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Your question made me think of this:

http://www.qwantz.com/fanart/timetravelling.jpg

All useful information, but you have a point about the receptivity of the world in 100BCE. If you start talking about germs spreading disease, people are going to assume you are talking about demons and are possessed.

I'd probably try to find some leading scientific minds of the day (Jing Fang, Marcus Pollio, or the people that created this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism) and work with them to 'discover' new ideas. They would probably be eager to learn, and could take your ideas and put them in the context of the age. Of course, you'd have to learn some ancient Greek and Chinese first. ;)
No, but it should illustrate the point. If the only people who can validate the work of an X are fellow X's, then X's are either specialists or frauds.
Personally I would hate to do customer support, and I must question its value as a learning tool. Getting your customer to plug in the mouse is hardly going to make your system any better.

If you absolutely must have developers on support, at least have them as the top tier and only available when the problem is technical.

Of cause if you are at a startup you have to do customer service yourself, but that is to save the money on a second salary.
Haha, no, that wasn't me, but some coworkers of mine. Awesome people - they work in the more backend side of things, whereas I work on the UI side of things.

Good stuff all around. ;D
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If Google visitors weren't worth the trouble News would have deployed robots.txt long ago.

I think Damien Ivereigh said it best:

Murdoch wants to be indexed by Google (if he didn't he could just use a robots.txt file). He just wants Google to pay for it – which it won't. This is a classic game of 'chicken'.

Murdoch has started publically complaining about Google in the hope of finding a government that would change the rules so that Google will be forced to pay, or at least give publishers some other way to make money out of the uncontrolled free-for-all that is the internet.

Trouble is, now Microsoft has called his bluff by saying it will give Murdoch money if it de-indexes from Google and migrates over to Bing.

At best (for Murdoch), this is just an escalation in the game of chicken with Google. At worst, people will turn around to Murdoch and ask: "Well you say you need search engines to pay, but you had the offer from Microsoft, why didn't you take it?"

Murdoch is no dinosaur struggling to figure out how to sit in the new internet age. He is a very cunning businessman who has figured out that he can't win this battle using capitalism and the markets alone.

Orig: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Conversations/Rup...
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It speaks solely to your inherent level of buffoonery that you cannot take some product 'x' seriously on the basis of its name, rather than it's actual content. For shame.
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This is an amazing deal, I hope I can score some free stuff that day :).

P.S. DD/MM/YYYY please
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Wish granted. I think LinkedIn released their API to the public this week.
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All very good points indeed.

I've been working for this person for over three years with side-business, we have a solid understanding of each other and I understand their brands and projects because of this. I also know that the work is steady enough that the company is still going and growing after those three years.

The scope of work luckily is an ongoing thing, basically the position is technical lead for one of their largest clients and also technical lead on a lot of new business as well.

I'll admit, there is a large degree of impulse in my decision here (turned in resignation today ack!), but also I've been working towards this goal for years now and have built a solid relationship and understanding with them, if nothing else it will be a lot of new and exciting experience and I think the next logical step in my career. I just can't see myself moving any further/faster with my current company.

There is always a contract though (I have one with them right now already for the projects I'm working on).

We'll see how it goes, hopefully it turns out alright and I won't have to go out in search of another job in the near future haha!

Thanks for your input, very well thought out.
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I think the developer is right. Why don't you use something off-the-shelf?
You really need to refine the concept of exactly what your product does and the language you use to communicate that to users. Spending a few minutes on the site, I can tell it's for education but not much more than that. I get the idea you are trying to be all things to all people. You would probably be better off being the exact right fit for a specific segment of the market. By trying to be for businesses, educators, and amateurs you end up being not quite right for any of those groups. You should decide to be either for the mass consumer market or for businesses and educational institutions and develop your product and pricing accordingly.
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But the direction/efficiency of innovation would improve.

Better to spend money that encourages companies to research more genuinely useful products rather than products that simply may be more marketable because they have a useless extra 2 megapixels.
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Yes, News needs Google, they just hate to admit it. Knowing that's true, Murdoch is trying to maneuver News into a better bargaining position with Google.

There can be no better sign of who is most powerful in this struggle than the fact that all the threats and overtures are coming from News and Microsoft. Google is the Gorilla, Microsoft is the Chimp, and News is the customer who wants the vendor to pay to provide their service.
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Before I got a new very fast system, I used the downtime to re-factor code, edit comments, clean up documentation, or study some API or similar technical material.

I prefer to compile on a separate server so my workstation doesn't slow down.
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This is pretty old news. Amazon experimented with this briefly, caught alot of flak, and stopped.

I recently had an experience where I thought amazon was doing this - I'd get one price when signed in to prime and another cheaper price when not signed in. I called up amazon and the rep was astonished as she could see the exact same thing. A few minutes of digging and she figured out what happened. Amazon was showing me signed in the item shipped from amazon (candidate for prime) and showing me not signed in the item shipped from someone else. When shipping was added in, Amazon was always showing me the lowest price available. In both cases, I was presented an option to choose a different supplier, but it wasn't very prominent on the page.
>>One thing that I found rather amusing is that when you click on the Hotmail icon, it takes you to Gmail. However, the Yahoo! Mail icon does indeed bring you to the Yahoo! Mail login page. I suppose Google likes Yahoo! better than they do Microsoft.<<

So much for not being evil.
The only blog-style "monad tutorial" anyone should read.

(Everyone should read Meet The Monads and the Typeclassopedia, of course.)
There is NO such thing as too easy to use. The whole point of an operating system is to be functional - in every aspect of that word. The more intuitive it is, the /better/ it's been designed.
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What bugs me is that even though Baker states in the comment that he proved a particular deficiency in the relational algebra(the expression of transitive closures), the assertions he uses to lead into this seem extremely vague:

they(relational databases) made trivial problems obviously trivial, but did nothing to solve the really hard data processing problems...

organizations, budgets, products, etc., are hierarchical; hierarchies require transitive closures for their "explosions"...

He never describes concretely what an "explosion" is in a real situation - not in the comment, at least. I'll give the benefit of the doubt that perhaps he brings it up in some paper.

But my understanding is that the relational algebra is useful primarily because of its linguistic properties - instead of every problem needing a customized data model and customized graph-traversal solution, it describes how to use a generic query syntax and joins everywhere.

While this limits the theoretical power of the system and introduces order-of-magnitude slowdowns, it still solves a major subset of business problems, and it does it with a more compact description than the equivalent graph solution. And that, in turn, means that the theoretical limitations aren't necessarily going to matter for shipping and maintaining a solution, especially when working with a short-term view and small scale.

Essentially, he banks on his credentials to turn an "academic" oriented statement into a "industry" one. But from the 70s onward he was writing papers on garbage collection, concurrency and PL theory, not going out and building systems in the industry.

So my view is that he's being overly biased towards theoretical purity above practicality, a tendency that has led many an academic astray.

(This is not a slam to academics and their pursuit of purity, though. It's a great way to advance the computing arts, and complements well the messy practicality of hackers.)
Funny you should mention the Typeclassopedia.

The guy who wrote the Typeclassopedia (Brent Yorgey) is coming to speak to my local functional languages group up on campus tomorrow. In the process of googling him, I came across both the Typeclassopedia and this article, and both were excellent.

This tutorial was just one of the those "aha!" moments in my life, and I wanted to share.
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I'd tell them all about the metric system so we don't have to deal with inches today
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I use Visual Studio all day every day as nothing but a text editor (for the most part).

It has the best find/replace I've seen in a text editor. jEdit has better functionality, such as PCRE find/replace with good backreference support, but it's too complex for day to day use and the rest of the thing sucks. It's also extremely customizable.

When you're doing C++ development on a large project and no IDE is really going to cut it in terms of Intellisense and build tools, find/replace becomes a ton more important.

shrug
That's hilarious. But to be a startup it'd have to be http://chamillionai.re (which is available btw).
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Yeah, that's a great talk! I wanted to add it to the post as a reference and I think I will in an update. Thanks for reminding me!
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The carriers do slow down innovation. It's almost funny that they think of themselves as high-tech companies. And because the radio waves are heavily regulated everywhere in the world, there can be no competition until someone comes up with a technology that obsoletes current mobile phones.
Direct link to the paper:

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~sam/ccs243-mason.pdf
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Being a little snide... that sounds like a unit test that occurs to you after encountering that bug.
(Comment repeated from proggit, where this was also posted.)

Don't get me wrong here, I love coding in Javascript and have often entertained the idea that server-side Javascript would be fun. I also totally buy the need to get away from thread-per-request for many web serving scenarios, Comet being a perfect example.

However when I see someone going so far with this as to say "all APIs must be non-blocking" I have to wonder if they would be better served by using a language where threads were less expensive. I know closures make this kind of thing a lot less of a pain than back in the day when we were programming against OSs with no threads and async APIs were often a necessity, but to mandate this style is basically asking developers to manually rewrite all of their logic into continuation passing style. It's a bit, well... naive is the kindest word that comes to mind.

BTW, I don't think it's a coincidence that all of these event-driven web frameworks are for interpreted languages with crappy thread support.
Judging you based on how you wrote the post, you seem like you would fit in really well in Berkeley. If you really are only worried about getting to see investors, you can make the trip by taking BART to Caltrain which then stops near most of them.

The city (don't let drewda fool you, most people call it that) has a few spots you could be both car-free and happy... but they are all a long bus ride from caltrain (as long as BART will take to ride from the east bay, and less predictable).

Try to avoid finding a spot where your commute will be a sf muni and then a caltrain trip - the sf muni busses and light rail have very fickle schedules so often you're going to miss your caltrain connection, then have to wait a while for the next one.

Oh and BART/Caltrain are very bike friendly.
You almost certainly know whatever level of mathematics is above the one available. In the Mediterranean at this point in history, they're just circling around the idea of integration, but won't actually make it there.

Here's a protip: download wikipedia to your phone today. As soon as you realize that you've been trapped in the past, turn it off. Turning it on briefly will allow you to access stores of vital information before the battery runs out.

Unless this is Terminator rules, and you're naked . . .
Heh, Scott sure sounds bitter, doesn't he? "Kudos to Dan for being able to overlook something this important."

Anyhow, I'm also of the opinion that a phone is really about the network. My coworkers will go on and on about their beloved iPhones, and yet they can't even place a phone call from within the same building where my $60 Verizon handset has no trouble whatsoever.
>I'll bet it's some tight subset of C++, leaving out some of the more "advanced" features.

Isn't that just the definition of sane code when it comes to C++?

Personally, I despise C++ for a number of reasons that I won't go into in this comment. OTOH, if the subset of C++ you use is roughly "C with classes and namespaces," then I can generally tolerate it.
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Different distros are good for different people and different things.

If you want to face a challenge, choose Gentoo (or one of many others).

If you just want a system that works and is free, use Ubuntu (or one of many others).

If you are a power user who gets more practical value out of a more customized system, choose Arch Linux (or one of many others).

Having more diversity in distros (which implies having some that are easier to use) can only be a good thing.

Also, you have to remember that Linux itself is not an operating system. Trust me, the Linux kernel has not gotten any easier to use from anyone's perspective.
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In a HN sense, you're right. I think (and I did say IMO) that they lost the arguments. One moron started abusing gays and jews (last link). Is that "winning" by your definition?
That's not really an accurate depiction of [insert all other distros besides Ubuntu].
Not necessarily. The simplest systems are the most intuitive, but they ultimately limit the power of the user to do a wider scope of things that he/she might want to do.

Really, you want your "intuitiveness" to scale inversely with the scope of things the system can do.

If you have a large system, it doesn't need to be intuitive, but it needs to be conceptually coherent---that is, it needs to limit accidental complexity.

I think it's accurate to say that good Linux distros follow these principles.
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Pasteurization is likely to have a more visible effect. It will make the treated milk last longer before spoiling, which is a benefit that can be easily demonstrated. At a basic level, you just bring the temperature close to boiling but don't actually let it boil.
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I can't tell whether or not I agree with you two.

If you are implying that Wall Street Journal readers would not subscribe and read Wall Street Journal without Google, then I disagree. I think the comment by @mynameishere is correct, for the Wall Street Journal, Google is probably sending a lot of riff-raff over. You don't want those users. Even if they click on the NetJet or Jaguar ad, I doubt they could afford it. And most of them probably do not know what American Express Black is.

If, however, you are saying that Murdoch and Google are playing a giant game of chicken, then I would agree.
By 100BCE the Greek classical period had already passed and Rome was on the rise. A high level of culture existed in places and sophisticated thought was commonly expressed in written form.

Metallurgy was sufficient. Many of the works of artisans and craftsmen haven't been duplicated. A great majority of this knowledge was lost to time (c.f., the fire of Alexandria) because copying texts was an enormous amount of work.

Also, even if a great body of knowledge were imparted to people in that period, who's to say that it would be disseminated? The knowledge that went into the construction of the Antikythira mechanism--even the knowledge that such knowledge existed--was lost.

So I would push up the invention of the printing press by 1.5 millenia.

Even without imparting any additional knowledge, the sheer volume of written material that would have been passed down through the centuries would guarantee more rapid advancement of civilization, as well as preservation of history. We would have the works of Sappho, for example. And history would still progress naturally, without artificial interference.
I would teach them about quicksort and mergesort.

Little known fact: most of the technological stagnation of the dark ages was time wasted in bubblesort.
It might be a better way in theory, but do you know of anyone who's actually employed the technique without severely alienating customers? You mention Amazon as a general A/B tester, but Amazon's price testing is the most prominent example I can think of and it ended with a public apology. Price discrimination (even if it's only a testing phase) only seems to fly if it's not obvious, and it'd be obvious for most webapps.
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Do you know how to build a printing press?
How about just paying for the phone instead of expecting a network operator to subsidize it in return for a contract?
He somehow avoided the point in PPK's post about how Jobs wanted many of Apple's bundled apps to be WebKit-based.

Originally Stocks, Weather, etc. were all intended to ship that way, but obviously that didn't happen.
I say yes for the simple reason that Pizza Hut has done $1m in sales from their iPhone app.
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First, thanks for the long answer.

So, put all 20 + 18 scores in a pot, stir the pot, pull out 18 scores and average, average the remaining 20, take the difference in the averages, do this maybe 1 million times (thanking Moore's law)

I can't believe there isn't a well-defined analytical expression for that... What you described sounds like the kind of inference I would tackle through Bayesian hypothesis testing, while you use... Monte Carlo?

I suspect I'm missing something. Anyway, it sounds like a very interesting problem and if I were around, I'd ask for an interview. Good luck.
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I honestly think it's foolish to think that news, or News Corp, needs Google search. Just in my personal experience I've never gotten news from searching on Google, and I'm sure many others can say the same. I use google to find something I already know of, not to find stuff I don't know about.

I think social networks have more power in spreading news. Obviously news and magazines thrived before Google, and even the internet. They're still large and powerful, even if they are starting to wane.
You can't be sure of that. The market is a giant ever-changing multi-party game with lots of nonlinear and counterintuitive effects.

I would be more confident of your prediction if there were some suppliers/retailers that only sold the high-margin items with "overpriced" bells and whistles. But there aren't: the exact same companies that produce and retail the "good" "valuable" products also make money from related high-margin products for naive and price-to-value-oblivious consumers. And these high-margin products help pay for some of the same shared research/design/marketing costs as support high-value/low-margin products for savvy buyers.

If the article author's goals are met -- the casual consumers now "overpaying" are directed to cheaper products they'll be just as happy with -- the thing you can be sure of is that industry margins will go down. Lower-margin industries have fewer upstarts and slower product cycles, so the idea that "the direction/efficiency of innovation would improve" is dubious at best.
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With all its faults, Paypal does provide a useful option in the one time credit card numbers. I've been using them pretty much everywhere. (I like the analogy with one time pads in cryptography, use and throw away)

I am sure there is some downside to using these one time cards, but putting your regular CC number in the wild seems worse. The less people/entities know it the better.