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Poems Essay
Poems essays are often difficult to write. There are so many elements which need to be considered. These include theme, genre, versification etc. A good poems essay will be one which defines the poem in the most comprehensive manner.
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C/C++ works only for desktop based apps, try to put a C++ app on a webpage.

WebGL yes, for HTML5 aware web browsers and if you want to have your source code open (maybe I'm wrong here, but I've understand that the code will be available just like any JavaScript code on the page source). Maybe in a few years.
A great many people are enthralled with Keynesianism, feel its government's job to create jobs regardless of other consequences, and have put forth policies designed to re-inflate bubbles, such as in housing and autos. And got them passed.

Not to mention the low rates, which will be as successful as they have been in Japan.

Yes, that may be changing and no, they don't call them bubbles, but that is what they are.

And I too will hold my breath to see if they can actually rein in spending. I hope they can. Shopping for a country with a future is a task I'd like to avoid.
I did a B2B startup previously. We went to industry events and conferences and connected with other businesses and contacts. While that is not the only strategy, it is a good one.
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First off, I think it's naive to assume it would be that easy to do as well as Watson. Talk is cheap.

More importantly, though, Watson isn't /really/ about solving Jeopardy. It's a more general AI designed to provide concise answers to arbitrary questions posed in arbitrary natural language. I have absolutely no source for this, but it's probably reasonable to assume that Watson has the most sophisticated understanding of human language of any computer system to date. This is much bigger than a quiz show.
EXACTLY.

That is exactly why I only run Linux based machines and my phone is a Nexus S.

When buy Apple hardware the transaction is more equivalent to a lease rather then a purchase.
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Oh please... emacs and vim are way behind even crappy IDEs let alone solid ones like Netbeans. They lack some basic features that any working programmers cannot be productive without. I'm not talking anything fancy like Intellisense but basic features like syntax highlighting, file browsing , and a decent debugger are missing. I know someone is going to say "oh but you can configure and hack around to get those features", but thing is I don't wanna have to fight with my development environment to get these basic features.
Impressive but in fairness to Intel, that is a 2006 chip they're benchmarking Kal-El against
What is up with that graph?

The vertical scale is - what? "something like overall impacting of computing upon average individuals but can also be seen as an abstraction of other relevant factors such as economic impact."

Are the World Wide Web and cellphones claimed to be transitional technologies? Are their timespans shown to end in 2008?

And the big caption - how are dynamic languages at all related to this pseudo-trend? They would appear to be completely orthogonal. This is unexplained.
> Humans also signal their interest in someone with eye contact and similar body language. Perhaps these are universal — and extraterrestrial — signs of good manners.

That's....nonsense.
Ask HN: Would you fire this developer?
A few months ago, our start-up hired a new developer. Unfortunately, he is not working out. He fits in poorly with the team for two basic reasons:

* He is a weak contributor. He is neither proactive nor especially attentive to detail. He is slow -- slow to understand existing code, slow to write new code, slow to solve problems, slow to get things done. The quality of his work, once complete, is sometimes good, but frequently mediocre.

* He is a poor cultural fit. He does not have a good attitude. He is often negative and complains.

We have tried to coach him on some of these things, and he has gotten a little better over time, but honestly, I think he simply lacks the talent and the right personality for this job. I do not think he would ever sufficiently change or improve.

(For what it is worth, we see this situation as a huge pile of fail on our part. We made a bad hire. We are changing our hiring processes to attempt to avoid making this mistake again.)

It is well known that our company is actively recruiting developers. Were we to terminate this person's employment, it would be clear to everyone that we sought to remove this person in particular.

Is it appropriate to fire a person like this? What is the kindest way to do so?

Note: I am in an at-will employment state.
I'd love to see a revamp of the system though. I've been in countless online courses and the system I saw in 2003 is practically the same system (discussion boards, online quizzes) as I see now (granted, the schools I've been seem to always use the Blackboard system).

I tried out the Knewton system and that was refreshing (the tutor is visible via video feed). It was more interactive and felt less like an online class. That's where these online ventures should try to focus on - try to improve the user experience (this is more directed towards online courses affiliated with schools though, perhaps a self-directed learner might not care about it as much?).
/me sees thread title. has interest. clicks link.

* BAM *

/me runs into paywall.

/me clicks zdean's link instead.

thanks!
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Here is my idea. Develop a social site where users can submit the audio/video/text of their rap and others will rate/review/up-down vote them. You can allow contributors to release their rap as open source or sell them online.

Use FB/Twitter API to add social features and use Youtube API for video.
London authorities plan 'war game' based on Olympic cyber attack scenario
I went looking for the full text of the article, which I couldn't find.

There are some related papers on the Wild Dolphin's Project site by the paper's author:

http://wilddolphinproject.org/dev/index.php?option=com_conte...
I couldn't agree more with the sentiment that this is at least outdated and at most academic BS from people with "PhD's in entrepreneurship" or some such...
What did they fail to disclose?
The government could stop insuring bank deposits and mortgages. If savers and investors truly thought they could lose their capital, they examine risks a lot more carefully.

Life is full of risks and we must consider them. Selecting a group of people who have no financial stake in the outcome to decide what risks should be taken seems unwise. Especially when they can be paid to look the other way.

Sure we can hand our thinking to other people. But that might lead to disaster. Oops.
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I suspect that, like most outrageous things Apple does

1) that we'll all have a big fight

2) Apple will continue with what they're doing for a while while we all get enraged and a bunch of us and the consumers jump platforms.

3) After months of fighting, Apple will relent and put a saner policy in place.

4) All will be right in the world

5) Wash, rinse, repeat.

More likely than not, Apple is probably doing what they do best which is to feel out the upper ceiling of the market, do a credible job of defeating their competition, find out where a comfortable profit can be made, then screw up any path to bigger market share because the margins (and the ability to control the ecosystem) aren't there.
If the sitution is as described then the obvious answer is yes. People don't change, so attitude issues are hard to rectify once the settle (certainly not in the timescale of a young startup).

That said, the big take-away shouldn't just be to change your hiring process but rather to (also) change your management process. I find that staff attitude is set by both sides during the first few months of employment. At that point it "locks in" and is much harder to change later.
Consider acute adjustment disorder if less than 6 mo, if greater, consider untreated depression. Ask him to assess external factors (gf dumped him, dog died, kid diagnosed with something awful (scale of ten, death is an 8), went in debt to move to you?)

If you are transitioning and need to start getting reproducible results from employees, consider getting a psychiatrist or psychologist to help you build profiles for successful and in-trouble employees.
Yeah. Try expressing good manners to fish... It might be a mammalian thing, but I doubt it goes outside that.
But don't forget that a lot of these instruments and strategies were also around in the 1920s. The fallout from the 1929 crash and subsequent depression was many changes in regulation. As these were gradually unwound, the products and strategies came to exist again, with the same consequences.
Via a wine club via a car club. =)

A good friend of mine from AudiWorld / Way0t introduced me to one his friends from one of his wine clubs. Funny how that works.
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I used to use 3banana, thought it was great. One day after updating, the 3banana icon disappeared and was something called Catch. I had no idea what was going on, so quit using it and started using evernote.

But glad to hear the story behind the change and see that are you doing well!
According to http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Watson+computer+Ot..., it's Java.
The best time to fire someone is the first time you think about it.
I find it amusing to think dolphin/human is a prototype for communicating with ET. Seems to me ant/Toyota would be more likely... and we're the ants.
Good. Rhapsody suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuux.
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/30/93252/goldman-sought-t...

Viniar made no mention of Goldman's short bets or the $266 million gain. Instead, he said the market had seen "a little bit of nervousness" but the housing weakness had been "so far largely contained.

The did not disclose material analysis that they where using to hedge the company against mortgage backed securities and explaining to analyst and clients that the losses where "so far largely contained". That is cut and dry fraud. They knew it was not contained and that is why the where bailing as fast as possible.
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I'd look at it this way. If you were hyping a product, but then never showed any working code. It'd be hard to take you seriously.

If you're hyping up a female founders meeting, yet you bring no "working code"(female founders), it's going to be hard to take you seriously.

The same could be said if someone put on an event to encourage "African American startups" and yet when people show up the only people there who were "successful" were white people. It'd piss people off.

If the notice really said "females only", then it should have actually been females only. If it was being hyped by a successful female founder, then perhaps there should have been some female founders there. You need some examples, some role models people can relate to. Male founders, while possibly having good advice, are obviously not female founders.

People say they're disappointed that more women aren't in the tech field, but then they don't actually track down some prime examples of successful females in the field to pick their brains and find out why that might be. Rather silly if you ask me.
That is true. In fact, Chris Welty from the Watson team, who was at RPI, mentioned that there were other non Watson technical problems with the show which added a lot of delay.
We had to do this recently as well. You have to get rid of him. A poor performer in your staff will drag down morale and destroy productivity. Keeping him on will send the message that you don't care about performance.

It is acceptable for you to fire an employee that is not performing at the expected level, in the same way it is acceptable for a new employee to leave after a short period of time if the job doesn't feel like a good fit.

Removing him will assure everyone else at the startup that you care about the quality of people you keep around; it's very hard to be dedicated if you know there are poor performers dragging things down.
There's also Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" coming out soon, wonder what the price would be for that device. With all this new subscription policy mess Apple is making, I'd rather be sure I have a Kindle and an Audible apps and not overpaying for the content, so I'm seriously considering an Android tablet.
This isn't even remotely correct. Both emacs and vim have had those features out of the box for years. Decades, even.
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BitTorrent is to movies what big spoons are to making salad!
Creating and/or controlling things that are scarce is an easy way to make money. It is interesting too see how technology constantly erodes business models based on this concept.
Why is Internet Explorer not available for Mac?
When Safari is available for both Mac and Windows why Internet Explorer is not available on Mac and other platforms?
Yes agree. There are plenty of cultures around the world where making direct eye contact with a 'superior', or someone older than you is disrespectful.
Indigenious people from Arnhem Land Australia will signal their intention to speak with you by standing off to the side of your peripheral vision and then wait for you to approach/invite approach.
Any first year anthropology student knows that human social behavior is never universal...
That's only true if being a large repository of knowledge is all that's required to be an expert. I'd say that it's probably a necessary but not sufficient condition.
These acts of kindness are so touching, it is incredibly how people go out their way to help startups.

You reached out when my friend suddenly and unfortunately became famous over the theft of a certain phone, offering him a job if needed and any other help you could give.

I haven't forgotten it. Good things happen for good people, and many good things are sure to come your way. Thank you.
Glad to see Catch thriving. It has become an app that I cannot live without.

A question though. Catch has no ads in the mobile apps or on the web site, so there isn't any revenue generated there as far as I can tell. The entire product is completely free, the API is free to use, etc. How does a product like this generate revenue?
Documenting their performance is probably key. I don't know about "kindest", but I think this is probably the most professional thing you could do. This way, they have a clear idea of what your expectations were (which you should have communicated at hiring and during reviews) and how they failed to meet those expectations.

I don't know what state you're in, but even in some at-will states, you could be on the hook for wrongful termination...documentation will go a long way in protecting you on this front as well.
…especially since they might not have eyes.
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I held a colour 60Hz electrophoretic display a decade ago (first startup). Electrophoretic displays can go at very fast refresh rates if you just zap them hard enough (i.e. high voltage on the TFT). Without higher voltage they can still run fast but at the expense of losing contrast. You basically have little black and white "balls" (electrophoretic particles) travel up and down in the field (in those little e-ink cells). At conventional voltage the balls won't travel the full distance in a single fast image frame, so you won't get full black or full white. The problem is that people want colour, speed and low power consumption. Those are opposing requirements and E-ink made their bet on power (at the expense of colour and speed).
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I'm really sorry, we could have handled the name change a lot better.

Feel free to email me at aschobel [at] catch.com to share your thoughts.
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In many cases, discovery of emails has shown that workers in the investment community privately believed that investment instruments were trash, while they told clients otherwise. That is fraud. We would know of more such cases if more discovery of company records had been done by government law-enforcement agencies. But unwillingness of those agencies to subpoena relevant records is precisely what the article is about.
It is good for my mother. She fell 37 Windows Updates behind because she canceled them. Chrome is stable and most UI changes are configurable, what's to argue with? Google's disciplined six week cycle[1] is what makes Chrome get better faster. It is good for you, the browser consumer/developer.

1. http://google-chrome-browser.com/how-google-speeds-chrome-re...
I agree with you here, but this doesn't detract from my main original point. All of the things which caused the problem were totally legal at the time they were done. So while side-issues like this are criminal and deserve to be punished, the actual things that caused the problems were completely legal. The Sec investigators couldn't prosecute for melting down the financial system, because it was being done within the law. The law was (and is) wrong, but that doesn't make most people on 'Wall St' criminals.
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Hire slowly, fire quickly.

I don't think it's a matter of if, but a matter of how.
Is it bad that I never realized that anyone thought the site was anything except a joke?
The biggest complainers in all this will be companies like rhapsody who are middlemen.
Unfortunately the first link is to the primary source and the wired article is effectively just reporting on it. It's unfortunate that science is so dependent on (typically poorly done pop-culture) science reporting due to the article submission/publication process.
Ask HN: implementing realtime on iPhone
I'm finding a dearth of clients that talk some sort of push protocol for iOS. I've been implementing my bits with in app routing for APNs but am looking for something more... real (Can't be spamming push notifications when users are out of app, right?)

So far I've only found an iPhone STOMP client here https://github.com/juretta/objc-stomp that I could hook up to something like Orbited, and I would like to get all my options on the table if anyone could help me out.

There's always the option to pick damn near any evented server and fill in the dots client side with something like http://code.google.com/p/cocoaasyncsocket/ , but more un-wheel-reinventing suggestions would be preferable! Thanks
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We are rolling out a premium service in the next few weeks that will give you the ability to attach PDFs and Office docs.

Working on that blog post now, lots of cool new stuff (non-premium) coming.
IE9 isn't even available for Windows XP, I don't think need to say more. IE is a part of Windows, nothing more.
All of his comments in this thread except one were positive at the time he removed them. This is some kind of hissy fit.
People tend to get emotional when they see such despicable behavior with absolutely no consequences.
I'm not a troll, I'm perfectly serious. I am pointing out that Google claims that Dalvik "IS NOT JAVA!!!" which is funny because everybody knows Android runs Java™.

Additionally, the specs are irrelevant when comparing the iPad, which runs C applications, to something that must ram everything through a Java VM. And I mean, irrelevant to geeks, as the platforms are so different that it is impossible to compare them based on specifications. To normal people, the specs are completely, 100%, totally irrelevant, aside from battery life.

The new iteration of Android has some UI tweaks, but it's still awfully busy. It's clearly made for the power user who cares about specs. I mean, yeah, you can see two things at once. Ordinary people will just say "I typed in the wrong window." It seems like an important spec to be able to have an arbitrary number of things going on at once on the device, and their Expose knockoff is, well, an Expose knockoff, but I just wonder if they thought this through all the way, or if they are thinking in a Microsoft sort of way, that one more bullet point on a spec sheet will make that sale.
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Apple updates broken for iOS 3.x devices
It's pretty clear from the article that they fully understand that BitTorrent is a legitimate technology, and that's why they're instead asking for the right to sue people who link to infringing content.
As zdean mentions, document. Take that seriously.

Many positions I've worked in the past had an explicit "probation period" of 3 months. However good your hiring process, sometimes you just get a bad fit. Try really hard to hire well, but be prepared for when it doesn't work. I'm guessing you didn't specify a probation period.

Something I've heard good things about is moving someone into another role rather than fire them. I understand if you don't have that option as a startup. Also, if this person is truly negative then you really don't want them in the company at all. But if the negativity comes from them recognizing their own poor performance then moving them into testing or something may get you a win. This seems tricky, and relies on excellent judgement on your part.
Ah, the rise of the armchair computer scientist. Gentlemen, we have truly arrived.
I think there is a real mistake in all of this discussion in conflating StackOverflow and StackExchange.

What StackOverflow did to Experts-exchange, StackExchange is trying to do to Demand Media/eHow, and they seem to be trying to do it the same way by building a better product and providing better answers.
Thanks for advise.

1. yes, I am aware of COL is much higher. My expectation is that there is more opportunities than in Dallas. Did company has much higher expectation for a person if they need relocate from somewhere else ?

2. I am totally newbie on "startup" thing, worked mostly in stable company for years. After I got know hacker news, I found that I got to try startup, the boring daily job just got crap out of me everyday and I felt I still can do something. When I searched around Dallas area, it is not even you have many choices, it is just you have no choice.

from what I read in hacker news, look like chances are much greater in Bay Area (Sillicon Valley) than anywhere else. If I can find some company can hire and relocate me, I believe that within a year or two, I can have more knowledge on startup and more opportunities to work for one I like.

3. "perm" is just in term that it is not a 3/6-month contractor job. I wish company has 401k/health plan. Did most startup in Bay Area provide such thing or just barebone salary ?
Amazon gives their users free 3g on the device. This is the delivery cost. I think that as a publisher, the easier it is for a customer to visit my store the better, and free 3g sure helps...
Cute, but in Canada a Keg costs way more than $30, more like $150+
If users are truly the losers in this deal, then won't they vote with their wallets?