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Thanks but that only works on Firefox and I generally prefer to use Chrome since it's so much faster. (The difference is even more striking in Linux than it is in Windows.)
The difference I think is that geekiness is now socially acceptable, even popular. See the glut of TV shows featuring geeks in endearing, funny roles instead of their normal "loser" position.

Even in my social circles, we now have a bunch of wannabe geeks. People who buy iPhones, read reddit, use "FAIL" a lot, but never played D&D, wrote code, nor done anything genuinely geeky, ever.
Project management != Software engineering

As a truism Software Engineering is the act of engineering software. Managing the project that is supposed to engineer that software isn't Software Engineering. As long as we are building software larger than a page or two long SE will be important.
Seriously. I get so tired of hearing about the death of technologies or companies or search engines or whatever. It's all just a game to get readers.
And yet, in a different blog post, he intellectually beats the sh*t out of an 80-year-old man: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/george_shollenberge...

42 comments.

To which the 80-year-old man responds (which by the way I think is incredible, because the guy is 80): http://georgeshollenberger.blogspot.com/2007/04/mark-chu-car...

0 comments.
"Insider Trading", as a crime, has a very specific definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Definition_of_....

It's not merely trading on things other people don't know.
I don't buy it. Why would a VC want to replace a founder that is kicking ass? If you don't make your numbers, expect to be canned. You work for the board at that point. Better yet, if you don't make your numbers - step down.
this may be just an unrelated coincidence but Mark financed a movie critical of the Bush admin
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If your site design relies so heavily on graphics, you are probably not doing all you could to optimize it. And if your site content is so heavily image-centric, then the burden is on your users to get equiped for the experience.
Your experiences sound about right. Most people end up in a fight, get punched, mocked, and kicked in real life.

I respectfully disagree with "most people get over their bullying".

You are emotionally developing throughout your teen years. If most of that emotional development is stunted as a result of consistent bullying, you are going to be affected by that the rest of your life. You'll "get over it" in the way one heals from a serious burn, but there will be scars.

Working in IT, I have met more than a few people with these scars. One individual, when elevated to Manager, turned from being a reasonable person to work with (socially awkward at times), to being one of the most horrible people I have ever known.
The majority of this article tackles the over-reliance on software metrics, an issue that many people have brought into question over the last decade or so, and he does a good job of summarising the problem with it. However, in the last two paragraphs he attempts to tar the rest of the Software Engineering discipline with the same brush, painting it as a set of overtly rigid tools bureaucratic managment might use to crush the life out of any software project.

I've studied as a computer scientist and as an engineer (electronics) and it's been my constant impression that those trained in the former completely misunderstand the latter. The engineering mindset is one of creative problem solving, using heuristics, tools and systems that have worked well in the past to guide you to your eventual goal, and ignoring them if they don't make sense or will misguide you. Instead many programmers seem to want to find the general algorithm for development. It doesn't exist and in a way its our philosophers stone, it's pursuit wastes time, effort and money. Instead we should be happy with the ever expanding toolkit of techniques the modern developer has at their beck and call whenever they're necessary. That's the real essence of Software Engineering, even if some parts of the industry have gotten lost over the past few decades.

Frankly, this article's title is blatant troll-bait and I really should know better.
I thought that shared mem of 16kb was on a per core basis? It's very possible I misunderstood, in which case: crap! Either way the, the algorithm I have in mind looks pretty matrixy, if you want I can keep you updated as I test things out.
This doesn't mean that psychosis and creativity are the same, though. "There's always been this slightly romantic idea that madness and genius are the flipside to the same coin. How much is that true? Madness is often madness and doesn't have as much genetic association with intelligence," Hall says.

Maybe madness is as a parallel to genius.

History has shown us that many highly gifted creative-types are pretty "crazy" by society's standard. So maybe it's that gift of being able to see the world in so many different ways, with so much possibility that's the link.

The article talks about the "schizophrenia gene' being possibly resultant from a mutation in genes:

The finding could help to explain why mutations that increase a person's risk of developing mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar syndrome have been preserved, even preferred, during human evolution [snip]

I wonder what at what point does the environment change too quickly for the genes to keep up? Would make sense to preserve this in a certain number of individuals within a rapidly-changing population. Certainly there's some kind of adaptability factor.
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Strange Loop was a big disappointment for me. Not because it wasn't another GEB, but because it didn't break much, if nay, new technical or conceptual ground.

Compared to Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, and Metamagical Themas, Stranger Loop left me strangely unmoved.
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This is an excellent article. I am not familiar in detail with DeMarco's work, but it is very refreshing to hear a pundit/consultant/authority say "I am uncomfortable with what I said before" after having learned from experience or history.

He offers an excellent example of project characterization: "a $1m project with expected value of $1.1m vs $1m project with expected value of $50m".
Seriously? While Blackberries, PalmOS, Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile devices have all let you load whatever the heck you want onto their phones over the past 5+ years, we are now going to claim that it's not that Apple doesn't have its shit together, but that the Pentagon is getting in their way?

There is no such control being applied to most of the other smartphone platforms. They all have their issues, either with the end user experience not being very good, with overcomplicated development processes, with low uptake, with poor or nonexistent app stores, etc, but only Apple behaves so strangely towards its developers.

Apple has come the closest to nailing the big picture: technology, uptake, user experience. Instead, the part they are failing on is treating developers like they care. It should be the easiest thing to fix -- and that's also what makes it so annoying for so many people.
Looks like this mostly works in Webkit, which is good. The only thing major I noticed was missing from Webkit was the ability to drag stuff from other apps, and from inside of Webkit.
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It might be worth breaking the graph into 3 sections or somehow highlighting those interesting points.
The critical flaw of the Systems Development Life Cycle has always been that you needed to define your outcome before you started development. It was inevitable that modern tools and technologies would turn that process around, that development itself would be used to determine requirements.

So now, when you start development (according to the old rules) you already have lots of work done. Does this mean the software engineering is dead? Hardly. It's just evolved to what always worked.
You seem to be assuming a record order; SQL doesn't really have that. (You can hack stuff together but you're still building on an essentially orderless foundation.) That's a fine text document format, though tabs or spaces would be more traditional in that role.
It totally satisfies my compulsive need for correctness.
With respect, if you have a black belt yet can't put up a fight I'd seriously question the competence of your teacher, both in the quality of the training and the standards by which belts are awarded.
They're both equally as important; without one you can't sustain the other.
It may also be the case that one person's declining community now overrun by memes and ego-trips is another's vibrant community in full flower where interesting people discuss the ideas of the day.
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The OP wasn't talking about not pretending to be friends. The OP specifically said that you can't blame him for harbouring resentment.
Do you think somebody claimed that, or is that just a sort of stream-of-consciousness comment?
The web as we know it today is a scrollable web. I'd like to see also a flippable web in the near future.

Where long documents are presented in one page and you can flip pages back and forth, instead of scrolling up and down, accommodating content depending on its font size and viewport.

Again, I support BOTH models, so it is up to the content creator where to use each.
I had a friend who was in to that sort of thing. It seemed pretty dangerous. I was interested, but was concerned that being repeatedly hit in the head or put in a chokehold might cause brain damage.

I recall this one incident where my friend had a guy in a headlock and the guy lost consciousness so he couldn't tap out. When he finally let him go the other dude had a seizure there on the spot.

The same friend ended up permanently injuring his back by being slammed into the ground while attempting to perform a flying armbar on his opponent.
i flagged this post without comment when it was younger, expecting many people to do the same. now i see it has been upvoted 100+ times and it is still here. i am curious why many people seem to hold it to be within the scope of this site. the connection to anything scientific or technical is tenuous, and the post is wholly lacking in insight wrt the sociological phenomenon it rails against.
We should get together and have a hateful and vitriolic exchange about how to put it together.
Creativity did not make the list of evaluation criteria.
You go through pain in professional sports because your muscles must be broken down in order to build up and your brain has to master the skill and precision required to play the game. You are also typically coached or trained by someone with more experience than you until you are more experienced than them.

How does spending most of the important years of emotional development experiencing only abuse assist in making one creative? Maybe by having extra time on your hands, but other than that it doesn't seem like it would be something valuable or even connected in any way, let alone _required_.

I think it's correlation vs. causation. People who are creative are non-conformist. Non-conformists tend to get bullied in High School.

Some of the most creative and interesting people I have ever met were homeschooled. They had _some_ negative social experiences growing up, but nothing that would have amounted in their lifetimes what some kids at my school experienced in a day.
I don't think a facebook-friend request from someone I haven't seen in 15 years annoyingly unpleasant, or an imposition. At the absolute worst, it's a minor distraction to deal with, and frequently they are a welcome diversion. Sometimes those weak connections share interesting articles or crack me up with status updates.

Consider ex-classmates who spent 25 years living on different coasts and working in different fields, and now they both have a similar hobby and find they have a lot to share. The point of socializing is to discover that sort of thing, and the point of Facebook is to connect people, to re-open those social possibilities and leave them open. Even if they go dormant quickly(which doesn't hurt anybody), they're still there.

Suppose I am living in NY City and looking for something to do this summer. Suppose one of my former classmates is looking for a few more people for his softball team. Pre-facebook, I probably don't even realize he lives nearby. Post-facebook, I might join the team and re-establish the lost connection. Maybe it'll work great, and we'll start doing other things together, or maybe it won't work out and we'll go back to doing our own thing. Facebook will have been the catalyst.
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To fair, he's not saying he wants to go to the reunion with a baseball bat. Why should he make an effort to meet them when they were all callous jerks? Furthermore, a perceptive ex-classmate might have thought of the fact that the author had a really tough time, and said something to the effect of an apology. Given that that clearly wasn't the case, I'm 100% with the author: fuck 'em. There's plenty of friendly people in the world. Why try re-making friends with a bunch of jerks? Life is too short...
True. However I do not have copies of code I wrote in the past, but I can probably bang out all the interesting parts in a matter of a few days, from memory. It's not that I am that super of a coder or anything, it's that the interesting parts took a lot of thinking, therefore remembering. I think that's why it was 'steal' instead of steal.
How did humans come down from the trees and why did no one follow?
Congratulations. In every discussion thread about MySQL there is always one guy who has to mention that PostgreSQL is a superior alternative to MySQL, thus reigniting yet another off-topic discussion of the relative merits of each. Today you are that guy. Today is your day to shine.
The article insinuates it pretty clearly, so yes, somebody claimed it.
Sadly, they are behind the Silverlight firewall.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/Images/PromptN...
They're most definitely not equally important. There are far more examples of successful businesses built on the backs of mediocre ideas but with great execution than there are of ones built on the back of great ideas with mediocre execution.

Also, your comment smacks of wanting to bitch about something because this is a TechCrunch story...did you even read it? The article is about the backstory of Tweetmeme and the bigger question of compensation for someone who was involved in the early idea of a startup, but wasn't there for the execution and risk-taking that came later.
I don't see how this is any different from Kevin Rose's wefollow (www.wefollow.com)
That's a very good point. The kids I meet from homeschool co-ops learn in groups with age ranges.

There are twenty or so kids per co-op, yet bullying is virtually non-existant. The other thing that happens is the ten year olds talk to the older children and adults as though they are peers. They don't connect age with wisdom or authority.
Except that as a coder, and given current laws, if you come close enough to reproducing a trade secret or other copyrighted work, you technically are stealing it.
He's right about the idea being the launch pad, but it's more like the first step up an uncharted mountain.

The "idea" is often left in the dust many times over as the business morph into something that the market likes, and those ideas can come from anywhere -- a person explaining it, an unrelated sign, a moment of frustration, whatever.

That spark is like a drop in the ocean of execution. It's almost, but not quite worthless. It's worth a pat on the back, nothing else.
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Being repeatedly hit in the head at full force is not good. Most sparring is done at considerably less than full strength for that very reason. I think MMA fighters take less of a beating to the head than boxers because the fight is more varied, and seemingly paradoxically, since the gloves are smaller, if a solid punch gets through, you're more likely to get knocked out. Boxers, with the bigger gloves, take more a continual beating to the head.

If you go out from a chokehold, it's either because your training partner is an asshole and didn't let go (unlikely in my experience), or you were stubborn and refused to tap (more likely). The seizing is typical when coming back from a blood choke - not good, of course, but it's what happens.
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I posted this because I thought the HN community might find the doctors' problem solving approach interesting.
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A spark is nothing compared to a fire, but the fire is nothing without a spark.
Will these images quiet "the moon landings were faked" conspiracy theorists? I doubt it - they will reason if they faked the moon landing, they can easily fake a few digital pictures.

Notice how close Apollo 16 landed to a huge crater. I wonder what kind of resolution the mission planning maps had.
Right. I think the point is that someone wants me to work for them based on what I did for a competitor. This whole code stealing thing is silly when its really my ability to help them steal the ideas that matters. They already have the knowledge by getting me, code is pretty irrelevant.

Of course the technical stealing is easier to prove with the code...
No one objects to interest. I was referring to central bank interest rate targets as opposed to floating free market interest rates.

As for Rothbard and the Chicago School -- yes, I'm aware of that.
An example of a US organization doing this:

http://www.growingpower.org/aquaponics.htm
Thanks. Here in Australia I would assume it does because being based on the Westminster system a lot of legislation is based on court rulings rather than the law. For instance, Australia doesn't have freedom of speech through the law, but the high court has ruled that we have an implicit freedom to all speech not outlawed.
It's very busy. Very non-linear. Lots of space is taken by panels that aren't important for whatever has your current focus.

And when they squeeze in ads, it will be even worse.
No it won't shut them up. Not when CNN is blathering on their site about the the fake moon landings theories.
True, but this is not an original idea. Less articles and more doing please.
Aeons ago, I wrote a language called SWL that served this exact purpose. It's an condensed HTML dialect, similar to later inventions like markdown and textile, but designed for programming and minimizing markup. It takes a template from the directory context and generates HTML from all the SWL files.

http://cixar.com/swl/
How does that stop the government using a third party to violate the first amendment by the way?
"He didn't know how to manage social contact."

Correct. During the time when he was learning social skills, he was taught that all social contact was negative.

It's clear from the essay that this bothers him 25 years later and it should.
I highly doubt it. To a conspiracy theorist any evidence is evidence that they are right.
Why do Goldman's profits have to be mentioned in so many articles about this "code theft"?

Does the fact they've just made lots of money, regardless of what actually happened regarding this programmer, change the meaning of right and wrong?
It was in response to a direct question. Sheesh.
If you are embedding a web page in your app and if it has links to other pages, you can essentially use it as a browser.

My problem with apple strategy is that they have safari browser and they should rate iPod/iPhone 17+ because of that and if they dont then rating all the apps who are accessing the internet should be rated 17+
It's 16kb per multiprocessor. I believe there are 16 cores per multiprocessor, and multiple threads are scheduled at one time in 'blocks'.

I actually started a thread in the CUDA general discussion forum, perhaps you could come by there and discuss it:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=102228
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Accusing Apple of fostering a monopoly in iPods is, to steal an analogy from Megan McArdle, like accusing P&G of fostering a monopoly in Charmin. There are other media players. There are other smart phones. There are other viable music stores.
Hicks was upset at people who ruthlessly try to monetize everything under the sun, who see everything in terms of dollar signs. He was attacking people who work in marketing for those kinds of goals. He understood marketing ideas. That was a huge part of his material: sharing his vision of how things could be.
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The comment "Why are you writing to a member in an inner loop? Use a local in a register. Why make the compiler guess at something you know?" is misguided. Simply, why muddy-up your own code when the compiler will probably do the work for you? Your time is valuable. The compiler won't complain if you make it work a little bit more.
It's by the IEEE. Most of these "elitist clubs" tend to knock out this drivel by the truck load to try and make their members feel relevant and manipulate the industry. Open Group, IEE (UK version of IEEE) are just the same. Fortunately, people just aren't interested any more.
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"Today, these fuckers mean nothing to me."

Evidently, they still cause some sort of reaction within you. While you've probably progressed past the author in terms of dealing with it, you still have a bit to before you reach total forgiveness.
I was really expecting / hoping that they would release high resolution, quality images of these landing sites, particularly Apollo 11.

Don't we have the technology to capture these sites in striking clarity, to finally put to rest the ridiculousness of claims we didn't get there when we did?
Some excellent suggestions there. Many thanks :-)
Anyone interested in economics/finance should check out the Financial Markets class on here. It was taught by Robert Shiller, who is a pretty highly-regarded author on the subject (and also the "Shiller" in "Case-Shiller index" of home prices):

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http://www.amazon.com/Irrational-Exuberance-Robert-J-Shiller...

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Yes. Although there would be some setbacks, the MySQL documentation for example is not under an open source license.
Whoa! It's like they know me. That's: http://twitter.com/cdibona for those looking to see how awesome I am.

Seriously though, did we need a link to obviousland today? It that what HN is for?
If the code is part of the reason for Goldman's huge profits, then let's hear about it.

There are a few sites accusing GS of packet-sniffing the NYSE electronic exchange and slipping in their trades microseconds before the real trades take place. Those are rumors.

One known fact is that Goldman was pulling down USD $100,000,000 per DAY in profits from their automated trading systems. That's a hundred million dollars. A day.
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Except that human bodies are not engines. Calories in != calories out + stored energies. A healthy body will store just enough and discard the rest of the eaten food.

For a much more accurate and interesting read, check out Good Calories, Bad Calories.
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Now it's a moving-picture tabloid