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I don't know, I think it was fairly thorough -- at least, for a quick read on somebody's webpage.

Regarding Leonardo as a tinkerer, based on his description of Mozart's works, I'm pretty sure that this guy would find da Vinci to be creative.

As for the rest -- I was excited when he mentioned cost versus benefit for curiosity, and disappointed that he didn't spend more time on it.

Curiosity is dangerous. I've been lucky to have survived several different bouts of raging curiosity; as a species, curiosity about things like nuclear reactions has brought with it the risk of self-annihilation. Space exploration has claimed a number of lives, as has more conventional exploration throughout history.

If you're one of the people that likes to equate everything that modern humans do to some evolutionary development, then I think it would be easy to show an evolutionary disadvantage for very curious creatures. The most curious have pretty good odds of disappearing and never coming back, or getting themselves otherwise killed or removed from the gene pool.

What would be left is the childlike curiosity that he was talking about -- curiosity sufficient for exploring the immediate environment, figuring out what's good to eat and what isn't, what's dangerous and what isn't, and once the environment becomes "safe", you stop exploring.

I have one quibble though: I don't think that this solves the case of anti-intellectualism in the sense that most people would think of the term, which is a hostile response to intellectualism. What he described was more of an apathy towards rigorous curiosity; when I think of anti-intellectualism, I think back to high school.

My guess is hostility towards intellectualism is just a way for some people to level the social playing field against other people. Just as intellectuals who are not well-suited to sports will sniff down their noses at the very idea of chasing some stupid ball around a field, so do the greater majority of people sniff down their noses at the very idea of exercising your brain if you don't have to.
Or start one. The smart contrarian will see early the comeback for corporate monoliths. And very slowly begin his work. :)
There's a wiki for the book (http://codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page).

I really like CTM. I'm only about halfway through it (it's big!), but IMHO the writing is quite clear without being dry or shying away from harder material. Very well written.

The main idea of the book is that no one programming paradigm is the best fit for all problems, so it's worth knowing several, their respective strengths and weaknesses, and the ways in which they can be combined. The examples are mostly written in Oz, a language of the authors' invention, but they're not dogmatic about it - it's just a multi-paradigm language well suited to showing different techniques in isolation. (I made a quick attempt to port Oz/Mozart to OpenBSD/amd64, but didn't get it working. I wrote examples in OCaml and Scheme instead.)

Also, if you appreciate reading attempts to solve problems from multiple angles, Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/) is worth a look. You can read other peoples' solutions after solving each problem; I've learned a lot about algorithms that way. (The problems are predominantly mathematical.)
You can click on the function names and it opens a tab with the code.
If nothing else, the fact they've taken the effort to overlay right/left arrows on the image during a mouseover event, yet still do a full reload to show the next image is instructive.

Any particular reason this was linked to other than general interest? I'm not seeing anything revolutionary...
I don't think that RWH is at the same level of SICP and the other masterpieces of programming language theory: CTM and TAoP (The Art of Prolog).

RWH is just a good Haskell book teaching people how to do practical things with the language, but it doesn't have the intention of reaching the level of conceptualism and abstraction that the books I've mentioned achieve.

In fact, I think that RWH is not a good book for learning Haskell unless you're a Java programmer. It's mainly written for that audience. In case you come from Lisp or even Ruby or Python I'd strongly recommend A Gentle Introduction to Haskell (http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/).

It's been the officious Haskell tutorial since 1998. It's short, free and written by very relevant members of the Haskell community.
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Even though I'm not a U.S. citizen, I'm hoping the press is next. For some time I thought my country is pretty much isolated case when it comes to press stupidity, arrogance and whatnot, but lately I realized similar things happen in U.S. as well, leading me to believe it's like that pretty much anywhere you go.
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Upsides: Manila is way cheaper to live. I'm bootstrapping so it made/makes sense. Salaries are also cheap.

If your startup is B2B, Manila is great b/c the businesses here are so cheap. So you can find out if you are solving a real pain point, not a "nice to have".

English is an official language so communications is mostly a non-issue.

Apple opened an online store so hackers now have more options without paying 50% over US prices.

Downsides: startup community is non-existent. Graduates tend to flock to MSFT, IBM, etc. for a chance to go to the states but with the economic downturn and uncertain job security, that is changing. It's also harder to find the right kind of hackers for startups.

If you are looking for funding, it's very difficult.

Those are the major trade-offs. All in all, it was worth it for me and I now have a chance to positively affect the world wide movement towards entrepreneurship locally.
Old (2006) article but extremely intellectually gratifying. A leaf of a wikitrip of course.
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With the post flagged, the title reads "Tony has been found ok by the police [dead]", which is highly misleading, especially since the link has been removed.
The stolen goods are still unaccounted for and four Italians (with links to the mafia) are caught after making pretty stupid mistakes for such an elaborate (and difficult) robbery. How could guys like 'The Genius' and 'The Monster' not have come up with a better plan to dispose of the trash and clean out the apartment? Maybe Notarbartolo is just serving time as part of a bigger deal, either for a share of the spoils or safety from rival mafia members? The others could have been framed, running errands like buying sandwich meats for the masterminds or having their DNA strewn across the vault. Anyone else want to write a Hollywood script with me?
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This will become important to know as Whitman is running for Governor of California in 2010.
Or you don't know how much you now. (When you are the insider thinking your job easy.)
> ... but I think people should approach it with care and
> stop applying it like it was a God commandement.
Isn't that the case with _any_ guideline ?

Guidelines like 'Release early, release often' are just that, guidelines. Take any guideline to its extremes and it will just collapse. They are just there to 'guide' your _thinking_, and that's something no-one else can do for you.
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I belive this phenomenon comes from the fact that for certain people, the "artiste" is a superior human being. Someone who belongs to a special caste. So they don't want to let you come through with it untested. Envious.
Exactly. Software and websites are so cheap compared to anything requiring a storefront, the $15k of funding could just be saved up working a job, or with revenue from some simple app that takes a week or two. Here's an idea for the OP, try a clone of Facebook's gift feature, except in a standalone website and/or iPhone app. (Make sure to take the YC pattern of eliminating the hassle of user registration in some way.)
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I've been on twitter for 2 years and I just understood its value : real-time search. When I want to find our newest competitor, how do you find it on google? You can't. You'll only find the biggest ones. It's easy on twitter because someone will talk about it.
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Great article. For my money viruses are indeed "living" since what we call life is just that which carries and replicates RNA, or, the "selfish gene".
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I wanted to read this, but my eyes kept darting over to the various wobbling, gyrating, moving ads on the right. Finally it just wasn't worth it.
I have to second this, of all the programming books I've read CTM comes closest to teaching me how to think in new ways as SICP once did.

If you haven't read CTP yet, buy it now and make it your downtime reading.
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EDIT: fixed formatting.
I have a little fun with the porn explanation, making it more and more outlandish until they realize I'm joking

Are you sure that embarrassing/fooling those cute girls increases your chances with them? :)
This is off topic, but if you are teaching (or learning) OO, designing an object model for Monopoly is a great project.
Some time? I guess I don't read fast enough to get all that into "some".
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The article is actually not about why anti-intellectualism exists. It is about resolving the following paradox: all people are curious, but most are anti-intellectual. His resolution is that the premise is false: most people, in fact, are not curious (as he establishes by redefining curiosity.)

One thing that strikes me about most of the comments here on HN is that they don't address the meat of the argument, which is that people are anti-curiosity. It is very possible that anti-intellectualism is motivated by all sorts of proximal causes, but the author's argument would still be valid if people, by nature, just weren't curious.

Of course, addressing the author's argument is hard, because it is based on a redefinition, and a fuzzy one at that. He wants curiosity to be something above the sort of "tinkering" that children do to find out about their world. He never sets any metrics, or really gives any examples, to show the difference between the two.
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So, while they did arrange for and actually worked out a spectacular break-in, then they got caught because of stupid lack of planning. And there was a scamming Jewish dealer involved, or maybe not. And of course they like to brag about not really telling whether the insurance scam cover story itself is a cover-story.

To me it smells so fishy that I could imagine that they're not only pretty good thieves but also really good at writing bad ficticious criminal stories. Well, hence the six years of silence, perhaps?

One thing probably happened and a whole another thing was now told; it's just that they practically borrowed anything like that you might see in a Hollywood movie in the criminal genre. Just nicely laid around the undeniable facts. And like a good movie this story also ends with a lot of presented implications but nothing you would know for sure.

According to my limited and somewhat indirect knowledge of criminals there are two kinds that get caught. There are those who are utterly spontaneous, idiotic, just otherwise crack-headed or all three and they get caught because of the simplest things. Then there are those who are actually professional and get caught because of being betrayed or because of unbelievably back luck.

These guys are neither; despite imprisoned for a few years because of the things laid out in the story, maybe they were actually never caught for what they actually did?

It's an ancient strategy to admit something and getting away with that, while actually having done a lot more than just that something.
In that vein, I'd recommend Inside Man:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/
Should HN be on the list? Probably not if you define things narrowly as "social networks". But then this is certainly one of the top 10 entrepreneurial communities online.
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Looks pretty lengthy, ranty, meandering, probably boring.

I hate to say this, but...

TL;DR
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Fascinating. I'm extremely skeptical, of course. The thing that bothers me most is that they list percentages (perhaps this is the percentage of time that the rats guess correctly?) rather than $ amounts.

Even if the experiment fails, explaining the fact that the later generations performed better could lead to some really interesting science.
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I always need to look at the size of the scrollbar before I start on a Yegge blog.
If we all like play, or tinkering as he puts it, then why is there anti-intellectualism? Surely knowledge is the most interesting tinkering and perhaps infinite.

I can not imagine anything more creative than two ancient people sitting there and thinking, hmm we do need to keep a record of how much crop we are making so that we can be prepared for natural disasters and not starve. I've noticed that usually in the summer we do good, but in winter not so good, how much do we need to survive winter? And then sitting there and thinking hmm well I suppose if I make a line on this thing that means x amount, two lines mean well x amount. Basically they are both agreeing on a communicating system through symbols. If that is tinkering, then what is creativity? Is creativity imagining what alien life looks like? Or is that tinkering? Is perhaps creativity the synthesis of many tinkering? I simply don't get it, but then the guy studies pseudo-science? It seems he is merely speculating and very subjective. What do I mean by subjective? Well subjectivity is thinking of what creativity could be. When one indulges in subjectivity they start making their own rules, they start fantasising and lose track of reality. In my opinion, that is what this guy is doing.
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One opinion on which of these to read: Number 3 is funny when read directly after reading number 2, but not so much otherwise. Number 9 actually made me laugh, so I recommend reading that one. Skip the rest if you're on a time budget. Note that story 1 starts after the first horizontal rule, 2 after the next, etc.
Why not just link to the xfce page? http://www.xfce.org/about/tour

They have screenshots there too, where you can see what the default theme looks like (or whatever people look at screenshots for). And they're on one page.
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I don't understand either why this had to go to the frontpage. Seems like Atwood is becoming a meme on here.

Well, I congratulate him for the successful fork, even though I could have lived on without reading about it...
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Thanks for providing that insight. I read that story in an online article sometime ago - and couldn't sum it up better.

Also I personally know a few people who work in an european eBay cubicle farm and can attest (through second-hand knowledge) to their abysmal corporate culture. Some of the stories I hear are straight dilbert material - and sadly that seems to be the rule, rather than the exception.
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Looks like Steve's back to his old drunken rants in a whole new way.
"I'm currently making cartoons" sums it up pretty much.

I really don't want to get into the specifics because you then see people's eyes glaze over.
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6933 words. I don't think I have that kind of spare time right now.

If it's just short stories then why doesn't he split them up into multiple posts?
I wonder how this compares to using a neural network. I see no comparison to using other methods to predict the market, though he claims to outperform humans.
I actually like this more than most of his writings - the rambling style works a bit better for storytelling than it does for trying to communicate something about technology. For me, at least.

Of course, as others pointed out, it's just entertainment material rather than something you'll learn much from, which is ok for a Friday afternoon, I guess.
Please stop bitching about the length. Everyone knows Yegge writes long posts.

smg's comment about not software-related is useful because the people that do read Yegge generally do it for the software perspective.
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second run: 2.71 1.38 1.76 =====
third run: 3.17 1.40 1.75 ======
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flushed cache, 8way: 12.64 1.00 2.27 =========================
second run, 8way: 1.22 1.15 2.52 ==
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I do not explain the oddity that user time seems abnormally low with flushed cache, or perhaps abnormally high with cache data present, particularly with the single threaded version.
This is the part of the article which bothered me. There are consistent references to creativity being a child putting every object in their mouth or a dog eating everything because of it's natural curiosity whilst simultaneously arguing that abstraction is a form of intelligence not expressed in the old times.

Would a person with the ability to abstract feel the need to generate every pattern? Would Western Europe have really demonstrated its "creativiity or intelligence" by creating every version of a pattern....or just a few?
That's what they mean about changing attitudes though... once upon a time, people got jobs with 'good companies' that made more than a token effort to take care of them even when things were a bit rough. There's value in that if you have a family and kids. Nowadays, though, you're right - the big companies will throw you to the wolves with no second thoughts, so what's the point?

Also, big companies do have a lot of resources that they can bring to bear on problems that startups will never have. Think of all the cool things created by ATT and IBM, for instance, in decades past. However, I think those days are gone, as I am not sure even big companies have the budget to keep around too many "pure" R&D types any more.

> For me, entrepreneurship isn't cool -- it's the only rational option.

I think I agree with this, but sort of grudgingly/sadly... I'm not sure I am or really want to be an "entrepreneur". I like to build cool stuff, not run companies, sell things, bargain with people, and all the businessy things. I think I can learn those to some degree, but I'll never be someone who lives for that part of things. So in some ways it's sort of limiting to feel that "it's the only rational option". I hope that makes sense:-)
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I've found the best answer to that is "I only do theoretical Computer Science."

If you do it while other computer scientists are in hearing range the look on their face will be worth it.
Did the later generations perform better?

As far as I could see it was only Mr. Kleinworth Morgan Jr 5 which performed noticeably better. Run through a statistical test I doubt the results observed would deviate from random variation.
It's not in any way a sequel, but the material is very complementary to SICP. It's also very well written, imho.

(There are, in fact, other deep computer science books that aren't related to SICP. :) )
Ok... 3.0 is probably not going to bring anything awesome to the table but it will satisfy those long lost things that were omitted from the iPhone.
->MMS(why not, its all in the software)
->Background Apps(why not, its all in the software- however you may need an update to the phone to run it really really smoothly. There will probably be a limit to the number of background apps you can run)
->Copy/Paste(why not, its all in the software, its not like they have to build a special button for it.)
->Video(I'm not sure if this requires a hardware upgrade)
These would be the most obvious additions to the iPhone.
and they will advertise it like:
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I'm searching a really good community of IT entrepreneurs. Much like HN but with less programming and more business minded people. Didn't find it in this list.
Is anyone from HN a member of some of mentioned networks? Is it of any value to you so far?
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