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It wasn't "exactly your point" at all. I objected to your saying they're a little less evil because IMO they are significantly less evil. You trivialized a difference which ought not to be trivialized. I don't see how my objection could have been clearer, given the first two sentences I wrote (or the last one, for that matter).

Why is Google is significantly less evil? Because they pursue their interests in a way that is far more aligned with the public interest than any other corporation of their size ever (that I've observed). Making the internet faster. Digitizing all the world's books. Sure, it's all self-interested, but it's self-interested in a more enlightened way than we've ever seen in a large corporation. How can that not matter?

Do they still do evil things? Duh. This isn't binary.

I also disagree with you that their "Don't be evil" slogan is a weak one. It's just a slogan, but based on numerous things I've read, it does put some pressure on their decision makers to consider these things. Who else does that?

Actually, I disagree with pretty much everything you said. I don't accept your cynical slippery-slope argument at all, and you haven't provided any evidence for it.
Obtaining this result cost us about a billion dollars.

I'm as excited about confirmations of General Relativity as the next person, but when you think about the kinds of non-trivial planetary science or cosmology experiments you could fire into space on a billion-dollar budget, the decision to throw dollars at Gravity Probe B (not to mention the ISS...) is regrettable.
Unfortunately, Alex is making the exact mistake he outlines. In criticising the notion that criticism is associated with negativity, he tries to associate criticism with love. He says:

The reason a person is critical of a thing is because he is passionate about that thing. In order to have a critical opinion, you have to love something enough to understand it

Now you may say that you don't really care about something, unless you're critical of it, but saying you have to love it, because you are critical about it, is a bridge too far. That would have exactly the same kinds of problems as the association with negativity.
" Therefore, the respondent said, "This," pointing to the answer."

Shouldn't it then be "that", or have the quote come after "this"?
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And I think most people have problems with calling SaaS a "cloud". According to that definition, a hosted visitor counter you can embed on your website can be called "Cloud Counting", and that's nothing new.
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I disagree with the sentiment that you should simply ignore proper semantics because it's inconvenient. As the article points out, this stuff really does matter.

There are classes of problems that these type of true reference semantics can be quite helpful. In C/C++ the technique is largely used in contexts where you want to return multiple values from a function, as there is no native support for dynamic tuples. Such is the way of statically typed languages.

There are also cases where this type of reference to a pointer magic can really improve the efficiency of the algorithm.

True reference passing is a tool. For those living in dynamic languages (as I do now), not a particularly relevant one. But that doesn't make the distinction any less important.
Microsoft's compilers are generally free. What you pay for is the IDE. Even those come in free 'Express' editions.
Wow, that article was piece of crap. What those numerous pictures of blocks are supposed to tell us? It could all be said in one sentence: startup needs to get it's product, positioning and pricing right.
None of the 9/11 hijackers' nationalities are represented (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE), excepting Lebanon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizers_of_the_September_11,...
I think it's really important to understand why tuples can't be modified and lists can. If you explain it away with something factually incorrect about pass-by-reference, your doing a real disservice to whomever you are teaching.

After all, the issue here has nothing to do with parameter passing and everything to do with object design. It's important to understand that tuples are truly immutable and what the implications of that is.

Misuse of tuples and lists are one of the biggest problems I see in novice (and often not so novice) python code. How often do you see someone copying tuples (often inadvertently) when list semantics are far more efficient? That stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of immutability, something that might stem from not understanding how parameters are truly passed in the language.
> "first-class functions require references in Perl 5"
yes thats what i meant. to put it simply.
perl4 did not have lexical variables, first class functions, proper syntax for nested data structures.
larry said let there be references. its one big hammer to solve all problems.

i think perl6 is using a different appoach based on laziness for nested data structures. there are always strings and do blocks which assign and return globs with randomised but unique name(gensym but perls gensym is returns a GLOB reference so you have to write ur own).

reference context == continuation right ??
in sub bar { ... $foo = sub { .... } ... return \$foo},
i think \$foo also captures the lexpad of bar using a single reference to $foos internals. thats all.

otherwise i think one would need continuations like in ruby or scheme or perl6.
It remains unclear if businesses will be that enamoured with giving Google further control of their "message" at this point of engagement.

Would I rather a potential customer typed in my URL and got my "story" or would I let them scan a QRcode that takes them to Google and its links to reviews, competitors etc?

Might businesses also have legitmiate concerns that this is Google getting even more information about the customers (and that this might become yet another Google revenue stream down the track)?
Did anyone else get an intense feeling of dread when looking at the picture of the roots of all degree-24 polynomials with coefficients in {-1, 1} ? (this one: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/roots/polynomialrootssmall.png )
As I wrote two years ago, people do not fit Gaussian distributions as neatly as many imagine (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65408):

"The thing is that intelligence isn't some kind of nice, statistically normed quantity. There's more to most variables than a mean and a standard deviation -- so I don't know why people seem to always think that you can restrict a discussion of intelligence to such concepts.

One thing that is actually correct is that there's more variation in gene expression between men and women. On of the reasons for this is because, chromosomally, women have two X chromosomes, which pair up, and then randomly one or another turns off. These means that the gene expression is mixed between both parents.

On the other hand, the Y chromosome is largely only effective at turning off gene expression. You can see how there's less redundancy here.

But intelligence isn't a gene. Researchers have, since the time of Dalton, tried to find a simple, biological basis for genius. You know, memory capacity, reaction times, brain size, brain structure convolution, etc. They haven't found anything -- literally everything has turned out to be a false start, even brain size, which, has been shown, within families does not even predict g.

In the mid ranges, there are greater standard deviations, yes. But every single normed test is normed on a sample on the order of 1000. They're designed for regular people. The designer of the Weschler has adamantly opposed the use of IQ tests for anything other than clinical settings, for this reason. It's just no good at drawing conclusions on the extremes of ability.

A better guide might be actual performance. The IOI this year had more girls than ever before -- 11. That's nearly 300% more than last year, where they had 4, and one medal. They are:

Emina Bukva (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Constanza Contreras (Chile) Anna Currel (Spain) Romina Huenchunao (Chile) Vaiva Imbrasaite (Lithuania) Taksapaun Kittiakrastien (Thailand) [Silver] Sepideh Mahabadi (Iran) [Gold!] Radwa Metwali (Egypt) Katie O'Mahony (Ireland) Phitchaya Phothilimthana (Thailand) [Silver] Ye Wang (USA) [Silver]

Sepideh Mahabadi had one of the best performances of anyone. If you're familiar with IOI scoring, only the top 1/12 are to get golds, and 2/12 to get silvers, thus 1 gold and 3 silvers out of 11 implies that they did at least as good as the boys, and in fact somewhat better.

Were the 'standard deviation' explanation correct they should have, instead, had 0.4 girls earning maybe 0.01 medals. It just doesn't work. Psychometrics are a non-science."
It is so.

About emulating Nokia (est. 1865)... it "never" was a tech start-up so it shouldn't be compared to new companies in terms of continuity/selling out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#History

I think it has more to do with its old industry - forestry and wood products. Some of the oldest companies in Scandinavia come from that industry. Swedish Stora Kopparberg (est. 1347) current Swedish/Finnish StoraEnso, which is the oldest LLC in the world was a mining company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stora_Enso#History%20of%20Stora

Strong tradition of continuity can also lead to risk aversion. That's a bad trait for entrepreneurs & VCs. We should take more risks, because our worst case scenario does not include losing health coverage etc.
This happened "once upon a time", he might have done it while learning the ropes and picking up the language.
At least they did not put humans on the Gravity Probe B.
Deep in your heart you know earth is flat.
You just described why I believe pythons 'implicit is always better than explicit' is the most important language design fundamental ever conceived of.

The problem with the C++ approach is that it's default (pass by copy-constructor really) is rather implicit. Your doing a potentially a ton of work with a very innocent function call, with possible side-effects. At least the 'pass a reference by value' behaves the same way EVERY time.

For example, in C++:

myobj a;
somefunction(a);

That copy constructor might trigger a database hit to create a new object if myobj was some sort of ORM. It might call 23 other constructors to fully complete it's deep copy. Who knows, as it all happens rather implicitly. In python, that would look like:

a = myobj()
somefunction(a)

def somefunction(p):
p = copy.deepcopy(p)

In that version I'm now implicitly providing that copy. In your multi-threaded example this is still better, as I get the best of both worlds. Ya, I might lose a bit of convenience... but that explictness is worth the trade-off IMHO.
Yeah. Also, for glasses, I think we should just wear 2009 glasses and take them off in celebration and toss them high in the air to ring in the new year, instead of wearing a "1" on our noses.
That's ... okay, whatever you want to call it, that's what it was called in the past when there was a problem. (I don't see why I'm getting downmodded for trying to help...)

See this page for many more examples (hope it helps):
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/powermacg5/topic2215...

Here's more recent one:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10364393
I love David Attenborough's narration. Be it this video or any of the Planet Earth series or the older videos from the BBC.
It's scary how symmetric everything get's as N approaches one extreme or another.
Yes, it's initially surprising, and then it gets terribly annoying.

If you look around further, you'll notice that it gets a LOT worse than that particular example. While developing Twitter support on an iPhone app, we discovered that some account icons far exceed 1MB in size, which ended up causing us some memory usage issues. So it goes..
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I thought the blocks were pretty good visuals of what the article is trying to say. I guess you didn't understand that.
Amazon's supposed push into bricks and mortar would fit under that banner too... although I'm not sure where the transaction cost arguments would fit in...
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Well said. A window manager should, well, manage your windows. Most of them are actually "window control systems".
Yes, Amazon is behaving surprisingly.
First surprise was Kindle, second - vegetables.
Now - this.
Nature is a great place to steal ideas from.

Here's a fine example of seed gliding inspired design:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbuGCgc-JCM&feature=playe...
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My guess is that there is an M&A department that is goaled on acquiring startups (i.e. someone gets a bonus for closing deals within certain parameters).
The Beatles sold more albums than Michael Jackson, they had more successfully released albums to begin with (eight vs five), they had more nr. 1 singles in the US/UK, their hits stayed longer in the #1 position ... and the Beatles were active for eight years, certainly shorter than Jackson's career which is longer than 20 years.

Not that it matters much ... Michael Jackson's albums are here to stay.

I was just saying that to be great (instead of just acceptable) ... you have to put a whole lot of effort into it. For instance I haven't heard of a single great gymnast who hasn't practiced until every muscle in his/her body was pushed well beyond limits. I actually heard of a few cases where people have passed out, out of sheer exhaustion.

So you're born with a natural talent ... but so are many other people. What makes you stand out is the effort you're putting in achieving your goals.
If it was me, I had assemble my own machine. But neither my story, nor yours is related to apple support.
This reminds me of the "Q-Cat" bar code readers some magazines mailed out in the late 90's. Those never went anywhere, any reason why this will be different because it is on a mobile phone?
Especially bad is when the presenter shows a desktop for the first 2 or 3 minutes while talking about what they are going to be talking about.
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Your comment made it to their twitter account, which is shown on their blog. So, starting on the comments page, you can click the link to the story, click the link in the sidebar to get to your comment, and click "parent" to get back to the comments page. :)

http://twitter.com/xmonad/status/6423056573
Sure, the machinery is different; I was responding to the terse elegance of it, not its self-containedness. I suppose yes it is outside the scope of the original submission, but (for me) still compelling.
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Yeah. a successful product business involves a whole lot more 'no' than a consulting business.

However, I think even when working by the hour, when I charge what I seem to be able to charge lately, I try to say "No, that's outside of my area of competence" because really, they are paying me way too much for me to 'figure it out.'

When it is in my area of competence, I think it's just as important to say "No, I think that's a bad idea, and here's why" - They are paying me silly rates, presumably because I know more than they do about what we are trying to get done; Sure, sometimes you need to translate the technical choice into a business decision and push it up the chain, but sometimes it's a purely technical decision, and within your realm of knowledge, and in that case, I am not doing my job unless I say "Don't do that" when the customer asks me to do something that is clearly incorrect.
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To answer your (clearly rhetorical) question: Because language is the ultimate pop culture medium.
It all goes about how the way you learn. I'd say offer both -- screencast and a traditional how-to document.
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I actually think Google gives businesses control of their "message".

Businesses can claim their identity at Google and modify information about them (hours, phone # etc.) I don't think you can control what reviews appear though.
It's rather problematic. I'd start with sciweavers ( http://www.sciweavers.org/ ), since they have a lot of readable, new papers, but the vast majority of the references are fairly math-heavy and somewhat removed from the applications. A very good resource is the Oreilly book ( http://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Librar... ) on OpenCV, and the OpenCV source code ( https://code.ros.org/svn/opencv/trunk/opencv/ ). Imagemagick source ( http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php ) is also amazing for learning how basic operations are done in code.

Learning to read the style of older research papers and to pull applications out of them is very useful though. It's surprising how often something seemingly overacademized and useless, when translated into code, turns out to be very useful and smart.
That's nearly as good gliding ratio as Boeing 747, FWIW.
I went through sloperama back in the day. I even printed out every one of his articles.

Ah, yes, fond memories. Unfortunately, looks like his website is down at the moment. You're going to have to check archive.org or something: http://www.sloperama.com .

I believe his full name is Tom Slopper. I could be wrong.

Good luck!
Yeah, Dell are great at support. </sarcasm>

My Dad's PC had a DVD-ROM drive that died. I was on the phone to Dell support for A WHOLE DAY. THe problem was trivial, but I got shunted around, told to try all the crappy shovelware shit they'd put on the PC that I'd uninstalled, etc.

XP's built-in CD burning just plain failed to work. Dell support tried to tell me that the CD-ROM drive was not compatible with XP's CD burning (totally nonsense).
I even had to give them my credit card number to sign up for their software support (as well as the cash I'd paid for next-day hardware support), because "it might be a software problem, so you have to pay for software support." At least they had the decency to refund that.

They'd established (or rather, I had) that the drive was faulty, so they wanted to mail me a drive and I could fit it. As I'd paid for next-day on-site warranty I told them they could take a running jump.

Next day, hardware guy turns up, replaces drive in about 10 minutes, fixing the problem.

A WHOLE DAY on the phone. I've never bought Dell support again.
The AI-Boxing Experiment remains one of the most interesting things I have ever read: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox

In the "Alien Message" Eliezer Yudkowsky has flipped around the AI-boxing question so that now we're the AI in the box. Perhaps the results are more palatable that way.

If you really want to stretch your mind dig around the archives of: http://www.sl4.org/
Thanks, this link is working for me: http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html
Does Yahoo have a price list for spying on criminal suspects?
if this is true, it's like Google is planning a big re-union.
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If we consider the Dunning-Kruger effect, the majority of people who are confident of their abilities are more likely to be incompetent; thus perpetuating the confident buffoon mentality since they are more likely to find a mate compared to those who at least know that they are ignorant.
Because that would cut into your Solitaire time.
I think you might want to try http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/ or http://help.twitter.com/.
Jeez, this guy is paranoid.
As a critic myself, I don't think someone that is a good critic will disable comments(critics) in his blog.
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What is the goal of my interaction with this? You're presenting me with a very short blob of technical gibberish on each item and then you're essentially asking me to guess at the answer.

The best-case result of this is a scientifically (i.e. in the sense of empirical social sciences) awkward set of answers but I fail to see how they would carry any predictive value.

Just because everyone believes the world will be hit by a meteor in 2012 does not make it happen.
What is it that you think he's paranoid about?

Have you read anything else he's written? If not, you should. It's good stuff.
Agreed. There is a whole field called biomimicry that tries to apply systems found in nature to solve engineering problems. This TED video explores the topic pretty well: http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_desig...
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Because it is boring to play. I once was on a study week on historical mathematical games with several historians of mathematics, and even we got bored of the game after an evening.
It is designed to teach a certain medieval conception of composed numbers and not to be playable, so there are for example several pieces that are very hard to take by normal rules, because the opposite players has no pieces that combine to the required number for taking it.
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They aren't all that remarkable.
The worst thing to happen to a critic is to have to talk to a person who complains about their problems but is mainly looking for comfort, not solutions. Advice in these instances is met with variations on "no, that's too difficult," or sometimes angrily: "stop bugging me, I don't want to change what I'm doing!"

At different times in our lives we come from both angles and sometimes it's hard to know which one the person is looking for.
Yes. You're right. Anyone can copy some webpages overnight and sell every kind of stuff tomorrow. That's the very nature of online retailers. However, because of that homogeneity, prominence is all that matters. People can remember only one or two places of a category as they're so similar to each other. That's why Amazon can charge that fee and authors and publishers are happy to bring their books in Kindle editions. Plus, it's distributing all the platforms necessary to read and purchase the books. In essence, it created a new market. Amazon definitely deserves its current margin and I don't think most of authors can be better off with "DIY" stuff even if that means 99% margin. If not, Kindle business is total nonsense and couldn't come into the current status at all.
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