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This is essential, I've seen way too many designers who couldn't understand the dynamic medium they were designing for (web or desktop), and far more developers who either forewent UX completely, or micro-managed the designer into irrelevance.

There are broad-area programs out there, however they're generally lacking in any functional depth. I graduated in a "marketing communications" program that spanned design, business, marketing and web development. Unfortunately, coming from a semi-autodidactic background I found it to be truly superficial. It was painful to know the proper way to build a site, versus the default dreamweaver snippets taught. The same for design, and I can only assume the business component too. However, the upside is still important: flexibility in approach and thinking, meaning graduates won't think to fix a solution in the only way they were trained (nee: "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)

Blank's recommendation of both broad-area and foundation is better, and could be seen to stem from the "a-words" around here: art school. The broad-area art degree requires the student to learn both a core discipline, along with a wide variety of other art areas.
Actually, I have a counter in doStuff which only executes it once every 10 times. Meh, you got me.
didnt know that people can collaborate in IRC on one document and see real time changes going into a shared piece. The wave bots had also had the ability to collaborate, See http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/2010/01/14/irm10-help-me... of a wave bot helping in a realtime environment to facilitate refrerences for research projects...... I think people that think wave was just a replacement for email, irc twitter are kinda missing the point, and google are largely to blame because that is the way wave was "marketed"[sic]
FYI, at this time we are primarily focused on adding team members from Latin America (for time zone, budget and other considerations).

We have brought on board some great back-end developers, and as I write this, mainly would be interested in adding a front-end developer (Ajax/Python) and a designer (who can go from design to html/css/images, and ideally has some analytical orientation towards a/b testing etc)

Thank you to all who have written to us! We appreciate your time.
The first rule of competitive game playing is that anything in the rules is... game.

If it helps your bruised human ego, another human player could attempt to exploit this exact same weakness.

(I don't know if Watson is programmed to do this or if it is an actual weakness of human players.)
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These benchmarks are misleading.

Looking at the github repo, they're comparing a rails app (full MVC, router, etc) against a node app (regex-based routing) to a snap application, which unless I'm missing something about snap actually seems to be two different applications, one to serve files and one that responds "pong".

Instead of a rails app they should have benchmarked a rack app.
I thought the CSRF was part of it, I really did, here's the extent to which I've been trying to hack this plugin to let me add sites en-mass.

I modified the source code of common.js in the plugin after getting frustrated when not getting results in a less hackish-way.

http://pastebin.com/VbCnk5Et

I now goto google search, search for qwerty, click 'block en.wikipedia.com', and even though I've hard-coded the CAD= value to .asdf.com, my block filter still ends up blocking wikipedia, not asdf.com.

I was confused, so I tossed in a URL alert, which confirmed the URL modification had taken place.

Then I opened wireshark and watched the HTTP stream to google, which also contained a request and response.

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pwVmiLM3

Basically, something else is going on here. The CSRF may be a UUID.
Going the Sci-Fi route, I would love this technology to expand and become an interactive Wikipedia. How cool would it be to go to your local library, (you remember those?) and ask it a series of questions and get answers.

But thinking about how quickly archaic the library is turning into these days, I see it going this route: You call this service from your computer or phone and ask it anything. But by then Goggle will already have that feature. Google AI (Beta)
I believe that it learns from the correct answers. i.e. once the question is complete, it can use the known correct answer in its analysis. But it can't "hear" anything.
It would be nice though for the Intel CPU to be some place other than my lap, so the thing in my lap did not get as hot.
"Make a DIY Science effort[1]" might have worked.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/3wh/science_do_it_yourself/
But will the Economist, the Financial Times, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu pass up on the large amount of iOS users out there? They could easily make up losses with new users. (Higher volume of users, Easier billing system, more user friendly,etc etc)
Ballsy move. Is it even enforceable? Prices for content can legitimately fluctuate on a day by day basis. They have enough trouble with the app review team, is there now going to be a team devoted to making sure no one undercuts them?
Can you setup the CouchDB on the phone to do continuous replication of the CouchApp from an online source (CouchBase or Cloudant)?
When I was in Japan, it was common for the married guys to buy the single guys lunch. The single guys would then repay the married guys in beer later. Lunch came off the paycheque automatically before the wife got the money, whereas beer came out of the allowance.
By "being there" you mean, having the data that enables one click payments from a mobile phone - that in itself, is a huge deal.

I think 30% isn't ridiculous for handling payments on a mobile device.

I remember asking an FT guy if he felt it was a good deal, and he said 30% was good compared to some carriers in the olden days...
I was at an event at MIT with one of Watson's designers as I watched the show. I asked him about the 20s thing, and he said they talked about it when they were designing Watson but they figured the scenario wouldn't happen where another contestant gave the wrong answer and Watson gave the same-but-different wrong answer. Edge case!
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I thought Watson was searching for the daily double spot to jump ahead $1000 right away.
yep, they will.
This was extracted from the just-released supplier responsibility report http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_...

The report seems to have some more specific details this year. I would give them good marks for the work on improving the program and making the report readable and informative. It makes me hopeful for good progress in the years to come.
It's a feedback loop.
How much of subscriber revenue goes out to shipping magazines and newspapers to people's doors and stores?

In comparison, 30% may not be that big of a deal, especially when you can reach a global audience.
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Interesting thinking, but no matter how well intentioned, I can't get Einstein's quote out of my head:

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

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. Every time I return to my alma mater to discuss my business with my professors, I come away with the same reaction, "They just don't get it." It's hard to understand that which you have never done.

Formal education doesn't need to improve it's delivery of theory, it needs to combine it with real-world practice before graduation. A single internship usually trumps all curriculum gyrations.

Two years of theory followed by two years of practice backed by theory would make a much more effective B.S. Are there any educator's that think outside the box enough to make that happen?
They say that Watson has no "ears or eyes". So I assume it's not aware what others answer in real-time, hence that mistake. Were it not for this trivial mistake, Watson could be winning!
Voting against deletion means nothing without some reasoning.
Why did Rupert Murdoch decide to launch on the iPad then? The fact is the majority of tablet users right now are iPad users and iPad users are far more likely to pay for premium content.
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Dashboards are awesome. That said I think they can easily become a glitter project that detracts from more critical work. Shell scripts, cron+email, or a bare-bones web page can all be cheaper alternatives and are quite useful.
Which came first though, saying March 12 (or 12th?) or writing 3/12? I'd say 12th of March, but I'm in the UK.
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I'm curious as to why you wrote your own containers instead of using the C++ Standard Library, Boost, EASTL or any of the other existing container libraries. Care to elaborate? Eg, if performance or fine-grained control over memory is an issue, take a look at EASTL, which EA use in their games (and is designed to be suitable for both PC's and consoles). They are also extremely stable and well tested.

I've never tried to find C++ programmers on the market, but I do seem to come accross fewer and fewer C++ programmers now. I use a lot of C++ myself (amongst other languages, including Clojure, Java, Python and recently SML). I think having learnt it long before becoming a professional programmer may have given me a kind of attachment to it, but I actually enjoy using it (most of the time, I do often wish it did things differently or supported features I see in languages like ML or Lisp derivitives).

As for your interview question, the first seems almost trivial. The second, an intrusive stack, isn't very hard either [1]. I'm surprised that most applicants have trouble with them!

[1] Heres one I slapped together in ~5 minutes (no comments, only tested by running that code, etc etc): https://gist.github.com/827619
The trend of focused education has arisen in tandem with ever increasing numbers of people entering the workforce. In that light, it's hard to argue that specialization isn't hard - not only is it difficult to train people to be generalists, it's also difficult to hire them, and why bother if you're just looking for a disposable entry level warm-body? The kind of general savvy required to interact well with across disciplines isn't that hard to cultivate, and many top schools do, but it's probably not feasible for the sort that attend trade schools like the one mentioned.

Not only would this be a strained approach for most students at such a school, but it would detract from the number one goal of trade schools: providing students with skills that can immediately secure a job. As mentioned earlier, generalists are more difficult to hire... giving a solid credential indicating that someone has base level design skills is much easier for the graduate to sell than "Sure, I can do design a fabric for you. Then I can market it and set up logistical channels to get worldwide distribution and ... all based on my time at X university!"
hmm, I dont get it.
Counterpoint: Teaching yourself how to become a domain expert is a life-skill of the 21st century. Colleges should teach you how to become a domain expert by teaching you the skills to do so, and giving you the opportunity to do so in a specific domain.

"I'm good at collaborating but can't actually make anything" seems to be the result of the system Blank discussed. You just can't replace 3 years of domain expertise building with 1.5 and assume nothing will change.

Expect for the occasional project/elective during undergrad, I would leave the learning of how to collaborate to post-collegiate studies. Learning how to learn is the goal of college.
This is less friendly in the sense that it explicitly forbids the 43% Apple-racket-cancellation markup.
FWIW, we have followed along this move at Etsy, where we've been using this CI server for many months now.

We started out with Hudson, but after observing the unethical shenanigans from Oracle (particularly the erasure of the author's contributions from their wiki), we moved to Jenkins.
I think this is precisely the thing about AI which makes it so interesting. An intelligence which is not a mere emulation of the human will be alien, and through its strangeness we can learn more both our limitations, as well as complement our own abilities.
You are talking about Objective-C.
Note that for many of us human males, it takes a huge effort to avoid seeming needy, predict our significant other's desires, and act to fulfill those desires in a dominant and take-charge kind of way. It's quite a bit harder than making an effort and showing it.
"Apple claims 30% just for being there."

They created the iPad, they created the App Store. Where was the NYT et al when the canvas was blank?

Also what is the cost for digital delivery versus print? And all publishers surely can have a web based subscription service if they desired - fully accessible from any iOS browser or other smartphone.
I like the general site design, but they could have spent more time on the blog:

http://cosupport.us/blog

YIKES.
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Strongly advise against the Makerbot products. They cause the highest amount of headaches and are riding on mindshare and marketing rather than quality. Have a look at http://repraplogphase.blogspot.com/2011/01/death-of-sub-1000... for how it came to be this way.
It will probably depend on what the definition of "publisher" so only time will tell. The following seems like it could cover a large swath of things depending on that definition:

"In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app."
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(a) Pretty sure there really is a Sarah Hatter.

(b) 37signals has a support team consisting of at least four actual real people: http://smiley.37signals.com/ (I'm not sure DHH counts as actual real people).

(c) Sarah Hatter can do whatever she wants without somehow contradicting 37signals. She's ventured off into her own thing. She can even write --- gasp --- Python code if she likes.
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Wow, big move by Apple. While on the one hand I'm glad for there to be this subscription service the real hand grenade they tossed out was this (emphasis added):

> Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less

Can you see Amazon handing over 30% of Kindle sales to Apple? I can't. Affiliate commissions are typically what? 4-10%?

Unfortunately Apple doesn't have a lot of room to move here either as having a retail channel for iTunes vouchers (which is incredibly important for them) means maintaining a margin of at least 20% I would guess.

All I know is that if I lose my Kindle app on my iPad that's going to be a huge problem.
I struggled to take it seriously at all after the following sentence.

"They are abetted by a handful of law professors and other experts who have made careers of fashioning counterintuitive arguments holding that copyright impedes creativity and progress."
When you market to 100M+ people, you can find 50K-100K people to love almost any product. That does not make the product good nor a success for the company that created it.
C++ Standard Library and Boost are of very high quality. It's quite tough to beat them.
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I encourage you to marry. If you find a good wife, you will be happy. If not, you will become a philosopher.

-- Socrates
"Paypal doesn't work in India" statement is not fair. RBI has several guidelines for online transactions of money. It wants to be able to regulate all services that take money out of and put money into the country. Unfortunately, Paypal doesn't want to be regulated by any country but US. You're acting like a bank, and walking like a bank, only online, be prepared to be regulated like a bank. Paypal made a choice that it doesn't want to be a bank. It's not really RBI's fault, while I do think that they have think of some other solution to make people's live easier to accept/transfer money online.
Ha, I actually looked through the SERPs that Google Scholar gave me listing 33 citations - 18 were obvious false positives. The other listings appeared a priori not to be a completely different field of discourse (though several looked very dubious from the titles.

I've also now reviewed the AfD comments. It seems that no reason was given for why Alice ML was notable beyond it's inclusion and reference in other articles. The proposer was clearly knowledgable about the subject and had reviewed the available literature. The deletion consideration seemed logical and well founded. The failure if there was one was there not being someone else who knew the subject matter and could provide a good reason for inclusion.
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About constructor/destructor: in C++ you call allocate object on the stack, destructor will be called when you get outside the scope of the variable. That feature, dumbed RAII in C++ lingo, may be the simple GC your looking for : no explicit delete, good locality of the destruction. It also allow correct handling of exception.
Wave was an amazing product and set of technologies.

It was a release and marketing failure. Should have been in the Google incubator at least another 6 months before Alpha/Beta, and shouldn't have made the huge mistake of releasing a product to users with limited invites when the entire purpose is collaboration. And that's what the focus of its marketing should have been: collaboration. Group chat, forums, and wikis, here's your replacement. Planning a trip or party? Use Wave instead of Gmail. That's all it needed. Geeks want to hear about the cool technology in it, everyone else just wants to know what the hell am I going to use this for.
I think C# really exhibits this. Almost everyone starts (and stays with) Visual Studio, which has extensive auto-completion, meaning if you ever use a plain text editor, it's startling how little of the library you have in your fingertips.
I am a bit confused - is kindle ebook considered a subscription?
I'm sorry if I don’t understand this but when I quickly glanced at the site I'm lost as to what value its providing. What’s wrong with facebooks friend suggestion? Maybe a different strategy should be put in place to educate people, from the beginning, with what service is actually being provided. I see a facebook logo on the site and ultimately I assumed this was going to do something that facebook can already do.

After going back I saw a small link next to send "How it works" but that was to little to late. I only inspected the website again to see if I was missing something because im leaving a comment, otherwise I would have never came back.
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It's amazing how much ROI you can get from things like that. I lived in utter peace, harmony, and sanitation with 2 roommates for a while, and the $90 we paid to have a maid come by every two weeks and clean the townhouse was money well spent.
So do we think this applies the killer 30% take to ebook competitors like Amazon and B&N? The only clause that appears to relate to them is "In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app."

That's the only place where "content" is mentioned as opposed to "subscriptions."

Because of the "same or better offer" clause, not to mention agency pricing agreements from major book publishers, it is not possible for anyone but Apple to sell ebooks on iOS if those terms are applied to the ebook reader apps.
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For another fun scale-comparing trick, if you had a model of the whole visible universe, somehow flattened into 2D, with the distance between Sol and Alpha Centauri being around a millimeter, you should be able to fit the whole thing on a half of the Earth's surface.

With the Sweden Solar System scale, Alpha Centauri would be around five times the distance to the Moon out, so there's still a bit of a hurdle visualizing how the two scales fit together.
I strongly reject the idea that object orientation hasn't provided a big boost to programmer productivity. In my view, it's enabled building systems that are orders of magnitude larger and more complex because of the discipline it enforces in modularity and the discoverability it lends to APIs.

I mean, do you remember the C written in the 80s? Often, the only unit of modularity in common use was the translation unit, with static globals used freely, structures with no visibility protection, having their inner guts manipulated by different modules, frequently by manually tweaking the pointers etc.? If you had an API that protected structural guts, you were almost always essentially programming to an object oriented style, only with no help from the language and compiler.
How Ironic indeed.

Oracle insist that the hosting must be on java.net.
Sonatype state that it's 'standard practice' to host on a 'blessed' repository.

Short memories indeed.
What are you doing, if I may ask?

I've recently dipped my tail into writing Android applications, and I've been shocked at how my existing (business) clients jumped on them. Now I'm developing a web app / mobile app combination to see if I can generalize it.

I feel that by comparison B2C mobile apps are infinitely more risky (if more scalable), and don't really understand why everybody is so set on them...
You really can't talk about dashboards without talking about the Open Source Business Intelligence Reporting Suite that http://jaspersoft.com (http://jasperforge.com) offers.
Wow, the bad press really got to Oracle. I'm impressed. Anyway, they have proven to be unreliable and have shown a very dangerous view of Open Source.

I hope this turns out well for the original contributors, but I'm afraid that months from now "the regular folk" will have forgotten this quarrel and chose the proven name Hudson over Jenkins. I will do my best to prevent this in my wider network.
He did specify at the launch that he thought this 30% would be negotiable after a year. Should be an interesting conversation when it happens.
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In my previous company we experimented with "promiscuous pairing". The idea is that you swap partners every hour and a half or so. You would spend 2 time slots on each partnership, in the first you were the beginner, the second the teacher. We found this had a profound effect on both morale and velocity. We'd already beenp pairing up until this point but the partnerships tended to last for as long as it took to implement a story. In practice there were favoured partnerships and differences of opinion that had become engrained. By swapping partnerships frequently there was always someone in beginners mind. Because the top level business case was always the first thing people asked it forced people to justify every decision in that context. We found this prevented people from going down "rabbit holes" which in turn led to the dramatic increase in velocity. There's obviously other benefits such as knowledge sharing e.g. a new key shortcus would be found and round the team within hours.

If you want to know more about promiscuous programming and the beginners mind I recommend taking a look at http://mitchlacey.com/docs/XR4PromiscuousPairingandBeginners....
Finnish Solar Model
http://www.ursa.fi/ursa/aurinkokuntamalli/eng/

I visited all the inner planets recently by biking around the city.
How is it "unraveling"?