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What is amazing about it? And should you really submit stuff here saying it's amazing when it's your project?
And do it consistently - a lot of CEOs talk about this stuff.
But then when it comes near the end of the financial quarter or a big customer asks for something, or there is a rumor of a competitor the plan all changes.
Fascinating. But... would we call the aspirations "iPod Touch aspirations"? After all, there's no phone involved.
How many examples of failed socialist policies does it take to find a pattern?

How many examples of failed capitalist policies does it take to find a pattern? On the assumption that we're defining socialism as "everything Stalin, Kim Jong Il, and Ceausescu did", I'll take a similar tack in the opposite direction and contend that capitalism is responsible for the American incursion into Vietnam, Watergate, and Abu Ghraib (since they were all carried out by a capitalist country).

A couple of possible counterarguments to this would be (1) that individuals, not capitalism itself, are responsible for these events, and (2) that America isn't really capitalist and theory shows that they wouldn't happen in a truly capitalist country.

Note that both of these counterarguments are the same as the ones used by the proponents of socialism, Marxism, etc., with the difference that "America" is replaced with "the USSR/Cuba/North Korea".

There are good arguments to be made against socialism and similar policies. Your post does not contain any of them.
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One of the biggest problems with NEXTSTEP that was addressed in the transition to OS X was the replacement of Display Postscript. The license and practice around that was horrible. I don't think the money was there to do that work without going to Apple.
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No, you are wrong. Read thee whole quote here http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/ent... and observe that the programmer is convinced the whole database of reporting stations is bogus, and the model has been tweaked multiple times: "Each parameter has a tortuous history of manual and semi-automated interventions that I simply cannot just go back to early versions and run the update prog."

also "One thing that's unsettling is that many of the assigned WMo codes for Canadian stations do not return any hits with a web search. Usually the country's met office, or at least the Weather Underground, show up – but for these stations, nothing at all. Makes me wonder if these are long-discontinued, or were even invented somewhere other than Canada!"

So much for 'scientific model supported by hard data'.
E-mail is passive and can get skipped over if you don't already have a relationship. Try making some phone calls instead, and ask for the person responsible for that reporting. Try using Jigsaw to target a few companies in your market. Once you've got the right person you can bounce ideas off of them and gauge interest in what you're building. Good luck!
> On Mac... I never did memorize all of these combinations...

Isn't that what Keyboard Viewer is for?

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=mac/10.4/en/mh2...
"Amazing" is apparently a relative term. I found no tutorials and instead only found marketing materials for my searches.
i wouldn't call it amazing either. the first 2 pages of the results for "flex 4" for instance contains barely anything useful
It's not for nothing that the Daily Telegraph is nicknamed the Torygraph, here in the UK: it's notable for a rather specific right-wing political spin, and climate denialism is part of the package.

There are certainly things to be worried about in those emails, but proof of a conspiracy they ain't.
I'm most thankful for my health. I believe that a person's health directly affects every other part of their life, so I do whatever I can to stay healthy.
Are you suggesting one failure precludes a man from being great? Have you ever failed in anything?
No (non-Cygwin) Windows binary :-(
AllChars on a Windows laptop is a total lifesaver! I lost all my escape codes due to disuse and had to resort to the character viewer.
it was the lack of regulation that caused it

That's a debatable point. The Fed's interest rate reductions in early 2000s have caused recent credit/real estate bubble. If you listen to the Austrian School economists you would hear that without regulation (central banks) the market would set the price of money (interest rates) more efficiently. We would have more frequent booms and busts but of much much lesser magnitude.

So it was politically motivated regulation that caused this recession/depression.
Been scratching this itch of mine for about 2.5 months now. Aiming for the easiest-to-use dating site UI on Planet Earth. Constructive criticism welcome.
This is a dumb and sensationalist article that adds nothing to what we already know. The most interesting news to come out of climate gate in the past few days are a behind-the-scenes timeline of scientists illegally suppressing responses to FOI requests, the fact that many IPCC analyses might be irreproducible due to poor code quality, and private admissions of climate scientist doubt in certain analyses while maintaining a public face of absolute certainty:

>1)http://camirror.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/willis-eschenbachs-...

>2)http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=118625&#...

>3)http://camirror.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/john-mitchells-revi...
My point was that it seems like the model might be flawed, or at least is poorly written and/or documented. As you say, this Ian guy is clearly not impressed with the code. This qoute describes it rather well:

Ulp! I am seriously close to giving up, again. The history of this is so complex that I can't get far enough into it before by head hurts and I have to stop. Each parameter has a tortuous history of manual and semi-automated interventions that I simply cannot just go back to early versions and run the update prog. I could be throwing away all kinds of corrections - to lat/lons, to WMOs (yes!), and more. So what the hell can I do about all these duplicate stations?...

The problem I see is not something as dire as a conspiracy, but the fact that this is the foundation of the western worlds policy on global warming and climate change. I think we all know how hard a model like that must be to write and maintain, and it seems like there's a good chance it doesn't give reliable results.

I would say that it is a huge problem that multibillion dollar decisions are based on a model that may or may not be accurate, and that maybe we should start the discussion on climate change by putting more money into actually finding out where we stand by creating good peer-reviewed models with open data. As it stands now it seems like we might be flying blind.

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.
Lisp is not the same paradigm: it's imperative and eager where Haskell is lazy and pure functional.

The languages support different means of abstraction. e.g., Lisp has macros, Haskell has all that type inference enables. I can't honestly say that being able to (effectively) use the return type of a function as a parameter to that function is better than being able to invoke macros with the same syntax as a function call --- but it suits me better.
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psst... uh, which protocol was that again?
From my biased point of view, of course, capitalism is good and socialism is bad.

This is not just a matter of belief about utilitarian outcome(Note this is based on somewhat imperfect knowledge about economics), but also based in part on my ethical philosophy as a libertarian.

Now, I don't think the medical market in America really represent pure capitalism or at least anything close to it. There are lot of regulations, some social welfare, and legal monopolies.

I don't believe that people in the free market will alway have some magical access to perfect information(I don't believe in the idea of perfect competition).

However, it doesn't mean that consumers will have no access to reliable information source. It may be that civic medical organizations may pop up to fill in the blank. They would probably be aligned toward consumers interest as the board is made of medical consumers.

In other words, think "Consumer Report", for medicine.

It is also very possible that medical companies would form their own regulatory board and approval process to enhance their own reputation. They would compete with other medical licensing system.

I don't know at all the "correct" institutional system that would have exists in the free market that would have performed information gathering functions, abritation, and other that protect and serve consumers as a counterbalance to the possible misdeeds of private firms and individuals.

But I am willing to bet that it would be better than the politicized medical industry that we have right now. In fact, I rather have some responsibility in choosing doctors rather than having some dude at the top of a government agency deciding who my doctor should be.
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You're missing sleeping in that list!
Hey guys, I appreciate the link! Also check out the Traveling Presidential Candidate Map on my site (that involves Hilbert curves as an approach to the Traveling Salesperson Problem)!
There are lots of GPL programs around, not really a "niche" anymore ;)
So you're saying that the free market cannot calculate resource allocation at all?

I am somewhat familiar with the argument that central planners cannot possibly perform economic calculation, but not the other way around.
Uh, a small warning, some of the functions in picolisp are a bit "buggy" or at least I wouldn't use them: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1630352/picolisp-language...
I'm not suggesting anything, just saying where he lost me (and his chance at becoming president). To err is human (hope that answers the second part of your "question" :) See this definitive speech for the rest: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
I've been making a joke to my friends recently, ever since this news broke.

Let's see if we can get all of the rats onto the Titanic before it leaves the shore.

At least the newspaper industry is taking a slightly different route than the music industry did... this will be much more interesting to watch.
Funny, back when I worked for ACN (which built the system), this was one of our flagship clients/projects that was included on every powerpoint sales deck...
Well that's impressive stuff! Especially as it doesn't use designMode or the like.

I too have had 'fun' with text editing in browsers. And I need to revisit it at some point. :-(

Here's an experiment of mine: http://www.fluffy.co.uk/stediting/ -- very proof of concept, only left+right keyboard navigation works so far. However, it does show that proportionally spaced text is possible with this kind of technique. Using monospaced fonts, like Ymacs does, is cheating.

I was going to do make something which would sort this out once and for all: http://code.google.com/p/editable-framework-js/ but as is the way with many an open source project, it didn't get much further than thinking about the design.

I found this linked from the Ymacs site http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/story.html which is a nice explanation about why using designMode is a nightmare.
So I am conflating socialism and marxism? Are marxists trying to avoid the issue? Is it both?

Is it a different issue altogether?
I call it "true" mainly because it faithfully represents the code/data unification in lisp. In picolisp, there is no lambda, because the representation of a function is a list, and can be quoted directly.
It probably helps that there are just three guys here, and that they have by this point already worked together very successfully on The Empire Strikes Back, which was a large, long, and very similar project. So there's an unusual amount of trust and know-how in this room.
Near as I can tell (no expert mind you) it seems right. Given that SHA is secure (cannot calculate a plaintext that will result in the same SHA result) then only the original text could have reasonably generated it. Sending the SHA result to your friend does not help him in determining your original plaintext. Only with random text can he determine the plaintext that generated the SHA result. Seems good enough.
Also check out the author's site for picolisp: http://www.software-lab.de/down.html
There's actually a startup that's local to me that's fighting that fight.

What's interesting is that they haven't tried to go after big names at first... it's surely more of a long tail kind of thing. They started off only doing small, local venues, but they're doing so well that they're naturally starting to pick up bigger and bigger ones.

I'll be excited to see Ticketmaster go. I don't know of anynone who enjoys dealing with them.
> On Linux, though, they have the most
> brilliant intuitive way of doing this

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it ;-). I have had Compose keys, even labeled as such, on my keyboards since the dark ages. Get a Sun Type 7 Keyboard w/ USB if you want it on your day-to-day PC.
Engineers? What are you talking about? My dad's an engineer and he knew how to appreciate all the fuzzy unmeasurable people-stuff. He communicated with multiple departments and kept things running as smoothly as he could. He dealt with salespeople without going crazy too! The only value added by his bosses is that they gave him enough room to do the things.

Oh wait, you mean "engineers" as in "software engineers"...well then you're just continuing the stereotype of programmers being socially inept.
I call it a feature.

Cygwin is the first thing I install on a Windows desktop. At least it makes it look like a civilized environment.
I'm an English teacher and I think kids don't actually need homework, so much as teachers need more time in the classroom that they're just not going to get. Homework is the spillover practice tasks that we don't have time to have students do in class, because we have to get through a certain amount of material in a class of 30+ students, who all have different learning speeds. If I was working with just one student, he would never have to do homework. But because we can't put our full energies into just one student, but must instead parse it out among so many, homework time is supposed to compensate by giving students time to think and process the material further.
Substitute "engineer" with "computer programmer" or "software developer" and you may have a point. Also, you can use the words "and" and "or". V and ^ if you prefer mathematical symbols
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I'm a major fan of ServInt...after being nudged off LaughingSquid for taking too much bandwidth I was pointed to (mt) but found they didn't do server-side backups and were demure about their tech support.
Servint is more expensive and its a VPS so you have to do some more work, but they've been -excellent- at customer support with fantastic response times and smart staff, they really do have daily backups (which we've used in our darkest moments), allow ssh access (OMG, so useful), 4 static IPs, 'infinite' virtual sites, and can stand up to a slashdot/engadget/boing/etc storm all at the same time.
Anyways, I'm picky and have had nothing but good experiences with 'em.
I don't understand the difference between serving torrent files and serving magnet links. Both gives the user the data to start downloading (illegal) stuff.
Getting bugs out early is actually a major argument in favour of thinking before banging out code. Tests after the fact don't do enough to lower the number of bugs there are.
Yes, and General American standard English is not the Queen's English with mistakes either. This information should be well known to anyone who has taken even one linguistics course, but it does still come up as a misconception to be argued against, as the interesting submitted article does. Similarly, English as spoken in India is not a variety of British English with mistakes, nor is standard Australian English any better or worse than standard English in Britain or in the United States.
Interesting that the manifesto came from Manchester. I was there until very recently and there is intense pressure to commercialise every project.

However, getting the public to pay twice (first by funding for the research and then for the commercialised product) is a bit cheeky, especially as the university has had to undertake absolutely no risk to produce the product. If universities want to commercialise themselves I feel they must divest themselves from the public purse and accept the consequences of possible failure in the market.
I think this idea is interesting. I think there's a real trend of the internet systematically destroying information gatekeepers; it makes sense, as the spread of information harms those who rely on the scarcity of information to make a profit.

It's sort of like applying an open expert system to everything.

I think this value proposition, "We make it easy to navigate x beaurocracy" is pretty interesting.
I assume capitalism is about free market, capital accumulation, private property, and not letting the state get involved in regulating the economy.

Socialism, I assume intervention, equality among men no matter what, social welfare, and central planning. I also included fascism there, because fascism to me have only super fiscal difference on the surface and by large and the same in substance.

It's all a matter of continuum from that point.
Actually he got promoted for covering up war crimes in Vietnam.
Alright HN, this is getting embarrassing.

Should I soon expect to see articles arguing for the "final nail in the coffin" of evolution because of gaps in the fossil record?
Extremely debatable. Better regulation would have prevented the housing crash but the regulation Americans got (with bipartsian support!) had the effect of making borrowing to buy a house ever easier, thus inflating prices, leading to a crash when it became obvious there were no greater fools left.
So what's the bug? Casting?
Being a little more general, what model would you propose for funding research? With exceptions (e.g. the Gates foundation) the vast majority of research funding is taxpayer funded, and replacing that source is pretty much impossible. Now how that funding system works is another story.
I loved the comment by wishnevsky (Nov 26, 2009).

"... I had no government or financial aid, except unemployment from my last job. Went to try for a government grant, and they offered to help me spent six months "creating a business plan" I told them i had a plan, "Buy some wood, make guitars, put them on eBAy, sell them, buy more wood."

"They looked at me like i was a three headed Martian hillbilly. So, i bought some wood..."
In the end it is about content. I prefer Hulu now to Youtube, because Hulu has better content. If MS can successfully convince enough publications to allow them to exclusively offer their content for search, then that will take a bite out of Google.

The question is, how much will it cost? The formula is pretty easy. MS will have to pay the publishers more than they are making in ad revenue from the visitors Google sends them. As a publisher, wouldn't you prefer to have $100 from microsoft to delist from google if you only get $50 from google referals?
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Isn't the single URL approach more user (& developer) friendly, though? It allows developers to just put in a "sign in via Google" button, instead of confusing users by requiring them to enter their OpenID URL.
crap results on the test queries i ran. one was for crocheting pillows.
It would be even better with an Optimus Maximus keyboard[1] that has OLED keys. But it's still at $1700 :-(

[1]: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
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You missed the part where the users preferred the OP's apps.

An IT department exists to satisfy the company's needs, not vice versa. If you can't do the job with the 'resources' given to you, resignation is always an option. But don't fail to do your job and then whine about 'resources'.
You missed his statement about it being embedded into other programs. You see when you embedded a gpl scripting language into a larger program the entire program becomes gpl. This makes it a very bad embeddable program.
Because Apple makes a serious effort to find and fire people who release even basically irrelevant information, while in the US they're probably not going to come after you like that unless the information was classified.
Yeah, ever since the Bayh-Dole Act kicked in, it's been sorta crazy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
You're right that it would be easier if some things were set to a reasonable default.

But if you want it right now: create a custom command to do it your way and wrap it in an app that you add to the path. When you start a new project, the first thing you do is add the application to your installed apps and you can use it over and over again.
It's not so much the public funding of the research that's the problem, it's that we pay for the reasearch, and then pay for the results.
Always thought 3rd-level and Compose were the same thing. This is much, much better; thanks!
I prefer the Economist's overview:

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?...
I work with Django for a living but the lack of init/buildout in a new project has always driven me a bit nuts, I guess it's one of my development pet-peeves.

I've never had project that didn't need:

- a project-wide templates/ directory
- media/[css|img|js] directories
- some kind of database setup by default
- contrib.admin (well, I created a form mailer once that had no admin)

Django seems to take a "we don't want to force you to use any particular setup" stance, but the result seems to be to force you to make a bunch of relatively meaningless decisions before you can start writing code. (they could have other reasons, I haven't looked into it lately)

These days I have a script that does all this, and I know others have written similar scripts as well. It just strikes me as being a gaping hole on the Django development model... IMO anyway.
Perhaps the university could receive an endowment and then leave the public sector. I know that taxpayers fund R&D too in the private sector with tax rebates and the like so the situation isn't clear cut between the public and private sector.

I'm actually advocating that universities should release their IP into the public domain rather than profit from it. Would this preclude another Google from happening? I don't know. I guess there will be strong arguments against this and I'm happy to hear them in case I've not thought this out all too well :D
It's not a misspelling in American English. It's like saying "No hablo[sic] espanol[sic]".
The logical thing to do is set up a system in which the government invests in projects, and gets some kind of stake similar to equity so it can recoup some of that tax money for reinvestment (or whatever purpose).