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I mean this in the nicest possible way, but: do you actually read tech books? and which kinds?

Speaking for myself, I've found that I make nearly zero use of technical reference books. K&R is about the only counterexample that I can think of. In fact, for me, buying a book about some technology seems like it decreases the chances of me actually learning it.

I read non-technology-specific non-reference books, but sadly a lot slower than I buy.

Working in a second hand bookstore for most of my student years drilled home to me that for most people, self included, buying books is many times easier (and more frequent) than reading them.
(Despite this, I still <3 books.)
Out of interest - how accurate do you think the distances are? Between my bike computer, Garmin footpod and Google Maps I get three different distances.
I think that sentence is unfair. If you have a job and small children, it's easy to be so exhausted after putting them to bed that there is no energy left to think about anything important.

It's true of course that children are the handiest excuse around. But it's also true that once you start down the job-and-family highway it can be exceedingly difficult to get onto an exit. The implication here -- that if you're not pursuing some major third thing, it's because you're lazier or care less than people who (under considerably different circumstances) are pursuing that thing, is glib.

While there are ways out of this dilemma, they require more than re-sorting your todo list and cutting back on the online poker. Failing that, the default rule seems to be "Job, family, school, startup, pick two".
Maybe the "best" were the ones that taught him the most? Yes, teaching is not valued by the people who are hiring professors. That is precisely the issue raised by the original article.
Will do. Thanks for the encouraging words.
No, imagine liquidity as a keg of beer. If you drink some, it tastes great. If you drink some more, you feel dizzy, and eventually you wake up with a really ugly girl in your bed.

When using analogies, some explanation is helpful.
Everyone understands that high liquidity is beneficial: it lowers the cost of capital thus allowing businesses to expand. But have researchers ever quantified the liquidity premium reduction provided by HFT versus the economic rents extracted by the traders? Depending on the ratio, society might actually be better off with a little less liquidity.
Say goodbye to traditional venture rounds
> iPad is far superior for heavily formatted text

True in theory, not so much in practice. After having read a couple of books in iBooks, the books mostly seem like hasty OCR jobs (Ender's Game, while a fantastic book, definitely showed this). The iPad has the capability to do great formatting, but publishers don't seem to be doing a whole lot with it. For example, in Ender's Game, there's a little snippet of conversation before each chapter. In print it's very clearly differentiated with italics, the iBooks version lacks even that. Curiously, I seem to notice far fewer formatting problems with the Kindle app.
I thought Arrington was right on the money. Best talk out of all of them.
This idea is pretty cool. I think the fee is resonable but maybe the website should use some of its income to contribute back to the dares.
That's a very valid option, and we're giving it a lot of thought (come on board and think with us!)

Our business itself is open though, so anyone welcome to join us (no permission needed from anyone) and contribute to the code base, and gain equity.

As a member of b​e​t​t​e​r​m​e​a​n​s​, you still can't take the code and run it elsewhere, but you do get full access to it in order to contribute to it.

So it's more 'shared' source, and 'open' business.

My sense is the wordpress business model works with very large numbers, and an already established community. Two things we don't have.
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I've often thought about something along these lines - not to run a whole marathon as was originally suggested, more like: "I'm going to run 4 miles after work tonight at an 8:00 min/mi pace, anyone want to join me?"

I definitely think this idea's got legs...
pg: “The way of the future is no fixed amount, no fixed closing date, and no lead.”

This concept is unfamiliar to me? What does it mean? What compromises a "rolling" financing deal?
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Yeah, you really need to ask for code tests not existing code you did outside of work.
Yeah, that last part made the article sound like it was attempting to dissuade other programmers from choosing to strike out on their own, as if it had been written by management.

But listening to management about job security is absurd, at least these days it is.
While this was going on, their copy of Bingo Card Creator has been relentlessly polling the server: “Has she bought it yet? Has she bought it yet? Has she bought it yet?” It does this by passing the same random ID to a web service running on the server. If the transaction has been consumated, BCC will learn the Registration Key, and then automatically upgrade itself to the registered version. This removes a /major/ source of customer support complaints, since Registration Key management is a hard concept for many shareware customers to grasp. From the customer’s perspective, she just got done putting her details into Paypal, and by the time she closes the browser (after ignoring the instructions) and goes back to Bingo Card Creator, it already says “Thanks for your purchase!” That little psychic saves me hours every month in support email.

I wish all trial software did this!

A definite usability improvement and just generally better for both parties. The usual email with the reg key for later use should also be sent, of course, but saving that hassle for me when I just want to get on with using what I've just bought is a very nice touch.
I use multiple languages in my day job. For the majority of tasks, I use Ada (with some low-level C and Assembly thrown in). For recent support tasks, I have used Python for scripting purposes and Visual Basic for creating macro-based spreadsheets.

Depending on your definition of programming language, I also regularly use LabVIEW to interface with test equipment and MATLAB for simulation and analysis.
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Except that when the liquidity is most needed it disappears. Example the market fall on May 6th of this year. http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/apple-mi...
Nifty. I've been using gmaps pedometer for the same, but this is much smoother. The big missing feature for me though is the ability to export to gpx so that I can import on the dailymile.com.
Which is exactly what I advocated for in "How my startup went IPO and skipped VC funding" http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/06/23/how-my-startup-went-...

A rolling deal is when angels keep showing up over time and send you more money, rather than you setting a fixed date saying "on August 1st, I need 10 angels with $100,000 each, or my company is bankrupt".
Red Hat is making pretty good money supporting GPL'd software, over $700 million in FY 2010.
There are two sides to every trade.

The sophisticated Bob fund is trying to fool the markets into thinking that demand for AAPL has not increased. I.e., Bob is trying to keep inside information hidden and trade in such a way that he captures all the profits from this information himself. A predatory trader (algorithm or human) will bid up the prices, thereby capturing part of the gains of trade for themselves and part of it for the other market participants.

So basically, while Bob pays more, the retail investor Bob is buying from receives more (and of course, the predator takes a cut).
Is running each code as a separate process really scalable?
Honestly, I think this one is way beyond an undergraduate project. You aren't the first one to think Python should be parallelized: many smart people have tried to do it and gotten nowhere. Some of the other libraries mentioned here will be a more reasonable size (unless "unit" means PhD :-).
>b) is taking all the risks of running it

The bank's customers are taking the risk of running it not the traders - it's not the trader's money
sounds too British for my tastes; I'd prefer "a little more"
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There are a lot more low level technical programming jobs in Sydney than there are in Melbourne despite a difference in population of only 12.7%. For example, a search for "embedded" on the Seek job site at http://www.seek.com.au yielded eight jobs for Melbourne and 26 for Sydney.

On the other hand, living in Sydney is more expensive with average purchase prices of $A515K ($US464K) for a flat and $A600K ($US541K) for a house as opposed to $A485K ($US437K) and $A510K ($US460K).
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Can someone explain in simple terms why high-frequency trading actually works? I can't understand how trading at a high frequency provides any advantage at all, except in a Martingale-fallacy way.
Interesting! you can use java-scripting api for running jruby, jpython etc on server but how're they doing it for C/C++?
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Correlation is not causation.

OK, it's good to have a lecturer with real-world expertise in the subject they are teaching. And research does count.

You want a lecturer with the skills needed to publish, but the push towards more research can just result in lecturers spending more time gaming research metrics, which has little impact on teaching quality.
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I told my girlfriend today that I couldn't tell her what or how to learn, but that all of my knowledge and skill is the result of following my interests. When you follow a thread far enough, you eventually untangle the entire knot and see the thing as a whole. Music theory is very much like this. Practicing scales makes no sense without a certain perspective on music theory, but if you follow your interest in music you will eventually internalize melodic and harmonic patterns.

If you want to internalize melody and harmony, practicing scales is a (relatively) quick path. Improvisation does not happen by 'just playing', that is a joke. You can get there if you 'just play' for long enough, but Charlie Parker didn't reach his incredible level of skill by noodling around aimlessly. Woodshedding is vital to developing real chops. If you're interested in obtaining ability, you will wind up in some kind of formal practice eventually.

You can avoid intentional practice if you want - have fun noodling your way into a successful business or exceptional development skill.
It wasn't network bandwidth actually, it was printing speed. When your terminal can only print ten characters per second, terseness is even more of a virtue than it is on a slow network.
"Archangel Ron Conway" - i liked that

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I'm a little surprised to see the negative reaction to this article. I've asked many people the question "do great researchers make the best teachers?", and the answers form a strong dichotomy: undergrads and people who completed their college education at the bachelor's level universally 100% respond "no." People who went to grad school, and especially those who continued on to be professors, mostly either answer "yes" or waffle, with only a very small number answering "no."

If the purpose of the college/university system is to conduct research, that would be one thing, but there is at least a wide belief that the purpose of the university is to educate; and my read of the original article, with which I largely agree, is that Hacker wants to raise awareness that our "higher education" system is not well-geared toward actual undergraduate education. At most highly-ranked universities, teaching ability and interest are fairly actively selected against: the retention decision is made almost entirely based on research, and while they would love the professors to be good teachers too, they can't evaluate that and have no incentives to promote it (and PhD students aren't taught anything about it anyway), so it is purely by luck that they manage to retain good teachers.

I guess I'd like to hear from the commenters who disagree with the article about what made their researcher-professors better teachers, particularly at the lower levels where the only things that might be cutting-edge are the teaching techniques. (I'm not that interested in hearing about the professors bringing you in on their research, which is valuable but necessarily not available to every undergraduate student.)

Disclaimer: I am a college professor, I value (and am good at) teaching, and was denied tenure (at a liberal arts college, even) apparently because my publications were in CS education rather than in something more "researchy". Even the liberal arts colleges are not immune to the movement placing research above teaching as retention criterion for their teachers.
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I'm answering to you as I just finished my daily guitar practice, with stupid scales practice (triplet/reverse triplet/minor 7th flat five/pattern 1-5) and I still hate it.

However I agree with you that practicing scales is excellent for building up your "typing" ability, whether it be on the guitar or on the piano to play fast licks. Same thing with the circle of fifth to identify which mode a particular song is in, and to be able identify which key/scale/chord you choose to solo on.

But this is more philosophical than technical - you learn rules so that you can break them.

Even scales are derived from other scales "hacked" into (diatonic => pentatonic scale, the "monkey-wrench" notes are what gives it a bluesy feel). Some songs have intentionally mismatched notes from a wrong scale that clash over a chord, to evoke an eerie feeling from the listener. Similarly, a performing musician never stops playing/strumming if he/she doesn't hit the right note or finger-down a whole entire chord, you keep going on. "There's never a wrong note, only a opportunity" - Miles Davis. Even if you are a straight-edge classical pianist, you have the artistic freedom to perform your piece with accents and timbre in the constraints of the tempo and melody of the sheet music.

Similarly when you program, some people like to take time to define their interfaces and draw out the class diagrams to figure out how all of the pieces fit together. I personally, like to open up NotePad++ and start typing the first thing that comes to mind, and run compile, probably get a bunch of compile errors, so I go back and correct them and run compile again and get errors again, and so forth until I get one piece working, and I build off that piece the second piece. Sure you need to learn typing, before you program. I'm just saying that for someone who's motivated to express themselves, whether that be through programming or music, that motivation makes them get through the technical barrier, not that the other way around.

tl;dr - Everyone has got a right to be wrong; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVSptF3_G8&feature=avmsc...
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I'm also a guitarist. I mainly play folk, rock and classical but recently started seriously delving into jazz guitar. I never used to think much of practising scales but I now find their connection with chord construction fascinating. Knowing exactly where a note is in a scale without having to think much about it is a real eye-opener.

Regarding your programming analogy, I think of it slightly differently -- scales : playing :: touch-typing : programming. Sure, you don't need it but it will make you a more efficient coder if you don't always have to look at the keys.

Another view is that learning scales is a way of compiling a whole lot of low-level muscle knowledge so you can think and play at a higher level of abstraction. You don't always think about programming in terms of Turing machines because languages hide that level of detail.

I agree with your last point though: you do need immersion and an "ear" to play well. However, practising technique and learning theory are not mutually exclusive. For example, learning a language is easier if you study some grammar as it gives you useful concepts for processing the spoken language you hear while immersed.
It's like buying an expensive gym membership. The upfront cost will force you to carry through ... even though it doesn't.
It's just the rote journalistic trope of the twisty ending. How would the article end otherwise? "Only time will tell if their get-rich dreams work out?" Too flat. It's considered better to give the reader a little frisson at the end. Bonus points for confirming the reader's pre-existing beliefs, as this one does.

Count your blessings. At least the article didn't start with "Joe Schmoe, a programmer, is setting out to blah blah blah" and then end with "Back at blah blah, Joe Schmoe is still programming away, sure that millions are just around the corner."
C-x is cut. C-v is paste. C-a C-x C-s cuts everything to clipboard and saves an empty file. C-v C-s would restore this.

So C-a C-x C-s C-v C-s is just a funny way of saying C-s.
This is a very in depth article that has some sweet points about business decisions after the IPO. I think too often people are looking for exit and this will help people who really want to run a company realize that even after you're rich it takes a lot of work to continue to be successful!
Not mocking, and that was a very helpful explanation, thanks.
Viktor Frankl's video (at the link above) is amazing.
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ed preceded TCP (first ed manual I could find is dated 1971; the first TCP research paper was by Cerf and Kahn in 1974).

When ed was used, it would be common to interact with the computer on a teletype, not even on a crt monitor. So a response meant printing characters on paper.

sed was and is more about programmatic editing (i.e., editing a stream as it was generated, using a script for commands), or editing of large files that would overwhelm system memory, not about some kind of remote usage the way you're describing.
True for a small lot order for a retail investor. But for a large block order from a institutional investor that's been diced and prepared to be executed over a period of time, predatory HFT algo's could still anticipate you and buy up remaining liquidity and sell back to you at an artificially inflated price.
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(EDIT: uhh, the :) is a smiley, not part of the command)
Brilliant.

we spend all day thinking about conversion rate optimization via conversionvoodoo.com - some of our larger clients have full hardware rigs and I can tell you this data is invaluable WHEN it's accurate.

Certainly moreso than usertesting due to the speed at which the eye moves / tracks - killer product, great release and can't wait to test it - check your site support email, I'd like to see how we could leverage this for more of our clients & case studies.
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My prediction about leads going away was only for angel rounds. (The whole talk was about angel rounds, since that's what the conference was about.) Series A rounds will still have leads, so this wouldn't affect Fred.
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And this was said by someone who definitely has 'blood' on his hands?
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Exactly! My immediate thought was, "You smug bastard."

This is why I would never take a job as a programmer in the trading industry working for the big firms. I have dignity, and it would never cross my mind to put up with smug bastards taking this attitude with me all day, no matter how high the salary. It's not that the software is making people tons of money, it's that nobody respects that the software is making people tons of money (the side effect of respect, of course, would be fair compensation).