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If you equate hard work to manual labor and assign altruism an imaginary monetary value then of course you're going to think that janitors are the pillars holding our society up. The wealthy don't exist because its 'in our interest' they exist because its in their interest. What kind of evil sacrificer of men wants to drag every man of success down into the gutter of egalitarian ruin? Moochers don't retain inherited wealth for generations and its the men who've chosen to rise above manual labor and move our society that become rich.

If someone makes money, it means someone values the things they produce. Government regulation/help and fraud aside - wealth and income represent contribution to society. If you buy an Ipod its because its worth more to you than the money you spend on it. If you buy a loaf of bread its because you value the loaf of bread. The fact that the farmer and Apple provide you with the things you need doesn't give you the right to enslave them.

You don't have a right to healthcare, to healthy food, to haircuts, to welfare, or even to happiness at my expense. You have the right to PURSUE happiness, not the right to be happy.

This paper is nonsense.
FWIW, this is a peer-reviewed article he wrote on the subject in 2001.

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2001/suppl-1/141-161reiter/...
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A problem with this idea is that the easiest ways to get around filters (secure tunnels) would generally result in the connection appearing to come from outside of the country.
In my experience this type of thing is unfortunately very common in China.

One of my earliest commercial software applications (for Palm OS) was decompiled and re-packaged as a competitor to our product by a Chinese company. When you looked at the binary of their product, it had most of our function names in it. Also, it had most of our bugs. These were weird bugs that no one implementing it on their own would've ever replicated.

We contact the company and they said that they honored our work and loved our product and didn't copy it and "yada yada happy-go-lucky" which was total BS.

Sadly since they were in China and our only real option (according to lawyers) was to sue the company in the US that sold it, which unfortunately was an online software retailer that was 30%+ of our revenues. Scratch that.

Thus we just had to deal with it.

I am not sure if it's cultural or what, but I largely avoid China as much as possible now.

Fool me once, shame on me. Don't get fooled again.
"They don't ask for cameras because there are no cameras at Apple: Employees are not allowed to get into the campus with them."

I mean, really, come on. That's just laughable.
Cool, I was curious also: http://www.spothistory.com/

Looks like I need to add datacenter, and you need to add OS :-)
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This is indeed true. Some (all?) amp designs place resistors and capacitors in the signal path. This distorts the sound. For one channel, that would be fine, since the distortion is usually just a phase shift that you won't notice. (Play a song. Then play a song but start it 1ms after you were planning to start it. It will sound fine both times :)

The problems start to show up with stereo, though, where you have two channels to deal with. When you use low-quality components, the phase shift can be significantly different between the two channels. (Components have a, say 10% value tolerance. If one channel is +10% and the other is -10%, you have a problem.)

This difference destroys the phase information between the two stereo channels, resulting in poor "imaging".

When you replace the 10% tolerance components with 1% tolerance components, you lose the phase distortion, presumably increasing sound quality.

(I am not an EE, but I have built a lot of headphone amps. The sad part is how people with $1000 amplifiers often have worse components than an amp built from $30 worth of parts. Ah, the free market...)
I think this is a known issue that Apple will fix, however. I remember reading something related to Apple fixing bad caps in iMacs, anyway...
I've already started to have conversations inside Microsoft about why startups in the Silicon Valley don't want (or need) to use Microsoft products.
Also, I now have a sudden urge to build another headphone amplifier... :)
Yehuda already replied, but allow me to summarize: the point is that Rails will do these things automatically, without developers having to think about them. This means that, unless you are doing all the things Rails 3 will give you for free, it's true that "your pages will load faster with Rails"---thus fulfilling the titular promise.
That's cool it's grown out of jsMath; I've been pretty happy with that for a while now.
Treat your people well and make sure you've got solid non-disclosure language in your NDA. Given how easy it is to duplicate a web app overall, what else can you do?
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What does leaders do, if not that?
...but only within two hours of initially posting the comment.
is there a non-Mac iphone emulator which can be used to test out a webapp ?

It does'nt kinda make sense if I have to have a Mac and iPhone to develop web apps for the iphone!
This paper does nothing to calculate any "real value" and is just a collection of biased and discredited arguments.

Example of one of the arguments:
"They have supported the propagation of the misguided view that tax cuts are good for stimulating growth and even increasing government tax revenues. The Nobel Prize- winning economist Paul Krugman claims that this is not true in the context of the United States."

That's the best they can do? Because Krugman says so? This paper is a joke.
Leaders does for the leaders, but not all users. I'd like to find the info for all users.
This is why the Rails Tutorial book (http://www.railstutorial.org/book) will be teaching authentication using salted, hashed passwords. Watch for Chapter 5, due out some time around New Year---and please forward it on to the nice fellows at RockYou. (Maybe, while we're at it, we can get them to ditch PHP for Rails.)
Did anyone do it in response to this post? You could reply with a new name if you don't want to admit it. I'm curious how many thousands of dollars were just arbitrarily shifted around.
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I've been using Hacker News for a while and what I like the most (other than the people) is the platform.

The system that Hacker News runs on is unique and being dependent on feedback and time, it keeps relevant stories up while they are still "hot".

Is the source code for hacker news out there somewhere? If not, would PG be willing to give it?
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He likely means "foreign" in a more classical sense: Orwell tends to favor Anglo-Saxon derived words over Norman French-derived words. "Freedom" rather than "liberty", for instance. This is a reaction to the centuries-old stigma against Anglo-Saxon derived words as being crude or inelegant.
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In the 15 months leading up to August of this year they appear to have sold a total of 768 computers. There may be more comments discussing Psystar in Hacker News than there are Psystar customers.
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Tom also invested in and advised many companies after ISS. The founders of SPI dynamics are doing the same thing. Lots of the founders of these companies that exited have done that, or gone on to found more than one company. Its what sustains the cluster.
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That's pretty much the opposite of my religion, traditional Catholicism. (Prov. 1:7) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
First it was the Maxtor hard drives that went bad, then it was the capacitors popping. The company I worked for at the time had literally thousands of these things--and nearly every single one had to get a new motherboard and hard drive before the warranty cycle completed.

Also, we had a Dell 'certification' that essentially let us go to a part of the website, and order the replacement parts for any warrantied system. It was really slick. When the site didn't get it done, there was a super-secret US-based support line we could call :)
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Remember that until iPhone OS 2.0, we didn't have: CSS Animations or HTML5 local-storage stuff. So it's really not that likely.
I've never had the solid state caps go bad on me. I've been using strictly solid-state capacitor motherboards on all my computers for two years now, and I haven't had a single (motherboard) problem with them.
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I think the point was to make it at-cost (i.e. break-even) for the manufacturer so that they aren't trying to gouge the customer by creating a product that will surely break (forcing them to pay marked up repair prices or just buy a replacement).
parsing Word documents in the OS kernel.

This is fascinating. What's the use case? And can you point me to the product?
So you think people are stupid enough that they cannot decide whether selling their privacy is a good decision, therefore the government should make this decision for them?

How about health..we know that people are so stupid that they will sell their health for food (eat cheap fast food that is horrible for their health). Should we ban fast food?

May be we should let people decide what people are comfortable with.
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/12/14/111101/how-much-a...

FT: And before you start nitpicking the numbers, a word of warning from the study:

"Our Social Return on Investment analysis is not just an intellectual exercise – it has big implications for the way in which our society and economy are structured. Financial incentives are very powerful, and we tend to shower them on some of the professions that are the most socially and environmentally costly. This promotes undesirable behaviour, while positive activities are discouraged.
....
We have not aimed for precision in our calculations – there may be aspects of value that were left out. The point was to draw attention to the issue. We have not included detailed recommendations because it is clear to us that there are deep structural issues that need to be addressed, and change will not come overnight."

On that wider `issue’ note, prepare to forget almost every economic theory you’ve ever heard.

According to the study, the City of London is not essential for the UK economy (manufacturing, apparently, is much more important). Low-paid jobs don’t create a ladder for people to work their way up — social mobility is flat. The UK doesn’t need high salaries to attract and retain talent, since higher salaries don’t necessarily reflect the best people available. Etc.
This is a fallacy. The wealth provided by something you buy isn't what you deem it worth. There can be negative externalities. For example, positional goods can mean the good seems worth it to you because it increases your status, but by doing so it just lowers someone else's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good
I didn't see one chart or table in that entire paper; the myths & "wanted ads' show a clear bias; this merely propaganda.
I wonder if this also applies to software. For instance, do you know some ready-made patterns that we could do without ?
Wow. That's amazingly fucking boring.
They don't ask for cameras because there are no cameras at Apple: Employees are not allowed to get into the campus with them. If the cellphone is an iPhone, it gets backed up onto a laptop. "In fact, at the beginning they used to say that the iPhones were really their property, since Apple gave every employee a free iPhone," he points out. All the employees are asked to unlock and disable any locking features in their cellphones, and then the special forces will proceed to check them for recent activity.

ROFL. Gizmodo.com has been trolled.
This paper is backed by no scientific data, is totally biased and is so wrong on so many arguments that I don`t even know where to start. Full disclosure: My salary sucks.
I'd like to call your attention to the section of this article that argues against what you're saying.

". . . one era's luxuries are another's commonplace goods. In short, the negative positional externality is often compensated by the public goods of infant industry effects and research and development."

The negative externality view of positional goods seems to be a minority opinion among economists. The examples of positional goods in the article were further quite marginal and it would be difficult to assess what part of the good is positional (and thus deserving of a tax to mitigate the externality) and what part is just valuable.
The language is a Lisp dialect called Arc.
The language site is here: http://arclanguage.org/
The source file for HN itself can be read here: http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc
I can also confirm that Apple does not have a "no camera" policy on campus.

Or a "gestapo". The security is very well run, however.
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This is Apple, not the Government. If you don't like the legal terms of employment, California is an at-will state. Quit.

That said, this article is total ridiculous bunk. Gizmodo has been trolled.
Just change your user-agent string. The best experience is going to be with Safari, which has an optional debug menu that will change your user-agent to various versions of Mobile Safari.
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I too am reading up on Buddhism, primarily the works of Bhante Henepola Gunaratna.

However, I think it's natural to think about the past and worry about the future. The key IMO is to do these productively, and not go about thinking or worrying just for their own sakes like a broken record.

If you're thinking about the past, think deliberately in order to distill any lesson you hope to learn from it. Write down these points somewhere, ala GTD style. And then put the past aside - you're done with it.

Similarly, worrying about the future can warn us about potential dangers. Worrying should cause us to ask specific questions such as "what's the worst that can happen?", "how am I prepared to face the worst, if it does happen?", "what steps can I take immediately to ensure that the worst does not happen?", etc. Once these are made clear in a list, take the worry entirely off your mind.
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They have a restriction on taking pictures of things you shouldn't (which includes most of the campus), but they don't have restrictions on cameras.

In addition to there being no written rule against it, I've openly and regularly hauled digital video and still cameras across campus without ever hearing any complaint from the omnipresent security guards.

How do you think people work on iPhoto/iMovie/FCP? Check out cameras from a locked facility?
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I don't know how close Safari on Windows will get.

But really, "feel" is a huge part of the interface and you should be testing on a real device for any handheld dev. An iPod Touch is your cheapest option here.
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While Apple employees aren't subject to that, if you're just wandering around as a visitor taking pictures, security will ask you to stop.
Not the specific one, for NDA reasons, but Google for "Win32 data loss prevention" and you'll find a bunch.
They never had anything to do with one another

Not completely true... The X in XHR stands for XML, as that's what it parses natively [1], whereas parsing JSON wasn't native until relatively recently. JavaScript had Java's syntax. Not sure about hamsters and ham...

1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534370(VS.85).aspx
"Getting into the campus" is also a giveaway, in that "the campus" is basically "everything in Cupertino within 5 minutes of 280".

And of course, if you've ever walked up to those buildings, they're just "guarded" by receptionists.
That's certainly cleverer, but it's still a nested user-implemented unsound type-system.
...except when called via SOAP!
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An idea for a quick fix: use

my.address+really_long_random_string@famousprovider.com

as your Gravatar e-mail. Will work if famousprovider==gmail at least.
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Well, it was speculation anyway..
Physics is fortunately one of these sciences where failed experiment can considered to be a total success :)
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May be we should let people decide what people are comfortable with.

The problem is when people stop caring about privacy because so many others made that decision for them, and the choice completely disappears. I would want to ban fast food if all healthy food became unavailable as a result of its popularity.
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You don't think they could have been iterating it?

It could also have been developed during the initial post-launch pre-app-store period when they were encouraging webapps, but not released publicly until 2.0 or later.
I understand that. I remain very curious about the question I actually asked though.
Fair points from both of you, and I wouldn't be unhappy about voting for these mentioned, but you have to worry when your best bet is the Sex Party, your second option is almost dead, and the third hosts a strong supporter of the filter.

I was really disappointed to see the ALP pushing this.
Every minor redesign causes about a week of angry outrage that eventually goes away. I think Facebook has good empirical evidence that users will just deal and eventually get used to the new way of doing things.
Dr. Sage is certainly cordial, eh?

edit: actually he apologizes for his tone in a comment on the blog, so credit there.
Does that actually work with Gravatar and the blogapp plugins that call it?

A ton of people validate addresses using Regular Expressions but don't have the fortitude to copy-paste the monster regex needed to do it correctly.
The big problem with that is that you'd have to use the same

really_long_random_string

to register for every gravatar-enabled site you want to register for.

The only benefit I can see of this is that you could easily blacklist emails destined for that address.
It would also have to be your email on every service you register with, since they use your email automatically to get a gravatar.
Spam hasn't been a problem for me for quite some time. I stopped obfuscating my email address years ago.
What, no one got the irony of the server(s) hosting a blog post about how to increase page load performance was down for maintenance in the middle of the day?
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No matter how inept your accidental data leakage, you can usually rely on Dave Winer to have done a worse job earlier: http://www.metafilter.com/8140/
Write a Greasemonkey script to do it.
What works for you? How often and how closely do your check your spam folder(s) for false-positives?
It's just a lead-in to the comments by Barbara Kingsolver. He knows that it's not 'over.' See later on:

> But more importantly, a few hundred of the successors to the
> Titans, the "Minuteman III" missiles, remain active in silos
> throughout the northern US, run by crews and following procedures
> essentially similar to those here. ICBMs are not yet history,
> even if the original motivation for building them now is.

> Second, I don't consider it a "terrible artifact". It's an awesome engineering project. And it helped preserve the freedoms we have today.

We arguably wouldn't have a lot of the advances we have today without WW2, but I'm not ready to shake Hitler's hand and congratulate him on a job well done. Just because something causes a good outcome doesn't mean that referring to it as 'terrible' is the opposite of the truth.

If some 'mad scientist' starts kidnapping homeless people off the streets and torturing them to death in his/her basement. Suppose through this process he/she discovers a cure for cancer. I'm not about to say that he/she "led the heroic fight to free us from the evils of cancer." But I'm not about to throw out the results (cure for cancer) either just because the method (torturing people to death) was misguided.
I think that those of us who actually use email for communication and check it several times a day are simply numb to the pain.

At this point, I think I could spot a piece of spam tip-toeing through the brush at 300 yards.
The problem is pretty well known, with (I believe) several companies selling heaters that activate in cold weather.

I was even able to find articles that mentioned the issue dating back to Q4 2000.

As such, I'm not sure why this is all over the internet today. Somebody ignored a well-known issue and bought the wrong product. It worked as expected.
As per my other comment on this thread, you can intentionally decrease the lifetime (aka MTBF) by running the part at 10 or 20% overvoltage, in addition to extreme temp, to create a corner case and stimulate premature failure in reasonable amount of time. 20% overvoltage won't kill the cap, as any part has absolute maximum ratings well beyond what the spec sheet says. Even bad caps have some degree of guard band, else they would never leave the factory.
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