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Forgive my ignorance -- what does "relative job losses" mean, and how does it differ from "absolute job losses"?

It seems like an easy way to avoid many of these issues is simply to make web applications where all the software is stored in the cloud. Most of the arguments I've seen for web apps are from the devs' perspective (you control the hardware, you can pick whatever programming language you want, etc), but I guess web apps are better for users, too.

> Her name is Jenny - we're working our contact for Jenny's last name.

Wait, what? Why is that necessary?

Why isn't this in a peer-reviewed journal?

I think there's a missing word in this sentence: "What I'm saying is that the kind of help that matters, you may not have to be a board member to give."

The guy who gave this talk, Chris Paget, actually used OpenBTS in his demo.

It's a famous Mozart duet for violins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpktS4rNZC8

Keep in mind that this was a pretty bad recording; it sounds like a (badly) synthesized acoustic guitar. Professional, live recordings of Bach's Musical Offering include the Crab Canon and sound much better.

I've seen this a handful of times, but I don't know enough about physics to understand the specifics of the theorem to make meaningful statements about it.

Can anyone explain the free will theorem to laymen?

This "article" is hilarious -- all of the interesting information in the article is contained in the headline.

Was the term "FU money" coined by Neal Stephenson, or was it in use before he wrote Cryptonomicon?

I am convinced that this is because the primary input method for PCs is the keyboard, so user input is primarily text. Perhaps a visual programming language will emerge on the iPad, or some other platform where primary user input is graphical rather than textual.

The problem with Linux typography isn't a lack of fonts, it's bad rendering. I can buy a font from Adobe. I can't buy a better font renderer for Linux.

I think it's interesting that in the language features vs editor features debate, Lispers tend to be on the "language features" side, while Java programmers usually favor powerful IDEs/editors.

In this particular discussion, the sides are oddly flipped!

Interestingly enough, his "parenthesis-stacked" C code looks just like Python, which I find a pleasure to read.

There's one difference, though: conventional Python is indented four, not two, spaces. In fact, the main aspect of his "normal" C code that makes it more readable (to me, at least) is his use of four spaces for indentation.

Personally I think the biggest barrier to Lisp readability is too little indentation (two spaces is typical). Looking at his reformatted Lisp, the way I identified the nesting level of his highlighted line was not by looking at trailing parens but by looking at the indentation, which was much wider (and therefore clearer) than standard Lisp.

Perhaps greater than you'd expect, if lsb had read the other post.

What is the video in question? There's a video on the front page of wikileaks, but it's not a "39 minute video".

This might be because at most schools there are no cuts to the cross country team.

There are a lot of blogging or social networking sites that are very popular regions other than the US.

This isn't really a new syntax, though -- it mostly just uses standard CSS selectors (.class, sibling+sibling, parent>child, etc).

"The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'."

Does anyone have any good resources for amateur/hobbyist hacking biotech?

What are other hackers' experiences with having a very strict, rigid schedule vs more open-ended days?

Classically trained violinist, though my forte is in improvisation (classical, rock, and jazz).

And licenses probably won't help prevent well-meaning people's accidents, either.

Mischel's team found that they could teach tricks to underperforming kids, who would subsequently perform just as well as the originally patient ones.

Does anyone here have good hacker-relevant tips for self-control?

(For instance: when tackling a large problem, approach it bottom-up by starting with utility functions.)

1. emacs (incl. shell, irc, personal wiki) 2. firefox (incl. email, blog) 3. wmii (tiling window manager)

I suspect this would do much better on the front page if the link caption included the fact that the article is by Raganwald.

> It might be kind of jerky during the editing stage, but it's better than scrolling around trying to find out where the action is. ;)

With a bit of Javascript I'm sure you could make it scroll smoothly.

"Since they did not consult our developers, our ads were not implemented correctly, and we weren't getting paid (even though Boxee's users may have been seeing the ads)."

Honest question: don't you normally pay for ads, rather than getting paid for them? I must be missing something here.