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I had to take an online course last year. I found it interesting because the instructor had questions on the exams where we had to write essays on a certain topics. The online course I took before that, 3 years earlier, only consisted of multiple choice and True/False.

I talked to the professor after the course just to make sure I understood the content, and one of his remarks was that student's essays where too short. The problem, I think, was that text boxes were ~10 rows, so the students would fill in those 10 rows and think they were done.

Online learning is still new, but I think there are tons of improvements that can be made in order to make it a bit easier for everyone to understand.
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I agree the relational model is much closer to optimal than SQL.

Looking at JQuery as a query language was a breath of fresh air, and made me realize how wonderful a query language can be, and how capable the software community can be.

The relational model is not a sane way to store a book, a compressed song, a code base, or many other things.

SQL databases are a great way to store some kinds of data.

The relational model is not a way to store anything since there are no implementations which are both faithful to the model and solid data stores.

Real world SQL data stores are suboptimal in different ways for almost all tasks, so progress is possible.

Ultimately a disks (and memory) is get and put. Anything model we put above that makes some assumptions, and they may be the wrong ones.

So where are we going. Here is what I think: requiring the articulation of the domain twice, once for a datastore, and once for application, is spitting on humanity in a grotesque and obscene way, so SQL must die.
He might know it as fake ipad. Knockoffs can be competitors.
My guess is that my recollection, connection, and linking to the concept of the BED is being upvoted more than my math abilities.
you're going to become the industry leader in xyz? ah, ok.
Yeah, I hope that gets rolled out more widely. I love buying stuff from Amazon, but do feel a little guilty about all the packaging.
This is what I did last year when buying books. They used my .edu address to verify that I was at a university, but sent notifications to my Gmail.

My university has since moved to Microsoft's Live service- retaining the .edu extension. I will try to see if the plus(+) notion works with it.
Judging from the comment thread[1], it looks like that's already happening.

The top rated comment starts, "As someone who donated..."

And from the second highest comment, 'I will not be "donating" money to a corporation which has shown no real initiative in growing the site.'

That said, I think any drama would just be background noise for the vast majority of users. People go to reddit for entertaining links and funny or interesting comments. Drama doesn't threaten that.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/cotz3/this_wa...
No, I know entanglement changes are instantaneous, I just thought exactly what you're confirming; that you can't communicate with it.
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do"

May be Ballmer should stop trying to act cool and confident. His PR appearances are not helping them in PR.

Microsoft may be too large to fail in many verticals, but mobile and web are definitely not their strong points.
I've worked for a publisher of technical books and written a small technical book. They are very very rarely lucrative for the author. However, they almost always bring a lot of clout and usually involve learning a subject at a deeper level than you normally would. So, usually it's worthwhile to write at least one if you have the opportunity.

There are a couple of things to keep in mind:

1. Books often challenge an author's discipline and then become extremely painful exercises. With most programming you get regular feedback. Many authors go months without getting any feedback at all. So, be aware, time management is important.

2. In my opinion, longevity of the information you're writing about matters more than anything. The primary benefit of writing a technical book is getting to claim to be an expert for awhile (that and helping people). If you were to write a Javascript book in the O'Reilly cookbook style (how to find the length of an array, etc.) you could expect to be a javascript expert for many years. If you were to write an Android Application Development book, you might only have a year. I published my book (a pocket reference for O'Reilly) in 2003 and landed my biggest client this year because the technical decision maker had a copy on his desk. That's why I'm a believer in evergreen topics.

3. Lucrative means $50-100k. I have a friend who tells a story about how the car he drives came from his first royalty check, $42k. That's a lot, right? Maybe he made $100k on that book for three months of work. But it's not repeatable. The way that it became lucrative for him is that he parlayed that into high dollar consulting and eventually CTO of a well funded database startup. If you're savvy about picking a topic with some interest, you should expect to make $10-20k lifetime. That's less than you'd make in salary.

4. Get co-authors. I think that's the most efficient way to write a book. That way you're not responsible for the entire thing.
"Observing" is another way of saying "affecting the state of."
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yeah the Kin actually contains a rack of servers
I'd bet that the UPS truck works out to be more fuel-efficient than doing it in a private automobile, actually. The UPS truck is carrying the stuff for a whole neighborhood (or at least general vicinity). That's gotta be more efficient than dozens of individual trips each carrying a small load.

The individual packaging is another story.
You have a good point. However, when you have the number of users they have, some interesting things might happen that wouldn't if they tried to develop all the new features themselves.
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My startup office looks exactly like my living room for some strange reason. Part of it also looks exactly like the spare bedroom in my apartment. And the "break room" looks just like my kitchen. Weird, huh?

All joking aside, my spare bedroom doubles as my office/lab/library, but I do most of my work in the living room. Right now there's a gaming chair sitting in the middle of the floor, in front of the TV, and there are stacks of books off the the left, another stack of books on my right, a big pile of magazines behind that stack of books, and behind me is the dinner table, which is doubling as a repository for more books, magazines. notebooks, scraps of paper, etc. On the walls around me are a total five big whiteboards, and in the corner is one of those cheap metal & fiberboard tables, with a pile of PC hardware (some in use, some waiting to be used, and some waiting to be thrown out) on it. In the other corner is a big pile of old Sun boxes, most of which I should probably just pitch in the bin, since I'm probably never going to use them at this point. Cloud Computing, ya know? Slicehost / Linode / EC2 have kinda removed my need to keep a lot of physical hardware around.

Oh, and there are two mountain bikes and a BMX bike in another corner of the room, taking up space. That's my world these days.... computers, books, magazines and bicycles. And notebooks, lots of notebooks... I still like to brainstorm on paper a lot of times. One of those artist style notebooks (blank/unlined paper), a drafting pencil and a box of colored pencils and I'm set.
Depends on which section you read. I introduced my fiancee to /r/IAmA and she thinks reddit is mostly about child molesting drug-dealers who fly fighter-jets and rescue endangered species, because they were raised in a polygamist cult family living in the Everest base camp.

To me it's mostly proggit, hastily scanned once every 1-2 days.
Looking at the top free/paid apps is a pretty good strategy, search, or word of mouth. The App Store promotes exploration by having good descriptions/screenshots, categorizations, colorful icons, clean text, etc. It's almost automatic for me to pop into the App Store to see what's new almost every time I pickup my iPad.
>Digg is approximately 8 times as big, lets hope that's the measurement error.

Could somebody please explain this sentiment to me? I feel like all the "cool kids" are constantly falling over one another to talk about who hates digg the most.

Is there some trove of horrible things that Kevin Rose has done floating around somewhere or something? I used to watch diggnation every week, and he genuinely seemed like an incredibly nice guy. Why so much hate for him? He's living what I think a lot of us dream about. He's got an incredibly popular website, he's got tons of funding, he's got lots of very brilliant engineers working for him, and he's really really young...

He's living the freaking life, guys, and as far as I can tell he hasn't ever done anything to deserve all the hatred.

As far as digg itself goes...why is it always being comparied to reddit? To me, this is about as apt as comparing reddit to msnbc.com; they're not even in the same category of websites.

Digg is very link-centric. It's all about links, lots an lots of links.

Reddit, on the other hand, is all about comments.

I guess a good comparison would be youtube vs some very popular web forums. On reddit, it's all about the discussion. the comment system they put together is freaking outstanding (when it's working), and that is why people go to the site. Digg is more like youtube; nobody really cares about youtube comments (they're mostly crap anyway), they're there for the video.

Digg and reddit are fundamentally different. Please stop comparing them, and please let me know what it is that everybody hates so much about the former.
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GLaD to see they're still alive ;-)
Some very good tech companies are coming out of Australia these days. Watch this space for more good news.
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Talk to the guys at sparkfun. They do that sort of thing all the time.
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Ask HN: How did you learn about the design/architecture of backend systems ?
I'm interested in learning the backend systems of Facebook, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Loopt or any other startups. I'm mainly interested in design/architecture and scaling.
That's the difference between a mature and a young market.

In the earlier days of motoring, the Kia equivalent would have competed with Lexus. No one would have known, for example, whether Lexus is luxury, Kia is budget or both.
What is so great about node.js? libevent has been around for ages, and it's got Python bindings (pyevent)...
How about when the poverty rate of blacks in your country is not 25%? Or when the average black family has perhaps 80% or 90% of the income of the average white family, up from the current 60%?
Whoa whoa whoa, I don't think reddit has even close to 8 million active users. I'd say much closer to about 100,000.

The announcement section, which is included by default, and low traffic enough that I doubt anybody unsubscribes, has 300,000 users. Even if they're retaining 30% of their users (and keeping them as active), that still isn't even close to 8 million.
This was even more helpful IMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCZuYzNujI
Why are you still posting when there's science to do?
You have still not made it clear. Do you REALLY want a score-only based systems that is going to clearly favour people from one small area of the U.S, or do you just not want minorities to get in easier?

What do you think of the fact that score based systems will lead to a very one-track kind of thinking process coming out of those schools?
I'm still not the world's foremost expert, but what I do know I've learned through a combination of trial and error, reading books (I'll edit this later and put in a couple of specific titles), reading stuff on the 'Net and classes I took in school (I did a degree in "High Performance Computing" which had some useful aspects to it).

A good place to start, if you're not already familiar with it, is High Scalability: http://highscalability.com/

Edit: book recommendations:

Scalable Internet Architectures -

http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Theo-S...

Linux Clustering - Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters - http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Clustering-Building-Maintaining-...

High Performance Linux Clusters - http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Clusters-OpenMosix-Nutshel...

Linux Enterprise Cluster - http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Enterprise-Cluster-Available-Com...

Java Message Service - http://www.amazon.com/Java-Message-Service-Mark-Richards/dp/...

Java Message Service API Tutorial and Reference - http://www.amazon.com/Java-Message-Service-Tutorial-Referenc...

Enterprise JMS Programming - http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-JMS-Programming-Professiona...

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide - http://www.amazon.com/Hadoop-Definitive-Guide-Tom-White/dp/0...

Pro Hadoop - http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Hadoop-Jason-Venner/dp/1430219424/...

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_nothing_architecture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_%28database_architecture%...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish/subscribe

It's important to understand the difference between vertical scaling and horizontal scaling. Horizontal is very en vogue these days, especially with commodity hardware. Why? Because you can add power incrementally without spending tons of money upfront, and without requiring a "forklift upgrade" (that is a reference to needing a forklift to bring in a new mainframe or minicomputer). This is a pretty good article on the topic:

http://www.scalingout.com/2007/10/vertical-scaling-vs-horizo...

As popular as horizontal scaling is, don't ignore the possibilities of going to bigger hardware though. It has it's own advantages, especially when you start talking about physical floor space to store servers.

Of course "cloud computing" changes some of this, both by making it cheap and easy to add VPS's to scale horizontally, or by making it possible (sometimes) to easily add more processing power, RAM, etc. to your "server." Read up on Xen, KVM, EC2, etc. for more on that whole deal.
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Nope. I (a customer of Rogers Canada) have never experienced a single dropped call, or any static, or even anything less than three bars of service, in my last two years of iPhone ownership. I never hear any stories from anyone around here about such things, either; only read them online. I do believe it's your shitty cell infrastructure. :)
I agree. The OP seems to fall into the camp that, if ORM can't replicate everything that you would do in native SQL, then therefore ORM is bad. Which is absolute nonsense of course.

I just don't see how the pure SQL people and ORM people are philosophical opponents, other than how ORM tools make dealing with SQL (which is an awesome, proven technology) so much easier, I suppose it could theoretically be a threat to their livelihood. The way I see it, they are partners in the same cause.

I'm the same as you, I write applications that need to store and interact with data. The difference between using an ORM or not is like light and day, and for me, this constitutes 90% of my work. Certainly, there are situations where it is just common sense to drop down to raw SQL (and if your ORM doesn't support this, you are screwed), but people like the OP seem to subscribe to the "throw the baby out with the bathwater" philosophy of life....if you can find a single problem with a solution, throw the whole thing out.

This is one of those arguments that will never, ever go away. I used to be passionate about the subject, but I don't care much anymore. The anti-ORM people will continue to say it doesn't work (ever), while the pragmatists will continue to use ORM because it does work, and for the edge cases, they will drop down into pure SQL, which most developers know very intimately anyways.

On a related topic, how many DBA's have you met that understand SQL, query plans, etc deeply, and have a strong knowledge of database system tables (as well as you do as a developer?) Most DBA's I've met basically follow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
>nobody really cares about youtube comments (they're mostly crap anyway)

This is true for funny 30-second videos with millions of views and the like, but there are plenty of youtube videos on niche subjects that will never accumulate more than a few thousand views, all from like-minded people. The comment threads on these videos are a completely different matter.
Where does he say he hates Kevin Rose? Also, The National Enquirer and the New York Times aren't similar in function / category but I can still compare them. (Not to say that that'd be a completely fair analogy to Digg vs Reddit, but you get the idea.)
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Ask HN: How do you go about finding development jobs abroad?
Hi HN. I've been reading these boards for a while and have noticed that many user's live and work in their non-native country.
I'm 27, live in the UK, have 5 years development experience and would like to live and work in another country for a year or two whilst I'm still young (preferably Japan).
What resources are out there for people like me wanting to work abroad?
Is it best to work for a large company, in my case in the UK, and hope a position opens up in an office overseas?
How big is the language barrier to gain an overseas job (i'm studying Japanese but it will be a few years before I'm anywhere near competant).
Thanks
your thread exemplifies how the Internet is awesome :)
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A lot of the popular Android handsets out there have their share of problems too. When the N1 came out people were demanding recalls over the 3G switching problem and multi-touch problems. The EVO has that weird 30FPS cap and battery issues, the Droid still has a battery cover problem 8 months later, The Eris/Incredible have the "silent call bug" Seems like the pressures to produce new models every 6-12 months with major software updates over the same time period is starting to catch up with everyone these days. I think if we're going to keep demanding lower prices, more frequent releases and keep up the OMG I need it on launch day or I'll just die! attitudes we're going to keep getting shoddy products.
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I'm sure Kevin's a great guy, but his site is not him. I was regular there for a few months and there was a marked decline in link and comment quality. Eventually, I gave up and left. Many people on reddit share the same experience.

But nonetheless, I have never 'hated' on digg. The site has changed and I realize it's not for me anymore. I'm sure there are many users that love it the way it is, just not me.
>Where does he say he hates Kevin Rose?

He didn't. Which is exactly why I didn't say or imply that he did. What he did say, and what I did address is expressing sadness that digg is successful. The question about the Kevin Rose hatred was a question about the general dislike for him that a lot of geeks show and was not directed at OP specifically.

>The National Enquirer and the New York Times aren't similar in function / category but I can still compare them.

And I can compare a bottle rocket to a pile of bananas, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a completely and totally worthless comparison.
Most reddit users probably don't have accounts.
Maybe because it makes that 90% legacy code useable?
> I think it's too easy to pirate and return apps on android

It is indeed easy, and I think Google should be praised for choosing a business model that favors users over carriers (or themselves).
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music

or look at http://www.berklee.edu/
On this note, any blogs/learning sites/videos that teach working with hardware? Computer and Electrical engineering basics...
Can you give us some syntax examples?
Hmm, good point. The 8 million number comes from the blog post. Maybe the vast majority of people who visit the site don't bother to create an account?
"No one starts off with programming, it's usually WYSIWYG or similar paradigms."

Or Excel.

People do the weirdest things with it, folks who would be perplexed if you suggested that their improvised use of a spreadsheet made them a hacker.
Some interesting ideas ....

- Make it easy for people to get TED talks via. BitTorrent with recommendations

- Share your torrents with friends in a Blippy style feed

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Although the identifying info from those screenshots is scrubbed, the comments say the R-URI is basically user@ip:port. This is interesting: there's no SIP proxy in between.

Unfortunately I see "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" when I go to that page but your comment makes me wonder whether they are doing SIP URI discovery via DNS-SD[1] given their penchant for DNS-SD.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lee-sip-dns-sd-uri-03 (ignore the stuff about mDNS and substitute Wide-area Bonjour)
Excellent response, I was wondering that a little myself as to why a TRO was issued for something from 5 or more years ago. The jurisdiction issue also popped immediately to mind as Zuckerberg was presumably at Harvard at the time and Facebook is a Delaware company which to me would immediately put it under the interstate commerce clause and thus Federal jurisdiction.

I have to admit hearing the things I've heard about Zuck this guy seems like the perfect business partner for him.

On another tangent, isn't pretty much everything ICC now after the SCOTUS declared growing pot for yourself in your closet interstate commerce?