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That's not what credit scores are for though.

Imagine that you're going to be lending money with interest. What does your ideal customer look like? Someone who just pays you back a month later? No, because you're not getting much interest from them. Someone who has trouble making payments? No, too much risk of losing what you lend. Ideally, you want someone who consistently carries debt and pays it off slowly.

There's also the matter of "handling debt well" not being the same thing as "general financial responsibility". While you might intend to pay it back quickly, that's not something the lender can just assume, and if you've never carried significant debt over a period of time they can't judge how you'll react if (for some reason) you can't pay it off quickly as you intended.

There's also the issue of wondering why someone who's rarely carried debt wants credit--what changed to make them need it, and how does that impact the risk of lending to them?

Short version: credit scores aren't really about you personally. They're about roughly estimating whether lending money to you would be profitable.
I haven't used Steam myself but I understand it's popular for older titles these days too. Gaming is kind of a consumable product compared to productivity or utility software though. A Mac App Store would probably have to go hand & hand with a new era of casual Mac gaming building on popular iPhone game franchises. One interesting angle is using the iPhone/Touch itself as a Wii style controller
Google was stupid to release the Nexus One. They created a fragmented developer environment, stabbed Android licensees in the back and terrified carriers all in fell swoop.

They're going to have to work very hard to get the industry to trust them again. It may already be too late.
MTV2 doesn't play much music videos either- for that matter, neither does BET or VH1.
How do they know they have the right person?

What makes you think they necessarily care? If they're accurate enough most of the time, that's good enough for their purposes. Negative impacts on individuals isn't something they have any particular reason to care about.
I've been waiting for someone to come out with trending topics for friends ('friending topics' perhaps?)... now I just need this integrated into Tweetie and I'll be a happy camper!

Nice clean design, I especially like the background textures.
I am struggling with that same problem since I started my first job after graduation. For many times I had the feeling to have sacrificed myself and my personal interest for my career (= someoneelse).

Only recently, I realized that this was a good experience nevertheless, but which has to stop now. It was good because it made it clear to me, what my preferences were as well as my strength and weaknesses. In other words who I am. Now I am taking my time for my interests (meditation, art and self-consciousness). This leads me to the following main messages as answer to your questions:

1.) You need to learn what you really want from life. And this, like every learning process, takes time and detours.

If you want to learn technology-related stuff, then you chances are pretty high that you may find an employee that is willing to give you freedom for personal projects, where you can learn and experience on your own (i.e. google's "Innovation Time Off"). If this isn't possible where you are now, then you may consider looking for another job where you can bargain this as part of your contract.

If, instead, we are talking about learning for personal growth or "self education" as Ixiaus wrote, then it becomes really interesting. Here I agree with Ixiaus. One way is to make some sacrifices for what you really want to do: e.g. earning less money but having more time for "self education". If your are ready for that, then look for a part-time job indeed, or build-up a sustainable startup were you don't have to make millions a year and report to a venture capitalist, but instead where earning some $10k is enough.

2.) Admit and be aware of your weaknesses. Several times, I find myself blaming myself for not being able to do this or to do that in the way and speed I wish it to be done. And when I have the time, I sometimes find myself spending that rare time with whatever.

But this is ok, as long as I continue working on my self, gradually improving the conscience use of my time. In particular, consider this: 6 hours of deep sleep are enough. This gives me some extra hours in the early morning and/or late evening for practising whatever I want to (meditation and yoga). Discipline is key, I always have to remember!

3.) The more dependent you are (the more money you want or believe to need or need), the less time you will have for "self education".

The dependencies can come from difference sources: your employees, your venture capitalist, your customers, your spouse, your children, ...., your expectations. Each of those relationships are chains around your neck. One first need to be aware of them, not imperatively avoid them. Then one can gently work towards reducing those dependencies, if one wishes to do so.
Is the iTablet a peripheral instead of a standalone device?
The art of metaprogramming, Part 1: Introduction to metaprogramming
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Google already has a strange split concept of 'users' and 'customers' when it comes to online advertising. I imagine they can split the concept further when it comes to handset manufacturing.

That aside, this is _the_ issue of the Android platform. Apple knows that their 'customers' are the people who purchase the device and not their developers (as any developer who's gone through the approval process will tell you). The question remains...can Google make the same leap?
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Dude. Microsoft lost an anti-trust trial, at least partially due to the Extreme Marketing of IE. We're allowed to read some ethically borderline behavior into that period's PM's resume.

I mean, I like Microsoft and Windows as much as the next guy, but geez, as soon as IE had 90%+ marketshare (due, lest we forget, in some measure to illegal behavior) Microsoft just let it stagnate. That alone should clue you in to how Microsoft feels about web browsers.
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Except when a VC invests in your company, you still do all the work. They get a small share because all they are providing you is money. Record labels handle a lot of the business side of a band and let the band members just make music.
I don't know if I would call C pre-processing "metaprogramming"but, perhaps I've spent too much time with Scheme and Ruby.
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Thanks. We have our API (http://thecadmus.com/api/docs) and are hoping to do exactly that.
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"The software allows him to play more chess, which allows him to make more mistakes, which allows him to accumulate experience at a prodigious pace."

The same can be said about the young generation online poker pros of the last 5 years, who regularly decimate the old school pros who learned live poker first.
Seems like if a terrorist really wants to cause chaos, all he has to do is issue bomb threats from people's twitter accounts - by stealing the password via an XSS hole, or via a phishing attack, or by accessing the account via malware.

Depressing. Anyone who denies the value of anonymity in our modern society should consider the cost of having your identity associated with easily falsified forms of communication, like Twitter.
It still looks more like Llamazares than like Bin Laden.
What are the Chinese using? Maybe Android or S60 works better for them?
Have you seen http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ ?

You're free to submit your software here as far as I can tell, and I don't think there's any requirements (no annual fee etc). I guess the problem is most Mac users don't know it exists
I would suggest checking out "Programming Collective Intelligence" and review their chapter on decision trees. That way you would be able to build a 'model' of 'trends' based on "reads" per "time quotient" and use that for your classifier.
I don't think so. None of this would have happened if the manufacturers and carriers didn't fuck up. Google's Nexus One might very well save the platform by serving as an example of how things should be done.
The very end of the article mentioned hexadecimal time:

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

I like the idea of the 16-hour day, the 256-minute hour, and the 16-second minute. It makes at least as much sense as the divisions we have now; more in certain circumstances.
I like Lucida Grande for code with lotsa text. I didn't know about Consolas, which looks great for code.
You should have started retirement stuff the instant you took your first job. The sooner you start, the more money you'll have when you start taking it out.
As a VMware user, I prefer to keep my Windows VMs as small as possible. Makes them easier to back up as well.
It would be nice if there more meat in the discussion of what intuition really is.

This is a truism of expertise. Although we tend to think of experts as being weighted down by information, their intelligence dependent on a vast set of facts, experts are actually profoundly intuitive. When experts evaluate a situation, they don't systematically compare all the available options or consciously analyze the relevant information.

References? Studies? It sounds very plausible but...

It would help if the one link the article wasn't inside a paywall too.
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Uh, my brother, brother-in-law and about everyone I know that's contract has expired since the droid came out.

There are places where iPhones just aren't offered/don't work well. Here, the competition is more for the BlackBerry market.
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sorry, your right, fair use is the wrong word for it, it's a derivative work, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work and since it is substantially different then the original also not copy right infringement.
Nice, responsive UI - I like it. After playing with Blend, it's easier to step into.

A few things/features to think about for the the future:
- Group selecting / grouping
- Upgrade to silverlight 4 and make use of right-clicks
- The tool tips are helpful, but a little wordy.
- Saving as XAML would be nice
- Having more than two colors in a gradient would be nice

I'm anxious to see more. Do you have any sites built with these components?
How does it fragment the environment any more than the release of any new Android phone?
Counterpoint: If you want more information, in the USA (or at least parts of it) you can see your tax dollars at work with NOAA's weather graphs, like this: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?textField1=42.9612&...

Just in case you want to know things like "will it probably start raining before 3pm" or "how windy will it be at 6:30pm".
FreeBSD takes this a radical step further -- its package system only ever installs things to /usr/local. Your own random shit needs a third prefix.

It won't even make a /bin/bash -- unless you fuck shit up, everything outside of /usr/local /home and /root came directly from the FreeBSD project, period. You can checkout the source to your system's entire userland from one repository, and build it with one make.

I wish there was a nice Linux distro that held itself to this. Gentoo makes a nice distinction in portage between the necessary system packages that come built in the tarball and the world packages that you installed and care about, but it mixes them together in the filesystem.
So, you know, what the hell do we do? Every day there's a news story like this: "Man/woman/child does totally innocuous thing X; is expelled from school/arrested and jailed/has house raided and burgled by police/beaten/shot." Every single story, it could have been me. I make offensive jokes, do funny-looking stuff with technology, and hang out with other people like myself. I have an interest in not getting fucked over for no reason.

What do we do? I don't have any idea what to do. As far as I know, no politicians are offering to change this situation. Is there some way to fix this system?
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Mathematics doesn't deal with the real world, nor does it use induction (in the normal sense of the term--mathematicans use the word "induction" to refer to a type of recursive proof method, but inductive logic is the method of reasoning general rules from particular pieces of evidence). Triangles are an abstract concept that abide to rules that we make up, and if we make up a different set of rules, triangles no longer obey them. That's why simply measuring triangles doesn't work.

Economics does deal with the real world, and like any other science it's subject to the demands of empiricism rather than merely the demands of logic. You can use logical and mathematical reasoning to come to a lot of useful conclusions in physics, for instance, but we're constantly substantiating those by experiment as well, and occasionally we are wrong. (Use Newtonian mechanics to calculate the orbit of Mercury and it won't match.) Do you really think that human behavior is so much more simple than physics that we can model it without evidence at all?
That would make sense if that was considered as part of the cut.

But it's not.

The labels still charge the band members for their services in addition to the 80-90% cut they take!

See the classic http://www.negativland.com/albini.html for an example.
Just make it automatic.
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While recently interviewing for a similar position (Program Manager) at Microsoft, I told the interviewer that it's also important to get a feel of your competition 1 month/1year from the present by following the angel and VC investments. He got so turned off that I felt I just bombed the entire interview.
Well, they're all taking the 5th ;)

But seriously, I think we need a "reverse"-Great FireWall, to filter all traffic coming out of China.
That is of course the correct solution ;-)
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>Also, imagining that you would have a contribution to make to Clojure, and you'd really want to make it (because you work with it everyday for example).

This is part of the reason that I don't work with Clojure any more. (Mostly I just moved on to other things. But it's making me less inclined to come back.)

I once found a bug in clojure.contrib.lazy-xml library. It was a simple one-line fix[1], but I didn't know if I could email someone and say, "hey, here's a bugfix for you, please apply it" because I hadn't signed a CA. Instead I settled for reporting it on the Google group. I might have mentioned the specific change that needed to be made, I don't remember. But I got no response, and settled for just patching my local copy whenever it was updated. (It hasn't been updated since July; the bug still exists.)

I'm actually confident that there is no legal reason why my patch couldn't be applied without me signing a CA. It's an obvious fix which anyone else would write in the same way. But I'm not confident that the maintainers would agree, and a one-line patch doesn't merit the possibility for a protracted back-and-forth. So the legal barriers create social barriers which are even more restrictive.

I don't want to sign a CA, and I don't want to be in a similar situation with a nontrivial bug. If I resume working with Clojure, I might find myself having to choose one or the other. So I don't plan to. Which is a shame: I rather liked the language.

[1] http://philh.net/lazy_xml.clj
Thanks. That's great news. I heard something along the lines of de-orbiting them, but wasn't sure if that was avoided.

I also couldn't check Wikipedia at that moment ;-) Now I can.

With a 86.4° inclination, Iridium satellites should be above the horizon. Some data communication should then be possible (interestingly, the article says they weren't designed for that). Neither Globalstar nor Orbcomm appear to operate at those latitudes.

Anyway, it seems putting a clever human close to the equipment is a good idea.
Why does that make it harder? It's a row of bits sliding by, right? Why does the speed matter?
(I'm not saying your wrong, I'm just wondering why it would help?)
I also do this. But, theoretically, it's not entirely legal. In other words, if you have a piece of content which has not been changed, but for which you've "automatically" updated the copyright date, you are basically lying about when the content was created. Not sure how this affects any future standing you may have. It's also not really a concern for a reasonably dynamic site, including things like JTV.
That's not news. This is called JsonP, and it requires the server to handle it by creating the right callback function. This is well documented on the JQuery website: http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.getJSON#urldatacallback
thanks. slaps head. goes to own library.
While this is not as cool (no pun intended) as working in space, I bet there are a lot of people willing to pay to get this job.

Heck... I would if it weren't to program using Java...
There are places where iPhones just aren't offered/don't work well.

Yes, but do you know what? That advantage of the Android platform is entirely temporary, as the original article hints at near the end:

As Apple expands to other carriers in the US it will be even more clear the massively better product they have for consumers.

We're just waiting for that shoe to drop. It's not as if Steve Jobs does not know, probably down to the second, exactly how long Apple's exclusive contract with AT&T will last in the USA. Nor does it seem likely that Verizon and T-Mobile -- however eagerly they appear to have clutched Apple's competitors to their breasts in the short run -- will hesitate for a nanosecond to augment their current offerings with the iPhone if that will earn them additional money.
But Steam's DRM system actually provides some value to the customer: it makes for a very effective anti-cheating system.

If you are detected cheating, you get banned at a random point within a few days (to kill your testing cycle), and you lose your purchase. The only time you ever see cheating is during free-pass weekends. I normally pirate everything, but this is worth paying for.
It'd be cool (no pun intended) to see a "Condition 1" storm there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE
Excerpt:

As I set off for the stream, the young male suddenly knocked me down. I lay there, winded, as he stood over me snarling, eyes blazing and teeth bared. Looking as if he might rip my throat out, he then backed me into the hollow of a tree. Every time I tried to move he snapped the air with his jaws. I had never seen him like this and feared for my life.

As dusk fell, his mood changed. He started to walk towards the valley. After a few steps he stopped and looked back, which meant he wanted me to follow. On the way he stopped and sniffed scratches on the ground. There were bear droppings, and deep gouges in the bark of the trees where a huge grizzly had scraped his claws: the signs of a bear intent on killing.

Suddenly it became clear. This wolf hadn't wanted to hurt me but to save me from the rampaging grizzly. I owed him my life.

Fascinating piece. And if you own a dog (or want to) there is a column of behavioral tips.
> And it may also just be semantics, but since when is writing for the App store not Mac software?

Since the App Store launched. Mac is Apple's line of computers. The App Store sells applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, neither of which is a Mac.
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oh yeah. Man Google Analytics has so much information it's hard to track all of it down
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This piece stands in stark contrast with how computers are received in Go. Past the beginner level, you are discouraged from playing a computer player at all, lest you pick up bad habits that will hinder your progress later on.

Although, admittedly, this is because Go AI hasn't progressed to the level where it can defeat professionals at all, much less consistently. Once this happens, I can only begin to imagine the level that will be attained by some future kid with plenty of time to practice against such a formidable opponent.
Misleading title - doesn't answer the question.
I think it might be a mistake to assume that the iPhone is even aiming for ipod-like market share. Soon the smartphone market will virtually disappear and replaced by the phone market.

Do we really think that Apple will own the lion's share of the phone market? I think a mac-like strategy is more likely: Apple take a big, juicy, high margin chunk of exactly the piece of the market they want.

All the other phones will need some sort of OS too.
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"Without the €800 she contributes to the family income of €2,400 every month, the Maiers could not run the two cars they depend on in the countryside"

Let me guess - they need two cars so that they both can get to work?

Later in the article a couple who hired a nanny is mentioned. I guess it all boils down to maths skills in the end...

I suspect much more often than "female liberation" it is sheer economic necessity if both parents go to work.

Still, I can not bear the thought of all day school. Possibly it would be different from "normal" school (more socialising with peers?), but still. Besides, wouldn't it be cheaper to just get decent game consoles for the kids?

I also resent that as a reaction to the literacy study, all they could think of was to make school longer. Seems likely to me that longer school would only make kids more stupid in the end (when does the brain have time to grow??). Being at school tends to be mind numbing, not mind enhancing.
I used to rely heavily on the "clickable links" comment until someone put me onto the Greasemonkey script "Linkify Plus".

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1352
Can we have some first sources, please?
Reading that link, it looks like only the PA charges were dropped, and the NYPD is still building a case against him.
You have to be careful of all those undocumented guys on street-corners, parkas draped over their arms...
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OT - I linked to goingtorain in one of my newsletters [1] last year, and every now and then I still have people mention that they continue to use it. Thanks muchly!

[1] http://www.shirlawsonline.com/blogs/278-wet-season
The referenced paper on deliberate practice by Ericsson has been linked on HN many times before.

Here's a link I found on Google: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...
Skeptical of the premise that temperature and weather is not worth the bother to learn. We learn this stuff so we may effectively communicate with others. Someone who was reliant on this app to tell them to wear a sweater would not be able to function in these two common situations:

"Did you hear it'll be in the 60's and sunny tomorrow? Nice change after this week of temps in the teens, huh?"

"This is your pilot speaking. Weather at our destination is forecast to be in the lower 40's with scattered showers."

It also fails if I might be going to work by car, or might be biking. Chance of rain is 30% -- I'd not worry about an umbrella in the car -- but if I'm biking to work, I would want to make sure to have rain gear in the panniers. The exact percentage, plus how I'm traveling, and where I'm going, all factor into what I wear, and an app can't know.

What I would like to see is a UI that packs more weather info, ideally hourly forecasts, into a small, easily scanned space.