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His point is more that they're really Web Developers, not businesspeople. That their expertise is from direct experiential practice with an extremely narrow type of software business.

He's a business school type, so this rankles. His whole world view is based on broadly applicable business practices, grounded in theory and hypothesis, backed up with data.

His kind of "business person" doesn't even necessarily start one business, even if they might see opportunities everywhere — they get brought in as management. But if they start one, they're probably going to start more.
I've had a Steelcase Leap chair (http://www.steelcase.com/na/leap_products.aspx?f=11852) for about 5 years now. It was simple enough that I had it adjusted to the sweet spot in about an hour or two of sitting in it. I've made slight adjustments over the years, but not too many.

I tried to replace the Leap with a Mirra from Herman Miller. But I just couldn't adjust it to what was comfortable for me. And I didn't like the back. I'm not a fan of the webbing.

I gave it to my wife, and she loves it. But granted I upgraded her from a 80 dollar Office Depot chair :)

You should see if there are office supply stores near you that will let you demo the chairs. Not just for a few minutes but for at least a day.

A friend of mine just bought 15 Leap's in AZ. He was able to get a Leap, Mirra, and a couple of others to test out for a couple of days before making his decision. Might be something to look for in your area.
Good point but we need to consider the change in price as well. If the 2004 model cost five times as much then they're still roughly in line with Moore's law.

Also there's the possibility that the bottlenecks in bandwidth have been on the fiber side rather than the routing side. (I'm really not sure of this - can anyone advise?)
This might be a smidge above a 5-year-old's vocabulary level, but you should give Inform 7 (http://www.inform7.com/) a look. It's designed for writing text adventures like the Zork series, but unlike almost every other programming language, it uses almost entirely natural English syntax.

The object model

A barrel is a kind of supporter.
The blue barrel is in the garden. The shears are on the blue barrel.

and CLI model

Frowning is an action applying to nothing.
Understand 'frown' as frowning.

and rule-based syntax

Instead of frowning when the Queen is in the garden:
say 'It would be improper to scowl at the Queen.'
After frowning when the player does not carry the shears:
say 'Your inability to do gardening makes you quite grumpy.'

are all easy to understand.

The result is always readable, even to someone unfamiliar with regular scripting languages. The IDE is also full of examples, though they are somewhat verbose.
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I can easily find you a job doing web programming in COBOL. The first tech company I worked for decided to build their new task system in COBOL. I can't really remember the framework they were using (RMCOBOL, I think), but they had somehow managed to find a way to get Apache installed on a HP 3000 that communicated with a COBOL web app.

Keep in mind, I'm 20, and I only really started working when I was 18. This all happened two years ago, and I seriously doubt they've stopped using COBOL in that time.
Authors do explain. They even provide some guidelines how to make productive meeting. It's just the reviewer who chooses to ignore that.
I actually wish a lot of papers in my area (speaking as a grad student) had more novel-like writing and were less hung-up on seeming formal. I've been reading a bunch of logic papers lately, mainly to mine techniques and ideas for an application-oriented use of logic that my thesis is built on, and the papers parcel out concepts so slowly, and fail to explain any intuition about them, that it's pretty slow going. It's like 90% proofs that I don't care about (put them in an appendix) and 10% actual content I might want to read.
The MacRuby team is the one to talk to. This is Mac-specific Ruby on LLVM.
Uhm… How about trying to see the difference the product and implementation details? Cars are simple you know: turn a key, step on the gas and you ar going. Does anyone claim that those dozens of CPU hidden under bonnet and AT gearbox is simple?
And while you're at it get someone who can give a presentation.
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Sweet. When can I run this baby at home?
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I still don't understand. Please be explicit: what would you want to do that the GPL prevents you to do? Don't say "I want to distribute under another licence". If that's your reason, I would like to know why you would want to distribute under another licence (and beware circular reasoning). If you have another reason, please tell me because really, I have no idea.
I do actually work with devices like these. Not Cisco. Although I used to. But I work with equally monstrous packet movers from other vendors.

I glanced at the released documentation a little. The thing to remember is that this is a multi-cabinet router for _really_ big telcos. It scales up to 1152 slots. Since a single shelf system is 16 slots. 1152 slots is 72 shelfs. Judging from the picture a rack can hold 2 shelves. So that's 36 racks for one router to do 322tbps.

In the telco world it's all about density per-rack. Colo space is expensive and so is cooling and power. How much switching/routing capacity can you get in one rack? Well it looks like Cisco now has about 9tbps per-rack. Which is not bad but it puts things a bit more in perspective.

Cisco also tends to measure their bandwidth a bit differently than us mortals. They take full-duplex line-rate and double it. I've seen them do this on previous products so I'm only assuming they've done this here.

So what we really end up with is a router that does 4.5tbps full-duplex per-rack. Still not bad. But not as mind blowing a number as 322tbps. And not so far away from the competition either.
Yes, that is interesting. Recommended.
I think this is fairly common. I've had two people agree to give me a recommendation on the basis that I write it for them, allow them to see it and change anything that they don't like, and then sign it. As I see it, if you're willing to help me out then I wouldn't want to take up your time unnecessarily. If you want to write the whole thing yourself, then great! But if you're willing to do it but are time-constrained, I'll help you.
Ok, I've created a group called "HN" on Yahoo! Sports.

Here's the link: http://y.ahoo.it/mVPMVA8X
Ask HN: Whatever happened to Google pulling out of China?
Google.cn is still up and running and it's definitely still censored.

Anyone have updates on what's going on with the story? Is Google still planning on carrying through with the following threat?

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China." (1/12/2010)
Perhaps the steam engine could be delivered in an impervious sealed box (a close cousin of the massless spring), and thereby pass my test.

It's hard to see how to put one-click shopping in a box.
FTA: "Transaction support is something that many open source people don't know about because the most popular database (MySQL) doesn't implement it."

MySQL does support transactions. See InnoDB.
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I can buy that, and the linguistic analogy is pretty interesting. I do think it's at least a plausible question to ask philosophically: is there a coherent concept of "mental illness" and came we come up with some criteria for it? But certainly the concept people use is a descriptive one: people who are really far outside the social conception of normality are almost universally considered mentally ill (many types of psychosis, for example), others are on the borderline, and others are universally considered normal.
Yes, Google is still growing (slowly). But Bing has gained more points of market share than Google in the past six months. Not just grown faster, but actually added more users than Google has added.
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> I want you to make all your changes publicly available to everyone […]

This phrasing was careless: it sounds like you want to prevent private modifications (freedom 1).

You're not the only one to make this mistake. Because of it, many people think the GPL forbids private modifications. Many don't like it because of this misconception, so we should mind our words.

Of course, I agree with the gist of your post.
The article is extremely long and overly articulate, considering it discusses the consumer's preference of the short, the sweet, and the bitty.
Lots of enterprise stuff! Are there any interesting apps for me as a consumer?
Are you serious? Figuring out the algorithm is absolutely the hard bit here. When was the last time you had trouble implementing an algorithm?

I feel like I'm feeding a troll here - I had to check your profile to be sure I wasn't. I think you're letting your dislike of patents warp your normally intelligent viewpoints.
1) I think the point is that he wasn't. It was a movie about how his hard work got him to the point to win the tournament.

2) If he was, they would have said so.

3) Because people love movies about prodigy kids training for two months and beating someone who worked hard for years? Yeah, very uplifting, thats why we all remember this movie so fondly.
Fiber can currently carry wavelengths up to 10Gbps in a standardized way. Standards for 40Gbps and 100Gbps are currently being written (and have been implemented).

These wavelengths can then be multiplexed 8 at a time into carrier groups, which can then be multiplexed 8 at a time into WDM (Wavelength-Division Multiplexing). So one fiber can currently carry 640Gbps, and this will soon go up to 2560Gbps with 40Gbps and probably also 6400Gbps with 100Gbps.
I believe that the multiplexing for WDM will be doubled soon, but I'm not sure whether this can carry 816100Gbps wavelengths.

Judging from the amount of ports you see in the picture, the router must do something like that.

Note that WDM switches that can branch out 10Gbps Ethernet will probably cost a fraction of the price of this router and are only about 20U in size.
FTA:

"The rush to judge kids on their good behavior has been accelerated by the notion of emotional intelligence. In the 1995 publication of his book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman theorized that EI could be more determinative of a child's academic success than the child's IQ. That idea is so popular that few have noticed it’s not supported by the data—the theory has proven to be a fallacy. In a recent meta-analysis of 57 studies, scholars at Florida International University determined that the correlation between emotional intelligence and school success tops out at 0.10. That was for teens; for 5 year olds, it’s even more problematic."

I thought that part was particularly interesting, having been to a private elementary school where they talked about EI all the time.
well, I do, but I understand why people don't.
The likely better solution would be to have structured warnings you can enable/disable by, selector such as warning class, declaring namespace, using namespace or whatever, but that seems quite unlikely :)
Come on, there's a lot to be critical about in this video, but do you honestly think he faked a British accent to appear smart? There's a few million of them that talk like that, you know. And the word search for money being lame subliminal messaging? Really?
I agree with you, but that's what you have to do to get published. My first PhD thesis was rejected, although my viva saved me and I was given permission to re-write. The second version had mostly the same material, mostly the same proofs, but was written in a style that made it seem harder and more inaccessible. It appeared more impressive, so it made a better impression.

Clear, accurate and engaging writing is hard and undervalued.

My advice is: learn to live with it. After all, you don't really have a choice.
Some stuff is simple, some isn't. Trying to make it simpler is a good goal in many cases, except for when it isn't.

What I disagree with is "business by platitude".
On this topic does anyone have experience with Bing (or Microsoft in general) as a PPC platform?
I'd disagree with this. Most of the candidates I've seen turned down weren't rejected because they lack some nebulous job-getting skill. They were rejected because they don't have the CS and programming skills to do the job.

The part I would agree with is that learning a new language != getting better at programming. When you learn a new language, you're increasing your breadth of knowledge - but most employers don't hire for breadth, they hire for depth. They want you to be good at the job they hire you for. And when you pick up a new language, you'll perform worse than on your existing languages, until you've had the practice to bring your skills up to where they were before.

Instead, spend time learning your language better. Most languages (even Python) provide different ways to accomplish the same task; try them all out, find out which is best, and most importantly, find out which is best for which tasks. Learn some libraries in depth. Write some actual code so you have something tangible on your resume - starting a project from scratching will teach you a lot that maintenance work at your employer won't, and even contributing some patches for an open-source project will teach you something new.

A big problem with many candidates is that their knowledge is very shallow: they'll claim to be an "expert JavaScript programmer", where "expert" means they can only use JQuery snippets they found on the web. And they don't even realize that their knowledge is shallow; they're completely oblivious to the depth of the subject until they meet someone who really does have deep knowledge (and even then, only rarely).
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G: 1122
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Bing: 1

On what is a non tech site (although the audience probably skews somewhat in that direction). But as has been mentioned, one site is not the whole internet.
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I boned up on C++ before my Google interview because I didn't know it and heard it would be included. It turned out that my interviewers exclusively asked me questions in Java and JavaScript, both of which I had fairly extensive experience in.

Then I ended up working in C++ and Flash once I was hired. Neither of which I had any prior experience with (well, I had a little Flash, mostly as a compiler target). Go figure.
There was an article by an LHC scientist a while back suggesting that someone is traveling from the future and sabotaging the LHC.

The article may have been a joke, but...
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MySpace hired this person after they built http://myspacehire.me/

I'm sure they've been other examples of people being hired (or not) after turning a cover letter into a dedicated web site for the employer they want - anyone remember any others?
From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_... :

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the [Large Hadron] collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

With each delay, the theory becomes a hair less fanciful.
No, that would not hurt the chances. Google would be interested in the unique technology behind the company, not how you authenticate users. Oauth is not the selling point of your app.

As far as planning, you could use Python and protocol buffers instead of ruby and thrift, but the deciding factor is still going to be the underlying technology, not a clever marketing strategy.
The video on the site is worth a watch-through too. Impressive piece, well-designed video, and hopefully loads of sales for a job well done. Any typography fans, this is probably right up your alley.
Different people have wildly different expectations. When my mom wrote a book, she was dumbfounded that she was supposed to write all the back-flap testimonials herself, and then the person they were attributed to just had to sign off on them and put their name on it. All but one of the people said, "Ah great, I don't have to do any work, this is awesome." One person said "WTF is this?" and wrote her own testimonial.

In my limited sample size, I tend to trust & respect the people who say "WTF? It's my name, I'll write it myself" more. Unfortunately, they seem to be in the minority.
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The concepts of the article are pretty foreign to me, so much so that it sounds to me like and individual who is blaming society for their ills.

My life experience has been completely the opposite of this summation. When I was a kid I was mediocre at everything, it was not until my adult life that I became exceptional, now things come easy to me. People look at me as kind of a daVinci (not claiming I have had anywhere near the impact as him) but the point is, a jack of all trades and a good enough master of them as well. I am never the best, but I am above average on almost anything I take interest in.

Anyway, wrapping this up into a point, with the ability to master anything, I stopped looking at failure as failure and looked at it as a proven iteration that does not work. I know it is cliche to say, but perception is reality and if you have a negative perception that will manifest itself in ones actions.

One of the big issues is that the human mind, unless trained, is bound to a simple understanding of time. Within that simple understanding is an internal pressure to race the clock. When one looks at time is a more spatial manner then they start to see failure as less about being set back x amount of time and rather that though the distance traveled will require some adjustment one has still traveled a distance and made progress.

I cannot stress enough that attaining the right perception can be the difference between success and resignation to defeat. The greatest key to attaining that perception, above all else is creativity.
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Well, it says it "starts" at $90k, and there's enough vagueness in the article to allow for multiple products based on a new framework allowing up to 322Tbps. If you've got a link to actual pricing & options, I'd be interested.

However, if that's the price for that speed, you make a good point. $90k is practically downright cheap for that kind of throughput.

edit: just saw the source article. Definitely implies scaling options with 322Tbps for the top and $90k for the bottom, and smutticus' comment backs this up. I didn't see any stated prices, though, so we're back to W.W.M.D?
The ship doesn't need to withstand the wave without any damage - that would be unnecessarily expensive. But they should at least be designed to withstand such a wave without sinking.

If I climb on a ship and you tell me "well, there's a 1 in 100'000 chance that we'll be hit by a freak wave and then it's quite likely that everyone on board will die, since the ship will be broken in half and sink", that's a very different thing to say than "well, there's a 1 in 100'000 chance that we'll be hit by a freak wave, and then the ship will sustain severe damage but should be able to limp back to shore or at least float long enough for a rescue."

The difference between those two scenarios is probably less expensive than you think.
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Prof Brian Cox has just said on Twitter:

> There is nothing wrong with LHC - lazy journalism.
> Schedule announced in Jan, 18 months physics, 12 month
> engineering shutdown afterwards

> I just saw the BBC "news" story about LHC schedule -
> I know I'm a BBC person but it's really shoddy! This
> kind of thing really annoys me.

> ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular
> shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how
> complex machines are operated !

> I repeat: #LHC will run for 12 - 18 months now. It will
> then shut down, AS ACCELERATORS DO, for maintenance and
> upgrades. ENGINEERING !!!

This is causing something of an uproar in TwitterSpace:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23LHC

Edited for layout and to add link to twitter search. And this comment.
They used an image provided specifically for the media to use? And they didn't even link back to the press release? That's pretty much how the relationship between the press and the PR-departments of companies work. I'd wager that it's a minority that wants access to source and can't google it for themselves.
Hang on. If (s)he hates remembering passwords, why not slap on something biometric on top of the normal login process?
I think it's one of those things where if they pushed it to far and really broke it they wouldn't have the resources to fix it. It's such a long term project already that it is wise to take every precaution.
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Isn't real time ray tracing more interesting?

http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/10/real_time_raytracing...
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Ok, so if she comes to work for you she's in good shape. In the real world, however, when a jackal sees a gazelle it doesn't care if it has "pouty eyes" or not. Meat is meat, the easier to catch the better.
I've been too long out of physics, so I'll take your word on it. I wasn't sure how quickly size effected energy. Though I'll still take my chances with something I can predict if I have to interact with it.

One question though: is energy->radius^2 based on angular or linear velocity?
Great work. I'm seeing an analogy here between this and cryptanalysis using power consumption data.
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Yeah CS theory & practice are often quite different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_analysis
Censored how? I was wondering the same the other day, and looked for Tienanmen square. I did get a few results from the protests.