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About as much as Apple employs children, forces them to inhale aluminum particulate, and then protest by means of suicide.

But given your clumsy reasoning, I doubt I'll see anything insightful from this conversation.
Apologies for the delay in responding, it's been a busy week.

I guess it depends on who you're building for. I've built for a non-technical audience, and wouldn't call them stupid just because they convert due a lightbox popup. Many of these folks want the emails I send, but wouldn't be able to find a more subtle signup.

In general, I try to help my users and not call them stupid.
Buying Chinese made products has always got me a little on edge, mainly just due to their lack of regulation. I was going to buy a reasonably well known miniature camera recently, but was completely put off when I read a note by some other purchasers who had somehow realised that the case of the camera contained insane amounts of lead. I wasn't particularly impressed by the recommendation that they're fine to use, just don't let your children touch it and wash your hands afterwards.

Things like this seem to pop up with alarming frequency.
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You are an ostridge with his head buried in the sand, except the cartoon you are in? IT'S NOT FUCKING FUNNY.
Oh thanks. I was hoping it would just remove the app from the taskbar and keep the player still on the screen (like winamp). Not quite the same, but it can probably be tweaked in the source.
You do realize that if the current global temperature trends continue for another 2 years every global warming model will fall outside the 95% confidence interval (ie, wrong).
FYI, the title was "77 Gbit/s Distributed Denial-of-Service on MtGox". I get confused when that happens.
I'm very interested in the index manipulation, but not at all in Rolling Stone's coverage, for the same reason as you - Matt Taibbi is not a reliable reporter, and if anything he poisons the well for other media coverage.
Not speaking for patio11, but I would guess the free trial allows businesses to evaluate whether the software meets their requirements.

Companies have budgets to pay for what they need. Their concern is that the software meets those goals, then they are willing to break out the checkbook. They know they have a problem, they have a budget to solve it, and they just need to know your software solves it.

Consumers, OTOH, may need to have value proven over time. Thus, the dropbox usage limits make a lot more sense.
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I too went to a top 5 school and took some of the hardest classes in a school which is famous for its hard classes. And yes, it becomes pretty obvious quickly that grades are not a reflection of intelligence. And when the threshold intelligence is high in the sample size, say at a good school, grades and intelligence may be very weakly correlated, if at all.

Personally, I do have the ability to be extremely focused for long hours. But I don't think that having that ability counts for a lot in real world. My cofounder is borderline ADHD and there are things he can accomplish that I just cannot.
Come to think of it, I've only had a Mazda the last 10 or so years. Maybe it's just Mazda then. Their bottom-line Mazda3 (currently 16.7k MSRP) came with it when I bought one 6 years ago too.
I don't mean to be a dick, but its called the 99TH percentile for a reason. Those guys getting top marks are smarter than 99 percent of the general population. I've often been a bit mystified by peoples inability to recognize where they sit on the intellectual bell curve.
I often sign up because something seems neat, or because it solves a problem I know I have.

It would be great if the 30 day trial started the first time I really start using the software.

A great alternative is for a company to offer a newsletter. Then I can get reminders about what they do, learn about how great they are, and sign up when I'm ready to use the software.

I'm bad at estimating time frames. I often think I need something (e.g., KissMetrics) next week. In reality, I won't start using it for months.
I have some similar issues, though I still breezed through college (prestigious school in 3.5 years, deans list, didn't "study"). I probably related that story here (and definitely did on reddit in one of those kids-called-gifted-where-are-you-now thread), so I'll spare us that story again.

But where this really hit me was just two years after college, trying to write a large technical book (on HTML). I'm just now completing the task after 9 long months.

It seemed like my mind broke, not because it was hard, but because of some other invisible wall. I still don't have the words for it. Writing about other things and reading other writing seemed to be the only thing that helped. It was easy to write about the topics of my expertise, but so much of the book was material that I had only heard of, and had to immerse myself in completely before I could even begin the task of writing. The project was therefore a set of many tasks within tasks.

OP writes:

> Regardless of whether or not they like or dislike the material, they break the challenge of studying for a test or completing an assignment into small problems, working away until they know, not think, but absolutely know that they are ready.

There are four or five poems I read almost every day as a sort of cathartic ritual, and one of them is The Ladder of St. Augustine, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (of Paul Revere fame). The snippet that runs through my mind constantly:

We have not wings, we cannot soar;
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.

The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.

The distant mountains, that uprear
Their solid bastions to the skies,
Are crossed by pathways, that appear
As we to higher levels rise.

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

Some days its hard to open a text editor. I don't know why. But sometimes looking down at the stepping stones is more useful for moving forward than looking up at your goals or (sometimes worse) everyone else. I think of poetry and start the program.

[1] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ladder_of_St._Augustine
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Or, to be completely unfair, Perl:

perl -aF, -nE '$F[1] =~ s/["+]//g; $total += $F[1]; END { say $total }' CSVData.csv
You worked for CME right? Quite ironic given we're discussing LIBOR rigging which has its roots in a decision made by the CME, subsequently exploited by traders.

"In late 1996, Marcy Engel, then a lawyer for Wall Street heavyweight Salomon Brothers Inc, fired off a warning letter to U.S. regulators: If they approved a Chicago Mercantile Exchange plan to change how a popular futures contract was priced, they would put at risk the integrity of a key interest rate in the global financial system."

"The problem with the CME's plan, as Engel saw it: The banks that set the rates in London daily were also able to take positions in the CME's Eurodollar contract. In her letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, she said tethering the futures contract to Libor "might provide an opportunity for manipulation" of the interest rate. A "bank might be tempted to adjust its bids and offers ... to benefit its own positions."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/20/us-libor-fixing-or...
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COBOL does have one thing worth stealing, though, which is its data definition language and automatic parser generation facility in the core language.

Essentially, COBOL allows programmers to declare what their input file looks like and the compiler generates code that does all of the work of parsing the input and getting the data into the relevant variables.

Because COBOL comes from the (Big) Iron Age, this is all in terms of record-oriented files with fixed-width fields; a modern re-implementation of the concept would have to operate in terms of nested data structures (XML, JSON, sexps, etc.), which a Lisp-like's syntax is well-equipped to describe anyway.
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That's a deliberate choice on his part. He leaves out pertinent information so as to increase the reader's feeling of helplessness. If you ever read a story of his about a subject you happen to be familiar with the amount of manipulation he engages in is nauseating.

I'm not saying this to blow off the story, I'm alarmed that there's more rate-fixing going on and suspect that we'll hear about more again. But Taibbi writes to incite, not to inform. I don't trust him any more than I trust Glenn Beck or Alex Jones.
Yes, we can definitely use further funds for setting up the technical side of the organization (domain name, hosting, etc.).
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Babies shouldn't be eating crap that comes in a package anyway. They should be drinking breast milk, and eventually graduate to eggs (not the plastic kind) and normal human food.
What I'm really surprised is why is not everything running on ARM yet. Is it a compiler issue?

ARM chips are powerful, cheap, and open.
As I went through college (and I think everyone more or less goes through this) I learned to care less about marks as a whole and more about what I learned in that class/if there the knowledge is easily obtainable elsewhere. However, I'm fortunate enough to be in a field that doesn't explicitly require grad school (compared to say, those aspiring to be doctors) and that internship experience/generally more concrete interviews generally lessen the requirement for having really high marks.
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I'm happy with my winamp...2.95

I never needed more from a mp3-player. I have a small streamrip plugin installed for years now. This is the only "special" feature in it.

For everything else, I use a different programm and it was never a problem.
Seconded, yes. I've known some people recently with multiple kids (4 and 6, respectively), trying to get by on odd-jobs and $10/hour full-time jobs. Even slogging away night and day, floating a family of 8 (two parents, 6 kids) on $30k/year, and trying to do that on "30% of your income" - it's just not possible.

These people had/have income issues, not spending/frugality issues. In one case, one family moved to get a better job and is now at something like $45-$50k - still tight, but doable.
Much of the issue with passwords could be avoided if the sites just sends you a randomly generated password in your introduction email. That way there is no chance of re-use and if the db gets compromised, just issue a new password.
May I suggest that you measure that, even by your own definition on "parts of the brain" (perhaps a choice of unrelated cognitive functions?) in a way that allows you to make predictions?
A hacker worrying about learning a new language? ;-)

There are courses in swedish offered to all immigrants. My wife did it in 4 months. Meanwhile, you won't have a problem getting around with english only. Virtually all swedes speak english, and most do it well.
I don't think crashes per week is meaningful--especially on PCs with more than one OS. Crashes per operating hour would make more sense.
> There are four or five poems I read almost every day as a sort of cathartic ritual, and one of them is The Ladder of St. Augustine, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (of Paul Revere fame).

Out of curiosity, if it isn't too personal, which are the other ones?
1st class gender discrimination. In fact, this would be illegal in many European countries.
Welcome to Europe. Taxes, customs, shipping + crazy markup, and this is what you get:
http://www.epli.is/tolvur/fartolvur/macbook-pro-15-retina-2-... - high specced rMBP is ~$4500. Add a monitor and and iphone and you're already there, at least pretty close.
His point (and mine) is that a free market in retributive violence is a bad thing because it tends to affect people besides the intended targets. I have lived in neighborhoods where drive-bys were common and found myself staring down a gun barrel of someone who happened to be be looking for someone else. The town where I grew up in a different country also had a string of long-running feuds between particular families. The thing about feuds is that they tend to go on and on despite the seeming futility of tit-for-tat violence.

So I suggest to you that mutual delegation of the police power to the state is a Good Thing. I don't see the state as some sort of external imposition upon people who were living in some anarcho-primitivist state of harmony. That idealistic view is a bunch of bullshit, much like hippies' habit of blaming technology for our ills.
Agreed.

Related; OP watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHSv1asFvU
There are four or five poems I read almost every day as a sort of cathartic ritual

Wonderful! I'd love to hear about them. I also have a few go-to poems for those days I feel unbalanced. The two I've probably digested the most would be "If--" by Rudyard Kipling, and "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann. They're not exactly hidden gems, and I've even seen them floated around HN from time to time, but man do they work.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gongsu/desiderata_textonly.html

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
If you are not going through a tax free retirement account, I'd advise against mutual funds, since the profit is taxed every year. Instead, I'd recommend using a stock newsletter.

There is a rating service that independently tracks the profits of 180 stock newsletters and has done so since 1980. It's called the Hulbert's Financial Digest. From this you can pick one with a good track record, and then invest directly in stocks.

This allows you to plan your taxes much better (sell the losers for a similar company in the same industry and keep the winners). I'm up over 70% in unrealized, and therefore untaxable, gains this way.
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Not all self-proclaimed libertarians support the state's monopoly on violent retribution. In fact, not all self-proclaimed libertarians support the existence of states. I'm thinking particularly of anarcho-capitalists. David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom, for example, is a seminal libertarian work that rejects the state altogether but is hardly what I would call anarcho-primitivism.
Intel's x86 chips are much faster (although less efficient) because their technology is more advanced, allowing them to fit more transistors. They aren't about to move their products to a reduced instruction set architecture because they have already invested so much in x86 and are so far in the lead that there's not much pressure on them to change. They've got the best talent and an enormous amount of money, allowing them to optimize a non-optimal architecture to beat the rest. It's not clear how long they can keep this up.
There are a couple of points I'd have to disagree with you.
- Firstly, I'd bet that several report options, especially the "unskilled player" one, are just placebo that do nothing, and provides the upset player a scapegoat to fire on, without negatively affect anything. A rather nice solution actually.

- There IS a minimum time requirement that you have to spend on each case (90 seconds, I think). People who punishes every case and run 90% accuracy on the league table could mean that, the priori of a player getting to Tribunal being banned is 90%. Which means that the automate system that put up Tribunal cases are doing a great job! Of course there could be other explanation. But I recalled Riots used to have a "pardon day" that they actively asked banned player to post in a thread, so that a human will actively review the cases. I don't think more than a dozen accounts were really edge cases.

- There are an option when you create new account to choose which type of players you are (there were 3 of them: new to MOBA, new to League, experienced, I think). I don't think it helped the smurf situation at all. The type of players that are banned would be more likely to be the type of players that like to "pwn" new players.

- There are a tip that says "Your teammate performs worse if you harass them"

- Adding the dice roll for the game is infeasible, for the reason that the metagame's roles (top, ad, support, mid, and even the jungle in the past) are created by the players, not Riot. Unlike WOW, in which roles (tank, healer, dps) are specifically designed by Blizzard, the roles in League are strongly defined by the metagame at the time. It's not that Riot doesn't design a champion with a specific set of characteristics in mind, it's just that the range of role a champion can do varies quite a bit: in WoW, a dps trying to tank will be killed in half a second. In League, we used to have mainstream range AD mid, tanky mid, caster mid, assassin AD mid, teemo mid etc. There's no way to meaningfully classify "roles" or even "lanes" position properly - who knows if one day we might have 1 - 3 - 1 laning like dota?
This is the danger of building self confidence for the sake of self esteem. It can set people up for an epic fail. In a world of helicopter parents and misguided, but well intentioned, efforts to give everyone a star, it will eventually become apparent that self awareness is far more important. Well written and succinct, this could be used as inspiration for a fable.
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Is there no better place to buy from? You can't buy from Apple directly? Because the markup on that linked store is absolutely insane.
Have you tried work holidays, where the team takes off to work for a couple of weeks at a vacation spot? Works like a charm.
But why basically write a compiler yourself when you can get the one that comes with the language for free?
Google even more of a 'control freak' than Apple?
Please read Steve Blank's blog and book.

tl;dr - get out of the office and talk to prospective paying customers. You might need to lash up a MVP for demonstration purposes.

BTW: Ideas are a dime a dozen.
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We're not talking about the lottery here, we're not talking about the probability that you will be hit by a bus or the chance you have of starting a company and making it big.

We are talking about the vastness of an entire GALAXY and a level of technological advancement that comes with consequences that no one can even begin to imagine let alone predict. The entirety of human science fiction doesn't even scratch the surface as to what is possible (and due to our own biases and the need to entertain a television audience/readership is probably far more tame and boring than what is really out there) at those levels.

You're talking about quantum limits but you have to realize, to make the vast majority of science fiction watchable/readable, you have to almost entirely throw out our knowledge of modern physics. For example, every real world attempt at theorizing FTL travel has lead either to needing ridiculous amounts of energy (equivalent to the mass of Jupiter for the original Alcubierre drive which would be about a billion billion billion kilograms each of matter and antimatter) or particles with properties which we have NEVER come close to seeing (and by never, I mean not a shred of experimental evidence or even a suggestion that it exists outside of a theoretical framework). If an alien race has FTL, it's knowledge of the universe is well above ours and any attempts we can make to predict the limits of their technology is useless. For all we know, FTL travel might be as difficult as building your own solar system from scratch.

In order for us to have an alien visit that is even close to any imagined encounter in science fiction, many things that we can't speculate on would have to work out. We're not talking one black swan, we're talking about an unknowable number of factors and events that would have to work out just right.

It's might be possible (we don't even know if FTL is possible), just like it might be possible for wild pigs to evolve to fly without any artificial intervention in a few thousand years, but it's so unlikely that it's worth putting into the "Just not going to happen pile," all the while working to prove yourself wrong :)
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Feeling out of place, I can absolutely sympathise. I haven't quite found my place yet. It's made worse with all this talk about star wars, geeky t-shirts and other pop culture paraphernalia. We aren't all fans of star wars. We aren't all jumping at the chance to make pop culture references in conversation and we don't all own t-shirts with witty slogans concerning the dark side (I do confess to owning 2 wolverine t-shirts though). Now shows like the Big Bang Theory only help to reinforce this silly idea of what a 'nerd' is.

I was very into Heavy Metal growing up. Just as I was into comics. I felt like an outsider in the typical social circles at school and university and I felt even worse when I found the 'nerd' or 'geek' or 'metal' circles. Liking Metallica apparently didn't make me a true metalhead and so there you go, denounced. I'm not into D&D so there goes my invitations to D&D sessions. What about the girl in that conference that wasn't wearing a star wars t-shirt, that was just as interested in that talk? I absolutely hate how each sub-culture tries to belittle the other and how its admission is dependent on whether you all like the same things.

I know that wasn't the main focus of the OP's post and I'm somewhat incoherent because I did just wake up, but I had to have my little rant. It's not just the IT industry alienating based on gender but also hobbies and interests.

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Amateur developer in Auckland that would like to meet other developers and not just to talk about star trek.
This is why I migrated to Dota 2. The general population is more mature, and there are simply less situations in the game which induces rage. What I am talking about?

- The fact that you can pause the game, and wait for someone to reconnect, so you won't lose a game because someone kicked his reset button.

- When someone is AFK the gold is shared amongst the other players.

- You can control the disconnected person's hero.

These and a thousand tiny other little touches makes Dota 2 a better community to be in.
powerful is pretty relative, there are lots of tasks where even a modern "low-end" Intel chip will spank any ARM device. Also "open" is misleading to downright wrong here too. ARM will license their designs to virtually anyone, but that doesn't mean they are open by most commonly accepted definitions of the word as it relates to technology. ARM is, after all, an IP company.

Having said all of that, almost all of my hobbyist non-day-job programming involves writing Go for ARM devices and I love the platform, but it isn't always a clear winner.

As far as "not everything running on ARM", the compiler situation is pretty good, where things tend to fall short in on kernel support for specific ARM SoCs. Until fairly recently most ARM SoC manufactuers had their own kernel forks with pushes back to the mainline few and far between. This has been changing a lot post Linux-3.7 due to Linus laying down the law on them a bit, but kernel compatibility and hardware drivers (this is why most alternate phone OSes based on Linux are going to route of being compatible with Android device drivers over standard Linux device drivers) are generally still the biggest stumbling blocks.