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In practice, quitting your job is the ultimate litmus test of faith. Why would anyone else take on risk if the founders themselves take no risk?
I have done EAV on top of MySQL, and it is either complex and scales poorly or you have unsearchable blobs. It looks like they are doing the blob route.

other properties are serialized in a binary blob

EAV on top of SQL is re-inventing the wheel. Likely they would be much better of with MongoDB or some other DB that actually has some amount of support for EAV.
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Except grandpa is crazy, has a shotgun, and is friends with the Sheriff (the RIAA, MPAA, their lobbyists and congresspeople they bought).
Alternatively, buy your eBooks and strip the DRM right off the bat. I'm taking no chances and I'm sick of heavy boxes when I move.
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I've heard that the actual business model behind theladders is that they sell access to companies to see / search the database.

Here's one of their internal sales presentations (to corporations):

http://www.slideshare.net/uptheladders/theladders

Due to the monthly subscription fee they've gotten candidates that self-select out of the junk that you find on HotJobs, CareerBuilders, Monster, etc.
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awesome...I actually just downloaded Dosbox yesterday and was enjoying massive waves of nostalgia playing Super Solvers: Gizmos and Gadgets.

(Incidentally anyone with nerdy kids should check out the Suprer Solvers games ASAP)
Or perhaps you discovered that there are more search engine marketers on Android than on iOS. Or that your app has more visibility on the Android market. Or multiple factors unrelated to the average user's general app-purchasing habits.
Agreed, needs thumbnails. Really nice site otherwise.
That's a good question to ask the FBI.
"We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server."

May have been a good idea to post the _name_…
Gloriously under-reported in Australian mainstream media. So far the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) is the only one carrying it on its front page.
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http://soundcloud.com/ is the most innovative platform in this area. The platform a great way for artists to share music with the world.
Here's the gmail blog entry about the feature http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/dont-forget-bob-and-go...

It doesn't state how it works, but I'd wager that it just uses the active user's records - not anyone else's. Why do you assume otherwise?
"I have worked with literally hundreds of programmers over my career. None have been better than me."

Really? In every aspect of programming? In every language? This is the typical prima donna bullshit that pervades this industry. I pity anyone who has to deal with you on a daily basis.
This post is as vapid as any of the this-NoSQL-datastore-is-better-than-this-RDBMS posts that pop up weekly.

"Oracle also has a large number of background processes all competing for CPU (about 10 for a default installation). They are very efficient, but are still there – for every single database."

How is it at all relevant to start counting how many processes or threads that are being used? In what world is this useful for any conclusion?
Even "cool" government jobs move at glacial paces. I used to be an engineer at NASA and got to work on all manner of awesome stuff. But the cost in soul-crushing-boredom is high.
I interviewed there about 4 years ago or so when I was about to graduate.. I think they had just been over a couple of years old and were hiring a developer or two to work on some back end stuff as well as JavaScript .. I could not follow up after the final intws because of some health issues.. but at that time, they had some interesting people working for them that were nice to talk to .. It was the same exact office as in the pictures but definitely no where close to that many people in there
Has this guy never seen a prison film or comic strip? Those hash marks are done 'wrong'.
Humm interesting. I thought they just calculated that based on who was cc'ed on emails etc not by actually looking through other users contacts. Are you sure this is how it works? I can't imagine it is since they wouldn't have access to the contact lists for non gmail addresses.
I think for students renting may be win/win. If only taking spring and fall courses, a laptop for ~$60 per semester would be cool. This is assuming that it can be given up easily.
Uhh, no, you're incorrect (albeit in a sense, I'll admit).

The entire article was about jQuery and CoffeeScript, so my example was built using jQuery. This entails a .each method on DOM collections, and $(this) will properly scope being inside that $().each method.

M1573RMU74710N summed up what I aimed to do here, though, which was show that the resulting code isn't actually that bad. In my opinion the article in question is making a case that all Javascript looks horrible, when in reality that's simply not the case.

Edit: I see it noted in another comment on this thread that you're writing a book on this... and you couldn't tell I was using jQuery, when I pass in the results of the selector call as an argument? Tut tut...
The Ladder's preys on the illusion that there are such things as "$100K+ jobs," when in fact there are truly just "$100K+ employees." Someone either does or doesn't have what it takes to add enough value to warrant that salary. People who can bring more than 100K in added value to a company probably don't need to use a site like the Ladders to get a job.
You are comparing watching TV to a vital communication tool that is essential to the student experience. It's fair enough that you may not have an issue with it. But in my opinion the thought of a large multinational being able to go "poof, I hereby revoke your access to the Internet" in an academic environment to be frightening.

There is also the factor of "crap, I somehow missed a payment and now I can't complete my coursework" when colleges are busy trying to get rid of computer labs because "everyone has a laptop".

If a student were to outright buy a netbook using financial aid then those concerns go away.

Again I wouldn't give a crap either way if it were a contract/ETF arrangement but rent to always rent just seems like a bad financial habit to develop early in life.
This is exactly the reason that I haven't bought an iPad 2- I intend to use it for the netflix and kindle apps, and I'm not sure if they're still going to be there in 6 months. For a $500 device, the risk was just too high. I got a kindle instead, and I just use my laptop for netflix...
Great questions...

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We're using it at my startup to send emails to users (welcome, password reset, etc.) and have been happy with it. It's worked as advertised, has been reliable, and is dirt cheap.

We used the django-ses app which is great: you "pip install django-ses", set your AWS key and EMAIL_BACKEND and that's it. And it comes with a nice SES dashboard.
Apple needs to realize that their greed may kill their platform. Nobody would buy an iOS device with no killer apps - especially when android is getting better every day. As an iOS developer, I fully expect the platform to go the way of the dinosaurs.
I'd be really skeptical about them making it that flexible. There has to be some minimum timeframe involved to make it profitable.
What previous similar missteps has Apple made that support your theory? Apple's been batting well over .500 and their sales and stock price both indicate appreciation and support.
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One word: disintermediation. iFlowReader was acting as an intermediary, selling a publisher's ebook to a reader and taking 50% of the revenue. Why should Random House pay someone 50% of the selling cost for doing an arbitrage play on a bunch of ones and zeros with no additional effort? Random House can cut out the middle man (who adds no value) and sell it themselves. It's a smart business move.

Now iFlowReader claims to offer a more compelling interface, so pivot and find a way to sell the reader software either to end-users who can import their already-purchased ebooks or license it to the publishers. Offer branded versions of the software to the publishers if it's that good and charge the publishers based on a percentage of the gross purchased through the software, which should be quite easy to track.
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I think it just uses your personal email history to create clusters of common recipients
I'm in the same boat as you. What have you been doing thus far to prepare?
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> oh boy. that's actually the mode that keep novices clueless about what's going on with the settings.

Of course. Criticizing it for not having Program mode stuck me as similar to saying "Nice sportscar, if only it had Automatic transmission". People buy high end DSLRs and don't take the time to learn what the various A-S-M-P modes do. It is the fault of the mode and the manufacturers who put P or Green modes on the SLRs, and recommend them as idiot proof modes.
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This is an amazing feature! (sarcasm) Thanks to it, I got accidentally cc'ed emails from people who obviously had no intention to cc me. One of them was a pretty private conversation.
I think this new feature is a monumental UX screw-up.
It's simply to easy to accidentally click on the suggested link.
I didn't mean to imply that one is stronger than the other. Instead that if they're well-designed, then they overlap (largely). Where they don't overlap is highly interesting.
Strange, works for me (maybe a regional thing?).

Anyway the name is "American Cafe", I'd be interested to know if you're able to search for it as well?
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A 200mm prime lens from Nikkor seems to only come in f/2, but the AF is like $5k.

Which one are you talking about? The Canon?
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Maybe so. Although, it would be a relatively small loss for them if they were to provide this ability and eat the cost not covered. Many companies have been successful at using a campus to spread adoption, gain market info, etc.
I'm pretty sure the state should exist to promote the quality of life of its inhabitants, not the other way around.
> There is also the factor of "crap, I somehow missed a payment and now I can't complete my coursework" when colleges are busy trying to get rid of computer labs because "everyone has a laptop".

Assuming you're doing most of your work in Google Docs, this wouldn't be a problem. ChromeOS is really just a fancier thin-client, after all.

In fact, for a lot of forgetful/irresponsible students, having their data in Google's cloud is a good way to save their asses from data loss/device theft.
Stepping up work on personal projects (website, OSS). I want to implement some algorithms in C once those outstanding projects are done.

What about you?
This looks to be a useful service and another nice extension to AWS. However after re-reading Jeff's post, I found:

All metrics are retained for a period of two weeks.

This is a severe limitation. For short-term server health and autoscaling it makes perfect sense. For higher-level system metrics and application metrics I'd love to see CloudWatch store my stats for at least a year.
Not really, but people like to think it does. Also the Panda update led many to believe they need a 2000 word article minimum. Which is just plain wrong.
Thanks for the detailed comment.

"Can we represent variable-length sequences (e.g. sentences) in a fixed-length representation (vector with k bits), without losing any meaning?" Actually, the framework isn't restricted to finite-dimensional vectors (in fact, we explicitly allow infinite-dimensionality). This is because I want to be able to represent the meaning of arbitrary texts, not just sentences, which I believe needs more than a fixed number of dimensions. See our paper http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~dc09aav/publications/sema... for an example of how this can be done.

I am aware of the connectionist literature, and you are right, I should have cited it. I think it is rather unfashionable in computational linguistics, which is no excuse, but perhaps explains the oversight.

I am also interested in empirical approaches, but I wanted to get the theory right first. We're now looking at ways of learning algebras.
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You're going to need a whole new breed of faculty to support this. Tons of schools are still shackled to Office. I have tons of PowerPoint slides that look like crap when opened with Google Docs, and look even crappier when exported from Google Docs so I can share them with people who refuese to use the cloud. The same holds true for Word and Excel documents.

I'm not saying it's impossible... but I don't think the current education system is ready for that. Explain to the average college student (a non-techie) why the slideshow their professor gave them won't open on their Google laptop.

OTOH, our school is experimenting with lab virtualization, so all you need is the frontend software. I can run full Excel on my iPad, so maybe that's a usable route.
"The message you requested is temporarily unavailable because this group has exceeded its download limit. Please try again later." kind of blows my mind. This is yahoo, not some weird server running on a 4.77MHz processor in Turkmenistan.
Ekiga doesn't pick up the other end of the call for me when I tried it a few weeks ago (the person is there but no sound output from their side of the call). I actually used Ekiga extensively for a while (I even wrote a partial patch for GCC 4.4 compatibility, this was ~early 2008) and could eventually get it to work most of the time, but it frequently had problems; it would crash, drop sound, leave the device busy from the last call, etc. Lots of problems with it. Went back to Skype.

I tried Wengo (now QuteCom) and couldn't get it to pick up the sound device or something like that. Maybe another PA bug, but PA has been a default feature of Linux desktops for 3-4 years or more by now. I don't remember the exact issue I had with it.

Pidgin isn't made for SIP/VoIP applications but I still haven't ever been able to get the gstreamer connector to respond correctly. The only IM client with which I've had success using video chat is Empathy, but it had a few issues too with closing devices/picking up subsequent calls.

Maybe it's just because I use Arch, but Skype is the only mostly-reliable video conferencing/SIP-like app on Linux that has actually been usable for me.
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I finished grad school in 2009 and have been using a Cr-48 since January. I am now thinking about how I will advise my kids. My oldest is 9, so a its a ways off, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if she is expected to have a computing device by high school. I would not recommend the Cr48 experience to a student. The lack of utility offline is very non-trivial.

During a month in Japan, the Cr-48 was literally nothing more than a flat surface to set my MacBook on. I left my iPad home with the family, and I really wished I had brought that instead of either laptop.

The smartphone/tablet operating systems are much better suited to mobile computing, specifically because they do support local storage. Syncing with the cloud is not the same as dedicating all storage to the cloud. Very, very different. In-browser apps like SourceKit are as close as it gets right now, but as soon as you pull the network connection, even SourceKit gets really flakey. I like SourceKit, but I think the supporting architecture just isn't ready yet.

I can't over-state how much this has made the Cr-48 a non-starter for me.

My full Cr-48 review here: http://wherein.posterous.com/
Sorry, this was actually a tongue-in-cheek comment. :)
Job listings rarely include salary information. I don't see anything wrong with them guessing that certain jobs are above $100K.

So if the job title is "VP, Technology", it seems logical to include it in their site. The example in the way-too-long article is "Marketing Manager". Managers can make over $100K.

I don't see why he's so worked up by this. Except maybe they compete with him.
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BMI is not a record company. It is a performance rights organization. Lots of independent label artists have their work registered through BMI (myself included & I get checks quarterly from BMI). This seems crazy/greedy to me, though. How about if I put my work on a website (which I do -- free for listening or downloading)? I would hope that's not considered public performance.
> It's really a shame that even now, after so many centuries of teaching math to people, the effectiveness of the process is still so utterly dependent on the teacher.

Maybe it's not a shame. Maybe it's just an indication that teaching is hard, like art, science, programming, and discovering new theorems, not easy like answering phones in a call center or being a short-order cook.
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AF in major brand name, probably. I just got a 2.8 135 for $20 on eBay and with people probably having something short of a full frame sensor, that's a pretty cheap 2.8 with "200mm" framing.

Not saying it's a comparable lens, just saying that the simulator isn't necessarily talking about a cost prohibitive situation.
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You're right - I talk about how to incorporate logical representations in my thesis, but the reviewers asked me to remove it as it wasn't complete enough. We had some more thoughts about the correct way to do this in this paper: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~dc09aav/publications/iwcs...
Problem with this is that I can buy and own an AMD C30 based ASUS netbook for $299[1].

With this I have access to Office, browser of my choice, can sync my iPod/iPhone/iPad to it, connect it to the TV in my dorm (HDMI), and play WoW.

So in 16 months I've made back the money, and have a generally all around better experience.

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Its a graduated labs thing called Don't forget bob
Here is the original press release
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-in-labs-suggest-mo...

It uses your own history, and no one elses.

So nope - no security issue.
Just connivence.
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What? How would they not have access to people you've emailed on other domains? You're sending mail through their system.
This is why you should use Skype. The only phone service not based in the US... oh, wait a second.

Seriously, though, I wonder if the FBI can eavesdrop on a Skype call. It seems like it would be damn near impossible because it is peer to peer and encrypted.
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Let's say you're having an affair. Hypothetically of course...would this then show your wife your new "friend"?
This was ages ago. Does anyone know what happened? Was the confidence justified? Can we learn anything from their experience?
I don't use torrents anymore, but there was a time when I did, and I would probably be on this list. Not sure they want to pick a fight with 23k people.
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When they can railroad through just about any piece of law they want (in the interest of 'national security'), they're not exactly bound by law.
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The the lens calculations are a whole 'nother ball of wax, but here's the quick skinny on the exposure value system:

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Exposure value: Ev

Aperture value: Av = log2 (f^2)

Time value: Tv = log2 (1/t)

Speed value: Sv = log2 (0.32 * ISO)

Brightness value: Bv = subject luminance in foot-Lamberts
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This is hardly innovative. MSN was using a similar deal to sell their dial-up service in 1999. It failed then too (since it was a bad deal overall and people who don't have the credit to buy a $499 PC are prone to defaulting on their debts)
I'm not sure how much money they have made over the time before Apple imposed a 30% fee on book sales and the like, but I fail to see why they couldn't port their app to another platform. You know, instead of kicking the sand around and calling it quits.
I don't believe that's correct either. I'm guessin your source for Apple's policy is this:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html

But this policy only applies to subscriptions, not to purchases. In particular:

>Publishers set the price and length of subscription (weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, bi-yearly or yearly).

does not sound like it is in any way compatible with the book world's agency model.

Edit: found an Ars Technica article here:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/apple-responds-to-...

but it seems that this policy was unclear even at the time according to the terms, and it's certainly not enforced with the Kindle app, so it's unclear what's going on here.
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