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I think this has been discussed before, but as you propose it, weighting submitting higher than voting is too subject to abuse. I also regularly submit things instead of upvoting them. Commonly I'll click on a story, then use the bookmarklet to submit it after reading so I don't have to go back and upvote it.
The students don't know what they are missing. Were you aware that the few minutes at the start of class are the period where students have the best potential for paying attention? It is the place where ideally you should put the most important stuff that you want remembered. Not doing that is a wasted opportunity.

As for your lament that the time is wasted in review, review is actually one of the most important activities in the classroom. If you want long-term retention it is absolutely critical. Of course it is easy to not see the value of doing it.

As for my experience and part of why my attitudes changed, see http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-linear-algebra... for some of my teaching experience, and how I addressed these issues there. My attitudes only changed because I saw first hand how important that time was for learning.

Not that I blame you. When I only had only the amount of educational experience that you do, and like you only from one side of the educational equation, I too did not see how important these things really were. If you are like I was, then you won't understand unless, like me, you wind up experiencing the other side as well and thinking hard.

But even though you haven't experienced it, please pause in your certainty about the world long enough to accept that it is at least possible that, just perhaps, more experience would cause you to change your mind. Just as it changed mine.
Viagra != Spam. Ask a pharmacist. And I'm not making that up. Yesterday a pharmacist's son told me of his father's spam filtering woes.
Do you have some figures about iPhone and Android usage within 'Enterprises'? Please share!

The iPhone can be turned into a boring and controlled device for soul destroying enterprises. Have a read of this:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Gu...

And despair that large organisations hire people who can't be trusted with a web browser on their phone.
I thought the best part of Android was that there is very little oversight as to what you can put out on the Android Market, making secondary markets unneeded.

Although I have had a hard time finding a decent tethering application in the Android Market.. maybe AT&T is afraid that disobey the little rules there are will be bandwidth intensive, threatening their already feeble network?
I took care to write "VIAGRA in emails equals spam", to exclude the case of real Viagra as being sold in pharmacies. Of course I didn't add "in emails to me".
So it can be circumvented just by unplugging a cable. I guess it can work for multiplayer games, but then don't most of those require valid accounts some where online in the first place?

At any rate, it's much kinder to legal buyers than most systems. Steam is also an example of DRM done right.
I gotta be honest and go against the pack here: the cream soda incident is all sorts of hilarious, that alone made me give the guy several points.

I could never bring myself to fire someone over something as ridiculous as that. It's way too freaking funny to take real action against.

Perhaps my appreciation for that sort of thing is yet another reason why I've never gotten along with normal people in the rest of the business world...
it is pretty weird. i've mostly ported my iPhone game to iPad, and there is a lot of wasted space. if this were a "regular" OS, i'd just make its window a little smaller. but i don't have any choice, i have to use the whole screen.

here's how i think it will go. i am of the opinion that apple isn't going to allow third-party apps until after the iPad has been shipping for awhile. (i have no real information to back this up. just a hunch, based on available data. if anybody knows better, please correct me.) by the time us little guys are allowed on the device, we will have experience with apple's own apps to use as design cues, just like what happened with the iPhone.
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Apart from the tortured logic, the most egregious part of the e-mail was the Prof.’s elementary math error.

Question: A student goes to three classes, each for approximately the same amount of time. He arrives at the third course approximately an hour after the first one started – how long was the student in each of the first two classes?

Professor: 15-20 minutes!

(He mistakenly divided 1 hour by three and tried to account for travel time. Of course he should have divided by two.)

In combination with his grammatical skills, I’d say the Prof needs to get HIS shit together!

But seriously, the student was justified to walk in, but not justified to complain about being thrown out. The Prof's e-mail was bizarre but the closing paragraph was well-spoken.
"Let’s be honest, when you’re young and thinking about getting old you probably worry about two things: will I still be coherent, and can I still have sex?"

I initially read that as "will I still be continent". I guess I back myself to be able to dribble crap from my mouth well into old age, but it's the other end that concerns me.

While I hope to live past 100 ("live forever or die trying"), a key part of my happiness philosophy is "Plan to live forever. Be prepared to die today". In other words, don't plan a life that will be happy in the distant future if you're not happy with it right now. The future may not arrive for you, or worse still you will create a habit of always living in the future and never enjoying your present.
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but hey come on, the developer program costs $99.. they really will only refund 1/2 of that cost should installing the SDK cause your iMac to blow up and kill your entire family?
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Faster RPM also increases velocity of would-be shrapnel. Either you prepare for the risk of a slowly-rotating, large rotor/axis assembly failing catastrophically, or a faster-rotating, smaller assembly shedding poorly-fastened bits from the ends of its rotor.
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>That beast is worthy of a Frankenstein moment.

I agree, who's spirit can only be really captured by a large toggle switch mounted on the wall that you have to flip which dims the lights as it happens.
Why can't you make a low-fi prototype? This is probably what they did inside Apple.
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I should start publishing this news, since my source seems faster and more reliable, though a little hard to understand. I get an email at least a few hours before the announcement that reads "Your new absolute-top-of-the-line-hardware has shipped. Tracking number YC23JK."

While I don't think it's technically illegal, I do find it strange that the manufacturers are allowed to collude to insure I personally overspend by at least 20% and never have top-of-the-line hardware for more than a month. I've come to accept that I'll never know how they picked me, but I'd still really like to know how they get my email passwords.

I think it'll work the other way too: A cheap way for hardware manufacturers to make their deadline is to ship me their current generation a couple weeks before they need to ship the next generation junk.
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Now imagine combining this with Bloom Energy's solution :)
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Ram Shiriram recently gave a brilliant talk at my school. As could maybe be expected from a brilliant speaker, his lecture notes don't come close to the quality of his speech. For those who still want to take a look at the two sets of slides:

http://home.business.utah.edu/rohit.aggarwal/spring2010/6471/Ram_ShriRam_The%20New%20Normal.ppt

http://home.business.utah.edu/rohit.aggarwal/spring2010/6471/Ram_Shriram_Things%20They%20Don't%20Teach%20You%20in%20Business%20School.ppt

On a side note, this is the second talk at my school I've heard from an extremely successful person (Ed Catmul, president of pixar, being the other one). In both cases, the speakers seemed especially intelligent and cogent, almost like a sage. I always wondered if this was what enabled their success, that is, if their impeccable insight offered them accelerated access to success. Or maybe even that it was the success that enabled their wisdom. Either way, both speakers presented everything in manners that were markedly more insightful than the usual "fluffy" answers I'm used to hearing.
Jon Hicks work always impresses.

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Keep in mind that they don't allow unlimited private backups (they allow 50GB of backups store in a special backup user account), the data you store there is supposed to be web accessible.

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Being that all three of those phones are made by HTC, I think jrockway's point still stands.
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It's a great idea with a high potential and many issues that need to be overcome first - but most beginnings look that way. Really awesome once molecular assembly is available.

Prediction: People will use it to construct better sex toys. That's the way it really spreads. Like with many other technologies where sex is the real driver. ;)

Bryan, keep up the good work.
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Is it really foolish to ask if money is being well spent?

Only if you ask the question as poorly as you did. Taking two arbitrary values out of a complex multi-variate equation, and dividing them generates nothing but noise.

If you're legitimately interested in quantitative public policy analysis, there are excellent graduate and doctoral programs that deal both in general policy analysis, as well as more specialized studies dealing specifically with labor and unemployment.

If that sounds ridiculous to you, perhaps it'd be wise to recognize that the analysis is highly skilled technical work, and if you haven't devoted considerable energy towards gaining those abilities, you're just a noisemaker. You might as well be a donut-baker who holds strong opinions about graph theory despite having never programmed nor studied CS.

* My claim is still that if comparable amounts of money were put in my own pocket,*

Even if your claim is true, governmental solutions need not only to be good, they need to be replicable and scalable.

If step one is "identify a million individual families who are able to use money more efficiently than established market-proven businesses", then it's going to take a very, very long time to reach step two.
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I think the ending is kind of insightful, and somewhat vindicating for me (or just wishful thinking on my part). All of my dating experience has been within my friends pool (this includes random people I meet through friends, at parties, etc)... and I can't imagine doing it any other way. I can't imagine selecting someone simply based on their looks and asking them out knowing little to nothing about them, and I find that meeting people via common interests and networks is pretty awesome.

It's kind of vindicating that the only woman in the story who was successful at her task was the one who actually shared something in common with the guy, took the time to connect on that commonality, instead of merely picking out the hottest people in a crowd and trying to woo them.
Knowing the Panic guys I am sure it's real. With the attention to detail Cabel usually has, I'm sure he spend the time to make the photo look exactly like he wanted it to: perfect.
Interesting, so this is the beginning of allowing rails to accept multiple requests within a single process? (true multithreading?)
Makes for a whole new experience. I'm still holding out for the first steampunk status board though.
Given the number of ADA's the Panic guys have, not to mention the Founders Room in their offices, this kind of detail and design flair is completely believable.
I want to see the videos of the failure mode testing :-)
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Froo is right, there is only one reason why Jason currently gets away with spamming google and that is becuase both google and Mahalo are Sequoia funded. Someone senior at Sequoia has told someone senior at google that mahalo will clean their act up so please dont ban them yet.
More info for the curious about that flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_965
Energizer battery charger contains backdoor
The twitter updates are cool, although I can see why they chose vertical orientation for the screen, I think the twitter part would have worked better in horizontal orientation (without seeing it in person, so I'm probably talking out my ass).

What I really like about the developer icons, is that even in an image that size, I can still see quite quickly who is on what projects. Very cool indeed.

The thing, however, that I really love, is the simplicity.
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I think he was talking about the cost to Panic of having a developer write the application, not how much they would've billed.
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37Signals have also something like this, http://37signals.com/svn/posts/879-feeling-the-pulse-with-qu...
Definitely a good idea.

I've been a one man band for almost 4 years now. The first three years I've worked from home. From the start it worked great. But eventually I used to spend the entire day "working" and actually doing 6-8 hours of productive work, with pockets of non-work time inbetween (which I wasted on TV, Web, reading or going for a coffee with someone). Then, at the end of the day I was both unsatisfied with the amount done, and by the fact that I was "working" for the entire day.

Now I'm renting a small office very close-by, which allows me to walk to the office and back every day. This creates a mental separation of when I'm at work and am supposed to be working, and when I'm at home and am supposed to be living my life. It's done wonders both for my productivity and overall hapiness.

Also, this allowed me to not clutter my (relatively small) flat with bunch of hardware I need at work. Main stuff I do on my laptop I can still do at home (in case of emergency, or if I sleep in or decide to work from home, which is something I allow myself, but very rarely).

On related note, I also miss low background noise/chatter, which I'm attempting (successfully at the moment) to compensate with tuning to a local radio station, as opposed to just playing my music playlists.
I didn't say I don't use it, I said I don't use it everyday.

I didn't say "it's perfect as it is". I said there are good reasons why the Facebook team moved in that direction.

Only because you don't use search doesn't mean no one is. I said most of the people I know, use it to find people they know. If they want to see what is someone doing, they don't go trough their friend list (referrer volume), but they search directly the name (search volume). In this case the search volume is bigger than the referrer one. Find ways to make it easier for users to search.

I think Facebook employs in part some of the Google paradigms in UX.
hackers fixing sports with numerical analysis. I love it.

fine tuning game design is a fascinating subject. Sirlin's long articles on the subject are great.
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I thought about buying these for my girlfriend, who listens to audiobooks on her ipod to fall asleep.
we've gotten good enough at filtering spam

If we had (all of us) the parent's point would apply: spammers would not be making enough money since no-one would respond. So for some people, spam is still a problem when are fooled by scams.
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If you haven't committed to a Javascript library then I'd take a look at jQuery. Every library has it's pros and cons but you'll likely find more support for jQuery than any of the others.

I used to use prototype.js and once I used jQuery I never looked back.

Props to prototype.js though as it was one of the first standard libs that did a really good job abstracting away the crappy parts of JS (browser deps).
Or somebody at Mahalo has some really juicy knowledge about Matt Cuts.
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Giles is commenting in this thread, but his most recent account got hellbanned 2 days ago — and that's at least his 4th hellbanning. He didn't even do anything this time.

You'll have to turn on [showdead] in your profile to see them.
The Logitech G13 game controller works flawlessly on Mac OS X and is a hell of a lot more comfortable if you want to game on your laptop. It can also store keymap profiles on the device itself so you can use it on any computer.
I'm finding that I sigh a lot reading HN lately.

It's seems completely obvious that you are talking about the fact that you can burn toast without anyone dying.
Any plans for a repository of boxes? One with a LAMP stack, Rails stack, Django stack etc. I know I can roll my own and use chef there could be a community maintained repository of often used configurations.

Also, in the screencast you use localhost to address the vm. Any way to assign another ip to the vm? In my current setup my vm's have altenative ips.
Wow. Any ideas on how this got there? I just don't see the motivation there. Rogue addon at the factory? I don't see what use a battery manufacturer would have from a remote backdoor. I thought USB battery chargers were "dumb" devices.
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Yes, there are plans for a central repository of boxes, but its not an "immediate future" plan. We'd first like to focus on getting Vagrant as stable as possible on the common-case systems.

Hm, changing the IP of the VM. This can't be done via the Vagrantfile at the moment no. But if you do change it manually, you can configure Vagrant to use that VM with "config.ssh.host"

Mitchell
How does code like that get in a system from a major corporation?

Is this an outsourcing/supplier issue, or something related to Energizer's own staff?
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Aside from your squeaky clean inboxes there is another front in the spam war - the botnets in which your, your relatives, friends, and colleagues' infected computers may be participating unknowingly - and in this aspect the situation is worse than ever.
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CPU caches will soon be big enough, and flash fast enough, that there won't be any system RAM anymore. Your programs will basically run directly out of flash, and made performant thanks to huge CPU cache.
glad to hear it..now see was that not a better response than the personal attack of calling all SEO people terrorists that you did a few days ago?
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This is a fairly important issue seeing as everyone is pushing towards USB-only charging. There are even USB charging ports on airplanes now.

Plugging in your device, with the intent of charging, shouldn't implicitly grant the host the right to install software or access files on the guest.

The USB protocol doesn't seem properly designed for this use case: I should be able to plug in to charge without having to worry about security holes.
The official url for the project is http://hole-in-the-wall.com/

I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing Mitra present his work at the TTI/Vanguard conf in Rome in 2008. He showed a video with kids learning to use the mouse, and then one child showing another what he learned.. and they would be there for hours. Really remarkable stuff.
Just some random thoughts but for me personally I know that I work in bursts of inspiration. Sometimes it can go weeks between my periods of "flow".

We all go through different phases of inspiration and flow and what works good in one phase doesn't necessarily work in another.
I know for me the traditional school system was of little use to me in a scholastic sense where at around age 13 I taught myself to program. From there on in it taught me nothing I couldn't (and did) teach myself.

What it DID teach me however is important social interaction skills, patience and gave my parents some much needed breathing room. ;)
What's wrong with a single individual presenting a well-conceived, poignant, in-vivo essay about the topic they are the best person in the world to explain? I have yet to meet a crowd or committee that can tell a coherent story.

One-to-many speeches may be overused in education, but I think TED gets them very near exactly right.
This remind me Dr Tae: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=698600
Actually no.

The velocity of the shrapnel tracks the energy stored in the device. Meaning a larger radius has faster shrapnel.

Note: velocity as used in my earlier message is circular velocity, (AKA RPM), not linear velocity.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901

Many comments already over there.
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I wish someone would tell Australian universities this. They are not here to teach any more - just to "ship a product to market".
"all show up at the office but are forbidden to speak to each other for productivity reasons"

Does that mean that they aren't allowed to bug each other about work related things (or schedule meetings etc.) or are they literally not allowed to talk to each other? I'm hoping it is the former!
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I'm not entirely convinced Steam is.

There's no ability to resell or transfer licenses (which this system provides) and your entire games catalog is reliant on Valve, indefinitely, whatever shape or ownership they may be under in 5 or 10 years time.
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I use it and it helped somewhat, but spam still gets through. Also, it can at best be a temporary solution. It wouldn't be that hard for spammers to upgrade their mail servers. Meanwhile, I have to live with a delay in receiving emails caused by greylisting.