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I feel sorry for the people trying to do this. They will be in debt forever. You only understand the downsides of debt once you make an effort to get out of it. These people will never be able to do that.

The graduate student is signing a part of her future income away in her 20s before she has even earned income.
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It's people like Grubber and you that want a clear cause-and-effect. To them, the iPhone was the genesis and everything that's mobile and touch derives from it. To me, this is a lot like people claiming Nirvana invented Grunge. No, there was a scene/movement, they were a part of it and they were the ones that hit it big and influenced it. But to claim anything more is a big mistake.

In order to defend your absurd "there would be no touch without Apple" stance, you're going to great lengths here - accusing multiple companies of successful espionage against Apple for years in a row. Instead, you could face that fact that there were many companies with touchscreen devices, that there was much research in the area (both by companies such as the MS with the Surface and various independent researchers) and technology like high-res capacitative (vs the older, cheaper, crappier resistive) screens were becoming more available.
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Let me begin by saying I disagree with the practice of selling replica watches, online or anywhere. As a watch collector, I feel that sites such as these are deceptive to consumers. Who is to say that the replicas you are selling for $100+ are any different or better than the watches you can buy anywhere else for $20? There is no qualitative way to know the quality of these watches. The watches these watches emulate are expensive for a variety of reasons, mostly exclusivity, but largely because they are well-made and dependable and carry warranties and guarantees. Do you guarantee the quality of these watches? What if I buy one and the craptastic movement dies within a week? Apparently you accept returns. Will you change your supplier or will you send me the same watch that will also die within a week? These are the reasons that eBay and other notable sites regulate the site of replica items. I would be interested in hearing what value you provide to consumers with these watches and this site.

From a design standpoint I would say that this site looks like any other scammy site that sells replica items. If you really want to differentiate, do it with a site design that looks like you actually want to build consumer confidence and not phish credit card numbers and private information. Also, why do you list information about the watches as an image? Spelling errors are rampant throughout the site and only weaken my confidence in your site and products.

I'm sure other people here will say this comment is too harsh but I think these are questions that should be addressed.
"the only "intuitive" interface is the nipple."

Actually, even that is learned, it's just that most babies learn the key skills a week or two before birth and are able to move right to the application. Preemies often have trouble with putting "suck" and "swallow" together, so they need to be taught how to use a nipple.

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Files shouldn't require names, but they should accept them. After all, we're looking for good ways to describe the contents of a file, directory, or database entry. Sometimes a set of tags and associations is the way to go, but sometimes the name "2008 tax return" is a perfectly fine description. Data doesn't always need human organizing, but sometimes human organizing is useful.
I like this, opposed to other solutions to HTML's verbosity, in that this is like a Vim macro language. Quick to type, then expanded to full formed HTML. No need for any other compilation or intermediate processing to HTML.
Why not the natural boundaries of written documents: chapters, sections, paragraphs?
Versus, "Good Ideas are meant to be owned?"

I think the world economy needs places where IP is not respected. That is where those ideas can freely get applied, and where they can be expanded and refined. The US was this for the world in the late 1800s. Such places will be the next economic powerhouses.
Think like a chef, without the food

Think like a chauffeur, without the car

Think like a pediatrician, without the child

Think like a n00b, without the inexperience
Finally, someone that agrees with me on linguistic purity!

Personally, I think that purity is for monks and hocky players! I use the word "hacker" to refer to Giant Amazonian Parrots, and the work "cracker" to refer to small, circular, non-magnetic yet still metallic hardware.

Now, excuse me while I mambo dogface down to the banana patch.
Maybe a solution will lie in adaptive neural networks.
If your responding to bullet 2, then the it wasn't a question of "purity" it was the government dictating who was in what position.

Have you read the book?

"Gimme a break. If anything, the way things work in the corporate world the bosses are some of the least likely people to have consistent morals in the face of expedient solutions."
This behavior occurs throughout the novel.

What is the childish self-gratifying attitude? That those who work hard and persevere are successful? That it's wrong to steal from others? That at the end of the day you exist for yourself and what you find important (friends, family, etc) and that no one else has a claim on you?

It seems like you setup straw men and then knock them down.
So to break even, she will have to make 10 mil$, not doing the math on opportunity cost, taxes, etc. Sounds dubious.
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I agree that it's probably a bad idea. However, coming from Windows, you don't really think twice about it. MSFT has a long history of continuing to support all APIs, no matter how you get to them, and not really caring what you do with them.

Heck, I remember arguments on the .NET framework team when 1.1 was shipping about how to handle third-party applications that had used Reflection to access private members of class instances and whether the data could be changed. In several cases, it was going to break a few widely-used or mission-critical apps.

I personally didn't even think twice and just went ahead and used private APIs, especially since they were literally direct copies of entry points available on OS X, just missing headers & an import lib.
They make compilation of the macro's clients depend on the implementation of the macro, and therefore those clients must be recompiled when the macro changes. In Java, there's no expectation that changing the implementation of a method in one java file would cause another java file to be recompiled.
That's definitely another way :)
As programmers we have to understand how we can program something to seem incredibly intelligent. If we had access to time and resources that universe "contributed" to us - we may be able to come up with the type of program that looks, acts, learns, emotionally reacts 100% like a normal human being. Even currently we can get pretty far using image recognition, sound recognition, learning algorithms and fast-lookup data structures. The question of free will is - at which exact point in developing those data structures and algorithms the program gains an illusion of controlling its own actions? Moreover — how can you verify that it did?

What the article essentially says is that our brain is nothing but a CPU, programmed over millions of years by natural evolution in a way that it gained all kinds of responses to multitude of various inputs (our 5 senses) in all kinds of combinations, self-improving learning algorithm, and that illusion of consciousness emerged as a by-product of this complex system. Pretty interesting what exact data-structure/algorithm/etc caused this peculiar side effect.

It could have something todo with the observation that our brain doesn't need to be whole in order to have consciousness. In different types of physical brain damage, even major ones, a human was able to remain conscious. Same could happen with the other part of brain damaged, which was healthy in another example. So I'm thinking - maybe our the sense of conscoiousness is like a potential difference which makes electrical current flow through the wire - you need to have multiple parts of brain with potential difference to create an illusion of consciousness. This is pretty vague but I like this concept - may be onto something. Consciousness does feel a lot like different parts of brain interacting, or one part /observing/ another and reacting to it just like it'd be reacting to the outside world.

Meh.
Sounds kind of like the public school system (not including university) and taxes.
the search engines have to rely on the sites knowing they exist

No, because sites wouldn't decide who to notify; they would push changes to any interested listener.
Do they really want their market dominance to continue? I thought the Apple brand was about well designed, highly refined, seamlessly integrated devices. In other words, they want commodity imitators to be the sea of dreck which they can fly above. The disappointment that emanates from that sea is the driver for their high margins.
I think the voting indicates:

data, code => cool => upvote

statement by some organization with no data, no analysis => boring => downvote
or you could just use HAML (or NHaml, GHRML, etc.)
Just what we need, cargo cult statistics.
I ctrl+ my browser to reduce eyestrain, and I have an x61 which has a 12.1" screen.

But that's no reason to be snarky.
It annoys me more to have the ad follow me on the right hand side. I like supporting ad-driven websites, but why not used position: fixed instead of a bouncy JS animation?
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A bit out of subject, but I find the white on green hard to read.
Um... Godwinned?
TCP provides reliable streams, which IP doesn't. HTTP takes those reliable streams and provides... what, exactly? I guess it turns the streams into request/response message pairs (with lots of extra headers), but that's not nearly as useful - especially since parsing messages out of a stream really isn't harder than understanding the contents of the messages themselves.
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Just a guess, but is IE preloading in the background?
Where did I say that technical challenges are the only thing to care about and that salary/compensation should be neglected? I would expect a company that is courting experts to offer compensation appropriate for experts.
Project management techniques developed outside the US?
If you look into the history of Project Management as we know it today, a lot of it seems to be related to the US and to US space and military programs.

However at the same time the former USSR had quite a few achievements both in the aerospace and military fields yet I have no knowledge of a formal project management methodology coming from the USSR (China, Japan, India and from anywhere else but the US for that matter).

Does anyone have some better insight into this problem? Anyone from the former USSR that worked in projects?

I believe this is a relevant question given Andrei Tupolev's approach to building planes: he "invariably and energetically insisted on fast and adequate technical fixes at the expense of scholastic ideal solutions. A hallmark of his was to get an aeroplane into service very rapidly; then began an often interminable process of improving the shortcomings of the "quick and dirty" initial design."

This sounds pretty "agile" to me.
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You're taking a narrow definition of the "real world" by including webapps but excluding ATM machines.

I agree that all this "overhead" does have utility, I'm not saying we shouldn't have it -- but it's less pure/fun compared to the old stuff (IMO).
This should integrate really nicely into any of the MVC frameworks, just tell the hub whenever a model is created or updated that has its own page which you want to be indexed.

I understand you can generate and submit sitemaps, but pinging a hub after save makes a lot more sense to me than periodically generating a potentially huge sitemap and submitting the whole thing.
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If you don't give two hoots, why are are so defensive? Calm down, woman.
I still trying to figure out what agreement is. Is this the same as someone investing in a company for equity? Where lifetime is the time the company is in business (but without bankruptcy)? Or is it just a really bad non-fixed rate loan? I would not agree to this contract on either side though.
So Google would find them their usual way, then send them an "I'm interested" request, and the site would add them?

Yeah I guess that makes sense, nevermind.
<3 http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
And given the recent breaches of trust amongst the climatologists, this is exactly what is appropriate.

Building up open and transparent datasets and models that anyone can work with (or lacking the domain expertise and technical skill, at least be comfortable that somebody can watch over the scientists' shoulders) is exactly what's needed.

Another article that trumpets talking points without mentioning all of the caveats is NOT needed. And the fact that it yet again implies a need for action, while entirely ignoring any assessment the costs of those effects, together with a weighing against the costs of remediation, puts the Reuters article squarely into the fearmongering side of the equation, 180 degrees off of rational debate.
Presently, on the webpage of mixcloud, there's an ad that repeat itself horizontally (Like a tile). That's the new kind of bug you can have if people automatically upload a wrong sized image ;) But I like the idea and I'm sure you can fix that bug quite easily.
I still think that the Steam platform is the golden standard for DRM. The Assassin's Creed 2 DRM still comes from the old-school plan of restricting the legitimate needs of cash-paying customers, which makes the cracked version superior to the original. Steam, on the other hand, gives me more features rather than less: I can install the game on multiple machines, or the same machine multiple times, even if I lose the hard copy. It saves me a trip to the store, which was half the reason I pirated games back in college. I can pre-load the game and play it literally the second it comes out without having to camp outside a Fry's two hours away. They're by no means essential features and I rarely use any of them, but that whole thing about making sure your copy is legitimate is a hell of a lot easier to swallow when it's sold as the price of a new feature.

(obligatory: http://xkcd.com/488/ )
I am still surprised at how Firefox lags behind, as in the lack of progress there. On Ubuntu 9.10 x64 firefox is horrifically slow. The only reason I don't run chrome for everything is because I can't reload a single frame and firebug is just uber better than chrome's kits.
I'm glad that it helped you.

If I were to say the same thing about self-help books, someone would mock me right back, I imagine.

But the point being, maybe we shouldn't underestimate the power of chair rails to change a life, either.

Just like communities form around anything, so does life-changingness. But, on average, people who say "Punk rock saved my life" are full of it. :)
Less heat, less space, less crap getting into the computer, less breakable things...

Yes, I fucking do think it'll suck less.
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Their order form doesn't work. How much does it cost? Can it be plugged into a smart phone? (I guess not iPhone, but maybe Android?)
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I have not seen this information before so it is useful to me.
Get your monitor fixed. The RGB values are 74, 82, 90 – that’s a rather more bluish than green grey :)
Can an investor in this situation force someone to work? Can they sell their share of a particular worker to another investor? Sounds like something we abolished a while back...
I agree that is a solid piece. I would even call it the most sane article about mobile fragmentation I've read for a while.

I believe in HTML5 and that it will be a big success, even in the mobile space. But at the same time, top device manufacturers are fighting hard that their hardware doesn't became commodity and because of that we will see a lot of great innovation and HTML standardization just can't keep up with it. And HTML rendering engine is not necessarily the best technology base for all different usage modalities that mobile devices inherently have.
+1 from me.
Check out Ivar Jacobson (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Jacobson), who developed OOSE and Objectory in Sweden. I used the former in the mid-90s with great success, and it can be done in an agile manner.

Wikipedia says he says his latest "Essential Unified Process" "is a 'super light and agile'" Rational Unified Process, combining "the unified process camp, the agile software development camp and the process improvement camp." It's probably worth checking out.
Oh come on now, this is getting really stupid.
Anything is worth discussing if both parties see the benefit. The "not even worth discussing" mentality would have stopped a lot of successful businesses and individuals if that's the attitude they took at the beginning.
His talk about micropayments makes me wonder why it hasn't come further than it has in all the years since it was first talked about. He mentions Google Checkout as a possible provider. But I would guess Paypal and Amazon's payment solutions have a bigger foothold. Anyone know of any widely used "micropayment" solutions?
This could be abused like dmca takedown notices against competitors.
I totally do this, and I'm going to stop right now.
I bookmarked that readability site.. that's awesome. And yes, you are right about the bluish, however, by means of abstraction, it's the same thing for a geek like me: I found it hard to read ;)
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I put a detailed discussion of this in another post - if I'm getting robbed, I probably have some small bills in my pocket and more in my wallet along with stuff that can ID me. So I'll toss those small bills out and I'm going to bolt. Now, I am a damn fast runner, I'm big, trained in martial arts and in very good shape. If I don't see any way out then yeah I might just submit, but that puts me into a vulnerable position. If I toss some money out there, it's unlikely he's going to chase without grabbing it that gives me a few seconds lead and I'm probably faster than this guy in the first place, so by the time he reacts he has got $40 guaranteed and I'm at least a football field away. If he chases me and manages to catch up as I am getting tired, I'm going to do my very best to kill him. The vast likelihood is if I'm in a rough neighborhood I'm carrying a knife of my own, which he probably doesn't expect and I also carry one hand openers so when I feel I have an advantage I'll let him close get it into him and then take off running again. If no knife I'll go looking for a brick or a stick.
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I was socially anxious in school so I didn't really experience that much of the last three.

regarding the first one, it's almost a tautology that you are being habituated into doing things you are ambivalent about for reasons you may not fully understand. perfect practice for the day job you get after graduating, really.

on the other hand, my self-actualized programmer friend - who never went to school and works on his own projects - occasionally has a tinge of insecurity because he never took a compiler class.
I strongly disagree with the assertion that C compilation is I/O bound. If you have optimizations turned off, this is probably true, but if you are using a decent optimizing compiler, this is not the case.

We ran some tests where I work on a pretty good sized code-base and found that we were CPU bound, even on an 8-core system.

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There is an exception, if you are using networked file systems of some type (especially clearcase dynamic views) then you are almost certainly I/O bound.
I'm so very lucky that a) I just happened to major in math and CS, not just CS and b) my 'giftedness' was only enough through calc 1 in the math program. My foreign language and gen eds were easy, and the CS program didn't expect much of us, but I had to actually try in the higher-level applied math classes. Without that, I'd have been in for a rude awakening when it came time to work for real, and it would have cost me much more than re-taking calc 2 did.
I agree with the general thrust of the article in that iteration time is one of the most important factors of any kind of creative work, programming included. The longer you go without feedback or corrections, the less confident you can be that you're on the "right track."

That said, build systems and VCS aren't the only ways to optimize the process. For example, a system using scripts processed at runtime lets you reduce the amount of compiled code and iterate quickly on the one section by pressing a "reload script" button, or, even more conveniently, monitoring the source file and auto-reloading when changes are saved. If you're daring enough you could probably even do this with machine-compiled languages by abusing dynamic linking, though the ease of doing that would ultimately depend on the runtime linker capabilities.

Doing this kind of data-driven thing will cost runtime performance since less can be compiled and optimized statically, but if you treat it as the "scaffolding" work that it is and also include ways to reclaim some of the static factors for release builds, you can get a better overall result than you would if you were just suffering through long builds.
I'm not referencing anything specific, so I could very well be wrong with that example.
Only if Google acts on it without checking first which is pretty unlikely if you think about it for more than a nanosecond.
It's a good quote, but the simple solution is to do your driving in 2, and only switch to 4 when you do get stuck. Most times, that'll get you out.

In the real world, I suppose, that means not doing anything clever, except to backpedal and fix a problem.
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I think it's quite possible to make substantial amounts of money with Roger Eberts site.
Did someone just patent the process of patent trolling? USPTO: 0080270152
Patents are living up to their ideals
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You can also get similar results with some of the Zen Coding plugins for Textmate: http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
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it's financially brilliant from the kid's perspective, assuming she is successful. she gets a 5-year head start in business. compound that head start all the way to retirement, and its surely worth more than she paid.

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