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> They have one of the best pitches for hiring: "we have some of the smartest engineers" is an easy sell.

I actually didn't get that impression when I read (and heard) their hiring pitch. To me, their pitch was "the people who work here are geniuses and you have to beat them to be recognized. Oh did we mention they are the best in <insert continent>?" Not exactly as humble as saying "come and work with brilliant people. you too can have a massive impact."
Completely agree. Showing a 24fps movie at an interpolated higher framerate is like taking a photo shot using Kodak Tri-X film showing its beautiful grain (eg: http://www.1point4photography.com/images/02010001.jpg) and digitally removing the grain from the photo. It would completely ruin the look the photographer intended.
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2. JFDI -
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Agreed. Also I'm not going to get a fussing child to sit behind me, spill coke and nachos on the floor, and burn $25 at the door before watching movies at home. Even though that's how movies are 'intended' to be viewed.
It would indeed be interesting if MS rediscovered native code and C++. Might actually make want to develop for Win32 again (at least some time when I have the choice not to).

On second thought...naah.

Just watched a coworker waste half a day because Windows/Microsoft Update quietly installed conflicting versions of the C runtime libraries on his developer box. So the executables he built wouldn't run on some random subset of the target machines.
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Since the introduction of C#, I was under the impression that Microsoft would be more than happy to see C++ die off. But here we have

"It seems from another Microsoft job posting that Microsoft is really pushing the idea that C++ will be key to building applications for the coming version of Windows."

Unsurprisingly, the Delphi developers are coming out in full force in the comments in this article.

To be honest, the idea that Microsoft will make C++ the favored language for development for Windows is surreal to me. What the heck is going on with the C# team?
why the humans think they have rights to punish or keep under control? This planet isn't exclusive property of humans. Humans are only guests here, vicious, polluting, killing everything they could. Cats are much happier than they roam free. Don't like your car being pissed on? Get a garage, moron.
And consider P.R. China have S-70Cs already
And what are your thoughts on the method?
That happened 10 years ago, sure. And still happens in a lot of places but these places just follow: Once some major voices go "Yeah, higher education is no big deal", these places will start considering other things.

I've been sending emails about job opportunities as crazy lately and I am really glad that the majority of the people I talk to ask me for samples of my work in terms of coding and or project design rather than instead of exams results.

And it's sad that I don't have a lot of things to show because I've been thinking that I'll be okay just by doing the silly coursework.
I knew Derek briefly on a professional level and knew he had cancer but we lost touch. Seeing his post here was how I learned he passed, he'd be honoured to know so many people care and that his words will live beyond him.
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From the contract as linked above by anigbrowl:

"If Patient does prepare commentary for publication about Physician, the Patient exclusively assigns all Intellectual Property rights, including copyrights, to Physician for any written, pictorial, and/or electronic commentary. This assignment is in further consideration for additional privacy protections provided by Physician. This assignment shall be operative and effective at the time of creation (prior to publication) of the commentary."

But it is fair to point out that you are correct that there are many non-copyright related clauses as well. You just aren't right about it being unrelated.
Thank you. Well stated.
Paul, could you explain here or through a private e-mail what your company Matygo is doing and how it is a catalyst? The tagline on the blog is a tease :).
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@SEV We're only forcing the issue right now you when we see you come from an IP you haven't used in the past few weeks (if you disable logging logins this might mean immediately)."
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"iTunes for your git repos" is a great way to describe some of this software. Well said.
It is a personal observation and I might be wrong, but why would it be regarded as sexist?
There is no way to detect HD contents past the current write. It has never been demonstrated that anyone has done it, and data recovery companies will not recover your disk if you accidentally erase the blocks. The misconception that you can do that comes from a misreading of a paper by Gutmann that only applied to an obsolete disk recording method in the first place.

The reason people use methods other than 1-pass erasing is because of marketing thinking that more passes looks better on the product features. Or because the IT people enjoy buying heavy machinery so they can destroy stuff with it.
Thanks a lot for suggesting the journal. Its my job to narrow down my search. We are pitching for a government project and hence we need strong positive evidence.
I'm curious what the sources would have to gain by leaking this information? In the Reuters article it says they had "direct knowledge of the discussions", why would they risk their jobs to leak something like this? I don't get it.
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I wonder if Gordon Moore had worked for IBM instead of being an Intel founder, whether that number may have been a slight bit smaller.
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Maybe recommendation engines fail just because the math is crappy. Current scholarship in the field is pretty shallow and/or hackish.
What's their CAC, LTV and any other interesting metrics he is willing to share
So the gist of it is that I'll buy (or pay for) things online -- products and services -- using Bitcoins instead of my debit or credit card?
mumble has video planned (http://mumble.sf.net)

It is not p2p but that could be implemented separately AFAIK
Very much agree. I fully understand the scoping of "this" but that doesn't stop me from hating life every time I have to write "var self=this;".

In other languages I can put up with a reasonable amount of pain but "this" and dealing with loops in JS puts me over the edge.
The Windows team never fully bought into the .net strategy. The success of Windows 7 has finally given them the leverage to do what they've wanted all along.
I predict that, two years from now, it will be mentioned 28 times. And so on, doubling every two years. I call this trend "Moore's Law," because all such trends are eventually mislabeled as Moore's Law.
To be fair, the screen may have 1% of a theater's surface area, but the angle of view is more like 30 - 40% of what you get in a cinema.[1]

I agree that going to see a movie in a theater is superior to seeing one at home but that is no reason to dismiss the OP's very real issues with the default TV behavior. The whole point of this post is to educate people who aren't grumpy film snobs on how easy it is to improve the way your TV lets you watch movies and to point out that the incentives for selling TVs do not align well with actually watching a movie. Dismissing the author as a "grumpy film snob" doesn't make sense to me. His arguments seem completely valid.

[1]: assuming 40 foot wide screen sitting 30-40 feet away compared to a 4 foot wide screen sitting 10 feet away
Person-to-person video chat is a commodity. If there's a problem it is that there are too many solutions.
Facebook should Buy Skype not Google
Wow! I would never say something would fail because it has failed in the past. Things fail because they're not done right. Demand can be created (and destroyed). This list is a list of opportunities IMHO.
Looks interesting. I'll probably run through it, I need to brush up on Ruby... and I like the more-openness of it. The inability to converse before solving a problem has been a bit of a turn-off on Euler, IMO. I can see the reason for it, but there are times where I'd really appreciate a "cheat!" button aside from Googling - generally because I'd prefer it to not record that I solved it when I didn't.
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There were a total of 4 helicopters (including the Chinook), from what I've read. Two went in, while two others hovered nearby. Apparently, Obama himself asked them to have a backup plan: http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/03/obama-pushed-for-fight-...
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Things that people don't actually want.

But there are many examples of things and markets which at first didn't seem all that promising. But then someone made something slightly different (or radically different) and it actually made users happy.

So just keep trying.
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Why don't you invent it?
Although not the link for this story, the fact that this story broke in the NYT (not that surprising), with an explanation to attempt transistor design and functionality (incredibly surprising) is really uplifting. A good piece of purely anecdotal evidence against those who claim America is in perpetual intellectual decline. The general populace IS interested enough to try to understand complex ideas.
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DCS Black Shark is an excellent PC sim. Recommended, plus available on Steam too.

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/series/black_shark/

(Also, check out the A-10 sim too - it's from work they did with the US National Guard Air wing as a training simulator).
I up-voted this comment, because I liked it, but honestly, I first looked for the "like" button. Facebook's got a serious hold on me.
Its makes more sense for Facebook to buy Skype instead of Google. Here are some of my points.( snippets from my article).

•Enhance their messaging platform with support for Voice and Video powered by Skype. Off course Facebook can develop its own Voice and Video infrastructure. Too me it’s a stretch. Instead by buying Skype they get instant access to VoIP/SMS/Video features
•Support Voice/Video will boost the messaging platform, which doesn’t seem to have gained much traction
•With Skype Acquisition they also get QIK Live streaming capabilities. That’s an added plus
•Instant Access to more than 500 million users. The chances of Skype users having Facebook account are high. There might be an overlap
•Facebook can really become a global operator providing Voice/SMS/Video/IM communication to all its users. Off course PSTN access will still be short coming, a partnership with one of the operator can offset this shortcoming
•A Facebook phone becomes a reality. Most of the operators are moving towards 4G/LTE, it’s a matter of time that all Voice calls will be carried via IP network. With a partnership with one of the access network, Facebook’s ambitious phone becomes a reality. So constant monthly revenue for basic phone service becomes a reality. Voila!
•Patronize Innovation by opening up the Skype platform for developers (Telco 2.0 Platform). Something similar to Twilio, Voxeo etc
•Who said Facebook is only for Consumer market, with Skype acquisition they can venture into Enterprise market and become a threat to some of the incumbent Video/VoIP provider like Avaya, Cisco etc
•According to CDC Straw Poll 75% of the companies will adopt, Video Conferencing by 2012. Skype already supports consumer video conferencing which can be extended /enhanced for enterprise
•Voice conferencing is another big Enterprise feature. So armed with these powerful features, facebook can look beyond consumer market
•It makes sense to have different revenue stream instead of relying only on advertisements
•Everybody wants a piece of Facebooks social graph including operators. T-Mobiles recently launched Bobsled , a one touch calling within facebook. In fact Facebook can do a better job than Third Party service providers.
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the idea that Microsoft will make C++ the favored language for development for Windows is surreal to me

What language do you think they develop their own first-tier apps and the operating system itself in?

There are some commercial apps and parts of MS applications written in the .Net languages. But still the heavy lifting is done in native C++.
Cool, more $$$ down the drain just to kill one man in someone else's country. Good stuff.

It looks like an oversized UAV more than a helicopter.

I also like how computer geeks ignore the politics of the situation and get distracted by shiny things ;p
That reminds me how pissed I was when they released The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on BluRay. One of my favorite movies in hi-def! Then I started watching it. I've seen VCDs with more grain than that. I stopped it after about 15 minutes and put on the DVD instead. The company that transferred that film should never be hired again by anyone.
No only does HE give you a full /64, but they'll also route you an entire /48 if you click the "allocate" button on the tunnel properties page.
Am I the only one who had to double check that this article was not, in fact, written on April 1?
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I think that's more because those apps were already written in C++ long before C# was even dreamed of.
If you have a TV near by that has the feature, watch a movie and toggle the motion smoothing every few minutes. It's pretty obvious.
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Huh, what is this 'soundcard' thing he's talking about...

I haven't used a soundcard for more than 5 years. The last soundcard I bought was an SB AWE128, which I think was something like 10 years ago... After that, the motherboard integrated sound became pretty OK, at least for games and mp3 consumption, and from what I heard the SB cards were no longer getting better.

Sure, if you're a musician you might have other requirements. Or if you invest in quality headphones and quality music files (not lousy old mp3s :).
That's not very smart considering that a lot of people won't be able to lockin to their email to verify their emails because they don't have access to the login details of their email because they haven't verified it.

And why the hell didn't they use scrybt in the first place? For a company so paranoid, that seems to border on neglect.
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you are correct. but i was not saying anything about the SIM card theft. i was talking about in which case stealing a stradivarius might have it priceless value ignored by the judge.
Yeah 1Password is pretty awful when you consider the amount of features you get with LastPass like multi-factor authentication. 1Password relies on Dropbox. Your passwords are all stored on your computer. Granted they're in an encrypted format, but if you have a jerk for a room mate they could copy your encrypted files, key log your vault password, and have access to all your passwords.

On the other hand, if you get my LastPass password you better have my grid too (I keep it online so I can access it wherever, password protected). Additionally LastPass is working on SMS codes for login.
Unfortunetely, most of the population in recent years are perfectly happy with their crappy earbuds, because they haven't tried anything better.
I feel like a good recommendation engine would be based on browser history. Google would be a in a prime position for this.
We got our LED Samsung last year, and one of the firs things my wife (and I've noticed, but tried to get it) was the 240Hz smooth thingie. She hated it, she said all movies look like a game, theater, etc...

Okay, it's cool technology to speed up the frame rate (and some video games would be using such in the near future, some are to some extent)... But not for movies.

While games would always have difficulties reproducing true motion blur (because you won't know where you are going), movies captured that very well - do a still shot, and you would see the motion captured....

http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/graphics/x_motion.htm

Anyway thanks for the great page!
Many people doing serious audio work use Firewire interfaces. PCIe cards are certainly still used, moreso with higher-end setups. I've seen setups that can get around 4ms of round-trip latency, which is quite impressive.
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As I'm usingn DPD for this book, I'm happy to hear that!

P.S. Would you mind getting in touch with me? I have a script to share with you guys.
Ask HN: what do you do when you're feeling unmotivated?
I'm interested in getting your input on this topic as I'm sure many of you have struggled with and overcome this.

As for me, I'm feeling a sudden lack of motivation likely due to burn-out: I just finished a really tough semester and I'm trying desperately to launch my web app in the next few weeks (which has been already pushed back considerably). It might have something to do with the fact that the part I enjoyed (server-side scripting, database design) is done and now I have to work on other parts I don't necessarily enjoy (aesthetic design, page layout, etc).

What says HN on this topic?
It's a nit worth picking; I am ever-so-slightly hearing-impaired (congenital) to the point where I only need the $80 Bose headphones instead of the $300 imported-from-Europe headphones for my audio work, and motherboard sound cards are fine for quality but horrid for latency.

Everybody's got their own needs. :3
Conformity = cool, got it.
this is the hacker version of bambi. which isn't necessarily a "bad thing." it will be interesting to see how the "writing blogs from beyond the grave" niche of editorial programming will evolve over the next five to ten years.

how many of you have "death cron jobs," a set of programs that go off in the event of your death?
If they want you then, they want you now; give them a shout.
saying that craigslist is dead... the person probably never tried to buy a (cheap) used car or a rent an apartment.
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I don't want to take the time to upload this OS, and have no way to back it up should things go wrong. Having a DVD I can pop in and a few minutes later, I'm good to go. Reloading the entire OS does not seem fun. What would be ideal would be if I could get Lion on a USB drive like you can with a MacBook Air. Or even better, a special device with Thundebolt. I'd pay more to be able to install the binary faster than I could downloading it, or through my DVD drive.

edit: I know that when you back up your hard drive, you back up your OS as well. Having said that, if my computer gets corrupted, I don't want to lose everything.
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I used a bithead on my computer with good headphones and FLAC/Apple Lossless files and it was nice, both linux and windows recognized the bithead right away but once that broke my headphones just got plugged in straight to the computer and the amplification isn't really a factor and not enough difference is head by my ears to make me go out and buy another bithead.

Soundblaster is pretty awful now, plus it doesn't even work on linux but my last card was a soundblaster as well probably around '05.
The Skype app on Android is really only barely functional, and what is more, the total lack of support or interest in fixing bugs from their side is almost comical. A couple of months ago I fixed a problem where the sound was coming out of the back speaker rather than the earpiece, a problem that seems to affect many people.

I located the problem and fixed it using baksmali/smali. I then opened a ticket on their public Jira server describing the problem, solution, and even attached the patched .apk. Months later they still haven't merged it into Skype proper, even though it's literally a two-line fix. In the meantime loads of people cannot use Skype on their phones.

The fact that a company that is supposed to be worth 1 trillion USD doesn't have the manpower or interest to fix such a simple bug that totally breaks their product for a lot of people should tell us something. From the outside it looks like all the skilled people have left a long time ago, and I wonder if they'll be able to maintain their market position like this.
skype is only a good option if they want users. because the only appeal of skype is the userbase. really.

if facebook has the penetration everyone believes they have, skype would be irrelevant. buy any other media streaming company with an actual decent codec and the rest is commodity.
And that, right there, highlights why all of my passwords aren't kept with their (or any) service - for many, it just introduced a single point of failure. Imagine being locked out of every website you have an account on, just like that.

Nope. I'll make strong passwords on my own and encrypt my own copies, thanks.
Nice to see a company so transparent about situations which could easily have been hushed down.
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During my physics practicals for my high school final exam, I had to measure the voltage of a Daniel Cell using a Dry Cell (1.5V), a 2metre length of wire and a bunch of other stuff.

The only problem... the dry cell was dead, so only carried 0.8V or something. So, my results consistently showed that the Daniel Cell had a PD of 1.7V (it's supposed to be ~1.1V).

The examiner came up with a brilliant solution to "fix" my data. Switch the labels on the data columns.
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And yet no one addressed my point. Vote me down, druggies.
Ah, physics, the slower cousin of mathematics. How I weep for you.
Perhaps what Facebook want is all of Skype's customers' credit card numbers. Linking them with Facebook accounts may help boost all of their future 30-percent-comission endeavors.
I like the overview, although I'd vastly prefer a list of startup ideas that persistently succeed.
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Damm they are incredibly expensive - prgmr has servers 4 times the size for the same price.

Add a very bad customer service (migrating paying customers is just not acceptable) and I can't see any reason to stay with them.
I know cross-platform solutions carry a lot of stigma, but MonoTouch is the most compelling solution I've seen to reuse code across iOS, Android and WP7.
Sounds like Nor1's model for upgrades is one step ahead in the transaction process which makes payment and overall decision making much simpler, leading to higher conversions. Something to ponder...
Like learning how to program, I think it's a mistake to look at a finished product, go "I want my project to look like that!" and then try to deconstruct the end result systematically.

I'd suggest forgetting the "oh pretty!" aspect of design, and just focus on simplicity, both on aesthetics (What's simpler than a line to separate? White space!) and usability (Simpler than two clicks: one click). The basic principles of fonts, spacing, and color theory always apply, so start with getting comfortable with these techniques. The gradients, subtle shading, and translucency effects can come later and build on top of the basics anyway.