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I was raised in Galician but taught to read and write in Castillian (Spanish), and grew up in an environment where almost all media, signs, labelling, ..., were in Castillian. Programming related learning and work has taken most of my studying since my teen years, and I did that exclusively in English. Because of this, I estimate English is already the language in which I've done most of my reading and a fair share of my writing.

I can relate to what you say, because for quite a time when trying to express myself formally I used to end up resorting to a lot of transliterated Castillian constructs and phraseology. Other times, ideas would come in English and I'd try and find a Galician equivalent. I only got past that after a conscious decision to immerse myself in Galician and Portuguese literature. Sometimes I still feel like learning my native language as a second language.

And I'd be at a loss if I had to talk about programming related concepts in anything but English. I'd have to reinvent the vocabulary as I go. My own scribbled notes for personal use are written in a patois that is mostly Galician generously sprinkled with English.
Seriously. Any guesses at the take? Assuming, of course that Apple doesn't withhold earnings of banned apps.
that's a good strategy.
second that. Or make it cost you karma in order to see them ;)
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The form redirects you to a static html page with the name "Michael Arrington". Kinda stupid...
Recently I've woken up thinking in C. I'll say hi to my wife, and immediately check to make sure that in my mind, there were parentheses and a semicolon after I said 'hi'.
Congrats guys! This is awesome publicity.
I think this little discussion has identified a new niche: Consumer watchdog. Place yourself as a party knowledgeable in the field in between customers and their suppliers during the procurement phase. Since you speak the language of both worlds you should easily be able to save your customer a multiple of the fee you'll charge them.

Naturally this only works on projects that cost a good bit of money but it may help to create some consciousness wrt to lesser purchases as well.
wow congrats guys!
Without code, there is nothing to market.
> ... and there's not much the legislature can do about it.

Spend less.

California has the second highest income tax rate, highest effective overall tax rates, highest sales tax rate, highest tax as a percent of gross income, highest corporate tax rate, highest incorporation fees, highest minimum corporate taxes, highest tax yield per citizen, and highest tax revenues in all of the United States. California gets more money per person in California than any other state, and more total money than any other state.

In plain English: California has gets more money per citizen and more money total than other state in the USA.

Prop 13 (property taxes can't be set above 1%, and aren't reassessed until a home is resold) has kept a lot of middle class and blue collar people in their homes. I'm in California, and my friend's parents are retired. Their modest house tripled or quadrupled in value over the last 15 years. If their property taxes had tripled or quadrupled, they wouldn't have been able to afford their house.

Taxes aren't too low here by any stretch of imagination. It doesn't matter how much money you have if you spend more than that amount of money. That's California's problem.
I hate the suggestion to leave some money in an obvious place for the burglar, like tax for nuisance idiots. It isn't like some kind of professionalism is going to keep them from tearing up the place anyway they obviously don't give a shit.

Would you leave some easy to access credit card numbers out on your server to keep them from going after the rest?

Security is a difficult problem because of the nature of the game. They attacker only needs one opening. That doesn't mean you should give up. If people had better home security that kind of petty theft wouldn't be viable.
My expenses would increase by 5 or 6 dollars a month. Seriously, if gas actually hit 20/gallon people would adjust by moving closer to their jobs (over the space of decades, this would cause very little pain.) Problem solved. Am I the only one who finds easily-solvable problems really quite annoying?
My father read the article in 1985, and promptly wrote a program that used the fancy-pants dedicated hardware of the computer vision systems he worked on at the time. I remember going into the office with him when he had to work on a weekend; he showed me how he was using something like $100k worth of parallel processing hardware to make a little gray-scale Mandelbrot set.

His first response to any new system is still to write a Mandelbrot generator. When he semi-retired from his position doing system-level C stuff a few years ago, he decided to give Java a try. He occasionally emails me video explorations of the Mandelbrot sets he has generated. I have a photographic print he made hanging up on my wall right now.

First time he tried to get them to print out one of his images, the person at the one-hour photo at Wal-Mart told him the picture was unprintable, despite multiple tries. The multiple 8x10s were retrieved from the waste basket, and my father got three for the price of one.
That's awesome. I hope you guys can cope with the increased load. Did you get any warning from Apple that this was going to happen?
(assuming cc-mode) Set c-basic-offset to 4.

Even better, if you don't like the way anything's indented, move the cursor to that spot and hit C-c C-o and it'll tell you why it's indented that line that way, and you can adjust those parts as you wish.

If you're not in cc-mode, then.. it's lisp. Repeating sequences of multiples of 4 are pretty easy to write in a function that generates them.
I'm glad you're on the case.

How about curing AIDS while you're at it.
That too. In various programming languages, Lisp a few weeks ago. Luckily not the parenthesis part for me, though.

(edit - curiously it's most often when waking up also)
True, genetic algorithms are definitely a step in the right direction. There is the one famous example of the filter circuit where even the designers of the software couldn't figure out how the damn thing worked, but work it did. Parts connected in the weirdest ways and if you took them out the circuit stopped to function. Apparently the genetic algorithm had in its feeback loop discovered some none-trivial parasitic effects of some components. No sane designer would have done it that way, but that's beside the point because the filter had less parts than any designed by humans directly.

I'm very strongly a believer in the material consciousness,

The emperors new mind was an interesting read but I found it to be a tremendous buildup to an almost magical reliance on quantum mechanics to provide us with our consciousness.

I don't have much with magic so I'll stick with regular physics and chemistry until it has been proven otherwise.

There are too many brain-computer analogies to avoid the strong suggestion that the brain computes. It doesn't do it in a way that we can hook up a debugger to just yet but it does seem to have a lot in common. It's more of an architecture/interface problem.

But strong AI probably won't come from being able to interface with the brain or from a sudden leap of insight in how it all works. I think strong AI will follow from a seed AI which in turn will follow from some relatively simple breakthrough or insight that we still haven't gotten around to.

The simulation of the cortex of simple mammals is another such step in between, do you have a reference for that ?
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HHGTG references go ungotten around here it seems.
And you never know when you'll need, say, 500 cups of coffee, right?
I feel vindicated: http://afeeblemind.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-you-think-in-goog...
I keep a few grand in small bills stashed around the house. It's one of those things you just might be ridiculously glad you have in the unlikely event you need it. Imagine a natural disaster or a ten day blackout.
OK, I can answer my own question: Price: 435 Pounds, SIM-free. Ouch.
The same happens with the 'momentum', if something is on the way down it seems like everybody has to add their stone to the castigation, and if it is on the way up and listed first then it will pick up more points than later but better reasoned out replies at the same level. There is definitely some kind of feedback going on there.
I've tried to ⌃⌘D a word in a real book before.

Also caught myself searching for ⌘Z after spilling something.
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Why is Michael Arrington a meme now? It's kind of childish.
Not being a huge lisp person, are there lazy-evaluating lists in lisp? So that I could define the tabstop sequence to be a list that would continually be evaluated, but only as far as the calling function was asking for (like Haskell)? Otherwise, there is still a finite end to the list even if I can easily generate a ridiculously long sequence automatically.
ack, good point - title updated... thanks for the feedback!
He also has some notoriety by going in to bat for SCO (which I recall he now regrets): http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/07/daniel-lyons-fake-s...
I was not looking for a funny word. US is "lawyer-bound" the way a program is either computation-bound or communication-bound depending on where it engages more resources. IMHO, of course.
But you can bootstrap a cheap Unix with chapters 5-10 of this:

http://www.logix.cz/michal/doc/i386/

Getting into protected mode and exec'ing processes in their on private space has been done with ~4 pages of asm.
And that'll be the death of news!
I gotta ask...if I go do this sort of thing on my own, I might produce something that won't segfault or oops()...if I were to walk into a job interview for an os/kernel dev job (the kind that rand say I did write a crappy primitive kernel would that look good or bad?

I've been working for almost 3 years now and this is an area that I would like to move into.
I dissuade burglars by, you know, locking my door.

(I live on the 16th floor, so they probably won't get in through the window. If they do, they can have my stuff.)
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This is a neat book. I read the first six chapters a while ago and it seemed interesting.
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The cure for AIDS is: A reduction in the quantity demanded for unsafe sex and dirty needles. AIDS is a trivially-avoided disease and a stupid example, even if you're just being snide.

The cure for 20/gallon gas is: A reduction in the quantity demanded for >25 mile commutes, which is an incredible historic anomaly.

Neither cure works 100 percent of the time, just like every other single cure in the whole wide world.
Nope, strict eval only. Just define a max, and if you hit it, raise it.
how about somewhere in view of the highlightcam webcam? ;)
This really isn't a very good analogy. CPU load isn't a necessarily a measure of CPU contention - it's simply the average number of processes running or waiting for disk I/O at any time. The latter is increasingly often the issue at hand, and tends to affect load much more drastically than CPU-intensive tasks.
I have heard of someone else getting on an iPhone add, and they got a call from Apple before it went to air, asking for permission. Bump must have forgotten to tell us, or maybe they just don't love us.
Yes, but I often use Lisp expressions as quasi documentation when learning someone else's code. How does this function work? Let's call it from the REPL. Maybe that's too complicated? Let's copy some inner bit of it to the REPL and play with that. Ok, I see how that works, now let's try calling the whole thing.

This 'play with some inner bit until you understand it' technique is interesting in a couple of ways. It means you're bringing the code to life piece by piece; and it means you're reading it inside-out. Both of those things were revelations to me.

As an aside, this gets harder to do to the degree that the code is written in an OO-style (even in Common Lisp) because you typically have to create other objects before you can bring code to life, which is usually not obvious how to do and bogs the process down.
Congratulations, Bump!

I've always wondered how the apps in those commercials are chosen. Does Apple just choose the apps that they like?
Perhaps anyone who thinks anything will remain secret by convention is a fucking moron. It takes one person one minute to make something like this public forever. It takes the cooperation of thousands of people over thousands of weeks to keep it a secret. When we're dealing with something like... the password to launch a nuclear missile, it's reasonable to expect it to remain a secret (then again, thousands of people (hopefully) don't have access to things like that). With public domain information that thousands of people have access to, well... you'd be a fucking moron to think it could stay secret for long.

Perhaps tangential, but this is why security through obscurity is not enough. Sure, you can roll your own cryptography and no one will be able to break it... for a while. Eventually though, the secret of how it works will leak and then you're done. It's much better to focus on making something that will work despite being public.

I don't know if that idea CAN be applied to psychology. I don't know much about it. But I suspect some effort to make tests which can work even when public will be necessary in the future... assuming Rorschach's test ever worked.
That would require background apps. What you want is a Pre. :)
I'm going to say that of my "cohort" in college, email+facebook events were by far the most effective ways to get people to go to a place at a given time.

Further, I would wager my parents' generation do much of this planning via word of mouth at church. This is highly anecdotal though.

(In any case, I think you overstate the set of people without computers but with cell phones from which reasonable social graphs can be generated. Some places cells are rare enough they are shared by a group of people...)
early on in my CA biking career I once spent about 15 minutes in the middle of the road vainly waiting for a red light to turn green.

It never did.

I used to have that same problem with my Honda CRX! (Only once in a blue moon, though.)
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Yes.

(The penetration numbers I've heard for gmail mean that college students do not use technology like anyone else. Then again, they're a pretty sweet marketing demographic...)
Also, bikes aren't cars. Pretending that they are doesn't increase safety. It decreases it!
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Wow, I didn't know about several of these. Thanks for this!
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I have heard about the MySQL table corruption thing before, but frankly I'm not exactly a database expert and never really worried about it. Then one of the critical tables backing Bingo Card Creator died, hard. (Thank God it was on the staging server, not on production.) I still have no clue why, and was unable to recover anything from it -- I ended up having to restore from backup.

This was on... crud, I don't really know what version off the top of my head, but it is on whatever Ubuntu ships with in summer 2009.

P.S. Have you checked your backups recently?
I don't believe there's anything in the Common Lisp standard for it, but I think lazy lists should be implementable with macros.
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But NS's target market is the other 1% who are too unsavvy to know what a domain is, or that Netsol are the most legendary shitbags on the internet. They don't want those customers googling the name of the product and finding out that it can be bought elsewhere. Marketing knows what they're doing.
I don't think they should be deciding what does and doesn't get installed on iPhones at all, but in any case I don't think they should be doing it on the basis of third parties' rights that may or may not have been infringed and who may or may not be unhappy about it.

Here are the parties they would be doing a favor:

* Themselves: they gain no benefit from putting effort into enforcing copyright law beyond what the law demands, and when they make a mistake, they may be setting themselves up for liability from whichever side loses out from their mistake.

* iPhone users, who would benefit from access to a wider variety of apps.

* Non-infringing app authors, who would face a smaller chance of erroneous rejection because Apple wasn't sufficiently convinced of the validity of their copyright licensing arrangements.

* Infringing app authors, obviously, who would have a much easier time publishing their apps.
I wasn't talking about brain computer interfaces, although that is an interesting field. Note to self: try our algorithms on EEG data...

My point regarding the materialism was that if you can simulate the physical/chemical processes that happens in a brain, and I am talking about the molecular/quantum level, the result will be indistinguishable from the original.

The reference you asked for: project Blue Brain by IBM http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124751881557234725.html
I agree. The default first year for many students requires 3 core courses, not to mention prep time for a qualifying exam or two. I've increasingly noticed that I can only handle 3 activities in grad school: 3 classes and no research, 1 class and some research, 0 classes and lots of research, or 1 job, 1 class, and little research.
I hate the suggestion to leave some money in an obvious place for the burglar, like tax for nuisance idiots. It isn't like some kind of professionalism is going to keep them from tearing up the place anyway they obviously don't give a shit.

If the goal is to get in, get something of value, and get out, then quite possibly. My car was once broken into and they took a blanket and some cheap sunglasses that were visible, leaving about $30 in change in the door storage and ash tray. Although, obviously value is in the eye of the beholder, Chicago winters are pretty cold, so the blanket maybe had more value, and was easier to carry, than cash.

Would you leave some easy to access credit card numbers out on your server to keep them from going after the rest?

Quite possibly; this is called a honeypot, and is often used as a early warning system and a way to keep intruders busy with the not-obviously-not-valuable stuff while you monitor them and track them down.
Interesting, but avoided the one question I really wanted asked:

"I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who didn't end up looking stupid when they predicted 50 years ago what life would be like today. What can you say to convince us that you'll be one of the 5 of this generation who got it right?"

Technology has a way of surprising everybody.
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Actually he also said that PostgreSQL has a permissive license with a whole community of contributers where MySQL has Oracle and GPL and 1 corporate contributor. That's a significant qualitative difference in their nature and very well worth weighing up if you're deciding which way to go.
Inspiring, and also serves as a reference example of a presentation that explicitly says "These slides are meant for reading, rather than presenting". That's a very common document form, but seldom acknowledged.
I think the predictions assume "real" dollars (dollars adjusted for inflation) in all cases, but check the book to be sure.
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That's a bit tinfoil-ey. It's mostly practicing psychiatrists who are upset. Do you really think that many trained doctors have a side job selling pieces of paper with public-domain images on them to a market that can be measured in thousands of people?

Anyway, the quote at the bottom is a devastating takedown as far as I'm concerned:

>To illustrate his point, Dr. Heilman used the Snellen eye chart, which begins with a big letter E and is readily available on the Wikipedia site.

>If someone had previous knowledge of the eye chart," he said, "you can go to the car people, and you could recount the chart from memory. You could get into an accident. Should we take it down from Wikipedia?"
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> California's minority-rule budget rules and ridiculous ballot initiative process have made crafting a reasonable budget impossible.

Oh really? On what planet would the majority Dems want to spend less?
Yes, that was terribly weak. One story is still an anecdote. Data looks something more like http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/oct/10/gender.ukcrime (since our author is a brit), but I say this not to directly criticize the UK either, but to point out that if that's not a fair to "understand" Britain and Wales through that news story, than certainly it's not fair to understand America through that one either. Poor form.
> They are mainly unwilling to compromise, any sort of tax increase is anathema, even the idea of bringing tax rates back to to late-1990s levels.

Tax revenues are now above those levels (after adjusting for inflation and population growth).

I mention revenues because you spend revenues, not rates.

Do you really want to argue that CA isn't spending enough money?
That's why I make my submission titles more dramatic when posting on reddit. ;-)
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I hate to reply with fluff, but I'm pretty sure I've actually said that too. Apparently there's a canonical scale of heaviness in our culture.

I definitely have never nuked a poor camel, though (per JacobAldridge's reply), though I'll see what I can do about correcting that oversight. Also perhaps I'll drop a Library of Congress on an unsuspecting camel.
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being the billionth app probably brought them to attention of the apple marketers
On my planet Democrats believe in financing government programs responsibly, instead of borrowing money for them like California has done. If the Legislature didn't have to deal with the no-new-taxes Republican rump or the utterly ridiculous ballot initiative-funded programs they would have a lot more leeway to fix the budget without slashing services.
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If there were flies on the wall, they wouldn't be nearly as interesting. Just corner some of the speakers elsewhere and put a few drinks in them, and you might get similar results.
Quite an achievement. The Apple guys did a great a job with the ad too. I guess its what they are known for!
Oh, I don't know - this is the same kind of "Hey everybody, PostgreSQL exists and is really neat" article that people have been writing for years. It's only poignant now that some of the MySQL issues have become harder to ignore.
Funny, I used to work with a copywriter who would always leave a simple punctuation mistake in her work so her editor (me) would have something to do. I think she knew if I had to struggle to find something I'd probably suggest unnecessary rewrites.
The taxation idea doesn't hold water when you look at it in detail. I can't remember the reference now, but the point was made that because most road building is funded by sources that have nothing to do with cars (local taxes, etc) non-drivers are actually subsidizing drivers. Cyclists, along with pedestrians, actually pay more than their fair share of the cost, given that they cause practically no road wear and a minimum of the construction costs.