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The problem I have with refactoring todos is that after a time it's no longer clear to me why the refactoring was needed (unless it's obvious, but in that case I probably already did it).
Pretty sure all retailers are exempt from tax on out-of-state sales.

I don't think this is true in most states. If I as a resident of MA buy something from a company in CA, the company doesn't have to collect the tax and pay it to MA, but I am still responsible for doing that.
Is there any other place to get LaunchPad than TI's eshop? Because it seems to have some issue with payment authorization (at least with my non-US card).
I read about this about 13 years ago in Discover:

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/bitterly.html

Seemed like a fantastic idea at the time, but the problem then was that the wheel would explode at high speeds. Apparently these are very challenging to manufacture.
My preferred solution is a constitutional amendment that imposes a flat tariff of 0-10% on all imports, the exact tax decided by an act of Congress. Congress has the power to impose import tariffs already, but a successful movement to use that power would result in the usual bad outcomes: industry-specific protectionism, capture by lobbyists, de facto election of legislators by foreign lobbyists, etc.

A better solution might be a Constitutionally-flat national VAT on all goods regardless of origin, using the opportunity to burn the income tax code to the ground. (Firing all the income tax workers would massively decrease the cost of labor all by itself, giving a substantial boost to manufacturing productivity.) This has no chance of being approved.
I see your point, but by that logic: "Governments provide services, and consumers consume them."

But seriously, are you really saying that it's natural for hospitals to speak of their customers as "consumers"? Do you have kids? You provide services for them? Are they consumers?
+1 for IntelliJ IDEA, js support is really superb.
And Stanford even has iPhone Programming classes.
But MIT was the one who started it all, so some credit is due.
A couple of notes:

1) the GTX280 is not exactly top of the line anymore, it is now fully two generations behind. The sweet spot cost/performance wise is the GTX295.

2) you can stick 4 top notch cards in a machine, with 2 GPUs each, giving you a net 8 fold increase over the results in the paper, or if you take their 2.5 times figure as a baseline for a 20 fold increase over a regular CPU (if you believe the rest of the claims the paper makes).

3) GPU speedups can not be 'averaged', you either have something that maps well to the GPU or you don't, if you do extreme speedups are possible, if you don't you'll end up spending a large amount of time trying to adapt your problem to the architecture of a GPU, if your time is cheap or of the problem is large enough that your time spent is a small fraction of the total cost this may be worthwhile.

4) So, if you have a problem you need to solve only once and the trade-off is your time vs cpu time then most of the times cpu time will win out, but if the problem is recurring in nature and matches the model well then GPUs are pretty much unbeatable for FLOPS/$ and FLOPS/W (at the moment, and no doubt this will change at some point in the future).
Moreover, supplies of the metal are far from abundant, and are located in countries not necessarily friendly to America: the biggest reserves are in Bolivia, China and Russia.

Yeah, it's a good thing countries with all the oil for our gas-powered cars are so friendly.
Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com/ will convert the epub into a mobi file just fine, which can then be read on the Kindle.
If you put the URL into Safari on your iPad, it should prompt you to open it in iBooks.
I kinda like: http://www.alankennington.com/philo/eng.html after a quick skim.

I have a computer eng undergrad degree from a solid canadian school. I cant say we were explicitly taught "engineering principles", I wish we were. We learned mostly domain-specific principles, but there are some deeper cross-domain principles that are worth learning (like the link above includes).

I would add to the above, a very central concept is the "engineering trade-off" -- there is no free lunch, etc.

Another smaller one I like is "visibility", seeing clearly into your system and its state is critical to debugging/design and clear thinking.

There are also things you kind of learn by osmosis from doing projects and in the workforce. Like, dont overestimate how hard it is to do some custom work to create something new (a good FPGA programmer or C programmer can do amazing things in a week). And also, dont underestimate how hard it is to maintain said custom work (most university projects dont give a sense of maintenance cost, the overriding cost in the real world).
My advice for learning CS, from someone who is completely self-taught, learn ad hoc and strive to completely understand - trying to just understand stuff built on top of other things without understanding the bottom layer is not very good for learning.
I know hard-core Java people that use Vim. It integrates with Eclipse (by talking to a headless instance over a socket) for the refactoring stuff. Vim for the editing, Eclipse for the Java munging. Seems to work very well.

Never use an "IDE" unless there is absolutely no other way.
In terms of desktop market share Windows is still years ahead. I think this is the same approach that Android is taking, they want the market share and to become the new windows on mobile.

The one problem with that is that the iOS is actually more like windows creating a common platform, similar form factors and simplifying the features and complexity of the consumer handheld devices. That is actually the same approach Windows took to get your mom on the internet and using office.

For far too long the mobile market was fragmented. Windows consolidated the desktop market to create many more platforms and markets for people. Apple iOS is a common platform in mobile while the others are still pretty fragmented. Apple is looking to do the same for entertainers, developers, marketers etc. Once they open it up by selling at Wal-mart and get other carriers it will be a true test.
Hm. I'm in Canada, and I didn't have any trouble. (Though, now, the TI site is back-ordered into August.)

However, the first table under "Quick Links" on their wiki (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_(MS...) has a list of alternate suppliers.
I'm amazed at how angry this article makes you (and other commenters). I'm even more surprised that you're trying to frame this as a cheap sales pitch, because there isn't any mention of money or their services in the entire article, or even the suggestion that you ought to seek out such a service. You actually have to click through two pages just to find a price for their online course. This doesn't even begin to approach the somewhat sketchy nature of blog posts describing a book with an Amazon referral link at the end, which get FPed here with some frequency.

And where on earth does he attack families singing Sweet Caroline along with the crowd at the local baseball game? Do you actually think he's attacking the whole of baseball fandom?

You guys are definitely reacting to something, but I'm not sure it's this article.
Thank you. I came over to the comments precisely in order to find out what the author's interests might be.
This is actually not far from the truth. Engineering is an art and a science, and you can only get better at the art part by doing (the science can be taught, and then reinforced by 'doing' as well).
Pointing out Avalara's avatax. Solutions to this problem are not quite as expensive as you point out.

http://www.avalara.com/Sales-Tax-Web-Services

But still a cost, and taxation is still a vile form of theft.
Yeah I totally understand what you are saying.

1.) Definitely. This will be a slow burn unless someone wants to blow you out of the water and totally undercut you in every way/shape/form.

2.) You are right. That was the idea of my comment, there probably isn't such a thing as passive income without buying an object(not asset) that pays a royalty/dividend, I just thought you were using the word in a way in which it isn't intended.

3.) Totally, i think you need to build the support systems around the business. People will want to buy a money machine, not a hassle. Having as much of that handled before you go to sell it will make it at least at first glance a way better investment. if they are looking at buying a business, aside from them being a competitor, they are basically saying, "You know, I don't trust TNK, and i'm really tired of buying stocks, maybe i'll sink some money here" then they look at your recipe for making money and decide if they want to buy the whole lot.

I just think if you are making 200k you can probably find someone that would be happy as hell to manage most of it and you dabble in it a few hours per week. So mathwise (rounding a week to 50) 4k a week..you can certainly find someone that wants to take some equity and try to build upon that, figure out some sort of metrics for gain aside from salary handled things(what you don't ever want to see, q/a etc) and go from there.
Did you skip your civics classes? What do you think gives you permission to say that? Did you forget that the government is run by elected officials?

The entire Bill of Rights is an example of government restraining itself. The Constitution is an example of that.
Next: the $$$. I don't know about you, but I'm not a good enough marketer (or developer) to overcome yet another 10% vig on my productivity.

Is this a general principle that you're willing to defend? I mean, there are many marginal businesses that are not viable right now but that could be viable if they didn't have to pay taxes. Do you believe that all of these businesses should be forgiven from having to pay taxes?

Not to mention geolocation issues.

The article seemed to speak entirely about physical goods. And when you're talking about physical goods, it seems that geolocation issues aren't really a big deal: just tax based on the delivery state.

competition can be squashed by raising the barriers to entry through taxation and regulation.

That's one way to look at it. Alternatively, one might simply say that freeloading is bad and that internet retail allows some people to unfairly reduce their tax rates without a corresponding reduction in their use of state services. So, if young upper middle class folks buy lots of stuff on the internet and save $500 of sales tax every year, then the fact that they've come up with a clever way to screw over their fellow (older, not-so-upper-middle-class citizens) isn't really a sufficient justification for the state to preserve their little racket.
America is going down the toilet unless it completely rebuilds its education system. Education is primary, nothing else compares.

By ground up I mean curriculum, methods, grading, classrooms, mediums, etc. Khan Academy.org is a very refreshing step in the right direction. I am learning everything in math while I eat breakfast and before going to sleep - from someone who always hated school, and was especially poor at 'grasping' math the way it was taught.

Learn how to learn, injecting a love of learning, independence. Our founding fathers would be crying if they say how schools were being run these days.

/rant
One of my all time favourite CS books. I especially liked the Alan J. Perlis quote at the start.
taxation is still a vile form of theft.

Indeed, and that's why I long for the business paradise of Somalia, where no one ever has to pay any taxes.
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Quote from page 18 of the O'Reilly book on Intel Threading Building Blocks:

One of the truths in programming is this: the best serial algorithm is seldom the best parallel algorithm, and the best parallel algorithm is seldom the best serial algorithm.

Following on from what I said in my previous post, since we are being educated in serial algorithms, we cannot realistically expect to write decent parallel algorithms in a way similar to how we write serial algorithms.
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As the online debate continues over possible signal problems with the iPhone 4, I've been able, during informal tests over the weekend, to reproduce the signal loss that's at the heart of the controversy.
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The Crichton lecture linked on that page is very good: http://www.s8int.com/crichton.html
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"Spy" covers a lot of ground, from pilfering a copy of "Invasion Plan Orange" to setting up networks of influence. The Soviets were big on doing the latter (a little quality time with Google will tell you all about that, try phrases like agents of influence all the way to "shit eaters" (the Russians had little respect for those working against their own counties interests)). Influencing the actions of a foreign power is tremendously more useful than "gathering information"; after all, what is the point of the latter but to take action upon it?

I haven't been following this case at all, but I noticed in one article that one of them, a "Donald Heathfield" was a classmate at Harvard's Kennedy School with Felipe Calderon who is now the president of Mexico.

I haven't more than skimmed the beginning of this, but it's likely to be of use. Radosh is an old Cold Warrior, he's seen it all before: http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2010/06/30/lessons-from-th...
I don't know if we're going to be using handheld devices like the iPad 5 years from now.

I don't want to make fun of you or anybody but trying to predict the future, seems to be something everyone fails.

People fears to say "I don't know" it's kinda like religion, lol.
Sure. There is plenty of historical evidence to believe that restraint is likely. Top marginal tax rates have declined significantly over the last half century.

If you believe that the government cannot restrain itself, I think you'll have difficulty accounting for that basic historical fact.
I'm not sure I'm understanding your point but let me clarify my own and see if that addresses it. What I'm saying is when people use the phone search they are trying to search the phone part of the device (SMS, email, etc...). That doesn't preclude developeres from putting search in their own apps they just can't clutter up the phone search with results from their apps.

That in mind I see Apple's point here as being "we think developers will abuse search if they are allowed in and we don't think users want that so we're keeping them out". Not "Google beat us to that feature"

Apple might not be right in thinking that I'm just trying to point out that's their design philosophy and not a sign that Android has leap frogged them.
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The article (or at least the headline) frames this politically and that makes the author (or editor) a bad journalist. Everyone is required to pay sales tax for purchases made over the Internet, there's just no way for the states to enforce it. That's why most state tax forms now ask you what purchases you've made online so they can add that into the tax. If you don't answer this question truthfully, then your liable for tax evasion.
"Apple's bet is that users will reject the platform with more features in favor of the platform that works better."

For as long as Mac OS X 10.2 (that's when I jumped on board, so I can't comment about the OS 9 days), this has been how Apple has operated.

Mac OS X is actually pretty feature devoid, out-of-the-box. First thing I have to do when I get a new machine is install Google Search Box, Growl, Skitch, MarcoPolo just so it feels like it works right. I don't count these as applications; I think of them as base OS features. By laundry list of features, Windows comes out on top.

What is different is that Mac OS X's UNIX underpinnings, coupled with a thoughtful Cocoa API means that developers can fill in the gaps for power users, whereas everyone else is happy with the experience they get. I'm not sure if Apple's strategists really understand this, or if it is just the engineers. You could be forgiven for thinking the UNIX core is just some accident of history due to NeXT rather than any conscious effort.

iOS doesn't support extension like this, and it's deliberate and calculated. The App Store is not there to protect normal users, it's there to protect Apple. If you gave users the option of App Store apps and also the ability to install unsigned apps (with appropriate scary warnings), all the people Apple claims to be concerned about would function exactly as they do now, downloading from the App Store and avoiding everything else. Why would they need to do otherwise? Instead, we have an App Store that seems to be all about sticking it to Google and maintaining some Disney-esque political landscape. It's nothing like the Apple we used to know.
When last I looked, MA did not have a significantly higher taxes than other comparable states. Do you have a cite showing otherwise?

I mean, MA certainly has higher tax rates than some undeveloped backwoods rural states that have little intellectual or human capital to speak of. But it is precisely because MA has real human capital that companies like ITA Software reside there rather than in lower tax states like Mississippi.
Yes, it would be inaccurate - true americans consume much, but they also produce a great deal (even if, at present, they consume more, on average, than they produce).

This board, if any should see how Americans produce.
What are the limitations described by Mandelbrot? Does Mandelbrot show that active investing produces better returns than passive investing?
You realize there are highly skilled, entrepreneurial people willing to work for $100-200/hr, right ? Especially part time.

I'm your inverse in the sense that I'm done w/ grad school and now doing freelancing/consulting to fund my own web-based projects.

Hell, go get your degree and I'll grow your business while you're gone, all the while kicking back 20-25% of consulting income. So you'll make a passive $60k+ a year while continuing to own your operation. And I won't have to spend time looking for clients.

Trust is a real issue, of course, but there are genuine hard-working people out there. If you want to talk more, my email's in my profile.
It depends on what type of CS degree you have. MY CS degree is considered an engineering degree, mainly because my curriculum is similar to that of an engineering students. We all basically took the same core classes, from basic programming to physics, chemistry, Calc 1-3, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, probability Theory and discreet math. Then our classes after that were all project based and problem solving.

If your CS degree is like this, which many are, you already have most of the taugt engineering skills. If not, you need to go through the paces and solve problems which are above your skill level and keep doing it.
Hm, I am actually not sure what kind of searchability the OP is talking about. Of course you can't have random apps clutter a search in contacts. What happens on Android is that an App can specify that it is ready to answer certain types of searches. In certain situations, the user can choose the app he wants to search.

Lot's of useful applications for that come to mind. Do I have to ship a spell checker with my app, or can all apps share a spell checker? And so on...

Of course, yes, it could result in utter chaos, with 100reds of apps to choose from for a particular search. That kind of problem is really overblown, though, just like the multitasking problem. If an app annoys me or sucks too much energy, I just uninstall it...

That goes for pretty much any kind of "developers are going to abuse feature X" argument - annoying apps just get uninstalled, end of story.

There is a problem of potential sneaky apps, I guess. That is also existent on the iPhone, I suppose (don't they do their own user tracking), but of course there is slightly more potential with background tasks. Some common sense can eliminate most of the problems, though (ie why does an ebook reader need my GPS coordinates? Skip it).
That's the 'trinity' portion of the company, they make the control circuitry. The AFS bit is mostly research and patents, but they do engineering of composite flywheels as well.

It looks like they're 'pivoting' away from using flywheels in favor of ultracapacitors and Lithium-Ion batteries.

An older article on the topic:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/flywheel.html?pg=2&#...
@igorgue: Not trying to predict the future just stating how long it would take to catch up to present products/platforms based on how long it took Apple to create them. The nature of this question was speculative and I was basing it on some current present facts. I don't know for sure but that is the way it seems, this whole topic is about predicting the future.

So you don't think handheld devices like the iPod Touch, DS, PSP will be around in the future? iPad aside if you don't think people will use larger screen flat devices in the future.

I thought we were having a discussion not just joining the religion of 'I don't know', how fun is that? Ok then the probability of people carrying personal media, creative, entertainment, gaming devices is probably going to go up rather than down. But I don't know for sure...
The second one can be mitigated for the most part by using two flywheels that rotate in opposite directions.
Is this a general principle that you're willing to defend?

I imagine (not being the original poster) that the general principle is that the benefits of increased government revenue should be weighed against the cost (to businesses and consumers) of increased taxation.

So yes, if the current level of taxation is preventing the creation of many new businesses, we probably should reduce taxes.

By the way, purchasing an item from another state uses very little in the way of state services, far less than purchasing from local retailers.
No it isn't. Obama isn't the hospital director doing a press release about some new service, he's the US President directly addressing the citizens who elected him to solve pressing social problems.
That's actually in relation to Lithium, nothing to do with flywheels per-se.