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Yeah, I think that's the proximate cause: lots more competition and more insecure academic positions leads to more ruthless interactions with colleagues, a term that itself might be getting a bit obsolete with the decline of collegiality.

If I had to pick one part of it that bugged me most, it'd be the constant need to attack and dismiss other people's research. Very few scientists these days refer to something like the "excellent recent treatment of the subject by Professor So-and-so", unless it's a treatment of a subject that doesn't compete with the author's own research. Instead, usual practice is to paint competing research in the worst possible light, and only grudgingly admit any related work that was actually on-point and good.

There was PhD Comics strip somewhere that jokingly listed phrases least likely to appear in a scientific paper, one of which was, "Previous work by X et al (2009) was actually pretty good!". Of course, it's not entirely because authors have suddenly become huge jerks; the incentives on them push in that direction. With many more submissions, reviewers have gotten much harsher about demanding that authors distinguish themselves from existing work and prove that theirs is novel and superior, which supplies an incentive for authors to trash existing work.
Getting Creative Things Done
"Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew" by Ursula K Le Guin

The advice therein extends beyond stories.

http://www.amazon.com/Steering-Craft-Exercises-Discussions-N...
No, it doe not, even then. It’s unfortunately not that simple. HTML5 has acquired new meaning, its definition has changed.
Works for me in Firefox 3.6.12 - I have noticed that you seem to need to add a return after the image URL though.
Maybe then, they can focus on 'real' problems like global warming and green energy.
Google Maps is not useless, far from it. The projection method chosen (Mercator) is useless for the small scales, and misleading. Except if you are a (XVII° century) marine navigator.

De-zoom and look at the apparent continent sizes, it's just horrible. Half of emerged lands in antarctica ? Groenland the size of Africa ? Think about children exposed to those maps before a good atlas is showed to them.

I co-wrote a paper about this topic, but it's in french :
http://mappemonde.mgm.fr/num20/internet/int08401.html

A technical choice (summary : it's easier to have perpendicular parallels and meridians) has prevailed upon a geographical choice. It's not very complicated to link the projection to the scale of the view, all serious geographical internet portals are doing so (IGN, Ordnance Survey, etc.)
This is what struck me most about this article - that they seemed to think it was OK to sit in a a restaurant with a laptop open on the table, and not even being coy about it! It's plain disrespectful, not even so much to the people at your table (who presumably are either ok with it or at least know the person and could interfere), but more to the other patrons and staff. Imagine going out for nice night in town and some moron pulls out his computer at the table next to you and starts banging away and polluting the atmosphere with his bright lcd screen. Luckily around here waiters are starting to stand up for patrons and are asking people on their phones to move outside while they talk (which is a comparable social faux pas, but happens much more).

(note that it depends on the definition of 'restaurant' - I realize that McDonalds is called a 'restaurant' too in some parts of the world, I mean a place with tablecloths and staff that comes to your table, so starting at around a neighborhood pizza place or so. Also I've asked my wife to move to the bar or the lobby several times when she got out her computer in similar situations, I've been on all sides of the table on this one.)
The Math sections are about the level of high school entrance exam in many countries in Asia (for students who just finish grade 9 equivalents applying to high school).

It is only a bit harder than SAT I Math, in my opinion. I've always wondered why SAT I Math is so easy--a good middle school graduate in Asia would have aced it. If anyone here can comment/point to references on the matter, I will appreciate it.
To me, this was the most interesting part of the article:

“To give the game some tension, I wanted the monsters to surround Pac Man at some stage of the game. But I felt it would be too stressful for a human being like Pac Man to be continually surrounded and hunted down. So I created the monsters’ invasions to come in waves. They’d attack and then they’d retreat. As time went by they would regroup, attack, and disperse again. It seemed more natural than having constant attack.”
- Toru Iwatani, Pac-Man creator
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Ask HN: unix home in the cloud?
Finishing a contract for an academic project soon, I'll miss having a unix machine I can log in from anywhere, which has all my scripts and data in it, where I can run stuff for myself.

Amazon EC2, slicehost, are marketed as hosting sites. I guess many of you use them as home machines too. Any thoughts?
Indeed, and I think the reason it's done is simply to make square-root an easy-to-deal-with single-valued function rather than a multifunction. Remember the quadratic formula: the ± in it is in addition to the square root, not part of it.
Agreed, you can publish anything you like on your "provided for free" blog, but if you want anybody to care you should definitely put some effort into that. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963612
Yea, you're right. It isn't just about the action, but the way the administration isn't listening. It's probably a poor example of the way I've seen students want to keep traditions.

I've often heard, "Oh, the (parties|hacks|accomplishments|steer roast) was better years ago, and now all the incoming students don't do it the same anymore". There's a weird looking back on things, and today is never as good as yesterday to some students. I hope that this is due to a missampling on my part in talking to people, because that's a really depressing view of the institution
The Greeks got by fine without it.
How to name your startup: be a regular guest on a well-to-do podcast that, while not being able to trademark its own name, has established quite a reputation. Create a friendly relationship with the host, put forth bad impressions when it's time to tip the hat and make everyone think you care. Then, on your spare time, create a podcast network with the very same name but to a word and claim you offered the domain to the guy you supposedly respected, since, well, it's not like he can claim to own that specific sequence of words, right? Success will then follow.
True, but it wasn't typical Russian school level in 1868.
According to the TIOBE Index[1] about 0.3%.

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Qantas A380 emergency: investigation finds multiple system failures
Maybe this is the small-scale return of private research units like Bell Labs or (Xerox) PARC (although both of them still exist, they are not as significant as they once were) for the Web: put a group of awesome guys together and just let them cook a bit and see what's coming out ...
http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/

and a demo in ie9 - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickhodge/archive/2010/06/29/having-...
Maybe I should've been more explicit since on here it's reasonable to think of 'tech startup' when one mentions 'business', but I meant in all sorts of businesses - actually the tech scene is very small here, and even then it's mostly IT services or web development (i.e., mo product development); I don't know anyone who had a failed business in that field and was seriously affected by it.

When you start for example a plumbing company or whatever and you buy 25k worth of tools and a lease contract on a van, and it fails and you need to take a job afterwards, on a employee plumber's salary that 25k is huge, enough to make your and your families life miserable.

I agree that for tech companies, the situation is usually not as precarious - if you have the skills to start a company like this, or even if you don't but almost do, you can get a fairly well-paying job and not be as affected. In those cases you would presumably get proper legal and accounting advise and shield personal money from the business liabilities but many businesses start as sole proprietorships and are very vulnerable to even small setbacks.
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More likely, the answers provided are not from an original answer sheet, but were researched by someone more recently.

(Note that they are not scanned in from an original document like the questions.)

Bismarck was already a world-historical personage by 1869, and anybody applying to MIT would have likely been able to identify him.
> Why are people always writing these types of posts?

Most probably because...

> .NET/VS.NET is one of the best programming environments ever engineered

... simply isn't true.

Unless you are saying it's one of the 10.000 best programming environments ever engineered or that others, like Smalltalk/80, Genera, Interlisp, Turbo Pascal, the NeXT toolset, Zope, Rails, Django were "grown" rather than engineered. I agree VS is and has consistently been the best single IDE when you are using Windows to write software that runs on Windows, but it fails miserably out of its narrow domain (however deep it is, as it accounts for a huge market share). It's much like Xcode being the best IDE for using an Apple computer to write software that runs on Apple computers. It certainly is.

Microsoft deserves some recognition, for many times they delivered what the market needed. From its very first BASIC interpreter, to Windows, to Windows for Workgroups, to the first affordable alternative to Unix on RISC boxes (NT, for those too young to remember), to Visual Basic (the only language many corporate developers ever knew) they more or less set the tone of the entire PC industry.

As for charging money for software, the market changed. It's like complaining you can no longer sell ice blocks because everybody owns a refrigerator or that you don't sell as many carriages as you once did because people prefer cars. Embrace the change, use the tools and help build them into even more impressive ones (from the list I showed in the first "real" paragraph, 4 have always either been open-source or have a direct descendant that is). You can use them for free, you can build on them and you can improve them so they better suit your needs.
I want to deliberately look for people like you.
How do I tell it's you? The skilled but modest/unsociable/shy/... programmer.
There is a robust implementation of JavaScript for the JVM (Rhino), part of which even ships with Java 6, so scripting a Java-based game seems a straightforward step. On .NET, JScript similarly seems to be an almost first-class citizen (though, unlike Rhino, I've never used it).
Wreaked, actually. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skitt%E2%80%99s_Law triumphs again!
My confidence is from experience.

You could argue that without a coherent design, your next iteration is going to be longer. I'd argue the reverse - but it depends on what you mean by "big upfront design"

Every program, TDD or not, needs to get a basic architectural outline in place early on - e.g. decide if you're building a web app or a desktop client, which framework you'll use to build it. Usually you have a good idea of a lot of other major pieces of that you want in your architecture - they're there in "best practices" such as SOLID, repository pattern, CQRS, MVVM, etc. TDDs encourages "spikes" that prove the concept with a vertical slice through all layers of the app.

In my opinion and experience, "Big, upfront design" is a 1980s-1990s idea that all details of the program, not just the outlines, can be designed once before coding commences. And it is a completely false idea. TDD and agile say that you're going to redesign anyway, so you may as well accommodate that. This is where TDD speeds things up. Change is not just adding things to a program, it involves redesign on existing parts.

But I agree that an ounce of data is better than a pound of theory in this case. And number are far better than anecdote. That's what the article is for, I guess we should be reading it.
LUA and ActionScript (for UI work mostly) are well represented in games companies already, I would think JavaScript will get some exposure if someone goes the extra mile to open their UI in the way that Blizzard have done to addon development (LUA).
It's more like the classic definition of skunkworks than "official" research. A good example is NuCalc, which continued to be developed after the project was cancelled by Apple.
Acording to the roadmap SSL should finally be here within the next 6 months. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html
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hort hair styles are not just the 'new' look. They represent a broad variety of choices and how a particular style will look on you isn't always easy to know.
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I suppose the .ch name is not under DDoS attack...
The .ch site is probably not being DDoS'ed.
> I sometimes use C

Ah - but - had you entered this, would you have choosen to use C?

My anecdotal experience (Given a problem, and C, I struggle to get things done) is that lots of people like the idea of C, have fond memories of it and occasionally play with code snippets in it. But when those people go into getting-things-done-mode they choose C++ or Java as their primary.

But there are some die-hards who think C remains a superior general-purpose lanuage to C++ and Java, who probably don't like OO, and who stick with C.

I thought the writer called them hippy to highlight this spirit of contrarianism. If that's true, though, it's a poor choice of word because it doesn't suggest a connection with either tradition or asceticism. 'Monk' would better capture that.
"Doctors are usually trying to explain things to people who aren't going to know what modal means."

I talk to doctors quite often lately, with a daughter on the way and all, and the first few times I felt a bit miffed at what I took for her talking down to us. When it got to an absurd level with some nurses (who explained things like how to add several numbers by lining them up, putting a line underneath with a plus sign next to it, and then using a calculator to find the result (true story)), I thought about it some more and it must be because they need to target the lowest common denominator. Which I guess is someone with an iq of 85 or so, as people lower would get special counseling I think.

I've tried to find effective methods to communicate to people that they can skip some of the 'duh' parts, but that's not easy. Just saying 'listen I'm no dumb' or even worse, 'hi I'm <name> and I'm a <name profession that requires university degree>' makes you look arrogant and will antagonize people, and they might not dumb it down on purpose anyway, so they might not have a way of not dumbing it down, either. Usually after a few talks people pick up the vibe on how fast you understand things and what you already know, but when you have many different contacts with various people it often not even comes to that point.

Anyway sorry for the OT ;)
Object Oriented Programming by Timothy Budd. Its the starting book that I got and is proving very helpful to me.
Wikileaks.org killed
For time, what would then be the average of let's say 3 and 9 o'clock? Center of the clock I presume, but what does that mean in terms of time? Or would you then need to define the average of several points in time as a non-point in time?
Is i possible to try it out first, before commiting on the payment details? Like an index, with only 100 docs etc. I just want to get a feel for it would all tie in.
Most people find that the small screen helps focus on a single task, instead of spanning multiple applications on multiple monitors.

Your other point is absolutely correct. Laptops are an ergonomic abomination.
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Favorite line: biochemistry is all about CHNOPS.

Pronounce the "CH" like "SH".
Google "shell account"? Or buy a cheap, simple computer (think SheevaPlug) and keep it on at home? Carry a netbook? The possibilities are endless...
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the very popular Unity3D engine supports JavaScript as a scripting language btw. Many people use that to develop iOS/Android games and even Browser/PC/Mac games.
I don't see any evidence presented backing up the notion that the US government "killed" wikileaks' DNS. What I see is that their DNS provider discontinued service due to wanting to avoid fallout of the continuing DDoS attack on their other customers.

At this point I assume that the implication is that the US government is behind the DDoS attack, which is at best speculation without evidence.

This whole wikileaks spectacle has led to a whole hell of a lot of emotional foofaraw, considering the actual "revelations" from anything that wikileaks has done to date have been rather underwhelming (mostly confirming what had been widely speculated before, typically).
Slightly off topic, but the other day someone asked how to do well in academia. Well, interdisciplinary work like this is a great way to get many well-cited papers - be well-versed in two or three fields (a lot of work, but not very hard) and apply things from one to the other(s). Don't call it '<your name>'s Method' but just present it as something groundbreaking (which it even may be, in that new field).

You can generate a paper mill out of this after 10 or 15 years of studying the various fields (including undergrad and grad school) - it doesn't require much hard thinking, just a lot of work.
I think that this whole "Kill Wikileaks" tells more about the state of democracy than anything contained in the cables.

US State department spokesman PJ Crowley.:
Mr. Assange obviously has a particular political objective behind his activities, and I think that, among other things, disqualifies him as being considered a journalist.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/12/152291.htm
I like standard Emacs better than Aquamacs, too. I can see the appeal
of Aquamacs to people who were Mac users first, and Emacs users later,
but I'm the other way round. For my tastes, Aquamacs is trying a bit
too hard to be Mac-like, and is just different enough from Emacs to be
maddening to use. I used it for about a year and half before I
switched to standard Emacs, and I'm much happier since. Bundling a
bunch of apparently randomly-selected extra modes was the thing I
liked least about Aquamacs, but there were lots of other irritating
features, not to mention various incompatibilities with my familiar
Emacs configuration.

For the past few months, I've been running Yamamoto Mitsuharu's
experimental "Mac port" of standard Emacs. Probably the only way you'd
know about it is if you read the emacs-dev mailing list. Mitsuharu-san
has taken some of the best features of the old Carbon Emacs (which
many people still run, apparently!), along with a few new ones, and
ported them to Emacs 23 to make a hybrid Cocoa/Carbon app. Among the
extra features are smoother scrolling, support for gestures on the
Magic Trackpad/Magic Mouse, integration with Services on Mac OS X
10.6, and support for Emacs as the default mailer for mailto: links
(yes!).

Mitsuharu-san's changes aren't yet integrated into mainline Emacs, but
he publishes regular patches against it. He claims it's still an
experimental port; however, I've only encountered one bug in the 5 or 6
months I've been using it, which he promptly fixed once I reported
it. It's a pain to build, but if you use Homebrew, my emacs-mac-port
branch on Github has support for it: just do

brew install emacs --with-mac

https://github.com/dhess/homebrew/tree/emacs-mac-port
Do you mean it almost becomes an iPod Touch? Because the iPod pre-Touch was defined by it's clickable scroll wheel interface.

Don't underestimate hardware. A slightly dodgy software keyboard like the iPad gets rave reviews, where slightly too small netbook keyboards get slated for not being perfect full size keyboards. It's like Johnson's famous comment on female preachers: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

The key of course is that a capacitive touch screen can do lots of different things okay and effectively disappear when not in use, rather than doing one thing really well and sit there as a big hardware lump the rest of the time.
Sometimes it is ok to have ugly color combinations just for claritys sake. I guess the author might not agree.
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it doesn't work for me (Sydney/ Austraia) :(
I'd focus on the software side of 'real' problems and team up with others project focusing on the engineering side. Still keep to my core area I know best while still tending towards these kind of real worldwide problems.

I'd also love to fund research that misses out because it can't be monetized easily.