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When I used a Mac a few years ago, none of the ports systems all had the latest versions of packages I needed, so I had more than one installed. This was a fucking nightmare to maintain.

macports is pretty much dead simple to deal with. And if you want to install something straight from source on OS X it is often no more difficult as it is on linux. My servers are all debian and ubuntu and it's basically painless using them side by side with OS X all day. Plus, with OS X you can have most linux desktop apps + any OS X apps. Even so, OS X is definitely not necessary if someone spends all of his or her time in the shell, and if that's the case linux would be a better choice.
Only because most first approximations are linear.
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I suggest that we're all getting a little too pedantic here. The point is it's basically all the same hardware. You can buy anything and put any OS on it, although it's not so nice to put OS X on hardware that didn't come from Apple.
I just deployed to a large instance on one of these and it was fantastic.

I'd been on RedHat before, so I had a slight learning curve to the Ubuntu/Debian ways, but it's a great AMI. Add in a Sprinkle script* to deploy a full Rails/MySql/Passenger stack and I moved a well trafficked production server from Nginx/Mongrel in just a few hours.

*http://www.rubyinside.com/passenger-stack-quickly-install-a-...
What reason is that?

From the article: "A faster rise of the optical acceleration above the detection threshold may outweigh a possible initial step in the wrong direction. Making an initial step forwards is not only easier than making an initial step backwards, but might also be a better choice."

It seems that the motto and the reasoning from the article conflict.
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Were you able to get it working in any browsers or did you discover it does not work at all later? That would be a huge loophole if it worked in any browser under any circumstances.
"Unfortunately, the April 2009 event will not be open to the public. However, future events will be. Keep checking the website for future details."

Does anybody know how to get tickets?
I used to work at Avery's startup NITI! I've been wondering whatever happened to the team since they sold to IBM. Thanks so much for this. What a delightful coincidence!
I'm no expert on marketing, but I think I'd check out StumbleUpon paid ads:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/ads/
If you think it's even remotely possible that a Real Programmer would use ruby, you have entirely missed the point.
Just the title statement iteself...

I always felt... why freaken robots, just have the leaders challange each other in a game of chess (Kasparov will be king) and basically we make rules based on technological levels, population, and other things, how many advisors you are allowed to have.

They just duke it out and after the one game war is over. Everyone accepts the outcome and the new overlords come to claim the country.

Its basically the same shit as war, except less death. We just need to figure out a way to incorporate nukes and suicide bombing into this game and a way to ensure propper resources are spent. After that why bother sending armies... Just send the chess team.
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Thanks for the very insightful information. I really appreciate the assistance with this. I'll be sure to check out the reads and, most importantly, view/analyze every site I now come across.
Gui (cross platform; thumb drive versions)
http://www.keepassx.org/

CLI (old; via ssh)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pwsafe/

Library (looks promising although not done)
http://www.pwsafe.de/
Correlation does not imply causation. There's a culture in the U.S. of over-working, both within successful companies and in non-successful companies.
Send each participant an email which contains a link to the survey. The link contains a hash key. Each hash key is only valid once. So, each link is only valid once. If you're really worried, also have people do a captcha before they take the survey.

I'm not sure if this works with your setup, but presumably, if you have access to peoples' Facebook information, you have access to their emails.
Getting OS X run under a PC would be tougher than getting Windows and Linux run over a macbook.
So you're saying you mostly edit text? There are only so many variations on typing things on a keyboard and having them appear in a text editor. You'd probably be fine either way, so you're really just looking at cost.

I'd suggest that if you've never used a Mac, the potential lost productivity you'll have using and learning an unfamiliar OS could be a burden to you.

What have you been developing on up to this point?
This would be the key reason to get a mac. To test anything in OSX legally - you need to be running Apple hardware. (Boot-camp/VMWare Windows and Linux). Until/unless Apple go to selling the OS on it's own - from a testing perspective (if you have to do that) - then a mac is the only way to go.
Don't forget that on OS X you would find Textmate, which has no match yet. On windows the best editor would be Notepad++. But nothing comes closer to Textmate.
If you wish to save some money, then better got for a PC.
No, so flip that: I don't have access to any FB info now, and I don't need it for anything, so I'd like to find a way to validate people without bringing out the privacy concerns of FB connect.

It's an incentivized survey that we'll distribute through ads and word of mouth (i.e., forums and the like) to pass around 2,000 people through it, none of whom we have emails for now.
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Perhaps because you can run faster going forward than you can going backward?
I find a combination of OSX with an Ubuntu VM (vmware) works really well.
That way you can keep your dev environment the same as your production linux machine .. it's pretty hard to beat apt-get.

By using VMWare, the OS you use doesn't actually matter that much as long as you have a decent terminal and your personal editing weapon of choice (jEdit in my case).
There's also robogames:

http://www.robogames.net/
This is a better link:

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"If I were on a PC I would only be able to have one version of IE installed."

That's not true. You can have virtual machines to test multiple versions of IE, too.
I wholeheartedly wish this company a very quick failure. Thank you very much, but the one thing I really don't want is more ads shoveled down my consumer throat.
That's quite an opinion you've thrown there. I run OS X and refuse to use anything but Vim--but I'm not going to try convince developers to switch. I think it's a little ridiculous (even though I'm sure it happens) to switch to an operating system exclusively for Textmate...

I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, but it's completely unreasonable to say Textmate has "no match yet". And, for the record, yes, I do own a copy of Textmate, and wasn't happy with it after several months of usage and went back to Vim. MacVim is my editor now.
Anyone ever work with these? Any suggestions on how to get started?
Honestly, if work is buying the computer for you, I'd get a Macbook (or Macbook Pro depending on the budget they're giving you) and run OS X and your Linux flavor of choice side-by-side. Develop in Linux--you may find that you never need to go to OS X so you might even opt to get rid of it. The hardware is really great; the new models are built very well and I hear there is good support for the hardware features like the camera etc. in Linux (double-check that obviously).

Especially for Python, which is installed in Leopard but is frozen at 2.5.1, and general web development, you won't struggle at all in Linux. If you're comfortable in a portable power editor (read: vim/emacs) then you're golden. Plus, apt-get is _incredible_. Coupled with multi-booting or VM'ing, you'll happily test across multiple operating systems and browsers.
So glad you could take the time to correct me. Just made my day. So yeah, I forgot "cachet" as an alternative spelling and was typing the comment from my phone. So you're the $10/hr Digg guy? Still sore about that?
Uservoice is just very finicky about my passwords and such. I logged in with Gmail afterward and that worked, then I tried to link it to my account using a l/p that I know is good, and so it apparently accepted it and forwarded me to problems.startupweekend.com where it suggested I log in. I had a lot of fun doing that dance, and hope to never do it again.
You understand incorrectly, for the most part. A sinking tide lowers all boats. Buffett doesn't care what the stock market prices his company at in the short term, only how the intrinsic value of his company improves over decades.

Also, the financial press loves to take pot shots, even though Buffett repeatedly and thoroughly explains that Berkshire's stock price will go through severe beatings from time to time.
You know, talk about replacing brake pads! I just had mine replaced, and I had this coupon that made it $99 for resurfacing and other labor (of course the replacement was another $105) instead of $159, so that worked out well. If you're actually interested in that sort of thing, I highly recommend actually opening that ValPak junk mail, there's usually some really good coupons in there.
My company's site, HubPages.Com just pushed out categories this week (April 2, 2009)

This essay has led a lot of people to think that categories are no longer useful.

This is a highly engaging article which I believe has been too successful in its attack on categories.

If you are interested why we are very excited about adding categories in addition to tags, you can check out my blog post here:
http://blog.hubpages.com/2009/04/categories-add-value-a-resp...
Actually, from the description of his high stakes poker games, he ran computer simulations in order to gain a competitive advantage so I wouldn't be surprised if he actually wrote a program.

Beal, for his part, took a mathematical approach, at one point running millions of computer simulations of various poker problems, in search of an edge against the pros, who rely on an uncanny intuition honed by thousands of hands

http://www.amazon.com/Professor-Banker-Suicide-King-Richest/...
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It seems like the study is as of yet unpublished. Google Scholar didn't turn up anything, and the researcher's web page doesn't list it.

http://www.managementmarketing.unimelb.edu.au/who/staff.cfm?...
Dan Dennett's sneak peak at the Hurley Model ("The joy of debugging")
How about just identifying via their IP and name, and also log their browser user-agent too, then when getting the results, query the database to find IPs which have taken part more than n times, and manually check for the signs that the entry was done by the same person or a bot?

It's not perfect, but unless you limit each IP to one entry, people can game the system (creating new Facebook accounts, email accounts, etc.) anyway.
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yup, ESR is an active contributor. You can find him in #wesnoth@irc.freenode.net sometimes.
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From the book

"Near the end of the first lecture, I explained what WordPerfect Corporation was not. This set the
stage for the next two days, when I would explain what WordPerfect Corporation was.

WordPerfect Corporation was not a platform for personal achievement, a career ladder to other opportunities, or a challenging opportunity for personal improvement. The company did not put the needs of the individual ahead of its own. The company was not concerned about an employee's
personal feelings, except as they related to the company's well-being.

WordPerfect Corporation was not intended to be a social club for the unproductive. While other companies might condone many personal or social activities at the office, ours did not. Things like celebrating birthdays, throwing baby showers, collecting for gifts, selling Tupperware or Avon, managing sports tournaments, running betting pools, calling home to keep a romance alive or hand out chores to the children, gossiping or flirting with co-workers, getting a haircut, going to a medical or dental appointment, running to the cafeteria for a snack, coming in a little late or leaving a little early, taking Friday afternoon off, and griping about working conditions were all
inappropriate when done on company time. Even though these activities were condoned by many businesses across the country, we felt there was no time for them at WordPerfect Corporation."

While all this can be justified, why would anyone want to work at a compnay like this?

I found this interesting since most companies these days at least pretend to do many of these things in order to attract and retain a talented workforce. There is no mention of any ESOP like scheme either. But WP made a lot of money so they must have done something right and hired at least a few good people.

Maybe the eighties was just a different time.
Within a large city, the difference between one public school and the next can be the difference between a serious study environment, and an environment where the majority are in gangs or come from broken families, and class is disrupted on a daily basis.

The explanation is simple: the factors that separate the ghetto from the toniest parts of town will feed into a school system based on geographical location.

School busing has been tried as a solution to this, but it causes other problems - expense, high commute times, and a environment where some of the kids are at an obvious - and painful - advantage to others. The parents in a good neighborhood will fight against busing, if it could put their kid in a worse school. The parents in a bad neighborhood may have too many other problems to be concerned with their kid's education.
Yes I agree, and sorry for oversimplifying, but the problem is whenever you do try and touch on a detail or two, the complexity multiplies under your fingertips like a frickin' fractal. I mean you name it, it's a problem, and they all feed back into each other in this huge spaghetti mess of unsolvability. To try and talk about it at all in a format such as this is to oversimplify by necessity. I'm try to do so in a reasonably non-misleading way, though.

I agree with pretty much everything you say - you had (correct) criticism of my "deductions", correct criticism of the libertarian line, correct critcism of the Singer argument. But at least all these arguments are solutions on the table. We can correctly poke holes in all of them, but until we have something to offer ourselves, a "peer" argument if you will, it's all just nitpicking. The crisis is current and ongoing and in our faces - well, in their faces, anyway. Some kind of action is necessary, even imperfect action - it's got to be better than nothing.

Your argument about cutting off aid killing people is of course understandable and very human, but to me our differences on it sound a lot like a variation on the "Trolley Problem" ethical dilemma - where whether killing less people now to save more people later is moral or not seems to simply be a matter of directness. To whit:

from http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~jgreene/ - I am quite a fan of this guy:

First, we have the switch dilemma: A runaway trolley is hurtling down the tracks toward five people who will be killed if it proceeds on its present course. You can save these five people by diverting the trolley onto a different set of tracks, one that has only one person on it, but if you do this that person will be killed. Is it morally permissible to turn the trolley and thus prevent five deaths at the cost of one? Most people say "Yes."

Then we have the footbridge dilemma: Once again, the trolley is headed for five people. You are standing next to a large man on a footbridge spanning the tracks. The only way to save the five people is to push this man off the footbridge and into the path of the trolley. Is that morally permissible? Most people say "No."

Is it possible that differing arguments between the "libertarians" and the "Singer-esque" reduces to this phenomenon? Succinctly, the libertarians are thinking of the switch, and Singer is thinking of the footbridge?

As for my own views, well - I think the governance situation is insoluble and propose a UN agency backed by force of arms who will put any country who can't feed, say, more than 0.1% of its population into "bankruptcy" adminstration, to be reorganised and released later in a more competent shape. However, I usually can't even say this because of post-colonialist western guilt, which seems to be even more powerful a force than the "realeconomik" or "feed the hungry" arguments.
at a guess - at least my own feelings on the matter - is that I'm more concerned with class than I am with race. (The problem is that the two can be pretty strongly correlated)
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You ask:

> Mine can't loan out money at 26 times my deposits. Can yours? Of course not; you're not a bank.

Actually, I think that if someone loans a hypothetical non-bank US corporation money, it can legally loan out 100% of that money, without retaining any of it as a reserve. This is probably not a good idea, since it means it won't be able to pay any of its bills next week, but it's not illegal.

What you wrote makes it sound as if, when depositors loan a bank $100 000, the bank can then loan out $2 600 000. That is not the way fractional-reserve banking works. The actual amount the bank can legally loan out in that case is more like $90 000. A non-bank corporation would be able to loan out a larger amount (up to $100 000) in that case, not a smaller amount, as your post suggests.
Is there a difference between <em> and <i>?
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<em> is semantic, it means "emphasis" the default style for that in most browsers is italic.

<i> is stylistic, it means "render this text in italics".

for people eager to separate meaning from presentation it's a non-trivial difference.
<i> indicates that something is italic in its presentation.
<em> indicates that something is emphasized and nothing more -- it may or may not be italicized in its presentation.

The trend for HTML/XHTML is away from markup that denotes the presentation of something and toward markup that denotes the meaning. In i/em matters it's a pedantic discussion, but in recent standards, tags like <font> and <center> are removed entirely.
And don't forget stumpwm (http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/), the common lisp window manager !
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Just to give a little more depth to Walt as a hardware hacker. He invented and patented the multiplane camera.

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT2201689

This gave the Disney films much of their richness that other studios could not match.. unfortunately the Disney studio stopped using this technology after Walt's death in 66 because of expense... and it showed.

He was also an innovator and is responsible for the technique known as "rolling" whereby the animators disk was actually turned upside down so that animators could roll through the drawings instead of flip through them as was customary at the time.

Example of the technique linked below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFFq_-XCfq4

This helped with the inbetweening process because an animator could quickly flip back and forth through the movements of a character, or even through every X frames of a character to judge it's movements more precisely, which made the Disney films look more realistic.

He also innovated by spending lots of resources on research, with the studio coming up with the "12 principles of animation" which are still relevant, even today. They had this stuff figured out in the 30's

He was also a fan of iteration and always expected more from his animators. For example, did you know that Dopey from Snow White, Jiminy Cricket from Pinnochio and Thumper from Bambi were not in the original scripts for those films? They are among the most popular characters from those classic films.

I could go on and on about many of the things that he did and many of the values he held which you would find in many of the great CEO's, eg Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.

Needless to say, Walt was a hacker in every sense of the word. Nothing was unachievable in his mind.
Right, if I could run some code on one of those received messages, i would be golden, because i could communicate back with home base, but Apple limits this to just receiving messages I'm assuming.
I think the advantage of having non-maximized windows is that dragging and dropping data from one app (or even one window) to another is a lot easier and more intuitive without going through the Windows task bar.

It's also easier to do something like read directions on a webpage while you execute those directions in another window without hiding it when accidentally clicking in the browser.
Replace "Singer" with "Gore" and I absolutely agree.
The motto exists because our basic reactionary instinct on a fly ball is to run inward, which is supported by the finding in this article.

But running inward is not a better choice from a baseball standpoint. For one thing, if you take your first step back and then recalculate and realize that the fly ball was shallow, it's easier to make up more ground and run forward. If you were to take your first step inward only to realize that the ball is going over your head, it's much harder to turn around and pursue it (yes, that fraction of a second adds up to a lot in baseball).

Also, if you mistakenly take a step back and it turns out the ball is going to fall in front of you, that means it was hit less hard than expected, which means it's more likely that the ball will be taking a friendlier trajectory (in other words, less of a line drive), and so you'll have more time to make up for your misread. In the opposite case, that means the ball was hit harder than expected, making it even less likely for you to recover. Additionally, if you make a mistake and let a ball drop in front of you, that's a single, and a relatively contained one at that as you'll be charging the ball when it lands and have the momentum to make a good throw (to nail a runner at the plate, for instance). However, if you make a mistake and a let a ball get over your head, that's a double minimum, and you'll be running away from the bases to pursue the ball, making a throw that much harder (and of course you'll be farther from the infield as well, but that was by definition).

A simplification of the problem would be to assume that you have a 50/50 chance of guessing right on whether to move in or out on a fly. If that were the case, the potential loss in mistakenly taking the first step inward is much greater than the potential loss in mistakenly taking the first step outward. In practice, there are many other factors that shape this "decision" (or developed instinct). One such thing is the sound made when the bat hits the ball (hard to explain this one if you haven't played baseball, though suffice it to say it has something to do with how loud the sound is). Another is the depth you're playing at originally. On many high school fields, which are smaller than major league parks, it's quite plausible to play at a depth where if you take your first step back, you'll catch all but the hardest hit drives, some of which are home runs anyway, and still be able to recover on misreads and catch all but the luckiest of bloopers.
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What do you guys think of Freebsd? Hardware and software availability? And can I run stuff like Skype, VMWare and Flash?