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Some of the ARM Cortex-A8 systems look pretty sweet. The OMAP3 series come with a fast-enough processor, a lot of IO controllers, H.264 hardware, crypto hardware, a DSP, and a graphics accelerator, all on a single die. All of it very power-efficient, and fairly cheap.
I have always preferred Kubuntu to Ubuntu for desktop installs, and that's one big reason. (Also, I've always preferred Konqueror as a file browser to whatever Ubuntu uses by default with Gnome.)

However, it's been a while since I've used it (I have 10.4 and XP machines for the most part), and I get the feeling that Gnome has benefited from Ubuntu far more than KDE has from Kubuntu, being sort of a bastard stepchild at best.

KDE's Konqueror has features that I still find myself wishing for on my Mac on a daily basis. (E.g., the visual view-by-size thing and built-in sshfs are my top two.)

I've not seen any compelling reason to upgrade my Macs from 10.4, so when they finally hit EOL I may seriously reevaluate Kubuntu as my main desktop, see if it's kept up reasonably well versus the mainline Gnome version.
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See also http://www.metafilter.com/70699 (and the recently published printed version, although IMO the material added beyond the original article is not worth getting the book for, which is a shame).
There are no numbers in English, but some real languages with latinized character sets have numbers in them:
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It's not a matter of what '..would be best..' - that's impossible to judge w/o all the context, and even then it's subjective.

My point is that there are some occasions where is does make sense to 'tell your audience you haven't prepared', so I disagree with your hard-and-fast assertion that 'you shouldn't tell your audience you haven't prepared', and the blogger's assertion that 'when you say “I’m not really prepared” in front of an audience you’re showing them the ultimate disrespect'. Such black and white rules don't seem valuable to me.

It's horses for courses..
FERMAT is also one. :)
I run screaming from courses that cover mathematical background I don't have

I had the opposite attitude when it came prerequisites in college. For example, I had no problem taking a course that required linear algebra, or signal analysis, or data structures (none of which I had taken; eg, I took Data Structures II before I). You pick up the missing pieces as you go. I actually had more fun that way - "Signal Analysis" was much more interesting when I already knew the applications!

BTW, I didn't do this on purpose. I was trying to get these classes in to fit my schedule.
Well, that's fair. And FWIW, I agree with you. But my frustration isn't with companies or corporations, it's with the cavalcade of idiots theoretically responsible for regulating them and generally structuring the market to produce desirable outcomes.

That's where our collective ire ought to be concentrated. Whenever someone starts railing about the evils of corporations, it's generally a (conscious or unconscious) distraction from the true culprits: regulators or overseers who aren't doing their job.
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The reddit crowd shares you fascination and expresses itself eloquently:

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ku-ma-me/20090916/p1#c1254244804
Java is not a good benchmark. Sun's JVM won't even pack memory (if you have a class with 64 "boolean" variables, it takes header + 64*4 bytes, not header + 64/8 bytes, for some reason that is utterly unclear) unless you use arrays of primitives, and my experiments indicate that it just shifts to packing on a 32 byte boundary to packing on a 64 byte boundary on a 64-bit VM. That is to say the Sun JVM does implement the naive "everything is twice as big" translation even though it needn't.

Of course the 32-bit JVM also has a 2.5 gig or so address space limit that makes no goddamn sense whatsoever, so if you want to process more than 2 gigs of data for any reason you have to either do it offline or you have to buy twice as much memory and do it on a 64 bit VM.
The terminology is still a bit in a flux: The practise is usually called just Linked Data, and it builds on the Semantic Web technologies. The goal is a Web of Data that interlinks with the current Web (of documents). The W3C community project for publishers bootstrapping this web is called Linking Open Data.

Sound bite: Linked Data is the Semantic Web done right, and the Web done right. —Tim Berners-Lee

Recent academic review article: http://tomheath.com/papers/bizer-heath-berners-lee-ijswis-li...

My Linked Data related projects: http://irc.sioc-project.org/ (irc logging) http://smob.sioc-project.org/ (microblogging), http://fenfire.org/ (Linked Data browser/editor GUI) http://github.com/tuukka/arc2-starter-pack (app template)
I might have prior art on this, circa 2002; the original code didn't survive but I have an online posting detailing it.

An ebook water-marking script in Perl which edited the book meta-data (index, contents, preface, indentation, position of page numbers, fonts sizes, colophon and other stuff to generate unique "on demand" copies of texts that could identify the buyer.
"Why don't adults talk like babies?" would be a more insightful question in my opinion.
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In their early '80s book on 'Positioning' and cutting through the mass of advertising consumers see, Jack Reis and Al Trout use the example of executives who are known by their initials (TJ, AR etc - they use real examples, but I don't have my copy at hand).

Anyway, they demonstrated that a lot of junior executives started using initials as well, without success.

The Junior people saw the execs with initials and thought Initials = Success.

Of course, in reality, that equation is Success = Initials. Be successful first - your name is less (hat tip, notauser) important.

I like that that 25+ year old research has a modern-day equivalent.
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I was trying to explain the difference between hackers, if you will, and "programmers" just going through the motions. I likened it to the difference between someone who spoke a language frequently and someone who was working out of a conversational phrasebook. The thing is one cannot help but learn a language as a human being, but you can sure go through life without problem solving skills!
Sigh, I thought it would be about PDP-10, the coolest assembler I've ever seen.
His list of other technomads is also noteworthy:

http://microship.com/technomads/index.html
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Devastatingly good? Meh. It's okay, until it runs off the tracks and starts making massive over-generalizations, and ends up mired in populist propaganda (i.e. "carpenters" being problem-solvers, whereas "academics" are not). By that point, it's rubbish -- a victim of the same sort of lazy, pattern-based thinking that it's trying to critique.

I think the hypothesis proposed might have some merit: most people can (and do) get by without the need for strong analytical skills. Beyond that, I think it's probably a stretch to try to match those skills to certain professions, when it's far more reasonable to expect that any random sample of people (taken from any profession) will fall on a continuum of analytical prowess (just as with any other metric). For all we know, "problem solving" is the trait that distinguishes the top performers in any field from the rest of the crowd.
If you do that, the Elo rating system is a good place to start algorithm-wise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
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Who should I bank with in San Francisco? Square1 and SVB both seem to have forgotten that San Francisco represents a key start-up market. I don't want to spend an hour on Caltrain to deposit a check or get a sit-down with my account manager.

I am leaning towards First Republic now that BOFA is selling them and won't be destroying them, plus my old consulting company maintains a great relationship with them. Before I do that, I was wondering what bank(s) San Francisco based start-ups are happy doing business with?
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How Sunde & company can continue to argue with a straight face that they are not involved with the Pirate Bay when they're being quoted like this is a total mystery to me.
Taking this idea further, one could add multiple orthogonal axes (eg sweetness, bitterness, after-taste etc). Then you could rate each tea against others on each axis - either in a star-slider, scatter plot or on several individual sliders.
This would allow you to rate teas against each other based on several aspects, and possibly allow recommendations based on how other people have rated teas - eg 'I want a tea that is not-too-sweet, a little bitter with a lingering aftertaste'
Then again, it does add more features / visual clutter and possibly complicates things for people...
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Yes, he started out saying he didn't prepare. That's the whole point of the original post and this thread.
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You did the right thing. You are the victim in this situation. Nobody, especially not yourself, should expect that you damage your own cause beyond not participating in the crime. If everybody acted like you did, corruption would not exist.
Seems like you'd never need cooling if you're in SF. I've needed heat in the summer in SF sometimes.
I'm in college, but I tend to not use it very much.
Its always frustrating when things more more equally valid than other equally valid things.
for my friends and I it's more like a message board to post interesting links and talk about whatever we normally talk about. I rarely reconnect with old friends.

edit: but then again, I am only 23.
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I can't help but think that we'd be better off if the "financial engineering" field was was regulated back to a much smaller segment of the economy.

I'm not normally a fan of government intervention but we've wound up requiring massive amounts of it anyway. At least if the top talent was producing tangible things we'd have something more to show for it than an ever larger deficit.
Firefox, like OpenOffice.org, bundles its own renderer instead of using the OS's renderer. That's why Ubuntu fonts look good, and Firefox fonts look blurry.
That usually depends on the city. There's a Walmart here in Mountain View, but your only worry is being robbed by ex-Yahoo employees.
>1) it’s technology, 2) it’s customers, or 3) it’s revenue

its. its. its.
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As Thomas said, I was treating "SSL" and "TLS" as synonyms.

There are two major problems with SSL:

1. It's very complex and has a lot of optional components an attacker can select. This means that (a) it's very likely that SSL implementations will have bugs; (b) it's very likely that those bugs won't be triggered in common use, and will thus tend to remain unfixed; and (c) if an attacker can find such a bug, he can probably trigger it.

2. It relies on a very large number of single points of failure -- namely, Certificate Authorities. CAs screw up all the time, and an attacker only needs to find one screwy CA in order to pretend to be whoever he wants.

In many situations SSL is the best option available; but that doesn't mean that it's a good option, only that it's the least bad option.
Well, he's living in SF at the moment. I usually remember the days I crank on the heat in the middle of summer so my fingers are warm enough to type.
Would this be better with another distribution?
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Yes, and also as comments.
Sadly I've yet to see an ARM system with a Linux friendly graphics system. They all seem to use PowerVR stuff, which is the sames stuff that Intel used to stuff up their previously unblemished graphics suppor on Linux.
For those who marked me down, would you please comment on reason? I'm getting tired of spending my time commenting and getting disapproval without reason. I don't think down votes should be on disagreements; it should be on spamish, childish, or comments that does not add anything to the topic. My main point is that sliders aren't used much because they are too troublesome for a typical user. If you disagree with that, please add your opinion. I'm not trying to take anything away from the author. In fact, I think it's an ingenious idea. But I usually dislike repeating "wow, cool" comments since so many others have done so already. It's part of my DRYness kicking in.
It's a shame that neither TECO nor DDT are prime. :(
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I find that most are moving towards laptops (mbp) with external monitors.
The FBI does care, and will care with EXTREME PREJUDICE if your bureaucrat comes anywhere near a national security brief, which is a surprisingly large field of human endeavor. (It may not be obvious to many people here that there are thousands of jobs in the Department of Agriculture which are categorized as national security related, but there are.)
Well, after years of resisting, I've concluded that Facebook is good.

I've noticed that Facebook brings another level of granularity to the intensity of connections to people you used to know, or went to school/whatever with.

There are people you just wouldn't call up because you don't know them too well but you still know them. You could send an instant message or email them, if you had something to say.

Then there are people I would hesitate to bother with an instant message. An email would probably go since it's asynchronous and doesn't disrupt the other person that much.

Then there are people with which I would have a certain barrier to even sending email to. For example, my high school "mates": I would hesitate to email many of them because I don't know them too well and I didn't really talk much with them in high school either.

But Facebook solves this. The barrier to ask someone to be your friend is negligible. The barrier to comment on someone's status is even lower than that!

Note that this doesn't mean hatching superficial relationships. With some people I still have nothing much to talk about. But I've noticed that when I can, via Facebook, adjust to the "correct" intimacy level with someone I barely talked with. If it's a couple of status comments a year, I'll learn new things about them. With some of these people I've begun to swap comments regularly. With some of them I've sent emails or even chatted.

I could say I wish I had known how to get to know some of these people back then; I think I now have that chance.

This would not have happened without Facebook because there was no such low-intensity connection before, except for maybe randomly bumping into someone on the street.
I have been declared inept by my household! It only gets worse. You are not judged by your intelligence but by how well you do menial tasks. I have been spiritually castrated. I am a walking corpse. The only freedom is when I write.

The "outsourced mind" devalued the old. The outsourced body is coming. Wait 'till the young get acquainted with the robots that will devalue them.
I'm fairly certain that this is a common misconception, which was true at one point in time but no longer applies but I'm not really expert enough (in fonts or Linux) to sound confident in that.

Basically, my take is that you need the fancy expensive typefaces and the patented hinting if you want type to look really good at small sizes and without anti-aliasing i.e. Windows before cleartype or Macs before OS X.

The vast majority of people don't want that, they want OS X style rendering, particularly if their monitor is 95dpi or up. Admittedly there are a vocal minority of geeks that grew up with the former type of font rendering, but even they seem to limit this preference to coding fonts and even they seem to be leaving this behind as dpis go up.

If you want OS X rendering on Linux you can have it today, without patented code, or the need for meticusously hinted fonts (which makes them much easier to produce as open source).

It basically involves going into the advanced Gnome font controls turning off all hinting. Voila! "Blurry" Mac OS X style font rendering. You can add sub-pixel rendering to taste.

You can also make it look like XP, which I personally think is a bit retrograde and ironically this does require well-hinted fonts (like Microsoft's) and patented code.

There's a how-to here:
http://www.sharpfonts.com/
edward de bono has already hit this nail on the head
http://www.amazon.com/Simplicity-Edward-Bono/dp/0140258396
this article was adapted from free blogs and u have to pay to read all of it? seriously?
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Ok the mentioning that they are cool can be a bad post but not that bad dude.Cool your heels
So, uh, practice makes perfect, and babies just haven't been around in the world long enough?
More interesting is what isn't there: so prime is not prime.
"So good code is likely to deteriorate until it’s bad enough to become hard to change, and bad code is likely to stay bad. In short, code has a strong tendency to end up bad."

This is called the second law of thermodynamics.
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Okeyyy...If I getting down voted these many times,hardware hacking may not be cool.Or did something else ticked someone off?Please any comment might help me understand what is so offensive about this post.
Not necessarily, but someone griping about needing to wait for Service Pack 1 of a Windows release before having a stable platform wouldn't have gotten the same response.
I should have been clearer - most programmers i know are happy to try out the various font customization techniques and some of them accept it even - by "masses" i meant the large number of people who have used a computer(primarily Windows) before and are willing to give Ubuntu a try, but they do not want or know how-to fiddle with font customizations.
This group of people is the natural customer for Ubuntu and i believe the vast majority of them go back to their previous O.S simply because the default fonts for them are not Windows-like.
My point is Ubuntu would better serve its "natural customer" by focussing on making the O.S look good for this group of people i.e. look Windows-like by default, rather than other newer features.
No... what I'm referring to is given in http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/RSA-survey.pdf -- basically using LLL to bring the numbers down to below the RSA modulo. (I know it works, because I wrote Mathematica code to implement it. :) )
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This article 'rages against the machine'. Technology reduces the value of the skills and fact knowledge of everyone, not just old people. That is the point of technology. Information technology in particular.

The article asks:

"Want help orienting a rooftop television aerial? Changing the vacuum tubes in your TV? Dialing up AOL? Using MS-DOS? Changing the ribbon on an IBM Selectric (height of 1961 technology)? Tuning up a car that lacks electronic engine controls? Doing your taxes without considering the Alternative Minimum Tax and the tens of thousands of pages of rules that have been added since our senior citizen was starting his career? Didn’t think so."

But these are contrived examples. Created specifically to illustrate technology's devaluing effect on the skills of older people.

Consider these questions:

Want help with that Bresenham's algorithm code? No thanks, I use glDrawLine() like most other non idiots. Want me to help you set up a MySQL on that server on the internet? No thanks, I have a buck. I'll spend the first ten cents on an Amazon RDS instance. Then a quarter on buying you a clue. I would give you the remaining change, but there are pan handlers that are probably more deserving.

Also contrived, created specifically to illustrate technology's devaluing effects on the skills of young people.

My point is we don't have to fear monger.

Consider . . . what moron would hire a 25 year old hot shot instead of Werner Vogels. Yeah . . . I don't think that moron exists either. Let's say you have a marketing and design God who happens to be between 20 and 30. Would you match him up against Steve Jobs? No. You wouldn't expect him to be that good for another 20 years.

Talent is where you find it, and it is the only thing of value in a world of rapid technological advance. Talented people have an ability to think differently. People like this will always be valued, young or old. So let's stop 'raging against . . .' and start 'innovating with . . .'
Don't like these kind of scripts. They are like "Yyz read your away message" or even worse "Xyz closed your message window" in ICQ and other messangers.

But nice code.
Ask HN: How do you evaluate a web site?
If you had to gather a list of words or criteria to describe
the most important aspects of a web site, from a design and user experience perspective, what would they be? What words would you use to judge a web site?

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See http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html #16
I do physics simulations, and can easily reach those times with a similar amount of input. And that is with highly optimized Fortran code.

But yeah, a comparison with a pure Java or C++ implementation would have been great, both in terms of speed and LOC. However, in the "real world", there usually isn't time for such silly things.
It's an extremely insightful post! But even he is still stuck in "memorization" as shown by this little footnote:

> *true, in America shocking number of people can't tell you the name of their congressman or the capital of North Carolina.

Both of those things are utterly useless things to know. Someone once asked Einstein how many feet in a mile, and he replied that that's what almanacs are for.
That doesn't sound like something that couldn't be bypassed already with just a tiny bit of hardware hacking.