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I stutter, and I've had similar experiences.

I had a bout of stuttering in early childhood, which therapy seemed to have cured. It came back when I was twenty years old, standing in line to buy movie tickets.

I can't recall which movie, but it had a single word in the title. As the long line moved forward, I kept going over the movie title in my mind - the single word I would have to speak once I get to the ticket booth. Something happened in that moment, and I've been stuttering for the 13 years since. I guess you could say that movie changed my life.

The constant portrayal of stutterers as half-wits in popular media doesn't help one bit.

I am just thankful that I didn't suffer this affliction while in high school.
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"Forgive me if I say this sounds like a Reddit comment"

Forgive me if i say this makes you sound like an asshole - why do people on HN feel the need to belittle reddit in much the same way reddit users belittle digg users?

I wonder where on the net an even more "intelligent" site's users are using "hacker news comment" as a derogatory term?
We are both wrong on pieces of this. Nokia holds 56% of the entire market profit, in 2008 (the last year for which there is real data). RIM and Apple are projected to have 58% of the profits in 2009, which I am a little skeptical on -- in the current economy, I would expect the low end handsets to do better.
>Computers are merely for shuffling 1s and 0s around.

If you're going to say that about computers, you might as well say it about people. As, Cs, Gs, and Ts, but same story.
To be fair, he rejected only the opinion that there was no cure. It looks to me like he did lots of research and explored his options with an open mind.
As I remember, the main difference between "attribution theory" and "dissonance theory" is that dissonance theory postulates a motivation or drive to reduce dissonance between different types of information...

Whereas AT just postulates different information - something to think about for IT-type folks...
The research I've seen tends to lend weight to the view that each hemisphere is its own indpendent computer. Each may specialise in particular tasks but they are not dependent on each other. It's kind of like disabling one core in a dual core CPU.
I eschew powerpoint in favour of a whiteboard, which allows me to engage with the material and the audience, through me, to also engage with the material in a way that a projector doesn't allow. This has the added benefit of allowing me to talk through points, rather than the audience reading and rushing ahead, and (know that notetaking aids memory and application) also makes it clear to the audience that they need to be responsible for notes and can't just 'have me send the slide pack'.

Where I need slides - usually for graphs like stock market trends, which can be hand drawn but at the expense of credibility, I stick to Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 Rule - 10 Slides / (per) 20 Minutes / 30 Point font.

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2005/12/the_102030_rule.html
I also understand where you're coming from...we actually use Django (or other Python frameworks) for most of the simpler sites we have to do. CL can be both painful and overkill when tackling certain types of projects. We haven't built a blog engine or standard CMS in CL, for example, because there are plenty of other polished contenders. But we don't do many simple websites/projects...and CL really comes into its own when you have a more complex project to tackle. Quite a bit of what we do would be characterized as "enterprise" software with a web interface. The 'weird' CL approach (DSLs, bottom-up, context-oriented, etc.), when fully embraced, CAN provide the fabled competitive advantage. But we try to use CL only where it is wise to do so, and we don't reinvent wheels needlessly. We haven't had to write our own database, for example...we usually use Postgres. We've used other databases and 'not-quite-a-databases', but we've never had to write our own. Most of the guts of our software is written in CL, but we have called out to Java, Python, C/C++, and Erlang libraries, as well. CL is very flexible, and when there is not a decent existing library for something it is pretty easy to Borg another codebase. But you'd be surprised how much decent code in CL is already out there.

Oddly enough, I got into CL because it was basically the only language that clicked for me. I'm the last guy on earth that would be a Lisp snob, or who is going for geek cred or technical wizardry. I think you should use what works for you. I largely use Lisp because I'm self-taught and I suck as a programmer. No joke. When I was "language shopping," Lisp seemed like a loser because of the lack of libraries. But I'm a horrible programmer, and I struggled with learning most languages beyond a certain level. I struggled with syntax. I struggled with the seemingly arbitrary rules. I struggled with understanding the approach other programmers took when solving problems. I even struggled with "easy to learn" Python beyond a certain level. But once I finally tried CL, it simply made it easier for me to build abstractions I understood and to get things done. I can totally understand how weird the "NIH" culture seems from the outside, but it often IS easier to write custom-fit code for your project in CL than it is to learn someone else's general solution well enough to make it work. Sometimes things are counterintuitive...or maybe some people are just weird, I dunno? Fortunately, there are plenty of language/framework options, so most people can find something that fits.
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Oops, that's what I get for repeating a single complaint I'd seen voiced in some other thread...

Apologies.
For at least "conventional" blue-chip stocks, if the market fails to represent the present value of all future dividends, discounted back to the present, trading based on that metric should be a dominant strategy, since it is a method of extracting value from a stock without trading it.
Having read this white paper the general impression I get from the authors is that they are unhappy about automated market traders exploiting other poor algorithms.
In essence this is five pages dedicated to,"Entity A has better algorithms than we do, this should be illegal because we don't know how to compete."

If you can identify the bubble, you can make money. These guys have figured out how the game works now they need to exploit it, in the name of free market capitalism of course.
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Thank you for taking the time to respond. That helped me immensely.
You can do that pretty easily with SQLite:

conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
conn.execute('''
create table visits (plano text,
"column" text,
"row" text,
route text)
''')
conn.execute('''
create table square (plano text,
"column" text,
"row" text,
x int,
y int)
''')

for line in infile:
if line.startswith('#'):
continue
plano, column, row, routes = line.split(',')
column = column.lower()
x, y = square_coords(plano, column, row)
conn.execute('''insert into square (plano, "column", "row", x, y)
values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
''',
(plano, column, row, x, y))

However, the trouble is that SQL is still kind of verbose, not type-safe, etc. I've been writing up some thoughts on how to do better at http://canonical.org/~kragen/binary-relations.html but I have a long way to go still.
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It's a principle which currently has little visibility in society. What makes that less important than spending your effort on the same work literally billions of other people are already doing?
What a transformation:

Before WWII, San Jose had fewer than 100,000 people. Yet no fewer than 18 canneries and 13 packing houses could be found in the Valley. This was then the largest canning and dried fruit packing center in the world. By 1956, this farm-based culture was still largely intact. Today, it is almost entirely gone.
Nah, this keeps coming up on HN, and 99% of the time, the thing that "SQL databases" just can't do is something that DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix et al have done for 15 years or more.
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You can't trust built-in encryption because you can't audit it, and neither can anybody else, so the vendor's incentives to ship an actually-secure product are very limited. Use software encryption instead.
Ahem. Please don't attribute Goldman's success to trading. Goldman Sachs recent "success" is largely due to them adroitly navigating the political waters of the bailout, without which i suspect they would be in serious trouble.

As for machine trading or stat-arb, high freq, whatever...i don't think it is any better than a random walk. Risk was (is?) just being hidden somewhere and lied about.
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With a new admin (well, relatively now, now) that has (if memory serves) announced that it is "open to open source" this is prime time for such a concerted OS strategy.

If they can pull off a revolution in openness they just might make it attractive to work for federal agencies.
Yes, it's not too bad. Maybe you should magnify your screen.
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I think it does that for every name he can't guess the picture of.
Yes, it is 1/3. Given a series of partial sums (which in turn form an infinite sequence), then if the infinite sequence converges to some number B, the infinite sum likewise converges to the same number B.

It's exactly like saying lim as x -> 1 of 2x -> 2. You don't write it that way. You write it as lim as x -> 1 of 2x = 2.
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Or even changed to "nibble away at browser share", considering the findings (even among zdnet.com.au visitors), given:

"For the month until 21 July, 5.2 per cent of ZDNet.com.au readers used Chrome, compared with 3.5 per cent for the same monthly period six months ago. 5.9 per cent used Safari, compared with 4.4 per cent six months ago. ZDNet.com.au generally receives several million page impressions each month."

"Internet Explorer lost 1.3 per cent to remain in the lead with 50.7 per cent, while Mozilla Firefox also sank 1.8 per cent to reach 37 per cent."
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Can someone post just the subtitles? (So I can read/skim them.)
Hackers are more likely than investment bankers to come up with a mostly automated agricultural system.
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(I lurk and never post. If this is too off-topic please say so and try to forgive me)

I just received my new number from Google and I cant find any proof that this will not work. I set up my phone this way and if it doesn't work as planned I'll post the outcome. Also, if anyone is ahead of me on this please weigh in.

Many T-Mobile plans allow 5 numbers with unlimited incoming/outgoing minutes, they call this feature "My-Faves".. Program one of those 5 with your GoogleVoice number and then use that for all outgoing calls. And of course give any new people you meet the GV number instead of your original cellular number. Then switch to an appropriate lower priced calling plan.

Now if using GV's SMS doesn't rack up my alloted T-mobile text allowance I will be even happier!
I have have participated is both Sydney Startupcamps and often pay some of the booze. I am the founder of Cleantech company that may/should float on the ASX early next year. Yes, I am one of the 'adult board members' most start-ups need.

All the companies will be sold via auction in 2-3 weeks and I will be bidding on at least one of the business personally.

The amount of knowledge transferred to both the team members and the start-up community is huge. Even the NSW state government is learning what is needed to help start-ups because people talk to them every week. It is a slow process but it is happening.

Over the last year the amount of value and intellectual capital generated because of Bart and Kim is HUGE.
I have been involved with small business creation for nearly 20 years and I had never heard the term start-up for the first 10 years! The excitement and momentum that exists now is best I have ever seen.

Bart and Kim (and Brian) you ROCK!!!
Okay, so I'm a student new to REST. Yet it seems obvious. And simple.

I would have found it helpful to see description of what behavior would constitute NONrestful behavior. POSTs? POSTs that are used for navigation instead of submitting information?
This article's nothing without pics!

Seriously. I'm quite curious what Silicon Valley looked like when there was still open space between Mountain View and Palo Alto.
Sure, but Dave Winer didn't invent RSS, and the code he wrote (Userland Frontier) was never very widely used, and is now used by almost nobody. It was visionary — it kind of defined what we now call the CMS — but it wasn't well executed.
definitely interesting, but so what? if we cancel DARE should we replace it with something else? should all drugs be legal? what's the point?
If the stock is underpriced, sure. But shorting overpriced stocks comes with a cost - what if the market gets even more irrational over the next few years?
Thanks for the very informative reply. I wish I could upvote twice!
in the current economy, I would expect the low end handsets to do better.

They may sell more units, but they won't make very much profit, if any.
In that case, can I enlist your services :)

I started Narwhal (a JavaScript standard library: http://narwhaljs.org) and Jack (a WSGI/Rack-like web server interface: http://jackjs.org) earlier this year with the intention of bringing JavaScript up to par with Ruby, Python, etc.

There are other nice SSJS products, but they're all very monolithic and self-contained (in a bad way). I'm hoping Narwhal will be more modular and open, like we have with most other languages.
This is fun and has some hack value but I hope nobody ever uses such a kludge in real code.

It totally fails with crappy C compilers that decide to feature C++ comments unannounced. IIRC gcc does this unless you give -ansi or -std=c89. And C99 officially supports the // -comments but hasn't got C++ features, of course.
Reassuring people about privacy makes them more, not less, concerned.
Kind of tired of the argument. The people that use will keep using whether drugs are illegal or not, the people that would use if drugs were legal will still use the same drugs when they're illegal, and the people that don't use will still think that the people that do use affect their lives.

Yes, there are drug wars, there is gang violence, and there are people in jail who by most accounts shouldn't, but most of these discussions don't go anywhere, and no real action is going to effect a significant improvement with respect to any of these situations any time soon.
Ten years of experience?
In the article, it says, "He moved to Moab and worked at a women's shelter for five years. He wanted to help people, but getting paid for it seemed dishonest—how real was help that demanded recompense?"

Looking at his blog, it sounds like he still does that kind of thing, doesn't it? He wouldn't have to work many shifts to compensate for the resources he draws from the rest of society. Also, he writes things that other people enjoy reading, which has traditionally been considered productive work, and he's presumably performing some kind of minimal service just by diminishing the waste stream.

So I don't think it's quite true that he's contributing nothing to society.

You write, "Articles about guys like this make me kind of angry." Well, that's not surprising. His value system is clearly very different from yours, and anger is a normal human reaction when you're confronted with someone behaving according to a different value system. It takes a lot of maturity to get past that point.
This guy has some cool blog entries along those lines:

http://www.nevblog.com/labels/Homeless%20Experiment.html
And this (gradually) taking away browser share is scarcely news: it's been the pattern for - what - two-three years?
You know, I used to live in a city named after a guy whose fame was due to doing that.
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Yes. Which is why I think it would be best to view the iPhone platform in a similar light as a game console. Cool and fun, but not something you would seriously be expecting to be the basis of the next wave of personal computing.
Well said. Though given the stupidity of their examples, I would not bet on these guys to write any winning trades any time soon. Better to cry foul and scam a few buy-siders into buying their snake oil.
Out of curiosity has anyone audited truecrypt?
try level flooder! It's not hard but veeery cool to watch :)
There are lots of places where people refer to the kinds of comments that show up on web message boards as, well, far from the epitome of rational, polite, interesting discussion. Maybe discussions on email mailing lists are the most common place where this happens.

I think a lot of us here are users both of Reddit and Hacker News, and that experience is why we don't want Hacker News to turn into Reddit. It's not that we're belittling Reddit's users, but that we don't like the kinds of discussions that occur on Reddit.

The comment at the top of this thread is a perfect example: instead of contributing to the discussion, its author thought it would be more worthwhile to express his disagreement with the subject of the article by using the word "fucking", without ever actually explaining why he disagreed. He succeeded in writing a funny comment (it got ten upvotes!) but not in writing anything worth reading.
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Anti-REST behavior is generally using POST exclusively. and using a contrived XML format instead of using ANY headers at all. All requests go to the same motherfucking URL, and all responses are "200 OK" with the same Content-Type. The only hypertext used is for XML schema definitions, all references are as magic strings.

For prominent examples see: SOAP, XML-RPC, and WS-*

I hope Dave Winer's head falls off.
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I think those numbers from one website do not say much, because it really depends on the many factors. For example, here are my my stats (general news website, Europe):

Firefox - 43.11%, IE - 42.29%, Opera - 9.63%, Chrome - 3.21%, Safari - 1.14%
You're right! I hadn't read about Diogenes in detail before. Thanks for the link! It does sound like they have quite a bit in common.
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From the Wikipedia article cited by Jonah:

"A Land Patent is permanent and cannot be changed by the government after its issuance except in case of fraud, clerical error, or failure to pay taxes." (emphasis mine)
It's a good article, but it's a bit of a stretch to call it a "non-programmer explanation".
I've met a couple of people who didn't get a lot out of the wikipedia article. I usually direct them to these instead:

* http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
* http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RestInPlainEnglish
You know, when I'm trying to get code to be scalable, making it need less (less memory, less CPU time, less bandwidth) is a pretty key technique. I think that's true of human life too: if we can get by on less, more of us can survive.
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"I actually do think that some people may starve."

Yes, that's been happening for a long time in the US; as you said, 5% of your state (and many others) suffer from food insecurity. The rates are going up now, I'm sure.

'I asked my grandmother what her thoughts about the current financial situation, remember, she survived the great depression and she said, "I haven't seen anything like this."'

I would like very much to hear what your grandmother has to say in more detail.
I got it right on the first try as sort of a guess and you're very right, I was not expecting that and it was neat!
You should read his blog. It sounds like he's pretty social and has a lot to think about.
I agree with the criticism, but one can say a comment was poorly phrased without bringing reddit or any other site into it.

Frankly, the prevalent "gee, we are so much smarter than everyone else" attitude here is getting old.
I have a suspicion that you might have been able to do it more efficiently (e.g., in one query) using extra() to provide a similar effect to the annotation. That's how I typically handled this sort of thing prior to aggregates landing.
I can't say I agree with that. Actually I think that an easily-accessible code interpreter sitting inside a browser, with a language and runtime capable of delivering spectacular stuff in just a few lines can nurture a future generation of programmers, not unlike the generation raised on easily accessible basic interpreters on various 8-bit computers in the 70s and 80s. I don't think denying access for beginners to powerful but harmless tools (it sits inside a browser) is a good idea, how could they become experienced professionals such as you then?
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Thanks for the feedback. We love Cappuccino too.

On 3), 4), 5), and 7) we definitely want to sand the rough edges. We have a "launch early, launch often" mindset though so erred on the side of getting something out.

On 6), rooms take a bit of getting used to but we think turn out more useful than simple albums. It gives a group of people a common URL to return to multiple times for different events and you can say things like "I put the photos in our room, go look for them there."
"However, Eady did say that Google has a responsibility to block or take down content if it is notified with a legitimate complaint about libellous material."

More fodder for the chillingeffects database? Libel laws have no place on the web.
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So now any website could setup a web worker in the background of pages to massively improve there processing power.

Very cool feature though, makes the entry level to distributed processing very low.
I'm surprised not to see MongoDB mentioned; it's the document-oriented database I find most intriguing:

http://www.mongodb.org

I don't know enough about its alternatives to offer meaningful comparisons, but things I really like about MongoDB in the brief time I've played with it:

- It's trivial to get started with.

- Everything just makes sense.

- No schemata to deal with.

- Excellent Ruby support right out of the box.

For the very simple use cases I tend to deal with, I've always defaulted to throwing my data into MySQL or SQLite, and I think MongoDB will replace them for me.