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You Tokyo engineers and your insanely high wages! Five million yen ($55k), hah. In Nagoya, the Employer Who Must Not Be Named exercises essentially monopsony on engineering labor, and they pay roughly according to the traditional yardstick: 2.X million yen for 20-somethings, 3.X million yen for 30-somethings, etc.
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The nexus one maybe, but I adobe have already said it will only be available for smartphone's with fast CPU's, and so not sure if the Droid qualifies (of course I hope it does though).

Either way, mobile technology moves so quickly, this will quickly change. And we all know that Apple does get away with selling inferior hardware devices anyway, so Apple might succeed even if they they sell garbage to people.
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Notation as a Tool of Thought ... Ken Iveson's (IvesEn, spell?) Touring Award Address

I think he was the third guy to get one.

it was all about how folks think in code
"This is a not a male/female thing; this is a conflict of attitudes about sex. If someone gets bent out of shape because they hear people talking about getting laid they seriously need to grow up. Or get laid."

The phrase is equally trashy when used by either gender. It's possible to talk about sex without sounding like a teenage boy.
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It'd be interesting what google deemed to be bad about the website.

Also, when the author writes "In the end – I had to ditch the entire site. So we’re starting over." i am _really_ wondering. The only reason i can think of, to rewrite a whole wegsite for google would be if the website was horrible anyway and i planned to restructure it anyway.
I have the feeling that the admin didn't really look into unblocking his site. Quick google gives a lot of resources of what to do when a website is blocked by google.
Its kind of depressing which companies seem to grow into enormous enterprises in Australia. Mining companies and supermarkets. Pillaging natural resources, shafting farmers and consumers. Those seem to be our most successful business models. Depressing indeed.
Except you could build pre-loading of map data into the app. On Symbian phones with Ovi Maps the app will download map data on-the-fly, or you can choose to pre-load it (for example the full maps for Europe or whatnot). I see no reason Google couldn't do something similar.
/usr/local makes it far easier to install stuff like Gems with C extensions. It is a standard path checked by the C build system (eg. gcc).

There no good reason I have yet heard why using /usr/local is bad advise. I assume that since you provided no rationale for your statement you are in fact unaware of one.

But anyway having said this it is merely a recommendation — do whatever you want. The installation guide goes to great lengths to tell you that you should do whatever you want.

Back when I initially made Homebrew I was interested in the greatest goal of maximum awesome O99 CFLAG awesomeness. Now I'm only interested in reliable compiles and the default CFLAGS are pretty sensible. At the time I wouldn't have recommended the project to anyone particularly, but it got popular anyway.

But anyway, I never copy and pasted without reading a bunch first. I spent several days researching the stuff, the Gentoo wiki was a good source.

There is no anti MacPorts stuff in any of the docs anymore. I was never anti MacPorts at all, if anyone will believe me. I just found it to be not a great tool for developers. Homebrew is a grass roots project, at the time it seemed harmless fun to poke fun at the competition. As the project became more popular I took it all out. Now there is just a small gibe that I couldn't resist because it's too good a bit of wit.

Finally, no offence? May I suggest next time you say such a thing you don't immediately accuse the person to whom you mean no offence of being both ignorant and arrogant.

PS with offence, you're an ignorant twat, and probably ugly too.
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The assumption here seems to be that each user will be using the application in a random manner, deciding which link to click much like tossing a coin. What's more likely to happen is that all 5 users follow almost the exact same path.
Ask HN: (Yet Another) HN Comment Quality Going Down?
I know I know, another thread about comment quality - seems like we have these on a quarterly basis.

But it really does seem bad lately. A lot of up votes for reddit-style one liner zingers. Thoughtful discussion hard to navigate. I find myself losing interest a little bit in the comments section lately, but the submissions at least seem all on target.

I'm wondering does anyone else notice a similar slip in comment quality lately? Is this inevitable? Is there a desire amongst the community to turn it around? Is it just me?
It's not so much a statement about Olathe's virtues as a statement of not wanting your life disrupted by someone else's business plan.
So shouldn't we just downvote the ones that are spammy -- those that make the conversation worse instead of better?
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It's a bit of an aside, but Vancouver is really coming into its own as a technology hub. Over even the last 2 years, the number of new startups seems to have grown exponentially. One day could be very soon; and if it is, feel free to get in touch @nickmolnar. We need more good engineers.
sounds more like delusions of grandeur than a real plan.
Feynman was a woman!
If you are in Nagoya, you have my sincere pity.

I have a friend who went from Montreal to Nagoya with Ubisoft; he was telling me about the terrible conditions and the utter inability of companies to re-invest into the company itself. They wouldn't even pay for a proper screen; they were using CRTs or something like that.

It's truly bullshit because you can take 100% of any money you spend on the company off your taxable income (as long as you have proper receipts). It makes no sense for a company NOT to upgrade its faculties in Japan.
A tremendously good thing... for Twitter. Whether it's any good for the companies or their customers is an entirely different matter.
It's worth noting that the cheapest priced groceries at Woolworths and Coles tend to be their own brands, which cover a very wide range of products that you'd find at a supermarket.

The Woolworths Select branded items, while being the cheapest, are often of a higher quality than a lot of name brand competitors.
I stopped using formulae as the plural as I felt like a twit.
I track number of lines of code I write every month. I use statcvs which generates nice graphs over my CVS repository.
Does anyone have more details about Amazon's policy of not talking directly about competitors?

It seems to be an interesting approach, but I don't think this is the whole picture.

I am thinking of two situations where I am wondering how that would work:

* small niched vs a big player that is present and known on the whole market

* small business "competing" with another small startup for the same market (eg posterous vs tumblr)
The GPS logs are in GPX file format, which is XML based but also easy to parse from whatever your favorite scripting language is.

The map format (.img) is proprietary, but has been reversed engineered, so, for example, there are tools for converting OpenStreetMap data into the format. You can download maps of many areas from cloudmade.com.

I usually download my logs onto a Linux machine, but it works just the same on the Mac (using the device as USB mass storage).
If it increases the risk of cancer it might be infeasible for species with a long generation cycle. With a short generation cycle the cancers might not kill off too many individuals before they regenerate?
So you must know Kyle Kinkade, then? He and I have been drinking buddies since we met at MSFT in early '07
I don't know what is this about, the Kindle edition sits right up there at the top of the page.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Short-ebook/dp/B003AYZBGQ/ref=...

Though it escapes me, why it is more expensive to have it on the Kindle ($20.68) than in Hardcover ($15.09)...
Exactly. The Droid had a HUGE campaign from Verizon behind it to compete with the iPhone. The iPhone was hyped since it's announcement at Macworld 6 months prior to it's release, plus had, again, the power of AT&T behind it.

Google decided to do things in favor of the customer (not the big huge cell companies) and sell the Nexus One unlocked. It's now on AT&T's 3G network, and soon coming in a CDMA fashion to Verizon.

I'd be interested to see the actual profit from the big cell companies from their sales, minus all the marketing efforts. Verizon hit it pretty hard with all of their "Droid Does" commercials.

The Nexus, to me, is going to quickly become a thorn in every phone companies' side. All the phone companies have right now is their product differentiation. Lately they seem to be attacking each other on their network quality, but for the most part it's "I'm going with XYZ because they have ABC device that I prefer to your device on other-network". The N1 will shortly be available on any network, the consumer will have the power!
Basically, Australia has a walmart. Or three.
I think the key point is this: "Dr. King and colleagues gave Adam a database containing information on the enzymes, the chemicals and reagents to do the experiments, and access to the yeast cultures."

I imagine it would have taken a really, really smart robot about 300 years to figure that stuff out on its own. And only IF it had a reason to figure it out.

Not AI ... just another Expert System. Doing exactly what it's told to, efficiently.
Great article. There's much more to be said about "Freedom". So many corporations have access to massive amounts of data and it will soon be easier to regulate access; whether by control of it's owner, or not.
Its a dodgy chart anyway, because it is comparing the iPhone 1G versus sales in an already saturated market, where many are concerned about now concerned about the economy? I wonder how it fared in recent sales vs the iPhone, or even against the latest generation iPhone?

In regards to reviews, the Nexus One is getting excellent reviews, and its more a marketing issue (as mentioned by Buster). Steve Job's stepped onto the stage and lied to the world that he invented multitouch (total BS), and that's why many people purchased the iPhone. In regards to pure usefulness, the iPhone 1G was a joke, and whilst it may have been able to compete against other smartphones at the time, the only useful thing about it, was the web-browsing capabilities. It didn't have application support, and I used to own an iPod touch (which is basically the same thing), and frankly, a nokia phone was more useful.

Sorry, but this isn't a failure. It has barely even launched yet, and assumptions are being made from a graph which isn't comparing Oranges to Oranges.

That's like comparing the sales of Windows Vista to OSX Snow Leopard.

EDIT: I'll also add that these are estimates anyway..
And banks. A lot of the biggest companies in Australia are banks.
So what I learn from all this are:

1. Differentiate on Quality, Never on Price

2. Find a niche, fill the niche

3. Avoid cheapskates

4. It works, be persistent
You say that, but you've only listed off a handful of companies. If I get laid off, I want more than a dozen companies as my only potential employers. What happens if none of those dozen companies needs someone with my skill set at the time I'm laid off?
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GSM and CDMA are separate from 3G. That's why either of the GSM models of the NexusOne will work on any GSM network and will work with Edge on any network. It's 3G that's different between these networks.

Also of note, is that most of these chips target a specific frequency (or frequencies). They are not software programmable radios. I imagine that the underlying protocol possibly differs between the different 3G bands (otherwise I would expect that someone would have created a chip that supports all of the common bands by now).
CSS3 isn't a finalised standard, and the test only tests a
few things. You do realise there is a lot which this
doesn't test too right?

That's exactly my point: Acid3 test the important bits, the parts of the spec which are useful. This test is web apps oriented (hence a strong focus on DOM manipulation and dynamic behavior) and thats where web is heading now.
Why is it that context is insufficient for written Japanese, but sufficient for spoken Japanese, especially given the terseness of spoken Japanese? How is it that many Japanese books (such as The Tale of Genji) were originally written using phonetic writing systems? Is modern Japanese so different?
On the other hand this will make biologists more productive relative to other scientists. So maybe there will be more funds for biologists compared to other scientists.
You might want to nofollow those links.
The perception of what is artificial intelligence is changing all the time. Playing chess is just looping (and not even quite a bit more complex), but it used to be artificial intelligence.
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Recovers? Last time I checked it just kills itself if memory usage goes too high, not sure whether that can be really called recovering.
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I don't think Google wanted to sell a lot of Nexus Ones. They certainly didn't act like a company who wanted to sell a lot of phones.

Google's mission is to get people sharing more and more information. They want fat, saturated networks with us passing data around nonstop. That kind of environment benefits them directly, because they basically get a payout every time someone looks for something.

The wireless networks, on the other hand, want to restrict us as much as possible. They want to put up as few towers as possible, while charging the most customers they can as much as they will pay. They want a network full of tollbooths where they can constantly slow us down and demand payment to keep uploading and downloading.

I think the Nexus One is Google's baby step towards challenging that. They want us to choose our devices and our apps first, and let the networks compete for the right to carry our data... the "dumb pipe".

If that's the goal, I think it's far too early to tell whether they have failed. They could have sold more phones by tying into the networks' marketing channels, but that sort of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
well, that was a pretty horrifying read. makes me glad i'm not a windows user.
What about the fact that the N1 has only been available for T-Mobile customers until recently. It's now available for AT&T users, but unlocked at hefty $500+ price.

I personally can't wait for it to be available under CDMA (Verizon)--and I'm sure others are waiting. I plan to switch from AT&T's horrid network. The ability to use the data and voice networks simultaneously is useless if you can't get a proper signal... ie, if you can't do either.

Luckily, I don't have a contract w/ AT&T, so I can switch anytime. The Droid was somewhat appealing, but I'm waiting for the Nexus One and for Android to support Flash 10.1--so I can watch european football games on justin.tv/ustream.tv and be able to stream the Daily Show/Colbert report among other shows without having to pay Apple.
oh man, do you REALLY have to use this color for the entire place? Right now, I feel like hitting my head into a wall after looking at the page for a few minutes.
Because context is more than just what words are being used. Facial expressions, who's speaking, gestures -- everything feeds into the context of the spoken language.

My favorite example of this was when I was watching "Bushi no ichibun," a samurai movie that came out a while ago. A man and a woman were in a house, and my wife and I could not figure out their relation. The woman says "Hey, you." And we both realized that the characters were married.

"Is modern Japanese so different?"

Yes. Yes it is. Japanese has gone through so many reforms that's it's almost a completely different language. Also take into account that the Take of Genji was the first written novel and you'll see why modern speakers would not be able to read Tale of Genji in it's original format.
Do one thing.
But if we could coordinating all "just moving there", en masse, we could move to Detroit where the land is dirt cheap. I could buy a whole city block in Detroit for what I pay in one month's rent. If I brought along a few friends, we could buy up the city, start a technology hub, and become the modern-day Astors as the price of real estate shoots through the roof.

Except that then we'd have to deal with taxes, and corrupt city government (ok, SF isn't much better in that regard), and paying a private security force so we don't get shot, and fixing up houses that are in worse-than-teardown condition. And when I just want to write software - it's probably not worth the hassle. Organizing a mass relocation can be a pretty big drag.
I'm sure Indians (like myself) who understand the quirks that we put into our brand of English will probably appreciate this a <i>little</i> more. Still, a decent read.
Well Google didn't do it. Wish they would.
Maybe you should create an issue?

http://code.google.com/p/flashblockdetector/issues/list
Didn't they already have Penicillin during WW2? I think the story must have taken place after WW2? But maybe it wasn't mass produced, military only or something.
Do you know this from experience?

Yup. I'll go over what its like for the app that I work on, but, what muhfuhkuh said is very accurate as well.

I work on an app thats in the app store for $1.99. We see some bad reviews (people requesting features we already have, complaining about something thats out of our control (lack of backgrounding's a big one), etc). But, for the most part, the reviews are pretty good; our 4 and 5 star reviews combined amount to around double the 1, 2 and 3 star reviews.

In contrast to some of our competitors applications; one is $1.99 now, but was anywhere from $.99 to $3.99. It was on sale for a bit at $.99 and has some pretty bad reviews - lots of impulse buys and people not knowing how to use the application. It has more 1 and 2 star reviews then 3, 4 and 5 stars combined.

Another of our competitors applications is $4.99. It doesn't have nearly as many reviews, but the ones it does are "higher" quality. Maybe two or three reviews < 3 stars. But, only 20-25 reviews in total.
Careful, you'll get fired from Harvard for saying things like that.
Although, in Feynman's defence, practically no-one that he met in his life was his intellectual equal, man or woman... I think it's just that he was more willing to actually say that for women, whereas he obviously felt a social need to keep that thought to himself when it concerned men.
Hardly from scratch at all. The base work was done by the KDE team as KHTML many years ago and then Apple put the finishing 50% in with WebKit. By the time Google came along, WebKit (aka Safari) was already a force in the market. Google's biggest contribution thus far to the current browser wars was the V8 engine, which significantly raised the bar for JavaScript performance.
this is a project that has kind of stopped moving forward from lack of time from the original contributor (welcoming anyone wanting to help) http://xbrowser.armondavanes.com/

alternatively, this is a project which has more recent activity http://endlos.sourceforge.net/
Suddenly another interesting thing springs to mind. Punctuation has become all kinds of useful for computers in the shell, in programming, etc. Things like / for folders is intuitive and easy to see. Do many other languages, particularly the better candidates w/ lower letter counts such as Hebrew, have punctuation beyond the period?

Edit: good for them, Hebrew does have punctuation.
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I don't have a device this works on but the demo looks very well done. I've been playing around with a similar idea but more along the lines of a front end for music in ABC notation.
Good point. I know tons of nissei (well, the Chinese word for nissei, whatever it is) who can speak Chinese but completely gave up on writing it, and it looks to me sorta like the language is going to die in the US as the generations go on partly because of that. (unless immigration from china stays high)
There's a huge difference between "Willing to Relocate" and "Willing to Relocate anywhere". I currently live in Pittsburgh, and I'd be willing to relocate anywhere on the East Coast between Charlotte, N.C. and Boston. Most of my family and friends are out east, so I'm not willing to relocate to the midwest or the west coast or abroad.

So being willing to relocate but having restrictions doesn't make Mr. Pelosi a hypocrite
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I recently bought a Nexus One, and it's the BEST friggin phone I've ever owned. I am one very happy camper now

Responsiveness, Maps, speed of Maps, the browser (holy shit the browser), the screen... are all awesome.

Wrt. marketing: other than Internet mutterings, I first heard about it from a friend who is a Google employee - so I guess you can say it wasn't particularly well advertised.. NB, I'm a Linux-oriented software developer, so I might be counted in the presumable target audience.

Still, best phone ever.
I whole-heartedly agree. This can be done in flash/html5/etc + browser on a mobile device.
You're going to find this an interesting, albeit long, read.

http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore
you couldn't just change the addressee? well, that sucks. my "horrible" winmo 6.1 device lets' me do that, and it auto-completes based on my contact list.

but yes, copy+paste isn't all that necessary, but i can imagine mobile bloggers, among others, needing it from time to time.

btw, don't downvote me for using winmo. i'm not a fanboy, I just get tethering (bluetooth/usb), opera mini (the latest version is great), skyfire (streams flash/sivlerlight). It's a bit slow and the ui isn't great but I use a utily that helps me start apps using keyboard shortcuts and can multi-task (go figure) very easily.