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I'm not sure what you mean. Have you read Stroustrup's book? It was my first "practical" intro to object oriented programming, and I struggled with it.

I would describe it as Byzantine technology explained with an economy of words that approaches poetry, at least in the way you must ponder each sentence. And the exercises are stimulating, in the sense of a cattle prod. I enjoy that sort of thing, in reasonable doses.

Since then I've stayed away from C++ unless it's externally imposed, and built things with C and Python. I like a language whose basic features can fit in my small brain, a language that gets out of the way.
Reminds me of OpenCola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)

Am I the only one or does anyone else hate the unnecessary popup ad on time.com?
I downloaded the Kindle and Netflix apps exclusively based on my experience with Amazon's and Netflix's services. These companies handle all of the backend for the services - Apple does nothing. Where is any "marketing" taking place on Apple's part - simply letting these companies' apps be searchable?

I'm not opposed to Apple charging what it wishes for in-app content purchases, but making this a mandatory option for all services at a fairly steep rate might not be viable for all businesses.

I don't think this will last. If iOS were to lose Netflix , Kindle and Pandora(which isn't unimaginable) the platform would instantly be less appealing than lowly WP7 and WebOS for a lot of users.
1. They are right regarding bureaucracy reduction and sane R&D management. They should migrate all their R&D to Silicon Valley and maybe Israel.

2. The simplest solution to SW is to be OS-agnostic. Offer the same phone model with different preinstalled OS choices. In the same way as you offer it with different colors or panels.

Hell, let users change OS or use OS vrtualization, like one OS for Work (WP7) and an other for Home (Android) with two different numbers.
Not very many people have a state-of-the-art supercomputer in their basement, so it wouldn't be that useful.
Interesting if it's true but ultimately Coke's strength lies in its worldwide brand[1] and distribution rather than having an unreproducible taste.

[1] Of course, being able to say only two people know how to mix the 7X flavoring ingredient is part of that brand.
Interesting partnership that brings human experts to search curation and will surely kill more spam!
Agree completely. The point is that food producers are playing (wittingly or not) into the fact that our human biology is geared towards the storage of fat. Your body's primal survival mechanism is a hard thing to overcome. In more scarce times, people spent most of their energy in the pursuit of finding something to eat. Now you use about 8 calories to reach out your car window, grab your 1500 calorie supersized meal, and set it on your passenger seat.
Might want to tune up your 404 page as well :)

http://www.cosupport.us/blog
Coke could open source their cola tomorrow and nothing would change. I dont get this fascination with their secret recipe. Their strength is distribution and marketing of course. It would be the equivalent of Nike telling you how to make a shoe.
Better get one quick! First batch is moving...
Researchers have built AI programs that were claimed to have rediscovered some basic results in maths:

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

That line of symbolic/formal AI seems to have pretty much died out (or at least not going anywhere very quickly), consider:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
Does this run multiple applications or do you have to plug it in each time you want to run a different app?
I listened to this show over the weekend (if you don't listen to TAL, you should start immediately), and as I recall it, they were pretty unambiguous about the fact that people who routinely drank Coca Cola were, by a large margin, able to tell real Coke from this recipe.

The spokesperson ("archivist") they found from Coca Cola implied that stories like this come up all the time.
If they are charging your credit card at this point, go to your credit card company, now, and dispute the charges. By law the credit card company has to believe you, and won't pay them another cent.
I've written "We in Russia", but it won't allow me to post such big titles
Here's the TikTok/LunaTik link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...

They raised $941,718 from users, so there's definitely a market for style. It's touchscreen, costly (nano+holder) and non-hackable.
I'm confused. Where's the spoiler? I don't remember seeing anything in the article (and I'm glad I didn't I wouldn't appreciated the spoiler).
I'm not sure the feedback is transparent for higher education. For instance, the consumer might not always be the student. It could be the government, faculty, or industry.
GMail's invite-based beta worked because there were no network effects in the product's value proposition. Even if those with whom I frequently corresponded did not use GMail, I benefited from the product. Wave was totally different -- everyone with whom I wanted to collaborate (at least in a particular context) had to have accounts, and I didn't have that many to give out. The product should have been implemented so that email/IM/whatever were used as fall-back "protocols" for those who had not yet adopted Wave. Also, the invites should have granted one the right to create N waves involving, say, 50 people max.
I'd like to see the next version take the avatar concept further. They went half way by making it physically buzz in. Go the rest of the way, and make it only receive input from the avatar. Add a computer vision and speech recognition component, and make it read the board and listen to Trebek like the human players. Then, make it mobile, and put the avatar in the actual Jeopardy! studio.

EDIT: Clarified "human" players. Welcome to the future!
I recall reading that Armstrong's an investor in the content farm in question, to boot.

(Give a bit of a new twist to all those yellow wrist bands, doesn't it?)
Your first sentence is clearly and obviously true, but that doesn't make the story any less newsworthy.
Blekko has become my go-to engine when I'm looking for something in a specific category.

Google (currently) does best when I'm doing a text search to find the original source of an article or trying to look up an error message, but I'm sure that gap will disappear as Blekko indexes more pages and improves its algorithms.
I like cooking and would love to make a coca cola duplicate but the flavor thats comes from the Coca extract could be a little hard to come by.

"They identified the Illinois-based Stepan Company as the importer and processor of the coca used in Coke. "
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-obt...
Steps Towards a Bionic Eye
RFinity Raises Money To Make NFC Payments Fast, Secure
Forbes article on the subject: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newel...
Well, I think it is clear that increased productivity due to improvements in information technology has resulted in slower job growth during this recovery compared with past ones. Corporations have been able to achieve top line growth with minimal hiring.

But there are other factors at play. Too much of the US labor force was dedicated to housing, and those people are going to take a long time to either retrain or find new work with their existing skills. They are not being replaced by software (yet).

However, I essentially agree with the article. Software and robots will make it easier for corporations to grow profits with out hiring people, and that this increases the threat of income inequality.
I recently came back to C++ after many years. I spent days trying to set up a good environment with vim, then I tried with jedit http://humbertook.blogspot.com/2010/11/personal-preferences-...
, Finally I started using Qt Creator. It is not as good as Eclipse, but it is a big improvement over vim; specially, if you are already using QT.
> wouldn't want to write a webapp in C++

Actually, POCO has all the stuff you need to write a web-app: templating, form handling, http request/reponse objects, etc. Not that I've done it, but it looks like you could write a web-app using POCO::Net rather painlessly.

I like C++ and don't understand the frustration others express. I don't use a subset, and neither do the other people I work with. We use pretty much the whole thing, TMP, macros and all.

Being well familiar with C++ I can never see a clear reason to prefer something like Java. Qt is better for GUI stuff. POCO is just as good, or better, for network stuff. With C++ you can go ahead and marry the host platform's system calls when that makes sense (i.e. write a unix program).

When it comes to scientific or graphics type libraries it seems like the premier solution usually has a first class C++ interface. The Java equivalents seem harder to evaluate. I did a bunch of GIS stuff recently, using proj.4 and various other things. It sure appears to me that the Java/C# equivalents of the GIS type libraries are less supported and less popular ports of the C++/C ones.

If you have perl/python and C++ in your tool belt, I just don't see the need to reach for the so-called C++ replacements. Aside from hiring considerations, that is.
It is interesting to note that the EZ430-Chronos can last about 6 months on a charge if continuously reading BlueRobin data (which is a one-direction wireless data) while this inPulse aparently can only last 2 to 3 days recieving data over bluetooth.

Less powerful processor and cheaper display might be a good thing, depending on your uses.
Wow, I love it! Seems like a great gadget; I'll be purchasing one.
The fact that "the Coke formula is secret" is a marketing tool itself. I've seen a few ads along the line of "only two guys know the Coke formula and they each only know half." (Which I'm betting isn't true, since that makes Coke a bus factor of one.)
hotness needs a time based component like velocity coupled with relevance

e.g. responded to ('liked' or viewed) x times within y minutes + relevance (it's very funny &| it's topical &| it's trending elsewhere)
Or people trying to get _in_ the elevator before letting people out.
Can a machine that eats babies, whose owner isn't really interested in it one way or another but does happen to recall that it was left switched on in a public place, be immoral?
> Each (well written) app creates a lot of value for iOS

We all, being programmers, like to assume this, but I don't think it's really true. I think the bulk of the value for both Apple and iOS users comes from a pretty small core of apps (Mail, Maps, Browser, Music, YouTube, Publisher subscriptions).

> If I'm building something that helps sell an iOs device, why shouldn't I get a cut?

I don't think Apple agrees that you're "helping sell the iOS device". I think Apple correctly assumes that most people who buy iOS devices do so in ignorance of your app. They can take it or leave it, and if they're not going to get a cut, what possible reason do they have to take it?
Coke could open source their cola tomorrow and nothing would change.

It depends on what the recipe is. If they're extracting some ingredients from cow dung then I think it could hurt them.
Skynet has already fired many of us. We just don't notice because it happened incrementally.

To see an example of this on the macroscale, look at the current recession. AD (Aggregate Demand) and production tanked, leading to unemployment. AD and production have recovered, but employment has not. There is a very plausible case to be made that productivity gains made many workers obsolete, and employers took advantage of the recession to cut them loose.

[edit: forgot that not everyone is an amateur economist. AD = Aggregate Demand.]
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Only if your job is giving answers in the form of a question.

Oh shit - that is what I do.
I'd be really interested why you highlighted Bing. Its services, especially the maps, seem to have potential.
But the same is true for the human contestants; at this level especially, I'm sure that they scan the whole question in a second and then have the rest of the spoken time (which, even for long questions, is nowhere near 20 seconds - probably more like 4) to think about it.
The Sea Horse : the Strangest-looking Creatures in the Ocean
What's the actual hardware inside? Do you expose (quasi-)standard ARM JTAG?
18 lines of node.js to accomplish something similar - I use something similar as a function in my node.js scripts to be able to send a generic error template based on the code that I pass back to the function.

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (request, response)
{
var statusCode = request.url.substr(1, 3);
response.writeHead(statusCode, { 'connection' : 'close', 'content-type' : 'text/html' });
response.write('<html>');
response.write('<head><title>' + statusCode + ' ' + http.STATUS_CODES[statusCode] + '</title></head>');
response.write('<body bgcolor="white">');
response.write('<center><h1>' + statusCode + ' ' + http.STATUS_CODES[statusCode] + '</h1></center>');
response.write(' '.repeat(512));
response.write('</body>');
response.end('</html>');
}).listen(8124, "0.0.0.0");

String.prototype.repeat = function(num)
{
return new Array(num++).join(this);
}
"The problem with formal education's applicability to the business world isn't with the quantity, quality, or breadth or its theory, it's with it's lack of practice."

There is nothing like TAing a theory course to disavow you of the former part of that assertion. I'm told that TAing a coding course is great for convincing you of the second part.
This is a case of one group of self-absorbed people intersecting with another group of self-absorbed people. As the article points out, the ragers make up their own perceived rules, and so do the slow people. "I have the right to be here..." "People should be courteous, as I define it..." There is plenty of narcissism to go around with this kind of thing.
2 months, seriously?

Ignore Yale's process, go to the computer store that night get a new hard drive and swap it out. 500GB laptop hard drives cost approximately $60. What was the cost of not having your computer for 2 months?

Also, here's another case of don't outsource your bread and butter. You have no control over what Mosy does with your data, and you're relying on trust alone that it will be there when you need it. Why would you think that a company you aren't paying will treat you as well as you'd treat yourself?

If you want someone to be mad at, be mad at yourself for being a dumb consumer.
This article was clearly written by someone who A) Doesn't live in a city and B) Never had to get anywhere by walking.
One app at a time, right now...but we're working on getting multiple apps running as well! Good point.
Well, adding generics shouldn't break working code.. it's an additive change.

It says something that for the built-in collection types, Slice and Map, they had to hack around their own API and implement this-case-only ad hoc generics. Slice and Map should be fully implementable within the language.
Capt. Ed Murphy was a smart man.
Mondrian was a Mathematician
Vizio isn't a Samsung competitor, really. It's basically an American front for AmTran, a Taipei-based contract manufacturer. Neither AmTran, nor Vizio make their own electronics/panels (one integrates, the other brands/markets). I wouldn't bet the house that Samsung didn't actually make the panels that go into Vizio TVs...it's a crazy world over there!
Facebook's Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos (2009)
I'm disturbed by the fact that the 7X flavor contains alcohol - there's a lot of people that can't drink something lik this for religious reasons... I wonder if it is real.
It might. The automobile made it difficult to find work shoeing horses. I do not lament this.
All I want Wave to be is Google Docs + Gchat on the same page. Possibly with the ability to link parts of the doc with the Gchat conversation going on when they were written.
Except it doesn't actually, it returns 'Unknown Error.' Disappointed. Maybe varnish isn't allowing it through?

$ curl -v http://httpstat.us/418
* About to connect() to httpstat.us port 80 (#0)
* Trying 75.101.145.87... connected
* Connected to httpstat.us (75.101.145.87) port 80 (#0)
> GET /418 HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
> Host: httpstat.us
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 418 Unknown Error
< Server: nginx/0.7.67
< Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:46:59 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Connection: keep-alive
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Content-Length: 16
< X-Varnish: 1137499688
< Age: 0
< Via: 1.1 varnish
<
* Connection #0 to host httpstat.us left intact
* Closing connection #0
418 I'm a Teapot
I think it's just a red herring.
Another problem: invites.
The bright coloured fish, is a red herring.
What Makes A Smart Developer? (Is it Google?)
It's a fantastic idea! I'm curious at how the support will work though? It seems like you'll have to get the support people to learn the inside and outside of multiple systems?
This is ridiculous. Oracle and Sonatype are just trying to confuse the users into downloading the old and undeveloped hudson by moving to github. From my perspective this is a childish and immature move by both companies.
TI eZ430 Chronos watch controlling car wirelessly using Python
From http://www.getinpulse.com/faq/

What is the battery life like?
With aggressive power management (turning the screen off most of the time and leaving bluetooth disconnected), it can be up to 3 days. If bluetooth is constantly connected with the screen turning on periodically for alerts, you can expect 25 - 30 hours. If you have a processor-intensive application and are using the full capabilities of the screen non-stop, you can expect 2 - 3 hours.

So unfortunately it seems that the battery life is the biggest issue with inPulse
I think you're reading the parent wrong. They're not calling you a coward, they're classifying"[anyone who does] everything she says she wants" as cowards.
I'm sure it can be done (for the majority of cases) without editing any HTML by hand. iOS has text selection, so text styling and linking can work the same way it does on a real computer. For things like image arrangement, that's generally done via CSS by applying a class that already exists. Doesn't seem like there are too many challenges, we just need someone to go and do it and make it look nice.
Why did Nokia fail in the US?
Sorry, what is AD?
But it's only clickable from a search page on Google. Can't they correlate the data pretty easily?
The answer is to put something like Nginx in front of Apache. Let Nginx serve the static resources. Turn keep-alives off and let Apache serve the dynamic stuff. Also disable every module in a Apache that you don't know what it is doing and re-enable them as you understand them to make your site work.
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"He never tried to recover the file within 2 months"

If my hard drive failed I'd be recovering the data back somewhere, anywhere (e.g. a VPS), within hours.
Beck: "Google Is Pretty Deeply In Bed With The Government"
I've had this page bookmarked for months, waiting to be able to order it (back when it was just designed as a bluetooth extension to blackberry devices).

Petty about US/CA shipping only, seems a pretty dumb move (unless there's some reason, other than shipping costs which you can make customers pay, for limiting who can buy it).
Yeah. TI aren't lying when they describe the MSP430 line as 'ultra low power.' You can run them on fruit (grapes etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxGZIiyyxrM

(the video is worth it for the 'joke' alone.)
Testing code is hard, but testing data is even harder.
Companies are not some organic-made-out-of-people creatures. Where did you get that idea? Seriously, why do you think that?
Sounds like a good MAKE Magazine project: DIY web server in a teapot, with ironic status code. Extra points if you build it in Utah.
You should at least try nginx/gunicorn (http://gunicorn.org/). And if your clients are constantly pinging and the data hasn't changed, make sure you are caching it in memcache (etc) to relieve the database.

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/aug/16/lessons-learned-das...
Agreed. I have seen several "integrative" degree programs that attempt to combine business skills and some other program and the end result is always that the deeper, tougher (and thus, maybe more immersive coursework?) falls by the wayside.

Industry (even startups) are always looking for training from universities to more closely match the applied skills that industry most clearly "needs" at the moment. I'm ambivalent about the necessity of university training for many fields today, but oppose tightly-coupled university/industry programs. Down this path lie blub schools . . .

Which is quite different from saying that you shouldn't spend some time doing industry specific training (internships, apprenticeships, etc). I consider my undergrad CS experience quite successful and it was precisely the balance between the academic, fundamental CS courses and the applied, get-shit-done real world that made it work for me.
It seems that everybody forgets about web apps. Take Netflix for example, the app is useless without an internet connection anyway, is there any reason that they can't come out with a web-app designed for the iPhone and leave Apple out of it completely? Or would they not be able to play videos properly?

Separately, I personally hate it when I have to download an app that does nothing you couldn't do with a regular website. Sports score apps for example, the MLB At Bat and NHL Ice Time apps are nice and provide a lot of extra features so I understand those, but there's also countless apps that only download scores from the web and display them. I hate that, give me a iPhone formatted web page, and if I like it I'll put it on my home screen, saves me having to update it and saves space on my drive.
nVidia's Tegra 3 (due this year) is a quad-core ARM with a GPU capable of accelerated 3D, HD resolution, and 13800 MIPS which I believe is faster than a Core 2 Duo.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2011/1/23/nvidia-thinks...

The 64-bit ARM chips will be better.
Not saying your wrong, but the marketing was to build the entire sales channel. You are free to use your Amazon Kindle for your Kindle purchases. It's all a bit of a grey area, more so than some make out if you ask me.
I find it ironic that this list includes adsense ads with three things totally irreverent to the content.
This is very cool. I own a few Timex Datalink watches which are also programmable. Timex recently discontinued the Datalink and they're already becoming very hard to find. I hoping some company would come up with a suitable replacement but unfortunately nobody seems to build something with a comparable design.

The advantages of the Datalink are that it always shows the time (no button press necessary), the battery lasts an entire year, is water-resistant, and is small and subtle. It also just makes a damn good watch without any of the programmable features. Every other programmable watch available is anything but subtle, with a display that isn't active all the time, and has to be constantly recharged. Those are considerable failings for a watch.

What the Datalink lacks is a denser display (but remaining as 1bit LCD is ok), any sort of wireless (ANT+ would be suitable), and sensors (pulse, altitude, position, etc). It could also use, obviously, a faster processor with more RAM and storage (it also has 32k).

The price for this watch is fantastic but it's still just not quite what I'm looking for.