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> [...] cause confusion: [...] ← what did I close here?

This was covered in TFA, except that JGC apparently thinks that having optional tags is an attempt at DWIM that’s more trouble than it’s worth:

> The browser magically says: “Oh, he must have meant to close that <p> tag so I'll do it for him.” [...] Given that the tags are meant to be balanced there's no reason to force the author to figure out which tags they want to balance and force them to write it down. It adds nothing.

Personally, though, I think implicit end tags are just fine, as long as they’re clearly documented and browsers have a standardized & predictable parsing approach.
Are you 100% certain of that? Most people who've purchased something labelled as unlimited have purchased a medium sized data plan. I'm suggesting selling larger ones.
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I often pull up the article and the comments in new tabs, and read whichever loads first, first.
Depends on the post; certain topics lead to interesting conversations and have useful links.
That's what's so frustrating about this whole situation... most people seem to be getting much better wireless performance from the 4 than any previous iPhone.

But, Apple's a company selling devices to the public, and they have to factor in the way "the public" works. And the public knows all about this issue at this point (that the issue exists, that is — not the details of the issue)... and that could have been foreseen. So even if the design is "the best" according to Apple's particularly chosen set of engineering tradeoffs, it still seems apparent they should've used some sort of coating or something.
Good find. Note that the Fall2005 offering includes solutions to the assignments and in-class problems while Spring2005, the one linked, does not.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Everyone makes mistakes. It's how you respond to it that makes the difference.

Exactly. I think Steve Jobs responding to a customer's email with "Don't hold it that way" was one of the worst responses ever to a growing PR problem.
It has been designed for teaching so there is a lot of material on their site geared towards learning. As part of that, it has a nice set of tools that make it easy to get started.

There are a lot of books that teach intro to programming in scheme so there is plenty of offline material as well. The little schemer, SICP, How To Design Programs.

See http://docs.racket-lang.org/.

It also has an active mailing list that is quite noob friendly.

EDIT: oh yes, and it is very a 'batteries included' environment. so you can worry about learning the language rather than getting your environment setup.
It's not for me, (mate & vim have yet to fail me), but always nice to see development.

Anyone else think it looks like it was made for MacOS 10.1 though?
Yup. NASDAQ will even tell you what the current latencies are for their coloc:
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Microseconds indeed.

Alternatively, you might consider going overseas if you aren't prepared to pay coloc fees and do custom FPGA or realtime work. Some of the exchanges, particularly in Asia (except Japan) still have clearing times measured in seconds.
I found that long term, the comments get out of sync with the html and eventually breeds confusion.
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Heading to a gig for 7:30 so can't stay long - but looking forward to it!
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Sure, but people going there come from normal life, which might have shaped their expectations.

Anyway, I am not really interested in the subject, so I shouldn't have commented.

Edit: I am confused what the discussion is even about. Apparently those men were surprised. What is the point then of arguing that they should not have been surprised? Doesn't the fact that they were surprised kind of imply that they don't meet many tech-savvy women on average? What is there to discuss?
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The recent rewording of the interpreted languages clause of the App Store agreement ought to allow CouchDB to run embedded in an application.

I hacked on it a bit at Open-Source Bridge last month; didn't even finish getting Erlang compiled. It's all gravy until you get to the bootstrapping step, which may in fact require a jailbreak, or much more Erlang-fu than I have.

And unless every app uses its own couch, you could argue that it's of marginal utility to run CouchDB on the iPhone because of its limited support for "real" multitasking. (You can't use your phone as the couch in your pocket for all your desktop apps, or something like that.) However, CouchDB's focus on replication and the offline use case make it useful as a dead-easy cloud cache and service.
And there are also libraries in other languages as well. For eg:

* There's Builders in Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org/Builders)

* Markaby in Ruby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markaby)

* and Markapl and Template::Declare in Perl (http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Markapl & http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Template%3A%3ADeclare).

Here is the snippet in blogpost using Markapl:

div('.red') {
p { "hello world" }
}

Also see related HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=705698
Well, if it makes kids practice concentrating, it's kinda useful right ?
This smacks of the kind of news you see on The Today Show. I wouldn't be alarmed by this, we're a pretty adaptable species. Just stay active in your free time and you'll be fine. Sheesh.
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Well, maybe you think the guy's toplessness was a minor point because you're not in the target group, i.e. women. I forwarded that link to a few of my colleagues (was that a sexist thing to do?) and they absolutely swooned over the guy, so it was a major thing for them.

But that's exactly my point: even though the guy's physique did nothing for me, there was still plenty for me to love in the campaign. As opposed to the Evony banner ads, on the other hand, which offer absolutely nothing to anyone not impressed by cleavage.

The bottom line: for a lot of products, sex sells. The only question is how tactfully it is done.

And this relates to my other point: some products are more inherently sexual than others. The entire premise of the Old Spice product (not just the campaign) is based on making oneself more attractive to the opposite sex. This is different than, say, Cisco Routers, where there is no natural connection between the sex used to sell the product, and the product itself.
I know it's the original article title, but it's misleading. They didn't axe, the team, they cut 40 of 180 after the product launch. What is so extraordinary about that?
Isn't firing a majority of the developers a normal thing to do for game development after the title is released?
While this post deals with interesting ideas and issues, the writing wanders and leaves out enough detail to make the final product unsatisfying.

The author claims people believe items have essences for cognitive and evolutionary reasons. Fair enough claim but I see no real evidence even after following the links. The Zen story is nice but somewhat tangential to the original claim.

Indeed scanning the links, I gradually get the impression the entire blog involves a stream of appealing ideas lacking details and coherence. The whole exercise seems "not even wrong" but like a wandering between interesting, related but "mushy" ideas, something of a poster-boy for the bad kind of web-generated fuzzy thinking.

One example of a paragraph that in a link that bothered me in it's level of non-communication: "I learned this lesson when I was an intern at a software company in Silicon Valley. I was debating with my boss about what kind of copy should go on our new site, MaviShare.com. This was in the days before data-driven decision making became universally embedded in start-up culture (the correct answer to the debate is really “who cares? Try it and see, and let the results speak for themselves”). Anyway, he asked his MBA girlfriend (now wife), and she said, “People like steps.” It’s a lesson I took to heart." (What "copy" - "ad copy"? The "copy utility". Anyway, the reader simply never discovers where the "steps" come in, in either meaning of "copy", and I found this incompletely expressed idea psychically bothersome enough to complain here. What's the lesson? What?? It's not in the earlier or later paragraphs either). See http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/06/why-games-are-fun-the-psy...
actually, not. by 'our world' i meant programming (or even web-programming) world. lots of innovations, at least web, were brought by ruby people. afterall, clojure is getting popular among rubyists. maybe, it's more about ruby guys being more interested in new stuff, maybe not. they're developing libraries, hack it, use it, post stuff about it and, let's say, advertise it.
Yeah, it does have the Java Swing Look. Which is to say it almost gets it right, but there are quite a handful of things that look alien. Us Mac people are nitpicky.
Analysis of illegal GPL code inside of Thesis
In theory I agree with you, on the other hand they tend to be hot and they are human beings after all. Maybe while they are paid to do it, they don't mind having a good time on their job.

It's a similar problem with waitresses (some places). But many waitresses I talked to actually enjoy their jobs and do occasionally make friends among customers.
Compared to many of the alternatives, Javas is very friendly. There aren't too many ways you can shoot yourself in the head, and it mostely does what you would expect it to do.
Apple's charm is wearing off
It's pretty obvious here that this article is poking fun at all the sensationalism:

Perhaps most importantly, what will happen if the kids move onto harder stuff like Steve Reich, Philip Glass or even Janet Cardiff’s installation, “The Killing Machine“?
End of the news romantics
With the encrypted bootloader it's a a challenge to crack it, see if you're "worthy", etc. With eFuse, all bets are off, that's not fair
Can you patent a page turn?
I am certainly no expert on the subject, but I think the quality of the experience can also vary a lot, depending on the location and women involved.
The API Key/Access Information should be kept secret. At a minimum I can get some account, campaign information, etc.
No private information like Credit Card numbers is available.
I think most Mac users (okay, i'm generalising) have become used to their software looking good. There are already many editors for OS X that have simple, elegant interfaces and that follow Mac interface guidelines. e.g. Textmate, Coda, Espresso, even Xcode and MacVim to a point.

In my opinion Ultraedit for Mac is ugly and looks like what it is, a port of some Windows software. I'm sure it's a fantastically powerful editor and this might seem shallow, but this is enough to stop me from using it. If I'm going to stare at an interface all day it needs to be visually pleasing.
> going out and searching for something on your own

Shockingly, many big companies don't search for products/services they need. They muddle along doing the same thing for 10 years completely unaware that things have changed. The best way to inform them that you've got something that might help them is cold calling or targeted advertising. It's depressing but true.
Valid point. A person can make anything, and in this case make 2M work for the rest of their life, their true #1 priority is a dangerous person depending on that priority ;)
The HTC incredible is basically the same hardware as the Nexus One. I'm pretty happy with mine so far.
Wow. Banning iPods at schools because of this? Surely teachers must realise this is all bullshit?
He gets more specific later in the article. It seems that the key to effective cold calling is patience and seeing things from the prospect's perspective.

Cold-calling is difficult for most people because they don't have the patience to understand the prospect's needs and help the prospect understand his own needs and how the product they're selling can help meet them. Bad salespeople try to convince prospects to buy their product.

Once you understand the basic principles of effective selling, it's up to you to creatively apply these principles in your own situation. There is no one true cold-calling technique in selling just as there is no one true programming technique. The best you can do is study the basic principles and examples of their application.
What will 'data science' teach us?
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I often wonder about the security of add-ons, and whether training users to install them willy-nilly is a good security practice.

As for this one, I would have been wary due to the way the developer seemed to think 'u' is a word. It's the little things that can tip you off that at least, something might not be of professional quality.
I know pg is constantly tweaking the comments algorithms, so perhaps this is why lately I've noticed very few comments with more than 5 or so karma points. Many months/years ago, you'd come to the comments and there's be a couple really great comments at the top. So much so that it I didn't need to read the article.

Lately however, I've noticed that the top comments all have one or maybe two karma points. Sometimes I can scroll down and find a comment with 30+ points, but the ones above it are one liners and not really interesting. Overall, the comments have become less interesting.

It's like a lot of barking dogs, short quips, lack of insight. The commenters seem like they don't want to add value, but rather, want to get their username on the board or something.
Gendai Games Raises Over $1 Million For iPhone And iPad Game Creation Tool
That's what Matt's saying too. Only the PHP files in the theme are GPL.
Can anyone provide technical articles discussing the iPhone 4's antenna? How it compares to other phones, for example.

There are too many anecdotal stories. Personally, I'd like to see the issue quantified.
We have a difference of opinion on what is 'friendly'. I don't consider protecting me from shooting myself in the head to be 'friendly', I would call that 'paternalistic'.

I would call allowing me to easily express what I want 'friendly'. I find lisps, smalltalk and their brethren to be friendly under my definition.
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as though the ability to raise money equates to the ability to make money. It doesn't.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

I used to work for a well-run small tech company that was basically an automatic money machine for the owner: a self-taught engineer. Then he decided he wanted to sell and take a few years off so he sold it to a group of "professional businessmen" who were great at raising the cash to buy the business. Sales began to tank within months and a few years later it was out of business even though the new owners kept pouring money into it (hint: if you bought a wildly profitable business, having to inject your own cash to keep it afloat should be a sign of something wrong!!).

They came up with every excuse in the book at every juncture, but anyone working there knew the real reason: they didn't have an f'ing clue what the hell they were doing!

OK, I deleted the rest of the rant :-) The real problem was that these guys acquired a successful lifestyle business and wanted to to scale it rapidly. Nothing wrong with that, but the problem was that because they were so well connected to capital, they completely ignored the point that in their previous companies, there were entire departments devoted to making good use of that cash after it was raised. But in this tiny business they had just bought, they would have to make those decisions or delegate them. Since the only people they could delegate to were two young engineers (who, of course, couldn't possibly know more about the business than they did!! - yes this is sarcasm!) that was simply not going to happen.

So instead we got to watch them make expensive mistake after expensive mistake until the cash ran out, all the while wondering how people so stupid could manage to raise so much money.
I always thought it came from Robert Evans, the film producer. He mentions the phrase several times in his autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture that came out in 1994.

I recommend this book, by the way. It's strangely inspiring. Get the audiobook for the full effect.
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I'm not sure if we're there yet with the incentives to use an LBS (super low penetration/still in early adopter phase), but this is probably the best effort to date to drive the mainstream to try this stuff out
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That's scary because Web 2.0 companies aren't the be-all end-all of the world. We're in a decidedly fantastic spot, don't get me wrong. However, people are going to need batteries that last longer, they'll want windows in their houses that change shade, or soil that repairs and replenishes itself (South America looking at you.) This type of thing takes the hard money web companies don't need. It's the real source of growth.
I think a simpler explanation is that IPOs simply weren't a good idea for most technology firms, which is part of what led to the dot-com crash.
To be fair, TextMate hasn't evolved much in the last 5 years.
Here's what Rich Hickey (our BDFL) has to say:

For veteran lisp hackers
http://clojure.blip.tv/file/1313398/

For people just finding lisp
http://blip.tv/file/982823
I'm sure part of the reason for this is an increase in their clients asking for a Mac port. A Windows user moving to Mac might like to keep the things he's used to if he can. Having more than one test editor isn't a bad thing for the Mac. Having software ported over just makes the transition easier for those that want to move over. It's a good thing. =)
Racket is great, and I'm not trying to pick nits, but it's not a Lisp, it's a Scheme dialect. If you want to learn pure Lisp, I'd recommend Paul Graham's book, On Lisp, which is available online for free.

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
I give it a few days before some small-town "legit" news organization references this article as proof, totally missing the sarcasm in the article.
Complying with the license to avoid breaking the law and risking a lawsuit is usually a very compelling argument for a business person. But not this one, that much is clear.
I can just imagine the reaction if it had been Apple releasing a phone that self-destructed when you modded it. Since this is Android - and Android is 'open' - expect the story to fall into news-cycle oblivion by next week.

Where's the outrage now?
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2

Edit: Here's a pertinent quote from that article...

"So, an entire day and more than a quarter tank of gas later, here are the results. Holding the iPhone 4 without a case, in your left hand, crossing the black strip can result in a worst case drop of 24 dB in signal. As we'll show in a second, how you hold the phone makes a huge difference across every smartphone - and we've tested thoroughly in 5 different positions.

Now, there are two vastly different possibilities for what happens to the bar visualization after you drop 24 dB. I happen to live less than one block from an AT&T UMTS tower (it's across the street, literally), and have exceptionally strong signal in all of my house - it's part of why I chose to live here, actually. Signal is above -65 dBm in every single room, in most cases it's at -51 dBm. When I incur that worst case drop of 24 dB from squeezing the phone, I fall down to -83 dBm, which is still visualized as 5 bars.

However, in locales that have less signal, but where iOS still displays 5 bars, the drop of 24 dB is visualized much differently. For example, at another test location, signal without holding the phone is -89 dBm, which is still displayed as 5 bars. Cup the phone, and you'll fall all the way to -113 dBm. All the bars dramatically disappear one after the other, people think they've dramatically lost all the signal, and you know the rest."
SOX took effect in late 2002, but the big seismic shift had happened by 2001 (look at the drop-off in IPOs between 2000 and 2001, which never recovered). Seems like the dot-com crash leading to greatly decreased public demand for tech shares is a lot more likely explanation.
I find that believable because Thesis was a waste of money. I'm more comfortable picking and choosing which plugins and themes I want to use and getting into the code if I have to. Thesis never came me anything faster than I could do with the those things alone. Their most compelling argument to me was the structure/SEO claims which were never well explained. None of my sites, Thesis or otherwise, ever did well from an SEO standpoint, so in that respect I have no preference.

To me it seems like they just got popular because they were promoted on Copyblogger with a huge readership and all of it's partners/affiliates. You can't go to a site about copywriting/SEO/online marketing/Wordpress/blogging without getting hit over the head about how "Thesis is the greatest thing ever".
Not everyone uses C# and SQL to write their webapps. Or for that matter, even OOP.
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My only problem with markaby is that all the do ... end for blocks sort of defeats the purpose for me. not completely but partially. that said, i often use it.
MS is sacrificing a potentially large revenue stream here. You have to ask why. I think it's because they realize that some businesses are going to look at Mac/Linux environment with Google Docs or Zoho and realize that it's not that much harder to switch.
are there any lecture videos available for this course?
from wglb in yesterday's discussion[1]: "In Soul of a New Machine, there is talk about the formation of Data General in 1969. The attorney advising the founders suggested that they set aside $1m each as part of any deal for the purpose of FU money. The usage may predate even that." (The book was published in 1981.)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1513390 ; Replies to the parent comment include other 1980s references to the term.
I agree the Facebook Connect was enough to scare me off. I did end up signing up, but didn't actually post any information because I don't care to connect with people on my/through my Facebook account.

For example, I thought about using my "Do/Don't" as a funny resource for hackers but none of my Facebook peeps really apply.

By the way, I LOVE the write up. What a great way of circumventing the inevitable ridicule by doing it yourself.