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Sure, why not.

> Email is different from social networking because in an email application, each person maintains and owns their own address book, whereas in a social network your friends maintain their information and you just maintain a list of friends.

1) People are automatically added to my address book as soon as they email me. Maybe not my "personal" address book or whatever, but their address has been recorded regardless. This is not something I have to maintain, it happens as soon as you contact me.

2) If I change my primary email address I need to send out a blast mail to everyone who I might care to have my new address. A pain in the ass. I'd much prefer to have contact information pushed to me through, say, existing networks.

I honestly don't see a difference. I look at my address book as a "friends list" as well - just an annoying one that I need to keep up to date, instead of allowing my contacts to update as they need to. And if someone doesn't want me to have their contact information, why would we be friends in the first place? (I suppose you could fence off access to a select group, but really)
FWIW, I'd put the ultraportable mark somewhere closer to 3lb; certainly no more than 1.5kg. My Toshiba Portege (12") is closer to 1.1kg (2.4lb).
At this point, you should probably remember that Android came out 2 years ago and managed to overtake the iPhone in that short time frame. I highly doubt Apple will have even a plularity (let alone a majority) of the tablet market in 2 years.
iLoveFunctionLikeThis() but I must admit this is one of the rare case of useless tip in this article. All the rest is almost gold for C programmers.

What is funny is that reading it will hardly make me or you a better programmer because most of this things will take anyway years to be fully understood / mastered, and of course it's an endless process of refinement.

But still very useful to read what we should try to focus on when writing good C code.
A friend won't care that you have their email address it's sorta expected, and one could also argue about whether an email address is even private information.

Or maybe Facebook could allow the export of some other friend identifier.
The graph API provides exactly what you are asking for. It doesn't provide friends' names, but FBIDs. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=<id>; is the user's profile, and http://graph.facebook.com/<id>; is the public JSON for that ID. If you have an access token (on behalf of a logged in user), the graph API will also let you see other information for the user that you are entitled to see.

Have you ever used a Facebook Connect site, like Google's YouTube? Have you noticed you can find your friends on the site? This works because the service gets FBIDs of both logged in users and friends.
I've been out of a job...

So what projects are you working/have you worked on?
Wikipedia says they're 14% of US population - I'm not sure how the age distribution is, but that's plenty high enough to show a problem.
"Be passionate", when the statement is unqualified, is bad advice simply because our HN definition of passion as a synonym for having motivation is not the only definition, and it requires more than a bullet point, 2-word aphorism to qualify.
you can learn to be confident

and as for "be passionate", I dont see if as something you learn, but if you arent passionate and realise that is an important fact, you can redirect your efforts to something you are passionate about.
This reminds me of a quote from Bill Gates, early on in his career, in which he says that Microsoft's business model is "creating variable revenue streams from fixed engineering costs."

Although that's true of many software companies, Apple is proving to be very adept at creating revenue streams across multiple, very different product categories from the same engineering investment.
I suspect that home and community culture is the main reason, and race is somewhere off in the noise.

I'd like to see research on different home cultures. I'd especially like to see a way to assign a metric to a family to rate how "scholarly" the environment is for the children.

You couldn't ask people directly, because pretty much every parent will agree with the statement: "We think education is important." It's just that a lot of them don't translate that into action. E.g. "What, why would you read to a 1 year old? They can't understand it."

Instead, go to substantive things like:

1) How often did you read to your child at age 0-3 months

2) When did your child first start watching TV?

3) Do you have books or magazines in the house?

4) Do you read with your kids every day?

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Should an article about laptop hardware component pricing only compare hardware costs of machines that come pre-installed with office? He doesn't seem to think so as he compares pc's and macs on average hardware costs but they can't all run osx.
What do you do when someone wants recognition and support for a skillset or r&d project. Gets it from his manager but does not support the manager in selling the organisation on the skillset or project letting the manager hanging in limbo. Then complains that they are not recognized ?
Well, now I keep bouncing between Facebook and Google regarding who's "right".
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Does this mean that sometime soon, Gibson will be writing historical fiction?
I'd love to understand why someone would mod down my comment. I believe it's my first time, it's insightful so there was no reason to mod it down is it?
IBM salesmen were pretty effective (it was the second run after the IBM 5100), but I get the feeling Compaq isn't quite given the credit they deserve. The Compaq Portable was a pretty compelling machine for business.

I would argue that the C64 was still a price / performance leader given its low price.

edit: /BM/IBM/
This is sort of a "when all you have is a hammer…" situation. You don't need binary trees, but only in the same sense most of these data structures can stand in for one or more of the others. Binary trees can actually be better than hash tables in many cases where hash tables are used in mainstream scripting languages simply due to language support. An informative post on the subject: http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/problems-with-hash-ta...
I've been wondering about this for a while now, glad to see someone doing it on a large scale, will look forward to seeing how it works out. Hope you guys do some blog posts on it eventually.

On a side note, what do you guys think of the recent brouhaha with Oracle and ASF? Any concerns related to the future of the JVM?
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he clearly didn't read "8 things to do when creating a numbered list"
Phew, thank you.
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The article doesn't actually use "the USA" and "the world" interchangeably. It just says that Apple is the #1 buyer of flash memory in the world. I regret making my initial comment because in the context of the article, the comment I was responding to makes little sense.
Any free apps available that do this kind of thing?
I am still searching. http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cetag/1dshakes.htm confirms "the beginnig of the end" but does not give a source.
The left side is newest, the right side is news (homepage).
It is fast, but I have a couple of problems:

1. A technical bug - EF often fails to update SQL Server DB on model change (RecreateDatabaseIfModelChanges).

2. More general - the generated UI is completely data centric, while even MS people advocate for business centric, task based UIs.
There's got to be something you're passionate about in life, and if your current line of work is not amenable to it, the advice, heeded or not, is to find a new line of work.
You're presuming that the Android vs iPhone sales figures are indicative of popularity vs the iPhone only being restricted to one network provider (at least in the USA). The iPad doesn't have that restriction.

It may very well happen that Android tablets overtake iPads but Android vs iPhones market is an apples-to-oranges comparison.
I'd bet that some of the 3G iPad's $130 premium is also a concession to ATT for the contract-less data plan options.
This is merely one of many questions you will end up learning the answer to if you pursue this program.
On the contrary, being passionate can make you qualified. (if you put in enough effort and stick with it long enough, which is all kind of bundled into the concept of passion)
I'm currently reading "The D Programming Language" and having a lot of fun playing with some of its powerful features. Coming from Java, it feels like I've been let out of the sandbox.
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It's getting quite a bit of users, and the average session length is 14 minutes. Quite interesting :) I love it. It's sort of like Gmail, minus the notifications through my phone (which is a good thing, because it would be way too spammy). I can rest assured that when I visit that tab, I see the latest stuff. No refreshing or checking both pages. I have them both, always up to date, and at a glance.
You're generally paying a few hundred extra for the aluminum body, the shiny Apple logo, the comparatively huge multitouch trackpad, firewire, bluetooth, backlit keyboard paired with an ambient light sensor, a brighter, higher-contrast display, and a longer-lasting battery (though a lot of that is due to software). Often times (including when comparing against the ThinkPad Edge) you're also upgrading from a toy Intel GPU to an NVidia GPU.
Blacks account for 13% of the population, according to US Census estimates of 2009 (39.6 mil / 307 mil). (Now, we only want to look at 18-25 yr olds, but I don't have that data. So we have to assume equal distribution among age ranges).

And let's say, of that 13%, half are men and half are women. So, it would be "normal" if 6.5% of college students are black men.

5% vs 6.5% doesn't seem like a HUGE problem.

Data source: http://www.factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-...
At a guess they don't realise that triggers a size snap and thought you meant simply do it manually.
First of all, I priced this at work out of curiosity when buying some Mac Pros and some Macbook Pros. You can get a PC with the same hardware specs as a Mac Pro for about half the cost. You can also get a PC with the same specs for about the same cost if you get one of the gamer brands, but just a Dell or HP Quad core machine is far cheaper than a Mac Pro, assuming all things that can be compared on an apples to apples basis are the same.

In notebooks the price disparity is not quite as large, but it's still large. You'll get about the same notebook for $800 that you'd get for $1,200 from Apple. Also, stuff like RAM upgrades and SSDs cost far more for the same thing. Again though, you could find comparable Windows units for about the same prices, or at least close, if you went with higher end notebook brands.

Second, in phones the price disparity is still large because of Apple's deal with AT&T. They're getting not only the $600 unsubsidized prices, but some extra fee as well taken from the contract. You might argue that AT&T is paying that, not you, but your bill may be higher as a result, or you may be on AT&T rather than Verizon since VZW wouldn't agree to that, etc.

Even in tablets, competitors definitely can match the iPad's prices. The Nook is $250. I of more tablets costed below the iPad than above.
Seems like not a big deal, but I think the session-less controller support is a nice touch. Good job!!
I hadn't considered that reading; clarified what I meant.
I'd really hope that (if it was the US Military) that they wouldn't shoot live weaponry like that on US territory. Sounds like a great lawsuit- although not one that I'd want the damages (death, harm) originally from.
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Whoa whoa, your 'language dilution' train stops here. Secret's latin root is secernere, _literally_:

> without; aside, by itself

Also, no complaining about language degradation while also using emoticons ;)
Interesting, using this while I'm at work.
If that is what the author is talking about, then the author is still off (at least based on this analysis):

Galaxy S $205 build cost - http://bit.ly/bocdoe

Apple Ipad $264.27 - http://bit.ly/aW8mvu

(bit.ly links cause the links are huge, goes to Isuppli)
Create an account. Open a service ticket. Wait hours for response. Plus no firewall options on your Nitro servers, at that price range, is ridiculous and way below the standards of the industry.
Reading to your kids doesn't seem to help them read more proficiently, at least not on average. The 1994 Scarborough & Dobrich paper on this is one of the most famous in education literature, and there are a bunch of good responses to it as well.
With the failure of Linux netbooks, I don't think it'd do any better on tablets, ARM or x86.
This is definitely the plan. If CourseRail works out at UCLA, look out for expansion to other schools in the coming quarters/semesters.
I agree with you completely regarding model changes; I hope it gets fixed in the next CTP (or beta if they're close enough).

As to the generated UI, it's pretty similar to what you get with Rails scaffolding. I haven't spent a ton of time with it so you may know better than me, but it's nice having the default views generated while wiring everything together and then changing the generated views to build something a little more useful (the same way you'd do with scaffolded Rails objects).
That is a really fine line they are drawing there. You have access to the same information on both services and you acquire it in essentially the same way i.e. by the other party volunteering it. Facebook is effectively asserting that their users rely on the fine details of how the service works to maintain their privacy, even though Facebook has never had much regard for that principle themselves.

He is right about the "when it's convenient" thing though. If you want to adhere to a moral standard then great, do it, consistently. What other parties do is irrelevant.

And corporations morally crusading against each other is a complete joke. Corporations will slit your throat for a nickel. My stomach is not looking forward to the "who's less evil" war Google has started.
ah yes, more post title traffic bait my Michael Arrington. I guess that's what you have to do when the thing you're posting about isn't really all that interesting.
But the stat is about black men only--excluding women. So 7% then.

Is 5% actual vs 7% desired a big enough gap to cause alarm? I don't know.
Oh, thanks, I guess I can see that happening now that you say it! Should have been clearer like gxti did sometime after.
> At this point, you should probably remember that Android came out 2 years ago and managed to overtake the iPhone in that short time frame. I highly doubt Apple will have even a plularity (let alone a majority) of the tablet market in 2 years.

More Android devices are sold than iPhones, yes. Add the iPod Touch to that and I'm pretty sure Apple still has a substantial lead (and possibly growing).

Also, how many of those Android devices are being sold with 1.6 and aren't able to upgrade the 2.x series due to manufacturer laziness or hardware limitations? Is it really fair to compare an Android 1.6 device sold today to an iOS device sold today? The iOS device will, based on history to date, be eligible for OS upgrades for at least two years. The Android 1.6 device is already two years out of date and not getting any younger.
What's the most effective way to mention open source work on resumes? I generally mix it in with other non-school- or -work-related stuff in a "projects" section, but is there a smarter way to emphasize it?
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Unfortunately, UCLA is very stubborn about their copyrights (UCLA, Bruins, etc.) so incorporating those names into the site will definitely bring in legal trouble (a student had to deal with this problem for calling his site "321Bruin").

In any case, there are plans to expand beyond just UCLA so I wanted to keep the name as generic as possible.
I much prefer readable code.
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If email addresses were rarely abused, then a private email address would be like an unlisted phone number.

Email address abuse is extremely common however, so public should not be the default.
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My dad fired a Minuteman II from Vandenberg AFB (just North of LA) into the ocean in the late 70's. I'd be surprised if the Navy didn't do the same, and you probably don't want to do it outside of your own territorial waters unless it's a large naval exercise.
While it is true that Android phones haven't been able to undercut iPhones by much, the argument doesn't hold up for tablets and iPods because these markets haven't really been entered by the Android manufacturers yet. The Samsung Galaxy tablet is at the forefront but the real wave of Android tablets is months away waiting for the release of Gingerbread. Expect a lot of announcements around CES time. As for the iPod market, Android has a lot of catching up to do with it's media software so that will probably be a bit further out.
The one problem that I can see is the fact that these studies can only correlate people's behaviour and their longevity, as opposed to randomly assigning people into groups of drinkers/teetotallers. It is a fair assumption that people who don't drink differ from other people in other aspects, too. (e.g. they might be more religious, or not drink for health reasons, or have a less active social life etc). You obviously cannot do double-blind studies about long-term alcohol consumption, so correlation is the best we have, but one must still be careful when interpreting these kinds of results.
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Actually, that happens all the time. There are many live fire ranges for planes, artillery, etc. scattered across the US. No reason the Navy wouldn't light a few off from a sub.
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If you want to contact people from the newspaper business, I suspect prefacing your pitch with a picture of a burning newspaper is not very wise.
I'm not able to find any of those with: 1. a comparable battery life; or 2. a comparable video card, though, which is what the higher-end ultraportables I was looking at for comparison have. For me, the battery is the main sticking point; I could compromise on the GPU.
Agreed. Anyone who has been through a metro public school system has more than enough anecdotal evidence to know it's not race (and NOT the school), but the culture and family the kid goes home to at night that makes the biggest difference.

While I agree with the idea of picking specific metrics and asking about them, at a cultural level I think what is going on here is a little more complicated than simply not knowing.

Frequently public schools teach things that the subcultures feel are simply not relevant, to their lives. Let me give you an example:

When I showed up for day 1 of high school, I was immediately bombarded with the idea of applying to college. I was essentially told that the next four years would be spent preparing for college - that's what the "point" of hs was. This in an of itself is pretty bad, in terms of limiting intellectual exploration and all that good stuff.

But imagine you aren't planning to go to college. Imagine no one in your family went to college, and it's likely you'll end up working a blue collar job where your degree doesn't matter. What exactly should your parents be doing/saying here to get their kid interested in school? And why even bother?

TLDR: I think this is much more about subcultural groups feeling excluded from, and thus rejecting, mainstream education, and the cultural norms that are projected from it, than simply explaining the cultural norms more scientifically.
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Took the test. But only because I'm bored. I have no clue (no pun intended) why you are doing this, who you are, what's going on etc etc.

If you want people to help you, at least have the courtesy to ask properly. Give more details.
It happens with videogames all the time. Developers get pushed to hit an unrealistic ship date, the game gets panned by critics, fans revolt, when 6 more months could have fixed it.

"A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever."
-Shigeru Miyamoto
http://www.iwise.com/PW9YU

That said, this attitude is coming from an era when it was difficult to update games after release, so I'm not sure to what extent it still applies.
you really needed someone to tell you that it's easy to contribute to open source?
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This rubs me the wrong way. The developer is breaking his customers' apps with his copy protection, and then expects to get credit for "solving" a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Well, I suspect that scholarly families tend to continue that way, and that a group of people that have been farmers for generations, and that were forced into schools with other farmers children just one generation ago are going to not be reading to their children everyday, or have a lot of books and magazines in the house.

African-American culture did not just happen on its own, you know. There were major societal factors that forced that group of people to have a culture that is the way it is.
If you consider that CPU, ram and hard drive is the only thing that matters in a laptop, then yes, apple is definitely overpriced. But mac unibody, battery indicator, magnetic connector, pluggable power unit (to change the type of connector for different countries), etc... have a cost, and I would gladly pay a few more bucks for it.

Last, I got two PC laptops: both were broken beyond repair after 3 years, whereas my unibody mac book look almost new after 1.5 year, and my first, plastic macbook works perfectly (3 years old). The only PC laptop that were not crap in my experience were lenovo, but surprise, those were expensive as well.
Balanced binary tree versus hash table is an implementation choice for the associative array abstract data type. Similarly, growable array versus linked list are implementation choices for the list abstract data type.

I don't buy that balanced binary trees are "too computer sciencey for most people's taste" as an argument against not have them as implementations of native types in Python. Designing a good hash table is equally as subtle in terms of both the theory and the implementation itself. But those details are not exposed through the interface.
Laugh while you can. During the Buzz launch, I recall Google found it just as hard to negotiate the intrinsically tricky balance between privacy and openness. There is a real trade-off between the two in products that allow you to share information with groups larger than one.

Good luck with your new social product.
Have the Japanese hit such an enormous creative block that they're investigating our PBS cartoons from 1998 in hope of business plans?
Mac Pros have Xeon CPUs and ECC RAM. Were you comparing with similar "workstation" grade PCs?

(Whether the average Mac Pro user gets any real benefit from these parts is another question)
Great, so they'll have an iPad competitor out round about the time that the second version of the iPad comes out and blows the current iPad out of the water, then?

Colour me unimpressed.
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But in this case emails are not being used to compile a list for spammers but to help someone find/invite their finding onto a new platform.