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so as a digression, which language do you think has a runtime that controls memory access better than OS? I wonder can a language like Rust and Golang meet that criteria?

Thanks for your kind words.

I am trying to dumb it down. But that means the system may lose its flexibility as the existing gnupg command line tools. Also what I want to do is kind of building some systems on top of pgp's cryptography framework. So end users will not touch gnupg directly.

For example, it can be a file sharing system that uses pgp cryptography framework and a centralized private hkps key server. A user only knows to lock/unlock a data file with a key. They may generate keys all the time or used the same keys. Or share the keys to other people in the system.

I don't will it work or not. It is just some reflections and attempts after using gnupg in current day job and I am trying to express the idea in a prototype.

i am in fact working on a system trying to simplify gpg ui.

i don't know whether this count as data, or just opinions: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

My old boss who is working for google now knows ssh. He is 60. But maybe due to he is a member of IETF so he gets updates. I don't think he is in trench. But I think what you described is related to company culture.

East Asian societies needs it, too. Dropping birthdate in CJK has caused middle aged people to work longer in life. But same ageism exists in tech business.

I have been doing start ups since 25. Same aspiration. I did not hit home run. But I am still trying to hit it till i die.

I am 45. But if I still have no family in 55 and fit physically. I will have the same aspiration as I did in 25.

But will the person hire me see my aspirations without occlusion from my appearance? I don't know.

Side note. I work very hard to keep my body and face like 29. But presbyopia and gray hair creep in. So I bet I need to roll the dice and sing the blues.

Exactly what I thought. The master piece of herb and Dorothy is their life time meta art of modern art collection at shoestring budget.

And setl influenced ABC, then Python

my vote is dropbox.

The story is kind of slow and pretty set in Japan's social context. If you like to read novels by Haruki Murakami then you can get the story and its context easier.

Japan (or to some degrees, Korea, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong) has been influenced by Confucianism. How to deal with shame is a central part in social life. This includes dealing with feelings of alienation to one's social counterparts. And "being wimpy" is kind of shame experiences for teenagers in those countries.

You need to understand "shame" and "guilt" are two different concepts. "Guilt" is based on actions and morality. "Shame" is based on attributes that one possess. That's why you can see a lot of murders in East Asian's dramas having no feelings for guilt, but having feelings of shame.

The water level in Battery Park was 13 feet at its highest and broke previous record 11 feet at 1821. Manhattan south of 39th street lost power since 9:00pm.

This is probably the first time in last 100 years for dwellers living in Manhattan downtown see flood in their homes. Especially for people who lives in ground floor or basements.

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/171528/sandy-strikes-...

I have been pondering the possibility to build a challenge problem site that accepts solutions composed in languages other than c/c++/java/c# . Interview street has done some for languages from Haskell to scala to php. But probably I will include javascript because javascript is going to be influential on html5 apps.

If anyone has similar idea and like to team up. Please contact me.

It seems like no one had compiled a list of all names mentioned in the talk, so I just compiled a list. I hope this be easier for younger generation to know who are those people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gardner_Pfann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Pierce

http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?clogston...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?chynowet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Johnson

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=ken...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16955

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%27ain%27t_What_You_Do_%28It%2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issac_Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Alexander_Schelkunoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/590_Madison_Avenue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_M._Oliver

http://www.fraserresearch.org/FRbio_trustees.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Gilbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Munro_Ross

If you have followed his blog posts for a long time. He is very crafty in all low level programming that most of us are incapable of. And he also wrote his reflection on C++ programming language in C++ Frequently Questioned Answers.

Also I like this post from him a lot. He just likes to say things more frankly.

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/work-on-unimportant-problems.html

But founders would never know when the startup will be bought, right? Probably it is better to hack ways out of the jungle and prepare to die in the way.

To be bought also requires luck and timing.

Well, I think most refutations to PG's essay are based on an assumption: "Focusing on growth leads to being evil". It is probably due to too many negative stories in media about cheaters. But as we all know, cheaters can not sustain their own games forever due to the cheats violate some underlying fundamentals. So how about rephrasing the sentence as "Focus on growth while be nice to users and seek out real ways to optimize products to stand out among competitors and grow like wildfire"? Don't we all like good guys to win the game?

Also I don't see PG dismissed small businesses that are not startups in his essay. As long as a business is successful and profitable, any one can be a proud business owner of it. It is just not a company that will have huge growth potential and that's ok in a lot of case for the owner. And I really feel the confusion now is in mainstream business media to label any small business as "startup". IMHO, that is much more problematic and dangerous to anyone in business since that misconception gives small business owners disillusions about their potentials. PG now just says it out loud that, "Without huge growth it is not a startup that will change people's lives."

thanks for correction. I am sorry for confusing the issue.

This is not true for all new MacBook pro. All ram modules are soldered even for non retina display.

No, Your example is wrong factually. It is not George Soros, but his cofounder in original Quantum Fund, Jim Rogers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers. We need to do fact checking before we write down anything.

George Soros is alive and kicking living in Upper East Side, Manhattan; Bedford, Westchester county; and East Hampton, Suffolk county. If you are lucky you can bump into him very often in Bloomberg Headquarter. And George Soros is also a proponent for Buffett Rules.

Why do you say it as bullshit?

One important thing in higher education for math and physics is to be able to perform detail technical computations or modeling for phenomenons. In common high school and undergraduate physics class, it only requires students to be able to come up models with intuitions. But in graduate schools, you are trained to examine each step to make sure nothing is left out or based on assumptions that are wrong in your mind.

Therefore a lot of time you are not sure what something is until you re-examine all postulates that you learn when you are young.

I think you misunderstood that a lot of times so called "new things" are already thought about by those creators. But they may thought about cases that those new things are not a good solutions to problems and they decide to implement them in different way. In Crockford's case, it is the ';' at the end. And he wants to enforce it for clarity. And in Torvalds' case he wants accountability. I don't think they did not consider those new ideas when they start designing json/git, but they choose ways that facilitate programmers to create better/clearer/more accountable ways to solve problems.

I think for all software engineers who are old enough, we all know writing software is a social activity and sometime it is better to make projects manageable.

I think any one who creates technologies has to understand that design decision is an "Opinion".

I think there is an opportunity here in dealing prospectus of public companies for investors.

wow. I have been walking since my childhood living in two different cities (Taipei and NYC). I really enjoy walking hours just to look at streets and scenes in different hours of days. I feel that I can perceive the environment while walking in much higher resolutions and bandwidth of information flowing into my brain than driving.

I was interviewed once in Mountain View in 2006 and I remembered walking on El Camino Real rd between Palo Alto and Sunnyvale on 100F July. I was the only one walking on the road and it is pain in ass to cross road since the traffic system is designed for cars. But I still remember vividly the scenes along El Camino Real between Palo Alto to Sunnyvale until now, even just one day in my life.

Sign, maybe it is better apologize later than asking for permissions first.

My company hotlist.com was thinking about similar User Interface as "Grils Around Me" for Hotlist.com on 2008, but we think it was too creepy for users to accept it. Even we just show your acquaintances from Facebook and people already feel uncomfortable about being followed implicitly and we spend a lot of efforts listening to users in user testings to make them feel comfortable.

Well, if you like to see where to go and see what kind of crowd in the location, you can come to check hotlist.com out. And if you like it and have suggestions, please do send us feedback. Thank you so much.

It is a wonderful and inspiring story. It is the best way to honor one's parents. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Now defunct Transmeta hired him for just in time recompilation of x86 machine code into Transmeta's RISC machine code.

It reminds me what PG said in http://www.paulgraham.com/control.html on December 2010.

Ruby community is quite reasonable. I usually avoid discussions in framework communities. At the other hand, programming language communities tend to be more reasonable and nerdy. I feel bad that you missed the chance to know ruby language due to anti rails.