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I wish the physics model worked more like cyclomaniacs.
Do not editorialize in the title. The original title was fine.
Allow me to make that a bit more clear. From testing on it for our app, it's been super fun to use, and pretty intuitive.
That we are star dust.
I'm surprised we don't hear more from Trent Reznor. As I can tell through his music (pick up the TSN soundtrack today released in full) - the man is a genius. But to not hear more from him in today's internet world like we do Scott Adams or other intelligencia who have done spinoff work seems like a waste of a mind that I intently want to hear from.
Let me preference this as I'm not a Java guy, but I've been reading a bit since Oracle filed suit because of the ASF angle.

From what I understand, the Apache Harmony project was doing a clean room implementation of the Java standard library. There was a clause somewhere (I haven't researched the exact text of this) that said something along the lines of "You must pass the TCK (Java's language test suite sort of like rubyspec http://rubyspec.org/) to be a 'compatible implmentation'," or some such.

Apache Harmony people started writing code and when it got time to say, "Ok, can we have the TCK to validate this?" Sun said, "Yes, as long as you promise no one will run your shit on mobile phones."

If you know the ASF, this sort of thing is wildly against their core mission: to make unencumbered software. So they gave Sun-Now-Oracle the finger.

Now, we need to cover a few bases here. Apache Harmony is not a VM, its an implementation of the standard library. The patent issues Oracle sued over were related to the Dalvik VM. The important point here is that the Dalvik VM is not Java. Its an interpreter for byte code. The byte code that runs on Dalvik will not run on any other VM. People think that Android Java is Java, but its not. Android Java is Java that's been compiled to JVM bytecode and then been translated to Dalvik bytecode (again, IIUC).

The basic point is that 'The Java Language' is not a JVM. It is not a standard library. But there's some weird ass 'Certified Java' thing that can't be obtained unless you give up rights, even though Java is open source.

My reading of this IBM/Oracle tryst is that IBM decided that it could get a "TCK certified" Java implementation by backing OpenJava.

Which is a long way of saying, no, Google/Apache probably can't just create a new Java spec. The JCP et al will prevent such things. Perhaps they could fork and make a RangerRick language that was source level compatible, but something tells me these people employ too many lawyers for that to go over well.
Not so much I heard, but I told my Mum that all the stars in the sky were suns a long long way away - she never new
While I enjoy the creativity of his for loops, javascript is the not language to be doing this in. One of the key advantages of using a foreach loop with a callback function, is that javascript has functional scope. All of those variable declarations in his for loops are just for show, so personally I think the while loops in his examples are more appropriate for javascript as it doesn't fool you into thinking it has block scope.
"Michigan’s forests yielded more money and created more millionaires than did all the gold mined during California’s Gold Rush."

It may not be the most mind-blowing fact I've heard in my life, but it's one of my favorites. It shows how much a good story can change perceptions.
The guy should rename _his_ language to issue 9 and he will get the good will and publicity :).
it depends how much risk you want to take with your free time :)

nothing is guaranteed. neither your small or big project is guaranteed to earn a cent. so all it comes down to is how much of your time are you willing to give up and how enthusiastic are you about each idea.

I will say this though - I spent about 6 months doing a "big" side project and now I'm working on a couple of smaller projects, for fun. The big project can sit in the background earning income, giving you more free time to experiment.
Forgive me but how is moving half way between two points not moving? Did you mean "You cannot arrive"?
I've seen this question come up over the years, from Slashdot to proggit and always find it rather juvenile.

For an activity that usually requires and benefits from clarity and concentration, I'd be quite surprised to hear of any beneficial effects of booze or illicit drugs.

Caffeine and beta-blockers I understand, and perhaps (like playing pool) that first beer or two can "take the edge off" and let some decisions come more easily.

But if you've got a stash, find something more carefree to do and someone to do it with.
We are golden. We are billion year old carbon. And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2hL6iCSFxk
This is just great! I hope Flickr will adopt it immediately. Right now you can not choose "public domain" as a default option for your Flickr account. So we do not have any public domain pictures from there. Attribution is ok, but what if you want to modify a picture or make a collage? Making a clear attribution for Flickr is not always easy without adding clutter to your UI.

Looking forward for huge increase in public domain pictures :)
You're absolutely welcome.

The majority of our "costs" are built into our security layers. We're providing DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall Protection, Managed Redudant Firewalls, and more. The enterprise-grade level technology we purchase is in the seven-figures. So for starting at $200 a month (secure server with FireHost) you're protected by seven-figures in security equipment. So there's economies of scale which allows us to do this, it's just cannot be low-cost.

And as you said, there's of-course the environment is fully managed, we have engineer costs to ensure the integrity of your environment is constantly maintained.

Let me know if you have additional questions.
If you are still watching mail me at snathan(a)cise.ufl.edu, I might have something useful to say
Not showing the product is not an unheard of marketing technique. Nike is famous for this. There are also other examples such as Wonderbra and Kellog's. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/business/media/05adco.html...

If I had to guess, the WP7 ads deliberately minimize the product itself. The subtext here is that WP7 is not a robot that controls your life or a walled garden from which you cannot escape. Instead, it is a seamless extension of you.

I like the adverts. We'll have to see whether Microsoft takes the spirit of their advertising into their software.
How do you know his material is not in the public domain? By using this mark isn't he relinquishing copyright?

You are just assuming he wants copyright, but it seems to me he doesn't.
Unfortunately, it's each way.
I think the point here on Joy Division has less to do with the actual statistics of how many people list Joy Division as a band they like, and more to do with how much relevance music has in the younger half of generation Y as a status icon of "who I listen to". Sort of how like, when I was growing up not many 12 year olds could hit a jump shot from the three point line as often as one of the neighborhood boys (who we'll call Anthony) could, but your status as popular or not in the neighborhood completely depended on your ability to hit a jumper.

It's not a thing of statistics as much as it is a remark about the culture of being "relevant".

Just wanted to share an opinion on that tangent.
For those that prefer not to read TeX, that's saying that

d/dx (e^x) = e^x
Just submitted to test. Should I get an email?
2nd Law of Thermodynamics... Things flow from hot to cold, from simplicity to complexity. It is the only asymmetrical physical law! Does it have anything to do with time? We don't know!
Over half of people in the U.S. don't believe in evolution.
Here's an idea:

A touch screen bookshelf replacement. A large screen you could hang up as a virtual bookshelf with an interface similar to Delicious Monster / iBooks.

You could flip through your books and still see the cover art and enjoy browsing them in a size comparable to that of as a paper book.

Your kids could still see that books have "physical" presence in your house.

You could still show your books off to people visiting your house.

The shelf would also incorporate sharing. You could drag a book from your shelf to one of your devices shown as an icon on the screen or share it via an email address.

As a starting point you could have this an app for Google TV and Apple TV (when/if they open it to apps), but ideally it'd be touch screen.
How about half the population of China? http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-CN-monthly-200909... Plus folks at many organizations with conservative IT policies.
I actually like the first ad. But it's stolen from the "Really" skit from SNL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntd5wWigzxs
http://xkcd.com/323/
To this day, there are people who believe that New Coke was a PR stunt. Often viewed as one of the biggest brand disasters in history, the New Coke quagmire actually had a great effect on Coke: It made people realize how much they loved the stuff. It's one of the reasons they're on top today.

I don't quite agree with the statement "There's no such thing as bad publicity." But I do feel that branding fortune favors the bold, even if they're doing something foolish like this silly logo.
I solved most of my graduate algorithms problems while lying in bed in the morning, lying on the couch, or in the shower. I simply do not understand how some people can concentrate on problems like that while jogging. My thoughts while jogging are primarily about how much jogging sucks and how I just gotta keep going. If I could solve a technical problem in my head while exercising then either the problem is really easy or I'm not getting very much exercise.
Agree, this line struck me as odd from the article "I'm a huge fan of Microsoft's marketing campaigns for Bing, Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7."

Really? I enjoyed this ad, very witty, and an idea I hadn't seen before, but still resonates. But come on, the other stuff was rubbish.
I'm Italian, born and raise there. I moved here in Florida 5 years ago.
My ex-girlfriend is American, born and raise here.
One day I met her best friend from college (he lives here in Florida as well), and he told me that his father was Italian. When he told me his lastname, I told him that I know people with the same last name from my grandfather's hometown, so I asked him to ask his father where he is from. We ended up finding out that he was from the same place and that he was friend with the only family member (a very far one, my grandfather's cousin) I have here in the States, in Connecticut.
Apple Blocks Spotify in the U.S.
Do you also find it weird to think about how without gravity we couldn't walk? That one gets me especially hard because it's a such a tangible example of how we've evolved to take advantage of laws of the laws of physics, and how if these laws were even slightly different then we wouldn't be here, or at least not the same as we're here now.
What the hell isn't these days. There are so many great phones out there now.

Engadget summed it up will in their coverage, they are nice phones, but nothing special. Still a bit behind the best from Apple and the Android camp.
Pylons, Postgresql on Apache with mod_wsgi, I also have a few deployements with cherrypy behind mod_proxy and a few wsgi apps without framework.
go bang
> Firstly it would demonstrate to the courts that Dalvik is not specifically a Java VM.

This is already pretty clear; you can run Lua, Scala, Javascript, Scheme, Ruby, and many other languages on Dalvik.
Feels a lot like Trials HD for XBox 360: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQAmbTEOJG8
Nah! That's way too much of your life wasted.

As for the main question. If you plan to be programming or building systems, then 6-12 months on the help-desk will make you so much more aware of the sorts of things that are show stoppers for average users. In my experience technical staff with help-desk experience make better usability decisions.
Oh, I must say, someone mentioned Godels Incompleteness Theorem, and this comes pretty close. But I think the 2nd law if you think about it, can explain so much.
Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space even when the space is devoid of matter (free space).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy
Django

PostgreSQL + Mongo + Memcache

Apache + wsgi
According to my search history, I am getting in the range of 70-100 a day, and I am nowhere close to being burned out, and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Having information literal seconds away (by using the same method you described above) is too much for me to give up. If someone asks me a question, "Google it" is usually my response.
Live: Kaun Banega Crorepati 4
"Everything that makes up my physical body has existed and always will exist, in some form or another." The physicist richard feynman in the first lecture of "the feynman lectures on physics" says that the most important fact, that would convey the most information would be the atom hypothesis or fact. Which is essentially what you said except with the additional bit of information that "... all matter is made of indivisible particles that both repel and attract each other depending on the distance between them"
2 Hours?! That's 10 hours a week (20 hours if you meant one way) that you should calculate into your hourly pay rate. However, if you really don't have any IT experience help desk support is a good stepping stone. Just make sure you never go backwards.
Around the time Firefox 3.0 came out, I dealt with a customer complaint that our web app was really slow. Their browser? Mozilla 1.7. No, not Firefox; Mozilla.
His material is about javascript! It is not an official US government document and he is living person who claims authorship. It is therefore not in the public domain and shouldn't be marked with a Public Domain Mark.

He is not relinquishing copyright by using this mark, he is making a statement that he believes that no copyright attaches to the material. Two different things.

I'm not assuming that he wants copyright - he gets copyright whether he wants it or not. I'm assuming that he wants to licence his material as freely as possible. The correct way to do that is to licence his material under the CC0 or CC-BY licence.
Shouldn't this be solved by the browser? The back button behavior should be no different from if I were to switch from a new tab back to its parent tab.
Sounds like any curriculum worth learning.
I had a similar experience sans commute with a helpdesk. I also credit that gig as being a good learning experience and eventually getting me interested in web development. I couldn't find a web development job though, so I did freelancing instead. The nice thing about development is that you don't have to wait around for something to come to you, instead, make things happen yourself. Work on getting freelance gigs, in the downtime, work on an open source project or work on your sales tools (portfolio, web site, connectivity via social networks, reputation management, etc.)
Books about specific versions of software, yes. On the other hand other technical books, like CS, are a very different case and age slowly.

But following your example, Amazon sells "Learning Python" 2009 paperback for $34.64, while the Kindle /license/ version for the same edition is $25.75! And note the paperback version includes shipping costs. Paying 3/4 of the price for just a license on a single device is ridiculous, IMHO.
New Gen-Y entrepreneur/innovator website
I have some friends that just launched an online destination for gen-y innovators/entrepreneurs. I'm not too familiar with their goals or business model, but I wanted to see what the hacker side of the world thought of it. I think its very well designed and put together...
It depends how you define "don't believe". They might say they don't believe in evolution, but that doesn't mean they act in ways that are logically congruent with evolution being false.
No, he is perfectly within his rights to relinquishing/disclaim copyright on his works.

In some countries that is not possible, but it is in the US.

I don't see where you are getting "no copyright attaches to the material" - are you trying to say you think he doesn't believe in copyright?

You are really assuming a whole lot here. I'm going with the simple definition: If I place a symbol on my works that marks them as "public domain", I abandoned my copyright.

It's the same as putting the word "free" on a couch you don't want.
Wishing won't do it. If you REALLY want to live in a place like that just move.
Microsoft has a habit of being a few years late on any technology. Internet Explorer 9, and it's HTML 5 and CSS 3 support, should have been released 2 years ago to be competitive. Yet IE9, and I'm sure the Windows 7 Phone will get massive market share..
"To continue reading subscribe now"

No
Using the length of a basketball court as the radius of the Earth, a pencil mark on one end represents the Earths crust.
You're mostly right on, but IBM's proprietary J9 JVM has been TCK certified for years. Given that there are two open-source JVMs and one is clearly winning and the other is clearly losing (forever), IBM decided to switch to the winning team (even though open-source Java is kind of a "hobby" for IBM).
My haircuts in the Philippines were 30 pesos while I was there. That's only a couple years ago and prices haven't changed a bit, which means they are still only about 60 cents US.
NONE of them? I assume that means you've reviewed the more than 4000 that were submitted? I hate to immediately jump on the defensive, but I was a little put-off by the statement. I've used the site for a logo design that I was quite happy with and I've also submitted a few designs that no one was happy with (and for good reason, I'm a terrible designer). So while I have little experience with it, I do think it's a good resource and shouldn't be denounced so quickly.

I've never owned a company and certainly have no real basis for this assumption, but still I assume that I would much rather have thousands of designers at my disposal willing to do iteration after iteration in order win a "prize" and some notoriety to do branding for my company than a single firm who I would feel like I was stuck with after any amount of investment.

Now while I will submit that something of this nature will certainly bring out those "trolling for prize money", I don't agree with the mild implication that the format of the site has nothing more to offer isn't a fair assessment.
don't doubt this story for one second. consumers may love the service, but no way they achieve the 10% conversion rates that the labels have called for.

spotify has talked a big game, but their "imminent" US launch has yet to happen...and i'm not convinced it ever will.

all said, i'd love to see daniel ek (spotify ceo) & steve jobs at the same table...
>The ideal configuration for a problem set is a single partner who is at roughly your ability and is willing to meet earlier in the week.

There's really a lot of substance to this remark. I work with another guy in my class frequently and often come away feeling as though I've free-ridden somewhat.

But after looking more closely the results we get, it becomes apparent they are the product of our combined efforts and wouldn't have been achievable alone. The verbalisation is also highly conducive to understanding intuitively - a principle Salman Khan talks about and I can't agree with enough.
this place is so becoming reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dlrjs/whats_the_m...

lame.
Given that Dalvik is designed to run multiple Java processes with low memory overhead and fast startup, it might actually be pretty great for PaaS like, say, App Engine. That's just speculation, though.
At 7:00 AM Today, NYT Announced That It Has Officially Run Out Of Ideas
It was originally a link to the reddit thread.
Vitamin A at Last Proven to Protect Against Cancer
The first day of a robotics class, my teacher explained that we don't really walk. Each step is graceful falling. Place one foot forward, tilt and fall till the foot hits and repeat.
company has been heading downhill ever since former ceo (and current venrock VC), david pakman, took off.

it's a shame that emusic has not been able to make the long tail business model work. i think there is a significant opportunity in the tail, but maybe they just got too greedy?

-adam
This one actually gives a bit of a 3rd dimension to space you don't see normally. That's really cool. Man, it looks like a mess out there.
A bit off subject -- I knew Reznor was a Joy Division devotee but I didn't realize until just now that his Halo numbers are patterned after the Factory Records numbers that Joy Division releases were a part of. Links:

http://www.ninwiki.com/Halo_numbers

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

Factory elevated the then-usual record company catalog into a numbering system that clearly established authenticity and intentionality. Also, as it happens, it naturally increases fan collecting interest.

The Factory Records numbers included not just records but all manner of designed items such as concerts and their posters, videos, promotional items and some even more interesting examples.

Reznor limits them to recordings, which does allow the realistic completion of a collection and there are indeed many "Every Halo" fans who have made Nine Inch Nails' old singles unusually collectible.

Apart from the collectibility, it's a simple way of creating a story by putting things in a timeline as well as establishing what's really in the canon and what's peripheral.
Who’s *Actually* Suing Whom in Mobile (Infographic)
Ha! I didn't get my degree in engineering, but most of my friends did and this describes many classes they took in their field. Especially applied engineering physics.

I had two friends in AEP that were problem set partners, and they spent so much time working together her now-fiancé didn't ask her out for ages because he thought her problem set partner was her boyfriend.

And no, these kids were not dull buds. The girl is currently a grad student at MIT, and the not-boyfriend problem set partner is a grad student Harvard.
Why?

The URL is for the computer, not you.
Minecraft ALU with PC, +16b Memory
All 3 of the above examples are (for the most part) commodity products being sold by existing market leaders.

Which is to say, everyone already knows about Nikes, Kellogs, and Wonderbra - raising the brand awareness to a level that transcends the commodity nature of the product (not just "a pair of runners") is the task at hand.

It may not be the best marketing position for a product playing catchup, where public awareness is very poor, and the whole "mobile OS" product is not at all commoditized at this point (though Android is trying, I suppose).
That half the worlds population lives on less than $2 a day...
Hooeey webprint-Internet history at your finger tips
Naming a free programming language after a common word is "evil"?

Wait until someone tells you about the holocaust...
Apple v Google. A new paradigm in computing
I don't understand why people are interested or care about the opinion of some guy who hasn't even managed to be relevant in his own domain. Just because he made the soundtrack to a sub-par film about Facebook?

He's basically acting like a 45 year old Holden Caulfield. I think he just wishes he was as good as Joy Division.
Announcing Bootstrap – a simple JS library for loading scripts
c&#x20E0; (c⃠) is supposed to work, but I don't think any browsers support the combining marks yet. (http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.o...)
Web Design is 95% Typography
Real millionaires prefer to invest rather than spend their money.
Full article at the first result:

http://www.google.com/search?q=a+visa+for+job+creators
it was self defense, officer