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Or just use a bonafide mail client. Gmail allows you to use IMAP and SMTP; get the fastest mail client you can find for your platform, set its sticky bit or patch its executable .text section into your OS's resident parts, in fact, go out there and get a processor with enough L1 cache to keep your mail client in there at all times. Email is mission critical, gotta be fast.
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Unfortunately, roundabouts don't work here in Manila. We have a couple here and it's gridlock. I think car traffic engineering has many universal qualities but also quirks that need to be tweaked per country.
Can you say there aren't trolls in the walls that grant us creativity? Can you assume that genius still happens in a vacuum? Can you hope to describe these things fully, attribute it to humanism? Perhaps the human achievement is in becoming an antenna for the inspiration of our chaotic world?

I mean, no. I don't advocate intentional blindness to problems in our world. I would even go so far as to actually advocate a greater awareness of the weight of our impact in the world. We can learn something from knowing more what the impact of a dollar is.

But humans are nothing if not machines for selective attention. If every time I bought my lunch I thought about the fertilizers dripping into the ocean causing immense algal blooms full of asphyxiated fish and oh the smell! I'd probably starve.

If your life, the thing that puts you closest to your own understanding of divinity, is being creative; if you honestly have to face the idea of never being able to communicate like you did that one time not so long ago; if you have to keep going in face of that, well, I know what I'm not going to expend my attention toward.

But even so, the speech wasn't about finding ways to ignore some nasty personal tragedy. It's about finding an interpretation on the charity and capriciousness of the creative process. What really is the best way to contextualize the immense amount of discipline and work and training that goes into creation that can all amount to precisely nothing without something widely considered to be external to us?

Genius is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration. Even when we can assume the sweat, we're still might end up short one spark. What gives?

(I apologize for the waxing here, but god this is such a fascinating philosophical question.)
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Doesn't Apple play a role at the top there?
Lov Grover did find a quantum algorithm that works on general NP problems but that algorithm only achieves a quadratic speed-up and we have evidence that those techniques will not go further.

from this article: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/9/38904-the-status-of-the...
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Counterpoint: Bernie Madoff. Diabolically evil on a comic book scale. The only thing missing was the big swivel chair and the cat.
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My experience is that enterprise VMWare shops buy more server OS licenses, not less.
Microsoft is a little slow on the defense as well. Apparently Windows Ultimate comes with a virtual XP mode that pales in comparison to even VMware's free product, Player. Keep it up VMware :)
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Yeah, I have 2 wd 'black' consumer grade drives fixed with WDTLER paired with some seagate ES drives right now. (I mix makes to avoid firmware plagues) I read that WDTLER only works on 1TB and smaller drives. I will have to find some 1.5TB WD drives and experiment.

As for the relation to ZFS, it is supposed to timeout ill-behaving consumer drives like this. In fact, from what I understand, you can configure ZFS's behavior, for example, to fail the first drive that times out, and then hang on the second drive (which would perhaps be a reasonable configuration for a ZRAID volume)
The New Scientist's spin seems to be a takeaway from this longer article in Science, though it's not clear from the free abstract:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/325/5939/396

And this MSNBC summary has better quotes and discussion:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/23/2007019.as...
They can be arbitrarily deep. Otherwise they couldn't claim to be supporting JSON objects as parameters.

Of course, anyone could just do a REST request using a wrapper object with the name of the procedure and an id. Then you'd have implemented a JSON-based RPC mechanism yourself! So it's pretty trivial. This mainly exists to get the idea out and implementations in various scripting languages, methinks.

One thing that might be cool: Perhaps an URL could map to an object, and making an rpc call on that URL could call a function on that object.
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Yeah, the article doesn't make sense. How is VMWare is a major Microsoft competitor?
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My browser homepage is actually Google's new "Caffeine" beta:

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I like the idea, I sometimes need to work with excel and hate formulas and filters. I prefer sql and most of the time I don't export data from excel to a DB, I just grind my teeth and do some filtering and formulas in excel.
some remarks:

1. Perhaps you can let define the tables in the FROM clause like: FROM workbook1.xls~sheet2~A1:D4 AS table1

2. Add an option to autohide the not selected rows instead of coloring the selected rows, this will give a condensed result set that the user can maybe copy and paste to another sheet.

3. Don't worry about Microsoft competing - they might offer to buy you out.

keep focused!
Good luck!
Adobe anyone?

MS has a massive effort underway to compete with the Flash platform and associated tools for designers.
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A lot of people are...
I think the whole premise of the article has to be re-examined. Microsoft doesn't have "a rival", per se-- it is competing in too many different arenas, and may or may not have significant rivals in each of them.
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Here is a link to the section on "what makes lisp different" that is referred to in the article -

http://bit.ly/8yrvC
Great, love being reminded my local court system are a bunch of shills.

However, before you burst into flames, note:

To comply with the law, unless you provide us with a copy of a motion to quash the subpoena (or other formal objection filed in court) via email at legal-support@google.com by 5pm Pacific Time on September 16, 2009, Google will assume you do not have an objection to production of the requested information and may provide responsive documents on this date.

So Google is notifying them, and basically telling the account holders to give Google a reason to motion to quash the subpeona. Which is good.

Court system totally willing to issue subpoenas which would reveal identities over what I'm assuming to be a civil suit filed by corrupt property developers after they were exposed (please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Google not instantly turning over the data, and asking the account holders to provide an objection.

Still less evil™

p.s. edit:
I would also like to add that the Wikileaks editorial says:

According to the notifying letter from Google to the journal, Google intends to hand over the requested records without defense and suggests that the Journal file a counter-motion with the Santa-Clara court itself.

which I think is actually false, according to my reading of the notice Google gave the account holders above. This would also indicate the headline is inflammatory/linkbait..
(defmacro set-sqrt (place v) `(setf ,place (* v v)))

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Microsoft does have a virtualization product, but I'm pretty sure they'll sell you a search engine too. It's pretty evident that 10 years from now, virtualization will be as standard in mainstream operating systems as cooperative multitasking. But that's VMWare's problem, not MSFT's.
True, but would you rather be "discriminated against in the workplace but employed" or "unemployed"?

This line of thought reminds me of the furor over the lack of women on the boards of fortune 500 companies. I find it hard to get excited over whether folks who are otherwise extremely favored (namely the women who would be considered) run into a glass ceiling. The vast majority of both men and women run into glass ceilings that are a lot lower.

It's sort of like being mad because the oldest son gets to be king even if there's an even older daughter. Discrimination, sure, but it's not a problem worth significant effort.
Almost all of VMWare's products are free, including a version of ESX. Nobody is using Win7 XPM as a VMWare replacement.
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Check out these excerpts from Madoff with the money - seems Madoff wasn't particularly smart (and probably was even below average) when it comes to traditional book learning, but he had a gift for lying and manipulating people.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092009/news/regionalnews/life_...
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> Leaving aside whether there really is sex discrimination in the workplace, a complex question that almost certainly has an answer more subtle than "yes" or "no".

Actually, the answer is both sex and workplace dependent. (Yes, there are workplaces where there's no sex discrimination and some where the sex discrimination is against men.)

However, the furor over sex discrimination isn't that "subtle".
Im a BIG fan of this model. But it only works if you've developed a free product that is valuable enough to your users, that they will come back to pay for additional services to enhance that product for continuous use. Build it, and they will come. And they will pay.
The oil industry generally isn't very innovative, nor do they tend to test costly, untried technologies on their assets that already make billions of dollars.

Take water injection for instance, which is a standard method for maintaining reservoir pressure, ie. the pumping of water into the oil/gas reservoir to raise the pressure. In order to implement such a scheme, a well slot would be needed for the source water pump, and at least one other well slot for the injection well. Typically, these are done on separate water injection platforms. Add the cost of the workover drill rig to drill the wells and the increased cost of water/oil separation on the production platform, and it's a very expensive exercise... especially if it may not actually work (which is what is implied in the article with water injection in chalk reservoirs, which could potentially cause reservoir fracturing).

An oil company, especially a relatively new one like Statoil in the 70s/80s, would be justified to balk at costly experimentation with their fields, and would probably wait for others to prove the concept first. This is even more justifiable when the field is gigantic (like the Ekofisk field). Oftentimes, cutting edge technologies are used on smaller, marginal fields with relatively high lift prices, and where oil price volatility is the difference between profit and loss (I worked on a project in 2002/3 when oil was around $25 a barrel and this field was only profitable at a price of $30 per barrel... the field actually needed water injection right from first oil, which means that it was definitely marginal... so they were lucky when oil prices shot past $100). In any case, you don't see much innovation happening in the huge saudi fields that have very low lift prices.
Here's a great example of this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10314283-16.html?tag=mncol...
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DON"T compare this to Django or RoR or any of the other web frameworks... their not meant for the same purpose or even on the same playing field. This framework is NOT to be used to write content management systems or blogs or things that simply display web pages constructed using data from a database. It can be, and the video shows it, but attempting to do so would be hilariously stupid.

What this is good for is making web applications that are to do seriously heavy computational processing. Think Image Processing and Analysis (openCV library), sound or Image analysis, Statical Simulations, Crypto Related tasks, etc. With this framework directly bind to those without having to rely on a secondary layer that would be PHP/Python/Rails etc.

Conventionally you either had to write modules in C and bindings for your interpreted language, or setup a fastCGI process. This takes care of handing both in a way...

At least that's my view of great use for this.
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I find that thinking "could I turn this into a library?" whenever I code improves the quality of my code dramatically (whether it gets turned into a library eventually or not). Starting with the goals of quality and reuse is always a good thing.
The first few articles pointing out problems are fine. Useful, even.

The (sys.maxint+1)th "me too" variation of it? Not so much.
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Pray tell, in what way is variable assignment nonsensical?
at the end of the article:

"Sniff tests” for cancer have received much publicity in recent years. Dogs can sniff out people with cancer, but their sensitivity is less than 50 per cent."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060106002944.ht...

Has that number quite a bit higher.

"The results of the study showed that dogs can detect breast and lung cancer with sensitivity and specificity between 88% and 97%. The high accuracy persisted even after results were adjusted to take into account whether the lung cancer patients were currently smokers."

I'm thinking that this device has been developed only after realizing that if the dogs can do it a breathalyser could theoretically do it too, reliability and reproducibility might be more of an issue using the 'dog' method, I guess that it is much harder to calibrate a dog.

I wonder where their claim of only 50% sensitivity comes from.
Rather superficial report from the Telegraph. As one might expect from modern journalism this (and other) similar reports fail to note the very high levels of false positives and false negatives such a technique would produce. This 'might' be useful as additional evidence but as first line screening it would simply not work
The risks associated with introducing new technology need to be taken into account. An oil company may not think it's worth the risk to try untested technology (or rather, try standard techniques on untested reservoir conditions). But the Iraqi engineer / regulator, who isn't bearing the costs of failed forays into new technology, may think its a good idea. So their incentives are different.
I find Wikileaks summaries are of extremely variable accuracy - they're well-intentioned but often prefer the most extreme-sounding interpretation of a document/story. I basically don't trust the summary pages at all, except in a 'why you might care!' way. Wikileaks itself, though, is pure gold.
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This is a better way to deal with bloggers than the failed attempt by AP to monopolize their content and charge ridiculous fees.
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Try this next time:

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> if you need to perform cleanup, then instead of returning, use goto to jump to a single end-of-function cleanup handler.

That assumes that all of the cleanup is the same and that all of the relevant information that is available at the subroutine's top level.
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Have been self-studying from this, and it's a great book. Highly recommended.
I have different rules -- "is this blog post a whiney opinion piece, or is it simply a collection of facts"? If it's facts, I consider it good. If it's whiney opinion, I think twice about publishing it. (It doesn't stop me, though, because I love the comments I get when I write about Java or PHP and their inadequacies. But mostly, I stick to facts, and everyone likes it.)
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Why do you put the operators for multiline expressions at the end of the preceeding line instead of at the beginning of the next line?

With statements, the first token on the line tells you what it's doing and the indentation tells you about its relationship to statement on the previous line. Why not do something similar for multi-line expressions?
Am I reading this right? He's saying that its the general laziness in people that is keeping us safe?

If he's right, thats thoroughly frightening because it means that if someone decides not to be lazy we could all be in trouble.

Edit: That is, if this is the only thing keeping us safe.
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For those new to the freemium model here are the basics:

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Make sure to actually write and publish a blog post! Don't try to be perfect. Answering just a few of them might suffice in most cases.
I know I've been out of the country for a few years and all, but really, is this what passes for hardship these days?

So basically, here's a guy living large for most of his life, bringing in $250k for much of it, and retiring at the age of 58. This is pretty much the definition of the American Dream.

Granted, he has a terrible self-esteem problem (top tip for all you 58 year old multimillionaires without jobs: don't tell women you're 'unemployed'. You're retired!), and evidently he managed to squander most of his wealth along the way.

But really, how sorry are we supposed to feel for a guy living well in the suburbs who might need to think about moving to a smaller apartment at some point in the next 3 years?
Take note that this post has been published on February 3rd and the issue has been dealt with since.
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Yeah, you are exactly right. After the people in the back see 10 people exit, they won't care anymore.

How about, start with n dollars, and as time goes by, decrement $n. At the end, $n is split amongst all participants. So in this case, there is an incentive for people at the end to get out quickly, as the amount of money they get depends upon how fast they get out. (There is no "end" until everyone is out.)

This might be closer to exiting a burning building, but it is still not quite the same. (People want money, but probably not as much as not dying in a fire.)
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Yeap, that's a good point. :-)
Facts are good, but opinions, even whiney, can be interesting. Of course, if there's a long history of whining from that blogger, I don't take it into account, but if there's something incidental, that might lead somewhere.
Serves them right. Why waste money doing something that's already been done over and over again ? Going to the moon is no big deal. Instead, explore some other avenues,newer planets and galaxies so that the world can progress as a whole instead of fulfilling your jingoistic egos.
Do you patent?
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Yes. My project there was to build the linuxcare.com website in the 3 weeks between the day they got funded and the first LinuxWorld Expo. Roger worked on the website with me.

I remember being introduced to you in the hallway one day, but I don't think I saw you again after that.
Someday they're going to realize VMware is arbitrating access to their hardware and is therefore an operating system, Windows (or Linux) on top of it is just a ridiculously large API compatibility layer, and they only need that until they buy or build native VMware apps to do the same work (I think the marketers call them "appliances").
Isn't it part of common law that you have to "tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?". If so, how can it be legal to withhold information (read sources, ip addresses etc) while under examination in a court?
No, I was having trouble remembering my name, let alone noting down license plates. And it was in a suburban street, so there was nobody else around...

I do remember the walk to the hospital - the front forks of my bike had been bent back far enough that the front wheel's back edge was behnd the bike's frame, ie you couldn't put the wheel straight. So I had to hold the bike vertical, rolling only on the back wheel, whilst trying to walk 5km in cleats, whilst concussed. I don't recommend the experience.
Yes, 72-22 is 50. Thanks for doing the math :)
The day a mainstream publication will mention such things and where the error bars were I'm going to be seriously impressed. The general trend over time seems to be less rather than more 'hard' information.

Even in the science departments of such publications the 'human interest' angle creeps in more and more. It's closer to science entertainment than it is to real information that you could apply to something.

In part this is because scientific papers seem to be written and titled to obfuscate rather than to enlighten, it is rare to see a paper that is so well written that someone active in a different subfield but interested in the subject matter would be able to understand even the abstract, forget about laypeople.

They need to the press to explain these things in terms of everyday use.

Incidentally, Hossam Haick is one of technology reviews top 35 scientists for 2008.

A link with a lot more information on the device and the scientist: http://www.technologyreview.com/files/20768/TR35_Hossam_Haic...
Microsoft's top rival is itself. Why buy Windows 7 when you can continue to run XP and have Windows 7 in a virtualized environment?
Read more closely. Early in the paper they discuss that strong warnings might go unheeded as the danger is far below ground. They then suggest that it might be most effective to actually contaminate the surface level of the site with low-levels of radioactive material so as to purposefully kill people that invade the site. They then suggest doing calculations to see whether the expected casualties over 10,000 years would be worth it. Icky but cold and calculated thinking about a cold topic.