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"Also, I think it's worth mentioning that one basic that everyone should be taught is grammar. Not to be a jerk here, but you'd be more effective in communicating your point if it wasn't littered with grammatical errors."

Your not being a jerk. I agree. I think I might need to buy "Eats, Shoots & Leaves". This is the first essay/blog I have submitted to the world and it is helping me remember my grammar sucks.
No. I'm saying there are two ways to call the sky a sunken grey cunt. The first is to strive earnestly to describe the sky in just the right way to define the sky. When you decide the proper thing to call the sky is a cunt, then you might be accused of a bit of pretension, and bad taste.

The second way to call the sky a cunt is to be a grumpy Irishman in the morning who calls the sky a cunt whimsically, if annoyed. It's the difference between the clean-shaven trendy beret-wearing guy who pronounces "cunt" with much deliberation, and the long-nosed family man who says cunt like a curse.

They're both saying the same words, but the one guy's being an ass, and the second guy is hilarious. I'm saying that the people that think Joyce is pretentious are the people who haven't figured out he's hilarious.

You can do the same to any comedian, incidentally. Take George Carlin's rant on reducing the ten commandments to two, remove his inflection, focus on the words, and that could easily be some dick's attempting a hoity-toity statement about religion with no humor whatsoever. Steven Wright talking about the museum that has all the heads and arms from all the other statues can be less of a joke and more of a self-involved critique on the nature of art and decay. But it's not, because it's Steven Wright telling a joke, and in his case we know to laugh.

I am saying that I find it irritating when people take rational statements and attempt to make them absurd.
What do you think they're thinking?

MS could possibly bring all big news companies to Bing, create a news vertical and share revenue with the news companies. Then if you want news search, have to use Bing.
I don't know what kind of college you were at, but it may have an organization with a euphemistic name that suggests it is not engaged in teaching remedial skills which teaches remedial skills. Ours was the Academic Resource Center, I think. I don't know if we had anyone who specialized in teaching hand writing, largely because I don't think hand writing was a deliverable anywhere in school, but we certainly taught study habits, time management, and the math students should have learned in high school.
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Google has no legal right to publish materials it doesn't own the copyright to, and that includes almost everything in its index. Their "opt-out" blah blah blah is meaningless. News Corp, the AP, Reuters, the NYTs, McClatchy, will all take microsoft's money and/or sue google for its infractions long before going out of business. If google likewise has to actually pay for material, it will be time to short sell GOOG very hard.
google brought up this news story about it: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29546/1141/

which links to this Tetsuya post from a few days ago: http://www.apachenews.org/archives/001299.html
Article aside, I really dig the format of your blog. It's refreshing to see straight text without 5000 "promote-me" buttons and misc other bullshit.
Exactly. What if?

Don't do it Tetsuya Kitahata
Proposal: Debundle teaching and research (and while I'm asking for the moon, certification as well.)

Most university lecturers are there to do research, teaching is a sideline. Some people genuinely like teaching, among them some of the research productive. But optimising for two things at once will not give as good results on either measure as optimising separately.

I don't hold out much hope here given that the main purpose of elite colleges for undergrads is status by association with prestige, which comes from the research productive. Teaching excellence is strictly a sideline.
But the bummer is most ideas kinda suck when you do em. :-(
Dismissing socialism is as silly as dismissing capitalism would be. There is no simple answer to society: The best combination is a mixture of many things. There'll be hints of socialism there.

Similarly, perhaps Paul was criticized for his dismissal of French Literature professors because a lot of people realized what a stupid blanket statement he made. Just because it's easier to bullshit about literature doesn't mean the whole of literature is bullshit. That's like assuming that just because math is about simplistic formulas, the entirety of math is simple to comprehend.

I don't know much about French literature, but what I do know of it tells me that by learning about it, I'd be learning not just about literary theory but about French sociology, French history, and the feelings behind France at various moments in times. There's an incredible amount of information in literature. It's not a bug that it's subjective in nature and prone to debate. That's the feature.
From http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a74li/he_will_c...

-Dude posts (spams) Apache community mailing list with his scheme of fund-raising for apache http://jakarta.jp/en.pdf which is some sort of lottery scam.

-Dude gets shut down for spamming the list and trying to get acknowledgment on the thanks.xml page.

-Dude tries to argue using language technicalities.

-Dude gets shut down again, ie. he learns that donations do not equal ownership.

-Dude threatens suicide.
I've been using an RSS feed I created for a while now which also "tries" to include a summary of the article.

feed://ynewsrss.appspot.com/

It's not perfect, but it helps out quite a bit in getting a little bit more context before deciding to click through a link.
Well, yeah. I was just making a joke about how applying the verb "boil" to a human doesn't make sense.
Is Microsoft going to drink their own Kool-aid and delist Bing?
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If you live in Holland, that last point is pretty much a no-brainer. Politicians are constantly accusing each other of saying things that are 'not done'. We have our wannabe-Fortuyn (Geert Wilders) at the moment. Heck, a politician just stepped down for not adhering to 'the code' another sign we're not that tolerant. We're just tolerant about homosexuality and drugs.
It's about hacking childhood. It's interesting to think about what taboos society is creating. That's enough to get on this site.
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Is there any reason Google can't just index it anyway?
I think what's really cool about this is that it looks like a really helpful tool for breaking the boxy, straight-line feel of nested elements and display:block that is normally the natural state of web page design. Props.
This was in response to one of the replies here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956774 (showdead=on required to see)

Specifically, this response is what I wanted to bring up.

The fact that you can't say something doesn't mean it's true.

I believe this is implicit in "So it's likely that visitors from the future would agree with at least some of the statements that get people in trouble today." In an earlier version I made this point explicitly, but it seemed repetitive, so I cut it.
But it wasn't a blanket statement (applying to all french lit profs equally). It was a generalization (a reference to the average intelligence of french lit profs).

It's meant to be understood in the same way that "men are taller than women" is meant to be understood; a counter-example will get you nowhere here.
Why is there a suicide note on apachenews?
Do we really want to change the incentives? One of the most (read: only) compelling things I found about college was being close to people who did "real work". These were professors and researchers at the very bleeding edge of their field - and I got a front row seat to interact, learn from, and observe their work. I think that, in the end, is part of the college experience.

In high school I was often frustrated, since it was far too easy to "max out" the knowledge of my teachers, and certainly none of them were working experts in their respective fields. This never happened in university - I have never, to date, been able to get to a point where I'm thinking well ahead of the prof, or even close.
+1 on the musical instrument/practice part.

Music practice/recital also serves to prepare you for a long day ahead or de-stress you at the end of one.
The reason I said hand writing is important is that it helps with situations such as:

- 4 page long differential equations

- 4 page long physics problems

- physics lab (note book)

- taking readable notes quickly

My guess is that hand writing is a lot more important to ones ability to work effectively than most people realize. I could be wrong.
A copyright lawsuit? Remember that a search engine ultimately functions at the sufferance of copyright owners. If push comes to shove, the engine is obligated to stop storing and serving data they do not own.

When Google was ascendant, the threat of a delist was enough to cow copyright owners into submission (see: news orgs vs Google News, Belgium vs Google, etc). Now, well, who knows?

That said I think this is a greedy and dangerous move on Microsoft's part, and I'm sure this is what Murdoch was alluding to a couple of weeks ago. This could kill the spirit of 'net neutrality for good if they simply move the battle to different layer of the stack.

On the other hand, I like writing metasearchers, so it might be a net win for me. :)
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Yes, that more or less sums it up. In the past, he was also a sponsor of the ASF as well as a committer, so he has done good things, it just seems that he's going through some difficulties.
Not to be a jerk, but "[Copernicus] was forced into it, because it was the only way to make the numbers come out right" just isn't correct.

Tycho Brahe's measurements showed that Ptolemy's model was more accurate than Copernicus's. The point still stands that Copernicus transcended his time, but he was really riding on the coattails of Ptolemy's genius. Ptolemy never gets enough credit...
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That's not because swimmers aren't physically fit though (physical fitness being the comparison to intelligence) it's because swimming is more specialized than gymnastics.

You really can't say gymnasts are more fit than swimmers, just that gymnastics is a more versatile sport so you learn a wider range of abilities.
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Metacrawler has been running longer than Google. Strange we could go back to using these kind of search engines.
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You do of course have to restart Nginx (which in effect restarts Passenger) if you change or add a web application

Actually depending on your web framework you don't even have to do that. Werkzeug and others support code-reloading.

By the way I had a talk with a passenger developer yesterday and the WSGI support seems to be stabilizing. I was told that dreamhost is already using it in production - so it's undocumented but functional.
The BBC's a good example, how long have they been working on their own Dirac codec? That's taxpayer's money they're spending. Sure it probably makes a few geeks happy but remember - these geeks know fully well that if they tried to do that outside the safety of the BBC, they'd starve. At the end of the day, in the private sector you get stuff done because if you don't you don't eat.
Good point, but to play devil's advocate: if you ramen-retire after a few years building apps for the unwashed masses, you can work on whatever you like until you die or the money runs out. IMO, a few years of total independence are worth a few years of non-exciting stuff. Just don't get comfortable and wake up one day as a 20 year lifer at Inane MegaCo.
Then why is the FSF complaining to the EU that Oracle owns MySQL? It is, after all, GPL.
It's mentioned somewhere in the article that Ratliff's editor at Wired was given access to his bank accounts. The editor then leaked details of the transactions online.
Are you sure that indexing is a copyright violation? You aren't reproducing the text in full and it seems like excerpts would be part of fair use. Do you have a source?
The people who hate SQL don't know about any of the cool stuff it can do as they've only ever used MySQL's very basic implementation.
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I depends on the country but yes, and yes.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2005/09/68928

http://cci.edu.au/publications/search-engine-liability-copyr...

Parker v Yahoo takes the view that putting content online is implicitly allowing indexing. By the same logic, explicitly blocking an engine would mean the opposite.

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/10/search_engine_c...
It's easy for me to catch the big stuff, but do you really catch all the little stuff on Google calendar as well?

Not always, but if I didn't already add it to Google Calendar, I didn't catch it at all (let alone to any other place). I imagine such things could be automated but that'd require collaboration with the producers/retailers/etc.

Though, I wouldn't track warranties since they're not typically renewable and all products in my country have a 1 year warranty. The expiry doesn't matter much. Something either breaks before they expire or after.

Do you update Google every time you fly?

No, but I don't make up flights just to use airmiles anyway. I have about 40k airmiles but if they expire, well, I wouldn't go any place I didn't want to go already just to use them up :-)
True, but he/she said "interesting and attractive."
"Will someone please inform Mr. Cuban that Google's opt-out procedure is entirely voluntary on their part and there's nothing that says they have to continue to offer it or abide by it?"

Google's policy is irrelevant. NewsCorp owns the intellectual property in question, they decide if and how it may be syndicated. The "thing that says they have to" is United States law.

" I don't understand why anyone cares what this person who doesn't seem to understand any of the basic concepts involved thinks about it."

I'm guessing you have no idea who Mark Cuban is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban
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I agree that this would be an interesting problem to solve.

But I doubt it could be made conclusive without manual data-entry. Even a tool following you around the web can't possibly understand "Ah, he just ordered a toaster" - much less when that toaster actually arrives, gets returned etc.

I think at the bottom of this lies an interesting UI challenge. How to make data-entry painless enough so that you, me and others would actually use it?
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This is one of the most interesting articles I've read in quite some time.

The main reason he was caught is not necessarily that he was careless or left clues, he was caught because the whole thing was designed to be a game (experiment?) orchestrated by Wired. Ratliff had hundreds, maybe even thousands of people with incentives ($5000, notoriety, the challenge, etc.) looking for him. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did given that he was also 'trying' to get caught.

However, as other commenters in this thread mention, if he had done this independently and planned a little longer than he did, he most certainly could have vanished for up to a year.

Edit: spelling.
I realize that I sounded like a bit of a dick in my post, but that's just how I write.

Then stop communicating like that. Do you also say that to those you work with, when called out on something: "I realize that I sounded like a bit of a dick in the meeting, but that's just how I communicate."? Nine out of ten times, you won't be called out and people will just think you are a dick. If you are already aware you sound like a dick, why on earth should others not think that you are in fact a dick? It's easy to give people bad impression, it's easy to lose respect and it's hard to gain it and fix that impression. Just don't give them a reason to think you're a dick in the first place.
A site could start blocking certain IPs and user agents as well if need be to prevent being indexed, I'm sure there's was for crawlers to get around it but a site could certainly make it hard to index there content.
You seem to be implying that the BBC's Dirac work has produced no useful results; I would disagree. Sure, it's not the format-of-choice of BitTorrent users, and it hasn't cropped up in the endless discussions of the <video/> element in HTML5, but that doesn't mean it's vanished. A subset of Dirac colloquially called Dirac Pro has been standardised by the SMPTE as "VC-2" (Windows Media Video was VC-1):

http://sonofid.blogspot.com/2008/02/vc-2-progress.html

...and there's a company selling professional video-encoding hardware using the Dirac Pro codec:

http://www.numediatechnology.com/products.html

Wikipedia says "Dirac Pro was used internally by the BBC to transmit HDTV pictures at the Beijing Olympics in 2008":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_%28codec%29
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For most of these points I don't even understand what he's trying to say.
I don't believe linux desktops have hit their stride yet.

A few more years.
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It's nothing to do with fitness or being specialized. It's about "movement IQ" or "coordination capacity" for lack of a better term. Gymnasts typically have a huge talent reserve, and move to other sports and often dominate. It's why many national talent programs use gymnastics as their foundations. Swimming tends to attract the less talented for some reason, and these people don't adapt well to other sports.

To paraphrase pg: Take some swimmers and gymnasts and tell them they have to learn each others discipline or be executed. Who's the most worried?

Funny anecdote: a recent olympic swimming team failed to ride to the stadium in Beijing because most of them couldn't ride bikes.
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It's actually amazingly common. I don't remember the specifics, but I saw a really interesting story about this. Whenever someone disappears, investigators will immediately setup various internet honey-pots. Apparently the vanished, very often, simply can't stop checking in on their old selves. Including folks wanted for very serious crimes.
Is Xtranormal another nail in the advertising world's coffin?
Also, the author is a hacker who once had a magnet implanted into her hand for augmented sensory perception: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087
It sure didn't play out that way on my high school cross-country team. We had a gymnast who couldn't even manage a 25min 5k by the end of the season and three swimmers who beat that by a big margin in the very first meet.

A lot of gymnasts made good cheerleaders, though.
I was a little confused about why they had to reject gambling cheating apps, given that I could use safari to create an app with identical functionality. However, Apple is also selling the app and charging the customers credit card, which must make them more liable for something like that.

Given that, it seems like reviews are a necessity, at least for the top tier of the App Store. Right now there are basically two tiers, App Store apps and Safari apps. The gulf between them is so huge that almost everyone is ignoring Safari apps. What they need is a middle tier of native apps that can be installed from the web that live outside the App Store ecosystem. Obviously Apple wouldn't be able to get a 30% cut of all sales, but the experience of installing these apps (finding the app manually, putting in credit card information, and manually upgrading the app) would still leave most users using the App Store. Apple would have to give up other benefits as well, such as being able to keep out competitors to the built-in apps and enforce the private API rules, so they probably are not going to do it unless absolutely forced to.
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So it seems like Bing gotten the idea from Jason Calacanis's How To Kill Google

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTe15DEWp30

Interesting development indeed.
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sounds more like desperation to me.