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When I got my bachelor's degree (Caltech, class of '82) they didn't offer an undergraduate CS degree. They had pretty much all of the normal undergraduate CS courses, but only offered masters and PhD degrees.

Most undergraduates who would have majored in CS if it had been offered went for math or physics, and then took all the undergraduate CS courses too.
Sharecropping is pretty rough, isn't it.
Any particular reason you haven't turned this into a startup?
Interns.
Actually, UIMA was used to train Watson (https://cwiki.apache.org/UIMA/powered-by-apache-uima.html).

You are right that UIMA isn't needed, but some kind of tool for importing unstructured or semi-structured data is required.
Startups are like love affairs.
That might have been the way to do it, but I started in Sphinx and 'tis done
It is sad to see some areas where people on average are doing significantly worse than the richest parts of the United States.

However, I find the choice of the term 'Third World America' to be particularly deceiving. Let's take Louisiana, for example, marked as amongst the worst regions according to the infographic. Median earnings are 28,000 and about 75% with at least high school education.

Now let's compare against Mexico's average. Mexico is not nearly as bad as other third world countries. Average earnings are about 7,000 USD/year [1] (and median earning is probably worse). Roughly have of Mexicans haven't completed their junior high school education (6th to 9th). These are national averages, though, which --unlike the infographic -- do not focus only on the poorest areas. The poorest areas are, of course, much worse.

I'm not trying to say with this that you shouldn't complain if others have it worse. I am just saying that this particular choice of wording is not realistic and, in my mind, took away from the credibility of the rest of the site .

[1] http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/12/07/index.php?section=econ...
[2] http://simposio.asu.edu/2004/docs/mesas/2/suarez.pdf
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Hmm, somehow I hadn't heard of notifo. Thanks for the post here which made me go look it up, looks interesting
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I know this may sound as if I'm just trying to make a dirty joke, but I am being sincere. To me, the domain reads, "pee 2 poo dot org" Yes it's a short domain, but is it a good branding choice?

I see you work at Twilio, so if you aren't involved with P2PU, that's cool.
On the upside, you know the target audience to whom you can flip the domain, now.
Github just threw 20 repos my way for my students to use for class projects. It was totally painless and I'm extremely happy.
That sounds reasonable. I guess we'll know in a few years! :)
So if windows systems are unreliable it's windows fault, and if other OSs are unreliable it's also windows fault?
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Third World was a Cold War era term meaning countries not aligned with NATO or the Soviet Block. I wonder how all those countries feel about the term being used as a pejorative.

That aside, the biggest failing I see is that the average earnings don't seem to be adjusted for the cost of living.
They've been doing this less formally for a while. Last semester I sent them an email and within a day or so had a free private repository for a school project. It's both a great service and a smart financial move; the type of person who is likely to request a free student repository is extremely likely to do paid business with them in the future (i.e. after graduation).
I still don't think you're seeing what I'm saying.

I used to get stressed about time sheets, same as you. Then I had a manager who told me what they were really for. Since then I always put in the stock work week, broken down how ever it is supposed to be broken down. Regardless of what I actually work. I keep my real hours in a personal spread sheet so I know how much time I'm over or under and actually work from that.

As a side note, this extra time you're working is just time thrown in the trash. No one is going to thank you for it and if everyone else is doing the same thing you wont even get any kind of promotion for it since it's not "above and beyond". I know, I used to work 60+ hours for a company. Up until the day they laid me off.
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Just imagine that all of the above were owned by the same company/government, without any real competition.
Although your app was an awesome piece of tech, did it come to your mind that they may have disabled it only because it's slightly disrespectful towards people? I mean there are real people behind every FB face, and a breakup can be sad or painful. Maybe for an undetermined percentage of the population, the effect of breakup notifier may be like a knife in the chest?
You're just trying to get me into a semantics battle so you can find some slight difference in my understanding of a word and the text book definition. What is the point of such conversations? Do you dispute that health care cannot function properly in a laissez faire system for the reasons I have mentioned so far?
An apartment I lived in had a similar system. I noticed that the caller ID showed what appeared to be a valid number. So one day I tried calling it while at the door... when it started ringing, I started hitting buttons on the keypad (on the door) and when I hit the # key (or maybe it was *), it picked up. I was then able to dial 9 from my phone, and it let me in.

I no longer live there, and don't have access to an apartment that has one. I'd be interested to see if that works on other systems. If anyone wants to try, let me know if it does.
It looks like they have a great brand either because they raised a lot of money or they are backed by a famous VC. It does not seem to be because of the product.

If the merger offer is not confidential then you can take it to investors. In this active fund-raising market with great technology, an offer from a very well known company and a market whose size has been validated by the number of competitors and the funding of other companies can only be attractive to other investors as well.

If you have the apetite for risk then it would be very well worth taking a swing in this case.
Why was the developer's personal account disabled?

How is the developer supposed to contact Facebook via a disabled user account?
I think you are right about std::set or std::map.

I was looking for standard tree algorithms like AVL trees, splay trees, etc. and graph algorithms like shortest path, minimum spanning trees, etc.
I love what you did with this and i will definitely play around with it. This functionality should really be built into the browser in my opinion. I was thinking, for performance reasons, did you try ditching the $(window).scroll and go with this? http://jsbin.com/eciwu4/edit
It would be great if Hummingbird offered a way to track API requests we get. Obviously, a transparent gif won't work for that...
This is probably because broken stuff gets fixed. Mediocre stuff limps on forever.
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The better analogy would be: if you business depends on Delta Airlines you should have a good chat with other Airlines to expand your business. It' s a common pattern in the non-virtual world that dependency on one exclusive channel/customer (Ask textile producers in Pakistan about IKEA) is prone to fail.

And indeed, if your business depends on airfreight you will also be strongly coupled to the destiny of that part of the industry. There's no need to develop your own oil well, but to have a vision about alternatives is a good thing in that case. Branson's Virgin sells records. And airtravel. And Mobiles. Would he have survived by betting exclusively on Sony MiniDisc ?
I had a similar question. I had planned on registering a domain name a week back for a webapp/blog that we were developing, which at that point was available, however as of now, the domain.com is gone. It was registered yesterday. Should I settle for that domain.net/org or go with something like theDomain.com ? Are there any implications ?
Indeed you're right. There is also Flex SDK, however most beginners don't know that, and think they need Flash Pro or Flash Builder to get started.
Well, that kind of ruins the fun.
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No, those were "nonaligned". Third World used to describe what's left if you remove the developed capitalist countries and the European socialist countries.
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The account was not disabled.

I am not going to go into specific details of what our system does, but we require that the developer verify their identity when we take a policy action on an app.

We do this to ensure that the account wasn't compromised (which could have led to the behavior our system detected).

If you have ever forgotten your Facebook password, it is a similar flow.

We communicate with the developer over their alternative email in these cases.
Do you have a citation for that? I worked for a pretty big American firm in Bangalore, and the execs were always complaining to us about attrition in India.
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You're talking about the blogging platform, right?
The same happens from google. Sometimes they come from google groups, sometimes their blog, etc.
However I am not sure this is that much of a deal. Unless you are on a mobile device, its pretty simple to close a tab you didn't want.
Numbers can be deceiving. It might not seem like there'd be much difference between 99%, 99.9%, or 99.99%, but there most definitely is -- the same difference as between 1%, 0.1%, and 0.01%.
Mapping degree equalities to that categories isn't always easy. We've had quite some changes in the European Union (i.e. the old "Diploma" vs. Bachelor/Master).
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I'll second this and just add:

1. Universities often have good coders willing to work part-time (but you may have to pay). Also, try the HN co-founder spreadsheet:
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0AgCvDTyBjHdOdDFfMENqeWVGNVFx... =name&layout=list&num=50

2. If you're not technical, you're fucked. You can't really know. If they like math or know (relatively) obscure languages like Python and Haskell, you're in luck. This is one of the hardest obstacles you'll face (with other being if they have your level of passion and commitment to the project.)

3. You can't; don't try. Creating something compelling is not about programming it. It's a thousand things and most of them are conceived/created as you're doing it. In other words, at the beginning there's almost nothing to steal, despite how it feels.

4. A good technical co-founder is worth their weight in uranium. Those that have doubted this are those that have had to learn the hard way. If you go 50/50, be prepared to do a ton of work in bus. dev. to compensate.
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I suggest that on your introductory video, you remove the music. It's distracting, and made it a lot harder for me to understand what you were saying.
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I used this last year, they gave me an org and private repos for the student projects without any fuzz, it was really cool to teach a course with that and we open sourced the projects afterwards (it's in spanish, though) : https://github.com/progra4

I'll definitely use it again, the students learned a lot about project management and distributed version control systems, which is something that isn't being taught as it should, at least not where I went to college.
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I've worked for a large US consulting company together with the deliverycenters in Manila and Bangalore. The main prominent characteristic of the eastern workstyle seems to me to be discipline.

I'm used from my western colleagues to a lot of discussions on "how"s and "why"s (which I think to be necessary, for the record) but which is absent in the coding practices of my eastern colleagues. They will usually follow a middle road which leads quickly to a usable result
Hi Kent,

I wanted to reply to your comment...

How do I apply the theory of latency-oriented engineering to the following real world problem? I have an idea for a book that might be called “Simple Code". It presents a decision-language to help software engineers make good design decisions. My idea is in the very beginning stages (4 days in) so it is vague; but it would incorporate XP theories and practices, especially TDD. The set of rules in the decision-language might be similar to rules in a game. I’m not sure if this “idea” of mine is a book at all. It might be a web-based tool for searching "reliable" sources or it might simply be a new language. The project is going to be my first attempt at merging my art with my software engineering skills. Whatever form it takes, it will be inspired by art, nature, and minimalism. If it's a book, it will be small enough to read in bed.
How would I use latency-oriented engineering to minimize the loop from idea to learning to feedback from real users?
How much of this project do I have to imagine/articulate/build in order to get feedback from real users?
How do I get that feedback?
Also, how do I justify the expense, i.e. the time needed to complete one loop, to my investors (my husband)?

Thanks.
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Why not? Your API can make HTTP requests to the URL of the transparent gif. And if that doesn't do what you want it to do, it's open source so you can make it do so. Or write to the same database with your API and just use the code for visualization.
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The problem is that timesheets are answering the wrong question for you. You want to know whether your employees are working or goofing off, and you want to know how long projects take. You should be able to tell that from the results of the project, not the hours. If you have two employees, one of whom works great only in short bursts after long games of ping-pong, and another that works slowly and steadily, and they both finish identical projects in two days, your business only needs to know that projects like that will take two days. If you then ask the employees to enter timesheets, you'll lose goodwill of the ping-pong player for no good reason.
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I just sent something to them regarding this as a student. I planned on using github this semester but I'm worried about having my code copied. I'm assuming they provide private repos for students? I'm not sure how successful I'd be getting professors to use github if they already have their own process. But I'd like my code in source control even if I end up submitting the final product some other way.
Yeah, they did this for CS210 at Stanford last year - nice to know the process is formalized now. Thanks GitHub!
Scratching my head. What is the difference between not aligned and nonaligned in this context?
I have something different to offer. Would you offer your help if I can convince you of that?
"Nonaligned" is an actual name used by a group of countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aligned_movement
I think you've fairly accurate described the majority of irc channels related to programming.

I've been running #winapi on freenode for over 6 years (writing windows programs used to be the way to impress your friends before making websites or apps became all the rage).

The only generalization I would make is that people on IRC are just the same programmers you see at work. There are experts (but they don't consider themselves experts), there are beginners, but it's mostly just people working and listening in on anything interesting or to ask a question here and there.
They do provide private repos, that's seems to be the idea of offering this alternative to students, instead of expecting them to buy personal plans.
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Well, for what it's worth, airlines do engage in quite a bit of commodity price collaring in order to ensure that fuel price fluctuations don't totally destroy their business model. This is in some respects de-leveraging at least as far as this conversation is concerned :)
Some of it is that roughly 15% of the total population are in rural areas where the primary jobs available are in mining, or agriculture. Illegal immigrants make up a significant portion of the total population according to the latest numbers released by ICE. The number one industry in Nevada is tourism followed by mining. You don't need a highly skilled labor pool to fill a significant percentage of those jobs. The education budget has historically been dependent on revenues from the gaming (gambling) industry. You can guess where Nevada falls on education spending, graduation rates etc. Nevada ranks poorly in every social spending category so it's not just education that suffers. Poverty is also a huge issue, over 50% of the students in Washoe County live at or below the poverty line for example.
While I'm sympathetic to that being your first parsing, it certainly seems a bit off to me.

For example, if you pressed a button saying "Make myran a Cake" you probably would expect it to give you a cake.

If it made you INTO a cake, you'd probably be in tiers. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
I guess this is a joke; but in case it isn't, this is what I'm getting when visiting the website:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5131/5472866239_05117cc8a4_b....

Hey, what can I say, if it works out for you ... :)

EDIT - I guess I'm upsetting people :)

I've got nothing against PHP or other technologies. If it works out for you that's fine.

But a big error stacktrace on an article that tries to explain your decision, coming from that same platform you've chosen, giving away the directory structure of your website and even some implementation details?

Come on, that's like a security consultant getting hacked :-) At least put a custom HTTP 500 handler in Apache through the ErrorDocument directive. How hard is that?
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Renaming this to "We stick with PHP because it's what we know" would eliminate the need for most of the post. I'm not saying it isn't a valid point, I'm just giving a TL;DR.

The other two, less emphasized, points are: it isn't as stale as everyone thinks and you can be as [un]successful with it as anything else.

These are three very common and legitimate arguments. However, both sides of the language wars tend to see things in absolutes. Experience can be an asset, just like it can be a liability. The chance that you'll recognize your own experience as anything but an asset are slim to none.
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These are all very good reasons for why they should stick with PHP, and for anyone else who has already invested a lot into PHP. I think minimizing your server-side technology to "glue code" is a mistake, and there still needs to be a good deal of weight placed on that decision for new startups, based (as always) on the problem and the people. It would be a disastrous mistake for a company in their position to suddenly switch over to python or ruby this far into it. For projects that aren't already that deep into the hole, there are usually better options.
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It looks like he put a lot of effort into this, however, as someone into photography, I don't find his camera concept useful. Having 3 levels of UI complexity does not provide any useful advantage in ergonomics or ease-of-use. Get any consumer-level SLR, put the mode dial in the green all-auto setting, and off you go. For someone who wants to have fine control over the camera, having dedicated buttons and dials is way better than the proposed interface (see Canon's G9, G10, etc, and their Nikon counterparts for good non-SLR examples). Conversely, there are plenty of point-and-shoot digicams that cater to the people who just want to take snapshots. Right tool for the job and all that.

Otherwise, his touchstrip idea is not really innovative either. I remember some older mp3 players having similar input mechanisms.
I'm sorry to be pedantic, but please use capital letters where needed. I found it rather difficult to read...
I didn't suggest that the government should be involved I just wanted to point out that it's a lot more than taxes. The problem is that the government is already involved and so at the very least we should allow all couples the ability to enter into this particular contract without discrimination based on sexual preference.
"server side language is just a glue between the front end and the data source" is the stupidest part of this post. Rest is fine, as latch said that sticking with what people know best is not bad and probably does not need a blog post. :)

Just my thoughts!
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> Rushing it out is the smartest option ...

Maybe if they just want to sell to early adopters and technical folks. All the non-techos I know who bought iPads have done so because they see it works pretty much flawlessly and doesn't have all the annoying problems that plague PCs. Motorola can't really expect to sell many devices in the consumer market with serious issues like these. People will just pick the iPad because it's cheaper and works better.