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I assume you meant "doomed not to work"? They "work" in the same way prisoners dilemma works, and the expiration date is until the moment one of the prisoners do not cooperate. This is what you describe as "problem" - and the another prisoners dilemma is created (another political system), which solves previous "problem" - makes it that "prisoners" have to work in different way, and the expiration date is until they figure out how to game the system. My idea is that there is no proof yet that it is impossible to create such system that to an arbitrary small probability you could be sure you are not being gamed, and that is what i referred to "pure system", or may be called zero-trust system as well.

It may be that it is unknowable whether such system could exist or not, in that case the search for it might be eternal.
Yes, the project's target is, at least at beginning, a full-fledged Windows binary-compatible OS, a "monolith". Yet, when it will reach a stable version, there isn't really any obstacle, given the fact that it is an open-source project, in forking it. The ReactOS team has to provide everything now, but when others around will start providing better alternatives for the OS' components, the team might retreat in doing only what they do better, which I suppose is the NT core.

If you refereed to the NT kernel to be a monolith, then it actually is a hybrid. Other than kernel-integrated UI, its NT core is micro-kernel by design.
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This looks interesting. Can be used for deduplication by keeping this hash table on disk for large amount of data

I wrote something like this to optimize disk seeks heavily by returning a reference of 8 byte and keeping a hashtable in memory. A mostly-append only records store that allowing mutations of same key and by rounding size of blobs by power of 2. Written to optimize storage layer for Membase.

https://github.com/t3rm1n4l/lightkv
The point of my comment wasn't that we shouldn't use technology to enforce our laws (though our drug laws are ridiculous and counterproductive). It was that our local, state, and federal governments operate as a collection of thousands of fiefdoms that run for the most part without supervision from any other agency. Each of those fiefdoms can implement programs like this in secret, and no one can challenge them because no one knows about them. Every so often one of these programs is identified and disbanded after years of litigation, but hundreds more will soon appear in its place.

The simplicity of implementing such programs combined with the near impossibility of identifying and eliminating them makes this an insurmountable problem. Our government seems to have adopted the mantra of the criminals they claim to dislike so much: If you don't get caught, it's not illegal.
Looks like a cdb variation that moves index to a separate file and therefore allows changing the database (to a degree) without requiring a rebuild.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdb_%28software%29
Indeed. I find myself become ever more aware of how even when I think I'm not comparing myself to some norm, I subconsciously am doing this anyways.

I find that meeting people wildly different from myself in lifestyle or perspective really helps. Traveling to 'foreign' cultures too.
That's strange - I took another look at the JavaScript and it is indeed 131KB when uncompressed. I could have sworn it was 265KB last night.

Anyway, including Bootstrap to use two containers with different background colours is a lack of professionalism. Why can't you make it yourself? I'd argue that it would take an experienced web developer approximately the same time to do it without Bootstrap.

I don't really hate it because he's making money off of it, it's just that it feels like a ripoff to me. For $99/month [1] you can get a new website, specifically designed for you by a web developer, every month.

[1] it looks like he has realised $99/month is a joke.
> but a non-native speaker who has learned French as spoken in Paris will more than likely not understand a native French speaker from Québec or Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). So I don't think this problem is specific to English.

That's true but French is kind on an exception among latin languages, it is a phonetically complex language compared to Italian or Spanish.
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My other gripe with it is that as a member of a non-hunter-gatherer society I value the fact that my diet is more interesting and varied than just mongongo nuts.
There are also a lot of bad kind of regulations, that support corporate cronyism. In fact big corporations know that and spend large amounts lobbying for their interests. It's about the right regulations and removing the wrong regulations, not just regulation. And the more complex regulations become the more inaccessible it becomes for the general public.
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Thanks Ludo, I hope this time I'll be able to fix my English before the next project ;-)
Yes, I am serious.

Maybe I don't get the "first iteration" idea, but it should not look like shit. Maybe that's just me, but if I'm making a website to attract users I'd rather make it, you know, attractive.

>I just want feedback ASAP. And guess what, it worked. Thanks for yours.

You're welcome.
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I don't understand why people are making such a big fuss about the PG article. He gave only one example of so many red hearing. Obviously being a foreigner with a strong accent doesn't help you when 90% of your time is spent communicating. duh.

What makes me sad is that by being honest and wanting to help founders, PG just got a new shit load of problems from people over-reacting. Do you really think he'll give great, but controversial, feedback in his next interviews/articles?
They didn't clamp down on anything. All they did was make an example of them. I bet the other inmates 'helped'. They still have access to cell phones and Facebook, they just are more careful now about this sort of stupidity.
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In E.U., which is where ReactOS is based now, the software patents are not valid.
The recent frenzy of accent related Hacker News posts seems to reinforce the opinion I saw in a thread discussing the pg controversy:

"Dear Paul,

It's not what you are, it's what you did. At least, I hope.

I suspect this is all coming out of a desire to emphasize that communication is important when you're starting a company. It's never just about solving technical problems. Well, sure, that's true. But as Nitasha has covered rather thoroughly, your "empirical evidence" isn't some blind sample - it's a walking demonstration of confirmation bias.

The larger problem is something you've explained yourself, in your essay on "Investor Herd Dynamics". Another name for this essay might have been, "Venture Capital is a Cargo Cult". In that essay, you lay out several reasons why an investment becomes more attractive when other people are already investing in it. And here's the crux of your argument:

'But frankly the most important reason investors like you more when you've started to raise money is that they're bad at judging startups. Judging startups is hard even for the best investors. The mediocre ones might as well be flipping coins. So when mediocre investors see that lots of other people want to invest in you, they assume there must be a reason.'

Do I need to spell this out? Your bias is a cancer on your industry, because it becomes part of the voodoo nonsense that less astute investors use to pick their horses. Your decisions may seem rational to you — but if you talk about how you don't like to back people with strong accents, it becomes less likely that other people will back them as well. You can be better than this.

Look deeper."
And if none of that was enough, have enough guns to force a regime change.
Libertarianism really is the ultimate representation of naivety. It assumes everyone and everything operates in an altruistic, consistent way.

Companies don't need regulations because they will never bend the rules or take the easy way out. Governments should be minimal because people can look after themselves. The market always self optimises to the benefit of everyone involved.
> This I suspect also makes us pretty unintelligible to a lot of secondary-English speakers.

That definitely can be the case, also I observed intermitting slow and very fast speeds in the same sentence in order to put the emphasis in different parts of the sentence.
Well… the funny part is, that Libertarianism is NOT about economics, rich people, etc. It is about: 1. "liberty as the highest political end" 2. Non-aggression principle

So, this article should be named "how I outgrew self-proclaimed libertarians".
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If you're living alone on a desert island, there's one job available: scavenging for food. It doesn't matter if you're a genius mathematician or something, your job is to search for food.

If you're in a town full of dotcom businesses, you can probably find a job building web-apps in JavaScript. (Hey, it's a million times better than scavenging for food...)

I really like this cartoon. It's exactly how I feel about "having a day job" vs "doing something cool".

I've been reading PG's essays for a long time. Since back around the time that he created Y Combinator in the first place. I think his essays are brilliant and honest and inspiring.

But at the end of the day... I just don't care about starting a company. If I can live a normal, middle-class life and have a normal, middle-class retirement.... then, man, I really don't give a shit about getting rich. I have an endless supply of awesome things to work on and think about.
The thing is that medieval concept of time was not linear. So we cannot really compare how medieval peasants perceived their leisure time with perception of the modern worker. It is like comparing cabbages with golf balls. They are both round, right?
I also strongly disagree with the author where it comes to fulfilment. In many cases work is more fulfiling than leisure. What would be really worthy to compare is average length and intensity of copulation, family sizes. But scientific approach has no methods for such s comparison. Yet.
Exactly, you can get that right/broken gut feeling just being immersed in that language for thousand of hours.

Regarding real immersion (both listening and speaking) maybe personal tutors via skype or language learning communities could be a cheap alternative, i've never really tried this approach (lazyness) but i've thought for years it could have been worth the price.
>> Most kids, the moment they grow up will rather like you pay for their college fees, take care of them while they are settling down and you leave them a good inheritance.

I'm still young with no kids, but that sounds awful. Especially "leave them a good inheritance."
I think what you're referring to are platitudes. People say "follow your dreams", but most of the people saying that in schools didn't follow their own advice.

Watterson actually lived by his own standards. This included forgoing millions in licensing deals, and retiring to pursue personal art, when the strip was at its peak.

He achieved great success, but to the conventionally minded he seemed positively insane for a long time. He spent four years living at home, working a day job and submitting cartoons, without success.

When most people say "follow your dreams" it's implied that they think you should do so within existing structures.
"is North America overpopulated?"

There's an abstract sense of overpopulated (sometimes described as turn all of texas into Manhattan and abandon the rest of the planet and texas would still only be half full)

And then there's carrying capacity sense of overpopulated. Both food, and west of the Mississippi, water, is actually the limiting reagent (Los Vegas will be simply out of water in a generation or so...). There's already a cultural impedance bump when westerners talk to easterners WRT water "waste".

Mexico is tremendously overpopulated from a carrying capacity standpoint. Canada is in pretty good shape. USA in between.
I see it more as an interesting read than anything else, and enlightened me to one person's issues with libertarianism. Sort of like reading a novel with political viewpoints: you can agree with it or disagree with it. It doesn't have to "produce signal".
First, ReactOS actually targets (at least for now) Windows 2003, not Windows XP. Second, you may provide a clue on the metric by which an OS is measured when you say "it's just way behind any other OS".
I have no idea. This title ought to be changed. It's not the original, and is not really the context of the original either.
> Another example of externalities would be a widget factory that spews carcinogenic chemicals into the air. When I trade with the widget factory I'm benefitting - I get widgets - and they're benefitting - they get money. But the people who breathe in the carcinogenic chemicals weren't consulted in the trade.

Well, actually, polluting the air is not a problem by itself, of course... but there is another perspective: if you're spewing chemicals into the air, you are forcedly taking the rights in lungs, fields, and other property of people living nearby.

That's an act of aggression, and therefore libertarianism is against it. But the article makes it sound as if "voluntary exchange" is all libertarianism is about, ignoring nonaggression principle.
I outgrew big L Libertarianism as in the specific brand of political ideology that is in keeping with the idea of trying to destroy the current force initiating political institutions whilst actually attempting to co-opt the mantle of those force initiating political institutions.

By way of analogy, so you're in your classically inefficient violently useless modern political nation state and suddenly by some abject miracle, you are granted political power. Fix everything whilst sticking to both authoritarian political guidelines necessary to actually qualify as a government, and the general idea of eradicating authoritarianism due to its inefficiency which got you there in the first place.

Although I can totally sympathise with the thinking of classically political libertarians, I think they simply don't follow the observations they make on the nature of the efficiency of force initiating political institutions and free markets through to their logical conclusions.

That said, there's another kind of libertarianism too which is the kind that can be directly contrasted with the authoritarianism of modern classical political actors and their bloated nation states. I'm all for that kind of libertarianism, and I think it should be acknowledged by people that aren't that to the extent that they are not libertarian in this sense, they are actually authoritarians and accept all of the uncomfortable inferences that implies about them and their positions.
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Thanks for the interesting links, it is interesting that there is a debate about it.

About software documentation translation, maybe I'm biased since the Italian speaking population is so small that it's much simpler for italians to learn basic English skills, but actually Spanish or Chinese have so many speakers that the efforts could pay back a lot more.

As for the "World Service", I would already be happy enough with a "card game" program that actually focuses on pronounce, I can't find any, even if I suspect that a simple script using osx "say" program should suffice.
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>I think what you're referring to are platitudes.

They are, and I guess my point of contention with Watterson is that I'm having trouble distinguishing between his advice and the platitudes, even though he actually lived it.
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I did not feel the need for a smartphone, now I can't live without one. Maybe this is symptomatic of technology disruption, or just that I do not have the "early adopter" spirit. Wait and see.
Seems to me that Bella, and Twilight in general, are very anti-feminist. She's only strong when it is a plot-point to get herself into trouble where she can be rescued by a man. The movies struck me as the worst sort of teenage princess fantasy.
To be fair (ish) Ikea is a Swedish brand, so the pronunciation was always likely to be a bit odd.

Pi is pronounced the way it is because a bunch of people in the C16th decided to reconstruct classical Greek pronunciation & teach that to students in England. Mix with the great vowel shift (some of which was later reversed for Greek letters in the C19th, but in different ways in the US and the UK) and you end up with the odd mix of pronunciations we have today, with UK and US English disagreeing. At least according to this stackexchange post anyway: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11363/why-are-gre...
That's just anecdotal as the author's statement. Your experience doesn't make his any less plausible.

Besides, his core argument is more compelling than just "I've never encountered a socialist." See the next paragraph:

"...I see very few attempts to provide a complete critique of libertarian philosophy. There are a bunch of ad hoc critiques of specific positions: people arguing for socialist health care, people in favor of gun control. But one of the things that draws people to libertarianism is that it is a unified, harmonious system."
My wife works for one of their companies here in the US, and yes, they do all meetings in English, which really doesn't affect their US companies,but does make company wide meetings quite odd, painful at points.
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Last time I expressed my thoughts[1] here about the same thing I was brutally word-raped by the angriest people on earth, now everyone is saying what I was saying all along and it's all well and good.

You need to know English: put in the effort, watch a shitload of movies and read even more books. That's it, you can't just ignore it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6239371
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It's called "StopIteration", not "StopIterationError", because it is not an error.
Of course, but the claim was heroines are only shallow because they are written by men.

Also Bella's case might indicate that it's simply not worth it for Hollywood to create deeper characters, because the shallow ones sell better.
English isn't just the language of IT, it's become the lingua franca of science and commerce. Very little research worth reading is published in a language other than English these days. I wouldn't be surprised if there are obscure, third-rate English-language scientific journals in China that have never been seen, let alone had articles submitted to by native English speakers!

Over the years, I've worked with a lot of people who are not native English speakers. The one thing that trips me up is when one of them is so utterly brilliant at speaking English that I completely forget they're not a native speaker and start unconsciously throwing in some of the slang and colorful idioms my redneck father has fed me over the years. I always feel bad when I do this because it must sound like I go from perfectly understandable English to complete and utter gibberish in nothing flat! Idioms and slang are really horrible things to inflict upon non-native speakers. I can't imagine what it must be like for a non-native English speaker trying to work with Cockneys or newfies!
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I do this, even though I find it annoying in others. It might be that I'm an assertive, details-oriented professional. Or a prick. I'm not sure.
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