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Well, if you're willing to accept that a wing–as described–produces lift in it's 'natural' upward direction (see other replies for some links as this step is a bit complicated), then there's only one way a plane can fly upside down. That reason is that it can also create lift opposite that direction.

Wings are not static. Wings either use flaps or some mechanism that causes them to bend that alters how much lift they produce at a given speed, angle of attack, etc.. The thing is that the reference frame you choose is important.

If you have 0 lift, you're in free fall…a phenomenon that a lot of planes can do. If you can push whatever that distortion in wing shape (flaps or bending) a bit farther, then you can dive faster than freefall, that is producing lift in the downward direction.

Now, just turn the plane upside down and do the same thing.

The freakier thing is that helicopters can theoretically fly upside-down. Same thing: if they can drop faster than free fall, they can fly upside down. The catch is that it's a VERY unstable equilibrium that is a huge stress on basically all of the parts of the motor, steering mechanism, structure, etc..

Or, it's because your parents' are Santa Claus. That's really equivalent.
Well, you'd be wrong then.

Funny how you should know more about me than I do.

The company meanwhile has grown in to something very respectable, and even though I haven't been a shareholder for years (bought out many years ago) I never regretted my decision one bit. It was an established business in a different trade when I got there, they decided to pursue this crazy idea (putting photographs on membership cards and print them with laser printers).
Smartphone integration for typing is a great idea for a set top. XBMC needs this!
Try Qt Creator
By Tier 2 i meant, not the IIT's or REC's just government run engineering university college.

i am also intrested in embedded stuff, but just as a hobby. you must look into the arduino project if intrested .
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Life expectancy back then was quite different than it was today.
And the naivety works the other way, too. I had a friend who organized big company events, setting up sound systems, light, hiring catering, and musicians, getting an ice castle for the lobby, such things.

Clients had absolutely no ability to gauge what stuff should cost. So the company overcharged heavily on a lot of technical stuff (like renting out lights or speakers), but could offer a supreme service. (One other `trick' was to make sure that their hired hands always wore suits, did not smoke, and looked respectable in general. They hired the same students as anybody else, but could charge much more for their work.)
If you are developing on a Windows platform, Visual Studio is the best IDE I've found. Full stop.

Say what you want about all their other software, about their operating system, business practices, etc. Microsoft does take care of their developers.
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well i am not against code monkey jobs, heck i would do one if it pays very high INR, hehe . anyways, i will try to attend the devcamp, i will check out other details from that website you gave, thnx a lot.
See also this previous thread on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1074860
If we could get the smart people (physics, etc. graduates) from financial-masturbatory zero-sum games on wall street back to productive scientific and engineering enterprises, I'd feel a lot better about things.
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Wow... that puts his lifelong quest to build a machine that can think into terrifying perspective.
Actually I would argue the market winners tend to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum. The best (arguably the most expensive) and the cheapest generally have the easiest time.

Everyone in the middle is fighting for the rest of the market, which, as the Jersey Shore boys put it, is full of grenades.
Say I want to create a fictional map for use with OpenLayers - what's the best way to go about this?
FTA:

"Before computer games arrived on the scene, kids amused themselves with choose-your-own-adventure books that allowed you to explore fantastic worlds that were described without the aid of fancy graphics.

"As computers became a little more powerful, these were translated into text-only adventure games that retained the spartan aesthetic, but allowed the player a little more control over their exploration of the world. For example, you'd type "north" to move north, where you'd then "look" around a scene before deciding how to interact further."

Uh... No.

"Colossal Cave", the first text based Adventure game: 1976, by William Crowther, running on a PDP-10. By '77 it had been ported to Unix.

"The Cave of Time", the first Choose Your Own Adventure book: 1979.
A startup I worked at 10 years ago (Ucentric, acq: Motorola) learned the hard way that keyboard interfaces are bad for TV control. Even mouse-based cursor movement (we had a keyboard with a little joystick nub thing) didn't work very well.

The arcade-style text entry (like Tivo uses) works best for 99% of the audience. Some more tech-savvy users will use or want a keyboard, but the majority of users STILL just want a couple of buttons and simple options. It's really a (fun) UI design challenge.
Make sure you also have a look at Qt Creator (http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools/).

Despite its name, Qt Creator is not specific to Qt, although it of course integrates with the UI editor of Qt.

Rather, Qt Creator is a general IDE for C++ and other languages. It is quite fast, feels very natural to use and provides a huge load of modern IDE features.

(BTW, also note that using a framework like Qt or GTK for your GUI application has many advantages over using Windows-only (or Mac-only) frameworks, most notably portability and vendor neutrality.)
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Aaand less than seven days later, they allow bulk downloads of your pictures, amongst your other data. Huh.
In general I find these buttons obnoxious as hell (they are tasteful on some sites like the NYTimes). This just adds insult to injury.
Those guys at the top also tend to be the ones who think Agile methodologies will solve their problems without checking to see if their existing culture is conducive to that work approach.
This isn't the appropriate forum for such childishness. If you would like to compare and contrast historical police states, then by all means do so, but don't just put out the same trite "everything is ruined forever" bullshit.
As an IT recruiter, trust me when I say all the old basics are accurate.

1) Do your research. Not just the 'About Us' section of the website.

2) Dress smart. Make sure you are cleanly shaven, your suit fits you properly, shoes are polished and your tie is straight.

3) Be confident but not arrogant. Know your CV inside out.

4) Body language. Make eye contact, sit up straight and smile!

5) Have a list of intelligent questions prepared. When they ask you if you have any questions, make sure you have something to ask.

Good luck.
I agree about the lack of color being a problem. In my mind, it links you with mimes and aloof Mac designers who think they're better than you. Maybe that's what you were going for, though!
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Well, compiles these days can do incredibly crazy tricks to squeeze out every bit of performance. That being said, if a human knows these tricks as well, he can probably apply them even better than a compiler.
Meebo made a presentation at Velocity this year about truly asynchronous loading, among other performance secrets of the meebo bar. (FF can still block using the suggested technique)

Well worth the watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SUFLFu3HI
The author talks about how friendly the Clojure community is in the first paragraph but then goes on to take some silly potshots at other languages in the very next paragraph:

I asked around and learned that he wrote a book called "Clean code" and that he likes Ruby, which just makes no sense to me at all - How do you unify a tool as unstable, unpredictable, untamed as Ruby (second only to Perl) with Clean Code?
Measuring brains by number of Nobel prize winners is a bad idea. Modern science is heavily dependent on funding and scientists from developed countries have more opportunities here.

As an example take this year's winners in physics. One of them is British citizen and one has a citizenship of Netherlands. An interesting fact is that both of them were born (an made their first steps in science) in Russia. Are these brains Russian or British/Dutch?
Dude, University doesn't matter.
Better you score in GRE, better university you get.

Regarding you question. If you are really passionate about working on product and not consulting, Learn more than what is taught in class, contribute to some open source projects. Apply some universities in US. I don't think startups really care which university you come from as far as you are a real hacker.

And if you want to stay in India (which is not at all a bad idea), you can join some product based company there too. Or may be start something of your own. Since you are still in school, it's worth trying out.

And just FYI education in India is not as bad as you think. (I did my Bachelors in India and Masters from one of the top ten universities in US).
After being an Emacs user for the past 10+ years, nothing else feels more comfortable. Not even in those few rare cases where I have to use windows.

Once my keybinds I'm so used to stop working, I can't work fast. Thus, anything but Emacs fails for me.

Each to his own, I guess.
http://www.xkcd.com/803
Let's just slow down a minute.

Any manager who doesn't want work done fast, good and cheap is a bad manager. Fast, good and cheap are all good things and something that everyone involved should strive for on all projects.

You can't have them all in the real world, of course. And good managers will be realistic - I think that's what this article is saying. But even given that you have to trade off some of these points doesn't still mean you don't want it as fast, cheap or good as possible given the constraints.

Even if you decide to sacrifice "cheap", for example, there's nothing wrong about negotiation to still get the best rate possible.
Nice article. Reminded me of Norbert Wieners "God & Golem", where he uses the term "gadget worshipers" for people thinking, that "everything that can be done (and makes money) should be done"

Though sometimes the decision may be difficult "One mans poison is another mans medicine" can become a problem. If I write a game many people may like it and it may help them to relax from work and just have a good time once in a while. Another person may become addicted to it.

You can't act always to Kants rule, that everything you do should be able to become a universal law, since some things may be of great help to many people and still destroy others...
Or not pay thousands and just compile for free using a handful of OS tools that work just as good, perhaps even better. (ie: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/)
Hi. I am a web designer who has recently taken up video creation, particularly screencasts similar to the ones you noted.

I dont have a portfolio yet, but I can do a trial project for you. That is, I will create a screencast (3-5 minutes) for you in 2-3 days, and you can pay me after you see the end result only if you like it.

Let me know what you think. My email is alexwyser@gmail.com. Thanks.
Are the delays in Russia due to a satellite? Those seem like very long delays. I am usually annoyed by 5-15 second delays in the US.
Your statement is a non-sequitur. The Clojure community on the whole is extremely friendly -- that he takes a stab at Ruby does not invalidate this fact. One person blogging one statement does not a community make.
http://www.terrycolon.com/1features/fly.html

It's basically the same mechanism as helicopters
It doesn't, though. I just installed Adobe Reader 9 and it clearly asked me about Air. These FUD statements don't deserve any respect.
There are companies here in India where you can work in very interesting projects.
I was recently on an interviewing committee which passed on a highly qualified candidate because he seemed too tightly wound and swore a couple of times. We passed on another candidate because his point of view seemed more entrepreneurial than our division could sustain--we figured he'd get tired of the same old stuff and search outside his boundaries for a bigger challenge (not always a bad thing for us, just not in this position).

Point is, to land a competitive position, you have to nail the basics (but you probably wouldn't be flying anywhere if you didn't), but you also have to prove that you would fit the "corporate culture." Don't underestimate it--it's basically the only way an interviewer can justify not hiring a candidate whose skills are otherwise perfectly in sync.
Maybe pouring more resources into making Flash run well on all other devices, leaving the iPhone in the cold.
Why wouldn't they? What would be the benefit of offering Flash for Linux, or Mac OS for that matter? Actually, why would they make a Flash plug-in for any browser other than IE? It seems to me that a reasonable thing for Microsoft to do, after acquiring Adobe, would be to discontinue Flash support for any OS other than their own, and to stop making plug-ins for other browsers, which would help IE regain some (if not all) of the market share it's recently been losing.
No but if this author thought this appropriate for the community's consumption, then it would make someone outside the community think that the community may be less than friendly.
I'm not saying anything about the kid actually being a mobster. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that there may well be reasonable grounds for the feds to track the whereabouts of a child of a mob boss. There is no evidence or even suggestion of all children of all mafia dons being tracked.

As a side note, I quite resent your populist straw man argument.

"Perhaps we could assume people are innocent until we can prove them guilty."

Of course, and how do you do that? Sometimes, by tracking people you have a reasonable suspicion of guilt of, as long as its done through legal means. Let me also point out that the Ninth Circuit ruled last month that warrantless gps tracking is legal. You may oppose this, it's still the (current) law (yes I'm aware that it's a contested issue, and I also don't know what jurisdiction this was in).
Good Luck :)
> If you are developing on a Windows platform, ...

This is only true if you work not only _on_ that platform but also only _for_ the Windows platform.

Of course you can also create portable applications with Visual Studio, and some free portable libraries such as SDL provide some VC project files. But if you're using lots of portable libraries and/or a huge portable framework like Qt or GTK, you are in big trouble with Visual Studio.

Also, the Visual C++ compiler has some standard-deviating behavior (most notably the issues with the for statement) thats makes it unnecessarily hard to write portable code in the first place.

So for all but the simplest scenario (developing on Windows and for Windows only), Visual Studio fails to provide some essential qualities, for which all the other nice feature simply can't make up.
Scam is way too strong a word. Many small sites charge that same $65 per month for a link and get it. This seems like a deal by comparison.
Normally, this story wouldn't even be news -- patent deals are cut all the time -- but there's an obvious strategy being developed here. Microsoft has identified patents as the most effective attack against anyone seeking to profit from FOSS. Rather than attack FOSS directly, you dump as much money as you can in to littering the intellectual property space for a given product with patent mines. Step on a patent mine and all of the sudden you're paying Microsoft (or someone else) for sitting on their ass and building a patent portfolio rather than innovating with any real products.

Under the old rules of engagement, patents were the equivalent of nuclear warheads. No one really wanted to use them, but they were good for making sure that your buddies across the street didn't fire off a salvo of patent suits in your direction. The problem for FOSS is that software patents are ideologically reprehensible to most of the people involved, therefore patents are not sought, and the intellectual property battlefield falls in to the hands of the patent trolls and big corporations.

As things stand today, we're looking at a future where patents become a large market in and of themselves. Big corporations will push for international cooperation for patent enforcement, and up-and-coming companies who benefit from FOSS are going to face significant new risks. The biggest losers will be consumers. Virtually all of the new internet giants stand on the shoulders of FOSS. It's only matter of time before the patent trolls find ways to attack everyone using their "IP".
dabent, you should post the Wired piece separately -- it's worth reading just for the account of the metrics Galenson used to decide on the "value" of art produced by artists, poets, etc. at different points in their lives (it was not just the prices of the different pieces, but their citations in textbooks, a la Google's PageRank algorithm).
I think my main problem with the article is that the three big, meaningful problems it presents are so vague as to be virtually unsolvable.

Let's use facebook as an example. Here's a problem: The internet and modern society drives people apart and increases isolation. Facebook's effect has been to greatly decrease this problem, but it's not the problem that Facebook set out to solve. The web app that Zuckerman copied and extended was designed as catalog of who was in a dormitory (house) at Harvard.
It just so happened that adding on messaging features and massively scaling this over time created a startup that also helps solve a larger social problem.

The problems the author presents as "real" problems are so ill-defined that it is impossible for technology startups to solve them. But, for people who actually work in those areas, I'm sure there exist problems web-apps could solve.

Here's an example: the problem of "Many Americans can't afford medical care." The cause of the high cost of health care is complex, relating to R&D at pharmaceutical companies, patent law, government regulations, and market incentives. Programming won't solve that. However, a problem that programmers _can_ solve is "electronic medical records suck." To that end, there are programmers working on that, and, hopefully, their work will uncover smaller problems also solvable.

I see large, ill-defined problems like this as a bit like the beginning of a recursive problem. The big problem needs to be broken down into a large series of smaller problems, some of which we, as programmers and entrepreneurs, may be able to solve. The hard part is knowing how to break the large problem into smaller ones, and the acknowledging the efforts of those people working on the smaller problems.
Adobe Air IS available on RIM's tablet
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash/blackberrytabos/
The author is a known troll . See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=892317 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=890697 (EDIT: One more http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923335)

After having his various silly mistakes exposed and laughed at on the comments sections of his various outrageous and more importantly ignorant posts (like the couple referenced above), he seems to have deleted all comments from those posts - and there were some stinging rebuttals - and now doesn't even have a comments section on his blog.

The best thing to do is ignore the troll,not vote this trash up on HN (16 upvotes at the time of writing wtf?).
I received the same email two weeks ago when my app was featured on Killer Startups. My first thought was that it was rather entrepreneurial of the guy. Perhaps the site does not have much of a following but the reviews don't seem badly written.

Also, the rate seems to have gone up from $45 two weeks ago.
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Good point and I don't completely disagree with you, but title of article is "Which country has the best brains?" but not "Which country had the best brains?" or "Where were the best brains born"
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hey ryan,

i've got a venture-backed business opportunity. we're looking for a strong application developer, and have heard good things about you, but not sure you can take on this task. we'll send along the technical and functional requirements, and it looks pretty easy. it shouldn't take more than a week of your time. after you sign our nda, we'll take a look at the application you built. if it's good, we'll pay you around a thousand dollars, maybe up to $10k.

unfortunately, we're not looking for any more founders, and don't need any support beyond the first production release. this will be a one time engagement, and we'll part ways after.

sound fair?

(read: how spec work would translate to the developer world. to me, it doesn't seem fair or reasonable -- especially if you're looking for a professional deliverable.)
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Am I the only one who finds those left-side magazine-style quotes from the article distracting? I don't think they add anything to the article.
http://www.restbackup.com/ also provides protection from deletion. Rest Backup has an HTTP REST API so you can do backup & restore with curl.

I'm launching the Rest Backup beta next week.
1) Thank you for your feedback

2) The claim was the UI failed. I rebutted it with a description of why I believe it hadn't. If the original claim made clear that it was only the home screen at fault then you might have a point; I would be making a straw man argument. But that is not what I inferred. Especially given the hyperbole.

3) Ok, you don't like my post? Fine. Feel free to downvote. But I still think it does not deserve to be flagged.

4) I think I'll leave it with this: http://xkcd.com/386/
Yes, but one is on a mobile device and the other is meant to be seen on way bigger screens.
Thought it was sweet there's a wikipedia page about the error message.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER
Correction: The first interactive novel was Sugarcane Island, published in '76. Two others ones, rather obscure and unknown, were published in '77, and '78: "Deadwood City" and "Third Planet from Altair". The idea didn't really kick off, however, until the Choose Your Own Adventure series began in 1979.

It seems clear that the development of Adventure-style games and the interactive novel were independent of one another.
I guess it's a matter of interpretation, but when someone says 'Muslim leader', I personally interpret that narrowly, as in this person having a 'position of authority in the religious sense, within the Muslim faith', and not so much 'person from Muslim cultural background who is in some form of power'. The 'article' I mentioned was the original Reddit post. Apparently the kid thought the Muslim angle was important enough to deserve a mention.
im using Qt with VS version they made , you dont need creator for windows , but its good.
This is not the first time or programming language he has taken pot shots at. See http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2009/10/python-vs-clojur... .

His whole blog post is about showing up the deficiency of Python (which is fine), and repeatedly telling us how Guido is controlling his programming by telling him to use white spaces to arrange code.
The author comes off as a muck raker and a troll, which is sad because he is obviously talented enough to produce a lot of interesting code and experiments.
I agree with you. It is still interesting to see the distribution of the noble winners. It is a good indicator of the countries that fund research and are pioneers in innovation.
2008 fast , the new one slow i know ..
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