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If you are in a committed loving relationship, you would have no trouble chatting up anyone you would normally be attracted to, because you don't have an agenda; all of the sudden, you're one hot cookie.

So if you're single and looking, the easiest way to connect with people you're attracted to is to approach them with no agenda. Become as sexually detached as you can and treat them like a buddy.
Was my favorite subject as well, precisely for those reasons. Not sure how to teach the beauty of mathematics to those who are uninitiated though. I think it really should come in at the elementary school level, when you can show really cool things about numbers like Fibonacci sequence or binary system or simple cryptography, and make mathematics seem magical and cool (and not wait until high school with these concepts, when it's too late to convince most non-predisposed folks of the poetic beauty of mathematics; you can absolutely teach these concepts earlier).
Based on what I understand from this presentation:

http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...

Gladwell means that people don't always know what they want (or wont be able to tell you).
That's a weird bit of reckoning at the end. If you're short an hour of work, an hour of work is all you need to catch up.
Summary provided by the following two quotes: "I define true love as the best person who is willing to date you" and "The basic advice: Reject a certain number of people, no matter how good they are, and then pick the next person better than all the previous ones"

Err kids? Don't take this seriously.
I also didn't really enjoy Calculus in high school, only learning to love it in hindsight, when I took Real Analysis in college. Then again, I was always interested in theoretical mathematics (poetry, abstraction, & all that) rather than practical (yucky numbers & approximations :); so maybe pragmatists enjoy Calculus as taught?
No! Not this week. Xoopit and Zappos just sold; romance can wait, this week I am turned on by acquisitions.

Please save the dating links for the weekend.
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I've thought that the best metaphor was just probability theory with complex number... anyone else like to chime in on that?
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I love math, unfortunately they don't teach it in the schools any more.
Given how enormously complicated C++98 is, let alone C++0x, I think the last thing C++ needs is to jettison the standardization process in pursuit of faster evolution. The evolution of C++ should be conservative: both because it is widely deployed on many different platforms and compilers for doing "serious" work, and because it already has far, far too much junk in it already.
Your anecdote inspired me to do something. Thanks, man!
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"I think another reason why meetings are an extra burden on Makers vs. for Managers is that for the Managers, the meeting is their work. "

I am not very sure that's true. Most good managers I know kept meetings to a minimum and kept them short. Yes they did consider meetings to be "work", but they did try to minimize the duratin and frequency of their meetings.

The best manager I know considers meetings a necessary evil (and so minimize them). He ran a whole division on a weekly 1 hour all hands meeting (plus lots of emails and so on but those are not as disruptive). Any smaller meetings had a twenty minute timer ticking down, with everyone standing up, and decisions were made fast.

He once told me that every managers job was to make himself redundant as and that his (conception of his) job was to make sure he moved things to a state where the system would flow well in his absence, by setting up expectations of how conflicts would be resolved etc, and so he would have to interfere only in the very rare cases.

He brought back the division from chaos and I would often see him sit (he sat "on the floor", not in his office) working on crosswords and so on, apparently doing nothing, but he had a finger on the pulse of what was going on and interfered minimally and effectively, obstacles being removed before they manifested. The organization ran like silk. He was the best boss I worked for and his subordinates loved him. He got promoted and was replaced by a less capable manager and soon enough we were drowning in meetings and no work got done
First day of college: "prove that 0 times x is equal to 0". That got rid of everyone who wasn't really into maths :-)

That exercise was literally the first question, on the first hour of back to school, after 5 minutes of a welcome speech.

I can't even figure out the proof anymore, although it really can't be complicated given the ridiculously small amount of tools you are given (basically x + -x is 0, and (a+b) times c equals a times c + b times c. You are given nothing else.
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I think it really depends which lens you're looking through and which communities you're a part of. C++ is still one of the most popular languages around:

http://langpop.com/

It's naturally de-emphasized in the web world, but there's still a huge amount of C++ being written. Most desktop and a large percentage of systems, mobile, scientific and embedded code is written C++. There's just relatively little cross-pollination between those worlds and the web world.
Because you know that attractive people are less likely to be approached.
Well C++ is used in console video games, but without RTTI & exceptions, even in large cases without new/delete (but inplace new). Templates are welcome, but if overused would produce bloat.

Almost no virtual functions, or at least forbidden at many levels, STL here and there, or custom STL (EASTL for example, etc.).

The C++ that we use in our studio (for runtime code, not tools) is more like "C" - Using RAII here and here, templates, and rarely classes (mainly for RAII debuging constructs), and using just POD structures (this helps a bit when deserializing objects, especially if they need to be streamed - as in a open-world game).
Don't forget availability. So that's beauty, intellect, availability. Oh, and her reciprocal interest in you. And mutual compatibility. Quite a tall order.
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Actually, it's really quite simple. Just follow the step-by-step instructions here:

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and here:

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Qt and hundreds of KDE apps built on it are hardly niche. What about VLC? Gecko? WebKit? LLVM? All niche projects?

I don't know about the commercial application space, but in FOSS C++ is alive and well. And it isn't going anywhere for a long, long time.

For a new project, C++ is a much better choice than C, even if you don't use all features of the language. The compilers are faster and better than ever, and the libraries are great.

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I, for one, have never seen a decent quality desktop application written in Java. C# has better apps because C# programmers seem to prefer using Windows.Forms on Windows and GTK# on Linux. But nothing beats the speed and responsiveness of an application running on the bare metal.
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Just a fun fact: Haskell was designed by a committee. Just saying that it's not all bad :)
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His water purification system is really amazing. You would think that all of the 'help save the worlds poor' non-profits would be jumping all over it. Here's the Wired article from last year on it - http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/colbert-and-kam/
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http://dingitsup.com/ is a similar service, but can also text or tweet you in addition to emailing.
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It was a train wreck beforehand. It has since gotten even worse. The remarks I made at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598805 still stand, IMHO; basically due to backwards compatibility concerns, there are almost always at least three ways of doing any trivial thing in C++, and the interactions between them are terrifying.
I think that there is a simple way to look at it too.

If you're a manager, you're supposed to think & act with people as a priority. U're supposed to operate from 'Social Intelligence'.

But if u're a programmer, u're supposed to operate from 'Technical Intelligence'.

Since these two are very different and will result in different thinking & acting so the schedule will obviously be different.
> Attractiveness should be totally uncorrelated to intelligence

Why would you think so? Isn't it the case that smarter guys make more money (or are otherwise more successful), allowing them to chose among more potential partners, some of them being physically attractive and selected for that reason? The offspring would be both smart (after the daddy) and pretty (after the mummy).
Yes. The latter. However we had Analysis (Calculus) and Lineare Algebra at the same time. Algebra came afterwards.

Calculus in school was as boring as everything else. School math is mostly a basic version of engineer's math.
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I, for one, have never seen a decent quality desktop application written in Java.

I hear eclipse is pretty decent.
I don't get it. Do you mean SQL queries?
Public transport? Electric cars? Or move to a smaller flat in the city? Or something else.

There are plenty of solutions, that people will find.
What's striking to me is that the CEO letter mentions Moritz directly.
I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear of this story.

> We asked our board members what they thought of the opportunity. Michael
> Moritz, who represents Sequoia Capital (one of our investors and board
> members), wrote the following: "You now have the opportunity to accelerate
> Zappos' progress and to make the name and the brand and everything associated
> with it an enduring, permanent part of peoples' lives... You are now free to
> let your imagination roam - and to contemplate initiatives and undertakings
> that today, in our more constrained setting, we could not take on."

http://blogs.zappos.com/ceoletter

> At least two sources who do not hold board seats, but are directly involved
> with Zappos, indicated that Moritz and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh came into
> conflict about the company’s future. Moritz, the sources say, wanted Zappos to
> sell while Hsieh wanted to remain independent.

http://www.pehub.com/45388/zappos-ceo-wanted-to-stay-indepen...
Why not just one goal (viz. much more immediate focus)?
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Almost makes you forget they're selling shoes...
Disclaimer: I live in Europe and do not own a car. Instead of walking to the grocery store, I usually use the streetcar or a bike. If you have to feed a family, it be more convenient to use a car for your groceries, since you can load so much more onto it than on a bike or on your back. Though, I know a family that only rents a car for going on vacation, so you can make it work.

And people always like to complain, no matter what.
pg, you nailed this one. nough said.
I was kind of talking from the users' perspective.
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No. You need to find enough of an arbitrage opportunity to overcome the friction. But once you found it, it's a risk-free profit. (You can't do too complex an atomic transaction on the financial markets; but most arbitrage deals take much less than a day --- even less than a few minutes, so your window of exposure is quite short.)
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> Microsoft supports it in Visual Studio for the game industry

Microsoft supports C++ in Visual Studio because it's what Windows and all of its applications are written in.
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Your last two paragraphs hit on a point that more managers need to implement but are afraid to, because most managers think that if they make themselves redundant, then they'll be laid-off, instead of promoted.

I know of one manager in particular that is amazing at managing restaurants, but his problem is that he has to put in long hours to make sure the restaurant runs, and if he leaves on vacation, then the restaurant has often fallen apart (not to mention the years of increased stress levels it entailed worsened his cholesterol levels to the point he needed surgery). If instead he had trained everyone else to do his job, not only would he have had a ready supply of people to promote all these years, but he would also be a lot less stressed-out and maybe wouldn't have needed surgery.
No, unfortunately, I forgot. I hadn't written any essays for a while because I'd been working on Arc.
Best line: "I’m not sure if there are API interfaces into the application but, ironically, it’s crying out for a proper desktop client."
Sounds right to me.

I actually was talking about the general case. I can't imagine it'd be often that a VC gets the short end..
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I don't know any good looking, smart, and single women that can't get dates.

Well quite. The article mentions Uma Thurman... Well, Uma, perhaps you can't get a date because you're a bit weird? Perhaps "kooky" isn't what the men in your social circle are looking for? Men find normal women confusing enough, the actually mad ones terrify us. Maybe she's actually a really nice person, but for whatever reason she's picked up this rep and it sticks.

It doesn't make sense to me that evolution would program men to find X list of characteristics simultaneously attractive and repulsive. It does make sense that a woman's ego would have her believe she's "too pretty" rather than a more honest appraisal. It's exactly the same in the male syndrome of being "too nice".

Especially in their 30s and so, when they clock is ticking.

It is true that in most cases a female at 20 has many more options than a male of the same age. The opposite is true at 40. 30 is where the balance of power starts to shift.
This is a review of said book, which is here: http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Counting-T-W-Körner/dp/05215...
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Yeah, I don't love the term "office hours" either. It's not even correct, since people have actual appointments; they're just clumped together. But I got into the habit of calling this thing office hours, and it is probably too late to change now.
wow, this is seriously a bunch of bull. It doesn't say anything interesting about the problem at all, and just claims a bunch of speculation and improbable comparisions.

Like, "punishing a robot" ...? No AI scheme I've seen ever has a sense of self worth. You can give it a negative reward, but the AI doesn't care much for its _current_ reward, it only performs actions to maximize the expected reward. Which means you can tell it to avoid doing these bad things, but punishing it after the fact would just leave it confused about why its reward system changed, and then go about trying to maximize its rewards again.

I for one, am all for the 3 laws of robotics, but it probably won't work for a much simpler reason -- it can't identify the terms. How would an AI recognize when a human is at harm? Would it show the drowning patient a picture of distorted letters and ask what the word is? Or would it jump in to save posters from being damaged? And that's the easy part... how would you define harm? These questions need to be answered before anyone tries to figure out the ethics guidelines for robots to follow.

You would seriously learn more about robot ethics from I, Robot than from this poorly written article.
"markets can experience 25 standard deviation events"

Maybe. But what's the probability that your model is just wrong?
THANK GOD! It's about time the publicity started to turn on this project.

I've been fighting my own little private war against Mr. Negroponte's XO project for some time and it's for just these reasons. The XO has always been a crappy notebook. It was "built by press release" so it looked real good on paper. All the politicians and pundits could smile and praise the $199 computer that would bring poor kids into the next century. While behind the scenes anyone who took a real look knew it wasn't usable.

So Mr Negroponte and a bunch of crooked politicians in third world countries get to look great by foisting crap onto already taken avantage of poor kids.
It seems the reward of not feeling miserable is comparable to asking her out.

I'm so averse to feeling miserable from rejection I haven't asked anyone out on a date since the 5th grade. It ended poorly. I feel miserable from just listening to their thoughts. It probably varies for different guys.
Shyness was conveniently part of the problem statement.
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A co-worker has made this same mistake for the last couple of years working at our company. He complains about everything and doesn't try to fix anything himself. He's a smart guy, though. He's bitter about some treatment he's received but still...complaining is what he does.

Now he is being pushed out of our group by the original management from before when we got acquired. Not sure where he's going now but he's out. He'll never advance and I'm sure this is somehow noted in his performance reviews; technically he got bumped down a notch. He's probably really bitter now.
Already did that completely flying solo. ;)

Here's the link to that day (Day 26):
http://socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com/social-skydiv...
This is one of the only ways I know of to develop real camaraderie with remote offices, especially if people were not very good friends to begin with. There's something about the "wormhole in space" that makes them part of the team, in a way that IRC and conference calls do not.

I've seen this in use at large companies, and it really works but it's expensive. If there's now a cheap option, that's good news.
I'm curious:

What tasks did you manage to procrastinate on while putting this app together?
Almost a downer, I didnt think that tony was the kind of CEO who would sell out.

Somebody tell me it was the VC's.
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Happy to oblige:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719049
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On the other hand, it's still totally implausible that the answer to "Has anyone in the United States, and I mean anyone, actually died of a cause attributable to undernutrition caused by anything other than mental illness in the lifetime of anyone posting here?" is "No," even if you modify the question to exclude not only starvation due to insanity, but also starvation due to the powerlessness of children and starvation that's secondary to some other illness. The odds ratios would have to be hundreds of thousands to one.
This is a terrible article: it is completely without substance and a great example of why I try not to click on tc links when they come up on here. Pure linkbait.

Burned again.

Summary: somebody lent Zappos some money a while ago and demanded repayment instead of stock. So they got repaid.

How this translates into "losing big" befuddles me.
...or it would simply intensify the race to the bottom.
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Or he may be the one smart guy who thinks, hey, she's such a stunning beauty, I bet no one has dared to ask her out, so I will.

And maybe the smart guy doesn't need to be so super smart but simply an attentive observer.

Also, chances are that Carol is smart (and courageous) enough to approach a guy herself once she becomes fed up with her own situation.
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"More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing."

That's not all. According to Kamen: "Today's children are the first generation in which it is highly probable that their average quality of life, and education level, will be less than it was for their parents."

Are both of these statements really true worldwide? (I can see how they might be true in the United States, although I think the latter is too pessimistic even then)
Could the offspring not be dumb (after the mummy) and ugly (after the daddy)?