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Finnish eh? You pick your battles, that's a tough one, next to Hungarian probably one of the toughest you could pick.

That's pretty brave, I hope you succeed in making significant headway with it.
No mention of native app->cons on development release (turn around and bugs). A big reason compiled app development was a pain & shifting development to the web in the first place.
The Epic is quite a bit more techy than the PMW-F3. For example, the Sony stops at 1080p, which is picture in picture compared to 5k.
Yea, I know. "Legacy" PR is based on control of the message, which is fundamentally flawed and causes many other problems.
seriously, what's with all the fucking downvotes? has nobody here ever seen a formal argument or a logical fallacy?

It's because you're being very persistent about reading something into the statement that really isn't there. Dropping well-respected names is not sufficient to make an appeal to authority. The speaker must also claim that the people named would support his position. Anderson does not do this. His use of those names is to point out Cambridge's prior history of supporting dissemination of information someone with power wishes to suppress. There is no appeal to authority, just a claim that this is how they roll. Why is this so hard to understand?
Trademark law may force whomever claims it to turn it over anyway.
Since when is honesty under appreciated?
Not necessarily true. The article argues the inverse and I would tend to agree. Observe a woman's routine for dressing up for work or a social event; it's an adventure. From the selection of clothes and shoes to the handbag. Need I say more?
Is there newer data? The latest data is 2007-2008 and now we're in academic year 2010-2010. A lot has changed in 3 years.
It was more of waking-day energy increase than something that reduced my sleep times (6-7 hours most nights).

Mostly I noticed that I was getting through the day without feeling run down or getting tired in the middle of the day. It was a little easier to get up in the morning. I still wasn't getting enough sleep, but I'm convinced that eating healthy kept that from catching up to me in terms of getting sick (at least for a while - we all have limits).

Ramit Sethi (iwillteachyoutoberich.com - no affiliation) wrote a blog post a while back about how he hired a personal chef to pre-make meals to his specifications for less than the cost of eating out; something like this might save you the time but still give you some control over what goes into your food.
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Thanks, this is motivating. I'll try this.
For extra fun, type this in the address bar while on the github 404 page:

javascript:var theta = 0; setInterval(function () { theta += 0.05; parallax({ pageX : (Math.sin(theta) + 1) * 1000, pageY : (Math.cos(theta) + 1) * 1000}) }, 50)
From my inexperience (3 years at one company, 1 year at another), the sad truth appears to be that the developers would care just enough to hide the problem.

For example at my last job, I was pair programming with the "most valuable" C++ programmer. We were debugging one of his monolithic heightmap classes. Some top-level method was calling some deeper method that was doing a lot of different complicated things. After examining the top level method in the debugger, and looking at the results after calling the deeper method, he wrote some code to "patch over" the problem. I.e. The deeper method was causing the results to be bad in some way, and his solution was to add code to overwrite the bad results with the expected ones. Then we ran the program and it worked.

To my surprise, he stopped there and committed the code. As he was writing the commit message, I asked "Hmm, aren't you interested in why the internals don't seem to be working properly?" He shrugged and said "No."

I hear their game engine has suffered rather severe performance problems and general bugginess. It also looks visually to be 2004-era.
Hey there,

First of all, contrary to some of the other comments here I appreciate your candor and your ability to observe yourself and draw valid conclusions from it. I wished I was as honest about my capabilities or lack thereof, usually I find that I'm too close to the 'subject' to get any meaningful perspective.

That said, everything is skills in return for time invested.

So if you're not very good at it but you enjoy challenges and thought processes then maybe you have it in you to get significantly better than you currently are.

Being slow is likely because you bite off more than you can chew. I have a very young friend who is all of 10 years old that has dreams of a size that would take the Microsoft empire to fund and execute. It's charming, but it also was an endless source of disappointment for him that he felt that he could not make any meaningful progress towards his dreams. We had a few chats about it and in the end he decided to take significantly smaller steps, to learn how to walk before trying to run. Possibly there is a key to solving your getting discouraged in there somewhere, maybe set your sights just over what you already know you can do, achieve that, get the gratification that comes with achieving a goal and then move on the to the next level. Like that you make it manageable and fun again.

Finally, finding someone: You find people to work with because you do stuff that people want to get involved in. Go and build some cool stuff, write about it, talk about it, sooner or later you'll find someone that will want to work and play with you on the stuff that you both find interesting. This also tends to accelerate the learning significantly.

best of luck with this, by the way, where are you located ?

If you want to find people you might as well use this as your call out and including your own location might mean you find someone right here right now that lives proverbially 'next door' to you or that you can work with online. It also would help if you list your actual skills (platforms and tools) and what you are interested in.

greetings,

Jacques
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it also tends to teach you just how sloppy your thinking usually is with uncanny precision, probably more than you like. Computers invariably do what you tell them to do with great precision and speed but almost never what you want them to do. The number of times that I've stared at a single line knowing that I was looking at the source of the problem and still not seeing the wood for the trees is best left unmentioned...

Programming is a harsh mistress, but the rewards are worth it.
I once suggested adding an option to make a review non-anonymous an an optional feature. Optional of course because not all companies support it.
I like how Friedman explains his logic in the first half of each video, then in the second half, invites 5 people with opposite opinions to his own and debates them. The older series is better.

This video (and also Commanding Heights shown on PBS) had a great impact on my economic views.

Nothing causes more harm than good intentions.
> The next step is to learn why web scraping is discouraged, and how to use public APIs instead.

Right, just like google uses public api's to access all those sites. Web scraping is responsible for a very large portion of all the traffic on port 80 and the number of sites that have published APIs is extremely small compared to the total.
i second that one
Ah, dopey me!
Switched from an innerspring mattress to a futon mattress, noticed a difference after maybe a week.
The iPhone 4 display is 960x640. In 2000, I was living large at 1024x768 or maybe 1154x864, but at the time I was a web designer and knew that I could only really count on 640x480, though 800x600 was possibly more common by then. My rather nice Sony Trinitron 15" monitor could display 1280x1024 but it looked like it was straining and I was afraid to run it that way for very long, and my 2D graphics performance took a noticable hit. But that was my desktop display. Given Charlie's history I would have a hard time thinking he didn't have 1024x768+ on a desktop but laptops were still often at 800x600, if memory serves.

It's at least a close thing. I can say the 3D performance on the iPhone at that resolution blows away what I could get in 2000, for what it is worth, though I can't guarantee it would blow away a state-of-the-art card. I've always been behind on that front.
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>Even shops that style themselves as non-traditional will adopt this corporate body plan as they grow, because the new directors and officers have had "best practices" ingrained in them.

Any idea how to solve this?
I know. Fear-based top-down command and control is fundamentally flawed.
Very few burglars hurt or kill people. Hardly a miracle.
He was the chief model maker, and apart from the "head", this droid wasn't too different from Artoo, so I would guess so.

And to start the new year off in typical nerd fashion: That was actually an R5 unit, R5-D4 to be specific[1].

[1]: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R5-D4
What exactly do you expect them to do? Do you have any idea of the overhead of running a bookstore?

I suppose he expects them to go out of business. The cost of operating a bookstore is irrelevant to the buyer - if the overhead is such that they can't either compete on price or otherwise differentiate their product or experience to justify the cost difference, then abandoning the business model seems like the only choice.
So what was your free cycling like? Did you still do the split schedule you describe? Or did you sleep for 10 hours straight?
I sleep about 10 hours straight, and often take naps in addition to that :(
I particularly liked the troll he linked to at the end: "The C Language Is Purely Functional" http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...
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hey, sounds like me. good luck.
"I am willing to pay more money if you build your products in the US / Europe / Japan"

No, you aren't. Well, you might be; I don't know what your means are, but you probably aren't.

Here's the problem: it's not just the extra 20% in cost of the product. Once you raise the product's price, fewer people will buy it. Hardware is a game of economies of scale. When you fall off the volume curve, the price goes up exponentially. Soon enough your 20% additional cost starts looking like 200% additional cost.

Furthermore, there are precious few companies doing high volume electronics manufacturing in the US. There's no guarantee that the quality you get is going to be any better than what you can find for less in China. That's not to say that you can't find something unbelievably crappy in China, but even good services in China cost much less than they do here in the US. It's not like you can buy better capacitors in here than you can in China. The ones you can get in China have the advantage of actually being available too, whereas buying even passives in the US can result in ridiculous lead times of 6 months or more.

Yes, you bought a Soekris router and you're very happy with it. I'm glad for you. It's also a completely different class of product. There's no lesson that can be drawn from the comparison between a Soekris board and a WRT54GL.
Also, as far as expressiveness goes, swear words are pretty inarticulate, blunt instruments. There is almost always more accurate, effective language to express you sentiments.
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It wouldn't be self-regulated; there are already laws about declaration of origin on products. The "Made in China" stickers on devices aren't there because the manufacturer is giving the vendor a discount for advertising the Chinese origin. They're there because customs can seize and destroy mislabeled products.
Yeah, after my post I googled around a bit and found that, like you said, it's pretty-close to true. Hard-drives in 2000 were ~10GB (iPhone4 is 16 or 32GB). The screen-resolution part seemed the hardest to believe, but you're right: I remember designing web-pages with 800x600 in mind. This is really just staggering.
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isn't this what Push To Talk does?
It's not just humor, it would be good to connect with more people that find it interesting to complete tasks which most couldn't stand engaging in.

The talk mentioned on a draw in cricket is quiet interesting, I must admit that I can find a slow cricket contest very exciting for what is slightly below the surface even though the ball to ball action would be seen as dull.

I'd imagine Americans get the same thing with baseball, I watch it a little, not sure how many Americans can always keep on top of the team they support given the amount games?
``I would presume it saying "the power brick is defective" is a really, really good specification about what the exact problem is with regard to a "safety issue."''

I'm suspicious of this explanation. The brick might be defective, but it's the responsibility of the charger to shut down the charge cycle if there's something wrong with the input. Most lithium-ion chargers include an on-die thermistor for this reason. I wonder if the WakeMate folks found one that didn't and also didn't populate an external thermistor to save space or cost.
Suggestion: stop thinking about it as 'getting a girl' start thinking about it as 'find someone to share and do stuff with'.
Yea neither have I, that's crazy. I try to make my patches as small as possible (makes it easier to merge as well)
Agreed. I'll bet a significant portion of it is coming from cut-n-pasted html where the users don't even realise they're using hotlinked javascript, and have probably never even heard of jquery (and, unfortunately, are spectacularly unlikely to hear about this change on jquery's hotlinking policy).
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/ is the original report where the numbers were compiled. It seems like 2009 was the last report and that 2007-2008 academic year is the latest data available that the report used when dealing with degrees conferred.
Naw. They just merged the two threads.
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That was linked to in a comment, not in the blog post itself.
Wish it were a double rainbow.
Amazon reviews are seriously broken. I'm surprised anyone would want to defend them other than Amazon employees or partners.

Sure, there are some good reviews on Amazon by credible critics and book lovers, but they have increasingly become like searching for a needle in a stack of needles. Most reviews I read, even on academic books that the hoi polloi don't read much, variate a great deal and swing wildly between 5 star ratings and 0. They are also filled with petty invective, academic flame wars that have no place on a good review site, and authors faking reviews for their own books (or those of their scholastic rivals).
basically doesn't get rendered at all in ie9. big surprise.
This sounds an awful lot like you're trying to find the best way to spam us. Assuming you're not, here's the flippant answer: post something we'll all like. Heh! Seriously, though. I can't imagine that asking a question like this is ever fruitful.

Step back and think about what it is you are really trying to accomplish. Do you want to, say, reach a highly technical audience with news of your product? Find somebody to work with? If you can pose a question like that, you're a lot more likely to get a useful answer.
Sometime I wonder what would happen in the near-future?

Many brick-n-mortar stores (musics/cd, books, video-rental) where people used to sort of hang-out are now closing their doors and filing bankruptcy. Many young people are losing their jobs.

A few days ago I saw Amazon selling video games about $10 cheaper than EBGames (this particular game: Call of Duty Black Ops).

These are places where kids and teenagers used to hang out or even work during the summer.

Automation is replacing humans. Not sure if that's good or bad.

As much as I'd like to buy items cheaper, I'm a bit worried with the repercussion of my action.
I laughed.

But, there's another way - use a damn scripted gif or png</obvious>

...or for monochrome pages, is an xbm smaller?

update:
oh yeah, i forgot, xbm files are C, though I suppose you could meta script them with more C.

people who really dont want their text stolen are going to see the massive bandwidth we have now and start just using images. protects it from anything but ocr.
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Voted you up because I like the sentiment behind your comment and love printed books, but I still am eco-friendly enough to think it's better to not cut down the trees if we don't have to.
Am I the first person to go "Woah! That's cool!" then look at the code and instantly go "WTF?!"?

- Browser sniffing using `document.all` to test for IE

- Browser sniffing at all!

- Aborting `trace` rather than just removing it

- In `init`, repeatedly calling `document.getElementById` with the same `id`
instead of storing them in variables

- Calling `document.getElementById` every time `parallax`, the `mousemove` event
handler, is triggered rather than `init` storing them *once* in variables that
`parallax` has access to
You code should read != 0 to have the desired effect.

And even then, this can bypass it:

var temp = String.prototype.search;
String.prototype.search = function() { return 0};

if (location.host.search(/crockford.com$/i) != 0) {
throw "Stop hotlinking me!";
}

String.prototype.search = temp;

Though that may cause other problems.
New Year's Resolution: Lanuch a website/day for 2011
"Rejection Therapy" is the inaccurate, possibly dangerous meme version of a real therapy - in vivo desensitization.

Conquering fear is done by facing your fears not by intentionally going out with the expectation that things will go bad. Pessimism is just another defence mechanism from the true vulnerability of ambiguity.

This meme is just psychologically wrong in so many ways.

- Seeking rejection creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where you will be more likely to be rejected.

- When you are rejected in this way, instead of processing it maturely, you're going to say "Oh it was part of my rejection therapy. I didn't really even want or expect to be accepted. Add one point to the scoreboard!." This is an attempt to dodge the reality of what happened - rejection is a negative thing. It's not the end of the world, but it also is probably not cause for celebration. You aren't fooling anyone (including yourself) by telling yourself it is positive. Anytime you are rejected from something you care about you are going to have sad feelings at the least. The way to handle these is to face them, own them, feel them, realize they will go away, and try again another day. But inflicting this on yourself on purpose is masochism and unhealthy.

- For most people, experiencing a lot of rejection will not make them less fearful of rejection, it will make them more fearful. They will come to expect rejection more and then avoid behaviours that they believe will lead to it.

- The effective, scientifically proven way to face your fears is to do it piece by piece, in small bites, and to recognize that if you are not allowing yourself to be truly emotionally vulnerable, you are not really facing your fear of rejection. The fear of rejection is about asking for something you want and then feeling the uncomfortable vulnerable feelings of ambiguity. It's about making yourself emotionally vulnerable - you genuinely want something and will be happy to receive it and sad to be denied it. This is true vulnerability. You cannot avoid the pain of rejection, you can only learn to process it when it happens, and to have the courage to risk that pain because you know it's all for a greater good. But inflicting this pain on yourself needlessly is masochistic and will likely lead to more phobias and anxiety, not less.

Those who are having trouble with fear - look up systematic desensitization and in vivo desensitization. Also, remember that true courage means allowing yourself to be vulnerable. And vulnerability means allowing for the instance where you feel bad. A coward is someone who finds ways to avoid any chance of feeling bad. A courageous person is one who is willing to risk losing something he desires because he knows that it is a smart risk.
In 2011, I will revolutionize the textbook publishing industry.
It isn't... though of course a desktop won't fit in your hands (unless you have extremely, extremely large hands)...

The Maxtor 80GB drive was introduced in mid-2000 :

http://www.pcworld.com/article/1766/maxtor_rolls_out_80gb_ha...

The best CPU in mid-2000 (x86 architecture) you could get was a PIII at about 1Ghz ... or else the Athlon at a similar clock speed, with higher memory bandwidth.

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

19" CRT monitors were widely available for under $500, with resolutions of at least 1280x1024 and some going to 1600x1200 ...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WUB/is_1999_May_17/a...

ATI had already introduced 128bit GPUs (limited by today's standards of course) with 32MB to 64MB DDR RAM, capable of 32-bit color at 1600x1200:

http://www.itnetcentral.com/tech/atis-latest-graphics-engine...
Starbucks should sell more books, and find the right size for their "mega store"...which would basically be the size of the old small neighborhood bookstores. They have the atmosphere similar to what people loved about old small neighborhood bookstores.
>The safest bet is probably to destroy it, unfortunately.

Or keep it for home movies. Hey honey, I'm shooting the birth of our son in 5k, I hope you don't mind...
What a wonderful advertisement for Lisp macros.
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it seems to be the regrettable situation where someone is being punished for moral behavior

Someone is being held accountable for a contract they willingly entered. The morality of the behavior is not at issue - moral or not they legally agreed not to do it. The rest, IMO, is hand waving.
Work on a product with another dev at office and hope it takes me closer to being self employed.
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I find them generally informative, it depends on the book I guess. If something has 20+ reviews you can easily get a pretty good feel for it. I'd agree with you on obscure stuff with only a handful of reviews. As long as you don't have to trust any single reviewer there is a lot of good information to be had, same with IMDB really, every popular movie has reviews at each extreme, but given enough choice in reviews you can get a decent feel for it.
I'm already following you on Twitter and am looking forward to seeing your work. Best wishes!
I've observed the opposite. I found that working in small companies blocked me from developing large amounts of useful skills (scaling, i18n, performance tuning, latency optimization, security, etc.) while working at a large company has exposed me to them and also opened up the full development lifecycle, from embedded prototyping frameworks to large-scale refactoring of legacy systems.

Of course, much of that may be because the small companies were two startups that went nowhere, and the large company was Google. YMMV.