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I've been trying to reduce my usage of idiomatic English lately so that I can communicate better with non-native users.

"Couldn't care less" is a kind of idiom, in that a literal interpretation leads you to conclude the opposite of what is meant.
The brain gets lazy if you don't exercise it. Sure, you might be getting it from somewhere else, but reading is still a good source to as least practice your vocabulary.
"Yeah, Wolframalpha is a disruptive technology. Is it still relevant to learn algebraic manipulations?"

We've had calculators for decades now, and my kids are still learning how to do arithmetic.
That is annoying; my Acer Aspire has a 1366 x 768 in 11.6" form factor.
Probably one of these:
http://patterntap.com/
http://ui-patterns.com/
http://quince.infragistics.com/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/15/40-helpful-resour...
http://www.uipatterns.net/
http://www.patternbrowser.org
Painless domain management
I don't think the i5 and i7 are a "tiny speed boost"; I get a 3x speed boost for things like running unit tests (which benefit from hyperthreading). The Moose test suite took 30 seconds on my old machine (Core Duo) and now takes 7 seconds on my new i7.

Meanwhile, rxvt-unicode still doesn't require a very powerful graphics card.
Amusing slant, but he could clearly do this with just about any device.
While I'd agree that students often approach word problems by basically
memorizing mappings between a problem class and a small set of equations, I'm not sure that merely teaching them the mechanics of mathematics in the abstract is sufficient for imparting a thorough, practical understanding of the subject.

My experience with math-related courses was that I had the greatest difficulty generalizing the word-problem aspects into being able to reason about novel problems. A lot of the lectures and texts kind of paid lip service to the idea of problem solving in a general manner, but I think there's a lot of room for improvement in terms of capturing and teaching the underlying requisite types of mental activity, in a way that's explicitly procedural.
Some places are. It's difficult because the biggest employer in the area is the U.S. Federal Government. So it's hard to hire non-citizens. But there is a relatively healthy private sector as well. You just have to try and find those smaller employers. Most of the resume's I've seen also seem to be coming in through a recruiting agency if that helps.
Everything is derivative
WPilot is a Browser-Based Multiplayer Space Shooter (No Flash Required)
(Disclaimer I'm the author of the post)

Having a family and moving forward in your career are not incompatible. I should have used "dead end job" instead of "9-5" job. I didn't mean that working more hours and spending time away from your family is something you should be doing. Sorry about making it sound that way.

The post was about not waisting your potential, stopping bad financial habits and living your passions.
Australia's biggest e-sports tournament so far (Call of Duty 4)
Google uses startups for hiring inflow, I doubt they want to choke them off.

They do this simply because that is the only way for them to either get the talent of the startup, or get a competitor to start working on their behalf.

If the startup is successful, I doubt the founders would be particularly interested in giving it up without some compensation. If it isn't successful, then it doesn't matter, since Google will be able to recruit them for far less money once the startup is dead.

It is in every company's best interest to pay the people they hire below market rate for their work. The only benefit Google gets from this is that they know the people they recruit through acquisitions are capable of building things. It's a trade-off: is it better to acquire a company, knowing the people aren't losers? Or is it better to avoid having to pay market value, at the risk of picking up a loser every now and again?
Bonus Question

For one to not be evil, does that entail the exclusion of all actions that can be construed as evil, even if it is perceived that doing so is for a greater good?

I'm going to say yes that not being evil means at no time doing evil, no matter what the expected outcome.
How to prolong lithium-based batteries
Congress Acts, No more Caller ID Spoofing
Eric Ries calls it Technical Debt
I'm not sure how this'll affect your argument, but I'll wager that 24" CD is on its last legs - to be replace most likely by 21" and 27" that match the screens of iMacs introduced in Oct 2009
Reader base meet article.
I'm less worried about energy, and more about time. Not having to stop at every stop along a route would cut a lot of commute time, and make adding more stops more feasible.
NASA wanted, among other things, to be able to inspect the hardware it was using; Amazon declined.

Why would NASA want to inspect the computers?
Anyone ever notice that the first generation of apple hardware is all curves and flowing? And then as they improve the formula, they always end up squaring up the corners. The most notable exception seems to be the 1st gen iPod.

Can't say I mind, really.
Haskell (2010) Platform for Windows
They want to make sure the hardware isn't broken.
I don't need a guide for that, I do just fine on my own.
That's an extreme example. How many people are going to fight to keep their home after having power and water cut and a 30-foot pit dug around it?

Keep in mind that on the whole, Chinese people are much more likely to give up personal property/liberty for the benefit of the state. It's a massive generalization of course, but the difference between Chinese and American mindsets is really significant.
They seem to have traded happiness and fulfillment for the image of happiness and fulfillment, and it is difficult to tell the difference until you ask the hard questions that make them feel uncomfortable and defensive.

Or perhaps a person took such a job because his life goals simply do not relate to work. Being another cog in a cube farm may not be interesting itself, but it can be used as a source of funding for things that genuinely are. A 9-to-5 isn't my weapon of choice here (since some things I find interesting also happen to be readily marketable skills), but it is an effective one.
> Passively sitting down with the latest Dan Brown novel won't make you any better at reading or writing.
Well, I disagree. I think that any practice improves you, even if by a marginal amount. But I could be wrong, so let me rephrase that sentence as "reading serves as a practice for your reading and writing skills". I think it does not affect my point in the "reading is inherently better than TV" discussion.

> Basically, you get out of any activity what you put into it.
I'm going to write this one down. Thanks.
True but it only goes so far. For instance, I spent 5 years honing my PHP craft. At the end of that time I was pretty good at it, but I still had to look up whether it was haystack, needle or needle, haystack every time.
It's just irritating because it makes no sense except when said in a sarcastic tone, which cannot be detected from text.
It's a lifestyle thing, I can walk home for lunch watch something on Hulu / DVR and then go back to work all within my lunch hour. It might not seem like it but there really is a difference between a 3 minute commute and a 15 minute one.

PS: Walking 2+ miles in my area is slower than than driving that far and all I really care about is the time.
Eh? If I say "I couldn't care less about English grammar", in what interpretation does that mean I hold English grammar dear?

If you use it right, it means what it says.
I consider engaging and consuming forms of art akin to play. At first sight to spend lots of time playing might be seen as a waste of time but the fact that a child prevented from playing would fail to develop properly says something about its purpose. Basically I don't agree that those subjects are purposeless.
They aren't easy to get to: it takes a couple hours and ~50 screws to swap the drive in my 12" Powerbook — but it doesn't violate the warranty to do so.

They probably wouldn't have covered it if you obviously fucked it up while taking it apart, but there was never anti-tamper tape or anything in there to directly detect that you'd done so.
And if the sci-fi is good, then regardless of medium, I stop and reflect on the world or situation being described and the questions it raises.
That's probably not the body it'll ship in. No way it has seams like that!

Gruber on the matter:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/18/engadget-iphone
This doesn't possess any of the attributes of a truly impressive Rube Goldberg contraption, like the recent OK Go "This Too Shall Pass" one. The best of those machines use irreversible, analog processes, releasing bursts of potential energy.

This Lego video (which goes on for 8 minutes) uses largely digital processes that are externally powered and keep going after the balls have run through them. A lot of work went into it, but I wouldn't describe it as "Amazing," or even as a Rube Goldberg machine. It's just a long, cartoonish assembly line.

I say "assembly line," but it doesn't even accomplish anything. Spoiler alert: It's a loop.
We used to freeze NES cartridges when blowing stopped working. We always chalked its working up to magic/luck, but perhaps there was more to it.

Is it just the heat or is there something else at play here?
This could easily be worse than ACTA. This is basically the first step to making anonymous communication illegal.
Although it answers my question, you could say that any practice (maybe with the exception of breathing) gives you "mutual ties".
As one of the article says "both sides of the argument can bring lots of data to thet table in support of their contentions."

I think scientist should be leading the charge on this. Everybody seem to have their own book or point of view to peddle.
I don't buy it. Apple has always been more about less complexity, less parts, more unibody. The "leaked" photos show a chassis with multiple components/pieces (the line/break in the metal next to the headphone jack). Apple has always been about an internal battery, and the battery inside of the screenshots is clearly coated in consumer friendly material, as though it were removable. If you've ever opened an iPhone the battery inside is about as unfriendly as it gets. Everything about the design, with the exception of the flat and glossy face, is uncharacteristic of of Apple.

EDIT: ihodes has an insightful comment below with a link to Gruber's comments on the matter, which make a lot more sense. (link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1275921)
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> leads you to conclude the opposite of what is meant

huh? "I couldn't care less" =~ "The value of my caring is so low, no matter how I tried I couldn't make it lower". To me, the phrase and its intent are equivalent, not opposite
I wished I wrote that blog post in just 5 minutes. I actually spent a couple hours on the first draft but was told it wasn't punchy enough. The second draft took almost as much time the first.

The main mistake I made in this post is using the term 9-5 instead of dead end. I didn't mean that you should work 90 hours a week, far from it. As my short bio on my blog says "I'm a passionate father" and I think that moving forward in your career are totally compatible with that.
The article makes a good point, and I think it's one that can be applied pretty well to our industry. Companies often get hyped up in the echo chamber of the Valley, even though they haven't established themselves in the broader world. A few months ago, FourSquare might have been a good example of this.

On a separate note, I got a kick out of the phrase, "the real world of philosophy." I know what he's getting at, but it still sounds oxymoronic.
Is the fifth myth that there are 5 myths about lean startups? I can only count four in the article...
Technical Debt is different. Technical Debt slows future velocity for feature development / changing to fit customer needs. That you are "leaving money on the table" with these choices does not impede feature progress at all.
I believe what akshat may be referring to is that WordPerfect more than once opened the door for companies to replace WordPerfect with Microsoft Office because when WordPerfect created a new product, they ignored backward compatibility with their old versions.
20 beautiful wallpapers for your desktop (Part 2) 
20 beautiful wallpapers for your desktop (Part 2)
I ATTACK (with spoon) IN GLORY
Much more interesting and dangerous that's for sure. Although in my limited experience great hackers aren't necessarily in it to change the world but to discover how it works, sometimes by creating things that were supposed to be impossible.
Terribly biased article... Might as well add my own uninformed opinions :)

it's no surprise to me that the release is slipping. Adobe has never been 'agile' with flash player. All accounts say it's a pretty rough code base.

I've been doing flash and air programming for the past few years and the runtime is buggy and quirky and hasn't seen many improvements aside from framework type stuff in Flex/Air.

The Mac and Linux versions are even more buggy.

I bet it kinda works on the mobile platforms but the performance and compatibility is shit. This is going to be a big hole to dig out of, even if apple isn't trying to bury it.
On Speculation
That's too bad. I like that look. Ah well.
But is it worthwhile or important?
Why Linux is not attracting young developers
This example actually looks a bit contrived... If your language supports exceptions, but doesn't support nice syntax for monads (i.e. you still have to write all the levels with bind and parentheses), why not simply throw() on error? I guess you would normally write something to support function like bindl(person_name, [userid_from_name, balance_from_userid, balance_qualifies_for_loan]) anyways... but that's still not that nice.

The call becomes simpler: balance_qualifies_for_loan(balance_from_userid(userid_from_name(person_name))), as well as functions which just return the value or throw.
Interestingly enough NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com) made AJAX applications crawlable years ago. If you're interested in the specifics, see http://dev.noloh.com/#/articles/Search-Engine-Friendly/

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH.
Holy shit, I know this kid. Lucas is also the #11 speed cuber in the world. Very cool guy over all.

So the point of this logo, if anyone is curious, is that Stanford regularly holds an annual social dance (meaning waltz, swing, cha-cha, etc. but with no particular concern for traditional form) called "Big Dance." Lucas really wanted the theme to be "Big Dance to the Future," but sadly, "Pride and PrejuDance" won instead.
RunKeeper for Android is here
As of tonight, the leading iPhone GPS fitness app (1.5 million downloads, TIME Magazine top ten iPhone app of 2009) is now on Android too!
I think you are simplifying things a lot. I wasn't around back them to know the whole history myself, but my understanding is that there were a whole lot of factors that contributed to Windows taking over. A big part of it was Microsoft's ability to make many advantageous deals with the different hardware makers. Two big questions I have about how this is going to play out compared to the last time:

1. Is this really what the hardware makers want? They all have seen history as well, and if they go all in with Google the way that HP and Dell did with Microsoft, it leaves the them with precious little to differentiate themselves by. This is why the PC makers have all mostly ended up in a race to the lowest price with razor thin margins. Don't you think a company like HTC would rather be in Apple's position today with the Mac than in Dell's position with their PC's?
* A partial answer to this question is that Palm did try, and seems to have failed (which is confusing to me because they seemed to be doing exciting things and had people who really liked their phones) so maybe the HTC's and Motorola's of the world think they have little choice in the matter

2. What does having a third major player in the room do to negotiations (OS + Hardware + Carrier)

One incident that ties these two questions together is how Motorola got screwed over the Droid. They invested a lot in making a decent smartphone running Android but since Verizon owns the name of the product, Motorola gets bumpkis from the product's success. People who bought a Droid may go out and buy a Droid 2 but they will be getting a phone from HTC not Motorola.

A post script question I have is how customers will react to the Dell-and-HP-ification of phones. With computers, there was never really an expectation of how fast and smoothly they could get things done. If Android phone makers end up in a price cutting war, they had better make sure the base model they are selling works better than some off the rack LG flip phone. People won't put up with phones that don't work, their experience is with phones that do.
That's great that you consider this. Many do not consider poetry, music, art classes worthwhile because they consider those classes impractical.

I don't agree that learning how to abstractly apply rules and manipulate objects is useless. It's particularly important in programming, for instance.
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Ok, I'll bite.

It seems to me that Apple is following a trend they set in the early nineties. Since around 1986 to 1994, Apple introduced some of its most successful consumer products: Macintosh, PowerBook, System 7 (later to become OS X), etc. These products were wildly successful. They were richly-engineered, consumer-friendly, albeit expensive products. They had their own software stack that was not transferable to other platforms, and that 3rd-party developers were not encouraged to deviate from.

Apple relied on very high profit margins that were not sustainable and instead of competing with companies that were making cheap commodity software that ran on any machine (such as Microsoft), they sued them.

All this set the stage for the rise of Microsoft and their licensing partnerships. Unlike Apple, Microsoft software such as Windows and Office ran on any machine. Developers could create software for these systems free of any restrictions. Even though it can be argued that Apple's software was better, it didn't matter. Developers were already heavily invested in developing for Microsoft's platform.

And now to make my point:

Where developers went, consumers soon followed. It became clear that more software was available on Windows, at a lower cost. Apple was soon on the decline. I am arguing that the same thing will happen again because I'm seeing the same narrative right now. You don't have to try too hard to find frustrated developers switching from Apple to another platform. It's become a hassle. And it will continue.

And again, where developers go, consumers follow.
haven't heard of unfuddle before but it seems like a great deal. nice how it has svn, git and ticketing.
> EDIT: I am intentionally not including the "http:// since:

And I am intentionally not clicking the link because ... it's not a link. I have a greasemonkey script that automatically turns plain text URLs into clickable links. But the text in your post is not a URL. It's a domain and a path, but with no scheme it is not a URL.
You are critiquing this as if I were suggesting people use it in production JavaScript code, which I'm not. It's a demonstration. Did you read the original article? It has an example that's even more contrived (and also incomplete.) You aren't even pointing out the biggest reason not to use monads in JavaScript (no hints, sorry!)

I'm going to go eat a burrito now.
I think those are two different demographics.

Those who play farmville are the ones this posts is speaking about. While the 4chan crowd as a whole are a young computer literate and savvy crowd. Though correct me if that demographic assumption is incorrect.
I agree with you. The problem I've encountered is that students who lack intellectual curiosity aren't motivated by the practical applications found in algebra textbooks. They aren't motivated by any sort of problem. So there is a reduction to the lowest denominator. That is, we give word problems that are reducible to mappings to a small set of equations.
No, it means that Google maintains a non-evil identity. As a corporation they may do evil things with good intentions, as you mentioned, or even unknowingly, accidentally, out of ignorance or within other human limitations.

The point is that it's an existential judgment -- that they would seek to have the question "Is Google evil?" answered negatively in consideration of all things, not that they need to avoid any blame or transgression.

I think the "DBE" topic has been rehashed about 10^6 times more than necessary, so I think I'll just leave it at that.
Very true. I'm still waiting for the 3G version to come out.

Any recommendation on PDF readers/annotators?
So Google has a slightly reticient and secretive culture.. They also cannot get anyone to comment on serious international matters in which the company is the accusar. And the journalist does not like it........big deal!
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Not sure what you mean... incorrect CLI is completely different from withheld CLI - from the bill:

(2) PROTECTION FOR BLOCKING CALLER ID INFORMATION. — Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prevent or restrict any person from blocking the capability of any caller ID service to transmit caller ID information.

Also - there is no such thing as anonymous calling on the PSTN network. Your providers know exactly who called from where - even if the destination doesn't get full set of information. Unless the providers are completely incompetent, there's going to be a way to recreate the whole path based on logs from every interconnected node. (not sure about US laws, but in most countries if police requested that and the provider couldn't produce it, they would be fined)

You can buy voip services from a company in country X too, then send some legit-looking paper saying you're paying bills for the number 001555555555 and in many cases they will be glad to allow you to use it. Then you can continue your scamming. This bill doesn't stop any illegal uses of id spoofing really.
A lot of the comments here are kudos to the dev for his app - which is awesome. But what people are missing is how powerful services like Heroku can be for devs. I have students that I mentor building projects with Heroku and Rails, and it's amazing to see what they can do. Yes, prices go up when you need to scale out, but getting an idea out in front of people and seeing if people will use the product is so important. Spending weeks implementing a difficult payment gateway and setting up a scalable infrustructure only to find out that nobody cares about what you built is so costly compared to banging something out in a weekend.

In 3 days you can prove it. I built http://rendera.heroku.com in 1 day and launched it. People liked it enough to convince me to add all sorts of fun things to it. It still runs on the free plan, but if nobody liked it, I could have found that out and moved on to something else.

To the OP, nice job!
Thanks. Can you please elaborate with an example? :)
I agree with both of these examples. And here is my point. The sort of practical applications of rational functions involve very simple rational functions. So if our motivation comes solely from word problems then the natural question is why are we learning to manipulate

( x^2 + 2xy + y^2)/(x - y) + 1/(x^2 - y^2)

Has there ever occurred a practical application in which this expression has come up? If our motivation is expanding our understanding of manipulating algebraic objects then this expression is very much a practical application. It's an extension of an existing idea - rational numbers - to a new class of objects. Be able to do this sort of abstraction is useful in mathematics, and in fact is the essence of mathematical thought. It's also useful in things like programming.