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While I get my hands on a new technical book, I keep all the new terms and concepts that show up in a Google Docs document, just a list of them. Every now and then I take a peek at such list. It helps me increase and/or reinforce my knowledge around the area.

Before committing anything, I double-check everything, refactoring the code I have modified/added. This is easy because, once you have your new functionality or fix working, maintaining the new correct behavior as you modify the code is low-risk if you do it step by step.

English, as being my second language, is an important part of my job. I try to read all the books, blogs, movies, and so on in English. Every time I come across a new word, I look it up in wordreference (plugin for chrome), and add it to a list in Sidenote (mac app). When I need to communicate through email, I sift through that list looking for words that may fit in my message. It is a simple practice that has helped me out big time in uplifting my skills (of course I share this list with my friends!). Certainly this not directly related to programmig but, as I see it, if you want to improve as a programmer, you're going to need to become rather fluent in English.

Writing a blog. Especially invaluable when you get feedback of your posts. Folks out there shall give you a kick in the ass more often than you expect. Expect and embrace them. It's a great way to grow up.

Get to know that the finest blogs, books and people are in your domain. For example, years ago I programmed in Java, usually building web sites with the help of very known frameworks (Spring, Struts, you name it). I thought I was quite competent until I come across a book called "Effective Java" by a dude named Joshua Bloch. Needless to say I was struck by it and I ended up feeling like I knew nothing (literally). You can't program in Java and at the same time not know who Bloch, Goetz, Unble Bob, and so on. Same with Lisp and Norvig, Siebel, Graham.

I always strive to keep up with the basics. This is the killer skill that shines when everything else I try fails. With a new technology, starting out learning the ropes from the top abstraction layers makes me feel competent because I can get my job done, plus or minus. Basics alone aren't that helpful, but when something arises that steers from the standard way of doing the stuff promoted by the top abstraction layers, a great deal of the times I will need to dig right into the core in order to be able to solve my issue. Well, plus or minus, I personally call this the Onion Theory. This is related to the 'darkness surrounding you' concept explained above. Awesome.
I have a friend that runs a popular music-related startup and template rendering has been their #1 bottleneck.
I teach at a community college. The price is quite low (and my pay). Society does not want to pay for knowledge. It does not see a benefit in having people who appreciate art, literature, culture, music, etc. It only sees a benefit from electrical engineering and other such subjects. It's a problem of society and it's short sighted goals.
This entire article presumes that the Greek people are responsible for the debts of the Greek government.
An Experimental Protocol For A Faster (150%) Web -- SPDY vs HTTP
Which Countries Have the Most Vacation?
Good idea, getting those number are not so easy but I will work my contacts. The key point was I wanted to tap into the shadow IT economy (http://rww.to/bQETAj), because even though maybe somone in IT security can approve below £5K at a big bank this would still need a purchase order, contract, procurement process etc especially if it is £500p/monnth. I wanted it to be something that if someone liked or heard about they could put on their credit card and start using.
I suppose, but with GPLv2 there's nothing more than a technicality in the way, is there? As far as I understand it, the app store agreement prevents you from taking that particular copy of the app and doing free things with it, but nothing truly restrictive. You can still get a copy of the source from the app-maker, and exercise all your normal free software rights.

Then again, saying that makes me feel like I'm missing something. Am I?
As always I am wondering if this test tells me, who I am, who I think I am, or, who I want to be.

Today I am somewhere between ENTP and INTP

ENTP (E: 1 N: 75 T: 50 P: 33)
T-mobile, in my experience, is on the right side of almost everything in this argument. Of course they probably have to be given their relative size compared to the other big players.

I gave up T-mobile a couple of years ago due to call quality issues here in Denver. I'm hoping they've fixed it.
Man, I just am so disappointed in Sears in general. They rose up from the ashes, and in the past decade or so have been on this long, long decline.

Every time I walk into their store (Rideau Center in Ottawa), it's just bad attitude from the salespeople and sloppy displays.

The last straw for me was when I was looking for a bed and saw an attractive one in Sears. I was snapping a picture to show my girlfriend, to see if she was interested in it, when this snarky dude jumps out of nowhere and snaps at me, "Hey! No pictures in the STORE."

I mean for crying out loud, I could show her a picture from their online catalog if I wanted to take 20 minutes to dig it up, but this was a quick way to get her opinion on what COULD have been a big sale for them. (Beds are not cheap.)

I don't normally get mad, ever. But I was so angry with this man, I snapped back at him. I turned red, I swore at him, and I walked out. The policy is stupid, the way it was enforced was humiliating, and the man's attitude was infuriating, treating me like I was worse than some thief.

I keep hearing horror stories about Sears, and haven't heard good things about them in quite some time. They're one of those companies that I wouldn't be surprised to hear filing for chapter 11 or being bought out by Walmart eventually.

And frankly? I'd probably smile to hear it.
"I don't fucking want innovation," the ex-employee recalls Pincus saying. "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."

"The former employee, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about his experience at Zynga, said this wasn't just bluster. Indeed, interviews conducted by SF Weekly with several former Zynga workers indicate that the practice of stealing other companies' game ideas — and then using Zynga's market clout to crowd out the games' originators — was business as usual."

No surprises there...
Also the Droid Incredible, which also sold millions of units, has received it's 2.2 update in the last week or so.
I've built a couple of small Flask apps and I like it too. Django doesn't really seem to have a direct competitor in the same sense that Merb was for Rails though. Merb and Rails provided a similar developer experience but had some significantly different architectures. Things like Pylons and Turbogears are much more roll-your-own than Django and microframeworks like Flask are great for what they cover but usually app requirements will dictate Django vs Web.py, for example, and not developer preference.
Here's Who Really Rules the Twitterverse
My guess is that only Apple knows why it changed the rules, but that anyone who can do a Google search can (a) read up on what antitrust means and (b) observe Apple's non-commanding share of the mobile market.
While I am a broadly cynical person, I do not mean this as a "we are certainly doomed post" to wave about my self-hating credentials; I rather dislike people who do that and consider self-hatred a pernicious and dangerous meme, not something to be rolled in. I rather see it as a cautionary tale about our need to be careful; we are not certainly doomed, but if we run about as if our success is ensured, an attitude that manifests itself in a lot of political debates in various ways, we will get ourselves into trouble.

I did mean the population, since of course we have rather significant variation in personal intelligence.
Is this flash based or is it an iframe?
How are they mitigating the risk of malicious sites that steal a users credentials as they are entered into an observable DOM hierarchy?

Edit: Looks like authentication is entered into a pop-up window, but still I'm not convinced that it's secure.
And if the personality types in MBTI were that vague (as vague, for instance, as a horoscope) then I'd agree with you.

But I know that certain types describe me a lot better than others, and it's clear that one which paints me as extroverted, feelings oriented and sensing is clearly wrong.
BigZaphod: Apple does everything themselves so they can offer a complete, cohesive, unified package that their customers want. The PC vendors always seem to be looking for an easy way out so they only have to do half as much work.

ZeroGravitas: Apple package these things together well, and I believe that's an important skill and adds value

This smells like violent agreement to me. The R&D that goes into packaging, component selection, and materials is exactly the sort of investment that low-margin PC manufactures avoid on the hardware side.
Yeah this is just awesome news for MonoTouch - I'd been on the fence about spending the money on the license thinking it might end up being a waste of money, but now, hell yeah full speed ahead. Hopefully the mono-Droid update is as well done and available soon, I really need it.
totally agree with that last point.

With it not being an "official project" I would actually prefer this. My experiance with espeically with pure security projects (as opposed to security piggybacking on other projects to get what they want) trying to get a business case for a project is really tough. So getting project approval, prioritization, resources all rolling is a very hard and time consuming process.

I want this app to be something anyone in a IT security department can just subscribe and use straight away. If it gets a shadow IT following and the orgainzation really likes it I can get then sell a gold or platinum customization piece which will be a proper project with procurement and contracts involved and consulting time from my company

Your third point - I really don't want people to be preasured to use this because of the investment, the users then grow to hate the product and that is no good for anyone.
I like the new Instant Search but I don't think I'll use it much. All my searches are conducted from search bars in Safari or Chrome where I just need to tap or tab to the bar and type. One thing that has changed my search habits recently though is the Safari 5 extension that lets you do mouseover searches where you highlight some text then a little window pops up with some search results and the start of the wikipedia page. So I can look something up without even typing or leaving the page/window. I take it this too has been done before? It's really 'game-changing' as far as my UX and interaction with search/ads goes.
Yeah, you lose the full-stack benefits of Django pretty quickly once you start swapping out components. If I wanted a more customizable Python stack I'd pick one that was designed to work that way from the beginning.
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The Four Stages of JavaScript Grief
I almost invariably test out as an ILIE.
I have no idea if he will be successful in a business sense. However, I do think it is unlikely that he will help many people. The economists at Marginal Revolution point to research indicating that betting on weight loss is generally ineffective: people don't lose the weight: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/09...

Ultimately, if you're taking money from people with the expectation that the vast majority of them will fail, well, that doesn't seem like the kind of business that will generate lots of referrals from happy customers. People generally don't like to share their personal failures. Beyond that, focusing on weight per se seems problematic from a public health perspective. It is extremely difficult to lose weight but also not strictly necessary for health benefits. If you can run 10 miles in an hour, it really doesn't matter what your weight is, and the ability to do is a much better predictor of future health.
Of course those rules are still subjective ... what does "many of them" mean anyway?

But still, it's an improvement.
No, it is that I do not want to be forced to pay directly or indirectly for someone else to appreciate art, literature, or music, especially not when there are kids down my block that are barely able to read and pot holes in the roads I drive on. That truly is not a high priority for a society with other more pressing problems.

I am however quite willing to pay with my own money so that I and my family can learn to appreciate literature and culture. I am also quite happy to support the artists whose work I enjoy. But I am not happy to have tax money support it until long after ever child learns the basics well and the local police department is fully funded.

[Edit, fixed typo.]
I think it's sad and I think we are sliding more and more into that mindset. But I also think the situation is brighter than you describe it in some countries.

In Italy (where I come from) school is extremely generic, with around 12 subjects being taught in secondary school. University is similarly open, with courses being done simply because "it's good for the mind", and people being free to pick and choose courses, and even change degree.

On the other hand it's a very old syllabus (especially at school) so there is a lot of pressure to modernise it. But EVERY time someone tries to modernise it and decides for example to drop latin, or history of arts from schools and add a foreign language and computers, you hear an uproar of people who complain that school (and partially Uni too) shouldn't be a place to get you ready for a job (for those you can go to specialised colleges) but instead one to feed the mind.

But yeah, I agree with you that all societies are becoming less and less concern with non commerciable knowledge. And as long as we judge people's worth and achievements by their money, I have little hope this will change.
The level of hyperbole in the title of this article versus what the guy is actually saying is striking.
I didn't know what you are talking about, until I solved the quiz and it turned out ENFP - and then I read about it. Seems to me that it's misrepresented as an idealizing champion of sorts. Maybe it looks like that to people on the surface, but it's more of a struggle to express oneself with a strong potent more than anything, from my experience at least.
It would be nice if they accepted credit cards without having an Amazon account. Like Paypal Website Payments Pro.
I'm in the exact same situation with Riak + node.js developement. Micro instances seems like a good fit.
What is the pros for Apple beside being able to fend off FTC probe? If company starting to look at cross-platforms tools (such as one that develops for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile), and abandon Obj-C and XCode, will this weaken Apple strategically?
Could you explain what you want to say?

I mean, iteration is a special case of recursion. Some languages [1] need special syntax constructs for iteration, like `while' or `for', because their support for recursion is broken.

[1] OK, most.
A long delayed reply, but this UI has been significantly cleaned up into a simple browser compatibility report.
I thought there was no way it would work, got a beta invite a few months back and was blown away. My brain still insists that the game had to be installed on my local system to be able to be working so well.
We now have auto detection of errors, so we can report rendering failures in IE without you having to do it manually. Auto fixes are still a long way off :-)
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Now that there are very small instances with 64-bit support, these can form the basis of the ultimate incrementally scalable MongoDB cluster.
The Slimlist (an ultra-light, HTML5 compatible video playlist)
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My I traded out for an E during high school. I'm now ENTJ. Perhaps a P would make me a better programmer.

I have to admit, I'm not really a fan of Myers-Briggs. It makes loose, mutable categories, and doesn't make any helpful, testable predictions other than sweeping generalizations (such as INTP = programmer).

The enneagram, however, that I like. Its proponents attempt to attach mystical garbage to it, which is unfortunate: it makes strong predictions, changes in personality (my I -> E, for instance) occur in predictable ways, and it functions to make all sorts of interactions easier. At first glance, it seems less descriptive than MBTI (9 types instead of 16), but it also accounts for emotional health and secondary characteristics in a way that make it more descriptive and less of a pigeonhole system.
Just to follow-up, we do have automated issue detection now. So, we're able to detect a whole class of rendering problems and report just the pages you should look at in the browsers that seem problematic.
I use "magit" for emacs; for the stuff that I don't find easy to do in magit (or that I don't remember the magit workflow for) I use the standard shell commands (also inside emacs).

I only skimmed this, but I didn't see anything here that would make me switch from magit. It looks like a matter of personal taste to me. Did I miss something?
In the comments, the author mentions an informal survey she conducted with the conclusion that 2 of 5 randomly chosen people do not know what a "sphere" is.
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Iam surprised the product link is live even after they know its fraud. Dont know if its a policy to not take down the site until the investigation is complete.
You're a Saggitarius, aren't you? Yeah, you must be.
Yes, I definitely think it's possible for Carriers/Manufacturers to really screw up the Android experience on any given phone. I just hope that those phones fail in the market.

The point I wanted to make in the original comment was just to debunk one of the arguments he was making for why Android is closed.
INTJ on this test, ILIE on the Lipson-Shiu.

http://www.andrewlipson.com/lstest.html
"For example, you exhibit "diminishing returns" for each calorie you eat-- the first 500 is far more important than the second 500-- but this doesn't mean you eat only 500 calories per day."

No, but it does mean there exists a point where you should stop eating more calories.
The only thing to look for in digital cables is build quality, so that the cables last, don't break, and you get your money's worth. I've got these quality ethernet cables I bought 15 years ago that I still use. They don't have to be expensive either. Pretty much anything you get from monoprice.com fits the bill.
Guidelines or not, they can always ban crappy apps ... that's why those restrictions (like developing with other languages) seemed so out of place and more like a political move meant to take shots at its competition.

It's quite simple ... if an app consumes lots of resources (measurable) or is violating the design guidelines or is another fart-app ... then ban it. If Flash-based apps are indeed crappy, you don't need to explicitly ban Flash ... and who knows ... maybe a skilled developer can make something usable that doesn't fuck up your battery life.
I'm suggesting something different: that there is an option in user preferences that would let you pick whether you get a new target or not. Default off.
I have only a second hand exposure to farmville due to an avid player close to me. I wouldn't say they don't innovate - or at least they mask it real good. Farmville is full of new stuff that ties in together all the time, but general framework looks to be less keen on innovation.

I wonder how long can they run with it though. It's like where you have an ultra strong brand for games and you innovate by pushing various forms of gameplay scenarios (think of mario in various games not related to original genre mechanics). Farmville is just like the opposite, brand is the mechanics and framework.

Seasonal stuff they put in is the only innovation over original concept they snitched from Harvest Moon and alike. So I guess farmvilles ultimate fate likes where genre-locked games go - e.g. fighting games (street fighter, mk...) where original fad fades away and leaves in core player group. If they're lucky - and with so many users, they'd have to screw up pretty badly to lose all of their gaming audience.
I'm glad that there is at least one person who is bringing up the issues with the MBTI.

The assumption that you can judge personalities from a Myers-Briggs test is rather silly. The test was constructed by non-experts based on Carl Jung's theories of psychological types. The "Criticism" section of the test's Wikipedia article [1] is rich in citations of how the test by and large doesn't test anything, except perhaps the I–E scale.

I admittedly kind of have an axe to grind on this test. I think it's a waste of time if you're trying to actually learn something, and especially dangerous when people use it for any actual purposes other than just personal fun.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Cri...
Hooray! I hope VLC gets approved. I'm really missing being able to overclock lectures on the iPad.
Don't also forget the up and comers:

Bits from Bytes:

http://bitsfrombytes.com/

And Purple Platypus (which is selling the RapMan):

http://www.purpleplatypus.com/

And Fab@Home:

http://fabathome.org/

And the Ultimaker:

http://www.ultimaker.com/

Then the super cutting edge projects that MIT is doing:

http://web.mit.edu/imoyer/www/portfolio/fabmate/index.html

http://web.mit.edu/imoyer/www/portfolio/plaster/index.html

It's... heating up a bit, eh? (good for me, my startup is in this space)
OStatus interview with James Walker of StatusNet
Sending emails also work rarely. You don't even have to resubmit!
Knowing You Can Get There
It can be explained by the fact that Opera isn't the main rivals of Firefox in the browser market.

Edit: http://arewefastyet.com/faq.html

The team's explanation: Right now, the performance tests
are run on a Mac, which means no IE. Also the tests rely on
a "shell" JS engine that runs in a command line. It doesn't
test browsers. We'll change that, eventually.
One thing to note is that even EC2's "small" instance pales in comparison CPU-wise to even the low end Linodes. When playing with EC2, it blew me away how ridiculously slow they are until you get to the high levels (oddly it seemed the memory speed was also very poor - I had to wonder if even memory was networked somehow).
I haven't read the document, but in my mind, trial
This chart is flawed, in Korea and Japan these numbers are way off with reality.
There should be ratings system in Mechanical Turk based on sincerity of answers. You should be able to pay more to get people with better ratings.

Another option is to get reviewed by thousands of people through Hackernews, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I just read somewhere that President Obama was an ENFP. He seems to have a certain aura of cool about him.