it.

But even in the western culture we are seeing these stereotypes fading away more and more every day because hey everybody is a nerd these days with their iPhones and iPads and Kindles etc...

All it takes is for computer programming to be brought into the standard school curriculum. Give that a couple of years and every teenager will also be a computer programmer, some better than the other but nonetheless.

By then, being able to program a computer will be too normal for these stereotypes to live.
Interesting logo! lol.
MacVim has good code-completing and most of the advanced features out of the box, if you use YADR or similar ( https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles ). I like to have the same environment regardless which language I'm using ( objective-c, python, java ... latex, html).

I usually use Xcode/IntelliJ for refactoring and some more advanced functionality.
Congratulations - you are the 1% who this model fails for. The rest of us will be just fine, since 99% of us don't travel more than 250 miles a day.

And for the couple times a year we need to take road trips, we can rent a luxury sedan with the money we've saved on fuel costs.
The latest weekend-long Rails Camp to be held here in Australia (in 2 weeks time) sold out within minutes, as it always has.

As a counterpoint, many people who attend spend their time at camp not doing Rails stuff.
Folks on the Tesla forums claim that you can pre-pay for a an eventual replacement to the tune of about $12K or 11% of the price of a new Roadster.

Right. The Roadster costs so much it makes sense to replace the battery. But if you paid $30k for a car and the battery costs $12k, it's a different story. Normal people are not going to spend $100k on a car.
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This is quite cool to play with - nice work.

May I suggest you give the tutorials a solid proof read? There are quite a few typos in the first few pages.

"This APIs is really simple"
"Webshell make it simpler."

Also, waaaay too many smiley faces.
rms did a great job with GPL, fighting copyright with copyright - though v3, with patent conditions, has not seen universal adoption (because too late? or a more fundamental problem?)

A distinction with surgeons is their work is not reproducible at near-zero cost; so shielding affects only n surgeons, not all developers and their users (i.e. "most people"). Also, people generally don't die because developers can't code a particular technique. He might get a foothold in software in surgical equipment, but I bet the shield doesn't apply to them.
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I'm happy for you. Could you be more specific about how ruby (as a language) and rails (as a framework) are more fun to you coming from python and then django/flask respectively? Is it the language you like more? Or the rails community?
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rbenv (https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv) is better than RVM.
It's more like the camel is already in the tent, and RMS is trying to shove its butt out.
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Hi Jim,

Very interested in speaking more about this position. What's the best way to reach you?
I used side projects mostly for idea validation. For example, I am working on an MDSD system that takes a UML or RDFS model and generates a web 2.0 app written in Google Closure and using XMPP to interact with the application layer. All of these technologies show great promise but none of them have really taken off. http://www.dynamicalsoftware.com/mdsd/closure is where I have documented some of my findings so far in exploring the merit of these three technologies.
Isn't that Chomsky's argument here (in this article, not in his approach to linguistics in general)? -- That it is a good idea to try to find a better understanding of how the internal mechanisms work so we can build or simulate it better. You do that with carefully constructed experiments not with just observing inputs and outputs and training a neural network or a Markov model with it.
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Absolutely agree with you. I went on a wild adventure through my 20s, spending time in Alaska, working as a baker, managing an organic farm for several years - living for the most part from the seat of my pants just following what felt right.

I'm sure I sacrificed some aspects of a 'career' because of it but I had an incredible life experience. And when I turned 30 I met the love of my life, finally committed full time to developing software (after a number of fits and starts) and never looked back.

I never spend a day feeling like I 'missed out on something'. Rather, I'm really enjoying my life where it is at right now, cool career, wonderful wife and 2 1/2 year old son.

I do kind of look forward to when my son gets a little older though so I can get a van and take him on some wild adventures ;)