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Author is the CEO of a "labor on demand" company; prefers elance-style ratings by past employers to the resume.
If money is your sole motivator, I don't think you'll get very far, at least in the startup world.

You should do what you love. Make peoples' lives easier. Financial gain is just a by-product.

Go out and change the world, with a passion to change the world (rather than financial gain), and the rewards (whatever they may be, money or otherwise) will come.
Netbooks are really going down, but not only due to the iPad
1. That piece does nothing to imply that the style is straightforward, nor does it actually talk about using long sentences with many clauses to create momentum, unless you considered "consciousness and longing" to be momentum-ous.

2. No it really doesn't create a sense of momentum, growing or not, especially when you talk about a town "basking sleepily in the September sunlight on the shore." A vaguely alliterative load of Ss does not make for an exciting sentence.

3. "mostly short anglo-saxon words and the long sentence, broken into multiple clauses" is rather in specific compared to my statement of in general anyway.

4. Tornadoes don't leer, and one would assume it was already traveling at 60 miles an hour so the momentum shouldn't be growing anyway.

5. That sentence is straight up crap.
Excellent stuff - having taken our startup from 4 to 50 people, I can say that in my experience, these observations are absolutely bang on.
"The most unpleasant thing about the fashion for fun is that it is mixed with a large dose of coercion. Companies such as Zappos don’t merely celebrate wackiness. They more or less require it."

Made me remember this scene.

http://movieclips.com/watch/office-space-1999/flair-minimum/
Is it really fair to compare the amount of code in windows server to the total amount of code that google maintains? Google has many different software projects, what is the biggest? Search? Android? Gmail? Compare one project to a server operating system and my guess is that the OS is going to be an order of magnitude larger. An OS is an enormously complicated piece of software with lots of co-dependent parts. That's what led the to this pretty horribly complicated source management system.
I have tried paleo, lacto-paleo, low-carb, and some variants in between. Not because I put any great stock in them, but because I wanted to observe their effects on my body.

In all cases, I did lose weight (I am not anywhere near overweight, I am actually in quite good shape, exercise regularly, and have a generally healthy diet to begin with). I understand this to be normal, especially in males, to lose weight fairly quickly, and then plateau out. Women experience mixed results, but it's generally a slower process for them to begin seeing a difference.

From a health perspective, I honestly cannot put any stock into this article or any other proponents of these diets. The claims made in this article border on irresponsible, to the point where it sounds so much like any other miracle diet.

There is NO way anyone should undertake any major change to their diet without good reasoning, and consulting a physician or qualified nutritionist.

Your gym trainer is not a qualified source. Neither is a random website.

Bodies are too unique to fall into some one-size-fits-all diet scheme for anyone.
I can't speak for everyone, but based on my experience, regularly drinking (even lightly) during the day would be likely to cause significant productivity loss. Duh?
SS12: Code for a Cause, the contest that spawned the Color ID app mentioned in the article, is also held in Los Angeles. Here's their site: http://ss12.info/

Also, let me know if you happen to have suggestions for the Color ID app in particular; I'm the lead developer on that app.
"Fortunately, literacy, though it consumes its own oral antecedants and, unless it is carefully monitored, even destroys their memory, is also infinitely adaptable. It can restore their memory, too." Ong, Walter J.. Orality and Literacy. New York: Routledge, 2003: 15.

We need not limit our knowledge and view of the world to what fits in our brain. We do, however, need to make sure that what we are putting into our brain is useful to ourselves and to humanity; Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start.
I think you're making the same point I was...
Resumes are sales tools.

The author is basically saying that since we have Angie's List, plumbers no longer need Yellow Pages ads.

Certainly hiring is becoming more complex, but saying the resume will disappear as a sales tool seems more than a bit extreme. It will evolve like everything else.
This blog post is nearly a year old. Why is it coming up now?
Here's the problem with diet studies in general - they take ages to pan out. Because of that, there's varying degrees of belief in whether or not something is correct or incorrect, and even in cases where some breakthrough has been made, it takes ages to determine whether or not the choice was a correct one or not.

This is the same reason why certain food products sales largely come down to packaging - how can I really know the effect a protein supplement is making on my muscle growth due to the many other HUGE factors that come into play? Could I have done better without it? Same with insurance plans, investments, etc - at the end of the day many of these products end up getting bought and sold due more to the marketing savvy of their business departments more than the efficacy of the products themselves.

I'm slightly ranting but I think, food wise, the best way to judge whether or not something is good for you is quite simply, how it makes you feel immediately afterwards. If I eat too many carbs, I feel like crap. If I eat a Carl's Jr burger, I feel like crap. If I eat lean meat and fruits, I feel great. If I go overboard, I can hardly feel it. If I drink soda, I feel like crap. And so it goes.

I really think it's that simple - don't pollute your head with varying degrees of this stuff - if it makes you feel good, and that feeling STAYS even if you don't eat/drink it (see: withdrawals) it's probably damn good for you and you should keep consuming it. Similarly, reverse the points to decide what you SHOULDN'T be consuming.
I would like to see a longer term test before I start doing this.

If the spam picks back up, it might not be worth the time.
For all the many faults with CAN-SPAM, up to $16,000 per-message penalties for failure to comply with an opt-out isn't such a terrible idea.
Assuming you mean Javascript-in-the-browser, then meh... (I'm sure that's not the answer you were looking for, but hear me out):

Why would this be useful? Machine learning generally needs two things that browsers aren't very good at dealing with:
1) Large amounts of data
2) Fast I/O to process that data.

Why would someone prefer to use a client library rather than a remote call to a high performance serverside library, which will give better results?

Having said that, there are a few very specialized areas where this might make sense. For example, a Javascript Haar classifier would be useful for machine vision in a browser.
Someone apparently swapped the definitions of "random kindness" and "humiliating harassment" in Zappos' corporate HR policy.

(On the other hand, if it'll help morale, I'm willing to suck it up and attend my company's upcoming pennant-race baseball outing. If asked nicely I might take one for the team and participate in multiple such events through the end of the postseason.)
Simply reducing and using solar or a small wind turbine would be adequate. I know when I'm out in the country, I prefer reading than ever even looking at a TV.

Honestly Kindle + Laptop + LED Lighting would be the bare minimum I could get away with. Get a good spot and you could get 3G-wireless for your shack, especially if you're 'shacking' in an elevated area.

I would be interested in the definition of 'small shack', because IIRC the Iroquois frequently built longhouses out of poles and woven bark that could stretch hundreds of meters long and a good dozen wide. If not length, does height count? Does a hunting hide count as a shack? If a 20+ft hunting hide counts as a shack, does a multi-story shack count as a 'small shack' by the ground space it occupies?

Furthermore, is there any legal restriction on how many shacks can be put on a small location. IE would a shantytown be fully legal here in Canada?

Finally, I wonder if Canada still has the common-law practice that prolonged use of a property means its ownership will default to you and does this apply to just unused private land or federal too.
Sorry about that, you're right, I misread the negative leading into the parenthetical
Groupon spent a LARGE amount of money on marketing. They had a pretty large affiliate marketing program that paid out ~$2ish range I believe for an email submit. Affiliates blew this offer up.
Whatever the latin for being wrong while trying to appeal to authority and intimidate someone would be.

If you want to coin it, seems like you can!
Music of the Gods
It's nonsensical faddish bullshit.

Some (<1%) people do have problems digesting gluten; it's called Coeliac (or Celiac) disease. My sister has it, along with several other members of the family. It takes some adjustment but there are many substitute foods available. It's more prevalent among people of Irish or Spanish ancestry, hardly exists in Asian people.

So maybe Mr Ferris has this problem. That doesn't mean that everyone else does, though this isn't the first time I've seen someone with a digestive condition go on a crusade about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease

I am so tired of adapting to what is "good" only to have that change.

I suggest you listen to your own body instead of attention-seeking pundits. We all need some mix of protein, carbohydrates, fiber, lipids and vitamins. too much or too little of any one thing is unhealthy; moderate exercise is good, moderate alcohol consumption is OK, smoking is quite unhealthy; you should check your blood pressure every so often. Obviously if you only crave one kind of food or some food that doesn't exist in nature something is a bit out of whack, but otherwise you should eat whatever gives you sufficient energy and trouble-free digestion.

Blog posts like this are the mental equivalent of 'magic dietary supplements'; a masculinized hipster version of those vapid magazines at the checkout stand. 'Blank: the silent killer in your refrigerator'; 'The seven blanks every man/woman/parent/ needs to know'; 'what your [professional] won't tell you (so give me your money instead'; 'Blank: the new rules'....zzzzz. 90% of health and lifestyle articles are for people who can't or won't read science news. Get yourself a first-year nursing textbook on nutrition instead.
"If it has more features, it is better and deserves more."

Perhaps you're not a mobile developer. Mobile apps are about focused user experiences. Tight features that make sense within the context of the app. You wouldn't drop a crossword puzzle into an RSS reader app (even though newspapers have crossword puzzles... yes I had a user suggest this for my iPad newspaper app).

When users suggest a feature that should be there and it's not, that's fantastic, that's a totally different thing. I'm talking about unrelated, ridiculous requests that make no sense, or they make sense to 1 person in the entire world: the reviewer.
Thanks Paul, it's upvoted in my mind :)
Call me crazy but the book linked at the end of the article was published September 14th and there are already 40 five star reviews posted. Which given the idea that it's 'diet' lifestyle change would mean time would be needed to actually see if the content pans out. I start feeling iffy any time another 'this food is bad' book comes along and with those reviews, that puts it into the questionable category.
Do you honestly think that Intel is subject to "heavy competition" in the desktop CPU market?

They have exactly one competitor (AMD), and because Intel is so much bigger and has so much more money, they always have newer and better fabs. The only ways AMD can be competitive with Intel are to be really daringly clever with their chip design (Athlon 64, and hopefully the upcoming Bobcat and Bulldozer cores), sell their chips at lower profit margins, take advantage of Intel's mistakes (Itanic vs Athlon 64), and to pick their battles wisely (AMD has never been able to field a whole product lineup that is competitive across the board). The barriers of entry to that market are so high that even AMD can't fully surmount them, and AMD definitely can't gain ground or even maintain solvency by doing what Intel does but slightly better.
Dr Kurt Harris, MD writes a great blog about Paleo Nutrition that you may find useful:

http://www.paleonu.com/get-started

When it comes to nutrition, I'd also recommend foregoing science when studies aren't available (gasp) and, as InfinityX0 suggested, try different things and do what works best for you.
you are forgetting that most of canada is quite 'north' and therefore cold.

i like being inside a real building, with heating. YMMV.
You're totally right. I'd probably extend it upwards a year or two, but I completely agree. 99-cent apps, made for younger people. Entertain someone for a few minutes, make them smile, make just a tiny bit of their day more enjoyable: those are the apps that make a killing.
I remember, but I have no fear.
Crazy. To what end, food on the table ?

This would also imply the children took guns to school. Am I the only one who finds this rather insane ? Also, if you happen to have any links on the matter I'd appreciate it.
At the beginning I learned most of it from the Not-so-short introduction (link in another reply to your comment), but LaTeX is too large an animal to handle it with a reference manual. I find most of the answers I need on the web.

Also, you probably will have to present your research at seminars/conferences etc.; I'd suggest you take a look at the Beamer document class for LaTeX.
Demo of ASP.NET Padding Oracle Attack
A university library will probably have all those things on their shelves, if you have access to one.
This reminds me of a group of roommates I had in college. They played Super Smash Brothers: Melee for the Nintendo Game Cube perpetually. They played the same level--a flat level without platforms or items--over and over again for one reason--to get better. They had little interest in having fun and cared more about being the best.

One of our other roommates suggested that they play the game to have fun. They liked the suggestion and, as they began playing again, started to compete over who was having the most fun. My other roommate's comments had completely missed them.
Good luck on your project, you will need it much more than I ;)

The difference between facebook and groupon is that the former has plenty of competition and everybody seems happy with it, while the latter is practically a new niche and is pissing off everybody with their huge cuts from 50% to 100%

So, there is plenty of room for better groupon alternatives that can treat their customers better.
I wish sites that are going down would give a little more detail as to why instead of hand-waving about how things didn't work out but we all had a great experience and learned a lot.
Tailored Business Plans That Attract Venture Capital
Daily Routines - How writers, artists, (etc..) organize their days
It is too bad to hear that they were bullied by the lawyers in that way.

However, a work-around may be; take some snapshots of the iPhone simulator window, print the parts you want, and then make copies.
Does anyone else see the irony implicit in "regular random acts of kindness"?
I'm exceptionally skilled at being unclear.
As a member of LE, what do you think your department would actually do in this case? I bought a stolen laptop on ebay, got in contact with the owner and got him his laptop back, and my money back through paypal. We gave the police the ebay and paypal account information of the seller, including name, two physical addresses, phone number, email address, and pictures of the laptop inside their apartment. The police didn't do anything.

My boyfriend's laptop was stolen from our living room while we were sleeping in the bedroom, after the thief climbed through a window. The police didn't do anything then either.
Why we need more lifestyle businesses
Airbus Wants to Build Invisible Planes
>"renaissance man" now is a dilettante. In Jefferson's day it meant having both broad and deep knowledge.

Jefferson's estimated net worth is $212 million. George Washington's is $525 million. It seems like you are comparing the values of a notably intelligent and published subset of the upper 1% aristocratic crust subset of society to the general population today. Hardly a fair comparison.

You are railing against people for being dumb and yet have really bad proposals as to the cause. "It's the schools fault, let's do away with schools" "It's the kids' VALUES"

You fail to consider that:

1. Intelligence is a distribution. There have always been dumb people and there always will be.

2. Economics. Blacks used to score significantly lower on IQ tests than whites in America. But guess what, the gap was directly proportional to the gap in poverty rate (http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-IQgapgenetic.htm). As the economic status of blacks in America improved the gap has decreased.

If you want to compare the intelligence of groups of people large enough to account for outliers, the difference is always largely socioeconomic. Thus I will argue the OPPOSITE of your hypothesis is true:

The wonders of technology and readily accessible information are the most important factor driving down global poverty, resulting in a higher percentage of the global population fulfilling a "Jeffersonian" ideal of the renaissance man with deep knowledge, whereas it was the time and opportunities and books to achieve that level of study was before confined to the aristocracy.
On any system with sane defaults for limits this won't crash the machine merely bog it down a tad.

I've successfully ran it on FreeBSD machines without any issues, now on Linux or Mac OS X it is bad news :P
I think this essay by PG is appropriate here.
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
I did the Fifth Year Masters program at CMU because I was in exactly this position. I recommend talking to Stehlik about it.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets (free book)
First algorithms, then interfaces
'hydro' is the electrical grid?
Which exploit are you running? The one that was posted on full disclosure: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Sep/268 includes bypasses for selinunx, and used to include code to bypass grsec.
The best way to start any sort of "social business" is on a micro scale. In this case, for example, you could start with a local shopping area. Niche stores and small businesses are a lot more willing to try new ideas. Once you become more successful, you can branch out.
>why did the obesity crisis only come about in the last part of 20th century

I can guess at two factors. Firstly, food started to get really cheap in the 1960s.

Secondly, and not entirely unrelatedly, since that time we haven't suffered a major war or plague. (Up till this point, European history had more or less consisted of wars and plagues.)

Instead people have enjoyed prosperity with more and more attendant consumption, not just of food, but of entertainment and culture.

Here's the potentially controversial bit: in my experience, cultural consumption is enhanced by 'lower level' consumption such as eating rich food and drinking coffee and alcohol. The reason these help is (paradoxically) because they distress the body, causing the brain to compensate by secreting natural sedatives.

These in turn allow the mind to race, temporarily free from the constraints of fear and worry. Gluten, being a lectin, is a stressor of animal intestines. Hence bread, cakes and pasta serve admirably in this regard.
Dye penetrant inspection
A colleague of mine at IBM Research and I made a presentation on the subject that we used to give to college students.

http://www.woan.org/Presentations/Crossing.pdf

I think that others mentioned that you really want the PhD if you want to go into research and especially if you are interested in the search for truth rather than good enough to work in the real world. Kind of like the difference between science and engineering.

Coming out with a PhD from a top school means that you will more than likely be the world's expert in something (whether that something is important is another question) which is pretty cool.
Crowd-Fundraising For Causes Adds Up Fast
For example, they could create some "Windows Experience" (i.e. solid usable box) and "Windows Ultimate Experience" (i.e., reassuringly expensive and stylish) badges for notebooks and desktops that

Not MORE badges on a windows machine? I hate all those stickers and badges, and I'm not alone. See http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-cancer-of-micro... for example.
Ye gods, I'm sorry I ever wasted my time reading this.

By the way, if at age 6, bright children really understood recursion, by age 7 school has already beaten it out of them in the name of conformity.
I don't know about you, but Mad Men isn't exactly scientific research. It's a tv show about the advertising industry. I worked in that industry a few years, it's still a lot of fun, and they still drink at work, sleep with each others and treat women badly.

Also from my parent's perspective, they didn't have much fun at work, they were working long hours and put up with so much because switching job wasn't exactly as easy as today.

Finally, I don't require a rock climbing wall at work, I just want to do good work with good people and I will have fun naturally.
The industry trying to rebrand corn syrup as something that sounds healthier is pretty slimy. But the real problem here is that consumers think sugar is healthier than corn syrup in the first place.

I think it's great that people are turning on corn syrup— the super-cheap supply of sugar has definitely had a horrible effect on public health. But I don't like the thinking that the solution is to start using a similar amount of cane sugar.
I'm curious if there are societies or cultures that eat significantly less grain than others. Surely looking at a large population's diet and finding a correlation to the diseases mentioned could shed some light into his claims...
You don't have to decide whether or not to do a Ph.D. right now. Just begin grad school and after you've finished a master's degree decide whether you want to continue on and do a Ph.D. or not.

I felt like I had to make the decision early on in grad school, but that's not the case.

Do a master's (thesis option) degree and in doing so you'll discover whether you want to do research or not. If you decide you absolutely love research (and all that goes along with research - publishing, perhaps teaching, etc.), then go for the Ph.D., otherwise, finish with the master's degree and go into industry.
While at first sight it would suggest less people support the party now compared to last year, you've got to remember that fringe groups like the Pirate Party often do better in EU elections than they do in national elections, which has a substantially higher turnout of mainstream voters.