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Anyone interested in doing some development work for this platform?

I don't have a specific project yet but would love to make contact with some J2ME hackers. Please e-mail me: gavinobrown at gmail.
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This is why I don't feel sorry for Adobe: http://emberapp.com/tlrobinson/images/screen-shot-2010-02-06...
No.

But people are willing to believe the wildest nonsense in order to avoid confronting the fact that work is required to achieve a desired end.

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Addendum 1: If you want to stop aging, fund SENS research to the tune of a billion dollars over ten years. http://www.sens.org. Full stop, end of story.

Addendum 2: stress is known to accelerate the erosion of telomeres (or accelerate whatever process of aging is associated with shorter telomeres), so in that sense patterns of thought that translate into physiological changes do seem to accelerate aging to some degree. Like all such metabolic issues, it isn't any worse/better than what you can do to yourself with diet and exercise.
You missed one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_memory_biases
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Climate science has nothing to do with pollution -- CO2 is not a pollutant, any more than water vapor is.

If you read the article you linked it talks about overfishing, trash,fertilizer, etc -- these have nothing to do with CO2. Yes, acidification is caused be CO2, but there has been lower Ph levels in the past (due to volcanic eruptions etc). Now is this a problem that should be discussed, it certaintly is, but if we are talking about CO2 then only talk about it. Don't mix in all sorts of unrelated claims.

If you want to talk about pollution and over harvesting then talk about each one separately. Muddying issues by combining them in no way makes them easier to solve or easier to understand.
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Also, Eugenics was big in the US long before the Nazi's ever used it. In fact, they copied a lot of our programs.
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Because precision of 68% is senseless and misleading.
I can change it to more than 60%, but that's as precise as results from studies like these can go.
I'm not sure that adds much. How do you normalize for growth (or not) in the market, population, etc.? Here's the corresponding relative chart:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=programmer%2C+developer...

So demand for programmers is down 25%, but developers are up 25%?
Can anyone enlighten me on this? I noticed the same thing:

* Viewing this page in Firefox 3.6 on Windows caused Flash to crash, taking the browser down with it.

* Viewing it in Chrome on the same machine caused the Flash plugin subprocess to crash, resulting in an error message in Chrome.

* However, no crash occurred in Opera. This despite the fact that 32-bit Opera on Windows does not appear to use isolated subprocesses for running NSAPI plugins.

So what's going on here? Does Opera use some sort of in-process isolation to protect the browser from its plugins? Or is there perhaps some quirk of running in the Opera environment that caused this Flash crash not to be triggered like it was in Firefox and Chrome?
If I knew Apple's heavy-handed and capricious app store reviewers would have my business by the throat, I would treat even the most ridiculous and worthless "suggestions" as demands.
oooh, that's a great one. does the hindsight bias article link to it? it should.
After reading your comment I took the time to find the article on the same topic published by Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5070874/Reading...

I think both publications rehashed the same press release from the University of Sussex. I'm not sure that the name of the publication should have a bearing on whether the news is worthwhile or not.
(1) Regarding the (linkjacked) article: there's a much more in-depth treatment of this subject in Misha Glenny's _McMafia_. Both this article and Glenny's are on the "breathless" end of the hype spectrum, though.

(2) "The Security Times" has not only linkjacked this story, but is also a faux publication run by a Florida IT consultancy. It's skeezy to hide this fact. To see this same model done well (both honestly and in terms of execution), check out Threatpost.com.
If the default "it works" page has rounded corners and no text smaller than 32pt, it's a rails framework.
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Wow, this is really fascinating, and I can confirm that Missouri, or at least my south-west part of it, indeed belongs to "Greater Texas". I think that's also true for Louisiana as well, which is where my mom is from.
If I had to come up with a definition, it would be "Full stack web framework with sensible defaults, that emphasizes DRY and COC." As always, any time you reduce something, it's lossy...
Maybe people feel a lot more unique, important or special when they call themselves AS instead of plain shy, or ADD instead of lazy - or even call themselves "depressed" when they have plenty of reason to be sad...

It's also potentially better for less ethical doctors to diagnose their "I-want-to-be-sick" included patients as this or that - after all, they use to get comissions for drug sales in many countries (and taking Prozac or Ritalin, even if you're a "normal person", won't kill you anyway)
The problem with these stories regarding health risks from tech is that we WANT them to not be true. I read it and say "bah" but in the back of my head it really does worry me.

The problem is elimination of cell phones & wifi would be such an inconvenience in our lifestyles... I mean I rely on both so extensively that even simply cutting back on cell phone use be a huge problem. Heck I work in a building with no less than 17 different wifi networks.

Even if the research is inconvenient on an individual or institutional level I just hope there is more done and more public interest so that at least engineers will focus a little more on developing lifestyle tech that is safer. I mean don't we have enough risks from various environmental pollution already? Wouldn't it make sense to put pressure on changing the things that can be changed? Even if its paranoid would it kill people to care about it a bit more?

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I took a step back on the big picture analyzing groups attacking "Climate Science" with obvious interests behind.

IMHO, it's blatantly a PR campaign to get the masses to distrust all scientists reporting on the current biosphere situation. Do you think NASA is lying about their reports too? Perhaps not you, but you must admit most people don't go beyond reading headlines.

Don't get me wrong, I think Al Gore is a terrible messenger with more show than content and probably risks making more harm than good (just like celebrities.)

And regarding climate science as just reading temperatures over time is at least overly reductionist. The melting of the Arctic probably counter-balances greenhouse-gases, and there are studies about a short ice-age caused by the melting of Greenland's ice sheet. It's much more complex than what the mass media wants to report on their headlines.

And climate science studies, among other things, the impact of pollution on the atmosphere. Are you serious?
Interesting idea, but were the somewhat derogatory names really necessary? It seems the best way to describe people is to start by not insulting them.
Plus they just sourced their icons from somewhere, hit CTRL+SHIFT+U (Desaturate) and left them as is. I either expected them to change colour when I moused over them, or if they are meant to remain static they should have been contrasted or leveled properly. They look blurry and amateur.
Why is HN a haven for climate change denialists these days?

I haven't seen many climate change denialists here; I have, on the other hand, seen lots of climate change skeptics. These two are not at all the same thing.

At my university, I know five faculty members -- a mathematician, a physicist, a chemist, a biologist, and an economist -- who have privately expressed the opinion that given the lack of scientific rigour demonstrated by climate change researchers, it is impossible to judge whether anthropogenic global warming exists.

These are not oil industry patsies; nor are they conspiracy theorists. They are serious scientists (yes, even including the economist) with concerns about the scientific process. I don't think any of them would say that anthropogenic global warming does not exist; only that the research done so far is seriously lacking.

Not all skeptics are denialists.
Not so fast. Some theories posit that the key to resolving the dichotomy of the "mind-body problem" is through the operation of quantum uncertainty in the mind. See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind#Dualist_solu...
In many engineering disciplines you're legally forbidden from self-applying the title of "engineer" -- you have to be licensed and take formal legal responsibility for the quality of your work. That level of discipline and rigor is what most people are referring to when they distinguish between "software engineers" and "real" engineers.
How about in the form of a browser plugin. Think Firebug. That would be completely amazing and it's definitely possible.
A good friend of mine who does PHP web development landed a good telecommute software developer job last year making $80k / yr. He lives in the Midwest and has been coding for like 3 years.

I just graduated from a great school, but live in Cincinnati for family reasons, and can't find a damn thing job wise that's looking for anything but "senior" level, and places won't even consider the 3 years I spent interning at a place in Rochester, they just see the graduation date and think "bottom level"... So if your friend can clue me on where to find that 80k telecommute, I would be eternally thankful....
So would you be ok with calling people software engineers if they had to take a test to get a license and then be responsible for failures of their code in the future?
You could have changed it a while back to work with another pluging. For example, video/voice chat for Gmail only works in 32-bit Safari.
You just have to ask.
that doesn't help with predicting what you would do, though, does it? (also, i'm not sure how qm resolves the mind-body problem, and the article you linked to doesn't explain, as far as i can see - qm does suggest that there may be something special about the mind, since it may be what makes observers special, but qm is still "physics", so it doesn't explain a non-physical mind (it may help resolve the question of free will because it could introduce indeterminism, but the problem of free-will is not the mind-body problem) (on the other hand i'm not clear why you introduced the mind-body problem at all, as it's not really the issue here...)).
This is why diagnosis can be hard. Some people don't have social skills because they've never learned social skills. I had trouble learning social skills, but I didn't have many of the other symptoms. Taking one of the self-diagnosis tests from my perspective as a teenager, I would have been diagnosed. However, the problem was that I had different interests than my peers, and I had a different sexual orientation that I had difficulty in accepting. Once I found "my people," my social skills improved dramatically.

AS does exist, but not all people with poor social skills have it.
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There's also a distraction issue: you can write while the professor writes, and they can't really talk coherently while they're writing. With a presentation, they can start talking while you're still taking notes.

Additionally, having to write out content in longhand slows down the amount of info you can cram into a lecture.
How has the opening sentence been debunked. Here's a quote from an article covering the IPCC's apology on the issue...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards. “In drafting the paragraph in question the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly,” the panel said. “The chair, vice-chair and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of IPCC procedures in this instance.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article699...

So the IPCC admits that the "fact" was included due to a lapse on their part which is exactly what the article claims
I think your professor misinterpreted the phrase, I always assumed its usage meaning something like this: If you blasted that stupid forward to pieces and teleported me on the soccer field ten seconds ago I would have passed to a different player.
I'm not advocating a position either way. I'm explaining why people make the distinction.
> I took a step back on the big picture analyzing groups attacking "Climate Science" with obvious interests behind.

So? There are other groups promoting 'Climate Science' with obvious interests behind them (Al Gore's political interests, companies that may benefit from carbon trading, science cliques, companies working on carbon sequestration programmes, etc...). Don't think that those who promote global warming are as pure as the driven snow.

Trying to demonise all those who question the reality of AGW is not conducive to a robust debate on the topic.
If this was just about judging TC's trustworthiness, the discussion would stop at the point where the intern was dismissed and his posts removed. Shaming the intern publicly for his action is not about judging trustworthiness, it's about participating in a public stoning for the sheer pleasure of feeling holier-than-thou.

I agree with the reply by ruabin but wanted to add one point on this. The fact that the intern was dismissed means next to nothing. If there is a question of trustworthiness here it's in the vetting process and overall integrity of the organization.

In other words the issue isn't the intern but the fact that there could be more like him.
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This should work very well - for getting employed by his mum?
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> "Hacker" folks need to understand that software is just a tool for business and consumers to use to get shit done; it's not an end on itself.

You're saying it like "hacker folks" are the only ones with this "misconception".

When Graham Bell invented the telephone, or when Thomas Edison invented the radio, or when Einstein developed the relativity theory, or when Benjamin Franklin did research on electricity ... guess these guys where all thinking ... "what tools to make for businesses and consumers to get shit done".

Yeah, that makes lots of sense :)
Article makes some good points but I prefer to refer to the "enterprise" market as the "Corporate IT" market.

There is some huge potential here and this is mostly because of the points brought up by dixon.

I've spent a lot of time the last couple of years trying to figure out clever new ways to market to these folks and if I ever figure it out you'll probably be reading about me and my clever techniques on techcrunch.
You could probably do a MYST-like. Beyond that, probably not a lot of multimedia.
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Addendum 1: If you want to stop aging, fund SENS research to the tune of a billion dollars over ten years. http://www.sens.org. Full stop, end of story.

I'm baffled that this never comes up when we're discussing spiraling health care costs. The vast majority of health care dollars are spent trying (and ultimately failing) to treat conditions that are the direct result of aging. Even a billion dollars a year on research like what SENS is doing is cheap if there's any possibility of success. And that's not even accounting for the massively increased quality of life that would result, or the economic benefit of people remaining productive their entire lives.

FWIW, I've joined the cause to donate $100 to SENS once 10,000 people sign up: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/297361.
They may have apologized for the inaccuracy, yes, but the article claims that the inaccuracy was included on purpose for political reasons. This is a claim that, at best, is completely unverifiable since the only citation for it comes from one Daily Mail article of a scientist who claims he was misquoted (http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2010/01/daily_mail_inv...). This weak and debunked claim is then used to lead into more debunked claims about how the "Climategate" e-mails are representative of some deep crisis of credibility-- they aren't. There lots of good resources on why they aren't, including another link from Island of Doubt (http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2009/12/the_climategat...).
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Because the "identify your deadwood" request is often only used when planning layoffs, managers who don't want to appear uncooperative may warehouse deadwood in good times to have something to sacrifice in bad times.

"Why does so-and-so still work here?" can sometimes truthfully be answered "So we'll have someone to lay off when the company calls for 10% cuts."
No, not all are. Just all but a vanishingly small number. For instance, the article takes the strategy of undermining climate science on a political basis then claiming it has no scientific credibility. This is a standard denialist tactic-- a true skeptic would be able to argue based on evidence, not what one would want to be true. Unfortunately, by publishing that article, the paper in question basically has declared that they have no interest in actually evaluating evidence and reporting on it.
Corporations and the government take advantage of this all the time by claiming that anything that goes wrong is the result of "a few bad apples," when in reality the causes of the problems are mostly systemic.

Of all the cognitive biases that are used to maintain the status quo and allow those with power to exploit those without, this is probably the most effective.
Why are the names derogatory? I grew up in Stayathomia and now live in Socalistan.
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It doesn't directly try to deny it, no, but it undermines the politics based on outright falsehoods spun with half-truths, then begs the question of how we can trust the science given political failures. That is at best a slimy tactic, and is one that the denialist movement has exploited again and again. So yes, I did read the article, and I stand by what I said.
Similar support structures for instructing people in social skills are often stigmatized - why can't you figure it out on your own, people think.

I believe that some of the stigma associated with systematic study of social skills is guilt-by-association with the self-help movement. A poorly socialized person in the grip of a self-help author is never a pretty sight.

Break that association and I think that general acceptance of teaching social skills would improve.
They're using some neat HTML5 tech on the page. Ogg video, embedded fonts. The header background image, though, seems to be a ".pmg", which I'm not familiar with, and doesn't show up for me on chrome. Maybe a typo for png, but that image gives a 404 page.
I have the same reaction to many of the items maxklein posts. And he has said in the past that he engineers his postings for the effect on the audience...

That said I know more than a few people who use rent-a-coder or odesk as a way to motivate themselves when learning a new language or toolkit.
Down-voting what you don't agree with is against the rules. Well, in theory.

HN is really losing it.
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Pages and pages of feature descriptions, and not a single hard stat on people using this in production. Don't people writing these types of posts realize that that's a pre-requisite to trying to convince any decision-maker to look into their favorite pet framework/language/db/etc.?

Now, it could very well be the case that nobody is using this in production, or at scale. Fine. Where's that disclosure, then? 100 whiz bang features is only one part of the process of evaluating a new piece of technology.
Interesting. What level of government banned the private unemployment insurance? I guess it was a federal law?
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Sounds like a fun adventure! Why Kunming? Do you speak Mandarin?
Wouldn't any placebo effect wear off over the 6 month trial period?

Also : Who cares if the true reason is less interruptions? The environment is reducing the error rate.
Thanks for that--I appreciate it!

We were pretty "choked" about the situation initially. Honestly, though, it all worked out pretty well, and the whole "smash lab sucks" thing proved to be a rather interesting experiment.

And in the meanwhile, we receive some pretty interesting mail and phone calls. (Even a letter from an inmate who had an "idea" for the show.)
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I don't know about you, but in my experience it takes a pretty long time for new hires to produce anything of much value.

If you're going in for a "trial day" at a place full of engineering neophytes who will look to you as a God for 8 hours, then you didn't do a good job of screening that company out as a potential place for you to work. (This is assuming "trial day" happens after an initial pass of the usual phone screens and whiteboard coding sessions.)
Really nice work.. thanks for the post!
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I spent about 15 years sitting in cubicles owned by large and small corporations, and all that time I thought I didn't have much social skills.

I spent about three years trying out real estate, and found ... my social skills really were not very good. But to my great surprise I found that I really like being around and talking to lots of different people.

Amazing how your current life can tend to define your life.
Sorry if they come across as offensive, I was aiming for whimsical[1]. The one I worried most about was Dixie, since I'm a foreigner and know I might miss some of the historical subtleties.

[1] Well, apart from calling Seattle boring, that was deliberate
I am also curious as to whether software engineers are exposed to as much ethics and consequences of their actions as the other engineering disciplines (ME,EE,CE).
Many so-called developers have no idea what they're doing... it's a typical thing in our industry... pretty sad really... instead of taking their time to learn something and master it, they jump ship as soon as a new, obscure, and rarely used technology popped up.

Now you know why there are many poorly written code...