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J.L. Borges', "Funes the Memorious"

http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/borges.htm
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I like the examples of 'turning' python into scheme!
oh thats an easy call. even as we speak they are engaged in a stimulus program every bit as strange as our own and even stranger - their banks are FORCED to make loans!

the pressure to keep the growth machine going in china has been immense...but nothing grows to the sky, particularly in a global recession. the chinese will learn the hard way, as we are, not to fight economic cycles.

its not an issue of when china will have a major crash, but when and how deep
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these oil-valuing articles have been coming out nonstop over the last few years. i'd be amazed if anything comes of it. washington simply cannot allow the dollar to be usurped, and frankly neither can these other nations. the dollar may be a toilet-paper currency, but everyone is holding it...who can afford to have the dollar lose substantial value? no one. i have to give the Fed credit, they've made america's problems the world's problems.
Based on the FBI's discovery of the subject's Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, they haven't yet found the subject's interest in the underground BBS known as 'Hacker News'.
agreed, and furthermore, it begs the question...what will these nations do with their own immense reserves of dollars? just write them down? sell them? to who? could japan and china even do that without destroying their own economies?
Ugh. "The dollar is falling! The dollar is falling!" is one of the four memes of the redditocolypse. It's one of those things that people don't have rational discussions about, and nothing ever gets resolved.
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I really wish I knew this information about 16 years ago when I was still unbelievably naive. I was raised to answer police officers honestly, and to assume that they were also honest. And I still thought our criminal justice system worked properly and everyone was actually interested in justice. My first lesson that the world wasn't like Mayberry was a bit harsh.
For the last several years, Rob Cockerham has made all of his posts structured around exposes of scams that happen to be high-value Adsense: Cash4Gold, Kirby vacuums, MLM, Viagra, etc. His "Levitra couch" hoax was particularly inspired.
Great insights, but I think we have to do more than keep our eye on it. I think it's imperative that we transition significantly to non-oil based energy consumption (as the Obama administration is encouraging). The problem is we've allowed ourselves to become too dependent on spending, accounting for 70% of our economy. Americans have become accustomed to cheap products, and gas, while at the same time turning a nose up at menial jobs. If we truly want to keep ourselves safer, from needing to go to war in the Middle East, then maintaining reliance/placing value on oil means gas prices comfortably around $10 (or more) along with the corresponding inflation and further vanishment of any middle class. An unemployment rate of 10% would begin to look normal.

I think we need to do two major things: 1. increase the transition to high mpg/non-gas cars; 2. Begin to make things again and increase exports taking advantage of increased purchasing power abroad. (cheaper electricity would be third)
Wait... high-priced wifi at a hotel isn't evil?

As far as I can tell, Cash4Gold is taking advantage of people too lazy to make an effort to find someone willing to pay market value for their gold. Phrased another way, their low payments are a convenience fee, just like valet parking or fuff-service gas stations[0]. I see nothing wrong here.

[0] Well, outside of Oregon and New Jersey, at least.
Can you use daemontools to monitor/kill/restart processes that run out of memory but don't exit?
H.264 through HTML5 is a pipe dream and likely to be unaccepted for a long period of time

It is already supported in every browser except Internet Explorer.

content providers like Youtube and Hulu aren't going to allow or be allowed to provide their video in H.264

YouTube already provides their video in H.264. The Flash player is just a way of decoding what is otherwise a regular H.264 video file, which is exactly as easy to download as any other.
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So lame they only offer the sample chapter / read-and-buy funnel, for Kindle content. Amazon's wish-list value as a bookmark around targeted content for opinion and ancillary data (related literary links, Statistically Improbably Phrases, ..) build lots of good will. This, not so much.
"One thing I noticed, reading through Jeffries’s blog posts, was that he got fixated on the problem of how to represent a Sudoku board."

Reminds me of pg's writings on exploratory programming (I think that is what he called it).

For me, maybe I am a bad programmer, but I always change my mind on how to represent things once I sit down to code. I can read specs or think about how to do stuff over and over, it all only happens when I finally start to code. So it sounds as if too much test first would make me stuck. Plus, as the article points out, it would be boring to always just work on unit tests and never actually produce code that does stuff.

Not that I dislike unit tests, but I tend to write many of them after coding the main stuff (in the testing phase).
I suspect threads with excessively high churn (combination of up and down-votes) across the comments in the thread indicate dogmas colliding. The false-positive to watch out for would be people saying interesting things that go against the status quo.

Something like:

comment is interesting if (score * 2 + 5 > number_of_votes)
thread is interesting if (number_of_interesting_children * 2 > number_of_children)
I joined you in flagging it (and flagged the Krugman one for good measure :-). It's virtually impossible for any article about economics to not devolve into political squabbling on internet forums. Just look at the ratio of people with degrees in economics vs people who are, as philwelch describes them, "self-trained Austrian economists who post on comment threads". And if you start posting Krugman articles, it's like waving a red flag in front of a bull for our "Austrian" (and others of their ilk) HN brethren - they're going to want to post their stuff too.

I think economics is fascinating, but ultimately it serves, and is very closely related to what a society's goals and values are, which is politics.
I don't know him from Adam, but his "TDD-based" bowling attempt in Clojure seems like a microcosm of that other guy's Sudoku solver in Ruby.
Has this been reverted? I can see the comment scores again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_running#Prominent_bare...

Seems to indicate that this is something that (at least some) elite runners do.
I reread the Norvig vs. Jeffries posts, and you're right. That example was breathtaking, and it probably colored my judgement about this Uncle Bob example.
Siggraph is home to some crazy presentations. I'm always surprised by the more impressive videos and papers, but on the other hand, never that surprised, just because it's always only one step crazier than the crazy thing from last year's.
Images aren't from flickr, not enough cats.
MediaWiki is a crap example -- its titles must start with a capital letter
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I meant the iTunes Connect application, not the review process. It's a hodgepodge of of a system that doesn't seem to have gotten the same care and attention that most other areas of Apple's business get. Especially considering the tens of thousands of people that view it regularly.
Because random.random is too hard
Anything to look at on the web? I have a lot of respect for people going into the trenches.
It's easy to wave your arms and ask for "better" government intervention, but the government's already doing the best it can. It has ups and downs in each department as attention shifts, but on average it probably won't get any better over the long run.

Economic systems need to be designed so that mediocre government regulation doesn't lead to catastrophes.
That's a good observation, and they all seem to have happened after he discovered he was a top Google rank for 'silly string'. Not just (even?) a pretty face.
Paul already provides data dumps. Searchyc for it.
High-frequency trading/arbitrage?
The lawsuits are unethical, but I don't see the problem with the process. They make a legitimate offer to the person, and that person is completely within their rights to accept or reject it. Those rights are not abridged by an under-market offer, there's no obligation to accept the crappy offer.

There's nothing unethical with making a low offer. If the person is willing to sell it to you at that price, then great, what's the issue?
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I simply loved this article and the comparison made between the two Sudoku solvers.

Peter Norvig is one of my favorite programmers ... his solutions are always simple and elegant. Have a look at his spell-checker here (a solution I used in production): http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

He just kicks ass, and it reinforces that people (at least in software development) are more important than processes.

I don't do TDD because our consultancy gigs only last for 2 months tops, during which we have to do what other firms are doing in 1 or 2 years. We are also most of the time in uncharted waters, and doing proper unit-testing of such modules requires even more thought than the actual functionality. And after two months tops, the project is over, and we won't get any money for extra work. We are doing unit-testing for really critical sections though.

But I do wish I had the time and the skills to do TDD.
All I could gather from the post is - "great incentives attract great talent produces great software".
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Because he's a lawyer.
That's not just a California thing, actually. Growing up in 1970s Ireland, the word was sprinkled liberally throughout our sentences, like. You may like this exploration of metaphor as a fundamental part of consciousness (if so, do follow up and read the mentioned book): http://www.therebel.org/opinion/health/the_thing_to_be_descr...
renthop is nice enough, but it doesn't have the inventory it needs.
I think this article was in response to some of the issues that were mentioned as a motivation for Github's move away from Engineyard... Specifically, Github mentioned slow IO issues on virtual machines as a significant issue.

FWIW IO performance on Joyent is abysmal, and they supposedly use Sun's latest virtualization technology.

It sounds like the problem is not with the technology but with how it's managed... It's easy to partition memory and CPU resources, but not as easy to partition IO resources.

I'm still waiting for virtual hosts that are paired with their own dedicated solid state storage rather than sharing one hardware IO system or using slow network storage.
true, but it's just a pain to use someone's nonstandard fork of ruby... there are a lot of awesome ones on github already, though, and I recently noticed that the latest version of ruby enterprise edition has rolled in a few of the better known ones.
I wish we would make things again. I really do. There's so much tech that can be invested in to make a cleaner, more beautiful America - and yet all the factories for it are going overseas (Germany, Taiwan, and so forth). Why are we so far behind on the high-tech manufacturing curve? Did we just rest on our laurels for too long, or is something more nefarious afoot?
Fisk has a bit of a chip on his shoulder. I think he's a fantastic reporter, but I'm little skeptical of his analytical abilities. Of course, he has earned the right to be cynical, but in his editorial pieces it's sometimes hard to tell if he's watching or wishing.

The flaw in the theory here is that the US basically guarantees Europe's military security and so there's a tradeoff with our economic security. This is one reason that the US, while occasionally grumbling about the huge cost of maintaining a nuclear umbrella, makes few moves to encourage any kind of pan-European security force.
For instance, when companies offer mail in rebates that are difficult to redeem (must jump through a lot of hoops, takes a long time, etc) they are misleading you.

So it turns out that someone actually measured this and found out that things you might naively assume are in the customer's interest (short forms and long periods until the rebate offer expires) actually decrease redemption rates.

http://news.ufl.edu/2004/06/15/rebates/

(Totally anecdotal evidence: Japan offered me an economic stimulus payment of $120 direct-deposited to my bank account within a week, for filling out a three-line form and stamping with my personal seal, and gave me nine months to do it in. I put it in my closet and figured I'd mail it some day when I got around to it, because my personal seal was at the office the day I got the form. Sure enough, I missed the cutoff by a week. If it had said "You have to stamp this TOMORROW or you lose $120" I'd probably have gotten it done.)

Totally not anecdotal evidence:

http://www.alwinhoogerdijk.com/2009/09/14/rebatedelivery-mai...

http://www.alwinhoogerdijk.com/2009/09/18/rebatedelivery-res...

Take a look at the results of his A/B test: it shows that offering rebates for his software essentially prints money.

I'm seriously considering implementing this in my software -- offering a $5 rebate to bring the price down to $25. The only thing holding me back is the feeling that I'd be exploiting the difference between my customers's self-perception of themselves as organized and their actual organizational skills.
stephen's writeup is at http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/10/02/hadoopworld/.
Oh. My. God!

The author has been had, big time. The Lisp "web framework" Kanamit is/was a April fool's joke.

CL web frameworks of note are here:

http://www.cliki.net/webframeworkmatrix

More popup every few weeks and it's hard to keep track of them, actually. Lurk in #lisp on freenode and ask around.

To get started, use Hunchentoot with a threaded Lisp (nearly everyone of them, except the last official release of GNU CLISP; the last Common Lisp to get multiprocessing capabilities :-)

And you forgot Erlang! Off the top of my head, Nitrogen web framework by my home boy Rusty Klophause.

http://nitrogenproject.com/

And Clojure, with Compojure as the "main" candidate:

http://github.com/weavejester/compojure

P.S. I am sure Mr. Pestov has something up his sleeve for Factor as well.

Research ye blog posts people!
Adobe Announces Flash Can Build iPhone Apps, But What's The Catch?
You did that in 1996?
I asked because I have seen a few other people whose opinions I respect dismiss his writings. So I had to ask.

Cheers!
How the real-time web is leaving Google behind
> It just always leaves that old sour taste of "it should be easier than that".

git branch branch-i-should-have-made
git reset --hard origin/master

How would you make it easier? Why is that kludgy?

> So, do you know that stuff from the top of your head? Or how much man-page wrestling did you have to do before the safety net actually caught you?

Uh, no. I type "git reflog" and look for the thing I want. Then I copy the hash and do whatever I was going to do with it -- the same thing I do in hg went I look at its logs and want to reference something older.

You are contriving a complex use case of a rarely used safety-net command, when in reality, it's just not that hard to use. I was listening to an SE at work introducing another guy to it earlier today when the guy needed to recover from a mistake he made.
What version was he running?

Wikipedia's history of Java verions says 1.0, as does the request string in the article.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history]

Was URLConnection available back then?

According to the URLConnection docs it's been around since JDK 1.0.
[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/net/URLConnection...]

Did URLConnection.SetRequestProperty exist back in JDK 1.0?

The closest I could find were the docs for JDK 1.1.8 in a downloadable zip file, and yes SetRequestProperty existed back in JDK 1.1.8 at least.

Looking at the actual response, and the JDK 1.1.8 docs, he would probably have been using HTTPURLConnection (could not find HttpClient anywhere in the jdk1.1.8 docs) and even HTTPURLConnection in JDK 1.1.8 I could not find the string 'agent' anywhere on the page.

So yea, if the settings were there they were buried and not readily accessible in the documentation of the time.
boring. i have been able to do this in emacs for over 10 years now
There is a strong possibility that a platform using Javascript and some combination of canvas/O3D/other APIs will emerge in the next decade. But it will take a while and not all the pieces are visible yet, because you need to support several I/O components beyond fast graphics to have a really credible game platform:

-user file system access, low-level networking, swf or jar-style data & code bundles

-input devices: keyboard, mouse, gamepad...graceful coordination of input between the rest of the browser and the game is needed.

-sound and music, preferably with abilities to do runtime sound generation and processing

Missing one of those isn't necessarily a showstopper, with the right kind of game, but together they put severe constraints on what can be built and how easily it can be distributed. Flash has very gradually and awkwardly added some degree of support for all of these things, but its origins as a graphic design and animation tool still pollute the design, even with the major refactor of Flash 9 and Actionscript 3.

The JVM platform is a lot more self-consistent and it has solutions for all of this stuff right now, hence why I'm more hopeful about it than a Javascript-based solution, or another plugin like Unity.
It's not just that Norvig is smart; he's specifically skilled at writing really good code, apparently because that's something he cared about and worked on. At JPL I worked with a bunch of smart researchers with PhDs but some wrote better code than others, and it didn't mean they were on a different level intellectually.

Norvig's book _Paradigms of AI Programming_ has 900+ pages presenting code as instructive as that Sudoku solver; I've never seen a better collection. http://norvig.com/paip.html
> 1. Git needs a shared-library interface, so that interfaces to git can be built without quoting and parsing (the two most error-prone operations in computing).

Every special tool I've ever wanted to create in git I've been able to do with pipes in either shell scripts or python scripts using data export options generally used by the porcelain.

People have built good APIs on top of this, and in a few cases built direct object access interfaces, but I stopped thinking library access was important when I started actually writing tools.
Infoq. Never has information I wanted to absorb been held so captive by a communication format.

Dump the bloody videos already. We're all literate! sheesh.
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I don't think I do. I think you do.

"All OkCupid users create their own matching algorithms, so when we determine who matches who, we’re just crunching the numbers people give us."

Aspects like age/location can be included as part of the user matching algorithms if it is important to them. Overweight/has kids/ugly should be equally spread out between races and should not be dependent on race, especially only after the first message.

Therefore match % is basically everything except race that is important to the user.
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Thanks robc and ed. In that case, I don't think this is as impressive from a technical perspective as some people thought. Again, this AOT compiler is not what made Flash apps technically possible on the iPhone; Adobe could've used this same bundling technique with the JIT compiler. It looks like they've done this just to satisfy Apple's terms.
bzr's UI confuses the hell out of me. I have friends who know it really well and I usually ask them how to do things that are simple in git. In some cases I just hear that they would rather not do that [thing that is important to me]. As far as I can tell, it's because the tool doesn't allow them to.

It's all a matter of perspective.
Life long academic. I spend 4 hours a day writing business communication, and about 6 or so programming. When I am speaking to people I am always teaching them something or learning something from them; a very strange take on sales, sure, but I approach sales as instruction, introducing the other to the possibilities and potential of my offering, and learning from them what I can do better.

When I am coding, I and the machine are learning together; sometimes I do the teaching, when I am in the flow, other times it does, when I am debugging.
> * And if it's not working out, we don't do it anymore*

It's not as simple as that.

Once you start using a bug-tracker the bug database grows and grows, and that data is not easy to migrate to something else. And then you're stuck with a substandard solution that makes your life a hell of a lot harder than using plain old emails with naming conventions.

Daily meetings are good for some people but bad for others. Scrum meetings are advertised as a way to "get in the flow" and to let others know of your problems so they can help you. But in practice a scrum meeting turns out to be just your average status report you give your manager, and it's not going to stop him from interrupting you later anyway. This means that whenever you weren't on your best behavior, you're going to game the system and lie, making the whole meeting pointless and a time-waist.

"Conventions for X" in a team with lots of opinions quickly turn into decision meetings. I had to argue really hard to choose a sane naming-convention for our database, because our tech-lead was a Java programmer "with years of experience" and the project manager was incapable of making such decisions and was delegating these choices to the tech-lead. Two years later and the whole project is a mess, because some decisions where made as if we could change them later, and others where pulled out of somebody's ass as a conflict resolution.

For an epic example of such a train-wreck, go read "Dreaming in Code".

Teams aren't going to decide anything right by consensus. You need one or two programmers on your team that have strong-leadership skills and generally just kick ass, and let them decide.
Not working harder on my business when I had a job. I wish I had done most of what I am doing now when I had plenty of income and plenty of time.
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So would I - a "Spring for Django devs" article would be pretty useful too.