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In UW's defense, "Weather 101" is pretty commonly known as an easy class to fill up General Education requirements.
I don't like it. Google started cluttering their homepage a while ago (Fade-In effect, Upgrade to Chrome ad) ... I guess this is the next step.
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That's not really what they mean by loudness, but that's a good way to prevent ear damage.
No specific criticisms of the app, but I did notice this on the about us page:

We have put together some money and quit our jobs, with the intention of making Ride with GPS the best site of its kind on the internet.

Having 3 full-timers working on a bootstrapped project (especially one with no current revenue model, as far as I can tell) will be very tough. Ramen profitability is that much further away, and you burn through your seed money very quickly.

Since I don't want to start the whole "quit-your-dayjob vs dont-quit" debate, all I will say is this: Consider not waiting until your seed money is completely exhausted before exploring avenues of funding, and by this I mean getting some kind of job. Any sort of income that still allows you to work on your project can help you stay alive until you start making a decent income from your startup.
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sounds awesome
This reminds me of Steve Jobs quote : "Real artists ship"..
Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010
I think the particular example given has less to do with the fact that do...while is a less common control structure, and more with the syntax of do...while itself.

I suspect the referenced "slow down" was that the reader will naturally, upon encountering a loop, scroll to the end of the loop and figure out what the conditional is. Obviously the isn't really necessary in a do...while, since that code's going to run once no matter what, but I suspect most of us still do it anyway (like looking both ways before crossing a one way street).
I've been buying more and more vinyl. It's a little expensive, but sound quality is simply superb. I spent some time trying to recognize sounds in Pink Floyd music on MP3/CD/Vinyl and realized that current technology is not yet suitable for music as sophisticated as Pink Floyd. If they could find a material that's a little harder, gramophone records might just be the medium of the future.
I worked on a proprietary system that did first person, single flight tracking in 3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Jw1vNrh0Q

Similar data is available in KML for GoogleEarth from http://flightwise.com/flighttracking/
First heard of the Loudness War in IEEE: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-future-of-mu...

Didn't know it's turned into an entire meme by now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war. Lots more links here for those who want to find out more.

Illustrative list of waveform and peak level examples: http://www.cdmasteringservices.com/dynamicdeath.htm. This page really goes to town on graphs of various popular songs to show how and where the clipping occurs.

Death Magnetic is definitely one of the best recent examples especially due to the contrast with the GH version.
Yeah, but not everyone can follow that advice ^_^, and more to the point, there are some things we want to accomplish that can't be done in smaller companies. Jet planes, power plants, all sort of neat stuff.
James Fallows on Thinklinkr ("interesting software")
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Check Expectations for Apple's Tablet at the Door
Jeff Atwood is a poor example to cite here. His data loss had nothing to do with the subtleties of how applications map onto the file system; it was just due to carelessness.
His published advice to others (host images on S3 and back up your files to a different machine than the one you're on) would have prevented the whole mess.
I couldn't quickly find a graph on Google, but actually the economic statistic of the decade is the rise of Chinese GDP per capita.

The US credit bubble of 04-10 is a blip compared to the rise of Asia, hundreds of millions, soon billions of people rising out of peasant poverty and into the global middle class. It's as historic as the Industrial Revolution or the Green Revolution, and so big we seldom notice it.

But it really is the defining economic fact of our era.
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Getting The Best Out Of Social Marketing
One of the buzz words among the online marketing experts is social marketing or social media marketing.
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> how can anyone prove that they are simply mimicking those behaviors instead of actually experiencing the same neurochemical reaction we do?

Tests like the Turing test see that as irrelevant. Basically if an animal behaves like it feels emotions, it does feel emotions.
Why Key-Value stores are like C, and why you might want to use one anyways
rdiff-backup (http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/) is very mature and efficient, using the rsync algorithm to store incrementals and save bandwidth. I use it for automated daily local/remote backups. I regularly use it to back up VMs. Restores are a snap. It has some nice features, like the ability to keep only N days of backups to save space for noncritical data.
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Suggesting that users use Google Docs to open all PDF files is just too far for non-security nuts. GDocs is fairly okay for when you know the url to the PDF but at least 50% of the time I don't know the url. For example, if I have in Google and see a PDF as search results, the url is a google url, not the url to the PDF.

And most of the time, the malicious attacks occur as an email attachment. Can GDocs open this? Not that I know of.
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Part 3 of a series of articles I've been writing about the technology behind http://postabon.com. This is about the persistence layer (Elephant) I'm using - but I tried to make it a little more general so it could help non-Lisp programmers.
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The website is here: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/. I missed the PBS showing and, unfortunately, the blog/site doesn't have any new info regarding when it will show again.
I think that that is the relevant data. It helps game makers understand what the best price points are for their product and how changing that price point over time can reinvigorate sales.

I personally think that the game industry's pricing is out of whack with the rest of consumer entertainment. A cd costs between $10-16 (on iTunes the pricing difference is similar for tracks), movies cost $9-13, a hardbound book sells for $12-20 and a new game can cost $50-60. The usual justification is that AAA games cost a lot of money to make. But AAA movies cost far more and AAA pop music and promotion also costs similarly large numbers. Yet I pay 4-6 times that price for a game, even if the production cost is a fraction of the other mediums..

Steam does a few things that are interesting IMHO:

1) It makes it clear to game authors that $50-60 is not a good price point anymore, volume increases significantly at the lower price point, so much so that total revenue (and profit) also increase.

2) Digital distribution of games is popular and works really really well.

3) Those two effects combines can grow the consumer base for these products. People that didn't get into gaming before because it simply cost too much, can get into it now if a well known, well reviewed game costs $5 and the Steam platform is free.
nice app!

Reminds me somewhat of http://www.mapmyrun.com/
Remember that F = ma.

Hitting another car of the same size coming from the opposite side when each car is doing 35 mph is pretty similar to hitting a concrete wall at 35 mph. There is no 70 mph effect. The reason the pole would be safer is that it has some give. Lower acceleration = lower force.
I looked into both of these companies last year and made the following observations back then:

Braintree looks great, but you need a rather large minimum monthly to sign with them (6 figures, can't remember the cutoff then). But they seemed to be the class act at the time.

Authorize.net just does not inspire trust, from their business practices to their flaky infrastructure (plus they've been a major target for attacks). They do have some pretty neat public APIs you can use.

Good luck! This is not an easy area.
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They've confused digital compression and dynamic compression. Death Magnetic sounds worse on CD because of dynamic compression, not digital compression.
If they had an actual prototype, that's what they'd be showing, instead of a mockup, yes?
I was part of the (4 people) team who build this website, to crowdsource a music video. It uses 4 webservices (AWS SQS, S3, Mturk via Crowdflower and Blip TV API), in the backend. Wonder what you think of it.
Project milestones and mental models (love your idiots)
Sensobi Targets Underserved Blackberry Mobile App Market with Address Book
"Ad blockers are still used by a tiny proportion of the Internet population, and these aren’t the kind of people susceptible to ads anyway," Wladimir Palant, who runs Adblock Plus on Firefox, wrote

I don't buy that in any way. We are all "susceptible to ads". In fact I believe that the smarter the user, the more they want targeted ads. I love finding new products that can help me. The key is "targeted" and now "McDonalds".
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> Humans are animals.

I wished that was a universally accepted truth, alas that is very much not the case (not in the least in the US).

Somehow we seem to have gotten it in to our heads that we are special instead of simply evolved.

And then there are subsets of all humans that think that they in turn are even more special. Go figure...
To expand on this (and repeat what I just posted at NPR), Death Magnetic sounds worse on CD because of dynamic compression, not digital compression. If digital compression was the problem, then the Rock Band version would sound WORSE than the CD, because the CD has no digital compression (and Rock Band does). The CD is what you make MP3s out of, after all.

The CD master of Death Magnetic has had its dynamic range heavily compressed (which squashes the waveform), where the Rock Band version is uncompressed because the game mixes the song on the fly.
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Also, "digital domain compression" isn't a thing.
Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
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Interesting to see how they were, well let's say inspired, by the Iphone. The pinch thing is the most obvious giveaway.

It's even more interesting to see that they don't get why the Iphone was designed the way it was. It's all about simplicity and form follows function. There's nothing in the iphone's design that doesn't absolutely have to be there. There's no clutter. When you look at the courier it's obvious they haven't grasped this.
As things like the XBOX 360 and the various MS mice show, MS hardware is actually pretty good. They seem to keep hitting failure when the dev an interesting hardware platform and just license it out (list is too long to write here).

They need to just make this themselves.
surely if mainstream is the thing you want, then more people using haskell would solve that? I don't see how moving to another language helps the mainstream problem, actually it hinders it since less people will be using your new language than are using haskell already.
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I think I remember seeing the pinch gesture (and a few others) in a Perceptive Pixel demo quite a while before the iPhone came out.
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Yeah I thought he's more amazed that people apparently just take stuff off of wikipedia and start manufacturing it without cross-checking with a single other source...
And I remember in France how my university professors used to complain that high school students became weak in set theory...

I didn't know that the level in the US had fallen that far... but it's true that I remember helping a girl in the nearby community college on her math classes and the level of the exercises she had was about the french 7-8th grade math.

But of course, I think the emphasis on math in europeans countries is maybe different than in the us. In France, for example, ability in math is the main selection criteria and students who took the scientific curriculum in highschool had 6-8 hours/week of mathematics and for calculating the gpa, mathematics had a coefficient of 7-9 (compared to 3 for english for example).

And because the scientific curriculum is considered the most prestigious a lot of students who intend to later study non-scientific specialities like law or business take it.
No, The 2nd para of TFA:
We're talking about compression here, the dynamic compression
that's used a lot in popular music. There's actually another
kind of compression going on today one that allows us to
carry hundreds of songs in our iPods...
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A bit old, no?
The only question is -- can they also create a user experience to match Apple's. That would basically mean software which should be extremely intuitive, simple, and to the point, where touch features don't feel as an afterthought on a solid OS.

We will have to see whether Windows derivative tablet OS is capable of supporting tablet form better than it does for mobiles/smartphones, to try and match Mac OS's versatility. If it does not, then no matter how good the hardware is, it will still be a number 2.
If this supports flash and has a nice, compliant and fast browser....sold!
What is the worlds hardest language?
I'm not a big fan of Rands' writing style either, but I have to say the content is usually worth the trouble.
What searches? Also note you can use the mostly info sites feature.
Another lament of what's wrong with mathematics, by mathematician Paul Lockhart:

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_08.html

He doesn't quite agree with this article.
Oh sorry, then it should be OK :)
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I'm not even sure that indirect is accurate. It's a different style of control, that's all.
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You both are my heroes. One from academia, and another javascript guru.
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why don't any of the tech journalists gushing over designs seem to grasp this? we already have tablet interfaces that haven't taken off because they suck. they're unintuitive buggy messes. whomever solves this first wins, regardless of the hardware.
At the risk of being tautological: self control is doing what you plan to do. The exact mechanisms of avoiding temptation, laziness, fear, etc are orthogonal to results.
erm...the urban challenge was 2007.
This should not be here because:

a) it's not a product

b) it's not even a prototype

c) it's from last September (and thus is not news)

d) nothing has been heard since (it's dead)

e) it's resurrected every time there is buzz about an Apple tablet - wonder if MS's PR has anything to do with it.
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Agreed and it's good that they do that since I use their graphics and Wifi drivers on my Ubuntu Laptop.

My point was if they are truly committed to open source they would do this too, they are after all a hardware company and should compete by making the best hardware.
Well... We have tablets since the early 90's...
I'd suggest you hook into a browser API to do this. I believe google maps already do this via a "my location" button, which can estimate, at worst case, to the city usually. Also, changing the default and saving it per login would be good, ala google maps too.
And a non-working mock-up at that.

If we wanted to get fancy, they could call it a "mass simulator". All it does is simulate the device's shape and mass.

When it is not just a CGI model, that is.
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For Federer fans, here's something you may like:

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=272192

(Title: Federerisms)
I love the natural keyboards. The mice are decent and the Softcard in my Apple II still boots, but saying the Xbox 360 is creat hardware is ignoring its alarmingly high death rate.

Still, MS hardware is good. Too bad they insist to be a software company.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1009137

I think this is another case that my suggested duplication detector would have found:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
The article :-)

And nothing new about Courier has come since then.
You do remember the Newton, right?

Or the Momenta?
Maybe, null and boilerplate code
Nope, it actually made me chuckle a little bit. First time Google's homepage ever made me do that.
It seems the vapor in the vaporware dispersed.
one thing I'd recommend, try using google maps local search api for your search box. It has much more accurate results, and seems to use a completely different database for search results, especially in the UK. Here's a link to it, try using this instead of the search call in the google maps api. http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/mapsearch/index.html

It's a bit more work, but the results are much better, UK postcodes will actually work instead of being random.
Consider me impressed.

That's a nice skill you have, did it take you long?
"It's all about simplicity and form follows function."

In the demo, there were a lot of actions where I did not understand the underlying UI philosophy. Flicking from one application to another (how are the apps spatially related to each other?). Flicking a person's entry onto a todo list to give him access (why doesn't it email it to him, or some other action?). The "pinch" seems to do different things in different contexts, and I'm not sure what ties them together. I get that she was taking photos at one point, but is holding up a book form factor to take a picture going to work ergonomically? And then pressing the button to snap the photo, do you have to balance this open book form factor with just one hand so you can press the button with your other hand?

On the other hand, during the original iPhone demo, I kept thinking "of course!" It was clear that Apple had created an entire, consistent UI philosophy for operating a mobile device with just the fingers on one hand, while holding it in the other.
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This is part of the gps stream from most gps devices.
"Why do elementary school teachers teach multiplication tables for 6 years and call that math?"

Recently my mother told me a story of when I was in elementary, a teacher told my mother that while I was quite good in English in the like, I was bad at math. My mother (who likes math and is pretty good at it) got pissed off at the teacher and told her that she couldn't possibly know if I was good at math or not, because we weren't doing math.

I actually did not ever learn my full multiplication tables, but I did learn techniques to get around not knowing them, and can know consequently multiply much larger numbers in my head than most other people. So I don't regret my hatred of memorization.

And that might be behind it. The only thing I hated more than memorizing multiplication tables was memorizing poems, but there was very little of the latter in my education; much more of the former.
I still get this odd whiff of Microsoft pulling out the old playbook and doing a "we're working on this too!" FUD maneuver, knowing Apple was working on something similar.

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Songs download
Entertainment is one of the major factor of life,
without which its hard to live. Music is part of
entertainment which can just be downloaded mp3 and video audio!
Actually, a lot of people have it as a start page. Usually not power-users, but many regular users have it this way.
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Yes but the Japanese strategy was not "sell at the lowest possible price". It was "we have good control over our costs, let's pick a price and see what we can deliver at that price". At that point in time, US automakers didn't even know what making a car cost them, they were so focussed on revenue they lost sight of the bottom line.
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Google have a /publicdata/ URL that shows that kind of thing:
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mk...

And here it is plotted against some other major markets:
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mk...

China's GDP is notable for it's ascent in the last decade.
Just curious: what sort of "disaster" DID they lead to?
Heh. I've been crawling through Everything and More and it's definitely not an excellent place to start, unless you've already got the transfinite math chops and are reading it for sheer enjoyment. (Note: I don't already have the transfinite math chops, and while I'm reading the book for enjoyment, it's "sheer" mainly in the sense that the unforgiving cliff face to which a novice climber clings is sheer.)

If you enjoyed this essay on Federer, the logical next place to go with DFW is his essay collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
good post. Another aspect of these simple key-value stores is that the lack of schema is sort of like late binding for design. More work needs to be done in the client layer but the tradeoff is maximum flexibility in evolving the application. The O-R mapping problem disappears
You are properly right.

What I never get is why Microsoft doesn't actually work on these things when they are ready to pay 40B to buy Yahoo.
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Humorless indeed. And folks wonder why the wikipedia foundation has to beg so hard for donations, well, the constant bureaucracy and rule-worship tends to disuade contributions.
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Thanks for the link.
I just started biking again for the first time since childhood, and I bought the $4.99 Cyclometer app for the iPhone.

So I came to your site as an excited novice and I'm sort of clueless. Hard to know where to go on the home screen. I assume I want to sign up, but I don't know your feature-benefits well enough to make a decision.

To that end, why are the "Start drawing" and "Sign up" buttons given equal weight in the UI? Do you expect 50% of your visitors to do each? Seems unlikely--and is that even what you want?

The right-left arrows (<|>) to bring up that other blurb is totally unexpected behaviour given a right-arrow click. The content should be coming in from the side, and be progressing me along some kind of 1, 2, 3 step process. Otherwise, why hide the first blurb in order to show me the second?