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I think a lot of it comes down to people just not knowing this is an option, not having many examples of how to go about it, or not having much success in trying. We are trained to stick to the job description, not to rock the boat, etc. and we are good at doing that but it tends to blind us to the bigger picture, and so we are not very good at taking initiative. However I would expect most people, even if they knew how, would not suddenly start asking for more responsibility - some just do not want that - but a small minority would and those are the ones you would want to focus on.
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The question came up on a huge screen, and was asked of him personally in front of a large audience. He would have been seen as a complete miser if he'd refused.

Now, if he'd been asked this in private, with no consequences for refusal and if he still let them fly with him, then I'd be impressed with his generosity.

As it is, what he did was just a prudent public relations decision.
When you take off with a tail wind you have basicly the same setup, the wheels need to roll faster relative to the ground to take off. All that happens is you need a longer runway, it does not take significantly longer because the largest limit on acceleration is drag from the airspeed not wheel drag.
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How readily can a non-EU citizen work in any of the EU countries?
Actually, most planes have brakes that are strong enough to keep the plane stationary at maximum engine thrust. If they didn't you couldn't do an engine runup. But no plane is able take off with the brakes set, treadmill or no treadmill.
Have to post the obligatory xkcd links:

http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/09/09/the-goddamn-airplane-on-the-...

http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2581&sid=4...

and

http://xkcd.com/473/
Is this situation better in other countries?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726097
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I do just this already, actually.

I use a combination of web-based applications, a ssh client, a collection of portable apps on a usb drive (including firefox from portableapps.com) and an iPod. It all works completely seamlessly without the need for a "Desktop Environment" in the browser.

I'm still at a loss as to what bringing a Desktop Environment to the web brings you. I understand the need for web apps, not the Desktop Environment.

(Also, can't you easily setup this for yourself and run existing desktop apps using VLC? Rather than just using half-baked apps that the WebOS devs have created?
People don't do it lightly, they do it because they are desperate and realistically the only consequence they really face is a crappy credit score. They are okay with that... many already have tanked credit before they start this.
Many (if not most) subscribers don't do so directly--Google Reader has huge market share and that's just a single IP. They give up the subscriber count in the User-Agent though. Add in services like MyYahoo and Bloglines and your feed can be reaching a ton of users with only a few IPs.
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You are not limited by the breaks only the tires friction which depends on weight. So in many cases, you can start to move if you don't have enough cargo and fuel on board.

PS: You really do need to tie down an F-15 to do a maximum engine thrust test. Edit: As I said "high preformance"
That's the crux of the issue. If you could somehow make a treadmill that keeps the plane stationary then it wont take off. However, any treadmill built in the real world will be unable to keep a normal aircraft stationary.
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The big winners are the businesses that sold products to these consumers. The losers are the banks and consumers themselves.
I think the simple answer to the airplane on a treadmill problem is that once you understand what the problem is REALLY saying, the problem becomes uninteresting and trivial. If the problem wasn't intended to give the impression of a stationary (with relation to the surrounding air) plane taking off, no one would've cared in the first place and there would be no discussion. No one is getting confused by math or aerodynamics or physics or anything. They're getting confused by a problem intended to be confusing.
string theory, if you look at it too cynically it's a high dimension optimisation process.

edit: also the headline seems a bit over-dramatic it's not running out it's slowing down.
You know, when IE6 was new (edit: and after Firefox was released), it still sucked, and we pined for the day everyone would abandon IE for standards-compliant browsers. Now that IE7 and IE8 are more standards-compliant, that exact same complaint has just been indexed to IE6 in particular. It's not a matter of it being out of date at all.
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That makes me very, very curious.
Does universal expansion imply increasing distances between every atom in the universe, or only between, say, galaxies? I can't see how the second would work, but the first would be ridiculous as well - increased distances between atoms covalently bonded together? Shouldn't the chemical properties of compounds change as bond distances change? Or would the necessary bond distances for a reaction change at the same pace as the universe is expanding?

I originally arrived at the line of thinking via the measurement question - is anything in the universe at an unchanging distance from anything else? (According to expansion theories, anwyay.) If that's the case, would it not be possible to measure the wavelength of the light reaching relatively-fixed object A from its counterpart object B? If the red shift still occurs, then we know time is slowing down. If not, then expansion wins.

Expected problems for this measurement would include scale (if chemical bonds are the only distances in the universe that don't change, how do you measure the wavelength from one atom to the next?), and more scale (would the change be measurable on a scale smaller than intergalactic?).
Oh, and the original assumptions. Those might be a problem, too. (That something (anything) is fixed, and that my mental model is not orders of magnitude oversimplified).
I take it you're referring to the naked super model piggybacking along photo?
The central problem with these sorts of "make replacements" is they miss out on the whole thing that makes make useful. I care not a whit about implicit rules, and I would welcome a real language over GNU make's function apparatus (filenames with spaces in them tend to get split in the functions, due to the fundamentally macro style), but without pattern matching rules and a real dependency engine I won't even think once about it. I use both far, far too often, in almost every makefile I've ever written.
The limit is the friction your tires have with the ground. In a car your breaks are actualy to powerful to provide maximum breaking. Once they start to skidd the friction is greatly reduced which is why you have anti lock breaks.
It's interesting that even pirates need outside investment, rather than simply being able to bootstrap. This need is significant, given the 50% cut going to financiers.

It's also interesting that piracy is still low enough of a cost that it doesn't justify rerouting ships, landing marines, or any of the other traditional responses to piracy.
This is not completely on-topic, but in the nicest way possible, I'd like to bring up the fact that downmodding shouldn't be used to disagree with somebody. (Not happening to me, but I notice that some people are getting downmodded for apparently that reason). This isn't meant to start a debate, just a friendly observation.
Agreed.

I think the intent of the problem is that it wants to show that an equal and opposite force is being applied to the engine, therefore no forward movement is applied.

The way it is worded however causes those who a reading word for word to conclude that there is less than equal force being applied (because 1:1 with the wheel motion is that) and therefore the aircraft moves forward.
Everybody was saying that the new Kindle was terribly important—that it was an alpenhorn blast of post-Gutenbergian revalorization.

Ugh, what terrible writing.
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According to the reader. People seem to feel guilty if they don't want to read some book. They shouldn't.
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This is interesting, but I feel like it's half an article. The author gets to the point of noting that the experiment was flawed before, states new facts about Asparagus pee odour, but doesn't state the old numbers, nor why this disparity exists according to current understanding. Hopefully the author does a follow up or extend their article.
A lot of people know it's an option, but there is no reward for doing so.

Why make my job harder without getting anything for it? Only management benefits from it.
NPR is also gov. and listener supported. Not the same model employed by other news outlets.
The are trying to drive you nuts till they get their money. Really, if you get 6-7 calls a day you just want it to stop.
Finally, a means of testing the mind-body problem!
The reason why Bank of America (or any lender) jacks the interest rate up on people failing to pay is quite obvious - people will pay off the most expensive debt first and then work there way down to the low interest rate stuff. By positioning themselves as the highest interest rate, that lender gets paid first. But that makes the debtor more likely to simply default because the interest is killing any hope they had of escaping. Add in multiple lenders all trying to play the same game and it is no wonder so many are simply unable to get out of debt.

It would be nice if lenders really stopped giving loans and credit cards to these people in the future, but I think plenty of people will default and in 5 years be back on new credit cards and new mortgages that some will end up defaulting on again.
> its still my contention that the best method by which to learn any language is the "There ain't nothin' to it but to do it" method.

Absolutely true, but you still need something to read to introduce you to the basic syntax and the general concepts of the language. Having a bridge between a known language and a new language can significantly speed this phase up, and get you quickly to the point where you're able to start experimenting.
I still cringe at the thought of paying money for a device that solely allows me to read.

I don't see how that's any different than paying for a device that solely allows you to listen to music.

It's like building a device that allows me to breathe and sell it as the next big thing.

That's silly; you can read without a Kindle, of course. The Kindle just offers an arguably better content delivery system, and I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect people to pay for that.
This is probably not what you're looking for - but I would suggest that you rethink the name of your site. It's too much of a mouthful -- too many syllables.
My issue with this problem was that it was presented rather poorly to me the first time. Instead of saying that the treadmill matched the negative of the velocity of the plane relative to the ground, the questioner instead stated that the treadmill "matched the speed of the wheel." I took this to mean that the treadmill matched velocity of the wheel as would be given by a conventional speedometer.

Of course, this is prima facie ridiculous. Consider, at any nonzero speed, the speed of both the treadmill and the wheel would quickly approach infinity. Given that the speedometer speed would essentially be the velocity of the wheel + the tangential velocity of the wheel touching the treadmill, the entire thing would just blow up (remember, non-slip == velocity of the wheel == velocity of treadmill). Therefore, I basically answered c) it's a stupid problem and the plane wouldn't move.

Of course, if you define it this way, than it is obvious that the plane would move.
"If we ever succeed in creating sentient AI, I wonder if it will be employed in prisons to replace guards?"

Maybe. But it probably wouldn't be a good place to house convicted hackers.
I think that it is most likely that this phenomena is psychological and doesn't indicate time accelerating.

As for measuring time acceleration, perhaps comparing time on earth to time on the event horizon of a black hole and seeing if they deviate by a different amount than predicted by the present mathematical models it would be useful for uncovering any acceleration of time. Assuming the acceleration of time was exponential then the slowing of time on the event horizon would lead to a different rate of acceleration than on earth. Evidence of that difference could prove the theory.

Yes/no? Thoughts?
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> [...] than two-thirds of the nation’s approximately 780,000 jail inmates.

That's a lot of people to be holding for processing one way or another. Some Googling gave me this informative wikipedia link on the matter if you want to read up on related statistics : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta... .
My concern about flashcards is that they are a very nonholistic way to present isolated facts. In my childhood experience, it was the DUMB kids in class who used flashcards a lot, while the smart kids did without them entirely. (I vividly recall an incident in fourth grade when some of my classmates were flipping through a set of geography flashcards, which was just old enough to show some African countries as still colonies of European countries, even though by that year those countries were independent. I knew the countries were independent because I read books and the daily newspaper.)
"With all the bailouts the government is giving everyone, no one has any personal accountability about their own debts."

So true. The sanctity of an obligation, as the article discusses, was destroyed when the government ruled one side of the obligation less sacrosanct than the other.

Is that an excuse for lenders to run away from their problems? Absolutely not. It is no more valid than the child's argument "he/she did it first!"
I'm with you on the headline. Article doesn't explain anything about time actually stopping.

Time slowing seems like it'd be asymptotic. You should be able to have an arbitrarily large time t, where time is flowing at rate r > 0. According to my calculations, anyway. (Along the lines of: "shit, I really don't want time to stop.")
You have to keep both the questioners and the answerers from gaming the system. Questioners could say that none of them are good answers, and answerers could just give crap answers. How do you solve this?
Ha ha, that's the book I'm reading now, and exactly the book I had in mind when I made my original post.
There's an obvious intuition that the author seems to be missing with the 'two aces' paradox.

If you have a hand with two aces, you have two chances of getting the "Ace of Spades." Having a hand with two aces doesn't make it any more likely to have "an ace" than having a hand with one ace does.

This pretty much explains the phenomenon.
No, but I know many medium-achieving students who could have contributed a lot more productively to society if they'd had the chance and the money to attend college.

By focusing on only the high-end (and the low-end) we ignore what makes America a great place to be.

The gifted will find a way. The untalented and those lacking willpower usually won't, no matter what.

Everyone else needs a little help, help that actually matters.
No, but I'm sure we'd get a decent sci-fi flick out of it.
I love the idea of the cash-flow muse and I'm VERY intrigued by these types of stories.

Can you give any more details? Exactly (or approximately) how many dollars is half your living expenses? How did you start the project and keep it going? What marketing tools do you use? How much time + money have you put into the project?

Sorry if I'm prying, but I am genuinely interested in people that taken a simple idea and built something strong and profitable out of it.
I get them from a RAID something-or-other too. But agreed, it's typically Nvidia's fault.
Good resource, i had to start using R recently and most of the examples and books i found were of the "stats with R" variety which all emphasise how to just roll along with the library functions. The general advice i got from some statisticians was to find someone else's code that kind of works and copy|paste. Blurg

The official help docs are very good, also the extensions guide is pretty vital if you're linking to c etc. http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html

Also the ESS(emacs speaks statistics) extension is really really good, well certainly if you're doing something statisticy with R.
I just wanted to say I love how this post hardly has any comments because we're all busy reading the book.
"Saddled with DRM", how exactly? It gives publishers a right to their content as defined by copyright law, and lets you put on un-DRM-ed PDF's and text files in any way you see fit.
If you really want the APL experience, try J (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm)
25% interest rate should not even legal in the first place. Do banks offer consumers 25% on savings interest? Not even close.
What are you talking about? IE5 and IE6 for Windows were awesome when they were released. They were way faster, more reliable, and more standards-based than the browsers of the day when released (like the NN4.7 shitpile). The last release of IE5 for OS X had one of the first usable CSS implementations, and some awesome UI innovations.

The problem with IE is not that it sucked, but that it was abandoned before hundreds of millions of users started banging on it.
I think the biggest losers are actually "the rest of us": i.e. those of us who neither borrowed more than we could afford to pay back nor lent to those whom we knew could not afford to pay us back. There aren't many bailouts or special government programs (at least that I'm aware of) for people who acted responsibly in the midst of what was obviously foolishness.
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Yes, I know it's similar to Aardvark and other services (particularly in Asia), which I consider a plus: it means the concept's got a future. Just because someone is doing it doesn't mean it can't be a great business for Twitter -- quite the contrary. After all, Google was the _second_ company to let people bid for CPC text ads next to search results...
I first started reading Coding Horror about a year ago, as someone who is new to the development and programming world, he really opened my eyes to a lot of misconceptions I had held, and I can say without a doubt he led me on a path to greatly improving my standards and code.

He also was instrumental in introducing me to not only a slew of great blogs and information, but eventually led me to find hacker news.

I'd say the good he does for new and upcoming developers far outweighs all of the criticism I've read about his articles.
It's amazing how these people just don't get it. This is how the internet started out, then all of these 'media companies' fell by the wayside because there was so much free, useful, and relevant content available outside of their controlled platforms.

The fact that they think they can regain control is comedic by forcing us to pay.
The difference with Student Loans is you can't just avoid paying them. With most debt you can discharge it through a bankruptcy but since 1998 you can no longer discharge student loans unless it would be an "undue hardship". After you default they will simply attach your wages for up to 25% of you after tax salary.
Powershell is more like Applescript than it is like a bourne shell.
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I agree, there should be a set limit that people can charge. It can be fixed to the fed's rate, but no more than 10%. There is no reason I should be making 0.0025% on my savings but being charges 19.5% on my credit.
"finish up by confirming that the previous 5 or so minutes were a complete waste of your readers time."

http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/nothing-to-say/
Let's hope so. It's incredibly hard to read.
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For answerers: there's the monetary incentive.

For questioners: you pay the money upfront, when you post the question. Once you have the answers, since you've already paid, psychologically speaking, it's going to be more difficult to stiff the answerer, since you've already accomplished the act of paying and you've already "mentally" parted with the money.

Obviously plenty of people _will_ try to game the system, and it's based on the premise that "people are basically good." That was the premise behind eBay, and they still built a pretty good business out of it. Plenty of people try to game the system, but still the vast majority of transactions go off without a hitch, and it's a multibillion dollar business.
Thanks for the advice, although it's pretty much set in stone at this point.
Thank you so much! I really need to add "reversing the problem" to my repository of problem-solving techniques, but I just can't seem to find it.
Can it tell (using access times under windows) that the files were modified by that stage of the build command, and not by another unrelated process?

How does it know which drives and directories to scan for recently modified files? Scanning all of them would take a while.
What if a big fan blew air straight into the airplanes wings while it was stationary and those fans were attached to the plane so that they would continue to blow air if the plane gained lift?
It is not illegal to discriminate on the basis of immigration status. In fact "Sorry, we can't hire anyone other than citizens and permanent residents" is so common a response, it's usually part of the job ad itself.
You choose the best answer based on the ones you get. Only the best answer gets any money. If there aren't any good answers you don't pay anyone and you get either a credit for another question or a refund after (say) 10 business days.
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Plus there would be a kind of moderating system, possibly crowdsourced. You could complain if you gave a good answer and got stiffed. People who stiff too many people could be banned from using the service (and possibly wouldn't get their money back).
IE5 maybe, but it was long before IE7 (i.e. during the IE6 era) when IE came under fire for poor standards compliance.
Ooh the shake shack - when I was last in NYC I had to wait like 2 hours in line for a burger there, but it was worth it
Usury laws have been around for hundreds of years. Why the hell don't we (the USA) have them anymore?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
Of course, I forgot it. It's a classic.
I adore free books. One of the things that pushed me more towards the Python universe, instead of the Ruby universe, was that the quality of the free literature available for the language, and it's major web framework Django. (I know there are other great frameworks for both sides!)

This will be a great way to (finally) learn more about Git.
Coincidentally, these are the only two APress books I've ever bought.

Maybe I should make it a trifecta.
The Sun, Earth and Moon do not need to be in perfect alignment for a solar eclipse. You only have to be in the location of the Moon's umbra as it passes over the Earth. The Moon's shadow lengthens as it reaches the edge of the Earth.

I'm not sure whether the third image is a picture or a map projection.
"I can't see how the second would work"

That's a timely remark ;)