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In addition to the optimization reasons, you also end up coding assembly by hand to tickle features in the verification and bringup of new processors and/or processor architectures.

Since a lot of the bugs therein may be dependent on a certain sequence of instructions, doing it in a high level language doesn't make any sense.
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Until recently, these were the exact reasons that I avoided GOOG stock.

Nowadays, however, Google has a more immediate problem: Bing.

What would happen if Microsoft starts doing search deals with ISPs, portals, & mobile companies? Why would any company integrate Google search if Microsoft was willing to pay them to use Bing? Isn't this already happening with the Microsoft-Facebook and Microsoft-Yahoo deals?
And if Hirst has taken a photo of John DeKay's skull, DeKay would be right to take action.

I still haven't seen the artist specifically mention satire.
I, for one, think that Assembly is just beautiful in its simplicity.
The marketing guy ran the study, so he made sure that the results beyond 1st place were quickly buried.
I give you a pass on ad hominem in this case because it's not a logical fallacy, it's appropriate.

Ad hominem is not automatically a logical fallacy. I think it's important to note that there was something seriously off about Wittgeinstein's character.
All of which has nothing to do with the value of the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations. Your arguments are ad hominem and circumstantial.
Daniel Dennett, himself a contemporary caricature of a philosopher

Why should anyone bother to continue reading your comment after that poisoning of the well?
Companies that look at their employees as "heads" or "resources" and look at their customers as nothing more than revenue sources inevitably fall behind. When you operate that way your most talented workers don't give their best and many of them eventually leave, and you don't produce the best products (because you simply don't care). When a competitor who does care comes along they eat your lunch, because their more efficient and put out better products.
Dennett didn't choose who was in the Time 100. Dennett was just asked to write the article. But even if Dennett was Wittgenstein's BFF, then that detracts nothing from the content of the article, to which your comment is entirely irrelevant.
I didn't say his character was relevant to his philosophy. I do think it's notable. Just like, say, Bertrand Russel's attitude to nuclear disarmament was notable. Is it relevant to whether his philosophy is true? Of course not. But should we forget about it and never mention it? No again.

As to Tractatus, if you want to discuss it more can you give a quote from the book that you consider to have value? Or want to cite a fruitful philosophical problem Wittgenstein did have, to contradict my view?
I have never been able to achieve this. Where do you place your laptop? It's most comfortable for me when my laptop is on my stomach and my back is propped up but even then my neck is strained. How have you been able to make this position work?
How does the "Give up their phone number" scam work? How do you "[bill] $20 a month" based on that?

Do I need to be even more paranoid about filling out web forms than I thought?

Edit: It seems it's the same mechanism that allows things like Collect calls to be billed to the receiving party. So I guess it has legitimate uses- there just needs to be a better way to keep it from being abused, apparently. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cramming.html
It has already happened: they've screwed up search, when moved away from PageRank to some reputation-based algorithms (and set-up the Facebook & co. as sites with biggest reputation, which is nonsense, as that's UGC). It's not so visible in English-language search, although begins to be, but, for example, for Russian I've stopped using it altogether.
I disagree with you. Wittgenstein's generation of philosophers did contribute something crucial to the twentieth century thought. At least Karl Popper (1902-1994) should be mentioned in this context. His arguments against the political philosophies that emphasise metaphysics are traces of the world that resulted in communism and fascism.

The German philosophers before Wittgenstein (Hegel especially) created a philosophical atmosphere in which it was acceptable to create large metaphysical constructions such as the proletarian state or the third Reich. Popper among the other liberal thinkers devoted significant part of their academic work to show that communism and fascism were founded on metaphysical constructions that could not deliver the dream they promised.
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Though I'm a wage slave, my goal is to make myself superfluous. When I found a company, that will also be my goal: build and deliver a product, until there is nothing I can or want to add anymore.
In many cases it can, but then you have to be sure that it keeps doing so. You can write test cases for that, but in many cases it's easier to verify by just using the instructions directly.

If you don't write the compiler, you have to make assumptions about when and how it can/will use those instructions, and often you assume wrong, particularly across compiler upgrades.
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I'd prefer not to see question mark headlines. they're really easily abused.
It is an extraordinarily difficult problem to transform scalar code into vector instructions. The only way to get even passable output from a vectorizing compiler is to write the code as vectors to begin with, such as with cross-platform assembly tools like Orc.

And even then you'll often end up significantly worse off than if you wrote the assembly by hand.

A run of Intel's compiler on the C versions of our DSP functions resulted in a grand total of one vectorization, which was done terribly, too.
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I know I am in the minority and the point of this message is more or less fruitless, but hopefully some people might listen, and that's the best I can hope for.

This site has become horrible. Right now people post about the most mundane, boring, stupid crap that I can imagine. It either has to do with

a). posts from key blogs (joel, fireball)

These are sometimes good, but come on, it ain't like these guys are actually the only people coming up with original stuff or that it's always original. Just trusting a source or liking a guy doesn't mean he knows his stuff or that he makes sense.

b). new versions of obvious software

Just quit talking about that, come on.

c). website design

Really? Just do something easy and simple and I am sure it will work out. Listening to critics and suggestions on the matter is more or less the blind leading the blind.

d). How to start a startup.

Just friggin start it man. NASA was started with a lot
of engineers and astronomers who had no clue how how to put anything together, but people still figured out how to do it. All you need is the determination and the rest will work itself out.

What would I like to see here?

a). Research, research, research! Lets talk about new stuff on arxiv or something, and the potential applications. I hate reading about new perl/python/c stuff. I mean I am sure it's cool, but come on, it usually ain't breaking new ground.

b). Stuff not related to computer science! I friggin love awesome articles about the new discoveries made today or theories about philosophy or whatever. I mean it ain't directly relevant, but that definitely doesn't mean it's useless.

c). what sucks in computer science and how to fix it. Let's talk about basic stuff with semi-broken implementations of software and talk about how they could be made better today.

d). math! I love reading math stuff, even if I don't get it. Statistics, topology, fuzzy logic, whatever. This site needs more of it.

It's been on my mind for a while and thought I would mention it.

p.s. Also, quit friggin making blog posts somewhere and then linking to them from here. Come on people, you can't be that desperate for cash. Just make it a ycombinator post and humble yourself with that.
I have done this before, and even encouraged it before. Mea maxima culpa. I am sorry and will not repeat these numbers again.

Here's my thinking:

At a point in the past I made $80 for every 1k visitors to my website. In October, I made $72 for every 1k visitors to my website. (Some folks would call these figures eCPMs.)

Now we come to the crucial question to ask about any metric: does this provide actionable insights? Can you say, looking at those numbers, that I was doing better in the past than I did in October? Well, I suppose you could, but you'd be wrong: I've quadrupled the bottom line since then. The difference in the two eCPMs is driven largely by the effectiveness of my Halloween promotions, which brought in lots of paying customers mixed in with a larger-than-usual horde of folks who did not happen to pay me money.

Incidentally, I totally agree with you with regards to page views and visitor numbers: meaningless.

Incidentally: aggregating your statistics over multiple sources of traffic tends to blunt their utility. I tend to watch conversion rates like a freaking hawk, for example. However, even these are fairly useless as aggregate numbers. For example, consider that I have two sources of traffic which convert, a priori, at 10% and 20%. My traffic mix is 50:50. This will produce a sitewide conversion rate of 15%. Now increase the absolute count of visitors from the first source by 20% (maybe I did well at SEO this month), and my sitewide conversion rate falls to 14.54%. Looking at the conversion metric tells you you're doing something wrong, looking at your wallet tells you you're doing something right. The wallet wins.

This isn't just a theoretical issue, it comes up at the Business of Software boards all the time, and causes needless anxiety among software developers who know just enough about optimization to hurt themselves.

Edited to continue:

So what do I think about tracking LTV? Well, subject it to the metrics acid test: does it give you actionable insights?

I think sitewide LTV does not give you actionable insights. Sometimes LTV going up is a good thing. Sometimes LTV going down is a good thing. (Many startups here will see LTV plummet at a point in their lifecycle. It is colloquially known as "crossing the chasm".)

However, with a sufficiently advanced testing system, you could probably use LTV effectively. For example, if you could split test customers across a cohort and compare LTV for the groups versus the conditions you exposed them to, that might be worthwhile information. (Example: suppose you're Joe Random Subscription Billing Service. You could create a cohort out of everyone signed up in the last three days, then randomly apportion them into two groups. Group A will receive no treatment. Group B will receive an email right before their next cycle offering them a 50% discount if they upgrade to the next service level. Six months from now you measure their LTVs. Those LTVs could, potentially, be meaningful.)
GPGPU stuff -- that is, using your graphics processor for random programming tasks. While something like <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html>CUDA</a&...; reduces the need to write assembly-like code, it also reduces the available speed substantially.

For that matter, CUDA (and ATI's Bare-Metal Interface, which is similar) is more assembly-like than C-like in many ways. So even using the higher-level available language is still pretty much like assembly.

You tend to only write these things when you're going to be running a lot of elements through, so almost everything you do in these platforms is inner-loop, or you'd be using a different tool. So even small speed-ups tend to matter.
I recently bought the Bebook reader. It's been on for almost a week now and shows 75% charge. We can use it to read books in bed, actually better than an actual book because you can keep your head on the pillow and still "turn pages" easily. I had an iPhone before, but it just wasn't comfortable enough to read on it.
Having read and written assembly on a daily basis for years, I have to disagree entirely. The only simple thing about assembly is that it happens to map to machine code directly, but macros and quasi-instructions even make that iffy. There are so many idiosyncrasies in every ISA, so many ways in which the code you write has side effects. Assembly isn't just complex in practice, it's complex in concept.

If you want simplicity, you look at lisps; homoiconicity is perhaps the most elegant, simple concept known in computing. It may be more complex in practice (many more layers above the bare metal), but in concept it's simply beautiful.
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This reads as though it is straight out of a Monty Python sketch:

I was having tea with A Company when we heard a lot of shouting and went out to investigate. We found our men and the Germans standing on their respective parapets. Suddenly a salvo arrived but did no damage. Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans, when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted out "We are very sorry about that; we hope no one was hurt. It is not our fault, it is that damned Prussian artillery."
Compiler intrinsics, binary patches and hooks (although EasyHook has made assembly a rarity here outside of the occasional shim where odd calling conventions are used), in-process debuggers, low-level bootloaders, hardware initialization/management, various thunking mechanisms.

Others have covered the optimization side of things well so I won't repeat it, but there are tiny fragments of assembly all over the place -- they hold your system together.
Debugging and reverse engineering games.

When publishers/developers don't give a bleep, the fans take up the task of fixing the bugs themselves. I happen to run one such project in my spare time (for C&C: Red Alert 2), and it's amazing how much stuff is broken. It's not as "serious" as other projects mentioned here, but still a reason to know ASM. (And a good way to see bad programming practices in action :) )
I understand the inequity you're pointing out. But calling this a subsidy suggests that there is some baseline that the government is justified in taking and that what we retain is a subsidy that is allowed us by the good grace of the government. Which is exactly backwards.

Your interpretation of what a subsidy is is also subject to the vagaries of where you choose to set the baseline for the funding to which the government is entitled. Is everything less than that a subsidy?

Also, in this case in particular, I'd guess that the people taking advantage of the tax break for golf club membership are above whatever baseline you would set.
I sincerely hope that people will realise how they are giving up their privacy. If a massive breach is the way to go, then be it.
the escalation of war throughout modern history, culminating in the world wars, is a fascinating subject. the methodology of total war is so alien to the human psyche that it requires quite a bit of brain washing and careful planning, and even then you constantly have to maintain it via a strict hierarchy, lest you get the sort of unspoken agreements between sides as discussed extensively in the article. the escalation to total war was caused by at least three things:

1. the growth of government as a percentage of GDP (more efficient taxation and indoctrination) allowed ever greater a nation's economic output to be turned to aggression. see Bertrand de Jouvenal's excellent On Power for a lengthy dissertation on this subject.

2. the slow change from a multi-polar to bi-polar power arrangement. in the animal kingdom you will see "posture fighting" between contesting males where little actual damage is done. This is because a real fight is disastrous, even for the male who wins since he may be weakened so much that he can not now defend himself against a third male who will swoop in on this opportunity. Likewise with a multi-polar power arrangement. No one nation will devote tons of resources to a total war with another because doing so will weaken both with regards to other nations. what we see in pack animals (including primates) is that aggression generally only occurs when one side has overwhelming advantage (5 vs 1) and thus can act without reprisal. larger fights, while rarer, usually end when one side gets a kill. why doesn't the winning side press the advantage? again, the risk is large for an uncertain payoff.

3. of course, technology. this one is harped on by so many history channel shows that I feel no need to go into it.
Funny - there was a whole stack of these lying in the 3rd floor lounge of Stanford's CS building last week. I just happened to pick one up, It's the first time i've read it, and here it pops up on Hacker News!
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1) (Google as Page and Brin's bull session fantasy): Schmidt has been there for a long time, sure, but it's only in recent years that they've so clearly polarized between the "the guys" and Schmidt, the former representing vague hype and themselves and Schmidt being the voice that calms investors and analysts. As a small example, in the business press, Schmidt is being portrayed as the guy who spins cut-backs on employee perks as prudent business while Page and Brin are being portrayed as guys who own a love-shack jet, invest in eccentric and nepotistic genomics projects, and treat reporters rudely.

2) (Collapse of advertising): Yeah, the on-line ad market ain't growing like it did for a while and in some sectors is contracting. Meanwhile, the "fat middle" of the long tail of the blogosphere is undergoing contraction and professionalization which suggests it is going to evolve into an industry that has far greater leverage in brokering its ads and is not so reliant upon Google. Don't get me started on the coming collapse of the (remaining) major "social networking" sites (which, to a first approximation, have yet to generate a return for most investors other than insiders).

By "decision engine" I mean we'll see ad delivery based less on what a person happens to be reading or searching for, and more on what they explicitly declare to some service that they want to shop for. We've already seen that to some degree in some of the most easily commoditized markets like air travel between A and B, or car insurance, or cars, or electronics parts (http://octopart.com/). That trend is accelerating. Check out a page like: http://octopart.com/parts/category--interface+ics--ethernet/... Aren't the Google ads down the right column of that page just a bit ironic?

3a) (Google's data center potential to fail because of their impulse to monopolize what apps run on them): Ok, well, I have an app that uses (let's say) Oracle Berkeley DB/XML and newLisp atop a GNU/Linux distro of my choice. I'm willing to tweak it for their particular network and storage topology. What's the price?

3b) (overcapitalized): I simply mean that they have to spend more money per quarter than they are competent to spend (or than any other organization with that executive structure could be competent to spend). The same investment dollars would likely perform better if invested with a more diversified set of controls on how they are spent. If you're skeptical of big government, you oughta also be skeptical of big corp.
It is the collapse of the US Empire.

Which is bound to happen given History, like it or not, even if it is not allowed to fail (wall street).

If you look at GOOG closely, you will realize, that it is not based on the purported commercial grounds at all. No single Company can:

- map the moon as a "cool factor"

- get all the UN translations for Bayes

- inherit the Corona Project

- hand out Tb of mail storage ...does your default Corporate Entity allow that for their employees, let alone for anybody?

- have urchins and alike everywhere

- use NASA site as a terminal (that's a challenge(er))

- view all the streets it is allowed to (think urban w[t]f)

- operate one of the largest computers on the Planet, though interestingly enough still with only a few percent of Intel's production

- scan all books ...and "legally" violate (C) at the drop of the hat (have the power to make law up as you go)

...you would have hard trouble doing any of the above, let alone do all of them at once (with still some omissions) without strong backing. If you rather think of it as a RAND, you will notice, that all this has nothing to do with the order of magnitude of the rev. sources you are alluding to. And think of search the other way around (like zeitgeist), it will make much more sense.
Conversely, to fail to become sufficiently bureaucratic that the lunatics run the asylum. They are too big not to fail.
Well if you ask me, you did little worse in October than the past. And if the trend in whatever money you make per 1k of visitors is consistently downward, I will be really worried. While it may not provide actionable insights (that is what bounce rate and conversion rates are for), I don't see why you should not be concerned about LTV at all. What you are saying is that one cannot increase visitor value while increasing total traffic? Hence arent concerned about per visitor value as long as your bottomline is quadrupled. Do you think your bottomline would have swollen even more if $80/k visits didn't drop to $72/k visits. Or you think it wasn't possible because traffic increased and one cannot maintain the visitor value as before?

Having an eye at individual conversion rates is better than having an aggregate conversion rates. Definitely I agree with you on this. However, people tend to cling on to aggregate numbers because brain can hold limited information at a time. Better to have a vague idea of what is happening than no idea at all :)
I'm potentially in on that bet, too, but what do we mean by public utility? It's a hard bet to decide the outcome of.

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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. -- Wittgenstein
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I don't think it is a licensing issue, there are plenty of online book sellers who would have been happy to provide Apple with a way to sell ebooks on the Iphone, Apple properly just didn't believe it would be worth enough.
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Not in the transitional period, when there are lots of newly unemployed mechanics. All working hard to learn the new virtual reality systems.

And probably not after that time, either.
It used to be called the place where the Clinton admin. was in exile, and seem to have survived Bush quite well. You'll just come to the conclusion, that it is the government, and self-regulatory government is an illusion, just as a self regulated market.
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