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Don't take this the wrong way but... It's a free market: go ahead and actually do what you advocate. If you succeed, you'll be a role model and people will be inspired by your approach.

As I like to say, entrepreneurs do, everyone else talks about what should be done.
would love to see benchmarks on speed. instrumenting code can significantly slow it down, yet reproducing production errors can be difficult so this would be cool to run all the time....if it weren't significantly slow, possibly via customization.
Hey I really don't know you and I don't want to be personal but it's ideas like this that make me happy that Apple is taking care what comes to the App Store and what not.

You know I really don't understand how someone could enjoy a game which encourages people to throw a 600 dollar device onto a "soft" surface. You how this ends right? Kids want to play this and they will throw the from EVERYWHERE and BOOM you have to buy another 600 dollar phone.

You want to make money? Write something useful.

However I really like that you put the source code on GitHub.
I totally agree! I'd even go one step further and say that you'll be "overworked and underpaid" even at your own start-up.

I just had that. No fun! Right now I am going back to a regular day job. And I'm actually looking forward to it.

I'm still going to work on new projects ... but I'll do that in my spare-time also.
iOS if you intend to make money any time soon. If not, Android is pretty much the only game in town (I don't see WebOS going anywhere any time soon, and unless Microkia launches some seriously badass WM7 phones, I don't see much traction for it either)
For those curious, a Microsoft employee broke down each of the exploits that Stuxnet used at a conference recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwMW6agpTI
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Another risk for Nokia is that this deal doesn't so much change MeeGo's status as keep it the same. I get the impression that MeeGo can remain a "promising", half-finished project indefinitely, for as long as Nokia keeps it in development. The technically accurate name for this state is not 'vaporware' but 'GNOME stew'. :) Perhaps only the raw terror of betting Nokia on MeeGo smartphones could get it to coalesce into a really competitive platform. (Competitive in technical/UI terms, leaving aside other problems like market share.) Or fail to coalesce and be cancelled.

MeeGo's apparently going to see commercial use as a tablet OS, but unless Nokia shakes its apparent attitude that a tablet is a little thing you do with your Linux-based platform when you don't dare to put it on your smartphones then the tablets won't be the crucible that MeeGo apparently needs. (And they aren't likely to do well in the market either.)
I think it would be easier, cheaper, and safer to throw yourself from a plane with the phone in your pocket. You'll get over a minute of freefall from most turbine aircraft.
change game to user jumps or throws self while holding iphone..or would Apple object to user throwing oneself?
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> I'm not sure what other reason there is that Microsoft would have to write checks to Nokia.

Microsoft is already in the habit of paying companies to force their users to use Bing search (see Verizon replacing Google search with Bing on some of their Android phones).

Though for Nokia's sake I hope they're not getting paid per use but per device. Bing's quality outside the US is dreadful, so the vast majority of Nokia's customers are either getting a crappy experience or will somehow need to replace the default search engine.
Questions about IP rights for side projects only becomes an issue if your outside work is traceable to you. There's not much discussion in that thread of flying under the radar.
What do you suppose a decompiled chunk of optimized Haskell would look like?
So I see GoTos in that code. I hope that was the decompiler not the author because thats just sacrilege.
Remnants of a Disappearing UI
They have an extension that gives you a report spam option in search results.

Matt Cutts said somewhere that these do go to people.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/efinmbicabejjhja...
> Everyone would rather work with someone who is likable and competent.

So it would seem, but Sequoia says they make less money working with them than they do with competent jerks.

> In a large company, dabent's "BigCo", as long as you're getting your paycheck, an easy-to-along-with but less competent coworker may be less of an impediment to your ability to do your job than a competent jerk.

The same's true in a small company. And it's easy to overlook the destructiveness of jerks; http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Survi... started as an HBR article as well. So once again, I don't see why investors interests should be different.
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>No. If you are all that and you can PROVE it, colleges are the cheapest way to get educated in that amount of time. You do have to take time to consideration. You dont want to spend a year doing Analysis if you could take the hardcore route in college.

I still disagree that colleges are the cheapest way to get educated in that amount of time. Due to the structure of the curriculum it's impossible to avoid taking in unnecessary amounts of useless information. So I guess agree to disagree in that aspect.

>No. If you are all that and you can PROVE it, colleges are the cheapest way to get educated in that amount of time. You do have to take time to consideration. You dont want to spend a year doing Analysis if you could take the hardcore route in college.

If I wasn't ignorant high school I might agree with you here. I didn't even have the sense to think about proving myself then and now I just don't see the sense in wasting the time to prove to an educational organization that I am worthy when I can just go about making myself worthy on my own and start getting paid.

>You should have looked for schools that had better programs. You should have tried to get some research experience so that you could work on hard problems in those schools. You should have developed a credential and ability that would make the school of your dream fund you without a blink of an eye.

You are absolutely right I should have and wish I did. But again, now that I didn't do that stuff in high school I still feel at this point the best thing to do is cut my losses, stop the inefficiency and the accumulation of debt and start putting those specific skills for which I am most likely to get paid for.
First piece of good news Nokia's gotten all week.
Did you reverse engineer your entities from a database? If not, you should add that as well. That way, if the database changes, you can automate the creation of those entities. I like to follow "don't repeat yourself."
And if it's submitted as an ask, some detail would be great. Why not just submit the link on its own?
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A whole article based on one blurb. That's journalism!
"And then you said … I was late." http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-27-2011/bill-o...
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I had this exact same idea about a year ago, however an iPhone developer friend of mine told me that it would likely be rejected. Glad to see I'm not the only one crazy enough to think of it!

PS - Thanks for sharing your source code!
Yes. And as an avid HP-50g user, I wouldn't have much problem switching everything I do to postfix. After you get used to it, everything is a lot easier.

It is an interesting point the author makes concerning linguistic influence on using infix notation or prefix notation. Aside from grammar, there is really no reason to do things that way.

Consider the following sentences:

"Mix 2 eggs with 1 cup flour" (prefix)

"We ate dinner" (infix)

In both cases, the first step is to fetch the operands, being 2 eggs and 1 cup flour and "we" and dinner. Only after we fetch them can we apply the operator, to mix and to eat. Both of these sentences are carried out in postfix.

That's the way cpu instructions are executed. The read stage comes before the execute stage.
It looks a lot like Forth (a RPN language). Many years ago I worked on a hardware project to build a Forth machine specifically for running ""reversed lisp"".
How is this any different from those sites that scrape content from Stack Overflow and Wikipedia and slap ads on it? I realize that reblogs are a legitimate part of Tumblr, but most blogs create at least some original content.
"Science productivity is nonlinear." - any citations for that?
As much as we like to think journalists are doing public service, they are working for commercial organizations struggling to make money. One aspect of being informed is recognizing that news organizations are companies trying to make money, and those incentives aren't necessarily aligned with fair and balanced reporting. All the 'tiger mom' stuff is a perfect example of this; much of the hoopla surrounding it stems from the inflammatory title that the editor chose for it... definitely sold a lot of papers and a lot of her book.
Why do people think Microsoft has the ability to "inject" their man as CEO into another company? Nokia's board would have chosen and appointed him with full knowledge of his MS past, probably for the sole purpose of getting the deal done with MS.
Who clicks on ads when playing games? I wonder how many of these are accidental click (accidental touches on a phone are a lot easier than accidental mouse clicks).

Does anyone have conversion data on clickthroughs from game ads?
Yes, the Khan Academy IS the Future of Education."

Then:

There are no guarantees, of course.

Maybe, then, it's time to pull back on the hype machine for Khan Academy. I've used it before, and it's wonderful as a student aid, but it basically boils down to free instructional videos. It's a great help, but it's hardly the revolution that the headline makes it out to be.
I really can't express how inspirational Khan is. The way he is able to break down difficult concepts into bite sized chunks is amazing.

It was really inevitable that someone with his abilities would change the way education is delivered by using tools like YouTube. Of course, his teaching style may not be for everyone, but the mere fact that the Khan Academy exists, and is free, gives me great hope for humanity.
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I haven't exactly been as amazed by the Khan Academy as everyone else has. After watching a few videos, I decided that we need to focus more on the material that we are teaching - rather than the methods we go about doing it. They will obviously go hand by hand, but in my opinion the material that we are teaching is our biggest weakness and therefore needs the most reform.

A video that everyone should take the time to watch is Conrad Wolfram's TED talk on teaching students with computers (http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_m...). While we may use computers now to enhance the learning methods, we haven't taken advantage of the content/knowledge computers have and can supply for us. The majority of what is taught in grades K-12 in science and math could be done by a computer in almost no time with increased accuracy. Why wouldn't we take advantage of that?

The gist of Wolfram's talk is that we are teaching students mechanics (which computers can do more efficiently) when we should be teaching them the higher orders of thinking and problem solving.

Against popular belief, concepts can be understood without learning the nitty-gritty mechanics. One could solve a quadratic word problem without solving the quadratic equation themselves, and still understand the problem just as well. Think about it: do you need to learn how the engine of a car works before you can drive it?

While all of this is not entirely relevant to the article, I humbly believe that the future of education should be and will be (if everything goes right) orders of magnitudes higher in efficiency as students will spend more time learning the right material. I'm not sure how much the Khan Academy will play a role in that...
What would be interesting is if Lisp were invented by the Greeks. In Greek (I believe) there is no grammatical ordering. Each part of a sentence is declined according to what part of speech it is. So a noun is formed differently if it's an object or if it's a subject. Verbs are readily identifiable as well. So a sentence can be any of SVO SOV OSV OVS VSO VOS.
I do this. Sometimes I'll take a weekend or evening and just figure out what project I can get completed in that time. Typically they are just small non-commercial things like http://www.foragoodstrftime.com - but having shipped something (actually gotten it out the door and have people using it) always boosts my attitude.
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It's fun to speculate the cultural influence on a programming language design.

There was a story Dijkstra told in his "Discipline of programming" - he gave his students a task where they had to process a set of items or something like that; and most did it in left-to-right order.

The only one to work right-to-left was Syrian or Egyptian - i.e. native Arabic speaker.
The Traffic Bubble: "What ailing AOL bought is vapor"
Sorry, I don't find "The California Fruit Company" to be substantial enough to constitute disparagement or mocking. I think it's cute. That isn't to say that Greenfield doesn't know what he's talking about, but, alone, it's certainly not enough to corroborate the claim, nor to logically lead to the sentiment it apparently stirred within you (as apparent from your comment).
A really great article to have in my head a week away from my first annual review at my current company. Selling myself has never been a strong suit (that whole social awkwardness thing, seemingly common in geeks). Stressing future plans in the context of making the company money, as opposed to just improving my own competencies, seems somewhat obvious upon reading it, but I doubt I would have thought of it.
You can apparently get up to 30 seconds freefall on a big BASE jump: e.g.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6X5tV3bGMc

[I knew I needed an excuse to take up BASE jumping]
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Sure does. Luckily the availability of that program has yet to damage my N900. This can probably be attributed to my good judgment, but not everyone can be assumed to be capable of making good decisions when there are bad options available. A good thing Apple takes care of their mobile phone. Or is it the customer's phone? I'm getting confused.
I said hard work/ambition are necessary, not that they are sufficient.
Thank you for your advice, everyone.
Upvoting turns out to be a political act. Conformity is a powerful pressure on humans beings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
Believing that no one shares your views can dis-empower those views; but seeing that you are not alone, or in the majority can reverse this pressure.

I'm a non-conformist in general, but, as a small illustration, I've noticed that my interpretation of a post/submission can be influenced by how many votes it has.

It certainly opens up the possibility of social sites gaming their votes, for various reasons, and this propaganda would be more effective than outright censorship. It seems likely that the state-approved social sites in China already do this. I don't see any measures to guarantee that the voting scores on reddit, facebook etc. are legitimate, and of course they're not, being easily gamed. But there's also no guarantee against deliberate manipulation - and it seems to be quite common to do so, at least in the early stages of a social site startup.

tl;dr guaranteeing the legitimacy of upvotes on social sites may become more important
Ah, that's a classic approach: no clue, but strong opinions. "goto" hardly qualifies as a sign of bad code; otherwise the Linux kernel would be in a terrible position. If used well, it's a valid solution to many flow-problems.
Always remember that when you need a broad comparison of a field, Wikipedia might have it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_application_development

I've played with many of these Frameworks, just to have a comprehensive unbiased opinion. I also used the pure Android/iOS SDKs too. My suggestion would be to use the pure Android & iOS SDKs to learn. Then use the Airplay SDK ($$), which covers all Smartphones. (<they offer free education licenses)

By the way: You can circumvent the slow Android emulator by using an Android Virtual Machine http://www.android-x86.org/ or the latest AVD Platform target, which supports "snapshots".

Best wishes
I made an iPhone app called "HammerTime!"

Round #1 instructs you to place your phone on a hard surface, find a hammer of any kind, and hit your phone as hard as you can.

Rounds #2 and up instructs you to repeat Round #1.

A permanent blank screen indicates you have won and you may receive a prize (a brand new iPhone!!) if you can convince Apple your phone is malfunctioning because of something they did.
Whether this is true or not, it's a bit nutty to risk the fate of my livelihood on Google ads because Google is saying I "can".

And in other news, my barber always thinks I need a haircut, and my mechanic always finds something wrong with my car that needs to be fixed.
See, I didn't even know that.
petty hatred? Microsoft made a lot of enemies bullying their way to the top. Much of the enmity and fear is well placed. Microsoft acted like Walmart for 15 years destroying their competition and their suppliers. Many remember getting run out of business by these guys. It's not petty, it's payback.
Regarding a disappearing UI: I'm probably not the only one who had to highlight the text to read it. In case the author is here, please reconsider the offwhite-on-white scheme.
Apple to redesign iOS notification system
Revolutions around the World, a data visualization using Raphael
It's reached its download limit! Any chance you know of another mirror out there?
very much needed for the world!
That's awesome. I'll email you as soon as the site is ready (probably in a week or two).
As I'm sure you are aware, it would be extremely difficult to define "science productivity" as an objectively measurable quantity. So no, neither I nor anyone else have citations related to this claim.

My claim is based primarily on inductive reasoning and personal experience. I know quite a few good scientists, none of whom have any semblance of a work life balance. And when I was a scientist, the job was as all consuming as doing a startup.
This just does not happen in the male-oriented world of science in which, traditionally, dogs are keen to dine on dogs rather than share the bone between them, so to speak.

That sounded a little sexist to me, though I wonder if she meant that a woman with two children can't do as much science as a man in the same situation.
That can't be free fall all the way. 30 seconds of free fall on Earth would be a 4410 meter drop, but the mountain in the video is only 2147m high.
The big change for Nokia is not the adoption of WP7 as an OS,it is the adoption of .NET as the development platform of choice - not to mention that Nokia's Symbian emulators already used Windows as the development platform. In .NET Nokia is adopting a development platform which provides tools and standards for integrating handsets, slates, and desktops into the back office and cloud while reducing issues of fragmentation. While Qt held that promise, it was a long way from the maturity (10+ years) that .NET provides.

Adoption of .NET will still allow C++ development for people with those skills and inclinations while not adding any more complexity than exists. More importantly .NET will allow more flexibility going forward - even reusing existing VB code or writing new code in F# or IronPython. Qt was not the future for mobile app development because of the relatively high barrier to entry imposed by C++ for casual app developers and enterprise IT departments.
We Nod While Talking on the Phone. Design For It.
HP 42s user here. A few years ago I went to buy a second one, so went to EBay... they were going for a few hundred dollars. I bought mine for about $90 new. One of the few pieces of electronics that seems to have gone up in price.
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Similar advice is to subdivide a large project into smaller steps, and then celebrate completion of each one. A difficulty is finding subdivisions that can standalone and feel worthwhile in themselves, so their completion feels satisfying. There might not be any, especially for a complex, interdependent project. So this idea of small side-projects is a good one.
Bathroom Scale HD: shows a single footprint; users stand on one foot on their iPad, see their weight.

Lots of opportunity for evolution/addl features: time series, weight by time of day, etc. Just one little problem.
I wonder how this compares with mouse actions/movement.
Yes actually I've pushed changes back at companies like Cingular and AT&T, and semi-large consulting firms like NCS Tech, and others. The HR rep will usually think I'm odd, but it's saved my butt at least once, so it's worth a couple odd looks:)
A lot of these discussions gloss over the fact that engineers can have wildly different personalities and life circumstances. At least in SV where all engineers seem aware of their opportunities to start a business, work at startupco, or work at bigco, they efficiently sort themselves into the buckets they should be in.
If I like your REAL TIME WEB concept, I hire you - 5,000$ to create it.
Tell me who you are, your concept for a REAL TIME WEB website, samples of previous works. If chosen you are hired to create it, pay is 5K for the project.
It is going to happen.

And also we'll see more people asking for changes on appearance than health.
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> Nothing specific to Academia there.

I disagree. Many highly skilled professions (software development, engineering, medicine) offer a sustainable career path for people who don't have the drive, ambition, focus, whatever to play at the top of their respective game. For instance, it's entirely possible to make a decent living as a mid-level engineer who puts in 40 hours a week for 40 years. Similarly, you can reconcile life and job as a doctor by shunning the race to the top and becoming a GP with absolutely acceptable salary. (This is all written from a German/British background -- things might be different in the US, but the point still stands.)

In academia, there's no such thing. It's up or out. Prestigious professorships and research positions pay very well, but there's nothing between that and drowning in a sea of mediocre scientists fighting for a very limited number of government grants and internal funding. In most comparable professions, this woman could have simply accepted her low-trajectory-career and continued while emphasizing kids and private life. As a scientist, you get fired.
That's Einstein's equivalence principle:

"The outcome of any local non-gravitational experiment in a freely falling laboratory is independent of the velocity of the laboratory and its location in spacetime."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
If you don't want an exit, you're not alone. To name just one famous example, Tim O'Reilly has turned down multiple offers over the years to sell O'Reilly for much more money than the company is worth.
And then we could have the usual talks every parents has with each other:

"That ugly nose is your father's"

"Your mother is the one that gave you X disease."
What would you recommend for unstructured searches in .net platform?
A number of human genomes are public domain via the human genome project and 1000 genomes project, etc. The part that needs to be resolved is the bit about genes and disease implications. A recent case overturned Myriad's patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 [1]. On the other hand, I believe it's still OK to patent signatures corresponding to a diagnostic etc (not 100% sure).

1. http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2010/03/30/pigs-f...