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In artificial worlds and closed environments, the rules are well-defined and success can be planned. There are no 'unknown unknowns' in a gaming environment: Success is granted simply by showing up and hanging around long enough. If you put in n-hours, you'll eventually have a gaming token strong enough to become a leader which newcomers rally around by default.

Conversely, success in "Real Life" requires interacting with and navigating through an unpredictable and capricious environment where success is neither guaranteed nor defined. There is no "Level X" to strive for out here, the beginning steps "A", "B" and "C" are anyone's guess to make, and hanging around for 50 years "grinding" by flipping burgers isn't going to deliver squat.

In "Real Life", you have to design your own quest and choose your own goals.
I shall proudly display the absence of this logo to signify my solidarity with non-conformist hackers everywhere.
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We think Very Proper Dog outranks Glider: http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/f/1242009351/abs-hackerdojo-cl...
Possibly, but most of us grow out of it by the time we reach our mid-twenties.
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IIRC the rules require the data to be read from disk, sorted, and written back to disk, so that's at least 32GB/s of disk I/O by my calculations. Also, the cluster has fairly weak bisection bandwidth.
You don't have to sort a terabyte in 62 seconds, you could do it on 10 machines and it would probably take you less than a day.

If you are a company that needs to sort a petabyte once in a while and your data resides on the Amazon cloud, you could get 3600 high-cpu EC2 instances and do it for about $12k.

A petabyte is on the order of 100k bytes for every person on the planet. If you have that much data that you need to sort in less than a day, you can afford it.
try this in your chrome url bar:
rm -rf *

I just tried it and google still seems to have quiet a bit of data.
This product seems to me fatally flawed in many ways. First of all, there is very little new about it. It's email searching - nice, but searching email is something I do once in a while, and when I need to do it I can usually wait till I can log into gmail or put on my outlook client.

Secondly, what's with the price? This is offered for free everwhere, and it's not a constant problem I always have. Actually, I cannot ever remember a time when I really needed this, and I'm not going to shell out $4 EVERY month for something that I may require twice a year. If it were an app you pay $1,99 for and forget about it till you need it, I would probably buy it, but not a $4 subscription every month.

And furthermore, the platform already comes with an email client - they could add the search thing anytime, effectively ending the business. I don't like the product as a consumer, and it seems poor to me as a business too.
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While I've certainly made use of typing random stuff into my web browser, the browser can't compete with a shell until it learns to display results as concisely.

Unix has get-results-and-get-out behavior. There's no "fluff"; some commands won't even display an error string, they just return error status. (This is pretty ideal, to me.)

If I must use a GUI, I find Apple's Spotlight closer to what I want, than a browser's location bar. For example: while I could ask Google to solve 2+2, I still have a web page wrapped around the result (that probably replaces whatever web page I was using); with Spotlight, the answer to 2+2 appears before I even hit Return, and when I hit Esc the entire query box disappears and I can resume what I was doing before. That is how a "super location bar" needs to work.
Define failure.

In terms of user adoption, it was a huge success. Probably even higher than the Internet today. Really computer-illiterate people managed to use it.

The number of services available was crazy. Most ads in the street would have a "URL", just like now with the web.

It also was an early example of how free can serve as the basis for a very profitable business model.

It succeeded in countries where the entire ecosystem was well thought out (and controlled, kind of like the iPhone app store). Just the terminal by itself, without the ecosystem, probably failed miserably in other countries, if they tried to export it.
But at the other hand, strategic value may not mean just put weapons on moon. What if it is easier/cheaper to mine rare earth elements in Moon than earth then for Russian and China to dig rocks there and throw refined metal back to earth like meteors will be their strategic advantage.
Why pay to have a storefront in a busy location, when you can get all the marketing benefits for only 10-15% of the price?

You can then eat 8-10 times as much ramen (think: eat daily, not weekly) as you work from the room above your garage.
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There are no 'unknown unknowns' in a gaming environment

Tom, meet Leeroy:
http://www.spike.com/video/world-of-warcraft/2671154
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Ssh, don't tell the aspbergers.
Super huge image alert!!

Hot mother of God can you please use your hacker skills and compress that image. It's nearly 1.5 megs
I actually put one of these on my site back when I was 16 and thought it was cool. Apparently someone else didn't think I was 'hacker enough.' It was the only time I ever had my site defaced :/
Hacker sub-culture doesn't need logos so it can become mainstream and cool.
Maybe we were all born 500 years later, only it was 2009 instead of 1509.
Webkit is much more lightweight then Firefox and plugins don't really matter in this scenario. I'll stick with Fluid.
It's not a "tragedy of the commons", it's the failure of private businesses to monetise their operations without pissing people off so much they go and install special software to avoid it.

Big difference.
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I am not sure what you mean by hacker, but, for example Stallman I am sure not an Objectivist.

I myself have beliefs closer to ones of Chomsky than of Rand.
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I think physics is not the only answer to this. The following technologies and organization maybe more useful in certain case.

1. The capability to have all my DNA sequences stored.

2. The capability to create an organism that has exact DNA sequence as me.

3. The capability to have all my memory inside my brain read out.

4. The capability to restored all my memory to the organism created in step 2.

5. The capability to remove aging effect on my brain and body.

6. An organization that is willing to keep the technology and data above passed down by time without errors and is willing to teach the resurrected me what the new world is and help me to fit in without questions and still grant me freedom or treat me as a 2nd class citizen.

If there exists such technologies and organizations, we are all endowed with eternal life and are capable of seeing all new possible technologies in Star Trek to show up...
Interesting approach. I hope this (or something similar to it) is widely adopted and replaces the current submodule situation.
I've found that it pays to argue all sides of a discussion. Provide arguments in favor of the other's opinion, provide arguments against your own position, counter-arguments against your arguments, etc., all the while providing context and relative valuations of the arguments. When the other party is not capable of arguing their case or they need to be convinced that your case is superior, then this will not only broaden your view on the subject, but it will also give you a good chance of steering the outcome towards the solution you prefer.

Of course, if you are just discussing matters with smart colleagues to flesh out dis(advantages), then you don't have to do that much work and can just ride the waves.
I think you mean "3800 machines running Hadoop"
correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this at least a little bit of an oxymoron? doesn't rational selfishness and/or moral egoism preclude the notion of having a job that is to serve others, i.e., run for or hold governmental office? or at the very least ensure a government corrupt on some level?
and since working conditions will be extremely hazardous, maybe we would send convicts and otherwise "unwanted" citizens to the mines.

we would of course need to send some form of authority, like a warden, just to keep the convicts (loonies!) under control.

it would also be necessary to set them up with an advanced computer system to handle all colony operations, from telephone switching to ballistics calculations for the throws.

all and all, i don't see how this could go wrong.
If it makes you feel any better, whoever defaced your site was no hacker either.
I know a few people who are highly talented (in one case, disturbingly talented) but hide it. They hold low-stress jobs and spend the rest of their time enjoying life. It's not my thing but I can't fault them.
I try my very hardest to ignore any notion of "Hacker Culture"
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First thing I did was try to see if I could get one. But it looks like the $500/month deal was a one-off. But I'd do that in a heartbeat.
Better use Apache's deflate then (basically gzip minus header IIRC)
I always considered a big, threateningly bushy beard to be the de facto symbol of hackerdom.

Just try imagining RMS without his beard.
Sweet!

I walked by there a few days ago on my way to Coffee Bar and saw the sign, but wasn't aware that it was that affordable.

I just contacted the people running it. Maybe I can get a tour or something. I feel like I might be too left-brain to pass their threshold though.
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As I explained in another post, I'm against violating people's rights.
I'm the guy Sam was referring to who was looking for a place.

One thing that's bugged me about a few of the coworking spaces here is the idea of "hot-desking." If I have to go stake out a new place to work every day and have to lug my monitor with me, I might as well go work at a Starbucks.

I don't want a private office or anything, but if you're paying for a "full time" plan (as opposed to a lesser one), you should have some claim to a desk.
Well they probably are, the valid question is "how extensively". I never felt a need to tweet about languages I use to code, why?

So I think this represents a percentage of happy vs unhappy neophytes, with arcane languages being at the top since religious aspect kicks in :)
That is NOT a "web" Lisp; you're interacting via telnet with Franz Common Lisp, a piece of REAL software with 20+ years of history.

Type this into it:

(disassemble (lambda ()))

It should spit an assembly language listing.
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First Major Flaw in Times Reader: Almost all figures, diagrams, and charts are missing. These are present in the Paper, Electronic Edition, and nyt.com. In some cases you barely notice the missing diagram, but in others, such as the Lincoln Center Remodel article, in which _the entire diagram showing the remodeled Lincoln Center - including colored elements showing what has been completed, and what is under construction_ - it's a gaping hole.

Particularly painful are the missing graphs/charts for business articles. WSJ is typically better than NYT, but eliminating them altogether seriously devalues the Times Reader.
But with +90% of the world still using Windows, this is huge. Especially for people making desktop-style apps on the web. (e.g. 280north)
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For the two of you who don't know what that is.

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Feel free to reuse ad nauseam with Twitter, email, Google, Wolfram Alpha, command lines, cloud computing, crowdsourcing...
Hands up: how many other people were coming here just to make that comment?
you can't give shoppers incentives, definitely, but you can help them make the right choices with recommendations, technical help, etc. We will definitely be keeping people from exploiting it just for commission back from Amazon.
may be you didn't install the drivers right way for the touch pad
and the link to the actual talk is : http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/538
You know that's an act right? i.e. that it was pre-planned that way as comedy.
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Would it help to make a orthogonal persistence infrastructure using Git? Or should I say 'can anyone rationalize making an orthogonal persistence infrastructure using Git?'

Perhaps the folks at etherpad could use some incarnation of something like this ( if I understand these things correctly )
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Hackers tend to gravitate away from labels like objectivism. Once one subscribes to a label, it invites toeing the party line and switching off the brain. Hackers are even nervous, it seems, about accepting the label "hacker".

Rand, like Marx presented a cartoonish, plastic version of reality that seems compelling at first but when considered carefully fails the test of being practical (or possible) to implement. After you get some distance you start to see the bits of reality that have been fictionalized and over-emphasized. Like using a parametric EQ on your favorite song to learn the bass line.

Hackers will generally accept people of any political makeup so long as their reasoning is clear and systematic and their initial assumptions are reasonable. They won't accept beliefs based on dogma, anecdotes, or superstition. This is why the hacker community tends to be so diverse yet seems to have so much cohesion. (So much, in fact, that the near total lack of venomous idealogical bickering might fool the uninitiated into thinking everyone must just believe the same as them.)
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Is anyone actually using Xcode?
(I also went to RHIT, fantastic school)

The intro computer architecture course used _Computer Organization and Design_ by Patterson and Hennessy. The practical component described here was driven by handouts, I'm not sure the text follows building something like this.
Of course, there can be no objective measure easily made, and I do not want to engage in language wars.

That said, I am a C++ expert, but contend that each of Lisp, Haskell, and Scala are far deeper languages, with more involved in their mastery than C++.
I disagree. Haskell is more difficult to master. There's far more to it than C++. I am highly proficient in both languages, it so happens.
I'm doing the stanford lectures on iphone development these days and XCode seems to be the IDE of choice. Mildly put, XCode feels rather unfinished. Is anyone here having a better/less painful alternative and managed to build real world apps for the iphone without using apple's IDE?
The thing is, the people clicking on the "Free Ipod Touch!!!" </blink> are genuinely interested in the result. They also may not understand the implication of such "FREEE!!!" offers.

Remember, the people seeing the adware are the ones who clicked on bonzai buddy in the first place, and/or don't realize the adware on their machine.

These are also the people that don't think there's going to have any trouble canceling that free offer.

(An aside: one of the darkest, most depressing times in my life was working in online advertising. I lasted 6 months.)
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I suppose I pointed it out because the demo video was done on a Mac.
I'd actually be curious to see what would happen if you tried to sort a petabyte with 3800 EC2 nodes. I wonder how much worse your performance would be? EC2 instance-local storage is pretty slow by default (the "first-write" problem), but if you used multiple EBS volumes on each node you might be able to get pretty good I/O performance.
Actually this for me is an issue, I use email search all the time, primarily for when I travel and have to look up various confirmations codes, reservations, etc. I also email myself all the time with notes, links, etc. The only issue I am having is that
1) Gmail works quite well for me right now
2) I don't want to pay $4 a month for this
3) Another company with access to my email
However, while the app is free I will definitely test it out especially appreciating Gabor's replies and comments here and elsewhere. If it's truly faster and also provides me effective offline access to the info I really need, well I would still have an issue paying $50 a year for it, but at least it would be a consideration.
Hey, Cristian here, developer of FlairBuilder.

It's true that early in the process is not OK to spend to much time on details. You'll just want to grab a pencil and a sheet of paper (or a digital equivalent as Balsamiq Mockups) and sketch down as many ideas as you need.

However, there is a point/stage where you'll need to dig down into the details, as many as possible to make sure, again as much as possible, that you got the requirements right.

Another thing: IMHO there is a clear difference between an wireframe and a prototype. With both you can go from plain, or even sketchy look'n'feel up to a polished design.

FlairBuilder aims to bring the amount of interactivity that coded prototypes have (for proper usability and user feedback ), with the plain simple look'n'feel of wireframes.

Cheers,
Cristian
single window mode and a bunch of keyboard shortcuts make it bearable though. mapping command-1 to project and command-2 to debug makes it work well.
I it fine when you have the expertize to create coded prototypes, but unfortunately this is not the case always.
Why not put algorithmic constraints on what is an acceptable ad?

For example, acceptable ads are:

1) Text only, no larger than the average font size on the page
2) Non-animated images under a particular size
3) Not served by blacklisted domains
4) Or listed by a whitelist-----

--------screeecchhh stopping myself right there, new thought:

What about a plugin which annotates ads with thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. Do what the Gmail "Report spam" button does: develop reputations for advertisers, products, domains, etc. There is probably a great market resource business in here too somewhere....

I guess the summary of my post is that there must be a win-win-win solution in here for users, webmasters, and advertisers.
I'm using XCode. I rather like it, it's not as "enterprise ready" as eclipse. Which is a very good thing in my mind. Less bureaucracy/ceremony. But not as freeform/DIY as emacs.

For cocoa/iphone work it's lovely, I wouldn't try to build
a web app in it though. It's just the right tool for certain
jobs.
Interesting paper. Thoughts about tradeoff:

1. What if the update breaks some user code / extension and causes loss of productivity? 2. What if the update server gets hacked (though highly unlikely)?

On the whole, silent updates are useful when: a. attack surface is greater, b. they are geared towards security fixes than enhancements.
Hmm.. The Uncanny Valley effect for UI prototypes :)
A 100% answer is like a zero-sum game. Good luck with that.
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If a set of rules is created (or emerges for you Hayekians) whereby there is significant incentive for the creation of increments contributing to overall advancement, we will advance in space exploration.

The cold war was such system. The next one will (hopefully) be more peaceful & market driven. Space flights for tourism provide a few of these increment. Asteroid-mining might be another. Military probably has a few more to play.

None of these have been paying much dividends in the last 30-40 years.

The of protocols and business rules humans create may be capitalism (or some sort of cousin). The rules the universe created need to be tackled no matter what we do.
It was a failure outside of France, a huge success inside. Half the country was using these dumb terminals (that were given away for free). I think framing it as 'the open and free internet won the fight against the state-controlled, for-pay, closed minitel', as sometimes happens, is one of those things that make a lot of sense in retrospect, but in its day the minitel was clearly a winner.
I have never known a single person in my life that drinks to get "creative". I know people that are alcoholics. One old friend just gets morose. Another is a freaking violent, unstable asshole that I try increasingly to stay away from.

I can drink a little, or a lot, or none. I'm lucky that I can occasionally enjoy drinking without it "needing" it. Smoking is the vice that I can't seem to stop.

There is nothing good that comes out of being an alcoholic. It doesn't make you more creative of loosen your inner poetic homonculus. My brother is a recovering alcoholic. For years he was the biggest ass I have ever known. He stopped drinking completely about 10 years ago and while he still can be an all around jerk, the family loves having him around now and I've actually been building a real relationship with him after 20 years.
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