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Very cool blog post from 2008!

Right there at the very end in point #3 he ponders the option that just turned into a $80-100m valuation. He was thinking of the idea but didn't have the social proof from the cool kids.

Not being able to pivot to the right model and timeliness seem to be what went wrong.
I have used at work both MSDN and Microsoft KB in the past. I wouldn't say they are more complete than launchpad (bigger, yes, more complete, no). And they certainly are not better organized, finding anything in MSDN is painful.
I plan to have all tickets free. 10$ tickets are just to convince people to sign up. If they will sell out I just add more free tickets.
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"if your'e using it as a noun, by the way, you are wrong - I think student needs to be possessive."

Exactly. And you need an apostrophe to indicate that if you want your readers to parse the sentence properly.

"I saw an EE student's C Code once" (student is singular) or " I saw some EE students' C code once" (students are plural). I've seen some grammar books recommend an extra s anyway for the latter case as in "I saw some students's C code once" though I suspect that is unused these days. [1]

"why are we attacking people's grammar. It's irrelevant to the discussion!"

This.

Speaking or writing 100% grammatically correct English (assuming such a beast exists, which is a separate discussion) or making a typo here and there is irrelevant to someone's competence as a programmer.

Using minor grammatical errors to judge people as incompetent is, at the least, foolish.

I don't think strcredzero is incompetent because he missed an apostrophe or wrote an ill formed sentence. But by the same token I don't think Aditya is incompetent as a programmer (which was the topic under discussion btw - EE students being good programmers or not) just because he said "lot competent". Give the guy a break.

[1] From Strunk's "Elements of Style"

"Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's.

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,

Charles's friend
Burns's poems
the witch's malice

This is the usage of the United States Government Printing Office and of the Oxford University Press."
Well I was not referring to a lack of proper English grammar. I was thinking about a specific mindset which could be summarized as: "Everybody's cheating around and I will try my little not-so-smart cheats on you too. That's how everybody behaves so don't tell me it's a problem". And this is (sadly) mid-Asian standard. Especially when you get there physically.
I can't agree with you. It's not like "OK, let's add some more time to our project schedule. But wait! We gotta take some off due to Parkinson's! You end up with the same damn schedule." because we are not talking about schedules of external projects. We are talking about our own projects or tasks from our lifes. We are talking about being productive and not wasting a time for unnecessary works.

When you are working on external projects (however not only) you put more time to schedule, because you are afraid about the unpredictable things. All of that is because all delays cost you lots of money. However in many cases you don't need to do it. In many cases finishing tasks as soon, as it possible is much more important than having some time, which was scheduled for something unpredictable. Especially when you are working on your own projects.

That's the point of Parkinson's Law.
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> Insisting on using fixed swap partitions made sense twenty years ago, but it sure as hell doesn't today as long as you do GC.

The main advantage of using fixed swap partitions is that you don't have to go through the file system to access swap. This is why swap files used to be slower on Linux with the 2.4 series of kernels -- with 2.6 and swap files, the kernel builds a map to the LBA at startup for direct physical access, so there's no performance difference any more. Shame on Linux distros that still use swap partitions in 2010.

Windows does the same, which is why Windows doesn't need (and has never supported) swap partitions, either.

However, this sort of map implies that while increasing swap size is easy, reducing the size of swap files is really difficult while the system is online, which is why Windows (and I believe Linux) don't attempt to solve this problem.
Also - Gruber tends to write meticulously edited, well thought-out essays on Apple products (and the occasional accessory). I read his reviews because they're instructive on how best to write a product review.

I envy John Gruber, as a writer. I think he truly deserves his readership.
Exactly this is stooping incredibly low. Here's a different story: A king called an electrical engineer and a computer scientist together and gave them a task best suited to an electrical engineer (something which the computer scientist very well realized). He then tried to execute the computer scientist for the inferior design. But the computer scientist ran away and started a search engine and provided people with cryptography. These helped in getting information to the people who realized that being ruled by a king who executes people is stupid so they overthrew him and built a democracy of entrepreneurs where engineers and computer scientists worked together on cool products for the mutual gain of all. It was a vibrant society with free speech, which unfortunately meant there were a lot of stupid Internet trolls who had to be ignored. Luckily computer scientists designed systems of information aggregation where the trolls could be downvoted from serious forums of discussion. Unfortunately those left without the power to downvote had to try to find amusing ways to get other people to do it.
This review is obviously rushed. They are doing the ergonomics section without the case. That's a serious oversight. The case section has photo after photo of the case incorrectly configured. This makes me lose faith in Anandtech reviews. If they are this incompetent with a product I'm familiar with, how can I trust them on ibis I'm not familiar with?
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But that's immaterial - why are we attacking people's grammar. It's irrelevant to the discussion

It was just an ironic quip in the first comment, and topical there. Subsequently, I was merely reacting to the erroneous counterattack that I was wrong.
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I never did manage to get a job with my chemistry degree, and now I am decades out of date. With the small amount of programming I do these days I'm probably out of date with that now too. :-( I have only worked with two chemistry majors that I know of - and they were wildly different to each other.
I am a fan of peer reviews as opposed to what managers think is going on - so I would personally not discard people's opinions about who the best developers in their group were.
I can easily think of a list of developers at the places I've worked who would have been regarded as outstanding - and I believe every developer working at those places would have about the same list.
"It was just an ironic quip in the first comment, and topical there. Subsequently, I was merely reacting to the erroneous counterattack that I was wrong."

I didn't say you were wrong, leave alone attack you (at least no more than you attacked Aditya - Mine was an "just an ironic quip" too, just like yours ;-) )

I said if Aditya's sentence needed editing for bad structure/incorrect usage of English (as you implied in your coment), then so did yours by the same token. I guess you just missed the "irony"!
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Walking around town. I don't do this every day but the times I do do it reminds me of how valuable it is. When you walk around town for an errand like say to go the bank, you can't help but stop and view all the stores you pass by. You see the people your town is made up of. You get a chance to help the elderly lady find a bus stop, or open a door for a struggling mother. You get to help an out-of-towner find his way. You get to smile at people and say "HELLO!". You get to slow down and be human.

Also removing white clothes from my wardrobe. I have colored everythings, and i never really got why anyone would want to wear dirty white socks anyway?
Who ever said anyone was a bad programmer? This is the same irony as the "qualaty" initiative from Dilbert. At that point it was an ironic and relevant quip. It's you guys that turned it into ego bashing -- while displaying grammatical incompetence even as you incorrectly criticize my grammar.

Incidentally you're still wrong. Ambiguously parse-able English sentences are still grammatically correct if one of the possibilities is correct.

Oh, and you assumed student was a noun when it's an adjective in your analysis. Sheesh! Is English your 1st language? "Student code" where student is a noun acting as adjective is a commonly accepted pattern of use in North America and Britain.
This crap is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with Linux.

Another non-serious example. I used a dual-boot Linux&Vista laptop. Innocently tried to update Ubuntu. This changed the boot loader to Ubuntu only (removed the Windows menu).

This may be fine for me, but it fails the grandmother test (or any other test of a normal casual computer user). Aren't updates tested before they are added?
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I should photographed my meals in Turkey. Now it's back to English food.
"you assumed student was a noun when it's an adjective in your analysis. Sheesh! "

Well that reflects on how well you structure your sentences as a writer doesn't it?

Why take the attitude of "my sentence looks completely ill structured but it has multiple possible parses and I know one of them is right and I leave you to figure out which one vs writing clearly in the first place and meanwhile I'll "ironically quip" on some other fellow's minor errors vs sticking to the argument at hand"?

"Is English your 1st language?"

I already said it wasn't. And I don't need to have it as my first language to show you your sentence structure is sucky.
Everyone who has English as a first language doesn't write it well. Conversely some people who have English as a their n-th language speak or write well. So what?

" "Student code" where student is a noun acting as adjective is a commonly accepted pattern of use in North America and Britain."

And "lot competent" is Indian English. again, so what? Who said adherence to "North American English" is the metric of programming competence of EE students (which was what Aditya was talking about) and you explicitly pointed his sentence as "ironic"?

I quote

"Aditya:- So trust me, we're lot competent.

StrcredZero: Ironically, this needs editing.""

It is hard to read your "ironically" as anything other than "you are not as competent as you claim and your sentence structure reveals it" . What was the "irony" here?

Bigotry and irony are different.

But, whatever, I tire of this bickering and this thread is overlong. I rest my case and yield you the field and the (dubious) victory! [Exit thread]
Why are New Atheists so obsessed with other people's personal beliefs? I have explained to you the problem of zealotry and the imposition of your beliefs on others (which is clearly wrong in most moral frameworks).

Yet New Atheists do not see this as wrong. Some have even argued that parents should be prevented from "indoctrinating" (i.e. teaching children religion and their moral framework).
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I'm currently investigating the Last.fm API but was wondering if there was anything better out there?
You can totally reduce the size of swap files on Linux, it's done the same way it is on OS X. It even has a nice syscall: swapoff(2) and a little utility that calls it swapoff(8) that comes with the standard util-linux package.

You create another new swapfile, turn it on, and then turn off the old one. The VM will copy all the old pages still in use in the old file and distribute them among the highest-priority enabled swaps with free space by round-robin. If you create the new swapfile sparsely, you don't even chew much disk space.

I discovered something hilarious in Linux's OOM-killer a while back. It has a bunch of heuristics for picking what process to kill next to save the rest: the very first one is "are any processes blocked in the swapoff syscall?"
I did read the whole thread, hence the bit about it not being a thing for the 'wishlist'.
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The (ironic) problem is that you assumed the wrong part of speech. (Twice? I can't be bothered to keep track.)
Your hotornot idea is great, so much potential to expand it... Might have just found a weekend project :)
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"The (ironic) problem is that you assumed the wrong part of speech"

The real irony is that you write as ill structured sentences as you accuse other people of doing and you don't see it yet. If you can't write clear, uambigous sentences in your ( I assume) native language and have to resort to "but ambigous entences are all right if you can parse it some way" as a defence, it reflects on you as a writer.

In comparison, the "lot competent" phrase Aditya used is much more clear and unambigous in communicating what he intended, though it isn't quite the Queen's English. The real irony here is that you think you are doing a better job!.

But, yeah whatever! May you ever be so ironic ;-). I am done talking to you on this topic! Cheers!
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Good article. One of my biggest bugbears is seeing people make laptop feature comparisons that miss off weight, dimensions, and battery life - three things that are critically important to me.
Suddenly all those answer sites like Yahoo Answers, Answers.com, Mahalo Answers etc. seem very male oriented.

Though someone posting that their computer is broken only to receive answers like "yes, I'm listening" and "I understand" is probably not be that useful.
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Influxis' TV Station application is one i have taken my time to think about as well as its potential. I often focus on the opportunities this application offers if it was deployed over a Local Area Network. The speed of gigabit switches as well as the elimination of CDN and other bandwidth costs. I think the Influxis team has ignored this part; schools or colleges, hotels, etc. Not everyone can afford the current high bandwidth costs and not everyone is interested in a global TV Station. If i run a college in the developing world lets say where internet connectivity is a lag but we have a fast campus network, we can easily run a campus TV Station where students can access over the wireless link or from any terminal on campus.

In that sense, selling the application will be another revenue stream to Influxis. They are getting locked in the service provision and lots of alternatives are being developed everyday. I hope they give this a serious consideration. I am not an application developer but i would have taken this route if i was. Especially when everyone is racing into the cloud and leaving the speed and potential of LAN connections behind.
What about the original game boy? And numerous other devices.
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"Error establishing a database connection"

How do you say slashdotted for HN? :)
might there be a patenting issue?

edit: see the comment below re: patenting
tongue in cheek, methink?
I suspect the average math undergrad is not as good a programmer as the average CS undergrad (but my sample is restricted to my college).

However, if we count only the maths majors who end up working as programmers then I believe there will be some significant self-selection. So if such a study were done I wouldn't be surprised if math and physics majors were found to be better than CS majors.

In any case I'd agree with you that in that I would never blindly use that in a hiring process.
> If eukaryotes evolved more than once, then there's some more hope for extraterrestrial life I suppose ...

Wouldn't you call extraterrestrial bacteria `life'?
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I see the same thing and come to the opposite conclusion.

The very fact that you can create such beliefs about people who look the exact same as you, makes it so much easier to believe that the "differences" between those with different skin colors is entirely imaginary.

I don't know too much about them but in India and other places they have castes like in Japan they have Burakumin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin) and these people are shunned based on jobs their great-grandfather had. This boggled my mind and seemed alien to me until I thought about the way many English people think about the working class.

If you can create Us vs. Them out of a century old vocation or people who were born in the wrong end of town then imagine how much easier it is when "they" are immediately visually identifiable, regardless of clothing, without having to hear an accent or a strange foreign name.

The kids of these immigrants you talk about will no longer be immigrants after a single generation just like the italian, irish and polish kids I went to school with who I never thought of as italian, irish or polish. My family and my wife's family both come from areas that are "chavvy" but no-one would guess that by seeing us from a distance. The kids with different skin colours are a different matter entirely.

(And personally I think it's tragic that it's now socially acceptable to slate people based on them being "chavs".)
You may be able to impress the undecided by-standers (and that's important). Don't count on winning over anyone who's decided that evolution doesn't fit into their world, at least not with rational arguments.

P.S. This is meant as a comment on the limited reach of arguments in convincing. I don't want to start a discussion on creationism.
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I agree. I remember a few years ago getting a laptop (Lenovo x61) almost solely based on weight and size.

Why? Physical dimensions are the only thing that don't become obsolete. Small and portable is forever.
lol, who let the stupid troll in here

Did you notice the part where it was fixed with 5 lines in 5 minutes instead of waiting a few months for the vendor ?
Microsoft do (did?) the same thing with PocketPC development. Their emulator ran natively, as would any apps (which also had to be compiled natively to x86 for the emulator), but you'd then switch to ARM/MIPS/SH3 for release.
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Combine this with the ascend of compressed sensing--which leverages e.g. linear optimization--and I am set.
Hm, I can't think of a single good use off the top of my head?
The Nokia/Symbian SDK emulator works similarly -- to run your application in the simulator you must compile for it separately. And it runs only on Windows. Unlike the iPhone simulator though, Nokia's is painfully slow.
So (as a non IPhone/Apple ecosystem developer), let me ask Iphone devs here, how accurate is the simulator? When something works perfectly on the simulator how often does deployment to the actual device force code changes? Frequently? rarely? never?

Is it possible to get an "almost perfect" IPhone app with just a MacBook Pro?

(Some context: If Apple ever drops its annual developer fees for the Iphone/Ipad, I'll buy an MBP and/or an IPhone or IPad. Just curious as to how much I can get done with just an MBP before buying an IPhone/ IPad.

Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I know next to nothing about what development in the Apple ecosystem is like).
Pretty useless since apparently goo.gl is not even open to the public.
Mobile phones and tablet computers are completely different markets.

The trajectory of the iPad will be quite different than that of the iPhone. Wait. You'll see.
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To be fair, Windows would have overwritten the MBR (so that it boots Windows only) without asking too many questions either.
I can understand how something you have to really make an effort to blow up does not make the urgent list. It would never have occurred to me to go about running random startup scripts manually. I am not a Linux Hacker - but neither are most other Ubuntu users. My reaction to "hm, installation/upgrade did not work" would be to revert to the old version.

Not dissing the people who try to find the errors and fiddle around - they are the ones who advance the state of Linux in the long run. But it's probably a good idea to use a test system for fiddling around.
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I like your comment. Let me add a second view-point to your first sentence.

> Statistics is a very interesting subject, and it is a distinct subject from mathematics proper.

Mathematics proper is more than one subject, already. (Theoretical) computer science and statistics are just two more branches of math.

The notion of statistics as being outside math remains me a bit of how thermodynamics was viewed as not proper physics (or prober chemistry) in the 19th century.

The study of thermodynamics got a huge boost from the commercial need to understand and build better steam engines. If you look close enough, thermodynamics is actually statistics. (And of course statistics and probability theory is just applied measure and integration theory.)
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Any restrictions on modern hardware are likely to be strategic. For instance, the reason you can't make voice calls with the ipad and that it doesn't have a camera is most likely because that would mean you no longer need an iphone.

The parts would have added another $5 to the total cost, if that. It also gives them a reason to sell you a new one a year or two down the line. Along with less anemic ram, needed for this amazing new feature called multi-tasking.
yeah - it's down for me as well. anyone have a mirror??
Here is the press release from the ASMP:
http://asmp.org/articles/press-release-10-04-07.html

Interestingly, it says
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I wonder what else they may be filing suit over... Image search?
Thanks for the link. The articles there all seem to be from January. Maybe the site stopped working?