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Any one who has been in the design industry for sometime must have experienced a situation where the client tells you that the design you have provided was not what he was looking for. Then the client gives you examples of work he likes and asks you to make something similar. Well there could be two explanations to this situation, either you did not get a design brief from the client or the client never bothered to answer the questions in the brief properly. After reading through this article you will have the solution to both these problems.
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Although I've been tempted to use jQuery Mobile or Sencha Touch for a mobile application I've begun working on, I've decided to just start it from scratch. The main thing that's kept me away from these frameworks is speed. For example, many of the UI elements in jQMobile just don't seem very responsive (testing using my old HTC G1) - you select them and then there's a noticeable delay before any action. I don't if it's just me, but I find that irritating. The page transitions in jQMobile are also slow and choppy. Sencha Touch seems to be a little better in this regard, but it's still too bloated for my purposes.

I think these frameworks will get better with time (especially jQ Mobile),but for now and in my case they're just not worth the bloat in spite of all (or because of?) the great features they have. On a side note, not all frameworks are out of the picture. I am still considering using Backbone.js or Sammy.js to sort out all of the application logic.
But Apple is successfully training customers that it is nice to be able to shop a simple product line. People are tired of being confused, and Apple makes it trivial to not be confused.

Samsung's ubiquity game isn't going to work if the customers are sick of playing it.
Yes, yes, a million times yes. Everybody knows that the existing Wikipedia Notability guidelines have serious issues when it comes to dealing with software and technology issues. I know I fought tooth and nail to get the Steve Yegge article back on Wikipedia a while back, and Steve is pretty damn notable in his community.... to the point that a WP article on him is a no-brainer. Now imagine anybody just a hair less well known, or a project with no celebrity leader or that isn't sponsored by $MEGACORP.

Software just isn't cited generally in the New York Times and the kinds of sources that they want... that doesn't mean it isn't notable, it just means that it's "noted" a different way. Notability in our world is based on blog posts, mailing list posts, github commit logs, etc.

Now how to get Wikipedia's policies amended to reflect that? Good question... I know it's been tried before and failed, but maybe it's time somebody built a coalition to make a serious, coordinated effort to get something done (no, I'm not volunteering, unfortunately.)

Edit: My memory is failing, it was the Yegge article I had that big battle over, not Zed. But the point remains the same.
I highly doubt that this is Google sanctioned. I think it's some just playing around. (DNS info seems to back up that hunch.)
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I did it based on the sale price as well. The data is interesting, and for $100 it was worth the price too me. I do have some doubts about the overall accuracy. As a black man that it claims is primarily Irish on my fathers side... I almost want to do it again on another account and see if I get the same results.
I doubt they'll "instantly" be better than 90% of CS students, but if they're interested, they'll ultimately put in more time by themselves to learn how to program.

I remember that I was learning to program just as I was entering high school. I fell in love with programming instantly, but it does not mean I didn't spend hours upon hours debugging my first few programs to see what went wrong. But I didn't have anyone to guide me, so all my programs were imperative styled, not OOP. After taking my first computer science course in high school, my classmates thought of me as a programming genius (which I am not) since I was able to write programs faster than anybody else in my class. It's a lot easier to understand OOP when you've been programming for 1-2 years rather than 2-3 months.

That's why I'd say that a lot of programming ability is effort, not intelligence. Except for non-C family programmers, I've never met anyone who didn't have the "4-hour-debugging-session-only-to-find-it-was-a-missing-semicolin" experience when they were beginning programming.
Quora uses your Facebook friends graph to determine who you'll initially follow on Quora. It's been critical to onboarding new users and showing them relevant content immediately.
Japan town in san jose is one area. It won't be a brand new unit of course. You can find deals if you spend some time looking around.
Isn't that a problem for Quora to solve? I'd hate to think keeping anyone out is the answer, especially with a challenging UX.
Agreed. But the 1 bedroom apartment would allow you to save up for a starter home or condo.
I admit to basing this on nothing more than a gut feeling, but a "sufficiently smart decompiler" seems even less plausible than a "sufficiently smart compiler".
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As did I.
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Doesn't this go against the 10,000 hours thing? Sure, taking someone who is smarter and has more experience than other students and putting them in front of a computer will yield these results. However, someone who is solely smarter and does not normally program will not likely produce good code. Expertise is much more about practice than raw ability. Most of the really good programmers out there are really good because they're both smart and well versed, not just smart.
I was thinking of using dropbox with a combination of TrueCrypt however, it wouldn't suit the way I was hoping to do this. I'm actually looking into both tarsnap and spideroak right now.
lets not confuse the issue. Deletionism has nothing to do with storage capacity. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism#Rationale_for_del...

edit: meta: the broken-down score on this post is something like +27-20, what an emotional topic!
Everything is wrapped in the "jsontemplate" namespace. It's just not indented.

If you have some speedups I'm open to it, although I think it is pretty fast as it doesn't parse the template on every expansion.
Fun fact: I left a note for the guy asking why he doesn't do that (hunt up citations and improve articles).

His response was to go complain about how "ironic" that was on some other well-known deletionist's page, and whine about how he's "martyring" himself for Wikipedia.

In other words: there's basically no reasoning with the guy who's behind this.
A vertically integrated manufacturer does not necessarily mean their costs will be dramatically lower than the competition.

For example, Apple doesn't do any manufacture themselves, and yet they have costs so much lower than the competition that they are able to define entire new markets in the time it takes for their competition to develop cost-competitive supplies.

This has happened three times now, firstly with the original iPods (Apple pre-signed huge contracts for those tiny hard drives, proved the market, and when competitors wanted in they had to wait for new sources to come online), the iPod touch (Apple pre-ordered a huge proportion of the worlds flash memory supply) and finally, most recently with the iPad.

Ever wonder why it's taken a year for anyone to build a 9"/10" iPad competitor? It's because no one can get capacitative touch screen in sufficient quantities. Even Samsung (which owns the factory!) had to make do with 7" screens.

Now, finally new factories are beginning to come online, which means that competitors can release their products. The problem for them is that Apple locked in much lower prices (because of their bigger purchasing power), which makes it hard to compete on price. This applies to Samsung as much as to anyone - they can't afford to drop Apple as a customer, but the capital costs of building a new factory means it costs them more to supply themselves (selling in smaller volume) than it does to supply Apple.
Ahh, time for another Wikipedia deletionist pie fight! On the one side, elitist editors who are so saddened by even a single unnecessary HD spin that they want to clean clutter. On the other side, fans of (supposedly) esoteric knowledge.

The narrator of Foucault's Pendulum, when he decides to be freelance researcher, says that his main principle will be that all information is equal, nothing is more precious than the other.
She might want to go into teaching the next generation. (Undergrads, if she no longer has a lab.) I would do that if I were in a similar position.

There are plenty of useful, fulfilling things to do with the knowledge and experience one has accrued as a researcher. Why not travel to a different place and teach?
Missed the amusing?

Nobody would rightfully assume that storage is the problem. I know how much storage costs. The commenter I'm quoting wrote that tongue-in-cheek, and I thought I had given enough of a hint there that I was repeating it in jest as well.
You may find it more useful to ask this question at one of the Stackoverflow sites.
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I'm working on a reference knowledge-base to complement Wikipedia that will loosen the 'notability' requirement in favor of 'true and useful'. Otherwise, it will share the same licensing and a wiki-centric edit model.

The project codename is 'Infinithree' ('∞³'), and I'm discussing it pre-launch at http://infinithree.org and (Twitter/Identica) @infinithree.
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"they only win because they can suck the cash out of everyone faster than anyone else and that lets them grow and suck even more cash out of the next target they get."

So... Wal-Mart?
It's about time someone created a anti-deletionist (inclusionist?) Wikipedia overlay that keeps copies of pages that have been deleted. Perhaps some kind of framing, while ugly, could be used to keep server load to a minimum while allowing people to access all of Wikipedia through that overlay site.
For what it's worth, I dropped out of college, ended up starting a company, and had a decent exit (fortunately). But I'm using the freedom that gave me to go back to school.

I was able to manage before by teaching myself out of books, but there's something to be said for learning with expert guidance and a community of peers.

I am also gaining exposure to a variety of fields which lend themselves less well to self-instruction than programming does (for example, molecular biology) and in which I believe a lot of the action for the next fifty years will be happening.

So, yeah, unless you already have a product that has traction and that demands your fulltime attention to continue growing, there's no reason to drop out of school.

My advice to students is: imagine that you were forced to drop out of college against your will, and then were given a chance to go back five years later after slogging it out in the real world. Would your attitude be different than it is now? Would you perhaps go to more office hours, skip less class, explore more subjects, play less Xbox, join more clubs?
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Is there a meaningful difference between a machine that claims it fears death but in reality doesn't (for some definition of "fears"), and something that actually 'fears' death?

How can you tell whether something 'fears' death or not?
How about East Palo Alto?
Apple isn't vertically integrated at all. As you note, they don't own any production facilities, and outsource all production. Almost the total opposite of Samsung, who so almost everything themselves.

I guess I'm a bit confused what you think vertically integrated means?
Thanks! I believe you are spot on with your review. I'll address them as soon as I can.

You are right, some of it is repeated. I did this mainly for SEO reasons, which has worked wonders by the way (Amazon and Microsoft both found me through my website, among others).
Even though I like your answer I disagree with "This is why I’m nervous when strongly antisocial people say they want to go into software".

Strongly anti-social people are some of the best software engineers around. They devote insane amount of time and pretty much enjoy coding.
http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/ archives deleted Wikipedia articles.
If there's a case study for how execution trumps ideas, it's Zynga.

"They only win because they can execute better than their competitors" is kind of a silly statement to make.
The vast majority of deleted pages are utter crap. While what you suggest would be interesting I don't see it having much value, unless you manually selected which pages to include. Even then, they'd be 99.9% stubs, with nobody editing or expanding them.

We just need to deal with deletionism.
In reading about this I came across a few things that I honestly wasn't aware of for Wikipedia, which made me feel these deletionists are even more silly than I prior thought

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not...

The Notability guidelines often both me really, as they are a somewhat silly set of 'rules' in many ways and not everything fits into a nice and tidy system. For example, Christopher M seems to feel that his understanding of the requirements if that all languages must be cited in well published and cited academic papers and there is no other way around it. That's just silly. There could be new and growing languages that are of importance, or older ones that were important at the time, but that there weren't papers for and aren't being actively used. Do they each have a purpose and for the people who is researching things via the Wikipedia important? Yes. They are.

I feel that there is more to be lost by most deletionist activity than there is to be gained. The risk evaluation here almost always (except in cases of spam and self edits, which are frequent) should lean on the side of having more information available, not less.
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ok...even though im a bit sleepy, i would love to get a lot of feedback from people regarding my website...also what are the ways I can protect myself from hackers in this situation?
Business school culminating in an MBA is hardly formal academic training.
I don't really think of it as "winning or losing". It's not like a general purpose programming language with large network effects (e.g. you may depend on a library with 100k sloc). The switching cost is pretty low, especially since they both use JSON as the data model.
Kind of cool, but mostly ow. The last thing our eyes need is to move around even less within the scope of a computer screen. I'm going to stick to image searches that are less likely to aggravate my mild myopia.
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If only there were a mod to add an Apple headphone connector and a Zalman microphone to the sennheiser 555, that would be an amazing VOIP headset for the Mac.
The numbers: WSJ reports $400 million in profits on $850 million in revenue. $7 billion puts them at a 17.5 p/e ratio, or about in line with 3M, Pepsi and McDonalds. Netflix and Amazon, by comparison, are trading at a p/e of over 70. Facebook is around 50. Activision Blizzard - 34. Electronic Arts has about $3.6 billion in revenue, is losing money, and is valued at about $6 billion.

I'd say it's fair compared to the rest of the market.
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The thing that makes Wikipedia useful in my opinion is not the notable topics I can lookup somewhere else. It's these long tail articles about esoteric programming languages and non-mainstream topics.
In my experience the stories upvoted on a weekend or holiday are more lighthearted than on a week day.
> We need better criteria for establishing notability of programming languages: for some reason, a number of people seem to think languages are notable if they are mentioned in a book/third-tier academic paper or have a few people who contribute to/use them.

My favorite part is how he admits the rules he's enforcing are inadequate, and yet continues to enforce them.
Holy crap, I bought a pair of these from Radio Shack about 6 or 7 years ago and LOVE THEM (for what they are). They are falling apart -- one foam earpad is shot and the other has been replaced (badly); the headband adjusters lost their ratchet, so I hot-glued the pieces together.

I had no idea this was a phenomenon -- I just got lucky with a random Rat Shack purchase. As a 90th percentile audiophile (with industry experience) I can vouch for these 'phones. They are the real deal. I am ordering my replacement now.
Think about how many students were in your freshman level courses. Now think about how many students are in your senior level courses. Add a fudge factor for the larger dispersion in senior level courses if you like, but don't forget seniors are also taking more of the courses per semester as well.

The size difference is basically the number of people who dropped out. A few may have dropped college altogether but many have migrated to another major, because they too doubted they were in the right major until they felt they had to take action. (Or in some cases had it forced on them by failing grades.) This is not a unique experience.

Presumably this is posted here because of the gender issue raised in the post, but given how non-unique this experience is I don't see that the gender angle adds anything. Scratch a few sentences out and any number of juniors could post this. This is not "woman doubt", it's just doubt, and the doubt does not admit of "woman solutions", it's just the same "finish the degree" solution everyone else has. I take the time to say this because I actually think adding the gender idea into this is a little cognitively dangerous; incorrect identification of the problem leads to incorrect identification of the solutions. (As every engineer comes to learn instinctively after a few years under their belt.) Those who are certain they are in the right major are the unusual ones, regardless of gender and from what I saw in college, pretty much regardless of major.
You can set the default formatter to "html" if you want (or any other formatter). It probably could be better documented.

You seem to be on the fence about if you want an explicit "repeated" or not. I haven't thought about it too much but it seems cleaner to be explicit. I don't want to confuse an object {} and a singleton array [{}].
I don't think the solution is as simple as that, but references do help.
Well, at least it proves that bad UX on the Web isn't entirely the fault of Flash.
I'm good at looking at the right horse early. I suck at picking the right horse early, otherwise I'd be far wealthier than I actually am. I tend to move far too slowly, even once I think I know where the right place to be is, and get in just as it's becoming popular (and get out just before it crashes - I was telling my sister, before I took my latest job, that I've been a part of almost every major bubble of the 21st century. Was at an all-teenage dot-com in 2000, a financial software startup in 2005-2007, and a web 2.0 startup in 2007-2008. I hope that's not reflective of Google's future prospects...) Makes for a comfortable living, but for real wealth you need to take a few more risks than I tend to...

Some things that I've been looking at that seem quite interesting to me now, though:

- LikeALittle.com

- Android. I think that long-term, it has more potential than iOS. The mobile phone space in general has the potential to be huge.

- OCR, computer vision, and other applications of machine learning to imaging problems.

- Functional programming languages, particularly Haskell

- YCombinator. I think PG's generally right about their being a trend toward startups in the future, and startups that serve startups will become quite big.

I also have the stinking suspicion that the next world-changing tech revolution is in the garage now, and not one of the startups founded from 2004-2010. I, of course, do not know what it is. But there've been a bunch of enabling technologies recently developed - mobile phones and cloud-computing come to mind. And there's also a bigger concentration of brainpower in a smaller volume than we've seen before, with the rise of Google/Facebook/Twitter/Palantir and supporting universities and startups in Silicon Valley. I'm somewhat wondering what will happen when Google ceases to be a nice place to work, because for the last 10 years, they've been recruiting the best minds from all over the planet, putting them 5-to-a-cube in a handful of buildings, and working really hard together. Much of what they learn is probably applicable to a wide range of problems, but because the company is so focused on search, I doubt we've seen all the developments that could come out of that.
I don't get it, I thought Samsung Bada was not a secret project anymore?

http://www.bada.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada_%28operating_system%29
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Its for the Magpie programming language.
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Because : "He will not reply to senseless accusations any longer. Don't bother nominating him for conflict of interest or vandalism or whatnot, it's already been tried and didn't work."
I don't understand why you are portraying concentrated education vs liberal arts education as a women's issue. I'm a male who also earned a CS degree at a liberal arts school, and I had similar struggles in trying to balance my technical workload alongside literature and politics.
I've coded PHP for quite a while now and whilst it is slowly improving, I honestly don't see any compelling reason to use it over Python or anything else other than being on a stupid webserver. Personally I'd have done this project using Python and a WSGI server.
At the beginning of this article I was reminded of Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters."
If women tend to have broader interests, leaning towards the arts, than I would say that those that also lean towards coding would have the largest potential as innovative hackers. Although that's not the same issue as fitting in with a cs crowd... just my thoughts.
Maybe this will encourage scientists to interact with the public more and ask for funding from them instead.

I don't even know why they're so important other than a vague "moar knowledge mean moar technology!"
"Learning turned out to be more important than knowing." This seemingly simple sentence, to me, sums up the article, i.e. the data driven approach as opposed to model-driven ones.
ok...im a bit sleepy..but i would love to get a lot of feedback on this quick hack i made..it basically allows you to rent a subdomain for your loved one...check it out at http://ilov3u.net
in particular, i would like to know how i can protect myself from hackers in such a situation
> you can't even test drive the products to tell

Sure you can, the same way you'd test drive a car: walk into a brick & mortar store.
I think, given the below link, it's a bit of a stretch to believe that Google's brand association is having any sort of halo effect on the idea of Android (an operating system) or Android phones (the hardware):

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/06/browser-is-search-e...

Much like browsers and search engines, most people don't even know what an operating system is. How Google fits into the picture is extremely murky from that worldview.
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