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I call these anti-creative people of the world who work to hold the world of humanity fixed in one conceptual place/time "The Lords of the Status Quo." These "lords" are great in number, but always individually weak. This group somehow combined forces with "The Lords of Hierarchy"-- those who built and currently inhabit the hierarchal social structures that last throughout time (e.g. Corporations, Religions, Governments). That combined force is the most powerful abstract entity that I know of on this planet, and has somehow managed to impose its collective will over everyone on this planet. (Drone strikes, anyone?) If you want to understand the combined group you want to understand "Slave Morality." They are all something like Slaves. The creatives are best understood using "Hero Morality." I can't wait until this world's "Slaves" finally free themselves. I am generally an anti-Nietzsche thinker and I believe his ideas should be taken with a huge handful of salt, but I think the Hero/Slave archetypes actually do explain a lot about this (effed up) world.
It's also been a while since I read the book, but my recollection is that I viewed those rules as the set of preconditions that were settled on to allow them to continue to have monasteries.
This paragraph about generosity is most popular tech blog post
I've made over 100 blog posts over the last two years, mostly about technology. The most popular post so far? This paragraph about generosity and bias for action. I think that says something good about people.
http://www.datamungeblog.com/2012/10/living-generously.html
I think a lot of cultures (including much of startup culture) place too much emphasis on ideas. So many creative ideas really are stupid ideas.

However, that doesn't mean creativity should be criticized--it just means we need to teach people to do more than have ideas. Creativity comes into play when problem solving, and determining whether ideas are worthwhile, too.

edit: spelling.
If an organization really wants to embrace creativity it also has to embrace failure. A large percentage of creative solutions--stuff that is "out-of-the-box," unique and innovative--are likely not to work. If the organization is risk adverse, it will never truly embrace creativity.
Well if you want to create a new currency you have to start somewhere, don't you ? The bet of Bitcoin is ultimately that it will be stronger than the fiat currencies out there, and that in case the USD, Euro or other key means of exchange should fall, the Bitcoin could be a value of refuge which is both convertible in other currencies and usable to pay for stuff on the net (and maybe in real shops, one day).

I don't think you fully grasp that there is a limit in the supply of Bitcoin in the long term, and that is exactly the key differentiator vs fiat currencies printed when governments need to pay their debts, ad vitam eternam. Some people say it's because of this structure that Bitcoin will fail, but in the end that's the only reason that Bitcoin will actually thrive if it is successful.
I usually get my fair bit of black mucus in Central London. Not sure what that means but some places don't smell that good. For example, Queen's Gate road in Kensington has a very strong smell of gas.
sure, like http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing for example?

Moloko said her sister was burned to death with a tire around her neck while attending the funeral of one of the youths.
Her body had been scorched by fire and some broken pieces of glass had been inserted into her vagina, Moloko told the committee.

In my book it's a perfect example of "cannibalism".
I don't know Elfster, but after a quick look it seems like they offer wishlists, gift exchange, etc?

We send out an e-mail to everyone on the list saying that Santa is busy and asking them to buy a present for person x. The rest is up to them. Not as advanced I guess :)
Yes, EC2 is not a cloud for Amazon. If tomorrow everyone moves away from it, they will be stuck with many millions in sunk costs for hardware, rack space, datacenters, paid peerings.. they didn't rent that stuff by the hour. Feel free to replace Amazon with TestingBot in this description as you see fit, because right now you are confused as to what is a cloud to whom.

(Mind you, I'm still only discussing the financial side here, as this was the reason the original post cited. In technical terms, of course they are still a cloud, but so is the mainframe emulator on my Raspberry)
True, and even more similar to Olaf Stapledon's 1930 novel "Last and First Men"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men

And on a much shorter time-scale, similar to Clifford Simak's novel-ish collection of stories "City" from the 1940s onward:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(novel)
China's growth is being sustained by a development bubble, where they are accumulating the infamous ghost towns. But I've never heard anyone deny the fact that they are doing these things. And, of course, everyone in the US already knows that China makes everything. So I don't know who you are referring to here.
Until it is no longer a problem, I have no issue with everything being an excuse to complain about the NSA.
I'm pretty sure that in the case of highly exceptional children, it's a combination of both nature and nurture, but with nurture taking a backseat to nature.

But I actually tried to stay away from topics like this in "Experimenting With Babies," because, well, how many readers are going to be able to experiment on a kid who can read fluently before age 3?

However, if you're interested in learning more about the topic, you might find this resource interesting:

http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10162.aspx
What about artificial satellites? If their orbits were stable, shouldn't any satellites from previous civilization still be around? Do you have an estimate on the attrition rate from random meteor collisions and the like? We should be able to do pretty well just from our own experience.
I've done a bit of advertising on reddit (though it was a few years ago), and my one take away is don't target specific subreddits.

I think a general pattern is people subscribe to subreddits and just let reddit do it's thing to populate their front page, never actually visiting the specific subreddit. I do this myself for a lot of subreddits I subscribe to.

I wonder if reddit has any plans to modify the ad display logic to display ads on the front page that are targeted to specific subreddits if the user is subscribed to the same subreddit. I think that'd be interesting.
If you mail me offline, (email in my profile) I'll have a look at your portfolio. Are you just starting out?
Good points all around.

PhoneHome home doesn't send any data that your application couldn't otherwise expose. It just provides an easier way to do it for the developer.

Regarding sensitive data, Facebook has had issues leaking user tokens in logs, and I imagine they're not alone. The typical way to handle this is to put all the sensitive information (if you have to log it at all) at a certain level and then use ProGuard to strip the calls out of the bytecode when making a production build, but between Android and remote libraries, I found that this involves a lot of whack-a-mole to get a config file that works.

But, if you've got everything through a layer of indirection (using PhoneHome), it's easy enough just to switch on the BuildConfig.DEBUG to decide whether to print to the system log.
Exactly, the problem with stored procedures isn't that they exist but that once a programmer is working in a given environment he won't change to another one until forced, with the result that once someone starts writing stored procedures they tend not to stop until the app is in the database. If there were a clear mechanism to stop app data from going in the SPs they'd have a much better reputation.
Good luck with the pretending that whites aren't targeted out of hate in South Africa.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/southafrica.html

http://www.thetruthaboutsouthafrica.com/p/white-genocide-in-...
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When our great deposits of fossil fuels were being laid down in the Carboniferous, efficient decomposers / recyclers of dead wood and plant material (chiefly higher basidiomycete fungi) had not yet evolved. Nowadays there is much less opportunity for dead organic material to accumulate in the kind of quantities that geological processes can turn into significant oil reserves.
Psst: In the credit card and banking world, fraud is quicker than the law too, or else no one would be able to get away with it (except by physical cash-out), given that we know exactly where the money went.

Source: was defrauded through wire transfer.
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I tried doing something similar with Perl, which as I understand matters does not actually have an AST. It does have something called "source filters", which I gather are almost entirely unlike Lisp macros; despite that seeming like the best available option (the filter, in this case, being one which wraps the whole script containing 'use fuckit' in a quoted eval whose $@ is ignored), the closest I got with it was segfaulting the Perl interpreter, which certainly counts as some sort of result.
>> I am not suggesting any nesting of anything. Repeatedly checking at the same indentation level.

This could be considered wasteful. You end up checking if something is NULL, if it is you jump to the cleanup code and immediately check again. Nesting may be more elegant.

>> What matters more to you, getting stuff right or repeating adages that other people have said out of context? `goto` is probably the cleanest way to do it in plain C.

Writing code in a way consistent with the team I work with and the established codebase.

>> What if a year later some future maintainer totally unfamiliar with the code needs to add another one?

Then they need to read what the function is doing and understand it before they mess with the code, just like in any other situation.

>> Doing that is a lot harder if the free statements are all over the place and repeated several times instead of in a single block.

More verbose certainly, but if the code is written in small, discrete functional blocks then it shouldn't really impact much.

He repeats frees, you repeat tests. An indenter would repeat neither but has indent readability to consider.

Frankly, don't trust anyone that tells you that they have the one true way to do things.
Some background from Mandela himself: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/23/nelsonmandela

It's important to note the date of this speech at his trial, April 20 1964, _before_ the passing of the US civil rights act (July 2 the same year); so at this time parts of the US had apartheit-like conditions.
Exactly. I can sort of see what the parent comments mean, but having read and watched a lot of Adam's work I was able to follow along perfectly. Even read it in his voice.

His segues weren't all perfectly relevant this time, but it's just his style.
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The scandal at the Vatican bank: 11 month investigation
Joomla always felt extremely backwards to me and this is no exception. Just look at the sample app:

The router tells me nothing about what routes exist
https://github.com/dbhurley/framework-app/blob/master/App/Ro...

This controller tells me nothing about what actions exist or what they do - and what sane invocation point would call an `updateDatabase()` method on a controller?
https://github.com/dbhurley/framework-app/blob/master/App/Co...

This doesn't actually show me any markup
https://github.com/dbhurley/framework-app/blob/master/App/Vi...

And so on. There's just pervasive implementation noise everywhere and nothing in the code that tells me anything about the business logic.
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I've seen errors in all the ways considered here.
You are not totally wrong. TestingBot seems to offer their servers as a cloud to their customers. Which means that TestingBot did not move to its own cloud (compare that to the title of the blogpost please), but they moved to their own servers (and build a cloud on them, like you said).

Their customer can scale easily, they can not. Their customers don't have to pay for all the hardware needed, they do. Hence they are not using a cloud, they did not move to a cloud - they are using servers, they moved onto their own servers. The title is wrong.

Why is that important? Not only because it is a basic misconception, but because saying "we moved to our own cloud" misrepresents their current abilities regarding their ability to scale and their cost structure.
Wow, a digg link? I haven't been there in a long time...
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I love this idea and would find it a very useful tool, well done.

I think that textarea input box is key - you should invest time making it look good and easy to use. Could you make it an insert-mode text input that replaces hyphens as you type? Could it auto-expand in width when you get to the end?

Can’t wait to see this evolve
We could just give people food without having to make stuff for us in return. The world does not have a food shortage.
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they should use that on their marketing

"Taiwan - THE Greater China"
Our sun has collapsed and been rebuilt at least once?

Google search for "sun collapsed rebuilt 3 times" lists Stonehenge, which seems to indicate Google can't find anything on the subject. I really don't understand what you're saying.

Can you please elaborate?
Except that, most creative ideas are bad.

Like the famous observation about Churchill: "His chief of staff Alan Brooke complained that every day Churchill had 10 ideas, only one of which was good -- and he did not know which one."

And when I think of product meeting's I've sat in on... generally 90% of the "creative" ideas would be complete disasters. And a lot of the remaining 10% might be good, but the work involved in figuring that out for sure would often be prohibitive, for an unclear payoff. But occasionally you get a gem that everyone gets excited about.

I would say that people do like creativity, but only when it's clear that the particular creative solution will likely work. Which is generally not the case.

And if people went chasing every plausible creative idea, we wouldn't have time for anything else, like normal productivity. That's why it's a very difficult balance to get right.
Coverage of Mandela is a testament to the prevailing powers' ability to rewrite history. Millions of people think he was put in jail for protesting apartheid or something else noble. He was actually a terrorist leader - his group killed thousands of innocents in bombings and other attacks. The "activism" he's credited with while in prison was mostly arranging more killings.

Read about a practice his group created while he was in prison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
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The spiritual tradition from which the author of this piece speaks -- and it's more warmed-over quasi-hippiedom than anything genuinely Pagan or Druidic -- is a repeated affirmation of precisely that.
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No, the foundation of capitalism is private property. Coercing individuals to accept a currency for debt payments and then inflating that currency thereby manipulating individuals to invest in markets that they don't understand is not capitalism.
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But hey, guess what, using a credit card you have actual fraud protection.
In short, network effects resulting from Bitcoin's massive first mover advantage.
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Please elaborate.

Popular? It's been getting more attention recently due to the work of various authors, but the vast majority of people still see compulsory schooling as an irrevocable necessity.
I don't think even our current civilization could rebuild what we have. The easily-extracted fossil fuels are spent. Even if we haven't reached Peak Oil, we need increasingly more advanced technology to find and extract fossil fuels.
I can't think of the name of the theory, but the general idea is that it would be very difficult to rebuild to our current level of technology after a cataclysm event because all of the easily reached surface resources required to bootstrap it have been picked clean. Even the near-surface resources are gone, requiring us to use massive open-pit mines or deep mining/drilling.

Some material could be recycled from crumbling cities I imagine, but even recycling most modern materials requires a certain minimal level of technology, no?
Thanks for this hommage :D

This user interface is very nice, bravo!

In your JS, you can replace html["value"], css["value"] and js["value"] with html.value, css.value and js.value
It's interesting that the keystrokes are recorded in history/back in Firefox but not in Chrome.
Maybe it should work by intervals because then it'll also work if you enter a riff in a different key than the original.
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Not quite correct. They downgrade below current levels occasionally too.
This has nothing to do with capitalism and more to do with anything, colonialism and the Cold War. It was politics as usual, help allies to keep them.

While it is easy to sit back and judge the past we have to realize that some actions were seen as prudent at the time. The nation Mandela came up in is far different from what it is today but so is the world. This by no means excuses actions of the past, but at the time who would have ever figured the transformation that took place in him at the time.
most people don't have time to risk investing their personal or business resources on a bad idea.

So they don't try anything. This is classic "fear of failure".

I agree -- people like creativity when someone else takes all the risk
Agreed.

"Deserve" has little to do with going to jail. Going to jail is a legal matter. A moral man committing a moral act that happens to break an immoral law will go to jail according to that law, but does he "deserve" it?
>> This could be going on here with the Z3 watch. Instead, we have an out of control witchhunt. I think it makes a lot more financial sense to modify a proven design than to start from scratch.

Right, except in this case the guy claims never to have heard of it and to be making stuff from scratch, has lots of pictures of prototyping and implies it was all developed in-house, spammed his own comments section repeatedly for hours and hours with a bunch of non-answers to questions people had raised then claimed he'd been hacked and that wasn't him (but still didn't answer any questions)...

Basically acting very shady. I sure as hell wouldn't be giving him any money.
> The whole point of a cloud to a business is that you can adapt to changing needs without having to pay for all the infrastructure all the time.

The point of a cloud is that you can adapt to changing needs by reallocating resources based on demands. For a public cloud, that's exchanging money for more storage/compute capacity/etc. with near-zero latency. For a private cloud, its not adding total capacity, but reallocating between different uses on demand.

Having worked in large organizations still primarily concerned about allocating physical servers to tasks -- which, just like one with a private cloud, still keeps substantial excess capacity to accomodate changing needs --I can immediately see that being able to reallocate resources with minimal latency is valuable even if its from a fixed pool where increasing the total size of the pool has substantial latency.
I think "Segregation" is a better legitimate translation for Apartheid, but both terms are euphemistic.
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Verizon quietly unleashes its LTE monster, tripling 4G capacity in major cities
John Cleese on creative thinking
the discrepancy between what we say and what we do is overpowering...
Best security reporter does not equte to any level of understanding of BGP. You're asserting a false parallel. And, see my other comments.
House passes bill aimed at curbing patent troll lawsuits
Bitcoin solves that problem by being finite. Since scientific advances are cumulative and directly impact worker productivity, it is reasonable to assume that a stable currency that does not inflate will at least preserve purchasing power.

Investing in short term bonds is not only not riskless (lots of governments and corporations have either defaulted or written down their debt), but often times do not even match inflation.

Saving as a logevity risk: Yes. You don't know how long you will live, we could very well develop medicine that would keep me as a functioning senior until I'm 100 years old. But against all other alternative forms of saving, if bitcoin was a world-currency it would be the safest way to assure purchasing power.
Azure bills by the minute as well.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/06/03/windows-az...
Agreed. A recent Stuttgart University report (commissioned by Greenpeace) estimated 22,000 premature deaths per year in the EU alone from coal-fired power stations. [1]

I've seen estimates in the US of 10-20,000 annually depending on the source. e.g. [2], [3].

As someone who lives in a city state so small that the coal-fired power stations are literally next door to housing, I too wish there was more attention given to this.

[1] http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international...

[2] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/coal-p...

[3] http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/power_plants/
I disagree with 4. How else would you recommend structuring this:

try{
lst.Where(i => i.ID == itm.ID).First().Amount += itm.Amount
} catch (InvalidOperationException) {
lst.Add(itm);
}

I could check if the list contains it first, but this is more convenient. This is just one small example of a lot of cases where I've used typed exceptions successfully - in some cases I have multiple catches that do different things, eg catch(InvalidOperationException){...}catch(ArgumentNullException){...} this saves a lot of lines of pre-checking and has a clear control flow.