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The pricing jump is probably only "ridiculous" to you. Schools (and government in general) make it so hard to sell to themselves that prices in the tens of thousands are normal to them, even for tiny districts.

I don't think the pricing is the hard part - it's getting them to buy. And I'm not convinced those two are completely related.
I believe there were actually more (not that it makes nuclear power less secure):

Jaslovske bohunice A-1: plant contaminated and decomissioned
http://www.omegainfo.sk/kuruc_30th_anniversary_of_reactor_ac...

Chalk River: reactor destroyed
http://www.ccnr.org/paulson_legacy.html

But from this (a bad list but I couldn't find better)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/14/nuclear-...
it seems that the reprocessing plants are much more dangerous than the actual nuclear plants.
I can't take anything in that blog seriously with such a shitty color scheme. No one should be subjected to such an assault on one's eyes.
I'm using http://springpadit.com for this now, you can make categories add urls and attach notes to them. But it has much more features of course (works on Android, Apple, Windows,...)
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If you do the constraint propagation right, the number of trials and errors will be very small (and it will be only one trial and no errors for the easy ones).

I'd be very interested to see what an algorithm that solves any valid sudoku puzzle looks like. (apart from pathologic solutions like querying a database of all valid 9x9 sudoku combinations).
Thats not what Proteus' icon looks like. Here's a screenshot of it: http://cl.ly/062u0R2G270o160A2x2u
Relevant research is at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf (warning: PDF).
If you're really starting from zero, I'd recommend Python. The first book I'd recommend would be Zed Shaw's Learning Python the Hard Way. Again, this is for a raw beginner; if you've already written some rudimentary code and know how to use a text editor, the first half of the book will drive you crazy because of the drilling. If you can skip to the end of that book and you're not challenged, try How To Think Like a Computer Scientist (the Python edition). Both of these books are free online.

This question (or a variation of it) has been asked before on Ask HN, so do a search and read those archived posts.

My best advice is to get some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript under your belt. That will give you a good foundation. Then move on to a good, dynamic functional language like Python or Ruby.
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They should probably target at businesses small and bigger at these price points. 9$ a month or even 29$ might be awesome for bigger warehouses, shopping centres or office towers etc.
I don't see how SV or innovation will suffer greatly. People who don't have the nice VC connections can bootstrap and make it to profitability.

The people who stand to lose are VCs and their accredited investors. Legitimate companies with actual revenues should be able to get funding even if the VC funds leave.

One downside is that VC money is determining where the software developers go, which could lead to suboptimal allocation of skilled labor. However, some of these heretofore unprofitable ventures provide real value to the public (ie Twitter).
Pascal uses the "param : type" syntax, although I'm not sure it's the first language to do so. I believe it's older than ML. It's funny to "see this more frequently lately" as it's a really old convention. What's old is new again, I guess...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)#P...
I don't know how most states are doing on education budgets, but the districts around me in Texas aren't doing so hot. From what I can tell, we're cutting budgets by 1/6. (I saw spending of 54 billion in 2008-09 with cuts of 9 billion this year in separate reports)

How does that play into this?
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"If that’s not a win-win synergy of agile infrastructure assets, well you need to start pivoting."

My favorite part of the whole article.
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I'm doing Python the Hard Way and I think it's a great book. Dive into Python is good as well.

If you're slightly off-kilter like I am, you might enjoy a delicious combination of Why's Poignant guide to Ruby and Rails for Zombies. Good stuff, although Rails for Zombies can be a bit maddening if you're a beginner.

Cheers!
I tried to read it but it's headache inducing (the talk, not the colors). Wow.
That is definitely Proteus's old icon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyctim/2244734208/
Salaries since 2008 went up mostly in reaction to US DOJ finding that Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar had an anti-competitive agreement to not hire each others employees, in order to depress wages. (http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/September/10-at-1076.html)
Is it much worse than the Banqiao Dam disaster where an estimated 90-230k people died? What would happen if there was a catastrophic failure of the Hoover dam?

This is not to say nuclear failure isn't bad news, just that many large scale electricty generating schemes have a big downside and it's going to be a big ask to find 100% benign alternatives.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
There are as many kinds of programming as there are kinds of engineering. Want to build web sites? Administrate corporate databases? Program robots?

While a few concepts carry over, the tools and workflows in the different branches of programming can be worlds apart. You probably want to get some direction re: where you want to go with programming before you dive into something specific like a language.
Advertising is Google's castle. Search is also in the moat.

Then again, the quality of Google's moat is often better than other companies' castle.

Also, Google doesn't so much 'ravage industries', it innovates in them. Which can be the same. The industrial revolution 'ravaged industries' too.
You are right about the blacklist, however, it's very unlikely you will have legitimate users coming from datacenter IPs. I've used this trick to prune hundreds/thousands of bad accounts in a couple of forums. You need to be careful with it, but I think it's a worthwhile method.
iOS and Android didn't exactly come out of the gate rockin' the party either. In fact, copy/paste was one of the very initial complaints about iOS.

Not that it excuses it, but if the competitors are anything to judge by, don't expect the One Ring to Rule Them right off the bat.
Have you tried CM7? One hour after installing the CM7 release candidate, I found I was in love with Android. It's like upgrading from a cheapass Windows XP netbook to a MacBook Pro with an SSD.
Remarkable indeed. Also in need of a citation.
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Kawa Scheme is another JVM language that works well on the Android.

3-part tutorial on how to write Android apps in Kawa:
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Why is this comment being downvoted? That site linked was actually a site where RIM were advertising jobs. Of course lots of people make the obvious joke about it, but I don't think the comment deserves downvoting.
Thanks. This however sounds more like a note taking app than just something which stores links. This sounds a lot like Microsoft Onenote. Given that i have a windows phone and office, maybe i should try that.
I talked with them too - and yes, they do not intend to release such thing, because "everyone's scaling needs are diffent".

I think needs aren't so diverse and there's quite a huge mass who has almost identical needs.
Yeah, I was running CM7 stable. Still felt sluggish.
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This was actually written over a week ago, so if shit was gonna happen it would have happened.
Argh! Now I'm confused and don't know what to use!
Not sure if this helps you, but there is this amazing story of how AirBnB raised money.
"They told us about a great stunt they pulled at the Democratic Convention in Denver (in which Obama was nominated). They bought a bulk supply of generic cheerios and made up these cereal boxes to generate seed capital for their startup" From http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html

On a side note though consultancy seems a good way to raise that initial money, i have seen some friends who just get stuck in the consultancy mode and cant make time to work on products. If you do go that route set a hard date and stick to it.
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While that seems like a plausible explanation, I have a hard time understanding what changed to trigger it. I mean, surely they had it translated beforehand, so what mangled things to make it believe there was no translation?

Also, weirdly enough, the error that got shown was in English. Not that it proves anything, but it makes it seem like the language settings were set to English, in spite of the location.

So, yeah, I'm going to be very curious about the explanation of this one. For the record, I do think that it could be innocent, but this kind of thing really invites people to think the worst.
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I would rather spork myself in the eye than attempt to read that again. Rather cruel of you to subject us to this.

Rather scummy title too, doesn't describe the article at all fairly.

Flagged for the absurd sadism and blatantly inaccurate title.
You didn't hit /r/programming on Reddit?
I haven't written any blog posts about it (although I'm planning to after I get some more time).

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That's true, but it also works in the other direction: you get slashdotted, which kills your 2 running dynos. If you're away from your computer, your traffic is long gone by the time you get back, and Heroku missed some revenue because you didn't scale up.

Anyway, Heroku's business model isn't about making money on their oblivious users, I would rather bet on their add-on store's which now has a very minimal marginal cost to expand.
I usually solve them by hand without guess and check, though occasionally, you get down to where there are pairs of values where you have no choice but to try one and see what works (or maybe I just need to figure out more constraints to use).
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Maybe, but iOS has supported copy/paste for a while now, and iOS is the standard that people expect from a smartphone.
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Well said. We will get to see it all pan out over the next few months and years.
Sudoku are designed so that there is always a correct move that does not require guesswork.
Symbian and Windows Mobile supported copy/paste for a good period of time before iOS and Symbian/Windows was the standard that people expected from a smartphone.
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Makes me wonder how hard the programming languages that C defeated must have sucked.
What trouble did you have? Works out of the box in archlinux.
Don't understand what you two see as obviously wrong there. RIMM is betting on speed and web (HTML5) over native apps.

I would rather get fast www pages than apps from the app store. If I can have gmail, pdf's, wikip, and a few random pages open at once I'm very happy.
I looked into using Mirah for Android programming a while back. I took a 3D tutorial for Android (in Java) and tried to do exactly the same in Mirah.

What I found was that it seemed to be (mostly) possible, but there was NO documentation on how to do most things. With someone's help, I got the tutorial working, except for 1 last bit at the end that wasn't really necessary yet. I never did figure out how to do that bit.

This is the tutorial: http://www.droidnova.com/android-3d-game-tutorial-part-i,312...

The part I never got working was the 'queueEvent' bit of the 'onTouchEvent' bit. Without queueing it, I could get it to work, but I could never figure how to queue it like that.

My sources as I left them: https://github.com/wccrawford/Hello-Mirah--Android

Without any documentation or real info out there on Mirah, it was incredibly frustration just to get that far.

I realize it's a new language, but I can't recommend its use at this point. It needs to mature and gather a community before it's worth investing serious time in.
The tracking isn't exactly a revelation--same deal for using every scrap of customer data for marketing.
If you get down to trial and error at all, your best odds are 50/50. If it's easy enough to guarantee the right guess, it's not a guess.
In this order...

HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, Ajax, Python, MySQL

If you're adventureous, try HTML5 and CSS3 afterwards. Also look into jQuery and Django afterwards.
Sounds logic. I like the idea, but I really wonder, if Heroku let it happen.
This article makes many claims. A few of the claims I am in a position to verify, and all of these are false.

This observation does not give me confidence that the other claims are true.
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Money is the joker in this case.
That, and 3.0 is still a closed-source and proprietary platform. It's also intended for 10-inch devices.
I don't get it. Is this supposed to be interpreted as a snide remark from Apple against Google? If so, the bloggers trying to stir up controversy are really grasping at straws now...
Not every talented engineer wants to be a CEO.
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I've started to loathe the word "pivot".
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you know they’d do great in a small environment working a million hours a week

Erm, no. That may be just great for a spotty kid in his first or second job, but someone seasoned with a wife and kids isn't really going to be thrilled with putting in startup hours for an iPad2, or the kind of stock options startups are offering. This is another reason why they're having trouble recruiting: the small pool of young people with few responsibilities that have the right skillset.
A few days after the iranian goverment and comodo incidence, hotmail removes its https option for iranians.

I dont know what the reason is. But its just unacceptable.
Hotmail knows Iranian goverment is after sniffing users data. Iranian cracker tried issuing a certificate for Hotmail. Now they remove https option?
Considering inflation over the past 20 years, $100K salary is not prima donna material. Engineers aren't overpaid; they are fortunate enough to have salary keeping pace with inflation.

Much of the rest of the educated working class is underpaid, with real wages falling, due to weak bargaining power against the aristocracy.
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Eeeh, what would you say to paying them $85k plus in seattle, which is what microsoft starts out at? Because 100k+ is equivalent to that $85k+ wage.
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That would be a big database. (10^21 entries,roughly.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_Sudoku#Enumerati...
Ehhh, high california taxes and high cost of living in SV make that 90k fairly equivalent to the $60k-$70k grads start out with in atlanta.
That's true, and it's why I mentioned HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Those are general-purpose foundational languages that will stand anyone in good stead no matter what branch of programming they wind up in.
So much for turning a late entry into an advantage by taking notes on the pioneer's struggles, and avoiding all their big mistakes.

An experience like the one described would have been par for the course in 2007 or 2008. But 2011? When it really has to be humming from Day 1? WTF times a million.

If this is what's going to save the ghost of Ericsson, they're toast.
"...and you may not even know" - huh? Seriously? I thought this is well-known. The privacy implications have been discussed before many times (even Wikipedia knows about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking#Privacy)

It's just that most people don't care enough, or at least they are willing to trade that part of privacy against the advantages of ubiquitous connectivity.
This is pure blogspam. Flagged.
That is not true.

They're typically designed to be unambiguous (only one correct solution), so in that sense there is always a 'correct' move.

However, finding that correct move is exactly as hard, in the computational sense, as finding the solution to the entire puzzle.

> . . . | . . . | . 1 2

> . . . | . . . | . . 3

> . . 2 | 3 . . | 4 . .

> ------+-------+------

> . . 1 | 8 . . | . . 5

> . 6 . | . 7 . | 8 . .

> . . . | . . 9 | . . .

> ------+-------+------

> . . 8 | 5 . . | . . .

> 9 . . | . 4 . | 5 . .

> 4 7 . | . . 6 | . . .

There should only be one solution. Enjoy yourself, and remember: No guessing! (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmics_of_sudoku#Exceptio...)
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Why don't you try that last sentence again without so many negatives, and see if you don't like it less?
For WP7, I like the design, I like the .net development environment and it does what I want a phone to do. I generally find it more convenient than the I-Pod Touch and the "missing features" aren't things I personally can't live without (well, or I just use my I-Pod for them)
Casting malloc's return value in C is

a) not necessary

b) a bad idea, because if you forget to include stdlib.h the compiler won't warn you since it assumes that you know what you are doing when you cast an int (the default return type) to whatever pointer type it is.
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I completely disagree. Your advice applies if you're in the web business, but HTML, CSS, and Javascript are hardly "general-purpose" and they won't help you in coding up a router firmware.
I suppose it wouldn't help much if I leave a comment there discouraging the very thing the article seems to be suggesting.
For a more gentle start for those less familiar with functional programming (like myself) I can recommend "Higher Order Perl" by Mark Jason Dominus (also available for free online). The book discusses functional programming techniques in Perl. It has some really practical examples, which make some of the advantages of functional programming very clear. I also find it nicely explains a lot of functional programming concepts, which helps when reading those Haskell texts.
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Wow. Circa 1980's "Micro$oft" rant from a 2011 CEO. No wonder they're having a hard time hiring.

I think the real moral of this story is: (1) avoid technology religion and it's practitioners, (2) if you're cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, find another job.
BCPL barely had types. Everything was an "int" and you stored pointers, addresses, floats and so on in that same type (no concept of sizeof(int) != sizeof(void*) in those days!)

Edit: nice intro to BCPL. It's much worse than I thought:
http://www.davros.org/c/bcpl.html
Starting the program is almost entirely implementation-defined in freestanding environments (i.e. those without a host OS), so I don't think your example works.

Of course, there are reasons not to use "void main" - for one, a strict C99 compiler will not compile it.
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Html5 is the new app platform. Microsoft trying to push silverlight is really just another way of their triple E strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). In this case, embracing web apps, extending it by their .NET platform, then trying to extinguish html5 using Silverlight.

This time, it won't be so easy as IE6: Google bets on html5, Apple (although somehwat), and they both have very good browsers already.

Nice try MSFT.
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One amazing thing is the ability to call Mirah from JRuby.

See https://github.com/thbar/opaz-plugdk/tree/master/plugins/Dub... for an example.
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@d_r: Had Android, just last week my Milestone finally got Froyo. The dev tools - particularly UI - just don't exist. I like to be able to program for whatever I have. That's not going into how bug riddled either Android or far more likely Moto's Android implementation was - including gems like rebooting far more often than WP7, played music at random times without touching it, having to reboot the phone if it was put into flight mode to get signal back, etc. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good things about Android, but wasn't for me. v3 (when its on phones), might be though - the improvements and more attention to UI/consistency are looking really nice.

Yes, there was certainly a fair bit of "I hope they got it right this time" to it. If they hadn't lied and delivered the updates when and how they said originally, it may be a different story.

@credo: they're more the most recent issues that have caused regret. As a developer, getting my (few) apps up there has been a nightmare, even with help from MSFT AU's DPE trying to speed things up.
Glenn Flower has written an (open source) program that solves using constraint propagation only. It does solve some of the hardest Sudoku's.

He discusses the strategies used here: http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/sudoku/
The OP was asking about web programming, not router firmware.
Clever. Does the system also support non-aggregate queries? Such as if you wanted to display to a user individual pieces of data for their site for example.