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"failure #4: tolerating mediocrity" gives me hope for the future of the animal books. i never understood why tim tolerated books - in the quality range from mediocre to bad to scam (i.e.: http://goo.gl/XrZs3c) - which only sold because his name is on the cover, thus hurting his reputation and nullifying all his "... create more value than you can capture" talks. but well, if this essay is not only marketing (it certainly sounds a little bit like it) then there might still be some hope for the animal books. i own these books my career so i certainly hope they can turn this around.
Look at this from the other angle, how many examples are there of smaller companies growing large by supplying saas to larger companies.

Look at the customer list of basecamp, any of their large enterprise customers could have built their own pm service, they didn't. Look at salesforce, how many companies could have built their own contact management system, they didn't.
Wordpress, yammer, the list goes on and on. As long as you've got the right business model, you'll be fine.
Google's Datacenters on Punch Cards
If you don't have flash installed then you really should install it or get on a computer that does.

This is a gripping and heart wrenching story.
while post anti-biotic sucks for humans directly. What about post-antibiotic for livestock which forms our food sources.

If we can no longer raise as many cattle, pigs, sheep etc. then what are the global implications.
Hey, stop it. Grandparent presented his opinion about the talks. It's perfectly possible that for him they are not new or interesting. He's not shitting on anything, he's just presenting his feelings about some things. While it's somewhat off-topic, it doesn't deserve a response like yours.

Personally I like Rich talks very much, they were eye opening for me, although I agree that they focus on simple things. That's why they are so interesting. On the other hand I'm not a fan of Clojure - I'm trying to be, but my love for certain other Lisps gets in the way.

Are you going to tell me to fuck off because I said, in effect, that in my opinion there are better Lisps than Clojure?
Thanks. I don't want to sound as an asshole but...

"Viva la Brasil" - is spanish and should be "Viva el Brasil"

And we speak Portuguese the correct would be "Viva o Brasil"

And looks like it's impossible to do this without sounding like an asshole, sorry for that.
What disappointed you about the third edition? I don't know the previous ones. I imagine they were probably more concise?
Ages ago I spent a fair amount of time considering what would happen if someone invented a new power source. I was planning to try to write a short story based on the idea. In my imagination I invented a device the size of a fridge freezer capable of powering a small town for 100 years. The workings and science were irrelevant, but the politics of it was what interested me.

I cant find the notes I made now, but essentially I ended up deciding that something so revolutionary, if proved and accepted as doing what it said on the tin, would take a life of its own. I came to the conclusion that once people know of its existence, the inventor will lose all control and become an instant target. Such inventions are the "babies" of such inventors, so loss of control is an issue. Becoming a target, more so. I'm not sure what the people who did the science that lead to nuclear stuff intended or thought, but if it were me, the idea that my science was used to make such evil devices as nuclear bombs would at the very least cause me trouble.

Interestingly there is some relevance to what is happening now with the NSA internet spying issue. People may well look at this sort of behavior and conclude that there are no limits for certain nation states. So, if a Belgian, for a random small country example, were to invent such technology, and say this person decided that only small poor countries could have access to it in order to equalize small poor countries with rich ones, how might the likes of China, UK, USA, India, etc, react to that? What would be their limit to acquire such technology? The second you deploy such a unit, spies would be all over it. Perhaps, war. So in the end, unless you do as told, your good might end up slaughtering millions.

Now, I'm not saying that starlite was or is for real, or that the inventor thought this way, but I can certainly see why such an inventor might be so paranoid as to get in to a position where the secret dies with him.

Of course I am very open to the idea that this says more about my personal psychology that any general point...
Given the fact that the "If we are careful" bit is not going to happen (Without some drastic societal changes around the globe) I think we can pretty much ignore that part of the sentence.
I am just coming to a conclusion based on past facts, call that whatever you like.
Q is the heat transfer rate; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer_coefficient
So have multiplexing desktop mode by default, and give pros a "reduce my latency" button?
Can you tell me more about this scifi writing circle?
Did I really go to Harvard if I got my degree taking online classes?
Quite simple: healthier humans and more sustainable agriculture.

From Yahoo Answers: it takes 17 kilos of corn, beans, grains, etc, to produce one kilo of beef in feedlot cattle.

Having a large proportion of meat in one's diet is not the most efficient use of the available (limited) resources we have.
Stanford Economist Musters Big Data to Shape Future of Internet
How He Built an Engaged Tribe of Raving Fans (and Paying Clients)
> Also, it all builds toward plugging a book

Ah, so it's not just investment advice, but also a practical example of good marketing.
Well for one thing, your body is trying to prepare yourself for sleep. So naturally, you feel more relaxed and don't get as energized by the distractions that are available to you.

If you're having trouble focusing during the day, you might want to work on being more present while you work and training your mind to not give into those distractions. Yes, it can be trained just like anything else.

I have a course that addresses this issue and other issues that programmers face if you're interested. It's available at https://www.programmingspiritually.com/
Find out how good your (or your designer's) PSD files are structured.
People aren't the problem; it's the food industry that abuses antibiotics the most. When a pig gets ill, it's way cheaper to give her a dose of antibiotics instead of getting a vet.
This poses a very interesting psychological problem.

Assuming the NSA is the bully of the situation, I wonder if the fact that the rest of the world will (hopefully) claim more and more independece, will lead NSA to back up and have a more reasonable position, or will cause it (and the government that backs it) to have a more and more bullier attitude position.

After what happened, it's clear that the guys running it have a god-like image of theirselves, and I doubt that within this perspective, one would cast at least some doubt over his actions.
Even big companies like Facebook, Google often have annoying, slow and unhelpful customer service.
oh, that changes everything.
>Piece of Shit. Bad example code, horrific continuity, next to no editing, it had everything needed to be lumped in with the crappy tech books.

exactly the same can be said about their couchdb-book (first edition)

i have worse things to say about their "Data Source Handbook", the fact that they STILL sell it is unbelievable

but to be fair: the functionalJS book and DOM enlightenment (see http://domenlightenment.com) were quite decent. both books recommended.
Once one has lost control what is the value in being a 'target'? You can't really be both.

The steam engine, refrigeration, etc, are all examples of this kind of invention which make their inventors quite well off even if eventually eclipsed by successors.

War is inevitable... don't fret over some invention, if it's useful in war it will be used in war regardless of its other merits. Often the tech transfer is backwards, from war to civilian life.
No hacker hate posted yet against the MBA, surprising.

I have read unless one gets into atop 20 program the cost benefit my not work out very well unless one is getting it paid for.
It's magic, not science.
I think it's not Windows 8 in particular that made Valve nervous, but it was probably the wake-up call.

The industry as a whole is moving into walled gardens right now, following Apple's lead. I'm very worried about that myself, so I'm cheering Valve on here.

It's true, having open platforms aligns with Valve's business goals. I fail to see the problem with that, it's a lucky coincidence.
One can ABD almost anywhere! Usually requires paying a nominal maintenance fee while you do other things.
I'm surprised a company making engraving machines is in the top ten.
Optimizing Java Serialization - Java vs XML vs JSON vs Kryo vs POF
I didn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive
Thanks! But, if that's the case, a higher value means a worse insulator, so why would he brag about that?

(It's also a dimensionful quantity, but the reported value has no units -- maybe it's relative to some specific value...)
It's amazing how many people use WD40 as a lubricant. It's good for loosening stuck parts, but using it as a lubricant will wear parts quickly.
Thanks, that's way more helpful. In my case I didn't think about using Angular since I wanted the templating to be serverside in general - it's an interesting idea to use it only for the asynchronous parts.

I don't get the hate for Hungarian notation and 0 based column index though. I wouldn't use Hungarian myself but I don't complain about it either - for dynamic typed languages it makes enough sense to me, since it conveys the desired type information without too much clutter. How would you specify the column of a html table? IDs don't really make sense since it could be inconsistent or missing - I guess a 1 based index might be better for consistency with CSS, but it's not really something that makes me want to switch framework.
Yep. I'd like to see a detailed analysis of how the future will develop regarding this.

America and most European countries already exercise care with antibiotics. However, South American countries and India etc sell almost all of them OTC where they can be incorporated into folklore style medicine.

Will drug resistant diseases stay within the boarders of the countries that incubate them? Or will the cases that slip across borders be enough to negate any benefit more careful countries cultivate?
This is what US overreach in spying has led to, and probably more will follow Brazil in doing this soon, and I can't blame them. Hopefully the US government will realize that greed and lust for power aren't always good things, and can sometimes lead to very bad things, and the opposite of what they were expecting to get (breaking the camel's back and all that).
FWIW, my original title was: "If we are not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era" and then my title was changed to the sensationalist title.
A majority, or at least a substantial minority? (Don't interpret common mistakes as proof of correctness. Most (all?) people who spell 'lose' as 'loose' will at least acknowledge their mistake when it's pointed it out. Nobody thinks 'loose' is actually correct in their "not prestige" dialect.)
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Big Programming, Small Programming – Glow, the language
15 exabytes is way more than I'd intuitively guess, but he does make a point in his guesstimations.

It makes you wonder what is the capacity of S3. Does Amazon reveal this number?
In any case, Amazon will still have much more storage capacity between EBS, CloudFront caching, and DynamoDBs.
There's an aesthetic appeal to natural vs man-made barriers.
Why China is making a big play to control Africa's media
BTW, I think at least in Peninsular Spanish you'd say "Viva Brasil" (omitting the article).
Introducing the RabbitMQ Simulator
Hehe yeah, I saw the end of that talk at OHM2013. Recording @ http://bofh.nikhef.nl/events/OHM/video/d2-t1-13-20130801-230...
Thanks for writing this piece of software! I appreciate all the configurability. One thing that irks me bit, is the way action buttons are handled (using TableTools, ColVis and the like). Ideally I'd like to place and style the buttons the way I want and just have JS handles for activating their functions as well as state change events. Maybe I've missed something, but I couldn't find how to do this from looking at the documentation as well as the ColVis source code. Did I miss something or do you have plans changing this in the future?
I will try my best to explain this paradox.

This is a paradox only if you act like a computer. So what do I mean by that? This problem simply means, that if you selected an envelope, and you know that there is a chance that the other envelope will have higher value than then one you selected, then by probability, you could conclude that you are better off swapping to the other envelope. However, the paradox starts after you switch envelope because now you can start this all over again and think, hey, even though I just swapped, but it is still possible that the other envelope has value higher than the one I just selected!

To explain it in mathematical terms, when the value of the currently selected envelope is Z, the expected value of the other envelope will always be Z/2 * 0.5 + 2Z * 0.5 = 5/4Z higher than the one you selected.

The trick is to think procedurally, instead of trying to be realistic. In other words, it is always statistically possible that the other envelope has higher value than the one you selected, therefore you should always swap.
I think most people are missing the point. It is not about replacing your main OS or PC it is about having platform independence. The same reason why Google bought/started Android applies here; protecting/getting the means to sell your services. The Steam Box is going to be an open h/w and s/w platform. If you would like to integrate Steam in your TV? please by all means! You would like to sell your own Steam Box? How may we help?

People that are going to buy a steam box are people that would otherwise buy a ps/4 and/or a XBOX one. Nobody cares that the PS/4 is running BSD nobody is going to buy a PS4 because it runs BSD. Microsoft failed to understand this as well, "we have three OS's running on the X1", yeah that will sell a game system like cupcakes. Almost nobody is going to buy a game/entertainment system based on the OS. It boils down to cost, marketing, what your friends are getting, launch games and exclusives.

If the steam box is going to have similar h/w and price point as the PS4 and X1 and a couple of cool new games like HL3, it will have more games at launch than the PS4 and X1 combined (and as an extra bonus you can play your games on a PC running Windows or Linux). You want to play HL3 on a console? buy a Steam Box.

As for bu-ray support, if it turns out to be a main point of consideration they could make a player that support it. But looking at the PS3 vs X360 it wasn't a main seller for most people.

TL;DR
it is not so much about all desktops running Linux but most of everything else
You can try www.rhok.org or hack4good.io for some open source projects that are meant to help the community/world, you might find something that interest you and help while doing it :)

If you mention what area interest you (mobile / web / data etc) I might know a couple more projects to recommend
Plans to change it in the future. I'm planning on merging the abilities of ColVis (given that it just calls a standard DataTables API method) into TableTools and improving the TableTools API / configuration options. At the moment ColVis is a little bit lagging while waiting for this to be implemented - which will be the first thing on the cards when DataTables 1.10 is released.
I'm just guessing here, but you haven't spent much time working with government folks.

You're right though, the reality actually is far less entertaining. While "by the book" really is the way it's done in the government industry, it is definitely not an exciting way to go about the day. It does, however, have high CYA value and helps ensure public employees don't misuse taxpayer dollars.

That last bit is the interesting part I wish more people believed -- almost every government employee I've known has been genuinely concerned that they use their budgets with extreme care, and that they get a high return for what they do spend.
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Antibiotics are sometimes given to sick animals, but their main use is as growth promoters [1]. Animals that are regularly fed low doses of antibiotics grow faster, meaning that they can be slaughtered earlier and the overall cost of rearing the animal is therefore reduced.

"The effectiveness of synercid, a drug of last resort for the treatment of vancomycin-resistant infections, is threatened because of the use of virginiamycin as a growth promoter in chickens and pigs in the United States. Virginiamycin is chemically related to synercid, and bacteria resistant to the one drug also appear to be resistant to the other." [2]

[1] http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/animalcare/amr...

[2] http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-...
> Don't let your babies die, but really try not to have them if you can't afford them.

This is outrageous. Parenthood is one of the most (if not THE most) meaningful parts of being human. Financial issues should NOT take this away from anyone.
The Future of the JVM
Are you looking for open source projects to join, or do you want ideas for small projects you want to do on your own?

Are you looking for pass-time projects, or do you want to improve your career path?

Assuming hobbies:
I'm sure you have a small blog you can create FE or BE to, if you prefer 'real world' or robotics projects you should get Arduino and Raspberry PI and play with it.
You can start making your home/condo 'smarer' by integrating physical stuff to it.
Try programming an 'arcade' game to a platform you like (web, iOS, Android, etc).
Playing with 3D graphics is always fun, learn about 3D libraries and techniques like ray tracing and try to recreate your real world.
If you prefer mathematics, read about Bayesian distributions, and this about how you'd make a better recommendation system to ranking system to a site you're using.

This is quite a difficult question without knowing you.
My biggest problem is aways picking out what to do with my non-existent free time :)

Most important -- find something that you really like doing and care about, or you'll abandon it quickly.

Good luck, and enjoy!
As UK resident what worries me about H2 is that it isn't just hot air.
Further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6393878 (from an earlier post, doh)
Seeing the comments here about people is interesting. Whether it's in the comments or in reality, most people aren't conscious they are poor.

Poverty isn't a privilege reserved to those who live under bridges, or take showers once in a while.

Driving to work and back every day, stuck in traffic, getting home exhausted and not wanting to do anything is poverty.

It's amazing how many guys I know who start working and consider it a success and start spending cash, get a car on credit, get a mortgage and what not. They actually think that having an expensive car makes them rich, yet can't even afford a part of that car breaking. It's a disaster for them.

So, if you have to slave for a pittance (or not, you're slaving anyway). If you can't afford to be ill with some weird disease and getting properly treated for it without waiting social security. If you can't afford a good life for your children. If you can't buy something (a car, a house) without a loan and it still doesn't represent a good portion of your assets..

If you can't do that, you're poor. Poor in money, and most probably poor in time, too.
Exactly.

The smart manager delegates. Same in disaster response as in a dev shop.

I would rather the FAA, who do it day in and out and have response and contingency plans for every eventuality, be in control of the airspace than an agency with no regular practice.

Give unto agencies, that which is in the domain of those agencies. FEMA gives the directions for them to follow.
Facebook explains secrets of building hugely scalable sites
Steam needs to Wine certify games, or launch games using wine and have a minimum/recommended requirements for using wine.
They may have authority to coordinate, which is their main function regardless - coordinate smaller groups toward an effective response.
How to Get Into Startups the Risk Free Way
> Also: man vs wild (television)

I would very strongly advise AGAINST emulating Bear Grylls' antics in 'Man vs Wild'. He often does things that are the complete and total opposite of what you should do. One example that stuck in my mind was when he (supposedly) needed to cross a mountain and decided, instead, to go through the mountain via a cave, which is possibly the most stupid idea I've ever heard. He arguably puts young people at risk by encouraging such dangerous behaviour. Lofty Wiseman (author of the SAS Survival Guide) has described him as an "idiot".

Also, while the TV show portrays him as roughing it in the wild, the truth is somewhat different: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470155/How-Bear-Gryl...
Tesco likely to release Android tablet
Running in Wine is not porting. It is using a intermediate layer. Porting means native code.
You don't own it. You have a lease until they shut down the ultraviolet service. You've giving control of all rights to the operator of the service. If they don't want you to have subtitles in your language then you don't get them.

It give up so many freedoms I can't wish for ultraviolet to die more.
Using WINE is not porting, it does not run natively, and this is not what Valve recommends to do.
Wine and DRM is a problematic combination.
Only in countries where patents hold sway.

And when the largest manufacturing base in the world resides under a political system with and spotty record on patents and copyright, I cannot really blame him.

I hope the info he gave his wife is 100% perfect and that she doesn't let it die on the vine.
I think I watched all the talks from Going Native 2012, and I highly recommend them [1]. I expect 2013's will be just as good, though I won't have time to watch any for a while. Here are the others: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013?sort=sequen...

[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012...
Thanks, that's good to know. Makes me want to come back to DataTables once these changes are in effect.
Why couldn't the kernel perform simple mixing of the audio streams with just as low latency as something like JACK?
Iran reblocks Twitter and Facebook; local entrepreneur says it wasn't a glitch
a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward politically fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments

One could argue that it would be a 'dangerous' second step.
Perhaps not interestingly, Google seems to think it's roughly proper Esperanto.
Had a quick, 30 min bash at a win32 port using msinttypes and pthread-win32 but no luck yet :( Would love to see one though...
I, for one, welcome our new antibiotic-resistant bacterial overlords.

<mutter>Might finally put a stop to rampant population growth...</mutter>
Nice, thanks for posting
That is the simple answer in a perfect world.

I was more thinking of the political and economic effects, especially if there is a post-antibiotic problem which quickly decimates existing stocks.
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