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How is this a generational thing, in the social sense? Maybe it's just the fact that as we manage to get more and more productive and automate more and more of our work, we have to invent more and more needs for people to spend their money on, to keep the majority of the adult workforce employed. Eventually we get really diminishing returns, providing services and products that seem frivolous to most people at a second glance.
Even so, the boot sequence of a VM guest is generally straightforward with very little entropy.
I agree that there are boundless opportunities for skilled developers in bioinformatics --- IF they are willing to work for free or a substantial pay cut.

The problem is that there is a big mismatch in expectations between developers and researchers: researchers are not accustomed to paying for software. Most developers in bioinformatics are other researchers, who are self-taught programmers paid by their grant funding or university, not by software sales. The quality of software is usually quite low, but it is at least free.

But I still think there is a large pool of developers out there who may work for BigCo during the day, but want to tinker on something meaningful in the evenings or weekends.
Biologists and bioinformaticians need to get better at advertising needs and harnessing the kind of community involvement that has made Linux/Apache/etc so successful.
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What usually all these comparisons (from all sides) fail to understand is that all countries have different history and culture, therefore the solutions will always differ and cannot be implemented across different countries.

And people will prefer one over the other because of their own bias as a member of any given country.

However what you can measure is the progress within you own country, is it improving or not.

One thing worth mentioning is that usually the top countries is all these articles is usually small North European countries. That suggest that human societies does not scale as databases.
The work of Roy Baumeister shows many of these interactions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Baumeister#Self_regulation
I see thanks for the replies.

So it's OK as long as you use objects and not a simple integer as a counter for instance.
> This is great, I've been wanting to get into aviation for some time but the barrier of entry is steep.

There are some hobbies where starting without any prior knowledge and learning through a process of trial and error is fun and rewarding.

IMHO aviation is not one of these hobbies. It tends to be rather unforgiving of the "error" part of the equation, especially if the error is something like "wings not correctly attached". :)
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Jesus this is a crappy comment. YOu think he used too much corporate speak? I think you used too much non professional / amateur / brogrammer speak.
It's an unusual question because you've not really defined the goal posts very well.

I know a lot of old pub quiz machines still running on Windows 2000.

However, the real question here is: Why are you using a piece of software that is 13 years old even though there are patches/updates for it?
I own ekfolio.com domain. The idea was to be able to create a single page professional bio/profile. i know many others are doing it even though I have always wanted to do it just for me. Never took off though.
Was somewhat sure these were the same but wasn't sure how to find the old post. Neat to see it come full circle.
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Newton's third law gets in the way of that proposal.

When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to that of the first body.

If you plan to generate acceleration using mechanical force like the reference design, you'd need a massive counterweight. An equal and opposite energy would be transferred to the counterweight, so you need a lot of mass, which would require an even more massive dirigible. You also need somewhere to dissipate that energy. In the reference design, the Earth is used as the counterweight.

Alternatively, you could generate the circular motion using something like a rocket engine, in which case you might as well just use a rocket for linear acceleration and ditch the gyration mechanism.
What you describe as "have your cake and eat it" is just a reasoned discussion. I first start with what I think is the most likely scenario, but then I also examine a potential worst-case scenario and show how it, too, can be dealt with.

You appear to be interested in an adversarial discussion in which you score as many points as possible, rather than a collaboration in which we enjoy ourselves and learn. I'm not interested in that, so I'll leave you to it.
The engineer ends up under the car. The hacker doesn't even change the bulb.
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I seriously think this one is kinda biased. I've been a long time Android developer and working with ios devs in parallel. Recently it's true that Android development is becoming a better experience but still not even close to ios. Have you ever really experienced shitty jar mismatchs or wrongly generated R files or trying to fix that shitty class paths ? Those are really making Android development xp shitty and painful.
So, what can the average person do? Since this seems to be a deficiency of the market, it seems you have to vote with your wallet. How about using a percentage of your income to donate to worthy organizations? Maybe instead of giving a tithe to the poor, you give a tithe to causes that try to improve the whole human condition? Start communities (not hierarchical, political organizations: simply communities) that discuss this type of philanthropy. Maybe you could get a critical mass of people to donate to things that require a modest amount of funding.

It's not like anyone hasn't already thought of this, but what other choice does the inidividual have if they doesn't want to dedicate their whole time to fight very systemic and perhaps even an inherent human shortsightedness?
AutoLayout in IB in Xcode 4 was an absolute nightmare. Easily one of my most frustrating dev tool experiences ever.

It's much better in Xcode 5.
The article kind of matches with my experience. And I as well enjoy working in vim more than Eclipse / Xcode. As I have significant experience with Eclipse and with VisualAge before that, Xcode took some getting used to. The coding part is ok, but for anything else (which I found out only after doing a real project in it) it is horrible. I cannot count the times I have to kill Xcode and restart it because things which were properly done just didn't work. The Stackoverflow answer to those things usually is; restart Xcode. That kind of behaviour, to me, makes it a horrible and unpredictable IDE to work with.

On a previous stable version I had to suffer a month without code completion (well broken code completion) and there were many complaints online about it, but no fix (at least none that worked for me). This did teach me to memorise more and type faster.

Also half-baked things like Storyboards & IB which you cannot really use for actual apps because you need code to add images, custom fonts etc to controls and the often buggy code generation for Coredata makes me think that this has no priority for Apple. It feels outsourced (as in, thrown over the fence with a vague spec) and more neglected with every new version, making me think it's some kind of arrogance; let developers do everything the hard way, they cannot do without us anyway. Every story and tutorial I read seems to back this up; working around the quirks in the toolchain instead of the tools helping you. I keep wanting to believe i'm doing it wrong, but I haven't met anyone yet with a better experience.
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Nice to see the language page be as easy on the eyes as the language itself. There's almost no excuse not to use Scala if you're deploying on the JVM.

On a related note, does anyone else see the Scala logo and confuse it for a symbol representing databases or hard disks? It just doesn't click with me
QUIC lives on top of UDP. If we reinvent TCP on top of UDP we may as well just throw in the towel on IPv6 and embrace IPv4 + NAT. Why bother trying to fix layer 2 when we're content to fuck shit up on the higher layers for the sake of back compat? IPv6 is our chance to bring back end-to-end networking with stateless routers.
I've had none of those problems. I made the decision early on not to use Eclipse though. Maybe that helped?
With a good mirror and sunlight, I hack my way around changing the lightbulb.

I know what I'm talking about: no less than 3 lightbulbs went off in my apartment last month...
Because they are a solution in search of a problem. Or more accurately, they are a problem in search of a problem.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/OptimizerHintsDiscussion
"If possible, look into patenting key components of your software – this offers more protection than copyright. More on that here."

While I agree that having your site copied verbatim sucks, I don't think contributing to the giant pile that is our current patent system is the way forward.
is hackernews /r/pics now?
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What would it be like if PPC was the same as SEO?
That just shifts the problem - the VPN is vulnerable to the original attack.
I bet IEFBR14 beats it. I also think it wins in the "smallest number of patches per year for actively used software" category.
Whenever one of these US/UK articles pops up, it's usually from a left-leaning angle, emphasising the left policies of these countries as the cause of all the goodness there - so it's only natural that the counterpoint would be right-leaning.

> not a sign of total failure of a specific model.

It's not that it's a total failure, it's more that the scandinavian model isn't the utopia it's made out to be by its (mostly left leaning) proponents.
One thing that troubles me about technological progress is whether we really are making anything better. Sure, we solve one problem... but it creates problems of its own, and exposes previously hidden problems.

I think this article provides something of an answer: work in itself is not a bad thing. It takes effort and concentration - it's work - but it can be enjoyable, satisfying, meaningful.

But putting in effort that is wasted, by being diverted into tedious, pointless, unnecessarily complex tasks, is a bad thing. It's not enjoyable, not satisfying, not meaningful.

Therefore, any technological progress that reduces that tedium is a good thing (even if it has problems of its own, or exposes other problems, provided net tedium is less).

[I don't think this is the whole answer, but I think it's part of an answer (probably, things like saving lives, health, and somehow enabling people to relate better are more important goals).]
I don't understand the distinction you're drawing between electricity and compressed air. Aside from the fact that compressed air is much less efficient and much more difficult to run over long distances, they look pretty much identical to me: they are both ways of transmitting energy.
Practical CL (written with Java mindset) is a waste of time, compared to PG's ANSI CL which has more idiomatic, subtle examples. Then On Lisp, of course.

HtDP should go before SICP. HtDP2 is a much better reading than old HtDP. In both books exercises must be done.

PAIP is a decent reading, but mr. Norvig, it seems, dislikes macros and recursion and prefers strictures and loops.)

btw, all the books are "available" on piratebay, if you are not too strict or american.)
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So could you describe what the discussion for, say, "P = NP" would look like? What would it score? .01 truthiness?

Are entire comments upvoted, or can single statements be up/downvoted line-item-style? Can the result of one discussion automatically influence another (can I post a statement /foo that assumes /bar is true and /baz is false)?
Thank you Nick. I will check it out. In particular I will be interested in how the load balancing happens with zero downtime for already connected clients.
If they blatantly stole your idea - don't worry. The type of people who can't think originally enough to come up with their own idea are probably not going to execute it well either.

The same principle applies when someone else has the same idea as you at the same time, and you catch wind of it right in the middle of your implementation of that idea. It might be slightly more difficult, since you arrived at the same good idea independently of each other. Just focus on executing better.

Ideas are a dime a dozen - they aren't worth anything in and of themselves.

If they blatantly copy your code, as is the case here, then it becomes slightly worse, an actual legal issue. But again I wouldn't worry too much since I'm willing to bet that they aren't that good at coding either.
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Don't worry. Ideas are worthless. Implementation, marketing, etc. is what matters. Focus on that. You should be chosen because you're the best, not because you're the only one.
The question is, what's cheaper- labor for optimizing the queries + paying (possibly reduced) SQL server licensing, or keeping the "mediocre" queries + throwing in more hardware?
Yep, though you can add additional data files to reduce SGAM contention.
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vi. Whenever I log on to a UNIX system, I end up using vi in some shape or form.
The comment above (showerst) is right -- everyone says "well that happens somewhere else" until it happens right in their own community and gives the lie to "but we're not like that!" The other element is that stories like Sierra's (or the Trayvon story, or plenty of others) provide one public example at just the right time to catch a larger feeling or represent a larger problem that people are grappling with. It's a chance to hash out through a personal story how we think about "stuff".
Um, a library?
Technical term is "Yak-Shaving"

http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_t...

http://www.spaceclearing.com/blog/2013/03/22/mastering-the-a...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
Smartcards are vulnerable as well and there has been successful attacks towards some smartcards (google it)

And not every system has an HSM available
Xcode 5 is quite a bit better, although I'm with you on not liking storyboards.
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I'm planning on skipping this pain, and open sourcing our base code. If someone wants to copy us, go ahead, but our machine learning and data analysis services are going to be hard to build: its taken me two years to get even close to launching ;)

Other upshot is I get to give back to the FOSS community: couldnt have built it without them.

As the saying goes, if you can be copied that easily: you've built a feature, not a business!
Thanks for the heads-up, I wasn't aware of CLQR. Will definitely check it out.

LoL is definitely one of the major highlights in my reading plan.
You don't have to have your pride crushed to learn. Just accept that there are other smart(er) people around you and seek advice rather than incite it.
You've missed the point of all of this.

The person being duped provides a name and a number.

You leave your line open with a friend. Then you dial the new number, which doesn't work because the line is open, but it appears to work, fooling the person being duped.

Dialing the new number is a required part of the illusion so the person you are duping believes you are calling the person they provided the info for.

If you just dial your friends number and don't use the fake number... and they see you doing that... then that's stupid and your friends would have to be exceedingly trashed to fall for what is essentially you just dialing a friends number and talking to them.
word to epub is easy -- do that instead.
Turbo C 3.0 is still used in many schools and colleges!
The email is from 29 Mar 2009
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I am not sure why you insist on answers based on your claim that Denmark is currently doing better than others. That was not the point.

The article portrays Denmark as having no issues what so ever and a financially sound political model for the future.

What is broken is a lucrative and ineffective welfare system and the size of the public sector as it is primarily based on the income of the private sector.

With the majority of taxes being paid through income tax and with the number of private sector jobs disappearing and not enough new companies becoming growth companies, with a demographic structure requiring more from less and with a job market that is structurally in trouble (hidden for now by redistribution) it is bound to be trouble.

Lowering the taxes for corporations was not meant as anything but following the competition, there is nothing wrong in that. It's neither a smart move or a stupid move, it's just what you do if you don't want to add to the amount of jobs disappearing.

There really isn't anything to do by the state for those who have trouble finding jobs. There isn't some boom waiting in any foreseeable future. It's structural these days baby.

I don't find any of the current models working, but I am also more pessimistic about automation than most people.
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It's disturbing because it's innocuous and downright common. AT&T published customer's personal information where they shouldn't have. Weev downloaded it, and he's the one in trouble? If you look at my link just below, you can see a lot of security researchers who are worried that this court decision just made their jobs illegal.
What if you want to do something between "everyone can access it" and "only local host can access it?". For example, I have to run a recursive DNS resolver on a port other than 53 because my ISP intercepts DNS traffic. I've limited access to only my ISPs IPs at the software firewall, so as not to unwittingly take part in a DNS amplification attack.

Or what if I want to run a mail relay but only allow machines I control to access it. Or block a user who's doing something nefarious?

Sure, most services allow you to control access by ip, but I'd much rather manage it all in one place. And the ports show up as closed if you block at the firewall.
I agree. At least 80% of your start-up depends on execution. You do need a good idea, but that's just the beginning and you can borrow heavily here (that's how progress works most of the time, improve on existing concepts). When someone 'steals' your idea and then does a terrible job at executing it, then I don't see a problem. You can just do better and prevail.

I have (supposedly) good ideas all the time, but not the time to execute most of them without totally loosing my focus. I'd actually be quite honored if someone would 'steal' some of them and execute them well as most of these ideas arise from some issue I encounter that needs fixing.
Ideas are almost worthless, implementation and execution is what counts.
Since you have all of this text, I'm assuming you have access to that audience. You could easily fill a language specific niche that lots of others don't.

Here's an example:
http://blog.repustate.com/arabic-sentiment-analysis-a-long-j...

Many of the text analysis APIs on the web only do english, spanish, and maybe chinese.

If you could come up with a semi decent system, you could talk to marketers, and actually other developers.

For example, I've had people come to me for something as obscure as recognizing locations so they could do geo tagging in a mobile app based on text.

If you have any particular industry verticals you're familiar with, there's probably a niche somewhere.
It's a systemic problem. We can be fairly certain of it because the system used to work differently. Past decades saw major national projects that were successfully undertaken e.g. the Tennessee Valley Authority in the '30s, the WW2 effort, the interstate system in the '50s, Apollo in the '60s.

This all came to a halt in the '70s (just as the baby boomers were starting to be in charge - coincidence?). In the '80s, "greed is good" was practically a campaign slogan. The ideal of public service (make the world a better place, even at great personal cost) is still as strong as ever with many young men and women. But its proper outlets are sorely missing. You can e.g. join the Peace Corps and work to improve another country with hardly any resources allocated to you. Or, if you want to follow greed instead, you can join Wall Street and have discretion over millions of other people's money.

It's certainly not become impossible to improve the world in significant ways, but you just have to become very wealthy first; see Elon Musk, Bill Gates. So every young entrepreneur has to squeeze out some money at a low investment cost first. The route to great public service has thus become: 1. spend the most energetic and productive years of your life to build Angry Birds 2. make lots of money in subsequent financial and legal operations 3. balance family and retirement with building and running a foundation to cure cancer.
Might want to update your nginx, pretty sure this one is vulnerable.

Oh, and your site is down.
I had a few discussions with some guys at #lisp, they looked over some code I'd written that was recursion-heavy, and they were of the mind that since Tail-Call Optimization is not in the ANSI standard and therefore implementation dependent one should be careful when using them.

Now that totally changes if you're writing Scheme...
Anecdotal, conjectural, and even the dubious psychological experiments she references are completely misrepresented.

The subjects were told told to memorize a number, and on their way to a different room where they expected to be tested, someone stopped them mid-way and asked them to choose between two snacks -- a fruit salad and a cake. The people who had been told to memorize many digits didn't choose the healthy snack as frequent as the people who had been told to memorize few digits (and, presumably, could focus on which choice they really preferred).

It tries to convey "common sense" concepts, using conjecture and complicated constructs. It hurts my brain when I try to understand what is meant by "to use up cognitive resources". The more convoluted an explanation is, the less I feel it has been understood by the person explaining it. I have a strong distaste for psychology terms that add depth, but not clarity, as if trying to validate and give authority to the field or explanation.

A bit ironic for an article trying to explain the concept of "minimizing drainage of the cognitive tank" (to paraphrase).

So, what is this article really about? This -- http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134....
I believe you are right, it is't widely used. But, if you ever find yourself wanting to support it, I'll point you in the right direction: http://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/contents/ch...
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Hah. It's funny what's happened to our generation. The young men are all apparently in the Bay Area, and the young women are all in New York. The ratio here in NYC is unbelievably skewed!
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