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From my experience the problem isn't the existence of bugs (like the existence of gravity), but the widespread occurrence of the cowboy programmer with very limited attention span.

Often there are tons of TODO comments left in the code (including TODO comment this class), unit tests are non-existent, a simple smoke test will cause a null pointer exception or not even deploy, or they committed schema migration SQL scripts but did not change the entities/data objects corresponding to those tables so the - now mandatory - new columns cannot even be FILLED by the app.

Stuff like that, that isn't DONE, it's deserving a punch in the face. OTOH, it may be symptomatic of our don't-blame culture that the consulting firm in question isn't fired on the spot or the much needed punch in the face isn't delivered. Those are days I wish we had US-American at-will employment and hire/fire culture.
I work in Business Intelligence(BI) building data warehouses. I think such functionality could be useful. I see many posts with security concerns, in a BI/analytics environment where you don't really modify data but just analyse, being able to access the data without an application layer could be very useful.

IMHO BI one of the reasons BI departments struggle to deliver is because of the technical debt acquired over time. A big part of this debt is in the application layer. Data exists but you need to jump through modelling tools to show it to your end user.
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If you're into urban exploration in and around NYC, this video is a great watch: https://vimeo.com/18280328

They visit a few interesting spots like the abandoned City Hall subway station, old sewers, tunnels, and the top of the Williamsburg Bridge
> It suggests that human preferences can be changed with nothing more than a few arbitrary images.

"You're never alone with a Strand" seems like a reasonable counter.

> Q: Have you ever seen an ad for bed sheets? Can you even name a brand of bed sheet? If ads work by emotional inception, wouldn't you expect to have seen at least a few ads trying to incept you with the idea that Brand X bed sheets are going to brighten your day?

Yes, I do see ads for bed sheets and for bed sheet makers. The author is just looking in the wrong places.
I hear this all the time, and though it may be true that "young people aren't into Facebook anymore," I think it misses the point.

When Facebook became available to high school students in 2005, teens flocked to it because it was a novelty, it was one of the few games in town, and it was, for many, a superior alternative to MySpace, which, for most, had become a garish nightmare of animated GIFs and auto-playing music widgets.

Today, there are so many options available that teens have little reason to use Facebook. They aren't as concerned with maintaining old friendships as adults or twenty-somethings because, well, they don't have many old friendships. They see, on a daily basis, almost everyone they know and have ever known, and for those they don't see, Snapchat serves just fine. For now.

As people get older, staying in touch and recording memories feels increasingly important. Facebook, a sort of nostalgia machine, is much better at capturing that kind of coherent narrative than, say, Instagram, and so people naturally migrate there as they leave college and lose touch.

I'd love to see a study that tracks social network usage from age 12 to age 25. My bet, which is obviously informed by a the kind of anecdotes you're gesturing to above, is that you'd see higher usage of "ephemeral"-type social networks in the early years (because young kids can't see past their noses and have relatively few memories) that tracks inversely with usage of networks whose content has longer-term value as time passes.
Patents for interlaced HDR techniques are out there for the capture chain and probably for the display side also. I think it's premature to take everything Carmack suggests as solutions as gospel as to how things will end up. Speaking from alot of experience in straddling software and cutting edge hardware development, solutions that make sense on one side often come out differently on the other side. And sometimes the best solution is biting the bullet and doing it right without the hacks and then optimizing the cost down.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish ?
A commercial Hemlock variant: LispWorks.
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That it doesn't bring long-term sustainable happiness?
Any web service could disappear without notice. Never trust a company/service to have your back. They enable convenience, not security / peace-of-mind.
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On YC site's How to Apply Successfully, it says in deeper looks into promising applicants to YC, you might check out the stock allocation amongst founders. Thinking it through, I can see smart founders ending up at different stock allocations that are best for the future of the companies based off of info that's not listed in the YC application, and some of allocations could be potential signals for very different realities (a lopsided split could signal a strong, persuasive founder #1 or a less committed founder #2 ). I'm curious to know what useful signals you can get from knowing the stock allocation."
Common Lisp implementation also tend to not use VMs too much nowadays. GNU CLISP has a VM. ABCL runs on top of the JVM. CMUCL can run on a VM. But that's mostly it. The rest uses native code, either directly or via C.
This almost feels like an Onion article where all the costs are multiplied by 20. What justifies such huge bills?

The article makes it sound like a doctor walked in to ask "How are you feeling?" and then charged $20,000 for doing so.

I've had a few private operations quoted in Australia and the full cost of the operation is usually in the $500-$2000 range. Even a pregnancy through a private hospital was quoted to us at about $4000. (Although we ended up having our first baby delivered for free through a public hospital, which was fantastic.)
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Knowing something and hearing about it many times a week are two very different things. Why do you think product placement exists in shows/movies/sports/etc? Everybody knows what Nike is.
As the author mentioned at the beginning of the article, ads for household cleaning products work by making promises (if you use X toothpaste, your breath will smell fresher for 24 hours), instead of creating cultural signals (Beyonce drinks Pepsi).
Turns out medical practitioners are not experts either. There are plenty of health situations where you can get treatment A or treatment B and the only thing deciding that choice is the doctor's personal preference and that might have nothing to do with best patient outcomes.

You need organizations like Cochrane or NICE to provide evidence based guidance.

http://www.cochrane.org/

http://www.nice.org.uk/
Frankly, your post sounds like a piece of dialog from the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

The point, from my interpretation, is not that entrepreneurship is mind-numbingly painful but that it is deceitfully painful, while care-giving for an Alzheimer's patient is expected to be painful.
It's not so clear coordination games apply to advertising though. The original applications of coordination games were in modelling economic situations in which there were benefits to mass coordination--events like bank runs and speculative currency attacks where there is an explicit monetary payoff for players to correctly identify and coordinate on a mutual outcome.

With advertising, it's not so clear whether people derive value from buying the same beer everyone is buying (although for certain products, sure). Is someone more inclined to buy a Corona or a bag of Doritos from merely knowing that others have seen the ad?

Then again, if the ad is particularly funny or surprising then knowing that others know about the ad certainly makes it easier to casually converse about the ad with others. Maybe then I'll buy a corona just for shits and giggles, who knows. If this is what is meant by 'entering the culture', then maybe this theory holds water. It just seems like a really expensive way to do it.
Yes, ZFS is great, I use it myself. But technical efficiency does not equate to programming ease, and if I'm not mistaken on Linux you need root permissions to use ZFS snapshots right now. In addition, you are limited in scope to people's systems running ZFS, and who have home dirs on ZFS... which due to module-based compilation being the norm demands an initramsfs if you want to include root's home... and so on and so forth. It's not exactly 'no strings attached'. My point was, there's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI; the perl refrain) and inotify() actually has some benefits (portability across filesystems, non filesystem-wide scope potential, zero storage overhead in the case of no changes between two five minute periods due to a non-polling, event-driven architecture being some of the more obvious).
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> Your laser focus on one particular type of bug blinds you to the fact that complex systems lead to bugs in general.

Therefore it is clearly in your interest to use languages that remove various classes of bugs. No language claims to be able to prevent bugs. But if your compiler can prevent you from making silly mistakes, that's a win.

> I'm saying I see Rust falling down the same "cool new ideas" rabbit hole as C++, and Haskell, and Erlang, and Common Lisp, and... Of those languages only one has achieved any notable success.

What bizarre argument that is. Haskell is a research language, what else could it be but be about "cool new ideas"? And it does effectively remove different classes of bugs, though like most functional languages, it's a managed language, and thus not terribly suitable for low-level programming. Erlang was designed to solve a certain class of problems, and it clearly solves these issues better than C++. Not everything and everybody needs to solve low-level issues or use inline assembly.

Rust can use unsafe code (guarded by unsafe blocks), but this code has to expose a sane interface. So you can do pointer trickery that is otherwise impossible, but instead of having an entirely unsafe program, locations with dangerous code are clearly outlined.
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Here's the video of that YAPC::EU 2014 presentation by Laurent Dami - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF93WU2wTEI
> Doctors and clinicians deciding just how much they're going to get paid. Not subject to any kind of market or competitive force that may work toward an equilibrium based on supply and demand.

How do you get to that conclusion? There is plenty of tendering happening in NHS.

> The government has said "Here's a massive amount of money, fight among yourselves about who gets how much, good luck".

> We can't just keep saying "The expensive way of doing this is easy and great, so let's just have the government pay for it." Things must be self-sufficient.

You know that the English government pays less per capita than the US government for health care and we have better health outcomes, right?
Do it right how exactly? Oculus doesn't manufacture the hardware in question. Oculus is very much at the mercy of the smartphone display market. The only thing Oculus/Carmack can do is convince Samsung, and unless the change can impact the smartphone display market, Samsung is highly unlikely to be interested.

Unless you are suggesting Oculus get into the display manufacturing business? That's certainly interesting, but would probably add several years to their release timeline.
Before a social network becomes famous, it is always ad-free :)
A couple of months at least notice before a service that was meant to help "privately remember your memorable days" deleted all of those memories? Time to find out who runs this and never trust them with anything again.
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> On the other hand, young people (below 18) aren't that much into facebook anymore.

I agree, but think this misses the point. I'm not "that much into" voice telephone calls, but I still rely on them and wouldn't purchase a cell phone that couldn't make them. I'm also not willing to switch to a different method of making voice calls, even if it has substantial improvements, if I have to get all my friends and family to also switch to be able to use the service.
If 4/5 dentists (with no financial motivations) were asked "is there one brand of toothpaste in particular that you recommend?" and answered "toothident", then that would be a sensible reason to use toothident.

(If a bunch of statisticians looked at the research and patient outcomes and disagreed, then that would be an even more sensible reason not to. But in lieu of that, we expect dentists to have a reasonable idea what they're talking about.)

What actually happens (or so I hear) is that dentists are asked "do you recommend brushing twice a day with toothpastes such as toothident", and they say yes, because even though they've never heard of toothident, brushing your teeth is a good idea.

So an ad that seys "4/5 dentists recommend toothident" doesn't actually mean that 4/5 dentists recommend toothident, and is not a sensible reason to buy toothident. But the way people interpret the ad is a sensible reason to buy toothident, it's just false.
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I'm not really up to date on what they're doing at the minute but can I ask why app.net doesn't meet your requirements? The fundamental difference here seems to be app.net always charge but ello gives more flexibility around if and what to buy - or is there something I'm missing?

Also I agree that competition is a good thing here but a social network that's trying to connect me to everyone like Facebook is going to face serious network effects obviously, and it'll be seriously hard to become useful for that purpose.
Ok, now that's the world changer. Except there's nothing unique about that bike.
I too do not find the reference to theodicy entirely transparent, but here's my interpretation, at least.

The origin of the idea of genius is supposed to be a means of filling in a gap left by the loss of cultural belief in God and angels and so forth; that provides the theological connection. So, it seems to me it's saying that the belief in genius justifies the existence of evil because our genius-'gods' are in fact still basically human. Specifically calling it "theodicy of the human mind" feels like it's suggesting something more, but, to quote the article a bit more, it's
not the traditional theodicy that tries to justify the ways of god to suffering humanity, but rather one that permits us to see ourselves, in however attenuated a sense, as the point of it all.

So, yeah. Genius == theodicy because "God is really just us" or something like that. It's a pretty big stretch from the normal meaning of the word, but that's the best I can make of it.
A lot of Aml code can be found in the Stdlib, which is here - https://github.com/bryanedds/FPWorks/tree/master/Aml/Aml/Aml...

To make the code more readable, I recommend grabbing TextPad and configuring the syntax highlighter using the files here - https://github.com/bryanedds/FPWorks/tree/master/Aml/Plugins...

Thank you kindly for taking an interest in my work. I will attend to your pull request immediately.
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There is lsprofcalltree which will use normal cProfile and give you output suitable for kcachegrind (which is awesome)
I do that with Google Calendar.

I have multiple calendars (about 20), some log things to do with work, one logs all SMS messages and phone calls sent/received, another logs fitness/health.

At any time I can look at any day, and there is enough information in the calendar to tell me everything that happened that day and for me to recall the day clearly.

Most of this is recorded implicitly (IFTTT handles whatever doesn't have calendar intgreation), only a little is recorded manually. It used to be more manual, now it's more automatic.

I've been doing this for so long I'm not even sure when I started... let me look. Well, May 2006 I see densely filled out, but Google Calendar doesn't seem to like looking before that... I guess that Google must store info prior to that in a cold storage solution.

Even looking at 2006, wow. I see the day I met my first wife, the film I saw at the cinema a few days before, my weight, the bike ride I did, some work appointments and a trip to Gloucester, someone's leaving party at work, and that my finances were flush that month.

I remember the weather for almost every day in May 2006, and it makes me realise how much weather is also a signal to recall information. I think I'll add weather history for wherever I am too.
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Good discussion of an (indeed) epic article. Reading the other comments here, I would like to stress the complexity of allowing concurrent updates of the same object on distributed machines.

And I totally share the hopes for the current eventual consistency monopoly to perish. Some use cases should use strong consistency. You see people build stuff like this https://github.com/Netflix/s3mper to "fix" eventual consistency...awkward
True, I meant to refer to the visual 'augmented' programming as demonstrated in the Larch project. Not classical 'visual programming.'
It comes with a bottle opener attached. Definitely a world changer.
I believe the future of the optical tech is going to be custom screens. They'll be shaped for the optics and have a pixel layout to complement the optical distortion. Has there been any talk about this?
Just to be clear... I know what you're building and totally rooting for you!

Just meant that the dream, or more precisely my dream, of LightTable is delayed/put aside by this new project.

The curse of Lisp, to me, is being pulled into ever deeper more beautiful solutions, which you're definitely flirting with, but it's also just an allegory so I really hope you pull it off!
Google plans another massive investment with YouTube content creators
The awful cult of the talentless hipster has taken over
> If 4/5 dentists (with no financial motivations) were asked "is there one brand of toothpaste in particular that you recommend?" and answered "toothident", then that would be a sensible reason to use toothident.

No! Just because they think it works doesn't mean it does work. Toothident might be the first toothpaste that comes to mind but that doesn't mean it's better than any other toothpaste - and it might be worse than other toothpastes. Perhaps the toothident company just have much better pens and sticky fixit pads than the other toothpaste companies.
But it says it's "radical" mate! /sarcasm
The only tip that I can give you guys is, don't change your name but change your slogan with "survey" to reach more people. Here is some science: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=mobile%20survey%2C%20...
> Committing time and money to a failed venture is the biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make.

Committing time and money to enhance your reputation is never a mistake.
Actually, this sounds like a non-problem.

The most crucial first step is to change your frame of mind: you're not bound to any employer, and your personal time is entirely your own.

Develop a prototype in your own time, get lots of feedback to improve it, and suddenly all sorts of avenues and options will be open to you.

You could license it back to your company (for a price); if that's rejected, go somewhere else. It certainly sounds as though there's a gap in the market, so the obvious thing to do would be to fill it - ASAP.

Think of it this way: you're working your way toward financial freedom. Why allow anyone to put obstacles in your way?
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We should replace that phrase with "Then you've not developed the habits and mindset to be an entrepreneur."

People aren't born ready for anything but shitting and sucking nipples. They learn everything else.
> That sounds like an okay business model to me.

It most likely won't work.

They have recurrent expenses associated with running a service, but they plan to support it with one-time fees. This has an absolutely uncertain scalability profile. At some point their existing user base will get all the features they need and stop paying, meaning that they will need to rely on acquiring new users for revenue, which in turn will lead to higher expenses. And this starts to look as a classic pyramid scheme to me (without even considering things like salaries and dividends).

Alternatively they can try harder to entice people to buy into the features, but this would mean artificially restricting functionality, castrating the free feature set, etc. I guess if they got enough momentum, they can get away with it, but in the end it's not that much better than an ad-based model.
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As an entrepreneur I agree that our job is probably more demanding and stressful than your usual 9-to-5 in a big corporation, but I would never say that we have a hard life. Here's why:

- We have chosen this path ourselves, nobody forced us to run our own business and play the startup game.

- We are able to do something we love all day and possibly even make a lot of money doing so.

- We can decide ourselves how much we actually work and how we organize our life (even if most people pretend they can't).

- If our business fails, we can (mostly) just go back working in a high-paying job in industry.

That's not exactly what I call a hard life. If you think it is, you might wanna take a look outside your IT-/Silicon-Valley bubble, where many people get up every day at 5 am, work 12 hours in a job they don't like but can't quit because they need the money and still are barely able to make ends meet. To them, most of our "problems" would be luxuries to have.
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I would love to read this article in a shorter, more concice format. From the paragraphs I read the author spends most of his time trying to describe the common (mis)conceptions held by a layman in advertising by giving numerous citations and examples, which is weird and repetitive when his argument is that we already know and hold the assumptions.
Scroll down, scroll up, then try hitting back to leave the site.

One of the most annoying things you can ever do to me as a user.
The saying is that total rewrites are always a bad idea. It'll be interesting to see if this one would be an exception to the rule.
Yet most NoSQL stores have HTTP interfaces and they work fine, while being convenient to work with.

Compression can reduce the data size overheads, and HTTP auth can deal with security issues too.
But ssh -t forces pseudo-tty allocation and doesn't take arguments, what you are doing is appending command strings to the ssh command line.
I'm from Mongolia, almost on the other side of the world lol.
thinking fast and slow is the book for you. nobel prize winner gives the skinny... and yeah, there's actual experiments that show merely familiarity breeds positive responses. NB there's a bit of commentary going on at the moment about the reproducibility of the experiments in this field
Does anyone know if there's any way we can save this site? Its simple but does its job so well and its the only way i've ever been able to keep a diary.
Oh I didn't get that "Penn." part, that explains.