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Is it not? I'm saying that the problem identified as the home computer's raison d'etre is not solved. Is it is, I want the solution (like I said, I want to make pate). If it isn't, I think working out why is an interesting sort of a thread.

maybe not.

Anyway, if you can come up with a way to recommend a recipe specifically for my tastes, available ingredients & all that Jazz, I'm in. But first I'd like to know why the simple solution isn't working.
Having ridden the Tube for years, this article is spot on. This is exactly the way that I think when trying to grab a seat.
At least Jobs' company was very profitable in the early days.

Brush up on your Apple history. Jobs was fired because he was running his company into a financial mire thanks to his over-the-top idealism.

I don't envy Facebook employees. There is more to life than working for the arrogant.

They chose where to work. Just like Apple employees chose. If you're not the sort of person who works well under a very brilliant, very arrogant man, you're allowed to find other places to work.
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But Apple had already made heaps of money from the Apple II by that stage, no?
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reminds me of Frank Zappa :-)
Yeah, I know...

I actually don't know why I thought that was at all funny. It serves as a fairly good reminder to take a break every once in a while.

Incidentally, that you mention the April Fools day posts - A lot of them seemed to be re-posts under slightly altered headings, and I agree, a great many of them were fairly pointless also.
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>Right now, per capita world food production is roughly 3000 calories/day/person.

This is because petrochemical fertilizers, tractors powered by internal combustion, etc. are still going strong.
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See Derren Brown's "The System". You wouldn't sort out intelligent predictions from noise, you'd sort out (intelligent and/or lucky) predictions from noise. Which still wouldn't give you any idea which future predictions to trust.
>The current economic problems are not related to his predictions.

Why are you so sure of that?

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-p...
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I'm surprised no one's mentioned the fact that, most likely, Evan Williams has no desire to go back to Google.
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It would be a shame. I prefer NetBeans for doing server-side Java.

But I prefer almost anything to server-side Java ;-)
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Sexy sells? OK, but why stop there? You can get more and faster with a bank robbery.

I don't understand you people.
Did you even both to read the few sentences that the post contained? Judging by your post, I don't think you did.

"If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be?"

I fail to see how that implies limiting oneself to a single book...
What about Greenspan?
If these are real limitations of the JVM, what does that say about Clojure?
The battery-per motherboard makes eminent sense. Between economies of scale driving down the price of small AGM and gel-cell lead-acid batteries (1) and the increased efficiency of having the battery on board, it's an obvious win!

(1) - ironically, this is probably because of retail and commercial sales of Uninterruptible Power Supplies!
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I'm kind of working on something similar.

One thing that struck me about C++ is that although template parsing, etc, is pretty hard, you can get a long way by segmenting the source into delimited regions. This might also speed up your semantic analysis, by allowing you to write code that's operating on a known kind of region.

For instance after pre-processing, it should be easy to find nested "{", "[", "(", "\"", "'", and "<". Segmenting the source in this way, first, might make further processing easier.

It seems that the standard parsing methods we learn in CS are optimized for single-pass speed, but not for maintainability or development efficiency. Computers have gotten fast. Using multiple passes of simpler operators seems like a good promising approach.

I see the process of parsing as some kind of folding, where you start with a linear sequence of chars and gradually fold it over and over into a "lumpy" tree.
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Greenspan did admit publicly that although he knew a crisis of sorts was coming, he didn't expect it to be so huge and systemic as it was. I think he said that if he had thought that it'd be this bad, he'd have done more to try to stop it.

So yes. His humility was very refreshing. Its a shame there weren't many more like him.

Edit: Here's a good link.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122476545437862295.html
At it’s heart the JVM is designed to run OO languages very efficiently. This is why languages like Ruby and Python are (mostly) easily
ported to the platform...

However, the JVM is less suited to running non-OO languages. Languages like Erlang, Haskell, and Scheme provide features, like tail recursion, closures, and continuations, which are not prominent in the mainstream OO world the JVM targets. They depart far enough from the OO model to make the JVM a poor platform choice.

That's strange, because all of the Smalltalk VMs are capable of closures and many of them can do continuations, yet Smalltalk is often cited as one of the purest OO environments. (I'm also fairly sure that tail recursion can be done as a compiler trick.)

That said, there are real limitations of the JVM. Most Smalltalk VMs can be targeted by a Java compiler to do a dandy job as a JVM. It's much harder to target Smalltalk for a JVM, unless you limit the capabilities of the environment. (Particularly runtime compilation.)
When I was 19 I first came across an Ayn Rand quote about subsidies. It so perfectly captured my own views that I went to the campus library and asked for the largest fiction book by Ayn Rand. So I started off reading Atlas Shrugged with nothing more than a single quote on a single topic by her.

The first 25 pages were BRUTAL, but after that I was hooked. I finished the book in less than a week then bought the book for myself and read it again. I didn't need to make the leap from Fountain Head at all.
Building on avoiding torsion in the forearms I was experiencing some discomfort in my mouse wrist. I bought an Evoluent vertical mouse and experienced a substantial improvement. Buying a second one so I could have one at home and one at university solved the issue entirely.

As mice go they're expensive, especially if you're not sure it's going to help, but can be picked up on ebay at a discount.
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However, they may be taking matters seriously enough to actually fix their approach.

Or they may be just throwing up smoke and mirrors. If they stopped doing their thing in an underhanded way, would they have much of a business left?
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Right. and Google shound not index pages of websites that have not signed up! Google even use your name in their search results!
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I barely know Clojure, but from what i know it has a workaround for the lack of TCO: http://clojure.org/special_forms#toc10
Would be cool if the video would work on my iPhone. It starts to load then says 'not supported although it looks pole they have an iPhone version of the site. Weird.
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The point is still "one book" is it not? I was being a bit facetious about 'limiting oneself to one book', which obviously no one is going to do, but the concept is, IMO, a valid one - it's useless to only read one book. There are lots of good ones, important in their own ways.
You can't really blame regulations here

Well you kinda sorta can: the board has a fiduciary reponsibility to the shareholders, which is good, but the regulations and penalties in place to enforce that mean that there is an obsession with quarterly figures - it actively discourages long-term planning. No-one dares make tough choices now that will depress the share price for 2 or more quarters, they'd get class-actioned into oblivion. A vast corporation that has been public for decades can weather it. A newly public company is in a very difficult position.
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Try this file directly maybe?

http://blip.tv/file/get/Pycon-KeynoteRedditSteveHuffmanAndAl...
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Who is being pretentious now?
I couldn't find any information about whether there's a recommended text to go with this course. Anyone know if there is?
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Fun Blackboard fact: professors ask students to submit homework files with their initials prepended to them because Blackboard will overwrite files with the same name no matter who uploads them!
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Isn't LLVM a more interesting universal machine to target anyway?
Today I saw a sign outside a shop, saying "follow us on twitter". I didn't realize how mainstream twitter has already become.
Sun might have been doing some interesting things, but they've pretty much had a decade of investing into technologies they don't have a way to monetize

To monetize, you need a combination of strategic vision and marketing. "Strategic vision and marketing" is basically Apple! (Also IBM, but in it's more conventional, stodgy way.)
I can see a thread folding algorithm needing to be developed.
You don't even need one in every appliance to do this:

"much like CDs in the CDDB, AMEE has discovered that the energy fluctuations of home appliances are so unique that they can tell what make and model of refrigerator you have by the way it acts when the motor turns on. Then it can suggest a more energy efficient appliance"

- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_applications_tim_o...

They can also tell changes in an appliance over time, all from a single device like the Current Cost monitoring a homes overall energy usage.
I agree with you. Both IBM and Sun have some really amazing R&D and almost all technological stacks in both companies can be merged and benefit (unless IBM kills all of Suns product lines - which it won't). DB2 <-> MySQL, IBM processors <-> Sun processors, Sun brings Workstations in the IBM house once again, Storage systems also, etc..

What I'm sad about is that the third pillar of once paragon of high performance computing is falling down. First DEC, then SGI and now SUN. I miss those magical times.
(Disclaimer: I am not a libertarian or an Objectivist.)

IMHO one of the characteristics of owning something is that you have the right to control how it's used without having to justify that decision to anyone else. If you camp out in my back yard while I'm on vacation, you are trespassing on my property even if you don't uproot a single blade of grass. I don't have to argue with the police about whether or not my yard was damaged by your presence because the law considers trespass to be damage in and of itself.

Now I think extenting the concept of "property" to intellectual works is fraught with problems, but I don't think Rand would agree with me.
Erlang's VM is unmatched scaling above 16+ cores (for example process migration http://unlimitednovelty.com/2009/01/cutting-edge-of-vm-desig... ) this is something that the java vm hasn't even begun to look at.
I feel your pain with java serialization.

The fact that you cant serialize exceptions to notify systems connected to a JVM that something blew up is just insane.

All objects should be able to be serialized (in binary) from one system to another as long as JVM versions and class libraries match... end of story.
I'm also fairly sure that tail recursion can be done as a compiler trick.

Only for a single function, at least on the JVM. For mutually recursive functions (ie, a() tailcalls b() which tailcalls a()) you either need the VM to do the optimization, or some explicit control over the stack pointer, or implementing your own function call model within one function.

For the first, you would need some sort of new tailcall instruction, or the VM would have to be guaranteed to do tail call optimizations. (You can't really give control of the stack explicitly while keeping things portable and efficient)

For the second, it's workable... if you don't care about interoperating with other languages on the JVM.
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I get the impression that Smalltalk is very late-bound, whereas Java is sort of half-late-bound[1]. Late binding enables you to do pretty much anything.

[1] For example: in Java, methods with the same name but different argument types ("overloaded") are statically bound; whereas in Smalltalk, they are dynamically bound. Java dynamically binds methods with the same name and same argument types that are defined in a subclass/implementation ("overridden"). Sounds like a performance tradeoff to me. (Is Smalltalk performance C-like or Python-like?)
Exactly how does this make us more secure, again? I can't imagine anything "critical" that is currently funneled through the internet. At the very least, there should be some examples where this would actually promote safety, rather than be an extension of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1797.
Isn't part of the reason for targeting the JVM the ton of libraries you get for free?
Off topic or wrong? You know I'm right. You are just too weak or stupid to reply.
To the best of my knowledge, when a copyrighted work is made available for free over the Internet, it's available for free to everyone. Nobody has to prove that they are so destitute that they could not possibly afford to pay even one cent for the work before they are allowed to download it. So your hypothetical case of a child with no money downloading the book is a red herring.
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They can... you just have to do it yourself that's all.
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That's probably wise.
You know what's funny?

Most classic era Macs used to have a power off key on the keyboard, instead of requiring a button on the case proper. (Like FireWire, ADB was always "hot" and such machines used a rocker switch instead of a push button for "master power off.") But since Apple adopted USB, this functionality was taken away due to how USB is (was?) dependent on a actively powered CPU to arbitrate traffic.

Guess what that same button is used for now?
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Kangax has a really nice article on testing for event support in browsers in which he delves into the quirks and work-arounds needed to get 'er done, coming up with a nice generic solution
Can you imagine Mother Jones publishing an article titled "Should Bush Control the Internet?" ? Why is this even a question?

Two things:

1) Good luck trying to "shut the Internet down" after declaring an "Internet emergency".

2) Any sufficiently motivated law enforcement agent can probably already read your mail.
SISC targets the JVM with tail call optimization with some trickery. http://sisc-scheme.org/
Now when Twitter goes down today, we know who to thank :)

In all seriousness - Excellent work. Posterous rocks.
I loved the Galt speech but it has been a few years since I last read it so I don't recall how much lead-in it requires. Sometimes I listen to the audio version of Anthem Chapter 11, another powerful speech.
Anyone doing anything remotely private or personal on the internet is (or should be) encrypting anyway.
I don't understand how Hawking radiation is significant. It's far less than the cosmic background radiation everywhere in the universe. (This is why we can't "see" black holes.)
Can you buy puts on a pre-IPO stock? I didn't think you could.
Still no mentions about sync capabilities. If sync doesn't work seamlessly with iTunes, calendars, and photo albums, it's going to be a bumpy ride I suspect.
Look, if we don't give them these powers now, we could risk a cyber-Katrina. Do you want that? You know how bad Katrina was? Well, the internet is very complex, connects everything, and is critical infrastructure -- just imagine how bad it could be! Chinese hackers could launch US nukes against US cities if we don't grant these powers!

In reality, the legalization and deployment of this sort of power and technology would allow whoever is in charge at the time to divide the citizenry. If there is no net, large scale organization becomes much harder. If the net kills traditional informational channels and we give a single entity the kill switch to the net, we give that entity the kill switch to democracy.

I still have hope that the USA hasn't become this misguided and corrupt. I don't think anything remotely like this will pass. If it does, though, we are well and truly fucked.
What I'm surprised they haven't done already is extend their event planning mechanism to partner with ticket agents, train companies/airlines, cinema chains, restaurant booking systems, pizza delivery, etc etc.
I truly hope that the technical problem of actually using that authority to halt the internet is as intractable as it seems--perhaps pulling the plugs on the root DNS servers would do it for the web and some other services, but many P2P networks would still be up and running.
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For example, they pared down Flash, and therefore YouTube. It seems like a crazy omission, but it hasn't stopped them.

I'd guess they omitted Flash because the iPhone is too low-powered for it to look good; the iPhone needs optimized native apps. Since "looking good" is a huge part of the iPhone experience, it makes (painful) sense to drop that feature. Same for Java.

It seems they couldn't justify omitting Javascript too, but I bet they would have loved to, as it's 78-90 times slower than a desktop iMac: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/08/iphone-benchmarks-...
I don't know that you can calculate pi directly. However, an easier problem to map to with ants is the Traveling Salesman. Then you can map it to all the other NP-complete problems.
I was actually impressed by this article and the actions the Harvard students are taking. The fact that the students are turning their case study analysis on them selves does require a certain level of integrity. Self scrutinization, especially in times of crisis, is not easy and is to be commended.
I don't think you'll find Rand objecting to a government that protects its people from physical aggression or coercion. The problem I have with most world governments (including my own), is that they try to (and fail at) protecting people from matters that the people are capable of handling themselves. In doing so, they rob people of their motivation and self satisfaction.

I understand why people would think that Rand says "you should only care about your own life and happiness". But that is bullshit. It isn't considered bad to care about and care for other people (look at Dagny and Hank/John/Francisco). What Rand is railing against is being forced to care about another person (which is what the government does to the producers by threat of coercion).

I'm a firm believer in Rand's theories, but that certainly doesn't stop me from donating my time and money to worthy causes. The important part is that my donations are made of my own FREE WILL and not forced at the barrel of a gun.
first class closures are not a JVM problem, but a language problem. Moreover, closures (lexical closures) exists in java itself: an annonymous inner class captures (well, on demand, for perf reasons) all the lexical terms visible at the point of use.

the tail call is a bytecode security problem. Looks like this problem has been solved and will be merged.
I'm looking at LLVM at the moment, and I can say that it is far from a JVM/.net .

I wonder if I can invest on it because they will close the gap, or if they are just playing catchup with gcc, in which case there is no future for GC languages.
That is untrue.

Check http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/ for really impressive work on jvm that works on 800+ cores ... oh yes, and you have constant time garbage collection.
I love it when scientific controversy is resolved by reproducible experimentation.

Humanity keeps moving on in the quest for knowledge.
How many of them fit idiomatically into the language you choose to use on the JVM?
Is this a generic OAuth template? Or Twitter-specific? And if the latter -- why?