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6 months ago.

I've been unemployed for about a year. I picked up the O'Reilly Series of book for Web Development, and built my first site, which aggregates viral youtube videos.

http://www.distractmefrom.com

It wasn't as hard as I expected. Now I'm teaching my 10 year old nephew how to build his own site. And we're both learning how to build apps for the iphone & android.
Clojure Logic Engine as fast as SWI-Prolog?
There's a hack. Instead of declaring a local variable like "final double d = 4;", you can declare it "final double[] d = new double[] { 4 };" Then you can freely modify the 4 to something else inside the anonymous class. Why Sun didn't just bake that into the compiler instead of requiring a hack is beyond me.
I thought he was talking about Groupon's imminent focus on the burgeoning Hispanic market...
Why is that surprising? I see lots of articles by them criticizing each other. Carr against Twitter, Vivek against Quora, Arrington against himself on Facebook privacy, etc, etc. It seems to me that all the bloggers there have a pretty long editorial leash, which admittedly would also include the fanboy stuff.
Being found means traffic, and traffic means expenses. Someone who is able to provide a useful (and findable) resource won't necessarily be able to figure out non-AdSense ways of making money.

It's not always about profit.
Fqwiki worked on my iPad. Qwiki did not.
Ah life! Hoping things turned out for the better for you. And thank you.
TI may be scaling back due to the costs of keeping up. It would not be unexpected for them to go fabless. The thinking is that 3 organizations will continue manufacturing logic chips: Intel, TSMC, and GlobalFoundries.
Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice over Oracle's OpenOffice
I'm still holding to my argument that black-listing is a fools errand. Spam is in unlimited supply. What we REALLY need is a white-listing system, which is probably easier said than done...
Well called. I think this exercise is going to be vital to prove to the shareholders that Apple will be different without Jobs, but be just fine.
Because when was the last time you saw a spam site that didn't use AdSense?
I'm pretty sure people have been putting glo-sticks in their mouths to accomplish this very effect for many years. The concept isn't new.
Apple will be fine. My heart goes out to Steve & his family.
This just reminds me of an old experiment that tried to use artificial group selection to make Tribolium insects ( http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/73/12/4604.pdf ) restrain their breeding, when instead they just ended up cannibalizing others' eggs (focusing on the females). People say HIV is a good excuse to fear having sex at all, conspiracies about the Vatican suggest it was developed for such a purpose, but nope, people just use condoms. Humans are as silly and fascinating as all the other life around here.
Very nice. Not only is it way better, its also way faster. Grats to the Guys behind the Way back machine.
I am very aware of the differences between Perl 5 and Perl 6. Perl 5 was a tool that was very useful for obfscuated code contests such as this one:

http://perl.plover.com/obfuscated/

The new version of Perl, Perl 6, introduces new features to Perl 5 that will make it an invaluable tool for obfuscated code contests such as unicode characters (you thought you had to decipher the meaning of only 256 characters? Think again) and meta-operators. Perl 6 obsoletes Perl 5 for these contests, even brainfuck is no longer a useful tool for obfuscated code contests, because it is no match for Perl 6.

Lisp isn't very useful for these obfuscated code contests, but if you are interested in actually writing computer programs then its worth looking into.
The movie "Social Network" is a Fiction inspired by real life event. The story itself was re-created from pieces of one sided stories and some publicly available records.

The movie would be really boring if it were following the real life story. Aaron Sorkin is making it into a movie, not a re-enactment.

During the productions, many of the crews were laughing when they heard Justin Timberlake was cast as Sean Parker. Especially for those who know of Sean Parker based on their research and personal knowledge. David Fincher is really particular about making this movie, because it is his passion.

Consider "The Social Network" as a movie inspired but not based on true event.
I believe Groupon doesn't have a solid foundation. They have a brand of course, but they don't have a product. They're playing the role of the middle man, in my opinion. A long time ago, more like 30 years ago, there were these companies called Blue Chip Stamp, & S&H Green Stamps , it's very similar to Groupon. These stamp companies allowed customers to get stamps instead of change, and with stamps they could collect and get deals on products. Of course the concept is not the same, but everyone at the time thought those trading stamp companies were invincible, and they've got a monopoly going on and hypergrowth. It seemed everyone was using it. When's the last time you heard about S&H Green Stamps on the news?
I believe there’s a really nice, long term, but ultimately very boring business in there that should pay a nice dividend.

This sounds about right. In the end, I suspect Groupon will be just one of a zillion different companies offering the same business model with varying levels of success in local markets all over the world.
Publicly announced succession plans give you no upside and lots of downside. Just ask Brett Favre and Jay Leno.
TPB is unique in that it hosts it's own tracker. A much larger majority of (public) sites do not do this and only serve to index the same data and show ads to people who click on a link from google. And they still have trouble from the RIAA and the ilk.

I suspect that you realize that you'll have trouble and are posting this from an anon account as such.
Let's be fair. It was funny the first time I saw it.
" If you think it's easy to get laid in Silicon Valley, you are a bartender with a huge dick, not the VP of Product for Whatever.com" LOL. This is the best sentence I have read on hackers news by far.
Consider that possibly the problem isn't Google; perhaps it's you.

For instance, http://www.javascriptworld.com (which I run) is NOT a link farm. Rather, it's there to support the book "JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th edition" (by Tom Negrino and myself).

Numerous colleges & universities courses use our book as a required textbook. Consequently, many teachers & professors link to it from course websites to let their students know where to download the book's code examples. Yes, that probably helps the site's Google rank, but that was never one of our goals.

As a result, when you search for certain JavaScript examples, you may run across my site. And in your particular case, my site doesn't help because you don't own our book. But just because it doesn't solve your particular problem doesn't mean that the site isn't useful for other people.

I'm not sure why you thought it was a link farm. Perhaps you should have taken a closer look at the site before using it as a bad example?
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I think Guido is well aware of that rule, and makes a conscious effort not to add unnecessary features to the language. Still, there's no way you can maintain any non-trivial piece of software for 20 years and not have a few unexpected "features" come up.
It sucks when someone gets murdered with a hammer, to put it lightly. That's why we ostensibly put murderers in jail: to keep them from killing again, to deter others, and perhaps to rehabilitate them. But your comment shows another motive, one that I find a lot less defensible: revenge. You want the criminals to suffer, in a perpetual act of state-sponsored sadism.

I don't want that. I wish other people didn't. It just feels sick to me.
No, that's something that usually happen for those devices that have to go through FCC and it would be impossible maintain secrecy at that point. Usually is always "available today" or a matter of days.
Maybe if you're from WA -- Hawke and Beazley, for example.
I think ultimately the profit cut they take - a practically usurious 50% - is too large to be an equilibrium price for what they do. There is a long-term sustainable biz model in what they're doing, but it involves taking a much smaller cut, just because they're not adding enough value to justify a huge cut (they're not exactly investment banking). I expect that in the near future market competition (particularly Google deals) will drive the middle-man profits down to something pedestrian.
"This question and answers originated from stackoverflow.com"; no ads. Not very spammy.
I have a spreadsheet that I use for some simple things. The problem for me is that I suck at recording the data. I try to solve that by making the data collection passive (or observant). The GPS comment above is along the same lines.

Examples:
RescueTime for tracking my productivity on my computer.
RunKeeper for tracking my exercise (running).
Withings scale for tracking my weight.
Spending via Mint.

Gaps:
Food intake.
Non-computer work.
Time spent with my kids.

The ideal product for me would be one that integrates with the passive data collection services I use already, finds ways to make the collection of the gaps as painless as possible, and then finds correlations and such.
This might be the funniest comment I've ever read here.

I can't disagree. I've lived in NY for the last few years and I have found it so much harder to find women in SF. Though, I'm sure some people will have contrasting stories.
It's not that much of a hyperbole...

Map<String, Map<String, Map<String, Map<String, String>>> > meta_data = new LinkedHashMap<String, Map<String, Map<String, Map<String, String>>> >();
....
for (Map.Entry<String, Map<String, Map<String, Map<String, String>>> > schema : meta_data.entrySet()) {

I really would rather just type:

meta_data = {}
....
for schema in meta_data.iteritems():
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I sometimes wish that people's personalities were printed on their forehead, so I could stop wasting my time on the obnoxious and stupid ones.

This comes pretty close to fulfilling that wish.
brilliant idea, stackoverflow on kindle :)
i'd point out that its actually still a thing i'm from the southeast and distinctly recall collecting stamps as a kid in the 80's. still exists, too, but has transitioned into the digital era.: http://www.greenbax.net/
And when were you last in the news?
The hero hacks one site in one night when drunk and in 2 hours it crashes the network

That bit actually happened, right?

A programming competition where the crowd cheers at each line of coded Python. The coders drink a shot to commemorate

Naah, they cheer every time someone takes a shot. That sounds much more plausible.

All nerds are socially inept but still Zuck has psychological insights about what the site needs to succeed.

That sounds kinda like reality too. Actually the combination of second-by-second ineptness in direct social interaction combined with a reasonable rational-mind level grasp of what people want does seem to be characteristic of quite a lot of successful geeky types.

Teenagers outsmarting experienced lawyers with witty responses.

Yes, the Sorkinesque dialogue certainly falls into the heightened-reality category. But a film with fully realistic dialogue including a realistic number of "um"s and "ah"s and false starts would be pretty damn dull.

A bus full of hot girls arriving to be used for sex

Not "to be used for sex", they're just there to attend a party. The portrayal of the final clubs did seem a little over-the-top, though... I'm sure they're not nearly that awesome in real life.

Sex, booze and testosterone is what drives every man

It isn't?
The problem is often not to download the papers but to find out what paper is good if you are not in the paper's field. The number of citation is usually a good metric but how about recently published papers or draft works ?
Equity in startups: Cap tables for Google, Apple, Genentech, Netscape, etc
Or you could just use AdBlock.
I didn't realize mentioning reddit was so verboten on HN, but it seems some folks here are missing the point. Look at it this way, ChatRoulette is very similar in concept and it took off wildly. Given a mainstream audience, this has the same potential. If this goes viral like its predecessor, then the author may be looking at some very hefty server fees.

Sure, there's also a potential to profit from the work, but if it gets popular and doesn't support itself, then it won't last for long.
Build Your Own Cloud Chamber
Or ClickToFlash.
Just as with HN, it's not the technology that makes it so great, it's the people. If the people stick with Quora, it will continue to be immensely informative.
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Either that or it might simply be that Steve knew when he would return last time and doesn't this time. Besides that, I doubt that Jobs will completely step down from the helm of Apple until he absolutely has to. I'd imagine he will stay on as Chairman and CEO, but make Cook president and COO so he can take on more of the day-to-day responsibility.
Good comparison. Forgot about those. Worth remembering that there is no company that has experienced hyper-growth forever. Sure, they could go the way of S&H Green Stamps but the phenomena of being displaced by the new, better model happens in every industry.
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Nobody but you can be or should be responsible for your emotions. It is entirely up to you how you respond to somebody "being a dick", not to mention that's a completely subjective thing in the first place.
It fits Stack Overflow's Creative Commons license, it gives credit and states the license. Just plain legal content republishing, and Google being crappy (as usual).
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Just do it.

How? How do I do it? Things just don't play out by themselves. What mindset do I need to have in order to do the things that move me closer to my goal? Just do it could answer anything. It doesn't provide any details or make me anymore motivated (despite what Nike may think).
This has become a bit simpler with Java 7:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamon...

EDIT: link to better article
I'm definitely a huge fan of the Bill Budge Pinball Construction Set. It was the way many of us were first introduced to the ideas behind object-oriented programmer (the ball is the message).
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Yeah, the NYT runs one "Japan... weird, right?" story every three months, typically sourced off a single interview with a counterculture aficionado in Tokyo. Remember, e.g., anti-mugger camouflague dresses to turn you into a Coke machine?

My theory is that Japanese people are rich enough to count as white and rare enough in the NYT newsroom to count as Republican, which makes this OK by their lights. If the published an article on hip hop teeth as a craze sweeping the nation, they'd lose face with people they actually care about.
FCC is one bottle neck, but it's not the major one. Once a device is "finished," there's also production ramp-up (component deliveries, manufacturing process, ...) and filling the distribution pipelines. Both of these make the FCC approval look fast by comparison.

Additionally, there are certain advantages in reporting pre-order sales, building hype, and so on.
I mentally do a fist-pump every time someone gets this correct.
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Clearly we don't know if he did.

It obviously wasn't enough if there were any. And don't you think it is convenient that Zuckerberg "got rid of" the CTO position when Adam left (when he complains about his position not fitting his stature)...and then a couple months later they have another CTO again?
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The article is from 1989, any further information on how the changes Riley made worked out?
So snobbish, yet I completely agree with you.
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When I was on staff at the US Naval academy, I had the interesting experience of interacting with the bottom 2% and top 2%. There's a line in the US Code that says we have to identify midshipmen who lack the aptitude for commissioned service. Like porn, it's hard to define, but you know it when you see it.

So the job also was in charge of identifying the best of the best and we had all sorts of metrics to assess the whole spectrum of midshipmen.

Anyway, so I got to work with a lot of the Rhodes, Fitzgerald, etc scholars. And I was doing my med school pre-reqs, so I sat next to several of them in class. During the summers they'd intern for me. I've had a bizare number of academic elite as my direct reports. Then, in med school, I interviewed applicants who had made it to the interview process, who are from the same end of the gene pool.

Before all of this exposure, interviewing the best of the best, I had been a division officer on a Navy frigate, and then an air craft carrier. Those jobs had some real leadership responsibility. Literally, "go this way, not that way", "do this, not that", "Yes, I said don't shoot" leadership. So, that added a different flavor to the experience of interviewing these kids. Frankly, my reaction was about like the author's: dismay. Despair. Disbelief.

Conversely, I knew a few of the Rhodes kids when I was a midshipman too. We weren't surprised when they got the nod.

Now, what I was surprised about was how they got the applications. At least at Canoe U. They'd set up a booth. In the Poli Sci hall. Which was further from the dorm than all the science and engineering halls. Basically, if you weren't a Poli Sci major (and there were plenty), some one had to, still has to, advise you to stop by.

I thought that was an interesting twist in the dynamic.
a code for a moon shot is probably actually simpler than flying a jet or driving a car (at least in 1969)

your out of the atmosphere in a few ten seconds (if you havn't exploded yet) and then there is very little to interfere with you (vaccum, earth gravity, moon gravity)

however, cars and airplanes are constantly interacting with their complex, messy environment.

clearly, the 10,000,000 lines of code figure includes the operating system.
Racket now includes a new facility -- "features" -- which are essentially a lightweight OS-level thread. There's also another -- "places" -- which is a more separated heavy threads (closer to a new process), but that one is not enabled by default.
So in a sense it is just as reasonable to select students from the University of Sydney (prestigious) as from the University of Western Sydney (considered to be a dump).

But there's also self-selection factors.

1. The best students are far more likely to go to Sydney than UWS, because as you mentioned, UWS is a bit of a dump. Of course in fairness UNSW is pretty good, but...

2. The sort of people who are interested in Rhodes Scholarships are exactly the sort of people who are likely to choose Sydney over UNSW. Why? Because Rhodes Scholars are the sort of people who think Oxford is the awesomest place on Earth, and Sydney is basically Oxford Lite.

(Declaration of bias: I went to Sydney.)
I don't currently have exact examples in mind. (For the last few months, NoScript has blocked me from seeing lots of the most annoying ads, and I've been trying to avoid clicking on some of the worst domains, like ehow.com.)

I just recall that on some queries – especially related to diet/health, or product/household how-tos – after clicking several of the top results, I'd seem lots of AdSense, and very little useful content.

Other ads can be just as bad; I mentioned AdSense specifically because it's so widely used, and has at times seemed the first choice of low-quality filler sites (though that may be changing). Also, implementing an AdSense filter would be the acid test of Google's willingness to offer search functionality with no concern for revenue effects.

I don't need such a setting to be persistent; I certainly would not suggest it should be the default. So that the functionality is not spun as a specifically anti-AdSense step, I would be happy if it worked against any <SCRIPT>-included ad-codes, based on originating domain(s). For example, [-adsfrom:doubleclick.net].

That is, if as this article speculates, I may soon be able to block by content-serving domain, I'd also like to be able to block by content-subsidizing domain, as evidenced by the page's ad inserts.
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The concept is not worthless: It could be a useful punishment to give these 'glowing teeths' to the avatars of cheating/bad behaviour players in your favourite online game.

It would have been a success in counter-strike!
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Doh! Yes, you are correct, my English is apparently very poor, even though it was my first and only language.

To be clear: things I've round about prison not about in prison. Unfortunately, too late to edit.
These would be pretty cool with a few extra features. Say flashing in time with music or sound as you are speaking. Or wirelessly connected so that they sink and can act out 'symphonies' of light displays. Great for advertising!
After Forstall, this degrades into possibly the worst list ever. Papermaster? No. There was a reason he was let go/resigned. Schmidt? Are you serious?
Have always wondered what tracking these types of things would reveal in my life; love that you took the time to make this happen.

Would be more than happy to purchase your app to reward your courage in jumping ship and working on this.

Keep up the good work!
I assume this is based on a real student whom she interviewed, and that he was unable to satisfactorily justify his belief system when challenged on it.

This kind of thing doesn't surprise me -- the students with the most strongly held political opinions are often those who have thought about the issues the least.