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My wife has an iPad 1 with a similar case (Incase or Belkin, can't remember which), but she still doesn't like typing on it. My theory is that it's partly ergonomic, but partly a matter of expectations. A phone is a completely different form factor, so you don't expect an experience that has any sort of fidelity to using a physical keyboard (also the keys are closer together). On an iPad-sized virtual keyboard, you hit a sort of uncanny valley, wherein it feels like a bad version of what you're used to, instead of a totally different thing. But that's pure conjecture.

The input thing is why I'm bearish on tablets in general. I like not just having a physical keyboard because it's faster and feels better, but I also like that there's a portion of my hardware that's dedicated to input. On an abstract level I feel like it is a more egalitarian paradigm, to put my ideas on the same starting level as everyone else's. It's like having upstream and downstream parity. Maybe that's silly, but it's how I feel.
> Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences

With a title like this, I won't even read the thing. So many things are wrong with this first sentence.
1. Why The Capitals For Each Word? That screws with my human word recognition algorithm.
2. The title implies three things: Writing clear, do something concise and something with sentences. That's all but clear to me. "Writing clear": you mean writing the word clear? Does not sound interesting to me. What do you want with "Sentences" and "Concise"? Not clear at all to me.
3. Probably, the author meant something like "How to write clear & concise sentences". That gives the sentence instantly another meaning.
As a self-taught developer, college-graduate, and continual learner, I propose that exposure is the most important benefit of the college experience. We have to know what questions to ask before we can ask them. We can accidentally walk into all kinds of concepts on our own, but the college experience is a kind of jumpstart, a dive into the large pond. Now we know some questions to ask and have an idea where to get answers. We have more patterns at our disposal, more tools in our belt.

Also, there is that credential thing and the higher paycheck. And the networking.
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I think that the Walmart issue creates benefit more through drawing money out of cities and into developing countries, and detriment through carrying money out of small towns. The decreased price of goods is often counteracted by lower incomes to local stores, and ends up doing more harm than good. This is basically a type of arbitrage and is often very helpful to the world economy, but I'm not sure the analogy carries over on the internet. Large companies do not help new developing communities join the internet marketplace like Walmart does for developing countries. So while I often do opt for a natural self regulating approach, large dominant companies would not be like Walmart in the future of internet culture. And the problem may correct itself in time, as big companies may not find their natural niche like Walmart did, and just become latent, new company gobblers. If this were the case, we may find that the internet doesn't have any use for dominant companies, and big companies will be consistently replaced one after another for years to come.
Do (great) software engineers in Nepal really make 100k/year? Because I imagine that would mean a lot higher standard of living that it would in the US?
I actually don't see the point in the whole conceptual redesign of the application if that's the case.

Scenario you're implying was just perfectly implemented in Skype as it was, on a Mac at least.
Unlock a car using a cell phone?
GOOG is 3% down today (while market overall is about the same).
I personally like Larry's change, but average investor seems to be skeptical.
No, they did lift a real and functional Dragon capsule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon#Maiden_flight
Kind of. If the call center started paying dramatically more, it would solve its hiring problems overnight. In fact, customer service quality would go through the roof as IIT grads and extremely smart folk joined.

Then Google, IBM, et al in India would be starving for talent.

On a micro scale you are correct - the hiring problems are a function of how much they are willing to pay. But that's not really the crux of the problem - the problem is that, on any pay scale, the supply of competent/qualified people is smaller than the demand.

That's the way I've experienced it in the US anyhow. If you want a software engineer and are willing to pony up a lot of cash, you will find someone good. This doesn't change the fact that the supply pool is still woefully undersized relative to the demand.
Why are we seeing this article a year after it was published?
I can't remember waiting as anxiously for a product as I have for this, since the original iPhone. Now the problem becomes taming the expectations that have built up.

At the very least, my fingers should be able to revert to the shortcuts and features they've been used to for the past 9 years.
I would add that it does nothing to help determine if the candidate is qualified which is the larger hurdle for most companies than attracting job applicants. This doesn't address that point at all.
Contrast that with wired ethernet that includes retransmission in media layer as a solution to congestion (the retransmission algorithm works only for congestion and other causes of packet loss on wired ethernet ar insignificant).
That's a good point which I tried to cover in my #8 but should have hit more directly as its own point.
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Catch up with Jana on twitter @janaiyengar to check if he has more details to share.

I think having minions is a great idea to get the networking out of (TCP|UDP) ghetto.
Not sure I follow your reasoning for #3. Filling out this form seems to be the absolute least someone can do if they really want to work at a particular company.

I think taking 5 minutes to find someone at the company and emailing them a personal email will be way more successful for a candidate.

Plus I'd worry that you will sound like just another recruiter when presenting me to the company, so it may end up hurting my chances.
I'm an engineer on a ship and while I don't work on a container ship, I took a cargo class in college. There are other considerations too, the software frequently accounts for things such as not putting chemicals that react poorly with each other near each other or things that may be hard to put out if they catch on fire near the top of stacks on the outside so they can be jettisoned in an emergency. Also, while no one weighs each container, its part of the process for people doing the shipping to say what is in it and how much it weighs. They can probably fudge the weight a little but the software takes into account the reported weight to make sure the ship has safe stability. Containers stored inside are dryer and less likely to be lost overboard which normally is a premium price for shipping too. Plus as you mentioned the logistics problem of not putting all the new stuff on top of stuff that gets taken off at an earlier port.
Because if you apply to a company through us, are accepted, and don't go through with it we won't allow you to apply to other companies through us. This makes it so that companies can actually trust the service to get committed candidates as opposed to just candidates who, if they applied via a similar service that was listed directly on the site, had no recourse if they didn't go through with the position.
I'm not sure if my reply had any conclusions, but if it did, it is only that the difference in (supposed) quality of IITs vs. local colleges is atrocious, and this needs to rectified ASAP. However, it is important to remember this quality of education is merely a crutch, and it is completely up to the student on how he/she makes use of it. There are certainly many cases of students going way beyond what their peers have accomplished (best case in point: that whole Scoble/Yuvi Panda thing)

> a) There are colleges beyond IIT and REC and no they are not all bad

yes, but atleast in Bangalore, there's a nauseous culture of "IIT or nothing", supported mainly by BASE/FIITJEE and all those schools in Kota. It was very difficult for me to get out of it - if anything, it's gotten even worse since I left five years ago. I feel sorry for my cousins who are in their 8th grade now, and already being forced to go to a pre-JEE training (which, inevitably, will start as soon as they finish their 10th grade board exams. A training for a training for an examination that will then start their training? What kind of Alice in Wonderland crap is this?)

My parents are both professors at a certain well-known MBA factory in Bangalore, and trust me, the education system is worse than it looks. My mom was recently forced to use pencils when correcting examination papers (for the obvious reason), and my dad regularly complains about how he is forced to dumb down papers every semester or risk getting fired. Agreed, this is all anecdotal evidence, but it is damning nonetheless.
> You can't reasonably get to the Tenderloin with a car

Good point.

> Most of the big tech companies in Si Valley nowadays run shuttle buses to San Francisco

Good point again. Maybe there won't be the mad rush on car dealerships that I was predicting.

Still, most of the tech people I know who work in Si Valley are annoyed that their jobs are not in SF. My sample is biased (I met all these people in SF), but I do think having your job in the city is a substantial perk.
$250k in annual police presence is 2 more cops 24/7 and covers the entire proposed exemption district, which includes the Tenderloin - not just the street between Twitter's future front door and the subway entrance.

To put this in perspective, if 2000 Twitter employees purchase lunch near the office 5 days a week at an average price of $10, the sales tax revenue will offset the cost of the payroll tax holiday - not to mention the benefits of an extra $5m/year flowing through the neighborhood economy.
The job of a people manager at Google is generally to keep the engineers happy and make them want to continue working for Google. Somebody has to be the point person for general career-development issues, so that if you get bored and frustrated with your current position, they can say "Here, check out this other group over in this other area of the company, you might enjoy working with them" instead of quitting abruptly. Somebody needs to make the high performers feel valued, and let the low performers know that they need to improve. Somebody needs to be the point person to handle things if a family emergency comes up and you need to take several weeks off, making sure that your responsibilities are covered by other people and all the administrative stuff is done.

The good managers are really good at this. The bad managers...well, I don't work in that part of the company.
yep, i saw it back in jan, burned from the reentry heat and all :)
It's amusing that the "Avoid unnecessarily inflated words" section misspells "implement" as "impliment."
There's only one thing I don't like about this, and that's the name. Falcon Heavy? Doesn't sound cool.

SpaceX has done an excellent job of coming up with cool-sounding names for everything they do, second only to US muscle car manufacturers of the 1960s. Falcon! Merlin! Draco! They even skipped straight from Falcon 1 to Falcon 9 because the numbers in between just don't sound nearly as cool.

But "heavy"? Sure, it's descriptive, but it's boring. Falcon X would be much better. Or Super-Falcon. Or ThunderCougarFalconBird...
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Brings a whole new meaning to "good artists copy, great artists steal".
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Yup!

If it had been a country doing it instead of SpaceX they probably would have already put a human into orbit in a Dragon capsule.
I did think about the ethics of posting it or not, and yes, it is a difficult issue, but ultimately decided that since the original author had willfully licensed and distributed the source code under the GPL the choice to allow distribution of that version had already been made.
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How to add discussions to physical objects
If Congress slashes Dept. of Energy funding (which seems likely), RHIC is going offline. Amazon could buy a particle accelerator.
Yep, they have quite a few clients http://www.securityweek.com/massive-breach-epsilon-compromis...
Augmented reality is an overlay onto what is truly there.

Alternate reality or Virtual Reality is a simulation of an entirely new universe.
That's completely absurd. There could be a 1,000 very legitimate reasons why even a serious or committed candidate will not want to accept an offer: the pay's not right, the role isn't quite right, there's not enough responsibility (or too much) he doesn't think there's sufficient opportunity for career progression, he doesn't like his prospective boss or team, they want you to work in a different location, or travel a lot, or travel too little etc etc etc etc.

A job interview is not a one-way street. It's about discovery and due diligence. It's perfectly acceptable for either side to pull put if they feel that for whatever reason the other side isn't a good fit. And neither side can be sure of a fit until they enter discussions.

You'll just end up shooting yourself in the foot and ditching great candidates: bad for you, and bad for your clients.
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One interesting thing I read Elon Musk saying the other day is that it's definitely not fuel -- the cost of fuelling a Falcon 9 is actually only about the same as the cost of fuelling a Boeing 747.

The problem is that the cost of building a Falcon 9 is still similar to the cost of building a 747, and you throw it away after one flight. So if you could recover and re-use the booster rocket then you'd be looking at a serious cost reduction.
I fail to see the point on the argument. not trolling, really.

it's still a clear demonstration of market control. openly.

Microsoft at least keep it all away from the public.
At any given time there are between five and six million containers in transit. There are around 200 million container-journeys per year[1]. That we lose just 10,000 a year is a minor miracle.

[1]Levinson (2006), The Box.
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Ahem: a Russian Orlan-M spacesuit, about the best available off the shelf today, weighs 112-120Kg (or up to 250 of your quaint imperial "pounds"). Then you need to include air, water, and food. The structural mass of the seat the astronaut sits in isn't insignificant, either. A Mercury capsule -- a can sized to hold one guy in a space suit -- weighs around 1100Kg at splash-down, minus retro-rockets, parachutes, escape tower, and most of the heat shield; the corresponding weight for a Soviet Vostok spacecraft was around 2400Kg, with the cosmonaut sitting in an ejector capsule weighing around 340Kg (they ejected before touchdown because it had no soft-landing system).

All told, I reckon 1000Kg of spacecraft deadweight plus 200-250Kg of supplies per astronaut is as low as you're going to get. So once you add your notional 85Kg astronaut, you're talking about 1500Kg at US $2300/Kg, or around US $4M per person for a ride into orbit. If you're really slick you might be able to shave that by 50%. 90%? I don't think so.

Done right, this will cut the cost of space tourism by nearly an order of magnitude and will open up the possibility of the private sector actually being able to send folks to do stuff in orbit -- like fix or upgrade comsats. But it's not a magic wand and it's not going to reduce the cost per person to orbit to the rough order of a year's salary for an engineer.
Direct link to the referenced paper (pdf): http://people.rit.edu/wlrgsh/FINRobison.pdf
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No, there generally aren't master architects. I'm surprised to hear you talking about master architects, in traditional programming circles the term is usually met with scorn. There's a perception that people who call themselves architects or talk about architecture tend to suck at programming. That they like talking about code, but in general are not actually capable of doing it.

Hearing someone say they're a software architect or that a company has a software architect is usually a big red flag to run like hell.

Also a large code base is identical to a complex problem. Check the definition of complexity. A complex problem can be broken down into simple components.

Finally the best glue is not complex, it's simple. Complex glue tends to result in brittle magic, a poor abstraction, like traditional asp.net compared to something far more elegant and smaller like ruby on rails.
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"Rocket name"-heavy is standard aerospace nomenclature for uprated rockets, derived from such launch systems being described as "heavy lift" rockets. Since there is no such thing as a casual buyer of a 80 million dollar rocket, how cool the name is doesn't matter at all.

It also puzzles me why they're "announcing" this, since a heavy lift version of the Falcon 9 has been planned since day one.
Typo? Pretty sure GP said he didn't have a degree.
See my comment above about the TCP minions.
He never claimed to refute pkaler's argument, he just added his relevant viewpoint. I personally have taught myself plenty of math, although I agree that my college classes have provided a solid context for me to explore many math concepts.
Richard Branson is a good example of an "adventure capitalist".

Here is his Wikipedia profile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson

Here is the Wikipedia page for his space tourism company:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic

Also worthy of a mention is Mark Shuttleworth, who was the world's second space tourist (and also the founder of the Ubuntu Foundation):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth
Well, you plus your spaceship must weigh less than 53 metric tons.
I've never quite understood why so much focus is put on evaluating departments by the newness of their buildings (I've seen quite a lot of universities boast on that subject).
This is HN, we care about the website almost as much as the product itself.
because it's the time of year where students are about to go on internships.

For example, I have 4 weeks until I'm back in Silicon Valley and doing a paid internship.
> A good example is how Kin was supposedly set back seriously due to infighting with Windows 7.

Care to elaborate on that?

edit: after 5 seconds of googling:

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/02/microsofts.lee...

http://www.windows7news.com/2010/06/30/the-life-and-death-of...
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The old building was pretty shabby and not in the center of town.
Having not even read the thing, you might consider whether a detailed critical comment about the thing adds or subtracts to the discussion on HN.
I think you're misplacing/mistaking the emphasis of the article

"As those awesome but not quite perfect systems get adopted on the global scale, we may face a host of strange and potentially dangerous results arise that we never saw coming."

The RFID paragraph is 1 of 7. And while I know next to nothing about shipping, I feel comfortable saying RFIDs could still add something to the current system.
Wouldn't have expected that. Any University in particular? Thanks!
I have gotten probably about 10 emails like this so far.
Any sort of maths, really. When my cow-orkers want to look for correlations in graphs they quite literally print them all, lay them out on a meeting room table and stare at them. I just run Spearman and Pearson coefficients on every possible combination, then I look. I look for regular patterns using Fourier. I optimize systems using Linear Programming. My self-taught colleagues are good at their jobs day-to-day but seriously, I am being driven up the wall by alerts and reports that trigger on some dumb threshold (e.g. loadavg 10) and not on some change in the behavior or response of the system...
This advice seems to mimic much of what's in _Style: Towards Clarity and Grace_, which I found out about from Richard Gabriel (achievement unlocked: LISP connection) and which is probably the most hacker-friendly writing book ever written.
You make a very good pitch! =) Do you know if they happen to have an established exchange program? (I haven't looked on their site yet but I will!) Thanks, this is definitely on my radar now.
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Try downloading a calculator for the iPad.

Edit: Another annoying practice, I purchased Angry Birds Seasons for the iPad, yet it still has giant in-app advertising for Bing between levels, that if you accidentally click it, it will try to change your Safari search provider.
Why the bad rep?
The intern had also discovered a vague little article from the late Sixties saying that Basco had put some "junk machinery" on the floor of the Harbor, giving the usual feeble excuse.

"They claim that this junk was going to become a habitat for marine life. You don't buy that?"

Bless her, she did know how to blow my lid. "Rebecca, goddamnit, since the beginning of time, every corporation that has ever thrown any of its shit into the ocean has claimed that it was going to become a habitat for marine life. It’s the goddamn ocean, Rebecca. That's where all the marine life is. Of course it's going to become a habitat for marine life."

- Neal Stephenson, Zodiac
The idea is that some people can figure out most of this before applying and, for those people, hustlebee will simplify the process significantly. I don't expect that everyone will apply to jobs via us but I hope that we can provide a channel for those candidates who are extremely committed to a position to get an employer's attention without having to do the recruiting dance.
How many people would ever notice?

That said, my point is more that it'd be a bafflingly tiny reason for a company as large as Twitter not to move. There are far more significant issues in the decision than how it looks on their letterhead.
Wrong...you must hire MORE MANAGERS...ask Honeywell, because they have more managers than I've ever seen anywhere else. They could cut 3/4 of the managers and it would NOT hurt anything being shipped.
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There're plenty of other edge cases where the knowledge is proprietary and only available outside of the academic system, though. You're not going to learn how Google Search works without working at Google. You're not going to learn how MS Windows works without working at Microsoft. A bunch of applied chemistry or applied biology is only available in industry.
We're actually working on this problem over at WakeMate.

Basically the solution is to sleep just enough to accumulate the number of sleep cycles you need to feel rested. We're building a tool to tell our users what that length of time is. I'll write up a post on the thought process/science behind it and put it up tomorrow.
So that comes out to a 50ppm loss, or a 99.995% containers not lost... most industries are very happy with a 4.5-nines yield!
Exactly what I thought.

I would have written "Writing clear and concise sentences"
In that case, please explain why it is wrong.
I admittedly am a newbie to studying abroad, but I don't think I can do Erasmus as I am from the US.
Another data point here: my first year of studying electrical engineering was almost exactly the same as the freshman year of someone studying any engineering field, and it's common for people to switch majors after one or two semesters. If it's a switch from one branch of engineering to another, it's pretty much effortless.

I hear that things are similar in other majors: if you're switching from one major to another that's fairly close to it (e.g. from molecular biology to botany) it'll be pretty easy. Longer jumps are more difficult, especially if you're going into a major with long prerequisite chains, like mathematics.