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If that were true then you could check it by looking at the male nurse prevalence among non-English speaking countries.

In French, Italian and Spanish a nurse is some variation on "infermier" coming from the same root as the word for "sickness", and they don't have higher rates of male nurses.

In German it's the truly awesome word "Krankenschwester" meaning something like "sickness sister". Obviously this is gender-specific and has nothing to do with my point, but I just learned it and felt the need to share.

I tried a few other languages in google translate but didn't know them well enough to figure out the etymologies. If anyone knows of non-gender-loaded "nurse" words in other languages it would be interesting to hear them.
Unit tests are code too. What ensures the correctness of the tests themselves?

My point is simply that you can't simply defer to testing as a cop out to avoid claiming confidence in the correctness of some portion of code. There has to be some amount of code that a dev can pretty well validate simply by inspection. (I'm not saying don't test.)
That's like saying a stomach flu isn't that bad, you're alive before and after. It says something about yahoo if the record by which their acquisitions are judged begins with 'didn't ruin X'.
Touché. Well, at least I can go back to hating blogger bob again
There's a big difference. It's not actually worth $11k to Apple. They don't actually want all the details out there yet (probably. I could see some of their leaks being intentional ways to get people to hold out for summer and not buy Android phones now), but they didn't directly lose $11k by losing the iPhone.
But it wasn't a bag of money, it was information (that we mostly already knew). In the scheme of things this is a meaningless leak, it's just huge news because Apple/Jobs is obsessively secretive. I actually enjoy seeing them beat at their own game.
The Motorala Droid is pretty much the one as far as I can tell.
It's unquestionably dishonest but I suspect it will make for an interesting court case as Gizmodo tries to claim the person who sold it is a "source" and hence they should have a right to anonymity. I don't think it holds up but it's up for debate. There's no question that people like Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) stole documents from the White House which is a much bigger crime than this.
I agree, it just doesn't look finished IMHO and while the design is nice design it's a bit of a step backwards from the extreme minimalism apple have used in previous iphones and MBP
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Wow, that's eerily similar to my open source library/service, jData.
Interesting article, it does a lot of analysis then boldy states that you should sign up to okcupid.com instead without a shred of reasoning to back that up?

Marketing fail.
Great article, and as indicated in his blog's comments, very similar to Rands in Repose (http://www.randsinrepose.com) whose writings in this space are similar.

I can't stress enough how useful 1:1s are for my own team (I believe Google follows the Andy Grove model mentioned in "High Output Management", another great book). It's easy for engineers to under-communicate those somewhat-important-but-not-really issues with their tech lead / manager, and getting it out on the table during 1:1s is crucial to keeping said issues from getting out of hand.
Such a shame it doesn't work yet in touch browsers (Android/iPhone/iPad).
Technically, prototypes are usually worth much more than $11k (hand built consumer electronics as complicated as mobile phones are expensive), but it wasn't the money that was important to Apple. It's the secrecy, Apple is obsessed with it. This is the company that announced everything about the iPad months ahead of time but wouldn't even let Apple Store staff use it once until the day of launch. It's useful to a point, but they have taken it way over the edge.
To develop for android does one use a large subset of Java? ...There must be many more developers with a medium-to-heavy Java background than there are Objective-C developers. Any thoughts?
And the author is simply wrong about his point (if that is indeed his point). A binary search is that complicated. It just doesn't look like it until you've considered all the possible edge cases, and chances are that most "decent devs" will miss some and be part of the 90%.
Well, the vast majority of them are paid pieces -- I haven't checked where we're at for this month but usually ~99.5% of all mail volume is paid (not trials).

As for getting all those postcards, I need to find some way to figure out who's behind them. :)

FWIW, my goal is to see if I can get some customers that would be willing to pay some sort of fee while I ramp up the hardware to actually deliver that sort of service.
I've written binary search for production code (Delphi RTL generic collections), and gotten it right, but more embarrassingly, I also wrote quick-sort and got it wrong. It was a mishmash of two strategies IIRC - a straight recursive quick-sort, and a half-inlined version with a loop, and it didn't work at all. Escaped into the wild owing to time crunch and me electing to do squeeze too many things in at the last moment.
Hard to say, as everyone that knows how to taste coffee already knows what Starbucks tastes like. It has a distinct flavor.

Given a shot of espresso from each of the coffee places I visit regularly, I could tell you which is which just from the aroma. So there is never going to be a "blind" test.
That's the point - nobody finds it difficult. And then they write buggy code without realizing it. You probably did, as well.
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Yes, for those whole three months I fended for myself with my savings.

Your interpretation seems as though something is being imposed on someone, and some social injustice is being committed. Unpaid internships have advantage for the employer, and for the intern. That there are some people who can afford to invest their time and effort more so than others is not the fault of the employer, or of the intern who has the means. Nobody in this being is treated favorably, and nobody is being denied.

Life isn't inherently equal and fair. People with 'advantage' (meaning wherewithal and means) and will use it, and should.
Gizmodo is in a bad place here. If Apple chooses they could nail Gizmodo to the wall. Firstly, Gizmodo knowingly bought stolen merchandise, that is a criminal offense and the owner (the Apple employee or Apple themselves, depending on the legalities) could press charges. Secondly, this could be considered corporate espionage and Apple could make a case in court that they have been financially damaged by it, to the tune of millions.
DJB had some interesting thoughts on AES and its vulnerability to timing based attacks, here: http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf

While network latencies would definitely make this type of attack more challenging to implement, AES is not invincible.

And that's just the stuff we hear about :)
In case you didn't know, okcupid is free. After reading that article it makes a lot of sense to sign up with okcupid if you're looking for a dating website instead of going to a paysite.
I was frustrated by the same aspect of the Android ecosystem, until I had this minor revelation: it's not really about "the" phone, it's about the phone that works best for you. The nice thing about Android is that you can pick the carrier, form factor, and price point that work for you.

Want a keyboard and like Verizon? Get a Droid. Like Verizon but don't need a keyboard? Get an HTC Incredible later this month. Like the Nexus One but want the freedom of a SIM card? Use it on T-Mobile or AT&T. Want a cheaper phone with a keyboard? Get one of the new Motorola models that are coming out for just about every carrier.

You can think of it as confusing, or you can think of it as having options. Both are probably true :)
I personally love Ruby but as a beginner language, I have found people find it a lot harder to understand than say Python, C or Basic. Ruby has a lot of what looks like "magic" syntax to an unfamiliar user. I would probably go with a different language.

Otherwise, very cool idea.
If your compiler/interpreter supports tail-call-optimization you should get the half-inlined version for free.
Well, a skip list is just a bunch of linked lists...
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...how Apple was able to remotely disable that one specific phone at their will.

This does not prove that Apple has the ability to remote-wipe any user's phone.

First, if Apple remote-wiped the iPhone, this would be explained by the fact that the company administrator of mobile devices can disable employee and contractor phones, and Apple does give out iPhones to its employees. It's logical that the owner of this prototype phone is an iPhone employee.

Secondly, it's likely that the rightful owner decided to remote-wipe the phone themselves to protect their own personal data (as he or she would do to any other lost or stolen phone) while continuing the search.

Not only is there no evidence that Apple can remote-wipe any user's phone, but it's very possible they specifically passed on having this ability in order to minimize liability.
Larger screen/touch-area. More networks. PixelQi screen.

New form factors -- keyboard, flip/clamshell.

Surprising internal specs -- storage, speed.
actually accrual accounting is 5 times easier than cash. perhaps with the tool like quickbooks, this is not so obvious but accrual is CORRECT accounting and every business out there should use it whether you pay your taxes on cash-basis or not.

let me explain, when you give customer an invoice, you want to see in your books that this person owes you $1000. on cash-basis you would completely ignore this transaction for accounting purposes until client pays which is non-sense as it could be easy to forget this invoice forever and never receive payment for your products or services.

people get confused but cash-basis accounting is not really an accounting, it's just calculation method for your taxes.
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They say it's 24 Mbit

Are you talking about headline speed or actual sync speed? The latter is beyond the control of the ISP (apart from laying FTTC or FTTH of course)
IANAL but there is probably a legal divide between stolen merchandise and lost merchandise.
It is not an ad hominem because he was not arguing the point was invalid, rather that the guy is foolish to such a statement while not advocating code structure and style. Notice "...is just as important..."

I agree - that file he linked is very difficult to read and would make it much harder for me to find problems.
> One of the reasons I’d like to see a copy of the Second Edition is to see whether this passage has changed

For the author: it hasn't changed. Still only 10%.

I actually had to write this binary search algorithm in my technical competency interview for my current job. Rather than hours, I had minutes and the extra gotcha was that it was unsorted data so I had to write quicksort first. I remember feeling excited that I was going to be working for a company that had such low level issues but eight months in it's still the only time I've written my own sort or search methods since University :)
"I believe the on-screen typography on the next-gen iPhones will be indistinguishable, or nearly so, from high-quality print."

... except that high-quality print doesn't use Marker Felt...
Seems that the important question has not been answered. You may want the iPhone to have the same quality as print, but why? Is iPhone competing with magazines now? Do Apple customers want that, and would they be happy to pay for it?

Probably... the brand and marketing is so strong Apple could probably reduce the resolution of the screen and charge more for it. The fact that its the new iPhone would be enough to make up for it.
You say that as if it's a given you can only do one or the other.

FWIW, I'm a pure mathematician by training - not exactly a shortage of experience in thinking things through. But I would have very low confidence in any code I had just written down, instead of building it iteratively, using a REPL.
The trick with this binary search test isn't knowing or being taught or learning the algorithm, or finding it difficult; it's making sure you find and deal with every corner case, first time, without testing. For example: is an empty array handled properly? An array with duplicates? Is every item, including first and last, found correctly? What about arrays with an even number of elements vs odd, vs power of two? How about an array with over 1 billion elements (the integer overflow problem)? Are values before and after the sorted range indicated properly? If working with duplicates, do you want a found index at the start of the range, or at the end?

You get the picture.
I had roughly same experience with men and women. If they can't program they do not genuinely wish they could. They just say "It's so cool YOU can do this."
Ironically, the stereotypical female Firefly fan fiction writer is female. Stereotypically masculine and "geeky" interests like science fiction actually seem to have proportionally more female interest than programming.
I wonder how much Apple paid to the guy that "misplaced" the phone.
So what's the deal with the iPad? It deserves to have this great text fidelity (i.e. insane PPI) just as much as the iPhone.

Is the 2nd generation iPad going to have a significantly better screen?
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Yeah, this is mostly the case. If you look at what's out there right now you have some phones that run Android 2, some that are still on Android 1.6 out of the box, some that run the HTC modifications to Android, some that are on the standard Android interface. After that, you have to consider the processors and memory available in every device - will most phones have enough power to run application X? Will this look like crap in these various phones because the hardware sucks?

It just feels like a very fractured ecosystem. I hate developing for a platform that makes it feel like there are a lot of unknowns - how many test phones should I need to keep around if developing on Android? I know that it should be only 1, but is that really the case? How long will that remain the case for?

Maybe wishing for "the" canonical Android phone is the wrong approach; but it would be nice if Google came out with some hardware guidelines that said "You can at least expect to have these things be true on every Android device."
I don't agree with all points, however, the first one is so true.

By understanding the basics, it gives you the ability to understand the rest so much easier.

You can also easily seek help from others because they know you've taken the time to understand the basic and aren't searching for a quick-and-dirty answer to your problem.

It also help to motivate yourself since you know that even thought you haven't mastered everything, you've mastered something and that's really important. It's a bit like building a small system incrementally.. even if it sucks, the first version gives a huge momentum to the overall project.
I've got one on the way in the mail as well.

I didn't plan to learn Java, but will do so to develop for Android and I feel it's the most interesting platform and has the most long-term viability.
These are pretty, but I don't see the realism. They look massively simplified and I struggle to imagine the light sources and geometry that these represent.

Maybe "very pretty" CSS3 buttons?
Agreed. They look really handy for zooming the camera lens, for example.
Bullshit called.

This article is talking about an application that few people, even geeks, would ever consider running on a mobile device: a database application. Plus, it's not even a particularly nice looking database application. This is not the Android equivalent of Bento. This is basically the most rudimentary possible GUI you could slap on a SQLite database. Poor sales? Shocking.
Speculation is one thing, but knowing exactly what your competitor will be selling two months before it hits the market is worth a lot more than $10k to the right people.
If you are talking about escapist fiction, I would agree with you, but some books definitely require thinking. That said, I think some TV does as well.
So what this is really all about is this- do you mentally step through your code and consider what could go wrong at each step?
Because trying it and failing you teaches you not to do that. Or, more generally, 90% of programmers failing the task tells us programmers are bad at programming without testing and we need to have solid testing in place when we code.
every programmer's gut reaction to binary search is "that's easy!"

Perhaps I'm not a programmer then. Or I'm a strange one I guess.

I tend to approach every programming problem assuming the worst: This will be much harder than it seems. There will be corner-cases. I will miss some of them and do the wrong thing for other ones. I should try to enumerate every weird condition I can think of, and then throw random inputs at things to catch the stuff I missed.
Have you ever lived in a city like New York, San Francisco, Boston, etc?

You could list a catbox on Craigslist and get over $1000/month for it. You wouldn't even have to empty the dirty litter first.

What he's saying really is that cities are subject to boom/bust cycles like sectors of the economy, stock markets, etc.
I don't know about that. For a while, at least, people raved about DD's coffee.
Isn't that the entire point of mobile phones having an IMEI number? Hardly new to the iPhone. In fact, it looks as if all they've actually done is the remote-wipe feature of mobile me ... and no one outside apple can get it working again, as you need the right "image" to restore on to it. Which obviously isn't available yet.

edit: I presume IMEI isn't something that's unique to the UK?
When I realized we're only a resolution doubling or two away from being beyond the limits of human visual perception, I realized why the much-discussed Resolution Independence feature keeps not making it into each release of Mac OS X.
>> It shows how fundamentally difficult it is to make credible business forecasts in technology.

> Becoming a major success is fundamentally hard and predicting the future is fundamentally hard, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise.

And still, many people assign significance to whether a particular startup was selected (or not) for Techcrunch 40, or was funded by YCombinator.

Even more people believe in cherry-picking stocks as a sound investment strategy.
This link does 2 redirects just to add a session id to the URL. What bad HTTP form...
if they're going to push the iBook platform on the phones, they'll want as high quality of text as possible to get people who have the phone but not the iPad to buy books still, giving them their %, instead of buying through Kindle (though obviously you can also use the Kindle app... hm)
Probably because it's far easier to scale up production on a smaller, 4th generation screen than it would be to scale up production on a larger, less established device.
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There is nothing in this article that lends any credence to the claim that Gizmodo paid for the phone. Why should I believe this? Sources are important people. Not that a site as well known as edibleapple.com would post hearsay to get views...
> This whole premise is stupid. We don't seem to have a problem with the lack of female linesmen, plumbers, construction workers, electricians, HVAC specialists, or garbage men.

Computer science and engineering has inherent research component in it. We do our little own discoveries on daily basis while researching annoying bugs.

For research there is much value in diversity of approaches. That't why some people pity severe lack of women in computer science. They believe that this could increase diversity of approaches and give us better solutions.

Also there is no lack of electricians today but the need for computer scientists is exploding. During the war electricians and other factory workers were needed so there was push for women to take these professions. We don't have a war now but soon development of our civilization might be capped by lack of competent people to program our machines. That would be severe waste of time.
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"Open network operating system - add your own applications and components"

Does that mean I could deploy an app directly on the switch? That would be seriously cool.
That's Not the point. It's not the reading, or the typing in that's the key. It was the tweaking! Typing in source code gives you the freedom to tweak because, dammit, you typed that in in the first place! But being able to instantly change source and see the results of it instantly in the running system -- this is a much more immediate way of encouraging tweaking.

I'm saying, so long as you want to encourage X, why not directly take the steps to encourage X?
"... with Release 33-9117, the SEC is considering substitution of Python or another programming language for legal English as a basis for some of its regulations."

If this was actually implemented, it'd be incredible. No more ambiguity when you have to define all the parameters and outcomes explicitly!
There was an IAMA at reddit a while ago from someone who dropped a prototype (of a macbook) in public. You can read it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a8an1/i_was_part_of_th...
I believe that assertion is exactly what the previous commenter proposes to test.
Reminds me of the photos taken by my cat via a Pet's Eye View: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kittycam/

That camera was a birthday present, but it led me to finding Mr. Lee's cat cam site, with a lot more hacker-friendly cat devices: http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/
The main issue I see with your argument is that you're supposing interest to be correlated with anticipated ability and enjoyment of the profession. Unlike French Fashion trends, programming is an important driver of our society, and as such we should look for people who will be enthusiastic and skilled programmers. There's no way of knowing that when most women do not even take an introductory programming course.
It's not unique to the UK. But most US mobile customers never have had to deal with swapping SIMs between devices and, thusly, never needed to know what their IMEI is.
The larger sized your display and the denser your pixels, you're correspondingly fighting a sq cm pixel defect rate and drawing lower yields (^2) for each increase, with the obvious effect on price. This is why, at trade shows, you see huge screens with low resolution and tiny screens of stunning resolution.

Further, every time a new technology comes along (e.g. AMOLED), you throw out many of the manufacturing techniques you've developed to increase pixel yields.
Outstanding invoices are quite clearly still shown in my accounting program. They're not counted on income until the event of payment though.

The invoicing program even auto-reminds late payers when they're past due. I can generate reports to show my company's AR whenever I want and open to a dashboard of that screen actually

Losing track of AR is just poor bookkeeping. It's not a feature of cash bookkeeping.

My AP is not as well tracked, that's for certain. Once expenses are paid, that is tracked, for sure, but owed debts/bills/etc aren't. That never was really something that interesting in the accrual based system.
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One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft.

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