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The oatmeal has it with nice graphics.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe

But is it just me or the possession example doesn't match with the recap?
Factoid: The author, Nicholas Ciarelli, was also known as Nick de Plume -- founder of thinksecret.com.
The antidote: the wholism / reductionism section of Goedel Escher Bach.
I personally never had problems with the rules. They are quite clear to me, apart from that one common pitfall: its vs. it's, which is probably the most common pitfall people never memorize. I still don't want to put blame on the English language, but rather on lack of attention from the student - there is just no excuse for ignorance.
Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine
Good point. I got it from this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059465
It fixes the problem now but does nothing to prevent the same problem showing up again in another script. Good maintainers are careful about putting some band-aid over a problem instead of fixing it. And from what he said it seems he rather plans fixing it in Upstart instead of having to patch scripts every-time. That does not sound absurd to me.
In defence of new scientist, their articles are designed to give the average person an overview of the latest scientific research, without expecting pior knowledge in the field. They're not for a technical audience wishing to apply the ideas involved.

I find them really useful for staying up-to-date on a broad range of topics from which I can jump into further research if I find them interesting.
Why I still don't use bug tracking software.
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Almost every negative he mentioned for BlackBerry emulation is incorrect. It blows my mind that people write critical articles like this and not do ANY homework on the actual subject.
:-) LOL..... I made a poll before doing it....
> ...without paying the author of the work. Are you sure that's what you want?

That is exactly what I want.

> How long do you think the copyright terms should be?

Personally I think 20 years is a reasonable number. The original Copyright Act of 1790 established a term of 14 years with the option of one renewal. Remember that this was in the age of manual printing presses and horse-drawn wagons. In this age of on-demand printing and digital distribution 20 years is more than enough.

The copyright system isn't a right in the sense of speech or assembly, it's a temporary monopoly granted to an author in order to "..promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts..". Any aspect of copyright law which fails to promote those goals fails to uphold the constitutional foundation and ultimate purpose of the copyright system.

Copyright law exists in order to encourage authors to create by allowing them to benefit from their creation, but how does allowing a person to collect royalties on something they made 50 years ago promote creativity?
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when we install vim plugin we need copy files to different folders, it's hard to keep it up-to-date. As lot's of vim plugin have github repository. we can use git submodule and vim plugin pathogen to keep your plugin up-to-date. For details read this blog post.
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I like the column thing, but tomorrow is more important than in 5 days, so maybe something more like this:

http://create.ly/g7ris7m01
Having seen this, it turns out it's just the old three-panel view as seen in mail progs, but put upside down. But great to see someone has transferred the ideas to calendars now.
new zealand. although im currently in australia
Those are big meals to be eating every day.
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Exactly. Why is the word "how" in the title? Here's a choice quote from the article regarding that question:

"Exactly how the credit industry does it—through sophisticated data-mining techniques—is a closely guarded secret. "

Well great! Now the title isn't simply misleading, it's factually inaccurate.
Yes, because it's either Microsoft or Linux.
I agree that most wouldn't, but it depends. Over here (Uruguay), if you want to be an IT Engineer, you do have to learn to design circuits (and lots of other stuff like advanced calculus that the state deems required to give you a recognized "Engineer" degree).

On the other hand, if you just want to code, you can study some Programming or Information Systems career and never learn advanced calculus or circuit design (I ended up with a degree in Information Systems myself, but I started the Engineering career and took a course on circuit design)
yep, the lack of mass market GPS device (iphone) was what killed Meetro more than anything, IMHO. The game mechanic of 4square is an inspired feature that endeared it to early adopters.
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HP says new device could revolutionize chips
"Don't Do That Then" is productive?
I have to side with Est, my intuition tells me that it is inverted. I can see why people would want to -say- that up should increase the number, but my initial reaction when landing on the page was that it was inverted.

Make it configurable if it isn't. :)
Dancing on a pin: Microsoft belatedly answers Open XML critics
V. Ramakrishnan: A life in science
Our teaching assistent for probability theory gave us real hard nuts to crack. And he was strict about the rigour of our answer--we often had to ground our proofs in measure theory to get past his radar. And he allowed no handwaiving.

The demands were a bit annoying at the time, but I credit him with getting a understanding of probability theory. I wish every course would have been like this.
I recommend reading programming collective intelligence if you want to learn some data mining techniques that you can use out of the box, today.
lol, I'm one

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10437&id=142983457...
Actually, picking tests is a purely mathematical topic. The only reason it feels like an art and not math is because people still use frequentist statistics.
Google and SEO tricks exploited by politicians in UK General Election run up
Off-topic, but related to stuff mentioned in the article.

How do we relate the idea that we own the data a company like Visa collects about us? For example, our buying habits should be "our data." While I understand the need for privacy, people go on to worry about how Visa will use this information, and it's impact on privacy.

Does Visa have the right to use this data to target users?

On one hand, we'd be highly upset if Visa didn't use the data it collects in certain cases, like anti-fraud and tracking odd behavior and warning us of it. But then you have an article like this asking for consumer protection.

I guess the issue here is one of balance: who owns the data? If it's the user, does the company really have the right to use that data to provide a service with it? Even if it's anti-fraud or simple customer service? This isn't something new, either. It's only become easier and easier to do more accurately as technology grows.

On one hand, privacy is important for obvious reasons. On the other hand, generated data is useful and can be used for improving our lives. Just as privacy protects the criminals as well as the innocent, generated data can be used for ill or for good.

I don't think I'm asking anything new. I've always been a person that wants to track everything users do. On sites I create, I want to track everything, know everything. Yes, I want to do this so that I can increase profit. But it's only because I believe that a user who attempts to make a purchase and fails really wanted the product, and it's my job to do everything in my power to get that product to him. I have no desire to steal his data, sell his information, or anything else. But I can see how something like this could be misrepresented or misused.

Just some thoughts I had on this. I'd like to hear other points of view on both sides of the spectrum. I admit I don't know enough, and while my motives are honest, they are in a way profit driven. Customer services is profit driven (Apple doesn't provide the CS it does because it loses money on it!)! And if anyone has any good links on the topic, please share.
Based on how our Parliament passed this I should imagine that censorship may well be the least of our worries for our democracy.
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The way I found to keep its and it's straight is to remember that its is one of the possessive pronouns, none of which take an apostrophe: my, your, his, her, its, their.
Who is voting up this schlock? On Hacker News? Really?
It promotes creativity by enlarging the possible payout one can receive for one's labors. Writing a book may take several years, and it's not always the first book that succeeds. Capping the potential upside is definitely going to discourage writing works that will take a large investment of time and research.

And let's not even talk about all of the books that only became popular more than twenty years after initial publication. Imagine Tolkien in retirement on a modest pension while his books are suddenly bestsellers...
Still my favourite commentary on the abused apostrophe:

http://www.reddit.com/comments/65hz7/
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Mathematicians probably do quite well, because thanks to the Curry-Howard Isomorphism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence) they are forced to write a lot of small programs that are intensely scrutinized for any bugs or gaps. And they are also forced to read lots of very good programs and be able to explain them.

In my linear algebra, number theory and optimization classes the correspondence between the proofs and (functional) programs was especially easy to see.
His 1st assumption is wrong:

Mos mobile sdk emulators run at device speeds on any 1.5GHZ to 2.8GHZ or higher machine including Android SDK emulator

Even MS Mobile emulators run at device speeds on desktop

Unlike the Apple ipHone emulator I can run most j2me MS Mobile and android emulators at the exact device speed
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I'm not anti-Linux. I'm fed up with the Linux community.
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Clever! I hope you don't mind if I share this with the team @ 99designs. :-)
> I just don't want to rent my right to develop and deploy on my device

>I am not opposed to Apple keeping its OS closed. I am fine with the Apple Store distribution "choke point".

These two statements contradict each other. A closed OS means that the consumer can only load applications on their device that have been approved by Apple. If people weren't required to rent the right to deploy on the iPhone, then anyone could freely load arbitrary non-Apple approved code. Therefore, by arguing for rent-free development, you are demanding a non-closed OS.
There's a limited set of ideas that are ready for development at the cusp of CS at a particular point in time.
Sadly I learned this long ago.

The only thing I've seen make political change is some form of direct action. Waving banners does absolutely FUCK ALL unless it's for something for which they can throw you a bone.

This is what they think of you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
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It seems quite likely that most or all of the world is going to have some sort of censorship, if trends are indicative anyway.
Reliance upon lists? Reliance upon how-tos? Reliance upon tutorials?

Is it just me or did Smashing Magazine take a long hard look at its archives?
I am not sure whether my mentors are aware that they are my mentors.

I am a freelance developer and security guy. Trying to go from services to something more scalable.

My business mentor is an about 60 year old African business man, who is my client since about 8 years. He grew up very poor and is now owner of many companies, providing jobs for several thousand people. I am still fascinated about how he approaches new things and try to learn from him whatever is possible. I try to see him at least every 1-2 years in person, but we exchange emails more or less every month.

Then I have my coding mentor. We shortly worked together in a project some years ago. I realized that he is a genius and started calling/emailing him when I had something interesting to say or to ask.

I would give the following advice to find and keep a mentor:
Do not expect anybody to ask you for your progress. Present your work. Ask for opinion. Do not be afraid to question the advice of your mentor. And you should care about your mentor too. Give your opinion on your mentors work.
Lame, didn't even cover the clusterf*k that is the apostrophe and year ranges.

1990s vs. 1990's vs 90s vs 90's vs '90s vs '90's

or the could've, could have, could of corrupted homophone disaster.

Like most things in English, apostrophes kind of have a standard, basic, rule concept (used before an s when making a possessive), then the rest is common exceptions (contractions, plural form possessives) and options (decade ranges) which are only options to certain people and necessary to others, except for the very specific exceptions (plural single letters, quoted plurals, quoted possessives, possessive and plural, words naturally ending in s, glottal stops, un-lettered syllable accents, clicks, silent but looks cool), which nobody remembers correctly except those being pedantic and never seem to really muss up anybody's understanding of the meaning.

Anybody who thinks they know all the apostrophe rules most likely doesn't. Even http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe which captures some of the complexity mises a bunch of these cases and inserts one I've never seen -- the quoted single letter plural.

The only rule you have to remember is this, "what are the grammar rules that your readers will be assuming are the rules, follow those for comprehension."
Picking an optimality criterion for your tests is an art. Then picking optimal tests is pure math. But for anything beyond toy problems picking an optimal test (or optimal parameters for your test), so there comes the black art part in again.

What do you pronounce as the alternative to frequentist statistics? May I guess you'd pick Bayesian approaches?

Mathematical things like maximum likelihood estimators can be seen as solving a min-max problem atop of Bayesian calculations.
People mostly know the answers to their problems already. Certainly with social ones, they mostly know what they ought to be doing, but they don't necessarily have the emotional strength to actually do it. Feeling listened to and supported helps them to feel more comfortable and motivated so that they can then get out there and do it.
If you're interested in becoming a better speaker you should check out a local chapter of Toast Masters. Despite the name, it's more about speeches than about toasts.

http://www.toastmasters.org/
The nerve!
To paraphrase Spaceballs: Bad grammar will always win because readers are dumb!
Highly ironic.
I never got what the confusion is over the possessive form of "it". I mean, nobody ever writes "hi's" or "her's"; why would they want to do so with "it"?

One rule he alluded to but didn't make explicit is over the possessive form of words already ending in "s". We know that one does not add an "s" if the word is a plural form that already ends with that letter.

What he doesn't directly address is singular words that end in "s". For example, my first name is "Chris". I've seen many people refer to "Chris' stuff", but I believe this is incorrect. Because my terminal "s" was not the result of pluralization, I'm still entitled to a possessive "s": "Chris's stuff".
For a lot of folks, that rule breaks down with you're.
The sad thing was the level of ignorance shown in the debate. While I wouldn't expect an MP to be an expert in everything, the least they could do is seek out experts and remember that lobbyists are not impartial experts.

The scary thing is this level of ignorance probably applies in all debates.
When I have a brainfart and can't remember which one to use I always remember it the other way around: it's always a contraction. If you can write "it is" or "it has" in its place then use the apostrophe, otherwise don't.
> Apple created the first MARKET for mobile apps. Thats openness.

I distinctly remember being able to install software I downloaded (or made) on my Sony Ericsson P-800 a good couple years before the iPhone was announced. In fact, digging a little back, I am sure you could install PalmOS apps on your Treos since the first day they were launched.

And anyone could develop for both platforms (actually, there was Java ME too), anyone could host the file you would have to download to install and specify how, and if, you would pay for the download. In fact, many application stores appeared hosting zillions of smartphone apps you could download and install.

Apple's market is not open at all. Apple decides if you will be able to sell the fruits of your development work.

What Apple did is to corner both users and developers. And that's bad.
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Hmm, when I first saw the calendar, I think oh cool, there is only one week to choose, the week above and below must be hidden, so it's nature way to navigate to previous week is to scroll up, and scroll down to see the next week.

Although it's not scroll by week but by day, but you get the idea.
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> It promotes creativity by enlarging the possible payout one can receive for one's labors.

That may be, but remember that this all comes at a cost. Copyright is essentially theft. All art is based upon that past. No one exists in a vacuum and all works are created in a context of deep history and culture that belongs to all of us. When we are denied the right to copy or make derivatives of a work it robs us of part of our culture. People in Afghanistan can legally print and read that Salinger book but we cannot. Is that right?

Tolkien is probably a bad example. I'm pretty sure his main motivation in writing was his exploration with language and not fat royalties. Furthermore, both him and his wife are dead. Why the hell isn't LotR in the public domain?
I wrote a letter to my local MP about this. He responded today, after the bill had gone through. My concerns are noted, but ultimately mean nothing when the rights of the music industry and the millions of people it employs are at stake.

I give up. It's like a political steamroller. It doesn't matter how many people stand in front of it, there's no stopping it.
ibis -- thanks iPad autocorrect! items
> I would like to point out this is an American phenomenon

And this explains why the iPhone was somewhat underwhelming for the rest of the world. It's a great phone, sure, but no revolution.
Yeah, the closest thing in iPhone Safari is the onorientationchange event. http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Appl...
I've never bought or owned a cellphone in America. My only basis for comparison is previous phones in Taiwan and Japan.
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All of the world already has censorship.

For example, in America today, here are some of the things censored: kiddie pr0n (including fictional text); pirated copyrighted works; works inciting the violation of laws; works describing how to violate laws (e.g., how to make drugs).

Every nation in the world has mandatory censorship. The only variable is what speech is subject to it.
Where in the world does not already have some sort of censorship? Somalia?
I came here to comment on just that. Wheel-down should increase just as one would scroll down a list on a page that is ordered ascendingly. Of course, I play first person shooters with my mouse y-axis inverted. So maybe I am backwards.
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> The dismal sales of the nexus one despite it's superior spec sheet and androidness are proof of this.

In a carrier-locked-down market like the US, where the norm is to buy phones that are married to a given carrier, it only proves Apple has better marketing and carrier relations than other companies.

Also, Android is not a phone - it's a platform. The Nexus One is only one of many competing offerings - that compete not only with iPhones, but between themselves.
I actually can't think of a context where this would happen. There has been a recent upgrade of grub which could cause problems with dual boot systems, but it wasn't automatically upgraded to for precisely this reason (you have to go out of your way or do a fresh install). And a standard grub upgrade should have kept your previous settings intact.

So - since this happened and I can say with some certainty that it wasn't by design - have you opened a bug report about it? (I know that the unfortunate tone of this specific bug report is unfortunate but most are handled in a friendly manner)
I wonder how expensive it is to purchase things that decrease your risk rating, while also using cash for things considered particularly risky.
According to the article UPS predicts when you are high risk of leaving their service and will offer a sales call. I assume the salesman is allowed to offer perk/discounts to get a customer to try to stay. I'm wondering if these models can be figured out so you can intentionally trigger something like this to get deals from companies that do data mining.
it looks nice, but i don't think it's a good example of UX
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They already can do that. Remember when Wikipedia was censored in the UK?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/08/intern...
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I even got a Getty images ad on that page. Thought it was pretty amusing.
The easy answer is to find something that makes you money while your asleep. The awesome patio11 on here has done mostly that. Go ready some of his stuff.
Sounds perfectly in line to me. Am I missing something?
Basically the same here in Sweden, Computer Engineering and Computer Science are two different degrees, and computer engineers have to learn hardware as well as software.
I can't believe Smashing Magazine is writing this article. They soundly missed April Fool's Day. If there is a single thing I've seen Smashing Magazine promote, it is imitation and mindless copying. Their analysis of design is consistently surface level, of the likes of "Look at how this deep blue makes this brand look expensive, also curved corners". The result is "designers" who can make a flashy site, but have no underlying knowledge of usability or taste. Taste is something sorely lacking in a lot of design. Design should be useful, not ostentatious.

Anyway, I like imagining how laughable a Smashing Magazine equivalent for programmers would be. "15 Great For Loops and Iterators"
I've heard rumors that visa uses its purchase records as a leading indicator to trade in stocks. Having all of these sales records gives them a leading indicator of how a particular retailer is performing, before the company releases any statements, or speaks with analysts. While the concept sounded simple, I'm not sure if I believe this because I had no way of knowing how large of an advantage it would translate into. Has anyone else here heard these kinds of stories about visa or banks? Is there are reason why this kind of thing would be illegal or ineffective?
Ha Ha, that conversation would be pretty cool. I never knew there was a program in Womera!
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