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I have seriously done all of the exercises in SICP. I have not worked through all of Knuth. Number 4 is on my to-do list though.

Also, besides myself, Eli Bendersky has. He's written all the answers in an informative blog.
If they had a clue based on modern software practices, they would make it easy to support them.

From the bottom of the AGM questions page:

Who has the right to participate in the AGM 2011 and what is the last day to buy shares if I want the right to attend and vote in the AGM?
Each shareholder, who is registered on April 19, 2011 in the Register of Shareholders of the Company, has the right to participate in the Annual General Meeting. A shareholder, whose shares are registered on his/her Finnish book-entry account, is registered in the Register of Shareholders of the Company. A shareholder, who wishes to participate in the Annual General Meeting, may register for the Meeting by giving a prior notice of participation no later than on April 27, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. (Finnish time) by which time the registration needs to arrive in the Company. - http://www.nokia.com/agm/2011/in-english/questions-and-answe...

Although their plan is not in the list of proposals. How does it work? 1 vote per share or 1 per shareholder? Can I buy 1 share (which stock name on which exchange?) and support them? If not, and only big shareholders count, why the twitter popularity campaign?

What specific goal(s) do they have (how many people, doing what?)
I'd say it's going to be between Rutter and Watson in the end, and between them it's probably a tossup. (Full Disclosure: I voted for Rutter) I just don't see Jennings winning, especially after today. I could be wrong but considering that Jennings has never beaten Rutter and that most of his money today came from buzzing in and only then trying to come up with an answer I don't see him being able to come out ahead. However, I do think that Jennings did the best job of adapting to the machine opponent's weaknesses, as opposed to a human's, by taking advantage of his ability to buzz in before he has a final answer and by starting with higher value question in the categories so who knows what will happen.

Bottom Line: I think Watson and Rutter is an excellent match-up and that the winner will be decided between them by luck as much as anything else. Jennings, with his experience and apparent strategy, should be able to win but since he has never beaten Rutter anytime they faced I don't see him being able to beat both Rutter and the Computer at once. I guess we'll see.
"Tipping a deal" is an artificial constraint. The only thing it does in the model is incentivize customers 1 ~ 10 to bring in customers 11 ~ 200+. You can use any manner of means to prevent deals from failing, from shill-tipping to just out-and-out lying about that artificial constraint actually existing. (The ability to guarantee 200+ customers to the merchant is nice, but you can finesse this by good selection of starting deals or subrosa agreements with the merchant where you either deliver 200 customers or the deal is free and you'll compensate them.)
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You do realize that the reason men no longer do those things is precisely because women changed their role first?

That said, you have a point. Outside of child-bearing (and even there...) marriage seems less and less useful. I don't see this as a bad thing, but YMMV.
If everybody's level is visible then your pay tier is more likely to reflect your value.
Facebook and AdWords Content Network ads to get email submissions. (If you want 10k strong opt-in email lists in each of 10 cities for your early adopter set, that cost cost you $100k by itself. More as GroupOn and competitors grab the low hanging fruit of signups and cheap ad inventory.)
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Jersey Shore Season 3 episode 7 is the last appearance of Sammi as a roommate at the Jersey Shore Season 3 this is. Just to recall the events of Sammi and Ronni, where the Jersey Shore Season 3 weeks yesterday after the fight, the girls along with Sammi went out to release tension.
No kidding, if they could actually head a company like Nokia and create a superior UX then why not go shop your bios around SV looking for some VC to make a mobile OS. Or go shop your resume at Apple / Google / Microsoft. WinPhone 7 is light years ahead of anything I've seen from Nokia.

Their naivety is betrayed when the talk about developing technology in house and then talk about Qt. If Nokia could build their own GUI toolkit they'd have no use for Qt.
To put that in perspective even further, that means Wal-Mart constitutes about 1% of the American workforce.
The name is alright, although personally I pronounce it bvvvkup in my head rather than bee-vee-ckup, but the point is that it's memorable. Explaining it over the phone to someone might be harder.

The logo is a miss though imho, I honestly thought it was an upside A as well. You could probably rectify it without losing the original concept though, for example: http://i.imgur.com/u0z2X.jpg
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Until this, I thought the only painting was on the ceiling. Wow, I need to travel. Was just reading another thread about logo design, and then I look at this..
I was really impressed by Watson. His first choice was the daily double though, so I think he hacked it, haha.
It seemed like for the answers it was very confident on it could react faster than Brad and Ken. It always was the first to buzz in, and jumped to a huge lead. I don't know if that is true, but its pure reaction time may be its winning factor.
Thanks, very much agreed. I think Spotlight on OSX is probably the first place I saw it done really well. I remember on XP I used to use search all the time, but now on OSX I just autocomplete to what I want probably 95% of the time.
Watson will pull it out in Final Jeopardy: name the first billion digits of pi.
Haha, a day after I said, not really, we did get that wave of emails/phone calls. Thanks for the warning!
On the upside, tear up a contract here, a strategic partnership there, and no one would ever want to do business with them again.
"fair shake" - you in Australia?
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Even if the average salary is the same - the two schemes will benefit different people depending on their personality type. What kind of person do you want to attract?
Hi Chris. I must say you are doing exactly what I did 5 years back. I would like to share my experience with you.

Starting up my own company was my dream since my college days but I worked at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. as a SAP ABAP Developer for 2 years after completing my graduation. It was a nice job with smart people around me and interesting work to do, not to forget the high salary SAP consultants get. It was good for 2 years but then I felt my job was dragging me away from my dream. The whole corporate environment started to suck. It was time to leave the shores and get into the deep sea.

I had some good ideas related to web. My plan was to work together with two of my college friends and they both agreed on this thing. I never asked them to quit their jobs but to just work on weekends. One of them backed out at last moment.

Lesson learned - Don't make your plans dependent on others. Make sure you alone can handle it if required.

Its getting long so I will just point out other suggestions I have for you:

1. Have a fail back strategy for everything.

2. Get a co-founder but make sure he is as committed to your idea as you are. Some of them will try to tell you how you need to do something else to get some quick money and then use that for your project. Those people are interested in earning money and not in your idea.

3. Spend as little cash as possible.

4. Focus on only one project - your dream project - as early as possible. Don't waste your time on random projects for learning or to earn quick cash.

5. Choose a technology platform early and stick with it.

6. Release your Version 1.0 as early as possible.

7. Don't work 24/7/365. Its not good in long run. Give 8-12 hours per day and take a day off on Sundays. Important thing is to be consistent.

8. Network with people who can help you - other hackers, designer, entrepreneurs, etc. Use your weekends for this.

9. Stay away from your friends or family members who discourage you. Stay away from their negative energy. However you positive or sure you may be it will affect you. Good thing will be to have a limited contact with such people.

10. Don't get involved in love relationships unless your girlfriend is supportive.

Best of luck.
Do you think that choosing a non-mainstream language is really the result of some sort of counter-culture vibe? Some desire to be different?

Not necessarily, but often so. More specifically, I think it used to signal someone who was more enthusiastic, passionate, engaged -- but now people will use them because they think it signals these things. And I don't think its intentional. But I think a lot like college radio, you see the guy who is leading the crew of outsiders and you see what he listens to. You see a lot of people who are signaling what resonates with you and follow that.

It's odd that C++ is one of the most denigrated languages on the planet -- yet it really does seem like the people I know who most write C++ code still are a lot more hardcore than those I know who do Clojure (and its odd that I may know more people that do Clojure than C++).

To put it another way the people doing the less mainstream languages are often putting themselves in the middle of it... "look at me -- look at the language I'm using". People doing C++ are saying, "look at my code -- look at my app".
The android operating system and UI is a direct ripoff of the iPhone. Before the iPhone was announced, Android was a blackberry styled UI.

Apple contributes very significantly to the open source community. Yet for doing so they are constantly accused of "taking" from the community and never recognized for contributing. For instance, you claim they "took" the kernel, but the reality is the kernel was developed by them based on easrly university research, and they gave the kernel to the community.

Meanwhile, Google steals Apple's work, makes it "open source", steals Sun's work, and you don't care about this theft, because they released it as "open source".

Open source is a two way street, and it is hypocritical to talk about apple "taking" when they've contributed a hell of a lot more than they've received, and then ignore the theft by google, simply because after stealing the goods they "shared" them by making them open source.

This is why I don't contribute to open source project. So many of the advocates of open source disrespect anyone using open source code who also sells proprietary code. (Except google, who gets a pass for some reason)

When the open source community starts giving the respect for rights that they demand from others, then you'll find you get a lot more support.

This is also why Apache 2.0 is on the rise and GPL is in decline, though unfortunately, people seem to steal code from Apache products and then put it in GPL products. (Another example of not respecting the very rights you demand others respect on your code.)
Depending on how Alien Dalvik works out, Meego may be able to take advantage of the existing Android ecosystem, while keeping the really nice bits of Maemo/Meego like telephony/messaging/address book subsystems.
I like to click on links in Wikipedia articles to find out more about things related to the main article. I consider wasting my time harmful.
Meego's got a potential Dalvik port, though I don't think that will quite give it the Android Market, it's a start.
I wouldn't be surprised if Watson couldn't come up with the correct question (answer).

It seems semantic, not computation-based like wolframalpha.
err.. aren't you also proving that Groupon isn't a scaleable business, since it requires an army of salespeople to negotiate deals with retailers, and massage the pricing beforehand.

I've read blogs (Techcrunch & the FDA groupon fail) that say groupon ask retailers to raise prices a month before, so when they offer deals, it appears as though you're getting 50% off, but you're really getting 50% of a product/service that has been marked up 30% a month beforehand. Price msassaging requires direct sales contact, and it'd be hard to automate, since you need sales personnel to follow up.

I'd like to know how EBITDA profitable Groupon is. None of this revenue b.s. It's a meaningless data point, without the context of EBITDA.
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Very good point. I think optimally a really solid autocompleter allows you to bypass search as often as possible, and location awareness is definitely an important part of that.
Silly old bear.
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Nope, it's gone.
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Why Android and not Arm desktop linux (assuming there are some)?
Felix Salmon argues that the stock market disconnected from the real economy some time ago; I think he's right: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/opinion/14Salmon.html
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Tone of voice doesn't translate well into text---I wasn't picking on you. I was just being a nerd.

But just to be irritating, I don't think anyone would've added the alias, as inputting a kanji from an IME is as simple as choosing it from a list---and the one you want (regardless of complexity) is usually the first one on the list. It would make more sense if the language was handwritten. I heard somewhere that Donald Knuth writes his software by hand before inputting it, but I'm pretty sure he's an exception.
Just install Debian. I have been expecting apple to do this for a while. Why pay $125 for an intel cpu when apple can stick a A4 in for $10.75?
No, I live in Nevada. Reno specifically. Is that an Australian thing to say?
part 1 is mostly intro and no play, part 2 for the impatient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFe2pJETNuw
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So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that.

Great movie that I just had to quote. I really hope to visit the chapel someday, and this site only reinforces my desire.
Haha, I'm not really a fan. Not because I'm anti-social, but doing dumb stuff with lots of drunk people doesn't appeal to me. That being said, I do from time to time, since most of my friends are in the Greek system.
Will we actually reduce farm subsidies this time?
This is not true, apparently. Watson gave the same answer as another contestant (Ken).
Haha, I had thought about the course load. It's not really a concern. I'm pretty pro at school. I'd be a professional student if it paid real money.

Although, you're probably right about the business thing being way more than full time. That's something I've been worried about.
Interesting factoid that might affect your voting... anyone know more about how Watson's confidence level factors into its betting?

Watson has an “Achilles heel,” because its betting is restricted to its confidence level, according to “Final Jeopardy,” a book about Watson by technology journalist Stephen Baker. Despite previous reports, Watson actually lost the practice match in January to Jennings in Final Jeopardy, because Jennings had bet aggressively on the Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy, Baker said in an excerpt to final chapter of his book.

source: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBMs-Watson-Ties-...
I would really love to do this, although since I already took some time off of school, this isn't really an option right now :/
Mute button please?
You can get federal parking tickets in the Presidio, BTW.
Dell tried this with the LatitudeON feature which shipped in several variations on Latitude laptops. In their version, turning the ARM OS on automatically hibernated the Windows OS. In any case, for some reason, it has not caught on (Dell has also had trouble meeting shipping dates, as they are using a custom Linux distro from DeviceVM, rather than using Android). I almost bought a new Dell just for that feature, and in polling other business users whose machines had the feature in one form or another, I have yet to find someone actually using it. Poor marketing and perhaps targeted at the wrong market. One challenge is whether to power up the hard drive. If you leave it unpowered and just have the ARM and some RAM, you lose the ability to access data on the hard drive, but powering up the hard drive increases the power load materially.
> Sometimes the breakdown does look disturbingly similar to
> the old traditional gender roles

That seems somewhat inevitable. A lot of those gender roles are there precisely for comparative advantage and "do the thing that annoys you less" reasons. It just happens that statistically fewer men are annoyed by trash (e.g. they never get pregnant, so don't have months-long periods when they just can't deal with it at all), women are better at taking care of infants (e.g. can often feed them more easiy), and so forth. On average, etc. ;)
Can someone give me the TL;DR; on how Watson actually answers questions?
"PBS never plays commercials..."

Have you watched KQED (PBS affiliate in the Bay Area) recently? It's filled with commercials! HHMI, Subaru, etc. Not just static images; video commercials, just like you see in other channels. I wonder what sets PBS apart now (except for the pledge drive) ?
Beautiful. I was only a child when i was in rome (5-6 years old) it's things like this that really make me want to visit again and see this
This article is more about if you were in Groupon's shoes could you have done the following...

Yes. I think I could build my own Groupon... in fact hundreds of people have and many are quite profitable.

Could I build it to scale? Could I build a sustainable business that will be there for the long haul or be significant enough to be acquired? Could I find an untapped niche that the group buying biz model could exploit?

The writer doesn't even list many accomplishments and the barriers to entry that Groupon has created (besides capital and what access to capital buys you i.e. PR, buying competitors, buying super bowl ads.

He should have said... Could you compete against Groupon's salesforce? Could you compete with their ever decreasing cost of customer acquisition? Could you compete with their high gross margins while you are forced to cut your margins to compete?
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The link to part 2 is on the screen, hence I didn't post it. Also, the intro is good for those who don't quite know how Watson "works".
This is a universally bad idea to do, while I sympathize with being screwed by less than savory business people, this kind of action will most likely not result in getting the money owed and can only serve to cause you more problems.

Potential clients are going to be leery of dealing with you if they ever get wind of such a stunt and any legal standing that you had just went out the window.

If this was a final act to try to extract payment, you should know, they are not going to pay. For whatever reason, whether it be that they where unhappy with the results or they where just trying to scam you, they are not going to pay.

They will find another sucker to build it and not pay them as well. Eventually they will get someone who they either like or who they can play hardball with to get the work at a fraction of the price after the fact.

9 times out of 10 these situations result from a newer developer and a client that feels they did not get what they want. If that is the case with your situation, I would use the situation as a learning experience and next time document everything and get client sign-off further demand 50% up front, if they are not willing to meet you half way walk. Many times new freelancer will be afraid to ask for 50% up front for fear of loosing the gig, but working a gig for free is worse than not getting the gig at all.

Finally, while one a moral level I totally agree with your actions, you broke the law and you have ceeded a huge upper-hand to your ex-client. If they so chose to do, they could via the courts force you to hand over the source code and be awarded damages that far exceed the compensation that you would have received. You could end up owing them money if they force the issue and that is just the civil dispute you have also violated some criminal charges that they could pursue if they chose to be dicks about the whole thing. The have a totally separate case for slander as well.

If you want to disabling non-paying customers in the future, you need to specifically set up the contract as a license in which you own the source code and license it to them. Further you cannot access their machines and disable the code, it must call out to a licensing server that you own and operate. You can make ownership of the code transferable upon final payment of the contract but this is the only way to get around civil and criminal charges for disabling a clients software and the disabling has to be performed on a system that you own and operate.
Do you really think that 80% of windows laptops are simply being unused?

It's pretty clear that apple has a majority market share among young urbanites in certain cities. Most cafés around here (vancouver) have a reliable 80% macintosh laptop rate, from my informal experience. It doesn't surprise me that a saturday-night flight inbound to san fran looks similar.

Don't underestimate selection bias.
What are the arguments for webOS being superior on a technical front?
And this doesn't count some of Walmart's main suppliers/logistics providers, like McLane (which is part of Berkshire Hathaway).
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I just walked into my local bar, asked the bartender to switch to channel 7, and voila! There weren't too many people around, but it was fun (and between breaks I chatted with a couple of drunk chicks who were trying to drown their V-Day sorrows in shots of vodka).
I dunno that angelic music really goes with some of the more violent scenes, reminds me of clockwork orange
Aren't stereotypes basically a kind of heuristic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic
Yes. I suppose when it comes down to it I just don't like Java and I especially don't like IDEs. Vive la difference.
It's extremely busy in the chapel and you will have no time to smell anything. The guards will also try to keep the masses moving along, so there is very little left of the serene atmosphere you expect. That being said, it's still very beautiful.
Very interesting to see a budget proposal like this when people like Rand Paul were calling for the dismantlement of the DOE.
Is it bad that I thought "Oh, so you are going to have Google compete twice"? ;)

It would be interesting to feed to clues into Google to see what comes out. There are easy ones like http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=115... but I'm sure there are also some that Google wouldn't have a clue.
I agree on the profit and not on the revenue that matters. But that said, we're talking about Groupon clones here. Groupon itself has proven to gain traction and has made the model work. I'm sure they're profitable. They do have an army of salespeople. While I personally hate that portion of their model, I can't argue they're doing well (figuratively speaking).
That's a lot of cost to eat up.
I was just bitching about experts-exchange last night and wanted this feature. Thanks for sharing.