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Gosh you mean all those lawsuits did not work?

Nokia has shown it was incapable of creating a challenger as it resorted to lawsuits rather than change. Without MS firing middle management will not happen with MS paying Nokia either. Its Siemens Handset biz replayed out again.
This is a missed opportunity for "[citation needed]."
Better than what it is now. Change it.
Nokia needs plastic surgery not a brain transplant
Strange that e.g. several content farms are deemed notable by the Wikipedia editors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softpedia

Notability requirements are fine, but not if they are applied selectively.
Chris You became notable as most inadequate moron. YES ! You are.
Interview question asked on FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE (FIX) Protocol
Agreed.

I know there's going to be an 'iPhone' for a long time to come, and I'm confident now that there'll be a peripherals ecosystem around it. I have no such confidence that any other company will keep the same model of phone around for more than a few years. Even the mighty RAZR seemed to lose the support of Motorola - RAZR, ROKR, PEBL, SLVR variations came out, and now none of them are being actively pursued - MOTO shifted focus to Android as 'flavor of the month'. They'll have no such problems shifting to something else more profitable in 2 years if it suits them, leaving everyone who purchased or supported current phones high and dry.
It's interesting that there is no longer a Nemerle article on the English Wikipedia, but there is one on the Japanese, Polish, Russian, Finnish, Tajik, Ukrainian, and Chinese Wikipedias.

You can see this by going to, e.g., the Japanese article (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemerle) and looking at the language links at bottom of the left sidebar.

So if you are a speaker of one of those languages, you're still in luck :-P
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I should have watched how I phrased things; I think it's a great stepping stone in to full programming; what she currently is doing is almost 100% drag and drop and because of that, what my niece specifically is doing, isn't necessarily programming, but giving her a great resource to understand programming, and indeed making programs. I wouldn't consider her specific actions programming in a general sense, but am ecstatic that Game Maker exists to get her started gradually from the current steps and also in to more advanced steps from one single system.

So Game Maker is programming and I should have been careful in how I phrased it because I did not want to make Game Maker seem anything less than it is (I am buying her the new Game Makers Companion and a license if she continues with it because I would love to encourage programming in her)
Good point, I'd missed that.

All the same, I'm not sure how she was on the tenure track given that no UK academic appointed (or promoted!) after 20 November 1987 has tenure. Perhaps there is a more complex story with her date of appointment, or perhaps, given that Science is a US publication, she is simplifying a tenure track equivalent UK position for a US audience.

Reference for the legislation: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/40/part/IV/crosshea...

But this is a side issue (my fault, I started it!), I'd agree with your basic point that tenure is a problem. Just, it's not the only problem and it wasn't the problem in this case.
Nokia And Microsoft’s Third Ecosystem: Horrible Tagline For A Wonderful Vision
IIRC, Apple was predicting iPad sales of 10M in 2010, which many analysts scoffed at. Also, IIRC, they sold 7M in just the last quarter of 2010 (admittedly, the holiday season). So yeah, I believe Apple was pretty confident.
You should probably mention, that this Javascript-based DHTML-version is from 2004.

I remember being completely amazed seeing that. Javascript was so much harder back then.
Microsoft's IE9: Don't believe the hype
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This is awesome. Also added it to my Facebook + Twitter profile.

Would be great to have nice some kind of easy file sharing.
I'm sure that someone has already mentioned this, but "A concurrent lambda-calculus with Futures" is a paper about AliceML. The problem is that the full syntax and semantics of StandardML contain a lot of features which are not very relevant to the discussion of the semantics of futures.

Instead, the authors describe the semantics as an extension of lambda calculus. This is both more compact and more useful to other researchers (who might not be working on an ML dialect).

That said I would be grateful to you or anyone with a backup who could restore the article. Looking at the google cache for this page, it was more than a stub and actually did link to a page with references...

Alice is still one of the first semester languages for CS students at Saarland university. I think it would be advantageous if you could find information about related languages and additional features on Wikipedia.
Someone could make the case that by purchasing Iraqi oil, we were funding his military.
Raising funding too early. This was educationally productive for 2 [opposite] reasons.

1) We knew far less than their average investment, which led to us experiencing more and faster improvement from the same help (while remaining worse than experienced founders, I would imagine).

2) We really weren't ready for the momentum funding put behind us. We had a business model that could support the founding team (we had broken even bootstrapping for the past year) but with the money comes the compulsion to hire and so on. It also put our focus on sales and revenue instead of learning, which caused some short term optimisation (eg. "Let's polish this product we suspect has no future so we can sell it now").

So raising that round was a mistake in terms of that particular business, but it taught me things that are hard to learn without taking investment and, more importantly, convinced me that startups really, truly, honestly do have distinct stages of growth that you can't force your way through.
Not all people "on the streets" are entirely there against their wills. It's not like they're trying to get off the streets every day, and just can't, instead, they're hanging out, talking with their friends, and have, in general, adapted to a new setting.
Samsung already has a mobile OS, called Bada, that they have been shipping for a while now.
words* <- I just saved a few bytes worth of network traffic, and a whole lot of CPU cycles.
I absolutely agree with you. This wasn't my point though. My point was that Person A's 10,000 hours is worth more than Person B's intelligence advantage, not that Person B will not overcome Person A.

You only learn from encountering situations in which learning is necessary. I think the smarter person encounters these learning experiences more quickly, but people don't instantly become great at something.
funny... everyone needs to run out and convert so that the 3 people using py3k can have new packages... doh
Google releases Gmail’s priority inbox secrets
If you leave Google conspiracy theories out of consideration it should be obvious that Opera, Mozilla and the FSF (amongst others in the WebM supporters list: http://www.webmproject.org/about/supporters/) don't actually care about WebM in itself, they support free software/open source/open web friendly, royalty-free formats. But it's not just lack of royalties alone, they have to be useful too, so the more viable in the market the better, given the basic requirements are met.

That's why they supported Theora, and now prioritise WebM, and make clear they're happy to support any new codecs that meet their needs. Examining the new MPEG proposal from their point of view would be interesting.

For example, why is it better than just waiting for MPEG1/2 which already has great free software encoders and is implemented everywhere to fall out of patent coverage. How good can it possibly be if they take an ultra-conservative approach to patents? Better or worse than Theora? When will it be ready? When will hardware support it, if at all? How can they avoid poisonous politics in their "open and inclusive" process if they are at the same time pushing H.264 and H.265 as the (very, very lucrative) present and future of video codecs? Why did it take MPEG so long to do this? How do we know this won't end up like the royalty-free profile of H.264 which they promised but never delivered? Which royalty-free audio codec do they intend to pair it with?

(Another interesting thing to read would be to choose H.264 patents at random and say "Let's just imagine VP8 infringed this. How much worse would the encoder/decoder be if VP8 simply dropped this element?" 10%, 1%, 0.1%, 0.000001%? This blog's analysis in parts seems to suggest that a single blow would kill VP8, in others he more realistically claims that it would require a number of difficult to work around/buy out/invalidate patents before it becomes a complete road block for VP8)
I recently changed our email validation: all I do now is check for the existence of an "@".
From the article: "Parents who don't impose anything on their children, you are blessed." I agree with this, but realize that there is no such thing as a parent who does not impose anything on their children. Creating a child is an imposition.
If you word it like that, yes it sounds silly. If you word it like the truth that a $7 billion company can execute an idea better than the $0 dollar startup in a teenagers bedroom they just ripped off, then Zynga looks like what it really is: an uncreative bootleg factory.

The funny thing is, Zynga can't execute better. Their knock off games usually have inferior graphics and worse gameplay mechanisms, but they can exclusively advertise to everyone on Farmville and make the original developers look like the knock off.
On the other hand, maybe the specification for email addresses is too loose.
Also, you can download the priority inbox PDF here: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
It would be a weak case, as then by definition any trade with a country could be regarded as directly funding its military (and the rest of its state functions).
Is this a wall of shame for the packages in red, or for Python 3 itself?
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Yeah, because 65 bytes is a hell of a thing to waste.
And the reason only 3 people are using py3k is that there are no packages for it...
There is a poll about p3k compatibility on python.org: http://python.org/3kpoll

Django on top, followed by wxpython, scipy and mathplotlib.
well, it's the same with php4 and php5. and php5 has been released in 2004 ...
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According to these: [MPEG](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg) and [MPEG LA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-LA) are not the same organization. Quote "MPEG LA is not affiliated with MPEG, the Moving Picture Experts Group."
Do you mean these were mistakes, or these are correct?
"Wall of Shame"? Really?

As someone who's project appears on this list (and in the WRONG color) all I can say is that I don't think anyone is trying to dis Python 3.x. Support will come when a critical mass of developers are using 3.x. I know it's kind of a chicken and egg problem but this seems to be saying that it's the package developer's fault and I don't really think that's fair or true.
Funny to see zope.interface on that list. I remember back in 2005, when Zope 3 had just been launched, about how everyone who mattered in the Zope world would say things like "only stupid, retrograde people won't switch to Zope3". I guess the stupid people won, because 6 years on Zope is like the Cobol of Python web frameworks. I just hope the same thing won't happen to Python itself.
I really do not get why I need a special day to say I love you. If I wanna say it, I would just go out and say it. If I want to take her out on dinner, I would just take her out of dinner whenever it is convenient for her and not on a day when she would have to wait in long lines just to eat an ice cream.
I would expect NLTK to have a fairly broad user base too, although possibly the community is less likely to be involved in the broader python landscape.
I dunno. I know a guy who bought a list of 750,000 e-mail addresses from a shady source and was dismayed to discover that many of them didn't even have @ signs in them... ;-)
Is it? I was under the impression that there's very few hosts/libraries that don't have PHP5 support now.
Stop with the ad hominems. It is clear you have no clue what you are talking about on this subject.
PHP 5 was still, as much as I can remember, compatible with PHP 4, wasn't it? Anything that worked in PHP 4 worked in PHP 5.
Nokia and Microsoft: good for Finland, risky for Redmond
It's owned by Sony these days so it's most likely to find it's most likely to find its way onto PSP if at all.
Quick, add floating hearts to the laser beams for Valentine's Day! There's your one day virality boost.
I would suggest you start with the core book:

--Agile Web Development with Rails (Fourth Edition)

--Rails Tutorial w. Rails 3 is very good.

--Beginning Rails 3 by Carneiro and Barazi is excellent

--The Rails 3 Way by Fernandez is difficult if not expanding

--Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails by Dix is impressive and thorough

--Rails Antipatterns is a great look at refactoring Ruby

--Refactoring by Fields, Harview, Fowler, Beck is good.

--Metaprogramming in ruby by Perrotta is exciting.

These are specifically Rails 3 (or touch on it).
There are many more great books.

I'm also a large fan of peepcode and expect more rails 3 content coming in the following months (weeks?)

Hartl has created a series of videos worth watching (though I have not bought them yet). But if they are anything like his books then you can expect excellent quality for the price.

My suggestion is to look at supporting technologies while you are learning ruby and rails. Such as Jquery, backbone.js or mustache.js which will give you supporting templates.

Also pick up the rspec book and the git book and try to integrate this into your coding practices.

Goodluck
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This has worked for as long as I can remember.
"Where did I "pretend that we're all equal and everybody is the best?""

You didn't, that was a generalization, an additional message or thought, on top of the reply to your post which was in the 1st paragraph.

"And my argument was not that there aren't "plenty" of people working those kinds of hours"

You said that it was a "sure recipe for burnout", implying (more than that, 'positing' even) that everybody who works those hours will at some point burn out. I disagree. Some will burn out, some (I'd even say the majority but have no numbers to back that up) won't.

"I am simply not convinced that working 80 per week = excellence."

Right, neither am I; actually I'm convinced of the opposite, that 80 hours/week != automatically excellence. I said so, in those words, in my post.

"You're equating hours put in with working harder and smarter."

I explicitly did no such thing. Putting in many hours is just part of it, in addition to working harder and smarter. If somebody wants to excel as a drummer, they'll have to have rhythm, study hard, and practice a lot. Just the first two won't cut it, because there will be somebody out there who will do anything it takes to be the best. When there is a large group of people competing, you cannot let anything slack if you want to be the best, because others will do what you won't. (not you personally, of course, I mean 'someone who wants to be the best).
Other than the Moon landings?
I tend to rely on http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html when coming to validate an email address.

I do often fall into the trap of trusting the framework's built-in email validation to be correct.

Apparently, this is the regex to match RFC2822
(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-][a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-][a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])
Company doesn't have legal obligation to not lie (in most industries anyway).

However everything we humans do has moral implications, and company that lies is clearly behaving in immoral way. Then it's up to a customer to decide based on her morals what is the right approach to dealing with such company.
I'll implement this soon!
There is no doubt that Sarah Lacy is the best writer on the TechCrunch staff. This was an awesome piece which in the old days would have been a magazine cover or a New Yorker Article.
Eat the Future
I believe (though am likely wrong) that the *correction format originated in IRC, where you can't edit text once you've sent it... though I now see s/wrd/word/ quite often too - but that's mainly in technical rooms.
My take on this

http://codemonkeyism.com/6-reasons-why-my-vc-funded-startup-...

1. We didn’t sell anything

2. We didn’t sell anything

3. We didn’t sell anything

4. The market window was not yet open

5. We focused too much on technology

6. We had the wrong business model
A wonderful read, especially the tracing of the mafia lineage to Silicon Graphics.
"extort"? "mafia"? This is not Reddit. Hacker News has generally been a breath of fresh air compared to Reddit, Digg, and so on due to an adult level of discourse. Let's keep it that way.
Then why validate at all? Just send the user an email with an activation link. If it doesn't work and they're still logged into the site (with a limited account), then let them change their email address.
I think pretty much everyone interested in startups knows what "customer development" is by now :)
In a group chat, I seem to be able to edit my previous messages OK - even if someone has replied already and if I've written something else since then.
I think it's not really a chicken and egg problem though.

From a user point of view, using Python 3 looks like giving up on a lot of libraries, which in turn means a lot more work to accomplish the same things. It's a big effort that does not benefit anyone. If switching to a new version of a language makes my life harder, then I will not, especially if working on a startup or a project which is time critical.

On the other hand, this is a work that the developers of the libraries will have to do anyway, sooner or later. Doing it now would benefit a lot of people that would like to use the latest version of Python and now simply cannot afford. So why do not do it? In this case the effort would benefit a lot of people at once, which is the purpose of a library in the first place.
I had the privilege of working with Mike Dailly and Russell Kay (and Dave Jones) last year.

Mike and I (and Bill who did the physics for GTA) made a 3D lemmings-like prototype with 100,000 blue & green zombies in a city-like environment. And a cute tank :)

It started (as Lemmings did) with Mike just fooling about trying to see how many sprites he could get animating on screen at once. He managed 1,000,000 of the original lemmings sprites walking around on modern hardware.

Sigh. Happy days.
The thing with Python is it has very long tail of libraries, like NLTK, OpenCV, openopt, Mayavi etc. who's individual communities might not make up significant portion of the python community, but taken together is probably more significant than that of any single high profile project.
If by academic in nature you mean grounded in reality instead of a bad analogy then yes it is. Now that we've decided not to view the problem through the lens of personal or corporate finance we can look at the problem as it is: macroeconomics.

Luckily, we're in agreement! Yes, inflating away the problem is fraught with peril just as you say. But I will suggest to you that high unemployment is also very perilous. The rule of law beaks down when you have high unemployment for long periods of time. We've seen some instances of that recently…

In a time when private sector is laying off people, should the government also be cutting and reducing the workforce? What should these workers do? Its not like they chose old unneeded jobs: unemployment has been pretty even across industries.

As you know, this policy of belt-tightening is called austerity and the countries trying it aren't doing so great either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity

Perhaps the government should act as a countercyclical balance to the private sector? When the private sector is irresponsible, takes too much risk and blows up, who is there to clean up the mess? The government can't just declare bankruptcy and start over. Perhaps we can view the government as a safety net, giving people jobs when the private sector fails to put them to work? Perhaps we can think of ways to make a robust and diverse private sector instead of one dominated by giant multinational risk-taking, non-competitive lobbyist machines that push risk onto the public and privatize the profits. That's what I want to see... a well regulated market with a diversity of companies trying to get ahead and a government overseeing it without playing favorites. Difficult. Maybe impossible. But that's where I want to go.
Massive index of wordlists.
Ya sorry didn't answer the question correctly. These were the lessons learned of the mistakes.
Deletionism is also one of the major reasons that I only contribute to the Hackety Hack and Shoes articles on Wikipedia, and nothing else. (oh, and I fear the day when I have to try to prove Hackety Hack 'notable.' I'm pretty sure that it isn't by the letter of the law.)

They'd have more help if they didn't go around deleting things.
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In college I never once doubted myself. My father was one of the first people to graduate with a computer science degree. I grew up around computers and I knew from a very young age that that was the path I was going to follow. It wasn't until very recently, a few years after graduation, that I started doubting myself. Is this really the profession for me? I coasted through all my computer science courses but I had some important interviews go wrong and I felt inadequate. I wondered if this is what I wanted after all because I couldn't answer interview questions from Amazon and others. It's not a woman issue, it's just an issue and there is a solution... someone tell me what it is.
How is this 'real-life' Escher waterfall done?
11 comments in 20 minutes across Facebook and Twitter. Pretty good given it's nearly midnight here.
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the startup scene in singapore is beginning to heat up. check out founders institute singapore and jfdi.asia or hackerspace.sg to get a feel for the scene. hope that helps.
I agree. But your point is not at odds with my point. Just taking a macrame class to 'learn about the outside world' is not the most efficient use of time. What I meant was (it was implied my 'with directed effort' sideline) that there are ways to learn about what you need to build from specific focus on those things. You don't have to have family picnics each Sunday to learn how to best design something for 'the outside world'. When you recognize you need to know something for the audience you're building for, you can study that specifically, you don't need the rest.

Of course it's much nicer to go on Sunday picnics and solve cognitive dissonance between 'I want a personal life' and 'I want to be the best at XYZ' by rationalizing it as 'oh but these non-specific activities will make me a more well-rounded person, which will make me better at 'XYZ'. In itself that's OK, humans need such rationalizations otherwise we'd go crazy in no time. BUT, just because we use those rationalizations, that doesn't mean we shouldn't recognize them as such.

So, after this detour ;), my point is: having a family, socializing etc. are not necessary to know what you need to know about the outside world to be the best at anything.