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I disagree, I think potatolicious was pretty on point

> It's not some god given rule that cities HAVE to keep growing ad infinitum, especially ones that have limited land. Most San Franciscans are happy with the size of the city as it is.

You have a source on that stat? Rents in San Francisco are up something like 25+% year over year in many areas. Does that sound healthy to you?

> I'm not sure what you are referring to here. MUNI is very abundant and isn't too expensive (compared to NYC it's really cheap). There is generally plenty of parking outside of downtown.

Nope, MUNI is awful. Unless you live relatively close on one of the train lines, you are in for a world of hurt. The average speed of a MUNI bus has been going down continuously over time (due to extra traffic), to the point where it is now like 7mph. That means it takes an hour to go from one end to the other (vs 25 minutes tops to go a similar distance on BART). That means more people get cars, which means the buses get even slower. I'd happily pay the NYC monthly rates if I had an equivalent transit system.

> Not building high rises is preserving the quality of life SF is known for

San Francisco doesn't need to build high rises everywhere in the city, it needs to allow taller buildings (6-7 stories) in more areas without forcing developers to jump through all the hoops they have to right now. Lots of cities in Europe are filled with buildings of that height and it doesn't seem to hurt their quality of life too badly. Vancouver is consistently rated as having one of the highest quality of life scores in the world and has tons of high rises
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Ugh. I read this and cry inside. Perfectly brilliant idea that I didn't even think of.

Why? I just purchased a new ultra book burdened by Windows 8 pre-installed. If I switch to the legacy BIOS the machine won't boot up, period. The only way to get the machine to work is through Windows 8. No installing Linux, no changing firmware, no nothing. Wonderful little box that's magnificently useless for systems level programming...
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If you don't mind me asking, what is your side project startup about? I'm in a similar boat, working on some small things that I use myself and I'm considering trying to build into products for the public. Why don't you find people that so desperately need what you have that they are willing to use a half-finished, unpolished version of the software/website?
Chrome warned me there is a malware connected site on that page.
I've read your blog and agree wholeheartedly with the points you've made about the industry. I think it's a case of being the underdog if you want to do the job properly. In an ideal world, I'd be recruiting for one of the clients I deal with. That'd be the perfect solution to the problems I have with the job right now. I'd be building my tech knowledge without (I assume) such aggressive targets and the constant barrage of failure (to put a bleak spin on it).

Alternatively, I'll just continue to learn to code until I get a job doing that with wherever I've made a placement. That's been a serious consideration of mine for a while now, but we're looking at another couple of years of working at it, and I don't think I've got it in me to stay in this job for that long!!
Just federal government.

Federal US budget is ~$4T$/year, taxes are ~$2.4T, loans taken ("government bonds") are ~$1.6T/year.

Highly recommended: reading Karl Deninnger on "the market ticker" on a daily basis. His style of writing is not for everyone, but the facts are, and it's hard to find them so coherently laid out in other places.
Yes, it would be much better for them to lie down and martyr themselves for the cause.
I think he's referring to even higher resolutions, above 1080p (approximately 2K in resolution, since it's 1080 x1 920). At the moment, there's no consumer (as in, under a few $K) displays that'll even show 4K (3840 x 2160), so going even higher to 8K is not really helping anyone out, any time soon. Whereas all these systems are capable of running at 60fps, so that's an improvement you can actually use.

Apart from that, we've been stuck at 24fps for a long time. It's very noticeable on any film that has any action in: jarring, blurred, choppy sequences.
How can anyone possibly suggest that this would be cheaper than high-speed rail? If you're going 1150 mph ("average speed twice as fast as a commercial jet"), the curve radius is going to be immense – 90 km to maintain <0.3 lateral g. This will constrain your right-of-way selection vastly more than the HSR project Musk scoffs at.

And, of course, the skin friction on a 2.5 meter tunnel would be immense. Using a duct friction loss calculator I get 285 megawatts of loss over the entire tube. You need two tubes. At 120,000 passengers/day (HSR estimate), it would take 114 kWh per trip. That's worst than the Model S, hardly an system in which "the fundamental energy cost is so much lower" than a car.

No, the "theoretically fastest way" to go from Point A to Point B is a great-circle vacuum train connecting them. A launch loop does essentially that, but exploits the vacuum above our heads instead. It just fits better.

Any hyperloop theory needs to deal with supersonic speeds – LA-SF as the crow flies in 30 minutes is just under the wire for subsonic speeds. Elon said "under 30 minutes." There are mountains in the way.
From Gandhi himself:

> There is no such thing as "Gandhism," and I do not want to leave any sect after me. I do not claim to have originated any new principle or doctrine. I have simply tried in my own way to apply the eternal truths to our daily life and problems... >> The opinions I have formed and the conclusions I have arrived at are not final. I may change them tomorrow. << I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.[120]

(emphasis mine)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi#Prin...
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Why your new distributed social network won't work ...
Yeah, upon reflection, realising I was the only person who knew the difference between Java and Javascript was one of the more horrifying moments....
And see, I find that to be a slimy, horrible way to get around these inconvenient "rights" that we have, by defining an entire class of activity, that is pretty much essential to be able to participate in the modern world, as a way of giving up your rights.

"Oh, sure, you may have a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But upon accepting employment or payment for anything, you waive that right." Hey, the government has the right to regulate interstate commerce, and has ruled that even commerce within a state counts because it impacts prices on an interstate level. So let's just do away with the whole bill of rights by saying "you give implied consent to no longer have these rights by engaging in commerce." Done and done.
Do you really think he implied that SL is the only possible way to stream? He was talking about the immediate situation.
I've seen reverse gear used on several cars this year to get a car back on track after going off. I think the FIA must be testing for this operation (otherwise the teams would find some way to work around the regulations)
It's one thing to creatively take advantage of limitations to make art better. It's quite another to insist that an arbitrary limitation must be present on every work, regardless of whether it's good or not.

If 24fps is somehow good for certain types of film, then by all means, keep using it. But it's silly to say that 24fps is universally better, as I've heard some people say.
Can you please point out the portion of US law you believe requires paypal to do this?
But how do we judge whether all that data is just gravy...or actually needed to optimize our competitiveness?
Effective news consumption has been a huge problem since Internet got exponentially publishing disease. Unfortunately today writing for some writers and journalists is a matter of mass producing text not informing people.

I don’t think today’s technology can auto-summarize news for us properly. The approach taken by TLDR is the correct one. The news should be summarized by human to be useful.

To crowd source this function we can create groups of like-minded people. Members of each group need to split the job. Such a process will save many souls.
What machine is this? Do you know if other models of new windows 8 ultrabooks & tablets are affected, or is it just that one?
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Since it's almost Thanksgiving here in the US, I figured I'd ask.
Did you mean to say GNOME desktop, instead of Unity?
Might help Bitcoin as a decentralized payment provider then :)
Care to share the idea that was validated by one team and failed with another?
I agree with the blog's premise: "extremist" languages are great for language and for research. So this whole rant is not directly related to the post's central thesis. Instead, it's about the assumptions most people have whenever this topic comes up.

What I'm a little annoyed with can be summed up with a single banal and overused phrase: "the right tool for the right job".

For one, this phrase really doesn't say all that much--it's basically a tautology. Yes, using the right tool would be good, but with programming languages, it's rarely obvious what the right tool is! It's just a specialized version of the advice to "make the right choices", which is not much advice at all.

Another problem is that people inevitably ignore how much programming languages overlap. Virtually any languages worth comparing are going to be general-purpose languages. Choosing between a functional language and an OO language is not like choosing between a hammer and a screwdriver to pound in a nail, it's more like choosing between different types of hammer. In a world where hammers can do anything. (I don't know enough about carpentry to extend the analogy properly.) There are very few applications where one language clearly fits and another is clearly unsuited--and if you're in a vertical like that, the question just won't come up in the first place!

Another thing that comes up is people assuming that a multi-paradigm language has the benefits of all the paradigms it supports. I've found this is never the case. Even very multi-paradigm languages tend to favor one paradigm or the other more. And even if they didn't, there are benefits to being consistent. You can do much more by being functional everywhere than you can by merely supporting functional programming in some places. Any mix of paradigms is necessarily going to be a compromise, and the advantages of prioritizing one main paradigm can outweigh the flexibility of supporting more than one to any large extent. Doing one thing, and doing it well, is a powerful idea that doesn't stop applying in designing programming languages.

Now, I'm not leaning one way or the other here in any comparison of languages (I'm sure my biases are pretty evident and show through, they're just not germane to this comment); I just think that summarily dismissing a language for being too focused or too "extremist" or not multi-paradigm is rather short-sighted. Also, often, unless you've tried doing something in a language yourself, don't assume it's more difficult than what you already know. There is much "common wisdom" about (like "functional programming is bad for GUIs") which is often more "common" than "wisdom".
After the last two years, possibly (probably?) not - but surely that brand value is incredibly contextually relevant anyway. For consumer electronics, I probably wouldn't buy Oracle's tablet the Elisson-3000, but if I were building a server farm I'd be more inclined to go with Oracle over HP given the apparent management issues, the current Autonomy debacle, and their flip-flopping in the consumer PC space.

Irrespective of that, presumably an acquisition decision has more to it than , "HP is a better brand so we should buy HP" (this is not rhetorical)?

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, especially given your background, I'm just genuinely interested as to your reasons.
Disclaimer: I am not an art expert.

You point is well taken, but just as a minor nit, I wanted to add that artists did achieve photorealism first and then move on to abstractness. Arguably, that was driven by the advent of photography which commoditized photorealism.
I live in lower Manhattan. I should measure, but I'm pretty sure my apartment is right around 200 square feet, and when I was looking, there were definitely smaller apartments available. One of my friends' apartments is probably closer to 150 square feet.
> It’s better to throw coding standards out and allow free expression.

Yez, n we shud be lowed to spel wrds any wy we pleez.

Standards have a purpose. They serve a purpose in prose, where abandoning them leads to a decrease in communications effectiveness, and they serve a more important purpose in collaborative software development, where understanding the code's meaning is difficult even when everyone speaks the same language in the same way.

On one end of the spectrum, the small extra effort expended in adhering to coding styles and conventions means your code will be comprehensible to your successor, after you're long gone.

On the other end of the spectrum, without any consistent standards in force, you won't even be able to understand your own code six months from now.
That's great news! Maybe I'll find some use for my N950 soon.
This is exactly right. I don't understand why some people are jumping up and down as though this is some massive technological and artistic advance. TV has been able to do 60fps for decades (and HD, digital 60fps for at least one decade) and yet no television dramas (and even most comedies) are filmed/broadcasted at that rate. Why? Exactly the reasons you describe.

High framerates are great for live events and reality-based programming. 24-30fps is suited to taking the viewer "out of reality" into an artistically constructed world. This is not going to change because some movie theaters get 48fps projectors.
Yeah, that's about the size of my current apartment in Chicago. We just call them "studio apartments", nothing especially "micro" about them.
Now you're being ridiculous. I'm disappointed.

The context of those phrases, which you removed, made it clear enough that the first phrase referred to mine rolling as part of a system of complementary techniques while the second referred to it as a technique used on its own.

By intentionally removing that context so as to attempt to prove the phrases contradictory, you've proven only that you're more interesting in trolling than in debating this seriously. So I see no point in continuing this conversation.
"Thus if in those days you tried renting a game you’d receive an email saying “Congrats! your rental of Assassin’s Creed 3 has been approved! Connect with the lender via Facebook to work out the details.” User? Meet cliff, here let me help… shove"

Umm, a big part of the "MVP" is don't automate when you can use manual labor to test out a hypothesis. That doesn't mean your user has to do the manual labor. Why didn't you reach out to all of your lenders ahead of time and prep them for the relationship? You certainly had few enough that you could do it by hand. If you saw a bunch of folks contacting you wanting to rent it, you could make the introduction and let them take over. Or you could hand hold the entire way.

In short, just because it's "smoke and mirrors" doesn't mean it can't be functional. It's just that you take the place of working code! When you get enough users to prove the hypothesis (and reach scaling problems of doing it manually) only then do you write code to automate it.

Even more importantly than that is you now have a relationship with your super-early adopters. You can talk with them, do user research, UX testing, etc. That's something you miss out in this really bad implementation of an MVP.
My place is under 200sq ft in Seattle.
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Let me see

1. Open Source OS

2. Open Source web server

3. Open Source programming language

4. Open Source web framework

5. Some (relatively) simple customer support ticketing app [not likely to be a system pounding Gorilla]

And they claim that they've not been able to root-cause a Kernel panic and a framework slowdown?

And they've spent $100K on that with no results to show for it?

That sounds really strange to me.

[I've debugged Linux kernel panics on custom stacks, with no disk/logs, only console, 32MB of RAM, PPC cross-compiled - and never run into a dead-end like this]
Has anyone seriously refuted this? I'm looking for more than a "tish tosh, what an absurdity!" dismissals. I'm looking for something where serious examination of the argument leads to problems, logical or otherwise.

Also, has anyone tried to measure this? I've heard of people proposing ways to test simulation-or-not, but has anyone tried those methods?
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> "Maybe it wouldn't be quite as good, but we would all be okay. None of us would be shafted."

So rather than reward the talented and ignore the ungifted, he'd rather punish the talented and ignore the ungifted?
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I've learned never to take anything personally. Just the fact that you took the time to give me feedback is really generous of you.

Definitely trying to experiment with different ways to generate engagement on this blog. In fact I am comparing it to how our company blog functions as well. That can be a post for a later date :).

Thanks and take care. Happy thanksgiving.
I've been hurt before, and don't know if I'm ready to trust again.
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Latitude is something I am more interested in too. But, once I've tried Sony SRW-9000PL I was blown away. Full 12 stops, image looked (stock) like it was hand delivered from heaven without any lighting used (I had it only for a test), and even digital noise was pleasing, film like, in low light situations. I can only imagine what F-65 does then if 9k did that. Hell, even RED, post MX sensor, looks really great.

Film has a charm to itself though (even just watching rushes projectioned vs monitor), but from a practical standpoint it's dead and gone. When you factor in a cost of stock only for a 90 minute film (with a, standard, coverage of 20:1 or 30:!) you have to pay for it as much as a new digital camera. Not to mention developing, scanning, handling, storing it...
I think that some parts of the codebase are awesome but I would personally use express
One could as well say "whatever you think of how loud kookaburras laugh..."
Do you think it's likely that you're going to want to search for those short-lived variables? I think short variable names being less likely to create false-positives when searching is a feature, not a bug.
downvote for noticing the app looks like a decade old windows app? Seriously... have you looked at salesforce.com?
One surprise that you find out when you do this is that languages like C don't efficiently map to hardware at all. Hardware is inherently massively parallel, whereas C is completely serial. What modern hardware is doing to be fast is trying to recover as much fine grain parallelism from a sequential C program as possible using pipelines and out of order execution. We are now at a point where that has been mostly milked out, so explicit parallelism is necessary to gain performance, like SIMD and multiple threads.

It's interesting to consider how you can exploit parallelism more easily, for example from going from a sequential instruction set and language to an inherently parallel instruction set and language. Nobody has found the ultimate answer to that yet. GPUs execute thousands of sequential threads in parallel, and while that works for problems with massive and regular parallelism, it does not work for irregular parallelism or parallelism that requires fine grain communication or short lived parallelism or not-so-massive parallelism. FPGAs do work well for those types of parallelism, but they have other problems for general purpose computing. With hardware trends, it's inevitable that we'll see more and more parallelism and eventually a paradigm shift to inherently parallel architectures. Interesting times ahead.
"Software patents" aren't implementation specific. I can get a "software patent" on my business model, written entirely in the English language.

Literal software patents don't exist in the US system. You don't patent code, you patent what code does, so if you had to submit code, that would put an undue burden on an inventor - now I have to write code to implement my new method of delivering coffee to your house? But I don't even use any code!
Militants took their fight with Israel into the heart of the country Wednesday, exploding a bomb on a public transport bus in Tel Aviv. The attack is likely to complicate already tenuous efforts to achieve a cease-fire.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/21/world/meast/gaza-israel-strike...

American efforts to help negotiate a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the week-old Gaza rocket battle faced a new obstacle on Wednesday when the first bus bombing in years traumatized Tel Aviv, raising the prospect of a new Israeli retaliation just as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was working to achieve even a brief pause in the fighting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/world/middleeast/israel-ga...

At least 24 people have been injured in an explosion on a bus in Israel's commercial capital, Tel Aviv, in what police described as a "terrorist attack".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/11/20121121101...

None of these sites teased me into clicking through, they presented their stories in full text. I pay for NYT access, but their paywall is unrelated to your theory of PV corralling. These are all decent, concise treatments of the story.

What does "90% of the need to read the full article" mean to you? It seems like indefinable to me.
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Strange that they (for now) keep the UI closed source. Still, as far as I can figure out the kernel (Linux) and the OS core (Mere[1]) is Free software.

[1] http://merproject.org/
60fps isn't even that good in video games, but so many gamers these days have been raised on 60Hz consoles and PC monitors. They don't remember the old days of CRTs, where 60Hz was painfully flickery, and you wanted at least 75Hz to relieve eye strain. 75 or 85Hz with corresponding fps was much slicker than 60Hz.

IMO the purists complaining about 48Hz are complaining about a subconscious association, perhaps a bit like the smell of popcorn in the lobby. It's not an objective complaint, but as a subjective one it may be shared by a large proportion of the audience. Hard to tell until someone takes the risk with a broad audience, like Jackson is doing here.
Because not enough people understand "pseudonymous". Why do we call it all "the cloud"?
Submission here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4814086