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Well, to make a muscle grow you have to subject it to increasing values of resistance(i.e. weight training).

From what i understand, the brain works in a similar way. So you need to challenge it with new stuff, harder stuff.

So, if you always work in C, try some higher level stuff. If you always work on web technologies, try some assembly and so on....

For me, I am trying to learn about newer fields. So re-learn my math skills, learn more about electronics and stuff like that.

I am also trying to shock my brain into becoming better(not necessarily faster since age slows you down) by changing the field i am learning every once in a while. So electronics, then math, then computers....

Note that i know that this is bad if you're trying to become an expert at something. I'm not. I am just doing this for fun and self improvement.(and because, apparently, I'm a geek)
Huh?

Science is the only thing that can be correct if we follow your own interpretation.

To be correct about something it requires empirical evidence to measure up against lack of evidence.

By definition religious claims can't be verified so they can never be true.
i doubt they're going to take it down. a different version of this was aired in german television one or two years ago.

one show even picked it uped and worked with the ccc to show that selve-servicing sales stations that one of the largest supermarketchains (EDEKA) was introducing, who had fingerprint auth, were not safe.
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the problem here is just that iris recognition is not yet a mass market product. fingerprint readers are built into laptops etc and you can buy a usb fingerprint reader for very little money.
Yet isn't it also true that your parent's where Catholic?
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First, a number of studies have concluded that by any reasonable measure, atheists tend to be more ethical than religious people as a whole. This shows up in under-representation in criminal activity, lower divorce rates, etc. (There are a number of sociological reasons for this, but those are the statistics.)

What about if you compare atheists and religious people of similar intelligence? I suspect atheists tend to be more ethical simply because they tend to be more intelligent.
There's a bit more on that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream#Controversy

It makes sense from a power-politics standpoint that Russia would want to be able to turn on/off the tap to Western Europe and its close-in neighbors separately. Right now when it gets into disputes with Ukraine, it can't use gas supplies as a pawn to the extent it would like, for fear of pissing off countries like Germany who are downstream on the same pipe.
When you know that by faith - simply believing - you are justified, clean, and in God's grace, there is no basis for fear.

I mean this in the most non-judgmental, value-neutral way possible: That statement is basis of all religious terrorism.
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Not many, actually, but the first one was a deal breaker. Some websites just have too small a font for my eyes and having to zoom in every time I visit the website was extremely annoying. Also, if I remember correctly, the previous versions didn't support F11 fullscreen mode.
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Atheism means without god

How that is close to deep religious belief?

As an atheist I live without god in my life. That's it. I don't think about god, I don't reason based on any bible, I don't extrapolate my morals or ethics from god or any religious scripture.

How on earth are you by any metrics going to claim that that is deep religious belief?
Every time a video is encoded, it hashes differently.

Really? Even with the exact same source file and exact same codecs/methodology? Why is that, is there an "encoding time" metadata field or something?
I read the article very carefully. Did you?

It did not give any indication of how 'common' the cards were, or whether there was a 'stack' or just a few. You are sympathetically imagining those details.

Did you read what I wrote carefully? I said the interpretation depends on details not available in the story, and my scenarios were hypotheticals to reflect how much was left out of the LATimes account.

We don't know how the cards were noticed. I've gone through security often, and sometimes had 'extra attention', but they've never lingered over the contents of my pockets or carry-on enough to read the titles of my books, or writing on my note cards. Yet, for Mr. George, 2 flashcards (of an unknown number, perhaps just 2) that were "in his pocket" were (a) touchy words for the TSA; (b) somehow observed by them.

It makes a difference whether they were in the middle of a deep deck in his carry-on, or he fished exactly those two out of his pocket and dropped them into the x-ray tray. One is perfectly innocent; the other suggests he was trying to test the limits or provoke a reaction.

I don't know what actually happened and unless you've read a more detailed source than the LATimes article, neither do you.
No, the forked off project gained no traction. I suspected it was a developer wanting to put some cred under his belt. By putting his name into an open source project, he can claim credit without doing any work. And his resume would look good. He could say, I founded this P2P project (forked) and blah blah blah. People won't know the difference.
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"Tripping over" is more a figure of speech. In shared hosting, it usually involves someone trying to install or remove a server in your cabinet and accidentally tweaking the power chord just enough to reset the power to a critical piece of equipment (like a storage array, for example).
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I have been trying to think of a slightly different analogy, but it hasn't come to mind yet. Andrew is certainly a prolific interviewer, but I see him as more of an explorer looking for the essence of entrepreneurship through people's stories of success and failure.

Once Andrew finishes his run of interviews (hopefully he has a long way to go), he will have developed one of the most comprehensive catalogs of tech entrepreneurship of the web 2.0 era.
Some file systems have this as a built in option. As an example, there's a discussion of the ZFS implementation at http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup.
If these are the type of questions that they feel qualify you, maybe it's a good thing that I don't work for Google. I, for one, am sick of programming interviews where they test aptitude by giving you riddles that end up getting posted online, so that interviews become more of "have I heard this question before or not" than a true measure of intelligence and motivation.

A better interview question: what's your Github username?
is there such a task as "lein selfupdate" or something similar?
It seems to be a site where you input an event ("wakeup", "drank beer", etc) and it timestamps it. Then they offer some sort of (unspecified) analytics over that data.

Edit: http://your.flowingdata.com/guide/
I've had several interviews for internships with Google, and I've never had a single question like these. Lots of data structures and algorithms, never a single riddle. Like I said, these interviews were for internships, but I would be surprised if they ask those kinds of questions for full-time jobs but not for internships.
Google doesn't ask questions like these. In fact, they train interviewers to _not_ ask questions like these.
I was skeptical reading these questions, because when I did phone screen at Google, I got very practical questions about map reduce and skip lists. I do know that many companies still use riddles like these, however.
I'm guessing that:

1. These were for APM interviews, not engineers.

2. These questions are no longer asked.

Usually once an interview question ends up publicized on a blog, interviewers don't ask it anymore.
i dont care what he was using it for. he registered it. he should be able to sit on it and let it die.

thats my opinion... taking it away under any circumstance is sketchy in my opinion.
Nit: ints are still 32 bits on most 64-bit systems ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Specific_data_models )

Example:

mrj10@mjlap:~$ uname -m
x86_64
mrj10@mjlap:~$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("%zu\n",sizeof(int));
return 0;
}
mrj10@mjlap:~$ gcc test.c -o test
mrj10@mjlap:~$ ./test
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What companies? In internship interviews at MS, Google, Fog Creek, others, I've never been asked a question anything like these. (thank god)
agreed... there is a difference. a big one indeed... but both inevitably lead there.
i'm not saying therefore we should all go out and kill ourselves... just that its an inevitability. and very few people struggle with the reality of what that means in this life.
Amazing. The animations are so smooth. It is almost addictive to watch the animations :)
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I'm having difficulty seeing how these questions would help find people who can build great software or solve problems creatively:

a) I'm not sure there's a strong causal link between "being good at brain teasers" and "writing awesome code".

b) I suppose they could be viewed as measuring creativity, but it's in a stressful situation. When you're trying to solve actual problems at work you aren't going to be trying to do it in ten minutes in front of an interviewer. Also they're clearly problems with only one correct answer which seems unrealistic in comparison with reality.

c) More precisely, I suspect that this would test for people who enjoy brain teasers and have done lots of them before.
I first heard several of these questions specifically from multiple friends that were doing interviews at Google and were asked about them during their interviews. This was 2-3 years ago. Has their policy changed since then? I'm sure the questions vary a lot by manager. Perhaps some of them simply reference what's familiar.
i could have done with a free one though.
even 5$ a month I have to use 5$ worth... sometimes I want to use 5$ worth, but a lot of months i just want to forget its there...

i'm an exceedingly light user.
and for us daysleepers, doing something reasonable for the resteraunts 'will be opening in the next half hour' would be useful. probably also useful for people wanting an early lunch, etc..
Love it. Thank you, razorjack -- need this for an upcoming project and thought I'd have to piece it together myself from other animation primitives.
Why wait for the verdict? Ask and accept his word for it as best you can.
Didn't read the article, but doesn't Japan already have Gigabit Broadband? If so, how much does it cost in Japan?
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"Surprisingly the snooper worked at first attempt. I didn’t even care to check that I didn’t mixed up SDA and SCL. Apparently Murphy had other things to mess up that day."
FTR, Windows supports real symlinks too.
Right, but the point is that the raw data is in the "second derivative" format - the total number of jobs in America is not recorded/reported every month, the change in the total number of jobs is.
To be honest I'm puzzled as to why they'd cut the guy off even if he was guilty. Condemning what someone has done doesn't mean you can't provide a bit of emotional support.
downvote. Hamachi is still completely free for noncommercial use. You can download it from their website\1st google result. Still works full-featured and free.
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Hi5 SDE used to get asked the "How Strong is an Egg?"/"Drop Two Bowling Balls from a building" question.

Not sure how this proves anything.
$200/year is only for business license. Hamachi is full featured and FREE for noncommercial use.
The buzz posts are at: http://www.google.com/profiles/bo.whitehouse.doggy#buzz

If you have Android or iPhone Google Maps, navigate on over to the White House. It's real!!??!
> Stability aside (which I think is a good thing) all that I can see that is different in windows is a bit of eye candy. Big wow.

But that's wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista alone is huge.

> OSX and iPhoneOS is infinitely more intuitive than windows.

I haven't used the iPhone OS, but I think OS X is significantly less intuitive than Windows. Enter renames a file?!

> And quite frankly the security model on windows has been a joke.

The security model of Windows NT has never been a joke -- it's always been more flexible than the standard Unix model (e.g. full ACLs instead of nine bits for permissions). The security of Windows XP, prior to Service Pack 2, was indeed a joke because MS wasn't too serious about security vulnerabilities then. Vista is a different story though.
I think there are two ways to look at (b). I'd agree that generally the problems we all solve are not particularly time critical, when you're working on something over a week or month, there's not going to be anything which needs doing in ten minutes. On the other hand, when you're supporting live systems, there can be times when being able to diagnose and fix a problem in a few minutes, under pressure, can be a valuable skill. It's at times like that that you need people who can solve problems quickly in stressful situations. I'm not particularly saying that these types of questions will help you find those people, but if it's something you want to test for then they may be useful.
I was asked a "crossing a river with a box and two locks" question when I interviewed for a full time database development position (database engine, that is). The question was related to public key encryption... which was something the position never even came close to requiring.
In fact, one of the most popular tools for checking for eerie similarities between programs (used at other universities I'm familiar with) was co-developed by a now-Stanford prof.

MOSS: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
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No mac client. Deal-breaker for me.
I got the 5 pirates one when I interviewed at Trilogy.
Andrew, when life gets to me I look at postcards sent by third graders praising their reading lesson in crayon. If you need motivational postcards, I can buy myself crayons on the way home from work.
My argument is just that he's more likely to make money from dividends and capital gains than from stock options.

Then this is something that you will have to prove with cold hard facts since all the evidence points otherwise...and not just because you don't like what Warren Buffet is saying.
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It would be cool if the attendant was there and he/she had a paypal merchant account to accept a payment there on the spot where you can log into your phone and send a 20 dollar payment (or whatever the amount) and the attendant will start up the gas machine for you. Paypal could make it so fluid that everyone will be compelled to sign up for at least the mobile app, even if not everyone uses it all the time. Just like everyone really should have a sign on for Skype, even though they might not use it on a daily basis
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As this video is quiet old, but got a lot attention, perhaps you would like to take a look at: ftp://ftp.ccc.de/ where more ccc material is hosted.
It's important to understand what Feynman means.

He is not saying that religion actually answers questions that science can't answer.

He is saying that as long as there are things we can't answer human nature will be to create a deity for the gaps.

That is two very different positions. It's not that science can't answer certain questions it's that science can't fulfill human needs for answers.

Mind the difference.
I've made about $8,000 in sales selling my own theme modeled after the site I built for iJustine (theme link: http://whalesalad.com/tasty) but that's just a teeny fraction of what you made, let alone Woo! I have more in the pipe... but there's only one of me =/
That would disincentivize work.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129797
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Four labels control 95% of the market?

How did you get that number? Four labels each control more than 5% of the market, but that doesn't mean the rest control less than 5% combined.
And creating your own encryption protocols from encryption primitives is easy to get wrong, even after you figure out something that seems to follow the rules, because of all sorts of gotchas.
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I especially liked the video. Just wondering: I see no activity in China. Does Dropbox work in China & is it just a matter of not enough traffic to show up? Can anyone confirm this?
Strong A.F., as it is defined by researchers, is any artificial flier that is capable of passing the Tern Test (developed by A.F. pioneer Alan Tern), which involves convincing an average bird that the artificial flier is in fact a flying bird.

The same goes for this one... Lovely :-)
All I know is large corporate employers have been not only laying off but having salary freezes for the last few years. I've asked around and this is true for almost anyone lucky enough to have employement but unlucky enough to be a wage slave.

Yet prices for goods and services have climbed horrifically in the past few years. Take a look at http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/displaystory.cfm... - The Economist commodity price index - 30% inflation in one year! Are you getting 30% more salary than you got last year?

I was lucky enough to go long on various commodities when a lot of this started. Didn't have much to spare but dumped everything I could in a metals basket. Cashed out, paid off various things, started a business, got back in the market, and as of now it's far more than half again the value I put in.

So this story is about how things are supposedly turning around, and if we look at the change from last month, hey, maybe they are. But as others in the thread have pointed out far more eloquently, the piper has yet to be paid. This whole situation is and has been a cascading systems failure and the Federal Reserve and the US government are forced to become beholden to more and more entities - first the airlines, banks, mortgage brokers, auto manufacturers, on and on, and always Wall Street holding a gun to Bernanke's head because they know he'll cave - after all he did the first time! and the second! and so on; with the citizens and shareholders (anyone with a salary, fixed welfare/pension, or savings) bearing the brunt and with no say.

http://www.economist.com/markets/indicators/ - "Economic and financial indicators, Feb 11th 2010": Ben Bernanke, the Fed’s chairman, said that he expected to consider raising the discount rate “before too long”, but that the Fed’s benchmark interest rate was likely to remain unchanged.
> Ever since the proliferation of camera phones, it's not been hard for a bad employee to instantly and stealthily copy your card's information.

Not only that, I remember hearing years ago about a scam where a cashier had a PDA and was swiping the cards twice that came through the register, once in the register and once in a card reader attached to the PDA.
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Besides the point. The product isn't marketed for noncommercial use, and part of the way the entire site is built makes you think "oh man, this is going to cost me down the line," even if it's free now.

Plus even look at how buried the product is. Its been subjugated to secondary brand status, plus clip art. All you need are a set of white papers and it is full-on enterprise sell mode.

If you make social software you have to sell the software and market the software in a friendly, social way. Not in an enterprise-y way. The entire promise of Hamachi was the potential for social computing to rise beyond the authoritarian domain of IT administrators. Yet to position and build a site that only appeals to IT administrators -- there's the rub.

But yes, secondarily, no mac client = non starter for me.
I love the "Boys and Girls" question, because most people get it wrong first pass, most computer science folks would get it after a few minutes of work, and a Bayesian would immediately nail it.

Plus, it's seems so simple we could pose it to our (non-Dilbert) moms.

Now if only getting this was correlated with good programming...
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Have we finally reached the point where people can post straight up propaganda (from the official Obama site no less) and no one flags it?
The author claims he prefer having the application/OS hide the classic filesystem hierarchy from users (he presents the iPhone OS as an example).

While the idea works for a small number of 'files' (or documents), it does not scale well.

When you have a few tens of files, you need some way of organizing them. Search solves part of the problems, tagging and 'folders' are another option (see Gmail labels and Google Docs support of folders).
Denis Brian relates this incident in the book 'Einstein, a life', if my memory serves right. I believe it is true.
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Hmmmm... does require the addition of a non-standard attribute ("data-id") to the HTML/XHTML... so it will be invalid... Shame that cant be done with class names. E.g. class="data-id-macos".
What scares me is that I didn't get that error; Silverlight was installed, but I don't remember installing it... (I'm on a Mac)
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Sure... If you want to learn about that you could practice writing code for a low level emulator (loads are available). No need to actually build your own CPU.

It is pretty cool though.
No shit, like my email contacts?
I think it's fine moving forward towards HTML5.
Curious, why is this getting downvoted? All I see is a bunch of data and analysis, all relevant to this discussion.
You can't see in that photo but there's a very clear fingerprint on it. But your explanation makes sense too.
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I'm almost positive you could use jQuery's data functionality to modify that out.
Did anyone else notice that in this picture:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/images/square_usage_feb10....

The square device is on the wrong side of the iPhone? Shouldn't it be plugged in to the headphone jack?