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it’s really not a big leap to image how a usage could enter the language that means the opposite of its literal interpretation.

Indeed, "wicked", "ill", "sick" all spring to mind.

I wonder what it is that I object to in "I could care less" that I don't in "wicked". Perhaps the length of the component that must be understood on it's own. Imagine a multi-line paragraph which meant something different to its literal interpretation, but only if those exact words were used, and the meaning did not transfer if you replaced some of the grammatical substructure. I'd find that very confusing, and this is an extreme version of the phrase currently under discussion.

A quick look at the number of hits in Google’s index shows that they’re both in common use

I stand corrected.

I checked the OED and could care less seems to have been in use since the 1960s.

You're right, and this weakens a great deal of my argument. I presumed it was a very recent phenomenon.

The crux, though, is that it would still be in the language.

It's not in use in British English, and if British people start talking like that to me I will point out to them that what they are saying is confusing. What effect that will have remains to be seen.
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Actually it makes my argument redundant, since I was working with the assumption that "I could care less" was a form of slang which was growing in popular usage.

So thank you for the information and I withdraw my case! When the phrase starts becoming used in Britain we'll take up the discussion again!
What I'm arguing is that the trade off is key-value vs. MySQL for small companies. They pick their path at that point. If you go with RDBMS then you might end up at Oracle at some point. If you go with key-value then I guess you stay there.

If you've gone with key-value it's because you've decided that you don't need RDBMS features.
As far as idioms go, it's as good as any. "Cloud computing" != "disributed computing" -- it's on-demand virtual hardware and storage. That's how most users of cloud think of it, in my experience.

I was hugely skeptical of the cloud concept -- sneered at it, even -- until i started doing the cost/benefit analysis.
or perhaps your self confidence proves my point?
Verizon has the MiFi. I think it's exactly what you describe. The service probably costs a fortune, but it's a pretty neat device.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=pho...

[edit]

Looks like Sprint has one too: http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/...
Other people have give good answers. Here are a couple of things you might want to do the first few years.

Education is free in Sweden. Check for if your background allows you to get into university courses. (The evening/distance courses are generally for older people that already works. Good contacts.)

You have checked for user groups of your favorite development environement(s)?

Disclaimer: I left the area for a nice job, a few years back. :-)
@roder as I stated earlier, I have a wide variety of audience, mainly enterprise devs that are interested also in Scala (which inspires a lot of its feature from both of the language). I guess Joe's statement about having interoperability breaks boundaries (see http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/09/27/a-piece-of-wisdom-by-joe-ar... ) is very important for decision of choice of programming languages. Also the fact that Scala is not a full Actor Model is interesting for audience of InfoQ. The User's Model is very important regarding programming language design since once you get to performance issues you need to look beyond this model to actual implenmentation (I guess you are aware of tutorials that oversemplify concepts like Monads and Lazyness to mention few).
I am glad you found an interest in the interview, and thank you for your constructive critics.
Did he participate in Digital Sky or previous offerings along with other employees?

Otherwise his liquidity must be non-existent.
Apple buy map service.

To compete with Google?

I think that's what they were aiming for.
We agree on all of that.

I'm just wondering about those cases where lots of data is stored in RDBMS which could have been stored in key-value storage engines as well. And with the increased query capabilities of k-v engines the no-mans-land is getting thinner.

The incentive to switch is equal to the license fee - the cost of the switch.

And possibly the convenience of being able to use cheap non-specialist hardware.

For the majority of the companies out there the cloud is still more expensive (and more risky, and privacy sensitive) than storing it on their own infrastructure.

But there are solutions in that space as well, having your own on-site 'private cloud', using all of the infrastructural tricks of cloud computing without the loss of control or the service premium.

For many big businesses I think that makes good sense.
@jollojou
I agree my question was confusing, maybe due to the fact that we had an offline discussion before about that so that I didn't communicate all the information. Thank you for your feedback, and I am glad you appreciate the interview.
I'm based in europe. So no Verizon. The mifi looks good even though it needs, as far as I know, the proprietary software for setting it up. I know it seems like a pet peeve but running macosx with vodafone's (actually novamedia's) software is a pain! My contract isn't that bad, I get unlimited (60GB) trafic, 5Gb/s Down 1.4Gb/s Up for 35euros month.
The Novatel MiFi is pretty much that device:
http://www.novatelwireless.com/

I signed up for their developer program but haven't really gotten started with it yet.
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I'm in The Bahamas, at a semester abroad school and research institute. Our campus is largely powered by renewables and we try to practice responsible living. You can see more at http://islandschool.org and http://ceibahamas.org

One of my many hats is maintaining our network and data across our 18-acre campus. This is something I do because I can, not because I'm an expert. We recently had a fiber link go bad that took several days to locate (because it propagated as many different things), and the result was a real wake up call.

So, here's the pitch:
You're a network guru that needs a break from the looming winter. We're in a beautiful remote spot in The Bahamas with gorgeous beaches, great diving, snorkeling, fishing, you name it.
We'll fly you down (and a guest?), put you up and feed you (we'll even pick you up in a van running biodiesel we made from waste cooking oil). All we ask in return is some sound advice on how to move forward and what tools we should add to our belts.
If this sounds too good to pass up, email me: gsiener at ceibahamas.org

Thanks!
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I don't really agree about Hadoop. MapReduce is interesting for some applications but it's not the only thing out there. We did extensive analysis of MapReduce at my new company and it clearly wasn't suitable for our needs.

You say that as if MapReduce is the only thing you can do with Hadoop. It has a key/value datastore too, and since recently a relational database:

http://db.cs.yale.edu/hadoopdb/hadoopdb.html
Is there anything that can match http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses.php?branch=Comp ?
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Wide open for XSS. I was in the sandbox with someone clearly from here testing out various XSS methods. I'm actually more concerned about the fact my XSS bubbled up to http://www.twiddla.com, not just the sandbox.
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I have the MiFi for Sprint and there is no software...just plug it in and open 192.168.1.1 in a browser
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Begs the question though has a simple, obvious meaning, "it demands [begs] that the question be asked". The only reason that "begs the question" is applied as a translation to petition principii is that beg used to be used in a different way, language has moved on.

If you mean assuming the premise, can't you just say that? Or if you like lording your immense brain over us inferior beings you can use petitio principii and we'll all bow down to your prowess and learnedness and continue to just call it assumption (or presumption, or where appropriate tautology; take your pick).

That said "I could care less" grates with me but I couldn't care less as I know what was intended by the context.
I'm from the US, and I don't think there is a difference in pronunciation. In fact, its gotten to the point where when someone says "I could care less" I generally ask them to clarify unless the meaning is made obvious by context.

That being said, there is usually sufficient context (in my experience, admittetly anecdotal) to figure out the meaning.
Ah, I see, that is an interesting observation. I wonder if you could map this using some of Nashs' work.
so, every body know that meteor killed almost all the dinosaurs. but no body is telling me ? it's some kind of public secret or what ?
here is two links what it looks like

http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/tabs.html
http://www.pushpin.com/api/1.3/docs/maptype.html
"I could care less" is possibly a new idiom, an abbreviation of "I could care less, but I don't".

On petitio principii, please see my other comment.
As an aside, I can't help but wonder if OKCupid intentionally left the reply rate chart unlabeled and unexplained, knowing that some people would post an analysis on their own blogs and generate some viral goodness.

Brilliant strategy if so.
Uhh so if you can't learn by "sitting at the feet of" a "master", you learn what you can by yourself and touch base occasionally with the good people you do know and soak up what you can. Hardly insightful.

You can just say "try to work with programmers better than you" without all this medieval framing.

I personally think all this talk of the "Way" and guild inspired talk of "masters" and "journeymen" and so on is pretentious and inappropriate for programming in the 21st century but that's just me. In the olden days you had to join a guild and apprentice yourself to a "master" to learn a craft.

In programming, while it would be great to work with really good people(say, the kind of people interviewed in Coders at Work), the default for almost everyone is to learn without the benefit of a "master programmer". Pete McBreen wrote this really terrible book and from then we have all these pious mumblings about "apprentices" and "journeymen".
Maybe it was Tarantino.
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I so love grammar nazis.

Imagine me saying that, except I really mean "I don't like grammar nazis at all". Now you've got the idea of the difference in inflexion.
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How is the "cloud" any different from the "net" (as in Net Computer, or NC), which he promoted so heavily in the mid nineties?

"That magic part would connect the Network Computer to the Net. There would only be rudimentary software and memory on the Network Computer. Most software and serious memory would be out there on the Net where it could be easily maintained. The system would run on Java and use Oracle databases. Microsoft software would be nowhere in sight."

http://www.mondaymemo.net/031103feature.htm
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If there's one thing that stands out for me in Google Maps at a very quick glance it's the colours. I've always loved Google's brighter, more distinguishable colours more than any other services (MapQuest uses/used such muted ones as well.)
Apple purchased Placebase in July to replace Google Maps?
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A fine anecdote - Gell-Mann was of course communicating not only that he had been to Montreal, but also that it was a French name, that he new the [approximate] pronunciation and that he anticipated Feynman to be equal learne\d.

3 out of 4 ain't bad ;0)
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svnx for macs? i use eclipse with the subclipse plugin plus tkdiff. i haven't had trouble using svn command-line...git, though, constantly behaves unexpectedly and requires vigilant reading of the manual. i've reverted projects back to svn just for the sanity (also, as a team project, i don't want other people wasting time on version control, especially when they require user friendly interfaces, which is lacking in git. tig is cool, but not user friendly enough for certain team members).

btw, mercurial is a pretty sweet alternative. i've already been seduced by github, tho.... i wish they could be repohub instead....
I've read this calling Dawkins 'angry' a few times already and the stupid sensationalism bothers me: I've never seen him "angry", neither have I come across a written rant; he's always pretty calm.
Here's ours - as is pretty obvious, it was super informal and just us yacking at the camera. As noted in the (just updated) text there -- this is from 7 months ago, so doesn't correspond to our current plans in many ways, but gives you an idea for the sort of video that it was.

http://scott-oviwe.posterous.com/private/wIYDQvTIRI
Is it even legal to do checks on "can he manage his own finances"?

Even in India (where you can have checks of criminality and so on at the point of hiring, especially in large companies, thanks to the focus on Outsourcing) people don't disclose their financial information to employers. Banks and financial institutions will turn any inquiries down unless you are a law enforcement officer with the proper paperwork.
Zooming-in in Europe, it appears that they don't have any license for maps outside the US.
Oldie but goodie: same color illusion
> Some common real-world uses include SVG and MathML on web pages

If Internet Explorer supported these in any capacity (e.g. had any support for XHTML), they might be common. But in the "real world" I have experience with, they are vanishingly rare, used mainly in demos and by geeks for their personal sites (e.g. Sam Ruby).
Again, you’re missing the point. I can’t prescriptively judge whether something is grammatical or not, nor can anyone else. Grammaticality isn’t something which someone decides — a grammatical sentence is by definition a sentence which speakers of the language produce and understand. It is grammatical if people use it. If there is a particular dialect of English where they use isn’t as the first person singular form of the copula, then it is grammatical.

It would not be grammatical in the standard American English dialect, which I think is what you’re getting at. But you have to be careful with your terms here, because in the technical sense ‘grammatical’ means an acceptable sentence of the language, whereas I have a feeling your understanding of ‘grammatical’ means ‘how we were taught to write in school to communicate to other people that we have been educated’. My entire point is that there’s a difference.

You would probably call the sentence

He been had that job.

completely ungrammatical. In Black Vernacular English, however, it’s perfectly acceptable. What’s more, depending on the pronunciation of been, this sentence can communicate a tense that doesn’t exist in standard American English. In SAE it can only be communicated by adjunct material like ‘for a long time’. Ostensibly, this is more efficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_Eng...
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Wasn't this question asked just a few days ago? I've searched with SeachYC, but I haven't found it, so maybe I'm imagining things, but I could've sworn I've seen it here recently.
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The question is - can a network guru leave whatever company he is working at for a few months, and then come back with no problems?
Pretty cool little piece of software, now it would be even cooler if it was liked worked as an addon with like aim or skype or something.
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If I had to guess, you got down-modded because you were ignoring the premise of the above statement that being a hindu man might be correlated to liking ice cream. You are free to disagree with that but you need to give a reason.

Of course, ice cream wasn't the point and other people gave better examples.
Derek Bickerton dissects Dawkins (and others) nicely:

http://beyondscienceversusreligion.blogspot.com/2009/09/four...

http://beyondscienceversusreligion.blogspot.com/2009/09/four...

Bickerton's blog "Beyond science versus religion":

http://beyondscienceversusreligion.blogspot.com/2009/09/miss...

From Bickerton's mission statement:

[He has an] "unwavering commitment to seek out bullshit and destroy it in all of its varying forms and disguises" [shades of the Augean stables!].

"This blog goes beyond the currently escalating struggle between science and religion, seeking new ways to reconcile them ... We'll go fearlessly where neither atheists nor believers have gone, submitting both sides to searching criticism they have not yet received. Earlier posts feature shortcomings of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennett--but then the religious get their turn."
Makes me wish for once I'd actually finished those Cisco networking classes.
Yes, I was rather assuming Hadoop == MapReduce. You are correct that HadoopDB is an interesting development.

http://db.cs.yale.edu/hadoopdb/hadoopdb.pdf
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I'm a big mercurial fan, I tried out git to be able to co
pare both fairly, but the first impression i got from git was that it required much more reading than hg to get a hang of it, even for basic stuff. Or maybe it's just that the mercurial documentation/first steps docs is more clear.
ditto, so very ditto
Ha, you just said it: The system would run on Java and use Oracle databases.
Yeah we'd love to something like this. We have set our own personal hackathon weekends to get little unrelated side projects done, but the more the merrier! And we're in soho
A great piece. As a tie-in to Hacker News, note that the article it links to is by ucla prof Eugene Volokh, a successful software hacker himself.
Would appreciate an invite if someone see's fit to provide one to me.

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Thanks!
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I got forwarded to Goatse (pumpkin-style!) Someone's in the public room dropping in redirects testing those out for sure.
For me it depends on the type of music. Stuff that works: instrumental trance, chants (like Benedictine Monks), good guitar rock (Free Bird, Stairway to Heaven, Little Wing).

Stuff that doesn't work: classical, trance with vocals, and the rest of the crap that gets put out today.
I think it's zoned as commercial so I think that means you can't live in it. Also there are no showers, so that might not be great for your personal life
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Also, this:

Startup idea: an eBay system to sell invites you get from Google Beta programs.

- http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/4506427752
I have not tried github properly, so I can't make a fair comparison, but bitbucket is extremely nice. Everything feels just right.
15kg is quite a lot. Most men in my street (by sight) would be within 15kg of me, I'm about 83kg ~ 13 stone (slightly over WolframAlpha's reported median USA male weight in 2006).

I think the chance of being more than 15kg outside the weight of someone who has grown up in the same lifestyle and with the same food opportunity is probably pretty low.
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Sometimes; generally not, though. I'd love to come down, but I'll be somewhat busy.
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I guess my comments may come across as slightly antagonistic, but I don’t mean them that way at all. I’m just very excited about the topic of language in general.

I should tell you that I have a masters degree in linguistics, so I’m not pulling any of this out of thin air. Most of the arguments I’ve made are more or less generally understood among the linguistic community. Most of the objections and issues you are raising are the kind of questions that are dealt with in undergraduate linguistics courses.

I don’t have time to continue discussing this today unfortunately, but if you’re really interested in this stuff, you should reader The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. He does a far better job at systematically explaining these issues than I do. Something like The Foundations of Language by Jackendoff is much more technical but also a very good introduction.

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Instinct-Steven-Pinker/dp/006...

http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Language-Meaning-Grammar-E...
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Clojure yet. It was designed specifically to deal with multiple cores in an elegant fashion thru atoms, agents, and software transactional memory. It might just be the answer to the challenge. Check it out, if you haven't already.
bitbucket is awesome! thx.
Interested parties may also like:

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Are you sure they don't eat the same things? They grew up together? This is most likely to mean that they eat a similar diet - if they co-habit with people outside the others social setting then that's probably going to lead away from similar diets.

My cooking is very much influenced by the things my mother cooked for me; I also borrow recipes from my sister occasionally.
I searched too - no I don't think so.
would be nice specially if internet access there is also super fast, so any network guru can just go there and still be able to administer remotely whatever he/she is administering before. :)

but any serious work related to network can probably last more than a few months. perhaps a sabbatical leave will do. :)
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I think it is legal (but IANAL). The online services _certainly_ offer credit reports having this level of detail.

But I'll edit the question to make sure people know that the prospect has given signed permission for the inquiry.
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What I've found from personal experience, is that the bar is set much higher for those minority races.

Depends what you mean by that. Certain physical traits are correlated to race. To the extent that these traits matter to someone, one would need to set the bar higher on other traits to offset this. I hesitate to give examples since that could anger some people...
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Its a great site, you just need some digg/reddit front page or stumbleupon on it, good luck.
There is an excellent page in the introduction of Jackendoff’s book that I think is a great illustration of just how complex language is, to be trying to talk about it in an ad hoc manner.

http://sitb-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leraEu3x8Au9mv9K/rTAZQ...

It shows various analyses (phonological, syntactic, semantic) of the sentence

The little star’s beside the big star.