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I'm not suggesting you use Drupal without a good reason, but if you're worrying about hypothetical scaling concerns before you've ever even touched PHP or Rails in your life, you're probably focusing on the wrong thing.

Both Rails/PHP are solid choices. If your app fits well within Rails' set of defaults and constraints, you should get to market quicker. PHP has its own set of advantages, such as the ease of procuring cheap hosting and the vast number of trained PHP developers out there that can help build/maintain anything you build.
does anyone think comic book guy?

Hey, I know I could afford to lose a few pounds, but I'm not that overweight. ;-)
1) The study was done at the end of their sophmore year. 200 level course are not that difficult.

2) The study asked if students had a class required 20 pages of writing, or 40 pages of reading. Especially in engineering, this is often just not practical. In a senior level class, we only had ~20 pages of reading a week, but we spent countless hours building an RTOS from the ground up. That time was so much more effective than reading a book. As far as writing goes, I haven't written a paper in a long time, but multiple 60 hour coding projects are pretty common throughout a semester.
There is no meaningful information in this comment because nobody is going to see it anyway.
There's no doubt the Roadster changed things, probably forever, even if they disappear within a few years (or get swallowed up into something bigger).

Within 12 months of the Roadster actually being sold, both Audi and Mercedes showed all-electric sports car concepts. Neither had ever mentioned such a thing beforehand. A few manufacturers were dabbling with hybrid tech in some of their cars, but an all-electric sports car was not on the radar at all. Now every motor show has a major manufacturer either displaying an all-electric or hybrid-drive system. The gas turbine hybrid Jag was an awesome concept car. It's just great to see new thinking, and I give Tesla the credit for kicking the baggage of electric cars to the kerb. Building a sports car first was inspired just for the PR value.

BMW and Mercedes are scrambling to catch up with their electric tech. Being the engineering giants that both companies are, they will arrive later to the party, but what they produce will be properly good. I've read up on some of the tech BMW is researching for electric vehicles, and it's very promising. I believe the first models will be out in 2013, albeit in a small car format rather than a sports car. I guess we'll find out.
Actually, this is not true.

Android OEMs have to develop their own drivers to get the various components (screen, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G radio, accelerometer, etc.) working whereas with WP7, Microsoft will provide all the device drivers. Part of this can be attributed to the fact that Android devices have a much wider range of hardware options, so it's a lot more difficult to have an uniform set of drivers.
That may be a sign that it is disruptive technology. If it weren't, there wouldn't be that level of vitriol. The only times you see it aimed at other manufacturers is if they do something genuinely awful, or sometimes in better humour if there's a significant rivalry (Subaru/Mitsi, Holden/Ford etc).

I guess that shows that IT doesn't have a monopoly on morons with OS fanboys :)
Is it possible for Google to say: "As long as the phone is under warranty you must deliver the latest version of Android within 1 month of release, or <fill in the blank, not sure of a good penalty>." ?
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One problem is there is no incentive on the part of the college to teach much. I've long advocated that we need output measures for colleges. Colleges are rated on their input measures -- how competitive is it to get into the school. But no measure of how effective they are at teaching.

As of today no one can really say where (on average) you'll learn more/better -- at Harvard or Ohio State. All we know is that Harvard is more difficult to get into. I find that crazy that this is still the state of higher ed.
Sigh. Colin, I brought it up for a reason: because we've found it before. I'm not going into more detail†. Take my word for it that this is something you need to be aware of if you're using CTR mode.

I just can't fathom the logic behind blowing off a potential crypto flaw that clearly can occur. What, to you, is the downside of letting people know that CTR can blow up in this manner?

† But, a hint, it has obviously never depended on us sending 295147905179 gigabytes to a target
Aside from being written in compiled languages, are Ledger and hledger not a good starting point? https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/wiki http://hledger.org/
Perhaps, but consider that in terms of a client side application, databinding makes up a huge part of the first two layers. Leaving only the controller layer.

The controller still in fact exists in AngularJS, but is moderated by Angular itself. Which is why there are configurations, parameters, rules, etc. This is where you start to sacrifice flexibility for automation.

Edit: It seems Backbone uses a controller to literally describe how the app's routing works. I've never considered routes a controller's job given traditional MVC work (Cake, Lithium, etc). I was using "controller" to describe the event functionality that Backbone views provide (as a controller for how DOM objects behave when you interact with them). I don't think this alters my point much though.
I understand your argument, and it might be true for a certain type who saw the pipes off their Camaro just to make it noisier, but in general, most car people are genuinely interested in new tech. Besides, the only non-testosterone thing about the Tesla is the lack of engine noise.

From this, I would argue that the noise is a pavlovian response - the noise accompanies the acceleration and so eventually the noise excites us, even if we're not in the car. Given time, the right sound of electric car noise will tingle the bones of the enthusiast.

My basis for this is the response initially given to Rotary engines - purists thought they were too buzzy. However, after anyone has lived with a powerful Rotary engine for a while, the sound of a tuned Rotary immediately pricks the ears. Noise is going to be one of the by-products of a powerful electric engine - witness electric trains like the TGV for that - so I can see the high-powered whine becoming the mark of a high-powered electric, and young enthusiasts will come up with kits to increase the sound, just as they have with V8's, Rotaries, Turbos and every other type of engine tech.
Hosts starts the pairing session, tmux will just multiplex the screen, and both edit in vim? Ok interesting. Seems fairly limiting in what you can do though.
You don't have to "hand-roll" CTR mode to get this part wrong; you have to choose the nonce yourself, as the API user.

My objection to encrypt-then-HMAC is that it adds a moving part to your design that you have to get right. If your toolkit doesn't provide a well-implemented AE cipher mode, (a) you're doomed, but (b) yes, you should probably use HMAC rather than trying to hand-roll CBC-MAC for CCM mode.
Infinite scrolling screws with scrollbar behavior though :(
> ou can expect timely (even major) updates to your iPhone for quite some time after release.

2+1 (2 years full support — barring hardware limitations — and 1 year partial support: some new features, but not everything)
"... The question I'd love to know the answer to is do the NYT curate inbound syndication - did some sub-editor somewhere make a decision to run the article, or was it purely automatic? ..."

Follow the flow of information. Who is the original author? Where was the piece originally published? Well the author is Simon Mackie from GigaOam. The piece was published in the "collaboration" section ~ http://gigaom.com/collaboration/ an area of reader interest that gigaom has a separate category for. If we look a bit closer at the author we and we check his bio, I noticed Simon did a stint at SitePoint ~ http://www.sitepoint.com/about/ Now I know that's a Melbourne company because I worked with Daks (Mark Harbottle) in a previous startup. I guess you should ask the author about the jump to the NYT ~ http://twitter.com/spiky_simon

The point is, the product is in a growth category and the author knows the startup scene in Melbourne. So is it a case of luck? or making your own luck? I think the later is the case.
Cold Water on the iPad 2 Retina Display Hype
Right now the market just isn't that tight, so even assuming that would ever be a good strategy it certainly isn't one now.

More likely it's a rumor that grows with the telling.
1) "After four years, 36 percent of students did not demonstrate significant improvement, compared to 45 percent after two."
Thats 36% of students who spent four years without improving what the study authors deem as important cognitive abilities. Perhaps they learned all of their material sufficiently well to do XXX, but the study says they aren't, in a generalist sense, any smarter.

2) I can't tell from the article whether these statistics were actually influential in determining the students' scores on the test. I totally agree that this doesn't translate well between different majors. If the scores were affected by answering this question or the one about study habits or probably a number of others, then I don't really see the point of the study. They started from some sort of "if people take easier* classes, then they aren't as intelligent" baseline and then showed that people take easier* classes...

* "easier," by their definition, has something to do with writing X pages or reading Y pages.
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implying that every developer needs to continuously be learning the latest technology/platform

Generally speaking the idea behind that sentiment is that a ASP.NET MVC dev should keep up with MVC3 and Razor. That Rails devs should keep up with Rails 3. That Javascript devs should keep up with Node.js and the plethora or new libraries/frameworks coming out. Sure you might know a gazillion languages, but the only real requirement is to keep up with the developments of the technologies you need NOW.

I agree that no developer should be expected to know everything, nevertheless he/she should be able to pick up anything fast and easy. It is my firm belief that people should be paid by the value they provide, instead of the technologies they're well versed in.

On another note, I'm by no means a genius rocket scientist turned developer, but in the last 6 years I went from implementing complex E-Commerce Java backends, to front end development and design, to Php app dev, back to Java, to Rails webapps, to system administration and some Python dev, to (right now) Asp MVC and C# dev. I've been using Visual Studio (which I had never used) in a virtual machine running Windows (which I last used when XP came out circa late 2001), and I was productive within the first 2 or 3 days from when I started. Sure I'm a lot better now - 2 weeks into the job, but any developer worth his salt could have tackled the "mobile dev" stuff that the author of the main article was referring to in two or three weeks of training/tinkering. The problem these days are the business types hiring people because they've used some cool new tech, instead of hiring based on trajectory, experience, and perceived value.
Laws of physics may not be fine-tuned for life
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Close enough? http://i.imgur.com/e1zNY.jpg
Ask HN: Does anyone else get super low eCPM on Admob for Android?
I have an Android app that has been running Admob ads for about 2 weeks. The app is free and has over 19K downloads. Here are my stats for the 2 weeks:<p>eCPM: $0.02
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Impressions: 462,363
CTR: 0.05%<p>Seems incredibly low compared to some Admob ads we have ran on some iPhone games. Anyone else seeing this on Android? Maybe someone has some tips to increasing this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Not until you hit the bottom of the first "page", at which point you've resigned yourself to more content.
Lee Spector has made a Forth(like) language, called PushGP, which, in my opinion, handles syntactical correctness in a nice way. There's even a JS implementation, which wasn't there the last time I checked.

http://hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html
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From what I can tell after the little iPhone boomlet subsided there's not a whole lot of money in mobile apps. How many minecrafts are there, really, out there?
It's probably requesting "tabs" permissions. The Chrome security permissions aren't fine grained enough so often you need to request permission for a lot more than you actually need. For some reason requesting "tabs" shows a scary warning about having access to all your history. You'll find that a ton of extensions need access to your history for this reason, it's actually really annoying as an extension developer.
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I was getting excited about the hype around the super high resolution screen on the next iPad. But John Gruber makes some good points and is very convincing. It would make sense that the next iPad is just faster, maybe thinner, adds camera, etc. (like the 3gs was to the 3g). Oh well... maybe for 2012.
wat do you mean?
The argument against electric cars that bothers me the most is this "Try driving across the country with it."

Try driving an internal combustion engine car across the country without an infrastructure to support it. See how far you get. Hell, even with gas stations everywhere today you don't want to be caught on I-80 in Utah with a low tank. There are some stretches of road where the next station isn't for 100 miles.
It was like high school all over again.

Bingo! I've been feeling this way about facebook for quite a while now. I still check it every day when bored or to take my mind off work for a minute but never more than a minute or two... interaction with facebook has become minimal. It was cool back when I was a freshman in college 5 yrs ago and only other college students were on it.
Downtime is ok, shit happens. to everyone.
But availability issues which are going on for 6 weeks now (still major IMO), is it? I can't think of any technical problem that would take 6 weeks to solve. And being tumblr, attracting the best system admins, with all clouds resources available today..
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>Drupal might be ok for initial stages but it probably won't scale as well

What is that, hearsay? No, drupal scales fine. Look at the many large sites that use drupal, like the economist, whitehouse.gov and the examiner.

For RoR the standard tutorial is:
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
Does the government count?
I think it's more to do with vapourware-wariness. Any company which comes out promising to revolutionise the way we do everything will (and should) always encounter a bunch of skepticism.

They have, after all, been promising big things for many years now, and so far delivered nothing other than an overpriced sports car for the rich and impractical.

They've also been soaking up a lot of government subsidies at all levels to produce their rich-bastard sports car, which ought to bother folks.
…or you cannot ship marketplace or any of the other google apps.
This is incredible. I remember salivating over the Fairlight many moons ago.
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I bought a self serve reddit ad recently, and ran it on a very small subreddit to promote my new web app for coaches, http://coachulous.com

It was a small enough community that I was the only advertiser (great!) but it also netted me about 50 visits, which was less than I'd hoped. I still found it very helpful in validating my ideas and getting feedback from a targeted audience.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr010.pdf

Look at page 11. 19 year old women in the 90th percentile are still shorter than 19 year old men in the 50th percentile. Now, while I was never very good at statistics, I'm pretty sure if we had a running bet over who was taller in any random male/female pairing, I would drain your bank account dry.
What's your point? There is an infrastructure to support internal combustion engines.

There isn't one to support cross-country trips in electric cars, and building one would be very hard to impossible... at least unless someone makes one powered by ultracapacitors.
Whatever your traffic, if you build it, they will come.
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There is a market inefficiency in that wages are dominated not by one's value to the company today but by one's value to the company the last time one engaged in free negotiations for wages. This inefficiency is persistent and exploitable. If you're being underpaid, changing jobs is the simplest, most reliable way to fix that.
Taking a better look at your site, I must apologize for my original statements - I was overly crude and insulting, which was not fair. (I'd edit it, but HN won't let me...)

While I don't agree with exactly where you're coming from, you are pushing the envelope in ways that I'm frankly not used to, and making people think, which is quite noble.

That said, I'm a firm believer in data being separate from code, so that the code can be innovated/iterated on in ways independent of data. Tying them too closely together allows less than ideal programming and laziness lead to data and code interdependence which becomes a nightmare to deal with.

If you can solve the problem of dumb/myopic programmers being let loose with the tools you propose, I'd love to hear it.
When did this start? I read almost exclusively through the ihackernews.com mobile site. I just checked and it does not implement the more button and only shows the first 40 or so comments. It looks like I have been missing out on the end comments of popular threads without realizing it. :(
Switch the thing round. I've got a business idea, all written out and documented. Someone wants to be my technical co-founder. Are you suggesting the same thing?
It could be counterbalanced by some sort of notification (on the Threads page, especially) for replies. I don't care if it's fallen off the front page, if somebody is carrying an interesting discussion in a thread in which I've commented, I may still like to know. Even if there are several days between each comment.

The site's incentives to only comment on the hot threads are probably detrimental.
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Sullivan's paradox.
As a 14 year old male nerd, if your computer is broken, you have no choice but to figure out how to fix it. A 14 year old girl on the other hand learns that the easiest way to fix her computer is to get the nerdy guy to fix it for her. This is just simple economics.

I don't know where you get your notion of sophisticated teen fembots out to exploit. As a 14 year old girl, you quickly learn that taking care of your own stuff is much easier than spending the next several months evading a guy who thinks that you owe him sex or girlfriend-ship for his 15 minutes of help.

Women who get into tech usually were raised by a parent who taught them to love technology/science for it's own sake.

Having been in tech for the last 10 years, the only correlation I've seen is being an immigrant. Literally, every single female techie I've worked with was non-US born, myself included.
The gravitational effects of either will be no greater than those of the star that it came from, so it's no big deal either way as far as we're concerned.
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Indeed - try filling a modern 90 litre tank using a turn-of-the-century hand cranked pump and see how long it takes.

The range problem will always be there in some respect, but for many people it won't be an issue if the car is a 2nd car. And the infrastructure will get rolled out eventually. The beauty of it is that independent quick-charge stations could literally spring up anywhere the power is already on. And for the retailers, consumers stuck for 20 or 30 minutes while their car is recharged probably sounds like a dream come true. For a long time, the profit in fuel retailing has come from the overpriced convenience stores attached to the fuel pumps.
Thanks.I am currently using gmail but I never set up my external accounts. The only limitation that I see on that is that at the moment we cannot use it offline. I am reading that this will be coming with HTML5. But I am not sure.
Facebook is what happens to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick
I think 80% of modern college value-added is signalling. Employers should really just accept SAT scores directly, although I'm not sure if that's legal. It would certainly be cheaper.
Money Quote:

"That means licensing fees can keep climbing as Netflix moves more of its business to streaming and away from DVDs. Sending a disc round-trip can cost as much as $1, and Netflix mails about 2 million DVDs a day, whereas streaming a movie costs the company about a nickel. “We’re direct to the consumer, so we don’t give half our money to a cable company,” Sarandos says. “Our money goes directly to the content providers.”

Some content comes and goes, as in the case with the Timothy Hutton vehicle Leverage, to which Netflix obtained streaming rights through executive producer Dean Devlin. That didn’t sit well with TNT, so when the channel renewed the show for a third season, it made sure to secure digital rights, leaving Netflix with streaming rights to some seasons but not others.

“But TNT had to pay a lot more to secure the rights from Dean — it’s exactly why Netflix is exciting for networks and studios,” Sarandos says. “We’re an exciting new buyer in this space. We bid up the price of content.”"

Eg, Netflix is good for the creators, not so much for the old-economy gatekeepers.
How do they know? I am an iOS developer and there is no way of seeing whether my apps are downloaded to an iPhone or an iPod (afaik).

Edit: That is, from iTunes Connect. Maybe your pals use some sort of usage logging/statistics from within the app.
Thanks for your suggestions. Maybe the most common solution is the best in that case.
Getting it fixed either way would be nice, regardless of whether it's the carrier or the handset manufacturer holding it up.
Amusing, but I really don't like when people make this complaint seriously. Reducing outdoor noise pollution is one of the best things about electric cars.
a potential crypto flaw that clearly can occur

Well, that's the thing. I can't see how CTR counter wraps can occur. 64-bit counters which start at zero simply don't wrap.
You mean, not if it's a driver with a GPL-compatible shim (a la nVidia).
it doesn't actually communicate its message successfully at the most basic level.

As a marketer, I agree.
Europe defends 'stupid' Galileo satellite
I completely forgot about the 1099-MISC. Thanks folks!
We're getting near 20 questions territory here. I think I've made my point.