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I am on the lookout for a Mentor, I was wondering how you guys met your Mentor and how you connected? What is the secret sauce for a successful Mentor-Protege relationship according to you guys?
This is just a PR trick from TurboHercule. IBM told them they might infringe on over 173 patents, out of which 2 are from that famous 500 pledged patents. And of course that this trick to diverge focus works just fine on open-source zealots.

Looks to me that TurboHercule wants special treatment just because they do (for now) open-source. Perhaps they shouldn't have incorporated, but started an non-profit organization.

This also looks interesting because TurboHercule is incorporated in France. I would like to see the validity of US software(hardware?)-patents in an EU court.
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I've always been a little interested in this. How competent are EEs at general programming? This is a serious question -- the only EEs I know that program wrote some really crappy assembly code for a robotics project I helped on (don't even get me started on their C).
"had a big fight with my wife" and then a divorce...don't you think it was a quick decision....i may not be correct because i am not sure about your background...but i guess you should give yourself and your wife a break for a few months..maybe live separately for some time and then give divorce a second thought....talk to her about it...divorce is just not an option especially at this point of time....building a startup has its own pressures and its just not the time to take such a decision
It probably helps that downvoting is only possible for newer posts (at least from my perspective), while upvoting is always possible.
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Honestly, this is going to sound cheesy at first, but it's not, I promise you. My dad was the first mentor I had. Entire time I was a kid he was trying to get different businesses off the ground. After I moved out he actually succeeded for a while, but that eventually imploded. You see, my dad isn't a very skilled person. He's lacking a large amount of business sense. He's really not even very bright. However, he's one hell of a salesman. He could always sell the product, but couldn't keep the business together. I saw him fail repeatedly, and learned from his examples. Essentially, I had a decade of failed startup experience before I was trying my own. The end result? He was a mentor by showing me a large number of ways to fail.
Also touched on in the sections on "Fisheye View" by Leung et al., "A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Oriented Presentation Techniques" in Card et al., "Readings in Information Visualization", Morgan Kaufman, 1999.

A bit of googling also turns up http://eagereyes.org/blog/2008/fisheye-calendar-at-yahoo.htm... and a PDF of Bederson's paper on Fisheye calendars http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum/bitstream/1903/1201/1/CS-TR-4368...
They probably say the same thing about your circuit design
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This is hardly a paradox anymore. It only appears to be one if you accept "maximize accepted utility" as the decision metric.

Maximizing expected utility is a pretty good decision metric, but it has problems. Specifically, it has huge problems in handling very-low-probability-very-high-payoff outcomes. Here's a simple example:

Game 1: You get $1.00

Game 2: 99.999% chance of getting nothing. 0.001% chance of getting $100,000.00

The expected payoff in each is the same but they are clearly very different.

Note: I realize I'm equating money with utility here. Just doing it for simplicity, you can replace with whatever you want to get a utility of 1 and 100,000 respectively.

Note 2: You can argue that utility is bounded (say between 0 and 1). But I don't think this solves the problem.
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Downvoted for unfriendliness.
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Hell, as I age I'm for the "10 years younger" concept.

Call me in five years and I'll discuss the virtue of "15 years younger".
Greenspun didn't write it, he just posted it on his website.
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I think you have many valid concerns about App Engine which are definitely worth discussing, but your over-the-top rhetoric and exaggerated numbers make it hard to do that!

P.S. have you considered AppScale to migrate off of Google's infrastructure? Google has been funding a project that is a complete clone of the App Engine API, but can run on arbitrary hardware using MongoDB or a plethora of other middleware.

I think we've hit the max comment depth, and I think it's time to turn on the noprocast settings again. ;)
Depends; because EE is a wide field.

I know EE's who are mainly physicists and ones who are mainly programmers, for example.

On my course, generally speaking, those of us interested in digital electronics were competent programmers. Ironically most of us were better than our CS peers (but only because cs at our Uni was not a great course)

Don't forget their programming will have been taunt working on pics - so programs will tend to be terse and efficient (die to memory constraints) and employ lots of "hacks" (again due to memory/compiler constraints). Luckily I learned c before these habits :-p
The difference being that circuit design isn't part of the CS curriculum and most programmers wouldn't claim to know circuit design.
I'm a EE in a day job. I design processors. I write programs in hardware descriptive languages such as Verilog and Object Oriented languages such as SystemVerilog. I write Perl, Shell scripts too.

Every day, I write code.

I build websites in the part-time too. I write all PHP, CSS, MySQL, Javascript on my own, and build beautiful websites like http://shopalize.com.

Every night, I write code too.

So trust me, we're competent.
Exactly. The EE and the CS major could both have added the kitchen sink to the spec. If the spec is already there, then both may produce similar solutions, depending on their hardware ability.
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I don't even program in C/C++ anymore and yet I find very interesting the progress LLVM is making. It's surprising how hyped up it is compared to GCC which it will replace (yeah, I know LLVM it's not the same as GCC but I think this is one of the main reasons Apple is sponsoring it)

Anyhow, what I could get from this blog is that LLVM is able to use the SIMD part of the iPad processor ;-)
Ugh.... when http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236686 was posted it was as a joke. This guy seems to be taking papers like that at face value.
Didn't that come out with Snow Leopard and Guest Accounts?
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As an engineer; the engineering solition presented here is very poor. It ignores the problem domain almost entirely and focuses on only one minor (and hard to quantify) variable.

The cs solution is banal too - but it appears thisis down to the writers bias.
You don't think Gruber has any firm sources? How do you think he makes all of his "predictions"? The vast majority is leaks. And I think when he goes to the extreme of saying the exact resolution (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/29/wsj), it's pretty safe to say that he has firm sources.
This isn't a topic that a study or statistics would help illuminate at all. Some stories or arguments are best made with anecdote and example. Attempts to apply scientific methods to arguments like this usually just lead to bullshit studies like the one debunked here http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2232 and are even worse.
This is just zero-insight flamebait.
Interesting, I totally agree with you. I considered my dad my Mentor too early on. But as one grows and our world view changes we probably start looking out for other people to look up to and learn from. Have you connected successfully with a Mentor after your dad?
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Yeah, when I went to the Apple store to play with one, I thought for like 5 seconds that it was scratched (as floor models on electronics are sometimes beaten up, though usually not 2 days after launch). Then I felt for the scratches and didn't feel them, and then I opened an app, fixing the screen heroically!
I wish clothing designers would do this, too. I like nice clothes, but I absolutely cannot stand any branding.

(I am specifically referring to "designer" jeans. All the jeans made of decent fabric seem to have retarded-looking designer-specific branding on them. For other stuff, American Apparel has treated me rather well.)
Aren't touchscreens still essentially mouse centric? Pinch to zoom doesn't make a revolution in my opinion. It is nice, sometimes, but not that much of a biggie.

I am pretty sure that touchscreens before iPhone also had some specific UIs.

What's new is the form factor and the long battery runtime (which netbooks already had to some extent, too). It still remains to be seen if the form factor is even all that useful.

For example a touchscreen in a desktop PC might be nice to have, but probably wouldn't be very ergonomic for long term working.
Since a certain GNU coreutils version, more specifically... I think perhaps v. 6.
> [...] seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory.

Indeed. At the International Conference on Functional Programming last year LaTeX was the norm. I enjoyed the hand-written slides somebody had produced on their tablet pc.
Also note how Netflix is so obsessed with branding that the movie isn't even full-screen; their logo takes up a third of it!
OK that's embarrassing!
I don't photograph every meal but I do this occasionally, especially when I cook something. The weird thing is, pictures of food are compelling. One of my most popular pictures on flickr is of an avocado pizza a friend and I made in 2006. And counting advertising, you probably see about ten to twenty meals depicted in the course of a typical day.

There's an opportunity here, someone could make the hotornot / chatroulette of food photography and done right it would be a monster hit.
I believe some audio compressors work like this.
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I saw some EE student C code once. It seems there was a class-wide notion that indentation was optional, so everyone just left it out as a shortcut.
So trust me, we're lot competent.

Ironically, this needs editing.
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I usually compare on what I think a comment is worth and what it has at the moment, and then vote to make the `is' closer to the `should'. At least for upvotes. In generally I only downvote stuff that lowers the quality of discussion.

It would be interesting if we had a voting system, that worked a bit like eBay's `bidding agents'. I.e. a system where you vote by setting a target score, and the system casts an up- and downvote as necessary. Of course we would need those base-votes to be recastable (but only automatically).

The current system is a special case of this, where the target score is either plus infinity or minus infinity, and you can't change the target score once set.

P.S. Please forgive my off-topic ranting in this discussion about K&R.
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" > So trust me, we're lot competent.

Ironically, this needs editing."

Agreed ( I didn't say it) but so does this

"I saw some EE student C code once"

(from your earlier comment) ;-)
Lots of assumptions are being made that might not apply to the kingdom. No one asks if people want toast done on one side or both. Does everyone even have electricity? The best solution might even be wire racks to put over gas burners.
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Sorry, but that's a valid sentence. Thanks for displaying your, "lot competent."
That's a really good ticket pricing strategy.
What about getting a default judgment? This could be annoying if the fraudster ever wants to visit the US or work here under an H1-B, etc.

(Don't know if that is possible or not, but if it is, I would be satisfied with that. Google de-lists the site, and the fraudster has an open warrant for credit card fraud if he leaves his home country.)
Given the huge margins of error in their methodology, the differences seem too small to justify a headline like that. They aggregated all sorts of noisy data sources (one even being the number of hits for a web search!), and found that C has pulled ahead of Java by... 0.007%. Whatever MOE you want to put on their figures, I'd be willing to be it should be more than 0.007%... probably >1%.
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You say "I saw some EE student C code once" is grammatical?

How about "I saw some American woman English speak once"? ;-)

I wonder who is "lot competent" here!

Look, it is all right to make minor mistakes in grammar, especially if you are not a native speaker (the "lot comment" guy seemed Indian).

I was just pointing out your hypocrisy in using that as a marker of competence and ask for editing, when you write more ill structured sentences yourself. He who would be a Grammar Nazi should first write grammatically correct sentences.

Relax and let live.
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The earliest I can trace it back to is this post to comp.lang.ada in 1994:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/msg/7a96d45d5cc...

I like how he opens with "I felt like wasting bandwidth" so here's a funny story. Little could he imagine it would become #1 link on Hacker News, 15 years later :-)
Another problem that the author neglects to mention is that Meetro didn't really seem to solve any specific problem.

Foursquare is so successful for two reasons. It's a game, so people want to check in and leave their mark (solving the persistence problem he mentions). They're solving a problem by providing entertainment. I'm not seeing this as much in Meetro. Second, everybody has smart phones now. Foursquare succeeds where Dodgeball fails because anybody can participate, with almost no effort.
It also certainly doesn't prove that AppStore's malware filtering is broken. It suggests that it does work, very well.
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I saw this kind of code more than once :) I was a TA for programming 101 for engineers. And yes, every time I asked a student to fix up the indenting before I could figure out why their program was broken they thought I was being difficult just to spite them. But you can't judge people just learning to program too harshly.
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As pictured in this review, the case is not even being used correctly. The flap is not tucked-in in any of the pictures, for one thing. They proudly display this mistake twice! For another thing, what sort of idiot would configure the case as a stand then type on it in portrait orientation? Answer: the review author(s)!

If you want to type with the case on, do so in landscape. If you stand the unit up on the small side of the case with the flap tucked in to make a stand, it's perfect to use with the Apple Bluetooth keyboard. Since the case was never set up properly, the reviewers wouldn't have been able to figure that out.
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Well, CueCat was something very similar, magazines and all. Perhaps it was just a decade too early.
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> But you can't judge people just learning to program too harshly.

This just sounded much more cynical than it's probably meant.
I'm a TA for such a class right now, and you're absolutely right. No matter how often I tell them to indent, they never get in the habit. Which is particularly galling considering that the text editor they're using has damn near foolproof auto-indent; it would literally take less than two seconds to fix their code, and yet they don't do it.

"EE code" is another way of saying "probably total crap code". With some exceptions, of course. (And don't get me started on the people who cheat their way through most classes.)
Thank you! That's fantastic advice. Still not perfect, but much better!
You say "I saw some EE student C code once" is grammatical?
How about "I saw some American woman English speak once"? ;-)
I wonder who is "lot competent" here!

Your example is wrong because "code" in my sentence is a noun, not a verb as you assumed.

Is English your 1st language? Thanks for showing us more "lot competent."

Hint, if you're wrong, but mistakenly try to come back and tell me I'm wrong, I'm going to let you have it with both barrels.
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Nice catch. The intended meaning was the "good" one.
"Your example is wrong because "code" in my sentence is a noun, not a verb as you assumed."

It doesn't matter. You can still make unparseable sentences using code as a noun.

"I saw some EE student C code" (where code is used as a noun) is just as wrong as " I saw some kids Basketball play" (where play is a noun). You need something more to craft an unambigous sentence.

"I saw someone noun-used-as-adjective+noun" is wrong anyway.

To use your logic "I saw someone C code" == "I saw someone English speech". (speech is a noun)

"Hint, if you're wrong, but mistakenly try to come back and tell me I'm wrong, I'm going to let you have it with both barrels."

I am terrified ;-).

"Is English your 1st language? "

no, but is it yours? ;-)
I had to google for "PubSubHubbub" because it sounded too ridiculous to exist in actual, physical reality. But it looks like a pretty cool project.
Personally I don't care whether he admits he was wrong or not. I do care that the bug is fixed.

And frankly some of the comments in that bug are going the route of personal attacks against the maintainter, which I don't think is very productive.
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Wow you really are a prolific unconscious irony generator! (Left as exercise to the student.)
Good luck trying to discuss with Microsoft about the implementation of some step in the Windows boot sequence. In fact, good luck trying to find out details about such implementation.

I guess "out of sight, out of mind" works for you.
You are wrong, as it happens - if not strictly (though I am not sure it is strictly correct) then in usual use.

EDIT: if you're using it as a noun, by the way, you are wrong - I think student needs to be possessive. e.g.

"I saw some EE students C code once"

But that's immaterial - why are we attacking people's grammar. It's irrelevant to the discussion!
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