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I think the problem is that the airframe provides no tendency towards being aerodynamically stable, the flight stability relies on good pilot input, thus tending to be less robust and forgiving in situations involving pilot error or mechanical problems.
The Internet is nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Can someone please do an analysis on how long the internet would stay up? That'd be the difference between surviving comfortably and discovering my inner-Hobo.
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I think realistically I would be operating under the hope that I was not the last human alive and I would focus on finding another survivor. That hope, realistic or not would probably keep me moving forward.
Here is a different view of love:

"To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love — because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone."

---

"One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

A “selfless,” “disinterested” love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values.

Concern for the welfare of those one loves is a rational part of one’s selfish interests. If a man who is passionately in love with his wife spends a fortune to cure her of a dangerous illness, it would be absurd to claim that he does it as a “sacrifice” for her sake, not his own, and that it makes no difference to him, personally and selfishly, whether she lives or dies."

"[Selfless love] would have to mean that you derive no personal pleasure or happiness from the company and the existence of the person you love, and that you are motivated only by self-sacrificial pity for that person’s need of you. I don’t have to point out to you that no one would be flattered by, nor would accept, a concept of that kind. Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person."

I'll leave it to you to google around if you want to figure out who I'm quoting (assuming you can't tell already).
I suspect that in many, especially larger, organizations excellent people need to hop to advance. Think about how co-workers and bosses react to a junior employee who quickly outstrips more experienced colleagues. Promoting someone junior rapidly past other people can cause resentment, or be structurally unavailable. The company may have policies about maximum annual raise, so an excellent person may advance in responsibility but not in pay. When taking a new job your position and pay are determined by your capabilities to a greater degree.

There are definitely alternatives to 'job hopping' including consulting/contracting to get rid of the stigma while essentially doing the same thing. Alternatively you can get a job with (or start) a start-up so you can have 'measurement and leverage'.
For this reason, if you are an employee working at a startup where the managers are honest, inclusive and fair, you should disregard everything you’ve learned about proper behavior from people outside of the startup world.

For example, let’s suppose you are a two years out of college and have a job at a startup. You like your job but decide you want to go to graduate school. The big company legalistic types will tell you to secretly send in your applications, and, if you get accepted and decide to attend, give your boss two weeks notice.

What you should instead do is talk to your boss as soon as you are seriously considering graduate school.

This is bad advice. You should disregard it.
Through folk etymology, it has been claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape "Ampere's and". [3]
See comment #3 on the blog :-)
Because they're very clearly an Apple-only bunch, being interviewed for an Apple news site?
The Russian version confuses two engines because of hyphenation (perhaps due to line-wrapping in the original article)
A lot of that isn't Adobe's fault though, the only browser on OSX currently supporting Core Animation (the most efficient API for drawing to the canvas) is Safari 4. Core Animation drawing has been implemented in 10.1 and at the moment my (rough) tests show it to run up to 60% faster in Safari than Chrome. Obviously still nowhere near Windows standards, but it's a great improvement.
Most aren't idle. But to tap into this group, try campus recruiting?
But that pay rate is typically for a 4 or 8 month internship.

These guys were taking advantage of the fact that MIT in particular gives the month of January to students to work on their own stuff. MS, GOOG, etc wouldn't go through the HR headache and give high pay to an intern if he/she was only going to be around for a month.
.de:

() = runde Klammern (round)
[] = eckige Klammern (angled)
{} = geschweifte Klammern (cambered)
> I suppose it is the latter since the Human translator was not trying to have a correct reference translation for testing the engines. He totally skipped translating the words " in South Africa ".

Each human translation also has the source below it, which ranges from old classics to relatively recent publications. So, yes, the human translators were not trying to have a correct reference translation, which imho makes it only more interesting.

> becomes "The first night" after you put it in context.

which makes me suspect this one happened to one of the inputs used to train the translator also.
The link is now on the front page, but just in case you missed it, here's the official YC event info:

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/yc-sxsw-monday-march-15th-s...

See you guys there.
I'm not quite sure what you mean - my impression from engineering and CS during college is as such:

- most of this pool of students you do not want to tap into. They're the ones who will do more harm than good, assuming they were even interested in doing any work. My impression from my time in college was that the majority of my colleagues were utterly incompetent and had no real desire to become competent. There's no hope for these people, and IMHO they make up the bulk of the "there are no jobs out there!" crowd upon graduation. These are the guys who do the bare minimum on assignments and have never written a line of code that wasn't required by a class, and get indignant when their framed piece of paper doesn't automatically deliver big paychecks on a silver platter.

- the rest are worthwhile talent, but competition amongst employers for many of them is fierce. I have a friend right now who has extremely high-paying offers from just about every big software shop out there, as a soon-to-graduate undergrad. In recent years I've seen MS (and some other companies) poach interns from other tech companies at the interview stage. Pay levels are quite high, approaching full-time levels in some places.

As a cost-conscious startup, you have to work hard to find the people that the Big Boys have overlooked. Recruitment processes is an extremely imprecise science, and from experience I've seen a lot of qualified people unfairly rejected because of dumb things like not having the right keywords in a resume to pass the inbound filter, or edged out because they froze up on a single interview question. There are quite a few of these guys out there, but the problem is that because many do not know how to market themselves, it's hard to distinguish them from the incompetent, worthless demographic.
I don't. I'm just using a vanilla Chrome install on Ubuntu. I do have Flash installed, don't see why that would matter in this case, though.
>Is your argument seriously "kids these days"?*

Maybe btilly's argument is parents these days. It isn't like kids wanted to fail in the past. The difference is that until recently, most kids on the football team didn't win any ribbons or prizes in the past, but now even the chubbiest, least co-ordinated loser is a winner who comes home with a 3rd most improved defensive player ribbon. Similarly, there was a time when an average student got a C. Now, a lackluster effort is often worth a B+.

It makes perfect sense that people will have a distorted view of how difficult success is if they are never allowed to fail, never exposed to "dangerous" playground equipment of their grandparents' day, and who are always allowed to beg an excuse to get extensions or extra test-taking time.
I quit my job solely to build my business. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
I tried installing spree the other day, a rails shopping app, and I gave up after entering gem dependency hell and the no local file policy. Went faster on my own server with nginx+passenger.
How can we know about the linguistic models that Google uses? Are these from some papers published by Googlers?
"It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win."

No doubt. The internet is a passive tool; it's the people and organizations using it for good who should be winning prizes. The Nobel Peace Prize should be less nebulous, and for concrete achievement. (Edited for grammar.)
102 Hacker News items about Singularity
Rails is as upload and go as php with apache or nginx + mod_rails.
If you've read what Scott wrote, you'll see that it bears little resemblance to what Rodgers says. Scott is explicitly talking about small-scale social organizing and the like, where there isn't a profit business to be made - the intuition being that the government would come out ahead via taxes.

It's explicitly not about trying to create innovation or build profitable enterprises via top-down funding and political patronage, which is what Rodgers was arguing wouldn't work, and Paul has also said wouldn't work.

Paul also says it right here: http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html - governments don't like risk, so they try and manage it away via bureaucracy, which in turn attracts companies that are optimized to gain government grants, rather than customers or profitable businesses.
This ducks the real issue.

I'm not all that concerned about the efficiency of the codec and of the mechanism that flushes video to the screen. That said, <video> in a web browser that's codesigned to work on a platform is always going to give a complex cross-platform app like Flash a run for the money.

I'm more concerned that Flash burns up CPU for no reason at all. I mean, my Mac Mini hits 100% CPU and sounds like a helicopter taking off when I've got a little tiny flash ad open on any tab. I got no trouble w/ internet ads, but it's ridiculous that one stupid ad should be able to completely disable the power management system on my computer.
I think the poor designs will fall to the bottom, but if they can double their 'great templates' from 80 to 160 (+80) then its only $125 a design...
I'd go try to find my family. Then to Vegas, b/c supposedly the Hover dam will continue operating for several years automatically. The Southwest is also not prone to any natural disasters or harsh winters or large predators. The major problem would be finding shelter from the heat, but if I'm the last person around there should be plenty of bottled water.
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Escalate already means move up, but has a clumsy opposite (de-escalate, I believe). Maybe descalator and escalator would be an alternative. However, ups- and downs- is better, plus you always get points for coining new words.
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I've worked with both, and I can't really disagree.

Android interface work IS a pain. "Counter-intuitive and time-consuming" is a very good way to describe it. The fact that Eclipse is often painfully slow on my Macbook doesn't help. On the plus side, I was pleasantly surprised that the layout DOES scale well for different screen sizes - which is the whole point of jumping through all the hoops in the first place.

iPhone interface work isn't perfect, either - Interface Builder only gets you so far, and its strength is fixed layouts - once you throw in variable size elements, you have to do a lot by hand.

I'd rate Android's interface system as a 7 or 8 on my personal "annoyance" scale, and iPhone a 4 or 5. I enjoy Android more than iPhone overall, but the interface is definitely not its strength.
Worth noting this comes from our very own davidw.
No. There are a number of some pretty serious restrictions. I would _love_ something like Heroku for WSGI applications. Ian Bicking is working on something similar, not as high level with his Silver Lining project. http://bitbucket.org/ianb/silverlining/
I'd do lots of exploring, maybe hike back and forth across the country the way early explorers did 150-200 years ago, but realistically? There would be nobody to talk to, nobody to share your thoughts and experiences with. It sounds like an absolutely terrible existence. Then there is the problem of no doctors or dentists... a broken bone, or a bad tooth, and you would be in agony. It would not be a fun world to grow old in. Realistically, I think I'd soldier on, but after a few years, I'd probably say goodbye, and take my own life.
I'm a Canadian and I have a US business chequing account with my local bank (BMO).

All my Canadian and US accounts are managed under the same login.

See if your local bank does this.
Simple:

- Get a bunch of well-respected people together

- Create something exciting

- Use your connections to find people that you know are good
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Of the proprietary options, JMP is the best.
R of course is a better option, however it can take more work to do stuff that is just a few clicks in JMP. My startup idea is to build a JMP-like interface based on R.
All the 37signals talk yesterday was too much, and I had to get that one out of my head. Truth be told, I really do like what they've done, and love Rails, but they seem to take themselves awfully seriously at times.
Man, these guys are really ripping off... oh.
Not related to the content of the article, but does anyone else get annoyed with sites that put some sort of onclick/mousedown handler on their links, presumably to track outbound clicks or something related?

This overrides the middle-click behavior of my browser to open the link in a new tab. I'm trying to open your outbound link in a new tab so I can continue to read your content AND later read the page being linked to; the analytics being surreptiously added to every link overrides and prevents this.
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I guarantee you that a temp to do some paperwork for a week or two would cost less than free rent for a year (the cost of an RA).

As for taking the market idea to students, I advocate doing exactly that. Allow students to opt out of student activity fees (but they can't join clubs) and make sure the government doesn't subsidize them.

Incidentally, a student in the 49% who voted against student fees is NOT paying student fees by choice.
You would want it for the same reason you would want it for any other language.

"upload and go" is a convenience feature of Heroku, not it's reason for existence. It does make it easier to deploy Ruby apps but, again, it's not the reason it exists.
I agree. Also, I suspect that if a deployed app is rarely accessed, then there is some spin up time to load a slug. Both customers noticed this effect that the first page load usually seemed slow to them. Same thing on AppEngine (a 'loading request' can take a while).

Bottom line is that people dream that their web app will attract millions of users, and they want to plan for outstanding success. While I am sure that Heroku must have customers with large user bases, the sweet spot seems to be for moderately sized web portals that you sometimes need to scale up on demand.
'People use "never" and "always" all the time and everyone knows (ok, almost everyone) that they don't literally mean "never" and "always".'

I think it still makes a difference though. I mean consider the following two sentences:

"Job hoppers NEVER make good employees."

"Job hoppers ALMOST NEVER make good employees."

The former is much more strongly worded to the point of requiring overwhelming evidence that I feel you won't be able to find when dealing with human behavior.
I believe GHC's type system is also Turing complete. As an example, you can implement BrainFuck in the GHC type system. I haven't looked over the details, but it looks promising.

http://killersmurf.blogspot.com/2009/11/typefuck.html
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I had an online business for 10 years, but I’ve been on the verge of bankruptcy more than once...
I think we are saying the same thing. A monad is not a "nuclear waste container" or a "spacesuit". Nuclear waste containers and spacesuits could be monads. But "a implies b" does not mean "b implies a", and that's where people get confused.

Anyway, I think what I am trying to say is that the problem is a grammar issue, rather than a programming issue or a mathematical issue. Monads are easy to grasp in terms of math or programming. They are apparently quite difficult to explain, however.
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I don't think that's inevitable ... just very likely.

It's a time at which you're going to find out for certain what someone's character is.
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What a coincidence, I too like my eggs boiled not fried!
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I don't really get it. Are they claiming that "I am T-Pain" would be expensive to build on Android because they would have to test it against a bunch of different devices and UIs? As far as I can tell the app shouldn't require any fancy UI elements. You just need a microphone and a speaker right?
This announcement must be a bummer for SetJam.com
The important thing to remember is that we approve any themes before they are displayed in the theme gallery, and we are absolutely committed to maintaining the level of quality (or a higher level!) than we currently have.

So, you don't need to worry too much about the quality dropping. Instead, over time, there will be many, many more designs available, which will make each site look better and even more unique!
Hopefully Ill be there
Find a generator, some beer, and some snacks and finally try to get through all those video games I don't have time for now. Oh, and get a shotgun just in case the rest of you come back as zombies.

This is a quick fun read ttp://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html
Questions the buyer will have:
1. How much money have the apps made? Either purchases or ads. (15 million installs of free apps = nothing really worth purchasing)
2. How much are they bringing in now?
3. Why are you selling?
and, of course:
4. What are the apps?

I suspect they're not bringing in a lot of money for you, or else you wouldn't be selling.

In which case I recommend you use the 15 million figure - which is pretty impressive in itself - as something to mark out your talent as a developer. Something for your CV, rather than something that you can sell.
Angular.

So yes, when you increase the radius the linear velocity goes up even though the angular one doesn't change.
Yeah. My mental picture is "thing with return/pure -> thing with fmap -> thing with join". The second is a pointed functor, the third is monad. Not sure what the first is, probably because it is nearly useless :)
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My startup is building a recruiting platform geared towards college undergrads. (You can check us out at collegejobconnect.com)

We have had 200 students join in our first few weeks of growth on that side. On the employer side, we have a few companies in the wings (friends of friends, family and professional network connections).

We're trying to expand our reach beyond these first few companies. Beyond emails and cold calls, has anyone had any luck reliably getting in touch with small to medium businesses? (HR in particular, but we'll pitch anyone.)
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I did not say that they were playing dumb.

I said they had a choice, and urged them to make the right one.

Until MetaLabs finally communicated what had happened, the scenario was ambiguous. IMO, Mozilla could have eliminated the ambiguity much sooner simply by saying "we are working with MetaLabs to resolve this."
In England I learned the version further up this thread. Computer Science nomenclature doesn't really follow British vs. American English separations as much as natural language.

In fact I don't recall anyone in Britain use those terms to me, either in university or at work.
Exactly. The article says that Flash isn't inherently slow. Is anything inherently slow if you take time to optimize it? Why has Adobe/Macromedia taken so long to get decent performance out of Flash?

I'd say the ball is in Adobe's court to actually make a version of Flash that doesn't suck on the existing platforms.
It reminds me of various Tom de Marco advices for project management, where he emphasizes that most of the time you don't need fancy tools.

All in all, it's a great parody of 37signals.
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Surely, this should be known as "}": handlebars and "{ pornstar".
BJ Penn (now a UFC champion) trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for 4 years before he won the world championships. Most people take 8-10 years to receive a black belt, and then a year or two to become competitive on the world level.

I don't think its unheard of that a very talented kid could find a fantastic teacher and excel in a city-wide tournament.
Ha. It is but I think the point is that even before GPU assistance, Flash works better in Windows than on the Mac. It makes sense for Steve Jobs to pressure Adobe into improving the Mac version. HTML5 is turning out to be the hammer that forces Adobe to innovate.
Could anyone explain what this is all about?
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Definately two ways to skin a cat!

I think he knew we were being treated unfairly, but yet he couldn't do anything about it. One of the problems of a large company like that is that there are so many layers of 'management' that nobody is left with any responsibility or autority (like treating employees better).
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nice. i can see myself using this for django projects (a bubble for the urls.py, another for the view and another for the template)
http://37signals.com/
This tutorial should really encourage the user to type various commands as part of the tutorial, rather than allowing progress by just typing "next" over and over again. The great thing about the try-ruby tutorial was that it actually gets you to type ruby commands to get to the next bit, thus forcing you to try out the syntax rather than just read a tutorial.
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Lexbind and coroutines will be nice. But unfortunately, we are very close to the point where Emacs' internal design won't work anymore. (Fortunately, most of the important stuff in Emacs is Emacs Lisp, which is easy enough to compile and run. The VM / C core is not very complicated.)