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I am wondering if the phrase, like so much else in the Python world, is a reference to a Monty Python sketch...

Edit:

Nevermind. Just found the answer to this question on the "Talk" page for that same wikipedia article:

“This is Guido speaking. A few months ago I found an email from 1995 in an old mailbox that I had saved since then, which was meeting notes from one of the first meetings of the Python Software Association (a precursor of the PSF). Nearly everyone present was given a jocular title, and mine was in full "First Interim benevolent Dictator for Life". Once I track this down again, can I post it on the wiki page or should I do something else first? I'm pretty sure that the titles were made up collectively there and that the term did not originate in a Monty Python skit. Most likely inventors of the term are Barry Warsaw or Ken Manheimer, who were both present at the meeting (I think) and have just thekind of mind to come up with such a term. I don't know how the term subsequently became popular -- perhaps it was used in early PSA mailings. Gvanrossum (talk) 04:21, 31 July 2008 (UTC)”

Those Talk pages sure are useful.
they did throw a significant amount of resources at python with the creation of unladen swallow. In the end i believe it was decided (due to GIL issues, and other language design choices in python) that it was never going to match up performance wise, so unladen swallow was canceled, and Google began to move away from python.
Android is free. the devices aren't. Google gives Android away and the OEM's sell it. Samsung makes lots of money selling Android phones. Google makes almost nothing.
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Bullshit. A compelling counterexample to "all these graphs that keep getting published" is far and away the best way to establish your scientific reputation, get a job, get money from the NSF, etc.
Too bad much of computing these days is consuming...
If we ignore the cosmological constant contribution, for each of the 10 non-zero components of the Ricci curvature tensor, the sum of the component of the Ricci curvature tensor minus half of the corresponding component of the metric tensor multiplied by the Ricci scalar is equal to four times the ratio of the circumference of an arbitrary circle divided by its radius, multiplied by Newton's gravitational constant divided by the fourth power of the speed of light in vacuum and multiplied by the corresponding component of the stress-energy tensor.

Would this be clearer than the original [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations]? After all, I don't use any weird symbols and avoid greek letters... Surely the author of that blog post would be satisfied by this ... Perhaps, I should include what I mean by Ricci curvature tensor ... but first define what I mean by a tensor, including the metric tensor, and explain other words like stress-energy tensor; it should not take more than a few lines of text for it to be completely clear, right?
Yes, it is. [1]

[1]: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
People don't like most advertising because it's lying to them, or at least covering up it's faults (turd rolled in glitter). I mean, what company is going to pay to tell everything about their product. There going to show it in the best light. When people buy something they want to be informed (doesn't a free market require this?). With sites like Amazon or Newegg you get more information about the product and similar products that is supposedly neutral. They don't care 'which' product you buy, as long as you buy it from them. The customer benefits by exposure to more choices, better products, and possibly better pricing.

This does not work as well for vendors, they do not care who you buy from, as long as you buy their product.
I don't understand where you're getting that I said people are only forced into Android? Frankly, I don't understand why you seem so hostile in general, throwing out things like:

> Also, did you honestly think that Android just randomly shows ads or something?

> The hair brained notion that people are only forced into Android, they don't choose it.

To be clear, I develop primarily for the web so I'm not very invested in any of these platforms. You seem to think I'm anti-Android or pro-iOS (or whatever). Given the choice between Android or nothing, I wish people would buy Android devices and then actually use them to browse the web so that more of my users would be using WebKit! That doesn't seem to actually be happening though. The latest StatCounter numbers show Android's actual usage in North America at ~10% less and falling away from iOS slightly, even though there are so many Android devices.

The Wave team was passionate about Wave too. That's great, but passion (alone) doesn't pay the bills. I hate to be overly cynical, but Google's own track record speaks for itself quite clearly when it comes to products that don't contribute enough to the bottom line. Just off the top of my head, I can think of two popular Google services that I use daily which have stagnated due to lack of active development when Google decided they weren't worth focusing on.

Of course I don't think Android would be "shut down" overnight. What does that even mean? I do think that Android must remain important enough to Google that it's very actively developed and keeps pace with iOS and other mobile operating systems though. Otherwise, it would quickly fall by the wayside like Netscape, MySpace, or BlackBerry.
I know that IE or Firefox will probably never adopt this tech, but IE will never adopt WebGL, and that's somewhat considered part of the HTML5 stack.

I'm just not a fan of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for writing apps. Part of the reason is my ignorance, but the other reason is because that stack seems to be a worse is better solution.

Oh well, back to monkeying around with TypeScript.
With WebRTC, been thinking it would be cool to employ the webcam and use gestures, or expiring QR codes.
I belong to one of the non-US markets where Nokia smartphones and dumbphones had a majority share. To be honest, abandoning Symbian was quite a shock here because, despite being slow, it was a very familiar user interface for vast majority of the population.

Rather than throw the baby with the bathwater, Nokia could retained a very loyal customer base by offering a smoother migration path. They could have even made an entirely rewritten touch based OS with a familiar Nokia UI (or as a fallback mode). It would have been a killer product in such markets. Instead Elop chose to write-off all the good work Nokia has done thus far by calling it a "burning platform".

Whichever numbers you look at today, the sheer stupidity of that decision is painfully evident.
> No swap on the box.

Wrong.

...some common myths:

1. Swap space does not inherently slow down your system. In fact, not having swap space doesn't mean you won't swap pages. It merely means that Linux has fewer choices about what RAM can be reused when a demand hits. Thus, it is possible for the throughput of a system that has no swap space to be lower than that of a system that has some.

2. Swap space is used for modified anonymous pages only. Your programs, shared libraries and filesystem cache are never written there under any circumstances.

3. Given items 1 and 2 above, the philosophy of “minimization of swap space” is really just a concern about wasted disk space.
...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10678

Edit: formatting
I been using Outlook.com / Live Domain Services for a while now. Here are some issues I face

- Catch-all address is not supported.

- If you want to connect one email to multiple accounts, (for easy switching between your domain emails) you have a limit of 5 accounts linked together.

- No IMAP support, but Push works well. Add as an exchange account to iPhone and sync all the folders.

- Only Office365 ( Premium service ) has good MS support, the free service has a community based support at Microsoft Answers which is well, pathetic.

- At times ( quite a few times ) it forgets, you have created a new email and has 100s of mail in the your Inbox as you been using it from months and it gives you the first-time setup page. Don't panic, just log out,clear cache and try again. Everything would be fine and back to normal.

One suggestion, if you switch and create an email account and for some reason want to reconfigure everything again. Make sure you delete all the email addresses you created. If you do not do that, after reconfiguring live services won't let your create that email for like forever ( 3 months wait time till its gets cleared from the system )Yes, even if its your verified domain.
The survey widget says 96% prefer the old logo to the new one. I couldn't find anywhere on the UC website that referred to the new logo. Is this official, or just a proof of concept?
Agreed. In this situation, the individual students have agency over their level of stress during that specific week. It's absurd to make generalizations about the school because a large number of individuals decide independent of one another and of the institution to waste time or to procrastinate.
On the topic of critically evaluating the evidence of God, I'm reading now:

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Christ-Journalists-Personal-Inves...

Am genuinely enjoying it.

Amazon's summary:

"Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools like Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis who are recognized authorities in their own fields. Strobel challenges them with questions like: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event?"
For those of us, it would be thoughtful to reveal that in some way in the graphs. Do MIT students really memorize the correspondence of course numbers to subjects?
Or a market that is known to be viable with a product that is not yet known to be viable. I think most people would consider Tesla a startup, but cars have been around for a century.
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You don't have to link the label to the form element via ID. It's simpler to nest the element within the label.
"No swap" is a common misconception. Having no swap is dangerous and can actually slow down your system.
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Too many variables will be missing. For example, you won't see how different economic systems affect scientific research and (thus) overall technological progress, which is the means by which a relatively poor person today is better off than a king 400 years ago.
That eliminates capital-intensive businesses. I think most people would consider Tesla and SpaceX to be startups, but Tesla has 3500 employees and SpaceX has >2000.
If it did everyone would use chrome/firefox with adblock. A huge portion of the population seems to put up with all the ads thrown at them.
The indian child in the photo was also a giveaway since this is an article about Ethiopia.
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Seems pretty official: http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/
That is what I would consider an atrocious logo. Who did they test this against?
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Ask HN: How do fellow entrepreneurs deal with the stresses of Christmas?
With the holidays fast approaching I'm beginning to feel the stress build up even more than usual.

I've been living off my savings as I'm trying to get my startup going which means my budget for gifts is really low. All around me friends and family are cheerfully buying gifts as they have full time jobs. I feel that around me, no one really understands the position I'm in and I feel guilty and truly sad that I cannot match their generosity.

Is this something that other entrepreneurs are going through and feel the same way?
Or am I feeling like this is because I've commercialized Christmas by thinking gifts are necessary. I feel that my niece or nephew wouldn't understand not getting a gift from me during this time of year.
Just because you refuse to move with the times doesn't mean the developer wants to be stuck with you.

In all our apps the people hanging on to iOS 5 is about 10%, and it's shrinking all the time. So there's very little incentive for the dev to bother putting in the time and effort to try and sort out whatever issues there are on iOS 5 / performance issues on the iPad 1.
http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/
http://research.universityofcalifornia.edu/
http://vimeo.com/universityofcalifornia

all use the new logo
The future of iOS (apps) should look a lot like Windows Phone
it just looks like the wait spinner in Android stuck in a baby-blue tarp...

Honestly who came up with this idea.
Whatever you do, don't make clicking the label do something other than check/uncheck the box, like how Xfinity's boneheaded login page brings up a 'help' screen when you click on 'Keep me signed in': https://login.comcast.net/login
Be careful, I had my domain with outlook.com's predecessor, then when moving to a hosted exchange option made the mistake of trying to close the account instead of simply moving my domain records and leaving be.

I can never, ever, use me@mydomain.com as a Microsoft account ever again.
I think this is the crux of the matter...RMS believes that making money from software is somehow evil.
They do.

There's even an MIT "joke" that's just a string of course numbers followed by "out," indicating the stereotypical path of a struggling MIT student.
Awful. Simply awful.
A game that is similarly free-form, albeit less chaotic, is Eleusis. It is played with cards, and each round one person chooses a secret pattern, and the other players play cards, which are identified as correct or incorrect, and they try to figure out the pattern. So there are meta-rules about how the game is played, but the rules for "correct" cards change every game. It seems like a game many HNers would enjoy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusis_%28card_game%29
Your tax dollars at work, Californians.
I think a number of people are worried about Apple shooting themselves in the foot, or screwing their customers. Apple's handling of software development in the '80s almost killed them. Microsoft's 'steal it, pirate it, just develop for it' mantra got us to where we are today.

Apples default of signed programs is probably best for consumer safety, but many times the best ideas don't win the market.
I find the better balance is to use a file-based swap, at least while experimenting with sizes, the performance loss from the FS overhead really is minimal.
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Doing 4 8-bit computations in parallel is different from doing 3 10-bit computations in parallel (or two 11-bit computations and one 10-bit computation). The hardware required is different.

Modern GPUs are certainly capable of high-precision arithmetic but it is not a safe assumption that all the hardware is designed for it. A lot of it is designed for the stuff it spends most of its time doing, which is 8 bits per channel rasterization.
They will revert. I'll put money on it. Who's in?
Also people play games to have fun or to escape, resulting in their actions being much different than they would be in real life.
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Waiting for the new logo to fully load, all I see is a slow yellow loading gif.
Nowadays they have macro programs to help with this that use LUA or custom scripting languages to run the game.

I remember learning LUA by writing scripts. Probably my pinnacle here was one to harvest wood / mine automatically, recalling to a bank to drop everything off and then head to a new mine, rotating mines so they wouldn't run out and playing a siren noise and sending me an email when the anti-macro popup would come up.

At this point I was more playing to see how advanced and resilient I could make my script, and less so to play the game, heh.
>8bpc render targets have limited feature sets, especially when talking about older architectures like the XBox 360.

It's true that they're used to accumulate lighting and other information, but that's basically one of the simplest possible use cases for a render target; you're just writing pixel data.

Multisampling, blending, etc - all things used often in 3D rendering - are not necessarily supported on a >8bpc render target. Whether you can do them depends on the drivers and the hardware. The same goes for textures that are >8bpc (filtering might not work, for example).

I ran into this problem just yesterday in a program I was writing when I tried to do blending on a high precision render target. :)
I really enjoyed that article until the end. Kind of anti-climactic.
Well, it can get confusing when "a company designed to grow fast" doesn't, and yet still has enough revenue coming in to not die. I worked at a company that considered themselves a startup when I first interned there in 2004 (they'd been founded around 2002 and had just gotten their first 7-figure contract). When I left in 2007, it was apparent they were really a small business, they started calling themselves a small business around 2009, and they finally went out of business in 2011. I think headcount topped out at around a dozen in 2006 - it'd been around 7 at my first internship, and I think it was down to just founders when they went under.
So... How does it scale? Seriously deep conclusion
"The story of ChangeMakrs sounds like a Hacker News cliche"...ugggh gigaom
Lesson I would get out of this is: developing in Microsoft technologies where they don't already have a strong or dominant position in a market is risky. These days their embrace extend extinguish tactic isn't working so well. What's included in this? Winphone? Surface? Don't really know what else.
Where is the other half of the equation.

What's happening with Microsoft in the server room? All these tablets and phones and other assorted toys don't make very much of their own data. They are fed with huge server farms. I don't see Apple making any of those servers and server operating systems currently.
I'm saying that I'd love it if this was within the first thousand things on the list of biggest problems I'm dealing with.
I'm pretty sure your mom doesn't represent 'a lot of people'.
That logo reminds me of the first time I figured out how to make gradients in Photoshop. It wasn't good then, and it isn't good now.
I went to UC.

Need to stock up on my alumni clothing before this hits the stores. Bleh.
Submitter has just one submission. GigaOm is gaming HN: http://i4.minus.com/jClfstv73Ap7f.png
Did they pay some logo consultant over six figures for that?

Did they run a competition for student and professor entries at their various schools?

It does look nicer than the DeVry shield it pays homage to. http://www.gmkfreelogos.com/logos/D/img/DeVry_Education_Shie...
what about netflix? they are still using silverlight
Wow, was there a contest to top the London 2012 Olympics logo for worst logo ever?
The cost may still be a little too far out, but what about requiring breeders to register the dog's DNA sequence in some database. If the dog is found as a stray, a large fine is imposed on the breeder or the most recently registered owner. The fines could go towards programs for neutering and finding homes for strays. If particular breeders are frequently coming up as strays, they could loose their breeder license, etc. Of course to play my own devil's advocate, the risk here is that the owners who have lost interest in keeping a pet kill the animals instead of releasing them.
Yes. It's number one on the '101 thugs to do before you graduate' list every year. It's actually not that hard. There's only 24 (including skipped numbers).
This is impressive on so many levels. It's not so much that they are taught basic tasks over and over, but that together those tasks amount to something so much more complex.
Yep. Back in the day, before the internet took off, there wasn't much you could do with a computer but develop software, process words, and play games locally. A few people lurked on BBSs — remember them? Remember acoustic couplers?

The internet has swamped all that. Now, computers (sized PC and downwards) are primarily a conduit to the internet, and most computing is consuming and creating internet content, be it web surfing, emailing, social networking, shopping, torrent downloading, whatever.
Not me. It's hideous.
Yup, the network code wasn't that great in the early days. It definitely seemed tuned to dial-up internet.

I was one of the lucky ones that got a cable modem in the early days (one way cable modem, down was cable, up was 56k!) and had a great advantage in player vs player, as I could outrun their lag, and generally do things faster than them if they were on dialup.
You contradict yourself:

> the natural way of programming is to define relations (functions) on a small number of core data structures. ...
> ... And that information is embodied in its type

If you encode information in type, you will have a very large number of data structures.
Server rooms are increasingly Linux only with a token Exchange server. There are definitely lots of Microsoft servers but they are increasingly there for legacy reasons like a development team that opted for .NET over Java a decade ago. Most new deployments and all that popular cloud stuff is happening on Linux. Even Microsoft was forced to support Linux on Azure.
Just terrible. I hate to see this new trend of creating these new logos. It reminds me of Web 2.0. The old logo is beautiful and timeless.. this new logo is just.. ah.

Their new slogan tops the cake: "Whether you know it or not, the University of California, or a UC grad, has probably played a part in your day."
People who do hard work tend to bite off more than they can chew, especially at MIT, and there is obviously a limit to how much you can handle. What MIT does right when it comes to stress relief is its housing system. You get to pick where you want to live, and you mostly get your choice (or you can move eventually). That way you can live within a supportive community. It really makes a difference during those hell weeks.

- MIT '11 MEng '12
I've had some lows with work situations and loved ones always understand that kind of situation. What I've done in the past is get creative and try to still give gifts that are homemade or otherwise don't require money. Most of the time, they are so happy and excited for something so novel.

Further reading: http://zenhabits.net/argh/, http://zenhabits.net/bah/, http://zenhabits.net/giftless/
Liebniz was a mathematician.

Newton was a member of the Royal Academy. They communicated with each other.
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Especially important when you have mobile users filling out forms.
Uncredited verbatim copypasta from Wikipedia and another website's article from 2008[1] among other sources.

[1] http://crunkish.com/top-ten-worst-computer-viruses/
You're in agreement with the parent comment. "Who's in?" means, "Who's in on the bet that they will revert the logo [because it's hideous]?" (We're all in agreement, of course. This new logo is the seventeenth sign of the Apocalypse.)
Apart from the non-conclusion, nice article. Love the Changemakrs site and team.
Asian parents often also hit children who don't learn their multiplication tables.
It could just be that Google was too big. Maybe Guido just wanted to be the Big Man on Campus. Google is filled with brilliant/famous engineers. Dropbox is much smaller so going to a smaller company, he can have a much larger impact. Just a theory though, there are tons of possibilities.
What's that, we should write math in a language that computers can understand?

Knuth did that:

\frac{\frac{1}{x}+\frac{1}{y}}{y-z}

And thank Don, he made the computer output something human readable.
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