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On intentionality, I find myself in agreement with a lot of what http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_zuckerberg_sa... has to say. Facebook acquired a lot of data when everything was promised to be private, then changed the rules on people. Repeatedly. And Zuckerberg has been privately cavalier about his responsibility to respect privacy from the start, as is evidenced by http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims....

This does not mean to say that most, or even very many, people working at Facebook are as morally challenged as Zuckerberg seems to me to be. But the fact that I think that some of Facebook's controversial decisions come from Zuckerberg, and that I don't think Zuckerberg is acting in good faith, is why I view various incidents involving Facebook as being more evil.

As for the valley being small, it is but I don't live there. And it seems unlikely that I will ever live there. Furthermore my feelings about any particular company don't generally extend to the rank and file working there. Similarly I don't let my hatred of Microsoft's policies get in the way of my having friendships with people who work at, or used to work at, Microsoft.
The searched results are surprising good!

But I'm not sure how they will handle blackhat SEO, especially they allow users to apply as editor much like domz.org
Solo development in a nutshell - have you got what it takes to build a finished product? There's no one else to blame.
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Yep, this is how I work, although I don't mind tapping out the ClassMaps myself as it's not much effort.
I'm surprised that "Have a business model" isn't there somewhere.
I am working on system which (I hope) will be 5GL. I use literate programming as it main programming language. I cannot use any 1/2/3/4GL language in the system because of lot of limitations in 3/4GL languages. My system operates on meta-meta-data about code. I can define meta-meta-data about code using literate programming only.

If you will look at some existing systems, which operate with meta-meta-data, like yum/rpm, or apt/deb, or maven2, etc., then you will see, that code, which describes packages, is literate-like: it contains author, title, description, general overview of package, etc. It does not contains function, or something like that.

If my English is wrong - sorry. I am Ukrainian.
The problem statement says 'ignore friction'. Doesn't that imply the ball's initial energy (when thrown, presumably, but it doesn't matter) is conserved? How, then, will it travel a finite distance, since we are not told of any obstacles?
I refer you to Zeno's paradox for an example of how a geometric series can allow an infinite number of things to happen in a finite time.

In this case the time taken forms a geometric series, and the total time taken is the sum of that geometric series. Which means that, for the same mathematical reasons that let Achilles catch the tortoise, it stops in finite time.
This isn't really limited to otaku subculture at all. There will be lots of different people who enjoy this.
This is from Jan 2009, not this year, and I'm sure you're aware of the fact that the downfall affected the whole economy, not Google in particular.
Ya, and what are the terms in the series representing? Is it air time of each bounce? Your calculation makes it clear that it is. So you are saying you are calculating the air time for infinitely many bounces, the key word here is infinite, i.e. the ball bounces up and down, up and down infinitely often. So if the ball bounces infinitely often how can it stop and roll on the floor because infinitely many bounces means not stopping after finitely many bounces and rolling on the floor. Your calculation for the time is confounding two things, air time and bouncing. You can calculate the air time assuming infinitely many bounces but then you can't go and claim that the ball stops bouncing after t = whatever because you calculated t = whatever assuming the ball never stopped bouncing and then after the calculation went back and changed your assumption, that is a logical fallacy if I ever saw one.
You don't give up, do you? An infinite series can have a finite sum. Yes, the ball bounces infinitely often, but it does that in a finite amount of time.
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I totally agree with you.

Whilst the basic notion that travel sites could do a better job at giving you suggestions based on your preferences - and temperature definitely being one factor - temperature is not everything.

The author did a nice job collecting all the temperature information, but for an end user the simple names of the destinations don't mean much (where exactly is "Metehara" without asking Google?). I wouldn't find myself just looking for a temperature and in accordance to that look for destinations. Much more important for a holiday is the price range, so if I'd use the Excel file to find my perfect destination I would still have to find all the prices associated with the destinations (e.g. traveling to Ethiopia / Metehara will be quite expensive).

All in all: Good start. Incorporate this data within a larger travel search engine and let the user have one more option to narrow down the search.
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In fact, pick up a bouncy ball and drop it on a flat surface. You can observe the fact that bounces become smaller and more rapid, and then they stop bouncing entirely.

Indeed, I've done that -- but my intuition told me that it was stopping due to friction, not due to the exponential decay of an infinite number of bounces. :-)

It's oddly disappointing to realize that the model actually acts more or less the same as the real world for once.
Actually, why use colons instead of URI templates?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-04
Any info about who made the visualisation?
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In the Valley maybe. San Francisco proper is filled with women and has a great quality of life on par with, but different from, NYC.
Yep, the Australian govt. will literally grab you by the arm and drag you over there if you show an interest.

The skills shortage is, apparently, acute.

When I finished my engineering degree and they had a jobs fair the Australian stand was huge - and the "package" of benefits (i.e. crazy tax breaks, free loan car etc.) was mad.
I am familiar with Zeno's paradox and all other things Zeno and infinite series summing to finite things but there is fallacy here that nobody seems to get. Yes the time taken is indeed a geometric series but if the time taken is a geometric series, an infinite one at that, then that means there are infinitely many bounces, no? So if there are infinitely many bounces how can you claim the ball stops bouncing? You are confounding two things, air time which is indeed finite because it forms a geometric series, and the number of bounces. You can not have an infinite geometric series to calculate the time and only have finitely many bounces.
Your logic escapes me. Are you trying to say that "real entrepreneurs" would prefer not to get any raise instead of getting 10%? Moreover, assuming your hypothesis for a while, this would be an incredibly expensive PR stunt.
1) The ball stops bouncing in a finite amount of time.

2) The ball bounces an infinite number of times.

3) This is not a contradiction, no more than the idea that a projectile passes through an infinite number of spatial points in finite time. Please go and read about geometric series and Zeno's paradox on wikipedia, as another commenter has already suggested.
Your header guard is bad (but not horribly so). Identifiers with two underscores at the beginning are reserved in the C90 standard (as are identifiers with one underscore followed by an upper case letter).

Your comments are also only valid in C99. Unless you have a really good reason, then you should use the block style comments (and I can't think of any good reason). (oh, maybe I should have read your very first sentence... yes that seems like a good reason :-)
This doesn't address the fact you are making a logical fallacy. You can't make a calculation assuming the ball bounces infinitely often and then after the calculation go back and say the ball stops bouncing because it invalidates your original calculation.
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Have you considered hiring remote workers? Surely your money will go further hiring a remote developer in the Mid West with the cheaper cost of living than NYC? I'm sure you could even fly them in a few times if you needed to and still save money
Wow, I wonder how. Presumably they could have encoded a watermark into the text by changing out synonyms. All you'd need is 15 words with two possible synonyms.

...Or, more simply, they probably used packet sniffing/similar?
So people is this really the tiniest?
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I'm not disagreeing with you. Yes, an infinite series can have a finite sum, no argument there but what I am arguing with is that people are saying the ball stops bouncing after time t = whatever. Everyone is confounding two things here, air time and bouncing. Yes, the air time is finite but the bouncing isn't. So you can't say it stops bouncing after time t = whatever if you calculate t = whatever by assuming infinitely many bounces which is what everyone is doing because they are summing a geometric series where the terms of the series represent the air time of each bounce.
The ball has horizontal energy as implied by the parabolic arc. Assuming no friction the ball's horizontal velocity will be constant, hence it will just roll away at whatever initial horizontal velocity it had.
Being Asian, I also have a similar effect. I don't get drunk, but rather I go from being a little buzzed or tipsy to hung over. I get pounding headaches and I always want to fall asleep. If I'm lucky, I'll find a beer/wine/spirit that I can nurse for most the night and be okay. Once I get over the tipping point (depends on the alcohol oddly enough), then I go straight into headache mode.

I've also tried Pepcid AC and that works wonders for my condition. Not sure how that affects my system, but I get to experience the different stages of alcohol when I take a pill or two before drinking.
It makes the distinction between god_is_no_where and god_is_nowhere much clearer than GodIsNowhere and GodIsNowHere. A slightly more subjective one is for things with acronyms in them. Compare: check_url_index, CheckURLIndex and CheckUrlIndex.
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There is a time t such that after time t the height of the ball's bounces is zero.

Personally, I call that "not bouncing".
I believe the intention of this name was the parsing ambiguity of the word "nowhere" when you don't have word delimiters, not as an example of an actual name, or a statement about the location of God :)
I would bet Google gives mostly restricted stock, not options. So not worthless, but not as much potential upside.
>Why do Americans have such a strong reluctance to travel abroad for work?

To fully understand this you'd probably have to live in the US. We grow up constantly hearing things like "in America at least we know we're free" and many of us can't help but think "why do they keep repeating this? Is everyone else not?". We're constantly indoctrinated about being the best in the world, so no matter how bad things are here, they must be worse everywhere else right?

We have an enormous amount of people in the US who've never been outside of it and have a completely wrong picture of the rest of the world. It was shocking for me, for example, when I came over to Europe and saw places like Sweden and France. I saw what I knew as socialism, but it seemed to be working! And the more I looked the more it appeared to actually work better for the average person. It was so demonized back home, who could have imagined that it's actually just a trade off like everything else. Some previously good friends of mine now literally think I'm a communist (sadly I'm not even exaggerating).
I hope they'll still continue to improve on EC2 / RDS.
Fear of vendor lock-in is the reason I'm trying them out for my current project instead of Google's App Engine.
just roll away

Technically, it will slide, since without friction it can't obtain any angular momentum.
Wouldn't you be better off giving substantially larger raises to your higher performers?

The best way I've seen this done is carrot and stick combined. When I worked with MySpace/NewsCorp (for all my sins) one of the things I was most encouraged by was their anual review...

EVERYONE in the company was given an anual performance review by their manager with a final mark out of 5.

Then out of no where it was simply announced that EVERYONE who got 1 or 2 out of 5 was fired. No one knew that was going to happen but it was simple + effective.

Low performers, slackers, idiots and the like were immediately expelled from the company. Everyone who was pushing like crazy was inspired to go on and do more with a revitalized team. Anyone who was thinking about slacking was thus incentivized not to going forward. People who knew they were out of their depth and might get a 1 or 2 next time started looking for a different job. It was a harsh yet thoroughly effective move.

That, combined with salary raises makes for effective, rewarded teams IMHO.
Just a quick pedantic point - __FOO_H__ is a reserved identifier (C90 reserved). You shouldn't be writing it in your code.
..or they are just great at search.
yes, you are correct: the ball will not "roll", it will continue in a straight line at constant v and ang. momentum, whatever it had initially.
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I think the problem is simply their size makes it very difficult to identify their top performers. There is no objective measure that can be applied across the entire organisation, so they have to rely on humans to identify the top performers. Their top 10% of staff would come to 2,300 people (assuming the 23,000 mentioned elsewhere is correct), which means no single person in the organisation can identify the top people (and probably no single person knows all of the top people).

So you need to rely on mid-level managers to identify the top performers, but each mid-level manager is likely to be biased towards their own staff and their area of responsibility. And of course the mid-level managers may not be in the top 10% and so may be unable to identify who the star performers are anyway. So then you try to add some kind of normalisation scheme, maybe you take the top 10% from each department. Except that doesn't account for one department being better/more important than another. So you have to add that weighting in,... and you end up with some complex system that no-one really understands or agrees with.

Add to that the evidence that performance related pay isn't always beneficial and this becomes a very difficult problem.
The smoking is what makes it so enjoyable ;)
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> If you're an expert on data structures but can't write programs, you're useless.

I agree here, which is why the author of the original post suggest contributing to open source projectors. The projects that he suggests require getting more than a surface knowledge of how data structures are implemented.

There are certainly programming jobs that don't require knowing data structures, but if you're a good programmer and you understand data structures and algorithm, the total pool of jobs open to you is much higher (and you're much less immune to being treated as a commodity, although in my experience that has more to do with the company and the industry rather than specific work).

But overall, seeing the software a candidate has contributed to (fixing bugs, implementing new features, starting new projects) is a much more reliable indicator than whether they can white board an algorithm to detect a loop in a linked list without using any additional storage.
You can minimize false positives and false negatives, but you're going to get them.
So how do I benefit back from Europe?
Yeah, I'll second the quality of the searches. Especially those where you know what you're looking for (obscure programming docs and forum/group chat logs for one)

Great to see that level of success. I hope it's not due to the novelty of this, and I'm sure we're bound to see adoption slowly creep up with this slashtag business (and probably some similar stuff from Google as well)
What happened when the next annual review came around? Didn't everyone try to game it to maximise their scores? Did managers feel bad giving low marks knowing that it would mean people getting fired and potentially claims of discrimination?
I sleep when I feel I need to sleep and wake up when naturally (except two days, when I need to wake at 7 A.M for university)
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If you are going to a country that speaks a different language my advice is to enroll in a beginners language course as soon as you get there. This will give you some structured activity to do for the first few weeks and will aquaint you with others who are probably encountering the same situation. In addition, its a good way to get an instant social circle so you can at least have people to hang out with in a new country.

As a side-effect, you will also get a much deeper understanding of the local people/culture if you have at least a basic understanding of their language.
So it's right to export your 4000 contacts from GMail and mass mail them, but it's wrong to do the same with Facebook.

With GMail I can export everything and import it to an E-Mail client of my choosing, with Facebook this is impossible, if I join a new social network I have to do everything manually.
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Is there a mobile widget library for backbone.js?
Heroku is in general too expensive for me.

Personally I would go for an AWS Free Tier account + 1 EC2 large instance. Then use the micro instance as the HTTP server, and the large instance for the DB and a 1 GB memcached.

That would cost no more than $100 / month and will give you more processing power than what this package offers.
As I understand it, taking a list of FB contacts and turning them into a mass email list would be a violation of the CAN-SPAM rules - people need to explicitly agree to be added to a mail list.
Also check out this comparison of features:
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Dear TSA, why not just ban airplanes altogether?

They just ban things, to make it look like they are in control, I think this is a sign of weakness.
That's true, but trying to illustrate how hyper-expensive prices in The Valley are by comparing them against prices in places that are ultra-low seems disingenuous (to me at least).

The post came off like it was implying that in The Valley $700/month is a bare-basement price, while everywhere else in the country it buys you a mansion and several servants.
Actually, if your model has ProductID and NewPrice you can create just the Update controler/view for that. Put some validation on the model, and the scaffolding is done.

Or you could write the form itself with the "EditorFor" helper methods, either for the whole class or for each field.
It's not perfect, but good enough for a quick prototype or first version.
> Blekko, a well-funded new search engine that aims to be No. 3 behind Google and Bing

Inaccurate title; it implies Blekko is currently the #3 search engine while the article states this is just an aim. (They are probably aiming to be higher than 3. Shoot for the moon, might catch a star, right?). Glad I heard about it though. Interesting idea on slashtags; seems very roughly similar to some of DDG's !bang commands.

[1] http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/10/comS...
Oops. Memories fade. At any rate, my point is that a lot of people have options with a low strike price. I'm not sure what the downfall of the economy has to do with this fact.
Meh, ClassMaps for 90% of the stuff are all the same, so I love the automap ideia mostly to spare me the bother :)
Your ability to have free time and maximize your money probably happened because you worked on cool stuff in your 20s. I know a bunch of people a few years older than myself who would like to settle down and start a family now, but can't because they spent their 20s either unemployed, in a variety of clerical jobs, or in organizations (eg. school systems) that are chronically underfunded and overworked. They don't have either the money or time to start a family without falling a rung down the socioeconomic ladder - let along work on cool stuff.

A lot of popular blogs (eg. Marc Andreesen's) divide up your career into phases, where you optimize for different things in each phase. Your 20s is usually the "development" phase, where people hire you for what you can do in the future. Your 30s is the "harvest" phase, where people hire or acquire you (at substantially increased rates) for what you've done in the past. You want to optimize for skills & experience during the development phase, because otherwise, there's no reason for anyone to hire you during the harvest phase.
As a programmer it's always fun to be in a good job market. However, I do get a bit concerned about bubbles when things get overheated like this. I suppose the best one can do is save for the downturn and build up some great experience for when the market inevitably gets tougher and the rounds of layoffs start.
Ok, now we are in agreement because my definition of "stops bouncing" was finitely many bounces.
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There's a chapter on this in Freakonomics:

"Factors that are important in determining high standardized test scores in children include: highly educated parents, high socioeconomic status, maternal age of greater than thirty when the child was born, low birth weight, English as the primary language spoken in the home, parental involvement in the PTA, and many books in the home environment. Also, adopted children tended to have lower standardized test scores than their non-adopted peers. Factors that are not important in determining high standardized test scores in children include: the family is intact, the parents recently moved to a better neighborhood, the mother didn't work between birth and kindergarten, the child attended Head Start (US government program providing education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families), the parents regularly take the child to museums, the child is regularly spanked, the child frequently watches television, the parents read to the child nearly every day. Noting the overgeneralization, Levitt explains that what is important in parenting is who you are, not what you do."

http://www.wikisummaries.org/Freakonomics:_A_Rogue_Economist...
Took a bit under an hour on my machine.

Core i7, 12GB of RAM, 10k RPM HDDs.

The built executable worked first time too, which was impressive for a project of that size, given that it was the very latest bleeding edge trunk source code.

For comparison, I tried to build Mozilla three or four years ago, and gave up. The Chrome build environment setup instructions, while long and tedious (especially on Windows), are excellent.