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Why couldnt you have highly targeted based advertising against the search terms and not the user?

I can see why it wouldn't be as attractive as knowing everything about the user and marketing towards them but I don't see why it couldn't work, and it isn't betraying the users trust so long as the data isn't matched to any IP or pattern.
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The problem with this approach is that engineers are going to build things that other engineers like. Add up all the engineers in the world and it's not that much compared with the rest of the global population. A good comment on the original post stated that what Google really needs is to diversify it's workforce. This is the reason Google fails at social.
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I'm beginning to worry about Google. Companies don't make these types of changes when everything is going great.
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wow, i hope no Ph.D.'s apply for a job at your organization, or else their resume will probably be thrown directly into the trash bin ;)
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Well these part time, distance learning postgraduate degrees are usually professional degrees, so intended for those wanting to use the knowledge in their work rather than academic degrees, for those wishing to study further. They actually require and are normally integrated with actual real world experience.

My professional masters required me to actually do things at work, things that I wouldn't have done otherwise, and write about it, and turn it into a project etc.

Sure academics with academic Masters degrees look down on them, but then there are a lot of people, like you, who recognize that academic achievement is not an indicator of being able to get things done.

These professional masters are an ideal middle ground.

To be honest though, if I could have gotten interesting real world experience in the field I was interested in, I probably would not have considered the degree, but it was a chicken and egg situation for me unfortunately. In order to get a job where I could get experience, I had to have experience. So I started the degree, then switched to a job that was half way towards the area I wanted, and because I needed to do a project my employers were more willing to let me take on some work in the interesting area I wanted to work in. By the end of it, I had both real world experience, and a degree recognizing that experience. Without starting that course I still don't see how I could have broken in to either area.
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You're right it is 1200 sold units @ 2.99 * 70% = ~ $2500. That's why I split up paid and grossing.
What evidence do you have that extension classes are easier than their traditional counterparts? It's certainly easier to get into Extension than other Harvard colleges, but I see no evidence it's easier to graduate.
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Django with PostgreSQL and Apache would be the most practical.

More fun? try Go and Redis.
"... "all intent[s] and purposes" not "all intensive purposes." Apologies for the snark. ..."

None taken. I like the corrections, thanks.
It's sIFR - a somewhat older design technique that uses flash to replace bits of text on your site with a custom font. Now that web fonts are more widely supported, and other methods such as Cufon have gained popularity, sIFR isn't used nearly as often.

The most perplexing thing about the usage here is that at the size used the font isn't even that interesting. I would have just stuck with Helvetica bold and called it close enough if that's all they wanted.
One of the most culturally different aspects was how blasé people were about cutting in front of a moving train. Seeing cars weave between one of the oncoming trains and the one the camera is on would be shocking today, at least in SF
That's from CF-Lite, though, which isn't necessarily quite the same implementation as the full CoreFoundation. It's probably similar, though. :)
I read it as them looking for people who can read, write, and converse in English. And that even with many technical graduates, they could only hire 3 out of every 100 that came into the office just to do those tasks.

Besides that, I know from living in the Philippines for six months that a call center job can be like striking gold for people who came up poor. Poverty here is so much different from poverty in the US that it's hard for Americans to understand the motivation of people here. A call center job may suck, but it could be the difference between life in a slum without basic sewerage, and eating at western chain restaurants while texting your friends on your new smart phone. What's basically a birthright in the US is highly prized here.
BTW: I understand that Honda used to be very innovative in disruptive ways, creating entirely new categories of products (e.g. they invented the off-road recreational motorbike) but, like Sony, have instead only made sustaining innovations to existing product categories for the last two or three decades. Are my facts right? (I'm going by Christensen).

[I'm guessing merely sustaining innovations is the very thing Larry Page wants to avoid (and separate business units helps with that, because then they're free to fit themselves to the market need - like a startup).]
Well, the real question is, what "value" is derived from said degree? Better job right away? Most of the times that isn't the case. I can understand the "value" in actually being on campus and interacting with the next Gates or Zuckerburg etc. Would attaching the Harvard section to your resume really make things that much better? Anyone have some stats/studies on this beyond anecdotal cases? The author doesn't really go into much details about what came out of his Harvard degree.
"It's a feature, not a bug"

If they can't build the permissioning around their apps immediately, it will be a good idea to list the phone resources (camera, voice, speakers, etc) that an app uses on the app store page.
Actually, I don't think you understand Microsoft's business model. "Server and Tools" may only generate a modest profit of only a billion dollars per quarter, but it is the foundation of all those Windows sales. The real core of the company is not the end-user stuff, it's .net, Visual Studio, IIS, and SQL Server.

If you're actually trying to arguing that MSN/Live/Bing has been an endless waste of money, then of course I'd agree.
If you don't know Haskell, and you've never used attoparsec, then I'm not surprised that you don't find that code to be particularly clear or readable. Haskell has a steep learning curve, as I said earlier. This is not a very damning criticism of Haskell's suitability for writing parsing code.

By the way, that long import list is actually just importing some basic stuff from the standard library, and the attoparsec parsing library. One of the persistent minor annoyances of Haskell is writing long lists of module imports.
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Could it be some kind of buffer with the previous image data held in memory?
I highly recommend you figure out what you want to do before quitting. Is there a specific company or industry that you're dying to work in? If so, work your ass off to get an interview. If you have passion for starting your own project, do it on the side while you continue to collect a paycheck.

The worst thing you can do is quit and rush into another job that you aren't passionate about (fyi, SF is expensive).
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I don't know if this is malware, but I wouldn't be surprised at all.

In fact I'm surprised it isn't happening more often (especially to jailbroken iPhones and Android devices), it seems that smartphones are a perfect target.
+1 to this, I spent ages looking around the app trying to find a settings icon, with no luck. I think an Instapaper login would work much better in the More section of the app, than in the global settings app (especially if there's nothing else there).
Your reply comes across as extremely bitter. I could definitely understand being pissed about taking an American History or Anthropology prereq or something, but are you seriously saying that algorithms are "boring and annoying"?

As a self-taught programmer who is just wrapping up pre-program requisites for the CS program at a decent school, I am drooling to get some formal instruction in algorithms and FSAs. And I'm sorry but I've even gleaned some good understanding of time complexity notation from my pre-calc/trig class.

I just don't get this, I guess. I'm dying to get some formal education on the more scientific and heavier math subjects. These are things I wouldn't ever teach myself because I am so task-oriented when I program. Why "waste time" mastering the concepts of FSAs when I've got a web application to build?

I hope you learn to appreciate the potential for greater understanding that these boring and annoying classes give you. You have made the choice to discard their value on your own faulty assumption that your limited understanding of the world is a complete understanding of the world. It makes me kind of sad that all the liberal arts majors in the world are happy as pigs in shit to be studying Proust and how to make coffee, while here you are shitting all over a high quality education in a hard science/engineering that will undoubtedly provide you a lucrative, comfortable career if you choose to pursue such a thing.

I can assure you, as a 31-year-old man who was self taught until last fall, I have definitely missed those topics.
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The last post in the thread makes it sound as though an app wasn't even on the display when it happened ("I hit the button to see if anyone called me (no one did) and drove off" - and then later the picture is of him when he hit the button). iOS wizards: if you have an app up, hit the screen lock, and then later hit the home button, is the app unfrozen then, or does it wait until you unlock? I would guess waiting for the unlock based on how it looks on my iphone.

If it does wait til you unlock, it's probably an iOS bug. If it doesn't, let's look askance at their list of installed applications, particularly the ones that use the camera and that people were likely to have been using shortly before locking their screen (a guess, based on their lists: facebook).
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I may do the exact same thing! I've already started: my exit interview is this Thursday.

Statistically, the chances of PG accepting me into this latest YC class are slim to none, so I'll be spending quite a bit of time loading up on leisure and knowledge before making the final decision to bootstrap my startup: training in BJJ/MMA, surfing, and filling in some holes in my CS knowledge. I never received a formal functional programming education, so I'm powering through "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" on my nook, using Clojure instead of Scheme. I would like to learn more about message queues and NoSQL, maybe some Python like yourself, and clean up some projects I've recently open-sourced. And ruby-serialport, which I maintain, could use another release, perhaps a little website too. Heck, I could use a nicer website...

I have some travel plans as well. Staying with friends in the east coast, and visiting family in South America. Depending on what happens, I may travel more. As a Third Culture Kid, I miss the foreign and new very much. Coincidently, I'm exploring the wild idea of traveling and collaborating with other developers on OSS, a la Paul Erdos, except without the academic papers, or the amphetamines.

My only clearcut advice is not to forget about health insurance. The last thing we need is a broken arm to wipe out our savings.

I wish you the best of luck!
I attended this session. It was very impressive. Obviously quite a lot of work went into surveying the whole field of Android development environments.

I've been playing with python and the Android Scripting Environment for Android stuff, but after this talk I will probably look at writing some "native" apps in C/C++.
I read your comment and decided to do read up on some theory behind it. I came across this:

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/q/448/4052

From the highest rated answer:

Larry Wall proposed that we use "regular expression" for the formalism Kleene proposed, and "regex" for expressions for the widely used extensions. It's a fairly widely followed convention. If you want to make it clear that you are talking about regular expressions in the formal languages sense, it is usually not difficult to translate into talk of regular languages.
Mostly anecdotal, several of my friends have took classes through the program in high school. That's not to say that extension classes are trivial by any means.
This does seem most likely, but the other thing is that this previous image data is from times when no-one was using the camera. So the question is where did the previous image data come from?
This board seriously needs to lighten up. But, message received. I'll NEVER try to be humorous ever again. :(
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I wish every place on the web where I have to enter my address would let me do it this way instead of making me fill in six fields individually.

If you feel like commenting, I'd be curious to hear what you think.
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For what reasons?

Taxes and high living expenses suck, but if you're making enough money (which you absolutely would be in this position) the Bay Area is actually a really nice place to live.
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You could! It could help DDG make lots of money.

However, my thought was if that (privacy) was not the main goal and something comes along, e.g., $$$$/partners, that could catapult you to become a market leader/giant in your core goal area then given the principle of most startups to focus on a core competency and to do it really well, the secondary goal (privacy) could be compromised.

EDIT: I don't have a list but I'm sure there have been cases where companies tweak their policies once they gain traction.
Unless I'm mistaking, an API that let's an app take pictures without the display betraying what's going on doesn't even exist. I don't even think any API exists to take pictures — that doesn't involve the touch of a finger on the display.

Can't explain it though.
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Well, if you went to Harvard for a "valuable degree" then I really don't feel sorry for you. You are lucky to have gone, and should consider your degree a parting gift at best. As a grad student at Yale I had to endure this same elitism from many undergraduates who felt Yale's graduate schools were diluting the prestige of their degrees. If you are like me, you have already found that the people who really care about degrees are often the ones least likely to trust their own good judgement.
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The problem is that it doesn't actually work out that way. The proposed bill is only expanding the requirements to cover companies with "sister companies" in California -- i.e., affiliates.

We've already seen this play out a few times. We know exactly what happens if the bill passes: Amazon cancels all of its affiliate contracts in California. California residents still do not pay taxes on Amazon purchases, Amazon no longer has any presence at all in the state, the state makes no extra money, and the competitive field is still left unchanged for local businesses.

It's a net loss for California.
This is awesome.

It had a bit of trouble deciphering '14/4 carnation crescent'. Didn't seem to be able to split the apartment/street number properly.
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I haven't developed on iOS but I remember reading someplace that when an app is loading it can display an image of what it looked like when the user most recently left it, in order to give the appearance of loading more quickly. I think it was one of Marco Arment's blog posts, but his site isn't available right now.

Anyway I also don't have an iPhone 4, but FaceTime for OS X shows the camera view whenever it's on so that you can see yourself whenever starting a call. I imagine FaceTime for iOS does something similar.

If you combine those two things, you get one possible explanation for what's going on. One that's pretty benign, but should probably still be avoided because it obviously spooks users. Oh, and it should probably be at the API level so that the last thing an app saves is never camera data.
There's nothing special about this. I've written numerous classes in C++/C# that return a single object to the creator but instantiate or swap between different impl classes based on usage patterns.
If I remember correctly, Color is eventually planning to passively gather audio information as you walk around in order to better know where you're at and what you're doing. Wouldn't it be funny if it was the app causing this?
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It sounds like you actually want to learn instead of just implement, so just telling you that HN and Reddit are both Opensource probably isn't what you want to hear.

My suggestion is Ruby On Rails (simply because its what I use and like), it has a very large, helpful community and tons of resources.

The steps I would take (in hindsight), are:

1. Grab the Pickaxe book for Ruby 1.9 and start reading. http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9

2. Do the Ruby Koans - http://rubykoans.com/

3. To get your foot in the Rails door, check out the Rails Tutorial - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

4. Once you have those basics, check out http://railscasts.com, Ryan has covered just about every problem you are likely to face, and his casts are top-notch!

5. Build something

6. Iterate.

Of course there are other languages and frameworks which would all work just as well, but since it sounds like you don't really have a solid programming background, I think Ruby is really a great language for you to start learning as if there is any language which will keep you interested, its Ruby.
This is my experience, too.

I'd even wager that most audio engineers who program learned something like, you know, Audio Engineering and just kind of slipped into programming along the way. This maybe makes them a worse programmer than a CS grad, but a heck of a lot better audio algorithm designer.

Many algorithmical problems can be solved in code, but they require specific knowledge about the problem space, which CS grads lack. This is not to say that CS grads are bad at maths, it's just that audio engineers spent years learning about hearing, acoustics and audio analysis and audio algorithm design is more than just some linear algebra.
In the tech world I think the only time it matters is when you're a noob. A college degree give some credibility to landing a job etc. But if you've got a proven track record developing kick-ass software, that's what will keep your career moving. As far as interacting with other college student and networking goes that can be pretty easily be done by hanging out at with the right crowd online (like here!) or at other professional settings in the rel world.
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I didn't mean to suggest the ISS in any way. I am talking about the various plans such as von Braun's Das Marsprojekt, where you assemble a fleet of (for example) 3720 ton Mars ships in orbit: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/01archives/Von_Braun_...

It's not possible to launch a 3720 ton ship to Mars from the surface in one shot, it has to be assembled in space from parts and fuel shipped up in multiple launches.
In iOS 4, such APIs do exist. I blogged briefly about it here http://www.bunnyhero.org/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-ios4-camera/ (I used the API for a test app that uses the front camera to detect how much light is shining on the iPhone http://www.bunnyhero.org/2010/08/15/turn-your-iphone-into-a-... )
That's a lot of vitriol there.

To be honest I'm quite impressed with his projects. They're certainly non-trivial and exciting things. Can you show something better?

He didn't see all of them to the end. Who did? Does uploading something to github mean that you have to maintain it up until eternity? There's a lot of "flakes" on github (and HN) in that case....

Before you go naming and shaming, make sure you have at least a good case.
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It would be nice if someone could look into the iPhone's exact behavior in this regard. The FaceTime app on the new iPad doesn't seem to save an actual camera image with the screenshot on quitting. The UI comes up but the whole screen is just dark for a split second before it displays the live camera image. This is true whether you quit the app explicitly or just quickly close it and come back.
University taught me to learn and then I picked up the rest myself. Is this called self-taught or formally educated?
Many companies are organized in this manner. I don't see what the big deal is, personally.
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I wrote a fairly in-depth version a few months ago, that implemented users, voting, images, and ran in Python over Postgres on an Linode. If you're interested, you could check it out at https://github.com/e1ven/Lonava
Its great. I like how you can put in a street address and part of the zip to fill out the entire form.
Yes, there is an api to take a picture without pressing the screen. It's called -(void) takePicture and it's part of the uiimagepickercontroller class.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/...
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You're aware of what outliers are, but not about how they're not representative of the norm?

Any celebrity is an outlier. Looking at one subset of that -- bald celebrities -- is not somehow invalidating.

These bald celebrities are examples of how to look good bald. i.e. close-crop or shave it. Cultivate other aspects of your physical appearance. Be confident and embrace who you are, rather than lamenting that which you aren't.

They are sexy in spite of being bald, not because of it.

Nobody said sexiness is derived from baldness, though it can certainly be a contributing factor, depending on subjective opinion. These men are examples of sexy bald men, period. You can either learn and follow the example, or be snotty and negative about it. I don't really care that you apparently choose the latter.
Well, this is interesting, but it also makes perfect sense to me. After the first quake hit, the cell phones were down, the lusernet was down (SMS and cell providers' proprietary mail systems, I mean), and even landlines were down (overloaded by frantic callers). But the Internet was utterly unperturbed.

We tend to have synchronous 100Mbps or 1Gbps fiber here, even at home. I was not able to call anybody on the office phones, nor on my iPhone, but in the minute after the quake I was quickly able to Skype and Facetime to various people. I was actually viewing my home office with EvoCam (though nobody happened to be there at the time) when the second big quake struck. Watching stuff fall off the shelves remotely.

AFAICT, places that didn't lose electric power didn't lose Internet either, and since torrents don't tend to be manual things and the Internet infrastructure here can easily handle millions of people jumping on the web to see what is going on (though that can't be said of www.tepco.co.jp, which did go down), everything just kept plugging along.