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Perhaps I could've phrased things better, but I hope I made it clear that I do feel that we ripped people off. We hoped to make it clear that the Sapling Program was intended to support the project and that it was entirely possible that nothing at all would come of it, but even so it really sucked to see things go down the way they did.

We made a lot of mistakes, but if nothing else, I've learned from them and done what I can to not hit them again. I feel bad for the people who supported us and ended up not getting their money's worth, and I never want to do that to a customer again.
If you can run your app on Linux, it'll probably run with little trouble on OpenSolaris or FreeBSD (even if it's just a VM). For profiling, dtrace is definitely worth the effort.
I meant that I actually found it by searching Google (keywords: avatar scriptment rapidshare), not that I personally uploaded it to Docstoc or Scribd and pretended to find it there.
That is an interesting comparison. Still the movie is worth seeing no matter what the script as a demonstration of what special effects are now possible. And for the full experience, IMAX is best.

That said, I would have personally enjoyed the amazing special effects in Avatar more if I hadn't recently seen Under The Sea 3D with my 5 year old son. Therefore I was aware of exactly what 3D visual experience that screen is capable of, and was correspondingly aware of how much the movie fell short of that ideal.

In the documentary I remember looking from one fish to another, and feeling my eyes refocus for the different depth and then notice the amazing detail. By contrast in Avatar I never felt that anything really was in solid focus.
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Thanks. That's quite it I guess.

I'm still puzzled by Sharp though. They do sell phones in America, but the models they sell are vastly inferior to their Japanese offer. Perhaps as you say people in general don't see a practical use for the extra features yet.

Compare http://k-tai.sharp.co.jp/lineup/d/ and http://sharp-world.com/products/smartphone/index.html . They have waterproof 12.1MP camera smartphones...
Modern scientists have to have jobs, that is, being a scientist.

You can only get away with that long-hair stuff if you are ALREADY Einstein. Also, I bet when he (Einstein) had his Swiss-patent office job, he was buttoned up and dull.
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Just consulted my biologist brother, who was worked extensively in the field in BC, and he doubts the photo is real:

- The wolf is huge, much larger than anything known to stalk the woods of BC (both of us are from BC).

- The amount of fur suggests that it's wildly out of its natural habitat - not one of the common wolf species, and probably something more Arctic than temperate.

- From his personal experience, wolf eyes reflect green, not yellow. Furthermore, you will only ever get the shine if you shine a light at it - like a flash - but the flash on the camera in question could not reach that far. In fact, the flash on that camera was not fired, which as a photographer I can corroborate. There is no way a flash was used in the making of this picture.

- There's some weird clipping in the wolf, and a fairly distinct lack of shadow, but neither of us are Photoshop experts, so that's neither here nor there.

IMHO the lack of flash is, to me at least, pretty damning. The claim is that the flash was what scared the wolf off - but as someone who takes a lot of photographs, there is no way that a flash was used in that shot, especially one from a point and shoot camera.
This is a pretty new trend... maybe 10 years? When I was in high-school (before 2000) my heroes were the likes of Linus Torvalds or Mel (http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html). I don't think I ever felt a lack of masters.

It could be that things are fuzzier now... more blogs, forums, lots of people writing about stuff they're at best intermediate in. But this doesn't mean the really good guys aren't there any more. For a healthy dose of awe and humility you can take a look here: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure
Actually you may let the one you are showing the trick to to choose the order, you need just to notice where did the column with the card go. 2 if it is on the bottom, 1 if in the middle, 0 if on the top. When you got your three digits, reverse them and convert from ternary to decimal—that will be the number of cards above yours. In the case you are putting column with a card to the middle you'd get 111, that is 13^2+13^1+1*3^0=9+3+1=13. Hence your card is #14.

I think this was in one of the books by M. Gardner.
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The stated goal of search is to find relevant information. If Google somehow provides that information to me in a easy to digest way, who am i to refuse it? If not, i would go elsewhere for that information. Since net neutrality ensures that i can always go to an alternative source for information, i don't think search dominance is too much of a problem.
Buy a subscription to Safari Online and spend 15 minutes each day reading about programming.

It doesn't really matter what you read. Just pick a book that currently sounds interesting and read it. Since you are interested in OO PHP, there is a book called something like "Developing Object-Oriented Applications in PHP 5"
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Sitting next to someone tapping away on their phone during a movie is distracting and saying that other people are doing it as well is just a childish excuse.
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In case you want to read the scripment for yourself:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/14294813/Avatar-Scriptment-by--J...
I wonder what the reasoning was behind closing down the open-source project the way he did.
All of these predictions are so vague, one will never be able to judge if they are right or wrong.
I do weightlifting and photography. The weightlifting gives me something physical to do which is a nice change from sitting still all day. I like photography because I like being visually creative. The work I do is creative but not visually as I write Linux device drivers.

My first manager programmed all day, all night and all weekend. I thought that was a bit much but he ended up doing very well in the industry.

I'd go with your strengths, with what you enjoy and with what interests you.
Me too.

I have done freelance work through oDesk (at one point full-time for a couple months). I see postings looking for programmers where they are willing to pay max $4/hr. I try to move on and not get frustrated but it's difficult.

I would be really interested in hearing just what kind of programmers you hire. From the little you mention, it sounds like you need to treat them like kids/code-monkeys - spelling everything out, not wanting their creativity, etc.

I have thought sometimes to just spend a couple hundred bucks and hire a couple cheap programmers to work on a made-up project just to see what it's like. It would make for an interesting blog post at least.
To work in an IT capacity in europe you need a very good grasp of the local language unless it's explicitly an english speaking role. Native english speakers are treated very differently than everyone else, particularly in large international organisations.

I've been moving around in Europe a lot and I've been reading the job boards for years. You're either english speaking or you know the native language extremely well. Otherwise your odds of landing an IT job outside of the UK are next to zero.

Has any of your itialian friends actually worked in France in an IT or other qualified role?
I was thinking something like the Gunning fog index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index
If you have to ask, any answer I could give probably won't change your mind.

But here's a hint: The light from a phone screen is distracting in a dark theater.
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AT&T/Verizon/Apple: Apple's affections change quickly. In a span of about 8 months we had Jobs cracking jokes on Intel to Paul Otellini on stage in a bunny costume at an Apple event. If Verizon & Apple cannot reach a deal I suspect we'll see the CDMA iPhone on Sprint instead. Is there anything Sprint wouldn't do to get the iPhone?
Microsoft could use this in their next FUD campaign - "Linux is a cheap/pirate knock-off of our product".

There have been repeated attempts to make Linux look like Windows over the last few years, and usually it's done in the name of helping Windows users transition to a new OS, but actually I'm not sure that's what it really achieves. Instead it further entrenches Microsoft's brand and UI into the minds of users, such that to the naive person "Windows" and "a computer" are the same entity.
To be quite honest, I don't recall why we closed it the way we did. In retrospect, I can come up with few poorer ways of going about it, so I really don't see how it ever made sense. It's one of the biggest mistakes we made, IMO, even though I don't believe it directly related to the project's failure.
were you working for the Michael Robertson that started mp3.com, linspire, et al? if so, he already had his own shady past to worry about. here's one of his many enemies:

http://kevincarmony.blogspot.com/2009/11/gizmo5-sipphone-sha...
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I was there near the beginning of the MP3tunes days, which has its own insanely shady past (much of which I can't talk about, sadly). I can say that there are few people in the world I trust less than MR, having seen how much he's done to hurt people, especially his employees and business partners.

Edit: Misread your question. Yes, it's the same Michael Robertson.
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These languages share many word stems but the grammar is different and the pronunciation too, particularly in the case of french. So opportunity driven migration within Europe is not easy.

Sure, learning french is easier for an italian speaker than learning swedish. But learning swedish should be super simple for anyone speaking english and german. It's not that easy.

But migration within Europe is not only hampered by language. Many countries just don't like non-english speaking foreigners, no matter how well educated they may be.
New search engines pop up often. Off the top of my head: Cuil and Powerset. How often do new telecommunications companies pop up? The key word was relatively. Search engines aren't lemonade stands, but they aren't telecom companies either.
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Thank God it moved out of CVS finally. It's still very difficult to contribute though.
Extremely useful when your firewall doesn't allow direct SSH access. It doesn't work with stuff like Git though, which require publickey/ privatekey authentication.
If "designer" 3D glasses catch on, I'll eat a shoe.

"Ms. Costeira of XpanD thinks personalized designs that can be used with 3-D HDTVs and video games could turn into something big. “Stylish, thin and light, 3-D glasses will become your new iPod,” she said." was particularly laugh-worthy.
Scam? How? They offered to delete his information if he asked. That bit about paying the shipping costs yourself if the product s not defective is perfectly normal. At worst, they've read too many Dan Brown novels and their product is a bit cheesy.

"Extortion", "blackmail", the use of these words is pure hysteria.

I'm reminded of a friend of mine, another Internet privacy nut, who posted on his blog that these car insurance websites are a scam, they don't save you money. Turned out he'd registered with a false name and address... If the website couldn't credit score him, of course it would give him a bad quote!
Here in the UK, all the momentum I've seen is with the low end readers, Sony PRS-300 and similar.
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He clearly is, the title of that blog post is obviously a reference to Comic Book Guy.
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You know what's kind of dull? Talking to "normal" people in a bar. All they talk about is football and the daily grind. To each his own.
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I'd most certainly buy it too!
There's this http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.pdf

and the intro to plan9 http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf

and, tbh, I've read the kernel source code and it isn't that hard to follow - which is one of the goals - there's even an LXR http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/?v=PLAN9
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EXIF data says that the flash fired, but that’s easily faked.
I agree that quality is an issue in martial arts, and some are undoubtably ineffective. (Aikido anyone?) Also many that are not totally ineffective were not exactly designed for maximum effectiveness. For instance Capoeira. It is designed for a combination of fighting and dancing in friendly competition to music. Is it a surprise that it isn't the most effective way of hurting people?

Anyways the design goals of Krav Maga seem to me to be to make something that is easy to teach quickly to groups of people that is reasonably effective in nasty situations those groups are likely to encounter. Groups like military and police. The goal isn't to make great fighters. It is to help a police recruit with only 120 hours of training survive the guy who pulls a knife while resisting arrest. As long as it does that, it has succeeded. And right now most police departments and multiple military forces are convinced that it is good for that.

In terms of teaching MMA central ideas, I'm not sure how it could possibly do so. Since Krag Maga is derivative of virtually everything else, it doesn't really have many original ideas. Its focus on dirty strikes is not allowed in MMA. And professional fighters don't particularly need their lessons carefully broken down for ease of learning.

On your related note, I'm not sure why you thought it relevant. To make my point I talked about the MMA style that I thought would be least useful in the hypothetical bar fight. That doesn't mean that all MMA styles are going to be ineffective against multiple opponents. For instance kickboxing offers a lot of ways to take someone out of a fight fast without leaving a big opening for his friend to attack you. Therefore it is unsurprising that a pair of top kickboxers took out a much larger number of opponents in a fight.
I'm going to call fake on it. I've shot a lot of cameras, point and shoots included, and if anything point and shoot flashes are the easiest to spot:

- Extreme brightness and blown highlights.

- Very flat image due to the fact that the flash is in-line with axis of lens, very few shadows, and what shadows you see is very hard.

That picture is very, very much an ambient light picture - there would be the tell-tale "zombie" skin tone from a point and shoot at that range, and the people would be lit up like lanterns, washing the relatively dark background into unrecognizability.

It would take a skilled photographer with an off-camera flash to pull off that shot without destroying the background, no way that was done with an ordinary point and shoot.
You can get the value of simplicity quite young. 2 years ago, with almost no "real world" programming experience, at 25, I already got it. I am no master, mind you. I just had the incredible luck of being taught several styles of programming. My insight about simplicity was then inevitable.

Everyone knows that other things being equal, a simpler program is better. What is less known is that, almost every time, simpler means shorter and the other things are equal (at least from a technical perspective). I still face disbelief when I say this.
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While pretentiously written in scientific-journal format, the paper doesn't seem to have any hard data supporting the assertion that modern scientists are really dull.
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It's important to remember that basically nothing has a zero probability and anything that's happened once has some likelihood of happening again---you can decrease the probability but you can't eliminate the possibility. At that point, it's a cost-benefit analysis problem (and a resource management problem). However, whether you're talking about air terrorism or health care or child education or anything else, it's often hard to convince a general population of this... and it often ends up seeming like you're trying to throw someone under the bus if you even try. sigh
I rather prefer the polarized 3d glasses over the shutter glasses, as with shutter glasses, the picture is a way too dark!
For what it's worth, I do believe that Krav Maga and similar styles are potentially the most useful of any martial arts not used in MMA, for the reason that they fulfill a different niche (fighting in non-fair situations), as you state. It is very hard to compare such styles objectively, since you aren't able to practice crippling/disabling blows or fighting with weapons at full speeds unless you are willing to rapidly lose training partners. Thus we are left with endorsements, but that is the nature of the beast. Perhaps some military or police force could teach different groups different methods and measure who performs the best, but even then there would be too many variables to isolate.

However, for arts that claim to teach one-on-one unarmed combat, including all the ninja/master/sensei arts, there remains an effective proving ground and their absence from it is telling.
You need to build a bunch of inexpensive, low-effort prototypes. Do that while you're employed.

The most important thing here is what will the startup _do_, not how to run it. Spend some time figuring that out.

Anything you spend time on that ISN'T the product (renting out houses, consulting jobs) are a waste of time.
That’s what I thought, too.

So we can at least be pretty certain that the EXIF data was faked :)
I'm pretty sure this is related in Peopleware (if you haven't read it, you should), but I'm not sure. My copy is in the office.

A group of programmers were asked whether they preferred music or not as they were programming. They were then separated into two groups, each group having roughly equal numbers of those who did prefer music while programming, and those who didn't.

Group A was then played acceptable music as they solved a programming problem, and gropup B was left in silence.

As I recall, the only programmers that performed badly were those who preferred silence, but were played music. That's pretty reasonable. If you prefer music but get silence, apparently it doesn't matter too much. If you prefer silence but get given music, apparently it damages your productivity.

But there was a twist. The programming task given was a series of transformations to a set of data, and was designed so that the net effect was to return the data to its original form.

The only programmers who noticed this were in the group without music.

OK, so the conclusions are clear. Based on this story, half-remembered from a book, without references, and without detailed data about the experiment, we can conclude that if you're happy with music then it won't hurt your productivity, but ...

The suggestion is that there is some part of your creativity that is inhibited by having music on, whether you prefer music or not.

This doesn't, of course, address the issue of using music to mask background noise and distractions, and there are many, many points to make, but it's interesting.

Some references on the net:

Slides 16 and 17 from http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~tyson/classes/630.s07/11.pdf

Search for the reference to Peopleware on:

http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware1/default.asp?cmd=...

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.593799.3...
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They would be pretty rare on youtube I expect, the sensei's i have encountered have always been pretty secretive. I would suggest just starting up (they love helping beginners) and going to the first grading to see what it's like.
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The parts about the puzzle are interesting. And it does indeed look a bit crappy.

The conspiracy theories and moaning about why they'd want your name and address is just silly. Companies like having contact details :/

When the author suggested they were selling the user database on to marketeers I thought I'd stumbled upon theonion.

Lets say they had a customer database of 1000 names, addresses, phone numbers. I'd expect they could sell that for £50 maximum. It doesn't make any economic sense whatsoever.
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I very strongly recommend the book Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller. One thing he mentions is that his police department tried BJJ and found things like, in BJJ you want to pin your opponent on his back because it looks good for the MMA crowd, but in police work you want to pin your opponent on his front so you can then handcuff him.

But the really interesting bit of the book is in the description of the mindsets of different fighters. Cheating has no meaning in the mind of the true predator. Martial arts, even BJJ, designed for the ring, can't be transferred to "real world" scenarios (the author has worked in SWAT and as a prison guard) not just because the techniques aren't suitable, but because the mindset is wrong.
And this was precisely my point. Ballmer would never be able to keep Microsoft's position if he wasn't groomed for the position internally, for years.