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What exactly cost you $100?

domain: $10

VPS: $20

Did you pay $70 for design? :-P

For a URL shortner, I would like the ability to see a screenshot (a la "webshots") of the target URL along with the expansion, before I am redirected. This will absolutely make your service useless to the type of people who use shortening most often; affiliate marketers.
But people do write GCC-dependent code. In fact, they will even write GCC version dependent code, to the tune of "this will not compile correctly with GCC 4.x.x, you will need to use 2.95.26.2.3.5.1"

And given that the complaint was specifically levelled against Ruby, for the most part, it seems to be making one specific point:

If your language is specified by the existence of a single reference implementation, and you keep changing that reference implementation, then that's equivalent to the language continually changing, which is a fair criticism, I think, particularly when it breaks backwards compatibility or continually deprecates features used in production code (requiring an endless cycle of rewrites, or maintenance of some older branch of the implementation). This sort of behaviour would certainly strike me as "annoying", but that's essentially what you get when you commit yourself to using a product which makes no attempts to standardise, and which lacks large commercial customers who would place pressure on the software vendor to keep backwards-compatibility as a priority.
online commercial disassembler by a Chinese hacker:

http://www.depython.net/
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Thanks a lot for your help, this is exactly what I was looking for. The problem is that it supports customers from the US only. If I were in the states I'd probably use Google Voice, which would be also a great service!
Daring Fireball has taken a huge credibility hit in my eyes in the last couple of weeks. It's been approaching TechCrunch-style speculation and histrionics.

Yes, he deserves points for for admitting he was wrong - it takes a big person to do that. Personally, however, I would have preferred to see the articles not written in the first place until things were a bit more clear.

Perhaps this is inevitable when your blog suddenly becomes a significant source of revenue?
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The author didn't even differentiate us as having only two legs. Humans can stand tall and can see over greater areas than say dogs, and keep better watch for threats, opportunities and escape routes.

Because of our brains and hands, we can cultivate and domesticate (observing seasons) so as to prepare and store food in advance for easier survival and longevity, giving us time to think about other things and move beyond subsistence. We can also move between great temperatures zones by using clothes.

We can also navigate with the aid of maps and use fire to cook so that meat is easier to digest, thus being able to have a multi-use digestive tracts. This means having a greater nutritional range so that a more complex organism can evolve and giving us access to a greater array of possible food.

Domesticating dogs meant we could sleep for longer periods while the dogs could warn us of wild animals or scare them off: good for REM whilst travelling over long distances and thus unable to build fences.
I think my point is often overlooked. I'm not denying that there exists sustainable economic models for the "legal drugs trade", such as tobacco and alcohol, nor am I forgetting this in my hyperbolic critique of the legalisation of the "illicit drugs trade". What I'm saying is simply a matter of scale. Look at the illicit drugs trade as it currently stands, valued at billions if not trillions of monies, dispite the effect of very agressive lobbying on behalf of the worlds governments, police and military institutions. If this pressure were to let up, even in only a few of these countries, this would surely cause an economic vacuum that would be for all intents and purposes like a gold rush(?). What I'm saying is that there effectively exists a non-partisan international agreement to actively surpress the emergence of the free (as in speech) drugs trade. Coffee is already the second largest comodity in the world, it's not that far a stretch of the imagination to picture Meth or Cocaine supplanting the humble bean as our stimulant of choice were they to be part of a legal industry.

Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the rhetorical/polemic structure of this argument, as well as the simple age of it, I'm just chipping in with what I've considered. I myself have a very liberal approach to drugs, my use of certain drugs (which is moderate even for alcohol) and I have a family involved in Iraq/AfPaq, figured this thread was well suited to my two cents. Just thought I had to defend my comments as something more than simply a "ohhh, terrorist'll get ya" pokey stick.
An interesting question, I wonder if anyone has actually done this and tested where Sally really did first look for her ball. With the rearranged receptacles, I'll bet some children really would look in unexpected places first.
People might be fooled by the fact that the bucket is where the box was before. I'm not sure how this plays in, but I wonder what they would do if people were told "the ball moves to the vase."
This is a 'feature', not a bug.

It may annoy you, but then you should not try to get your head wrapped around languages that are currently probably best described as 'moving targets'.

Older, more mature languages, like COBOL, PASCAL, LISP and C (to a lesser extent C++) do not suffer from this. Conversely, they're slow to adapt to changing requirements and that is why if you wish to do clever stuff with a minimum of verbosity you find yourself on the bleeding edge of language development.

It's a price you are either willing to pay, or you'll be finding yourself writing a lot of code in a language that was not well geared towards the age of the internet.

PHP, Ruby, Python, Scala and even Java are under active development so you will have to make choices about which version you are going to stick to for the time being.
It's a good article, and the main point is an important one.

That being said: am I the only one who finds it quizzical that Joel ever became such a notable pundit in the first place, in light of all of the articles outlining his (past) clueless behavior?
So Ken Rockwell was essentially stealing tax dollars. I am sure that happened and still happens a lot. It has nothing to do with the supposed lazyness of the american worker or anything like that -- it has to do with the idiotic cost plus basis the government uses for military projects. This means that the higher the cost the higher the profit. The more hours billed the higher the profit. SO his managers make sure they overlook his slacking as long as there is government money coming in and he keeps sending those timeslips in.

If cost plus accounting is removed and the military actually did projects based on competitive bidding and if the government made them stick to those bids, then you would see that most of the companies Ken worked for would not allow that type of slacking.

So yeah it sure it happens a lot, but at least you'd expect most people to feel slightly guilty about it. Ken, on the other hand, feels proud.

BTW I have some friends that are engineers in the defense industry and most of them work pretty hard, so i am not sure his rule applies for most of the defense industry even.
Empirically, it seems that pundits who make mistakes rarely admit it. Therefore, admitting it is evidence that he's got more integrity than most. (Or, of course, different readers, or a different mental model of what his readers care about, or something, but whatever it is it seems to produce similar results to integrity.)
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I believe the original problem definition called for the data to be randomly spread over 1000 computers. Bringing together 32GB of data from 1000 nodes is going to stress your network, and pre-emptively sharding would be worse.

I think the best way to use histograms is 4 passes with 256 buckets (and bit-twiddling micro-optimizations), but other values are possible.
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Well, of course a supreme being "would be capable of" making a world very much like this one. Or, for that matter, any other sort of world. (So any argument that begins "a supreme being could make a world like this" isn't actually bringing in any facts about the world.)

A better question -- because it gives some opportunity for applying actual information about the world -- is "If a supreme being were making a world, would we expect it to look like this one, or very different?". The answer to that depends on what sort of supreme being you have in mind, of course.
The originals are available at http://web.archive.org/web/20060718121809/paulgraham.infogam...

In this case, the intro para just became less specific.
There are still lots of features I want to add, but any feedback is appreciated! :)

There are a few internationalization issues to fix, but the basics work.
Who said "proved"? If you change the question to "So there's good reason to think the human race wasn't created by God in his image as described in the book of Genesis?", though, I'm sure PG would be happy to answer yes.
Marketing is an engineering process. Technically inclined people do not have to suck at it. To the extent that many do, it is largely because they've been taught to undervalue its importance, treat it as an afterthought, and dismiss properly conducted marketing as something which is for weak and stupid people.
right but the ultimate reward isn't geared towards results, but rather towards pleasing the grant approval process. see the other big discussion thread about open sourcing research results.
As it says in our FAQ, we're happy to fund companies working on stuff that's too expensive to build on just our money. The goal of YC is to build a convincing case for later stage investors. That doesn't have to be a complete, launched product.
I believe

* Socialism = Preventing race to bottom
* Capitalism = Promoting race to top
Dentistry's pretty bad anywhere.
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Unfortunately Etherpad didn't exist when this was written, in 2006.
Nevertheless, the formulation that insurer profits account for the difference is simplistic and, in itself, woefully inadequate.

Health insurance isn't a business with such fat margins as to account for a difference between a $1500 MRI and a $98 MRI, say. That's the kind of rate the doctor charges the insurer, which in turn passes it on in a derivative way. The insurer is the customer.

Now, why doesn't an MRI cost something batshit insane like $1500 in other countries where the practitioners are also private? That's an interesting question. I don't think the cost controlling abilities of government committees or agencies account for the whole story; historically, committees of any kind - in the public or private sector - are pretty bad at keeping a lid on costs.

Still, I'd point the finger much more at doctors' profits than insurers' profits, though obviously neither is irrelevant.

I think this rather famous article treats of the matter fairly well:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_...
I read this while at work on an entirely meritless conference call. I would get far greater satisfaction from additional hours of what I consider to be actual work. [not regular account]
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When I read Joel's articles I know I enjoy them, I know they're interesting and I learn from them but also that I'm reading marketing for his products and brand - its win-win and I subscribe to his marketing output along with everything else he publishes willingly.

I'd like to read about the impact "Joel on Software" and his celebrity has had on his success/sales though.

Its almost like you read the article and he discusses "this made my company successful", "this was a mistake of mine" but talking about his blog and celebrity is seemingly off limits, to a layman like me its a huge factor in the appeal of his products but it goes unsaid in his articles - as though it had no impact.

I wonder if there's a worry openly discussing the marketing benefit to Joel of us reading his articles would be almost breaking down a wall and change our perception of them.

Or am I wrong, has Joel (and/or Jeff Atwood) discussed openly the difference their blog-marketing has made to their business success?
Reminds me of someone else's problem fields :)
maybe A grade Technical Officers can grasp this technology easily, but actually there is a majority of B grade and C grade CTO. These are the guys who will set the trend of a technology. In other words it isnt the programmer who chooses the technology. This article is written for the B grade and C grade CTO to understand....
I think it definitely works like RAM -- and that's a problem. It's open to influence. When I was 10, I burned my eyebrows nearly off in an "experiment gone wrong" and my memory of it was at the house we lived in a year later. I don't know how I got the memory of it in the wrong place, but I think the way I "refreshed" the memory gave me the confidence that it really happened the way I (wrongly) remembered.
I'd guess the stats aren't that unusual for tech savvy users (which explains Firefox) many of whom are located in Russia or eastern europe (which explains Opera).

(Just to note that last bit wasn't random racism, the article notes Russia and Latvia amongst other big sources of this such as the US and China.)
Is it really prudent for Joel (CityDesk) to compete with big companies (http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/) and FOSS (http://net2.com/nvu/) products?
I personally have an affective responsive to towards orthogonal design, meaning that if A does this, and B does that, then if I do A and B together, then I get both their effects. I get a great deal of pleasure from products that do this (many don't). I think it's an engineering thing - most people don't care.

This could contribute to the chasm between "features,reliable,usable,convenient" and "pleasurable,meaningful", if the organization is run by people who already get the latter from the former.
In my first year in the valley I wasted a lot of time in vague meetings with "strategic partners" and "investors." We called it "who's pitching who?" I'd say these types of meetings account for 70% of valley lunches.
Quite to the contrary, life/living is about fighting entropy (or second law of thermodynamics), "randomness".

This leads to the most famous and one of the most controversial elements of the [a] play. Adam cannot understand what the purpose of his existence is if mankind's future is so bleak. The last line is spoken by God: "Mondottam, ember, küzdj és bízva bízzál!" ("I have told you, Man: fight on, and trust!") Depending on the interpretation, this can either be seen cynically as the words of a capricious deity, or else pointing to a "hope beyond all hope," that God has a purpose for all things which man may not necessarily comprehend. This is markedly different from Paradise Lost, where the Christian hope is explicitly spelled out.

listen to the talk: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2009/2641555....
_why's writing was incomprehensible, and his code was just as bad. Good riddance. Unless he's dead, in which case Oh, the humanity.
> dismiss properly conducted marketing as something which is for weak and stupid people.

I didn't say that. I think it's dismissed more because the majority of marketing campaigns send out a dishonest message, and because of that customers are getting more and more insensitive to such campaigns.

And I also don't think it is an engineering process in the traditional way (although it's fashionable for everything that has a feedback loop to be called engineering these days). Marketing is more about social interactions, being more inline with humanities / social sciences ... and it takes a certain kind of skill-set to be good at it, and I've seen too few technical people being good at it.
The Four Laws of Perception: similarity, proximity, closure and continuation.

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Until recently, when I bought used books from Alibris, I payed with Google Checkout. Then I found something peculiar, it appeared as if Google charged my CC twice per transaction ('). I went to my Google account, searched around, and found no way to contact Google and ask them what's up. I immediately remembered the stories about people having their accounts killed and not being able to contact Google and get a meaningful answer, because it is their policy not to waste resources on customer support. Google even went to court to defend its practice.

Anyway, I now avoid Google Checkout whenever possible as it's too much of a black box.

(') Alibris customer support told me they aren't actually charging twice the money, the first is a "virtual transaction" that makes sure I have the appropriate funds.
"Google has an interest in getting people to use the Internet more"

And that is why Microsoft is on a hiding to nothing. They're producing search engines and browsers yet paradoxically, they lose power and money as people use the internet more. Something's got to give before they can start pulling in a single direction.
I don't buy this. My first, seemingly "obvious" (to me) response was that Sally would look in the bucket. Not because its a bucket, but because its where the box was. I have no evidence for this, but isn't it natural of us humans to take spatial account of our surroundings. Don't people subconsciously remember where something is, like directions for example. You might not know the names of all the streets, but you just have a feeling, of where something is.

Do we not ask:

"Where did I put my keys!?"

and not:

"What did I put my keys, on, in, above, or below?!"
Yeah this article requires registration anyway and NO, the New York Times never offers content which is compelling enough to get me to actually register. NYT is fast becoming the re-blogger par excellence, with virtually no original content or research.

Please skip the article and go directly to the source.
I would really like to see hardware acceleration of encryption, especially for tls/ssl and full disk encryption.
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Sounds (but is not clear) like maybe you were trying to get 'regular' care rather than emergency care, and that the receptionist didn't bother trying to check whether the latter might indeed have been needed, and you thought "well, I guess I can wait..." or something like that. That sort of thing can happen anywhere, I think.

Or are the Japanese so organized that they make appointments for emergency care?:-)

Medical care is not bad here in Italy, but has some drawbacks compared to the US. On the other hand, you really have "peace of mind" in the sense of not having to worry about it at all. You go to the doctor and you get fixed up, end of story. Austria's system seemed a bit more complex (mostly because I never learned the language very well, I suppose), but better than Italy's. I think it's a German/Swiss style system with non-profit insurers that everyone has to have, which seems to be a bit roundabout, but apparently works well.

Padova is a bit of a special case, because there's a big medical University, so there are actually some very good doctors in certain fields, it's just the "extras" aren't nearly as good in the US: more people per room, shoddier looking stuff.

And a final note: I walked into our local doctor's office this morning because of a bad cough, and the guy didn't have time to see me because I got there near the end of his office hours, but I think that's less of a system thing than this guy being a dick (my wife didn't like him either), so we'll change doctors if the local Death Panel lets us. In reality, we don't have to ask anyone, we can just switch.
Perhaps it would be helpful to save people from making useless suggestions to tell us what country you are in?
I think he's popular more for his engaging writing style than anything else. I would consider the fact that he made mistakes in the past a non factor at the least, and at best, an indication that he's capable of learning from mistakes.
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oh excuse me, Switzerland.
I consider "being the only thing that serves the niche" a huge advantage. Same goes for "being bundled as the only scripting language for commercial product X" (like AutoLISP, especially before VB support in AutoCAD).
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I have noticed this too - does anyone know why? In the UK, the NHS provides excellent healthcare for everything except dentistry, which is noticeably poorer in both availability and (arguably) quality.

As far as I can see, dentistry has seen very little innovation since the invention of pneumatic drills and amalgam filling by the Victorians over a century ago - 'modern' dentistry is basically just an electrified version of that. The only other noticeable improvements, except fluoride toothpaste, are slightly updated versions of those same basic technologies, or have just been borrowed directly from general medicine, where all the research and innovation seems to take place.

Given that, even on subsidized NHS rates, dentistry is expensive (and massively so without) - why is this?
And it's not even honest given that ever since they abandoned PowerPC, Macs are pretty much the same as any other gereric x64, except that they're perhaps better designed than Dells or HPs and that they ship it with their own custom OS (which is a lot of difference from a user's perspective but still not quite honest in my opinion).
Woh, thanks for the link - what outstanding architecture! Also for the related comments, trees, garden walls, and jalousies are here to get you privacy as you desire. We should look less at things like size and material power (think cars) vs more beautiful/zen ones. That would better our lives. Ubuntu houses instead of Microsoft ones :)
dentistry has seen very little innovation

I'm only 27, but I've seen significant innovation in my lifetime. In America at least, they've made the filling of cavities less time consuming, stressful, and painful. (They have this little das blinkenlights contraption that can auto-harden a paste in your mouth.) They've also got some real improvements in cosmetic dentistry -- invisi-braces, for example. Retainer technology is apparently getting better, too.

In Japan, they have the tech but the payment system is severely borked, so getting a routine teeth-cleaning takes four days, one per quadrant, because they get paid based on patient-days not based on procedures performed. I had to have 3 cavities filled and a routine cleaning. I was quoted 6 visits, and bargained him down to merely 4. I still have to go to the last 2, because I can't justify that much time off of work when its a simple in-and-out anywhere in the US. (Paying cash, naturally.)