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I never said I disagreed with Marx's critique! However, I would note that goal and result are not necessarily the same.

I would say Marx succeeded in producing a lot of interesting practical results which could actually be implemented. On the other hand, some of his stuff smacks more of religion than it does of praxis. His "law of value," for example, seems very unfalsifiable, in a sense. He speaks of the approach to true value when supply and demand equilibriate, but his conditions of equilibrium are often either poorly defined or simply tautological (e.g., the true value of a good is when it meshes with the law of value, thus the law of value is the true value of commodities).

Indeed, many of Marx's ideas have been through the crucible. Some, like a command economy, have mostly been burned to disintegration. Others, like the provision of health care to anyone who needs it, financed by the people according to their ability, seems to have had huge success among most of the civilized world.

All in all, I don't have problems with Marx's approach, just the idea that rehashing ideas from a century ago in pretty much identical ways counts as innovation.
It may not be hip, but it handles tens of thousands of users, and tens of millions of (non-cacheable) hits daily, with just a few commodity servers --

http://improvely.com : Nginx + PHP-FPM (5.4) + Percona (MySQL 5.5) + Redis

http://w3counter.com : Nginx + PHP-FPM + Percona + Redis + Node.js (for live dashboards with lots of connections)

Hosting by SoftLayer. I surveyed the hosting choices of over 300 YC-backed companies; Amazon EC2 and PaaS running on EC2 was the most-used, with Softlayer in second place. If you run your own servers, they're the best hardware, public/private network infrastructure and support you can buy, IMO.
Four pages of computer science lectures
I was born and raise in Cincinnati. Moved out west (to SV) about 5 years ago.

Have thought about Chicago or NYC as possible places to relocate if we move to the midwest or east coast.
I don't see how being able to recall on demand who Leonidas was indicates education or being well oriented with the world. I know, but discovering that someone didn't know wouldn't change my evaluation of how educated they are unless they claimed to be a historian.
This in wonderful advice. More broadly, use one browser and account for the stuff you'd like to train Google on, and another (in incognito mode) for the stuff you'd prefer not to add to your profile.

Of course, they'll probably still know its you, but one imagines the algorithms will respect your preferences (as it would make the service worse if they didn't).
How much time are you giving it? Loading maps in TF2 is a notoriously bad experience; it is normal for the main thread to block for a long time (sometimes this is on the order of 20 seconds, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes in some cases).
Rap Genius cofounder:

Our response: http://rapgenius.com/Oren-teich-bamboo-routing-performance-l...
How's that any different from VPS? You'll always need to administer the server unless you use some kind of managed hosting or PaaS like Engine Yard or Heroku.
Heart disease and car crashes don't have the ability to derail significant economies in short shrift. There's pretty obviously a huge difference between singular, concentrated disasters and amortized "normal" human death.
Can anyone comment on why we don't have a handful satellites sprinkled with cameras pointing at all directions orbiting the Earth and feeding data down for analysis? Perhaps it's not much, but something is better than nothing. The excuse that this meteor wasn't spotted because it came from the sun side is laughable.
I've been working with Django for 5 years, and I would say Django's ORM is pretty pedestrian, when not downright painful. It fails at simple things like allowing you to GROUP BY without falling back to SQL.
Oh, you can start the gnome-settings-daemon with your WM and you get the sleep, the keys, the nice fonts etc. from Ubuntu.
The Windows Phone team had its hands full in the past couple of years with the Win CE to Win NT migration and porting the NT kernel to ARM.

While WP8 is still good, I am guessing/hoping that we'll see more user facing changes in the next version.
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I'd recommend SEOMoz beginner's guide and I think you should also checkout Patrick McKenzie's writings (http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ under SEO).

I was able to use these ideas to create an experiment that doubled my organic traffic (http://whitetailsoftware.com/2013/01/how-i-doubled-organic-s...), but know that some parts of SEO are simply measured in calendar time.
> "Only some thirty of the several hundred applicants have managed to pass the test, it is true, but those who did and thus became inspectors of the factory have made good in every case."

Of course, there's no control group... One might expect his half-baked trivia test to work a little bit (being a poor IQ test), but there's no way to know.
I guess I just haven't found the discussion -- whether the linked article or the comments -- to be enlightening at all.
A week or two ago, Valve gave distros the licensing go-ahead to repackage Steam in their own repositories.
They keep saying "explosion" but was there actually one? There was a sonic boom, and the rock disintegrated in the atmosphere, but I've not seen any evidence that it exploded all at once.

EDIT: well, lots of news agencies are using the word "exploded", so maybe it did. I see somebody else mentioned claims that Russians shot at it, but I'm skeptical that they'd be able to notice and react to this thing in time.

EDIT EDIT: OK so it looks like space rocks "airbursting" is not unheard of: [0]. Really curious what the physics of that involves.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_blast#Asteroid_airburs...
Russia will be first country where Bigfoot will be caught on dashboard camera, regularly.
Well I certainly see one square right now.
Any thoughts on where this could be useful? The context and purpose of it goes a little over my head.
stop trying to change the subject

I'm not. The subject is whether or not the Tesla people gave Broder good advice. Obviously that depends on what information he gave them and what they based their advice on. You are basically saying that Broder asked them: "I can drive at 25 mph steady state, or do stop and go driving at an average speed of 25 mph; which will give me better range?" If that were indeed the question he had asked Tesla, you are entirely correct that "stop and go" would have been the wrong answer.

But I believe the question Broder actually asked Tesla was more like: "I can drive at 50 mph on the freeway steady state, or do stop and go driving at an average speed of 25 mph; which will give me better range?" If that was the question he asked Tesla, "stop and go" could have been a correct answer. That's my point.

According to the above, the energy recovered in the Model S is about 20% of that required to get the car to its present speed.

The quote you gave referred to the Roadster; as far as I know the Model S uses regen on all four wheels [Edit: probably not--see below]. That would make it 48.4%, not 20%, assuming there are no other differences between the Roadster and the Model S.

If the correct number is 48.4%, that makes e about 2; so my equation would look like this:

E2 - E1 = [- c0 + 2 * c2 * v1^2] * D

I agree this is less likely to be positive; I would have to see detailed numbers for the Tesla Model S to get a better estimate of c0 and c2. The Tesla people who gave Broder the advice presumably had such detailed data, so they would have been able to make a more accurate calculation of estimated range for each alternative.

Science isolates one variable, the topic of study, and keeps everything else the same to the degree that's practical.

Exactly: to the degree that's practical. Broder was not running a controlled scientific experiment; he was running a real-world test of a vehicle.

[Edit: Looking at the Model S specs on the Tesla web site, they do say it's a rear wheel drive vehicle, and there's no mention of separate regen motors for the front wheels. If so, and if the 20% figure for energy recovery is correct, that would make it extremely unlikely that a calculation like the one I've done would give a positive number. If the Tesla people were basing their response on such a calculation, their numbers for regen energy recovery must be significantly higher than 20%, or they were estimating a significantly higher freeway speed than 50 mph, or (most likely) a combination of the two.]
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As a user, I'm not sure I'm impressed. On my WP8 phone, I pin a live tile to the home screen exactly where I want it, at the size I want it, and it displays the information I expect to get from it. But Google Now sounds like a live tile knockoff that's constantly changing because it's guessing what I want to see based on personal information that I agree to share with it. I don't recall this approach ever working, and it practically guarantees that it will only have information I want a fraction of the time, so I'm unlikely to give it a prominent place on my home screen (or even use it if it affects battery life). If/when they start slipping in ads, it will be even less attractive.

But in the field of personal agents, it's definitely a significant milestone. At some point, we'll want to be able to ask what's on today's schedule when we wake up in the morning, or immediately check messages when we walk into our homes, or find out where a movie is playing and buy tickets when we hop into our self-driving cars that will take us right to the theater. Nobody's going to want to talk into a quaint little smartphone when all this becomes possible, but it's probably where personal agents start getting refined into a usable state.
What's your basis for asserting that it has (well, had) a particularly eccentric orbit?
Reminds me a bit of efforts like C--, which sought to seek a simpler pseudo-assembly used as some kind of intermediate language for compilers. But those efforts never gained much traction, whereas I think that some transpilers actually exploited a few features beyond even normal, full-fleged C -- namely GCC extensions -- to make some features easier and/or faster (it's been a while, but it was probably some trampolining optimization).

Let's see how it turns out.

As for something completely different, I've always wondered how it would be to program a webapp in a rather different language than JS -- most transpiled languages aren't that fundamentally different from JS. And Emscripten seems mostly used to port some code that "runs in a box". Wonder how far one could come doing some stereotypically Web 2.0 things in e.g. Pascal.
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because he knew the answers to them.
I'm rather thinking of being plugged in. 1500 watts is about all you can plan on drawing without blowing a breaker. The context, if I understood correctly, was that plugging in to a 120v household outlet was a net loss because 1500 watts was insufficient to warm the batteries to charging temperature and that presumably some numbskull in Tesla's software group decided to run the heaters even if it resulted in a net loss of power.

The explanation of the anecdotes is probably complicated, but I believe that the Tesla chargers monitor the voltage at the input to the car and reduce their current draw to keep a minimum voltage. So if your 120v transformer is a little on the low side (they vary) and maybe you used that 100' 16g extension cord you had handy, and maybe your house was wired when aluminum house wiring seemed like a good idea and that outlet has a bit more resistance between the wire and the terminal screw, you might be getting a lot less than 1500 watts. There could well be a point in the charging curves where there is a problem, but I don't think it is because 1500 watts isn't enough.
Sitting about 10 feet away from Luke Wagner right now. He has told me that asm.js is Mozilla's response to NaCl. You compile code with Clang (or another compiler) into the asm.js subset of JavaScript, which they know how to optimize well, and their JIT compiler will offer you performance very close to that of native C (they claim a factor of at most 2x). They use special tricks, like (a+b)|0, to force results to be in the int32 range, and avoid overflow checks. The heap views uses multiple typed arrays pointing to the same data to give asm.js code a typed heap of aligned values, avoiding the JS garbage collector (you can manage this heap as you wish).

They already have sample apps, including some using libraries like Qt (I believe OpenGL as well), compiling to asm.js. I believe it has potential, so long as they have good support for standard and common C libraries (i.e.: porting to asm.js is almost effortless).
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I thought they got that meteorite footage from taxis or police cars or something. This explains everything!
Hunting and gathering does not scale beyond small population sizes.
Client: jQuery, Backbone.js, LESS

Server: Play Framework (Java), PostgreSQL

GitHub for code hosting.

The project's not yet launched, but we're considering DigitalOcean and Rackspace as deployment options.
Wouldn't the real problem with this be special interests? The country who develops it will not want to give it up to the rest of the world for obvious reasons.
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I've found that Now has started automatically showing me the distance to my frequently visited places. I suspect this is because I've navigated to their location a few times on Google Maps, so Google knows this is a location I care about.

I'm guessing you've already set your home and work location in Google Maps? You could then also search for your other work location, and Now should automatically start prioritizing it later, especially if you pull up that card often.

By the way, you probably know this, but you can change how often different cards show up, and when they show up in the settings. For example, I've set weather to only show up in the morning and evening, so it doesn't clutter up my cards.
Reminds me of a similar story with Henry Ford, where he said he doesn't need to know everything since with the press of a button on his desk he can summon someone who can relay the information to him.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

yes - and we should we give a f.ck about Edison's views? The man was no better than a lowlife
Why is that so many people on this forum feel that the information pointed to by this link is of such great importance: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

I don't know if that information is contained in a particular book, but it is certainly readily available all over the web.

Why do we care? Could Edison have had a similar interest, though focused more on his own business?

Separately, what good is knowledge of theory if you have no practical experience upon which to understand it? The candidates given this test were also supposed to be in line for the executive ranks. Having a general knowledge of geography, geopolitics and trade would seem to be fairly important.

It's also unclear from the article exactly how Mr. Edison interpreted or used the results. Frankly, it sounds like many of those quoted in the article were offended by being asked such "simple questions"... despite not being able to answer them. Perhaps Mr. Edison was interested in finding executives who didn't believe that common sense, mundane facts or important business details were beneath them and best left to others.
I don't believe any of what I suggested would be a violation of the license, unless there is language in the license forbidding virtualization, or giving a solution to the ship of Theseus problem.
I appreciate this and the previous comments, but I gotta say: this sounds like a lot of schlep.

I may be wrong, but I feel like the right persistent chat service can/should become a 21st century usenet/google group, where the conversation is always happening, IFFT-style hooks help you filter/act on info, and history is Gmail-simple.

I'm investigating a group-chat solution right now for an organization of several thousand non-technical members, and my intuition tells me IRC would simply not be adopted by most users.
It lets a cross-compiler like Emscripten (and theoretically more weird ones like JSIL, GWT, etc) generate JavaScript that can be jitted into code that has performance (and semantics) closer to native code.

So, for example, you can provide clear hints that value x should be an int32, value y should be a float, etc. And if you create a virtual heap out of a Typed Array, asm.js lets you ensure that the JIT maps uses of that array to direct memory accesses where possible (instead of bounds-checked array lookups).
I think I have identified a few potentially faulty assumptions underlying your comments.

You assume that the only reason that Mozilla is the only major player to push JavaScript as the way forward is that Brendan invented JS. Another interpretation which is less cynical toward Mozilla is that the other players are most interested in their own platforms, whereas Mozilla is most interested in the Web as a whole. A JavaScript runtime is the one runtime that all browsers have, so rather than fragment the landscape with a second runtime, Mozilla is pushing JS as the way forward.

You assume, as if it were an axiom, that compiling other language to JavaScript is less efficient than compiling to LLVM bitcode and/or x86/ARM native code. I'll take these separately.

Targeting JavaScript versus LLVM bitcode: For good performance, either of these will be JIT-compiled to native code. To claim that LLVM bitcode is a better target, you need to show that some JIT compilation technique implemented by LLVM/PNaCl is made impossible by JavaScript the language. JS typed arrays provide a C-friendly memory model; I don't know of anything else that's missing. I'd be happy to be educated though.

Targeting JavaScript versus native code: Last I checked, Google is not going to push NaCl for standard web apps until PNaCl is ready. So we'll need the cross-platform target and JIT compilation anyway. You may argue that even when PNaCl is ready, application developers will also ship x86 and/or ARM builds for maximal efficiency. But let's dig a little deeper: in all likelihood, the PNaCl, x86, and ARM builds are all generated by a compiler from a single intermediate representation. In principle, why couldn't a subset of JavaScript be compiled to equally efficient native code? Even assuming that offline ahead-of-time compilation yields more efficient code than JIT compilation, a browser could observe which apps the user uses most, and apply more aggressive offline compilation to those apps. So it is by no means imperative that application developers ship native code.

You also assume that Mozilla's insistence on the DOM and other existing standards, rather than PNaCl + Pepper, is unequivocally holding back the Web as an application platform. Let's drill down into specifics. What features do NaCl and Pepper provide that aren't (yet) covered by standardized APIs? My understanding was that Canvas and WebGL are helping a lot.

Finally, you may be unaware of some limitations in NaCl. Specifically, because of the way NaCl validates code, you can't run a JIT compiler on top of NaCl. So, if you thought that NaCl would be a better target for Java/Python/Ruby/pick your favorite than JS, think again. For good performance, you'd need something to compile your source language to something else anyway, either JS or LLVM bitcode. Might as well be JS.

I think I have demonstrated that Mozilla's insistence on JS and other standards is not holding back the Web as an application platform by any means. Indeed, none of the other major players you've mentioned, not even Google, is as serious about the Web -- the open Web -- as Mozilla.
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Id say 75% is programming or programming related. The other is dealing with clients or meetings. I'm very productive.
That's OK, I don't buy your attempt to be seen as educated on the topic.

Your post is basically, "I don't really know anything, but I sure do read a lot of blogs." If you're actually interested in US govt. & politics open a first year textbook. The Constitution (and amendments) quite clearly describe the subdivision of governmental powers into 4 different areas: the legislative, the executive, the judicial, and the states.
Because some are just Linux / Ubuntu users without the GNU tag, like me.

Seriously, because people sometimes pays for games, and that's OK, despite of whatever you choose to believe.
What would it cost to back every active Kickstarter project right now?
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Never said they were good interview questions, but the implication elsewhere has been "these are impossible to know the answers to!"
It'd be even easier with a clean bytecode, and it wouldn't require nearly as much effort and round-about solutions. It also would simplify portable tool development, including source-level debuggers.
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Is that true when you're not logged in to google? Do they tailor based on IP or browser fingerprint?
> Imagine every window in New York blowing out?

Something like this actually happened in Ft. Worth back in 2000. It was caused by a tornado. Walking along the sidewalks afterwards was terrifying, as you never knew if a shard of glass might come swooshing down towards your head. They did, however, create several wooden structures like painter's scaffolding that you could walk under for protection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Fort_Worth_tornado

It caused half a billion dollars in damage.

But you really couldn't have prevented it. Minimized damage, debatable.
Sooo... pretty much anyone who buys a luxury car over $40K.
Is someone really a GNU/Linux user if they have no respect for the core values of the system? I personally don't understand the exuberance on reddit. It's just another package manager in the already large sea of them, and a proprietary DRMed one at that; it doesn't really seem to provide any practical advantages to anybody. I believe it did on Windows, where even developers didn't have any reasonable package management system until a few years ago. But I see no real business strategy here. Also funny that you mention that because as a hobbyist musician I think it would be pretty cool to have CC-SA'ed masters of some of my favorite songs.
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Perhaps if you are going to run an international business that may be interested in expanding to the Pacific countries, having employees that can physically locate Korea might be important. Apparently he couldn't "just assume" that every college graduate had ever spent time curiously inspecting a globe and developing a general knowledge of different parts of the world.
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I am disappointed every single day. Forget asking people which countries border France, I know people who don't know which countries border their own country. Hell, I even know people who don't know the day the WW2 started/ended. Sure, you can get around it life without knowing these. It will cause you no harm, not knowing how the world works around you. Sure. But I would like to live in a world where people actually put some effort into their education,and not just openly boast around about not knowing stuff. Like it is a competition to be ignorant or something, I don't know.
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