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Might want to check the Joose object system (http://joose.it/ #joose on irc.freenode.net), highly inspired in the awesome thing that Moose (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/) is to Perl. There's even a port of KiokuDB as KiokuJS!(http://joose.it/blog/2011/01/13/introducing-kiokujs/) :)
If you go deep enough, shallow-water blackout can happen on the way back up. I don't know what could go wrong just doing laps a few feet below the surface, though, unless he simply stayed under until he passed out.
I guess I'm really disagreeing with the validity of the analogy. I don't think the situation with wristwatches is analogous to calculators. Wristwatches still retain many functional advantages over cell phones (e.g. hard to drop, always on, etc.) whereas calculators do not. In other words, a smartphone can completely subsume the functions provided by a standalone calculator. A smartphone cannot yet do the same for wristwatches, and hence the analogy is flawed.
The only thing that makes node.js hip is people who call it hip.

Using node.js isn't about being hip or cool, or whatever else you want to call it. It's about solving a problem you have.

Personally node.js has solved a problem I was having with a recent project that needed a Comet server, and since node is all async I got this server up and running in a few minutes. I was never successful with Apache or Nginx.

I recommend taking a look at this Stackoverflow answer as it outlines the benefits of node.js: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js/1...

Also I recommend watching Ryan's Introduction to node.js talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I
It seems plausible, but it doesn't explain some of their actions.

Example:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/10/riaa-jury-finds/

Why would they seek such large damages? According to your source, they believe on some level that these lawsuits won't deter piracy, and I find it difficult to believe that she will be capable of paying the damages in full, or that the win will offset the legal costs of Capitol records.

In fact, fast forward to the present, and we see that this has gone through several retrials (meaning she probably hasn't payed a cent to capitol records), and the damages have been upped to $1.5million.

So, what are the short term gains from these sorts of lawsuits, are the precedents they set enough to get damages from other suits?
Surprised by how worked up this has gotten people. Kyle is making an excellent point: do your job and be quiet, then go home. A lot of people make a fuss about doing their job and what Kyle is looking to point out is that it looks unprofessional when you complain or gossip on the job. Most people feel entitled to their job and therefore take advantage of it and sometimes the people around them. A professional would avoid such behavior and just do what needs to be done.
"Probably" is the key word. Counterfieters do an awful good job at making themselves and the product look reputable, and China could use some work on trademark enforcement. cf. the many stories of "empty" big-name ICs from Chinese distributors.
Open Source Developers diminish importance of pay by giving things away; society as a whole suffers a bit as a result...

By contrast, rock stars are paid handsomely.
I wrote a streaming media app and I request that permission so I can mute audio when a call comes in.

I don't need or want users' other personal details, muting audio on a call is just what good apps do. I hate how shady my app looks on the market when it's listed as requesting permission to get a user's IMEI and subscriber info.
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At least it's clear what he's saying, but I was surprised at this -- it puts Linus well and truly in the postmodern camp. He says ethics are completely relative and personal. (Which of course is not the case: if I try to kill someone, the cops aren't being "sanctimonious dick-heads" when they stop me.) Anyway, all this is off topic, but I was just surprised at Linus's relativism when he seems so "absolutist" about many other things, for example, how much C++ sucks.

Edit: OTOH, Linus is talking in the context of software licenses -- I agree with him that it can get holier-than-thou the way some folks push the GPL (not least its original author).
Looks to me like a picture (as opposed to text) - perhaps a map or satellite view?
Not answering the main thesis of the article, but I found this interesting:

I've made some googlefight-s. Turns out that Linus Torvalds has more google results than most of the absolute top pop/rockstars, (much more google results than John Lennon) Other famous open source developers are pretty 'weak' compared to famous musicians though, so Linus is an absolute outlier.

Ordered by 'num. of google-results popularity':

Britney Spears: 5730000 results

Michael Jackson: 5650000 results

Linus Torvalds: 3640000 results

James Hetfield: 1850000 results

Elton John: 1740000 results

John Lennon: 1560000 results

Jim Morrison: 698000 results

Jimmy Hendrix: 469000 results

Richard Stallman: 149000 results

John Resig: 43400 results
I have somewhat mixed feelings about Sarah Lacy (who I'll be seeing myself in a few days at the Big Omaha conference). I say "somewhat" mixed as there's a still small part of me that wants to continue to give her a chance rather than writing her off completely, hoping that she'll start doing better research and passing on the opportunities to turn out another hype piece.

The other part is tired of choking down the requisite salt shaker to read her articles or watch her speak.
Yes the bubble will burst. Just like the dot com bubble did. That does not mean that dot com is is dead.

I am not sure but I do think that Google has to at least make some sort of dent in the curation space.

Personally I am using google less and less because I end up with search results that are based on how well google was gamed rather than on the value of the content.

It's very hard to do algorithmic work that can't be gamed and thus the question at least to me is whether curation by humans will end up winning over recommendation by machines.
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All of that can be avoided by being hired at a smaller company.

But you are right, until you learn to play politics you are on the loosing side in any conflict.
It's good to know this stuff, but in my real-world usage of JavaScript, I've become a big fan of Backbone.js to help structure code intelligently, etc.
I was immediately draw to Clinton's expression too. I almost didn't notice Obama for a few seconds.

And for some reason; perhaps the contrast of his hair and skin tone against the light background; Obama almost looks like he was photoshopped in. (NOTE: I'm not a conspiracy nut, and I have every reason to believe Obama was in that chair when the photo was taken! It just looks weird to me somehow.)
It's not my method and I don't have any plans to implement it, I'm just parroting stuff I've heard about Khan Academy in use.

I think in your case the problem was multifaceted. First, it was a 3 hour video on Agile. Excessively long, probably boring, probably unnecessary (in my own experience, the agile methods are mostly to get managers to see the light, not the programmers). Second, there was probably little penalty for not watching it either. I've been through Scrum training, it was boring and "successful completion" mostly meant sitting in a room and not doing my actual job for a few days. Failing the course would have required more effort than completing it.

For schools, obviously they'll still be grading your work and ensuring mastery of the subject where not watching the lectures would probably reflect on homework and test scores pretty quickly as you advanced, they're also much shorter than 3 hours, where your attention is less likely to wander.
To me, "winning" in social sounds a lot like "winning" the war on drugs. It's a struggle for a concept, not a tangible objective.

Like most hyped tech, there's genuine value to social strategy. However, Google's core business - providing an information index - will be valuable with or without one.
I tried to search the first mentions of developers as rockstars. Indeed the "Developers are the new Rockstars" (beyond Open Source) is a motivation statement.
Interestingly, that was by far the statement I agreed with the most. At my company, all supervisors are engineers. The right supervisor and mentors will basically decide how much you learn on the job, and how far you will go.
I like the analogy - it works to a degree.

I'd say more like it covers the whole spectrum from solo musicians to garage bands that suck, to good garage bands, to "rockstars".

Sure, those working on super high profile projects can be like rock starts to the software community, not becuase they get lots of chicks, but they attain a following, but because their work is out there for everyone to see and use, learn from, and appreciate. Other aspiring programmers can say "Wow! I want to do that someday."

Those with real talent (including the ability to execute!) can rise to the top, even if just for a while. Solo people can create game-changing technology (eg: Bram Cohen / BitTorrent protocol)

But just like rock bands - you can also sit in your garage making decent music forever, having fun, but never becoming famous. That doesn't make you a rock star, but it still gives you practice, experience, and confidence.
materials science isn't science?

There are others.
No they are actually growing. Recently reached 100 million users. And don't think of it as a social network like myspace or facebook. It's rather different. On top of that they are actually in the black and have been for a while.
Its useless until it's critical.
AT&T's app sideloading ban makes Amazon's app store moot at present, and it certainly puts AT&T in a bargaining position to request Amazon implement these carrier specific blocks too if Amazon wants access to all these AT&T devices.
I switched from using dual monitors to using a single one. I found my productivity sky rocketed. With two monitors, my concentration was constantly being interrupted by switching between each monitor. With a single one (using Ubuntu, so multiple desktops) I'm able to use my keyboard entirely to navigate and work.

It really helps my concentration and productivity.
I really hope the tech industry starts taking off in Nigeria, because there seems to be quite a bit of misapplied computer expertise there.
He doesn't have a way with words unless "being rude" now means "having a way with words". Furthermore, his statement is logically incorrect (the best kind of incorrect): the sense of right and wrong is a general human trait, independent of race or culture. It can be altered by nurture, but it transcends it.

One can very well use it as an argument for why somebody else should or should not do something. e.g: One should not throw a hard-disk at Linus Torvalds because they might hurt him and that's just wrong...
I use LaTeX since I started grad school, so writing papers was the main motivation. I wonder how some people still write anything with equations using Word. I would use LaTeX exclusively, if wasn't for job requirements.
And what change would bring just shutting up about it? Say it, tell it, and change it. Don't all the people subject to the same crap as you deserve the change? Don't the good but misguided people (among some selfish and indolent ones) that have caused the problem deserve to know?

I think that airing your dissent is the _least_ you can do.
I don't necessarily know what book he's referring to, but the book that taught me solid state was Ashcroft and Mermin.

That's a book that deliberately starts out with the silliest possible model and then gradually introduces more and more sophisticated models until the book runs out of pages or your head explodes, whichever comes first. ;)

An important insight, however, is that the simple models are incredibly useful. When I was a teenager I used to fret that the teachers were showing me the simple models first because they were fools, or because they thought we were fools. But it turns out that they are doing so to call attention to certain important general features without distracting you with irrelevant detail.

My favorite class in all of science was Roald Hoffman's chemistry class, the highest numbered class in the Cornell chemistry department, a class which represented the point where chemistry and physics merge to become the same subject. And Hoffman deliberately used a relatively simple model of molecule-molecule interactions in a solid, the Hückel model:

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

Moreover, Hoffman would communicate in pictures as much as in math.
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Open source developers create free systems and building blocks for people to build business and other applications on top of. They lower the barrier of entry for new, money making ideas to come into the light and get a shot, rather than having the high barriers to entry that used to exist.
They also force continual innovation on the commercial software front - most things widely popular and commercial software will end up with reasonable, or often better, open source counterparts in some amount of time. (This applies more to underlying building blocks than finished products - there isn't a great market for an open-source alternative to Visio or Office - yes, we have dia and openoffice and a few others, but Office is still king. The main reason is, these aren't really building blocks that lead to more things - they are just continual maintenance nightmares for their vendors.
A browser, on the other hand, like firefox, was a HUGE undertaking, and was sub-standard for a long time, then it surpassed everyone, raised the bar, and caused everyone else out there to start amping up their browser strategy. If anyone falls behind in innovating and optimizing the browser as a useful, open platform, firefox will take up the slack.
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I do this, although only by saying

sudo cp hosts.play /etc/hosts

or

sudo cp hosts.work /etc/hosts

It's simple, and surprisingly efficient.
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The only problem with this method is that if you modify your hosts file, you have to modify both.
Congrats on your new position! I love Kahn Academy.

Do you think there's any chance that Sal will open up contributions to other teachers? I believe that Kahn Academy could evolve into a MUCH better tool if Sal focused on establishing the curriculum (and which videos and exercises need to be developed), and allowed other people to submit videos from across the internet.

While it's cool that Sal is the sole instructor, he's not the world's best instructor, and I'm sure the overall product could be improved through contributions of others. And you could go from 2100 videos to 10,000 videos a LOT faster if you allowed others to contribute.

Just my 2 cents worth.
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100% false. Used both. Now all programmers are in-house and 1 designer in-house (part-time), rest of design work outsourced. Not even close to the same comparison.
This is completely absurd and you should really calm down. Aside from 5-10 Fortune 500 CEOs, how many others can you name? You do understand that Silicon Valley's top VCs are rarely heard from, correct? There are literally thousands of companies in Silcon Valley that have more revenue than Twitter. I bet you can't name more than 50. Top bankers rarely get press. Can you name any? Or better yet, how many billionaires can you name among the thousands? We're not all Steve Jobs, nor do we want to be. Your idea of what it takes to succeed is bordering on asinine.
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This is silly, and dangerous (and not because of the tsunami). The plant will be exposed to hurricanes/typhoons, as well as be inaccessible in case of emergency, and is there a grantee that the spent fuel won't get into the water when a catastrophe occurs?
Well, the warnings are only shown once. Once you import the self-signed certificate into your keystore, it never bothers you again (unless the certificate changes).

This is the right workflow you should follow with self-signed certificates, it is similar to SSH. You need to accept the certificate once. After manually verifying it is the right one, you're even more secure than trusting on a CA...
It doesn't say Apple can prevent the resale, it says the buyer is not entitled to the educational pricing if they are buying the machine for the purpose of resale. The fraud is for the student to buy a machine under the pretext of using it himself, knowing full well that he is buying it for resale.

I'm sure it's either in, or incorporated by reference, that text that people don't read about accepting conditions of a sale.

In practice, Apple can't afford to sue every weasely kid who thinks he's entitled to free money for being clever. So they also restrict it to one computer a year and take their losses on the young criminal masterminds.
I don't think it's clear at all what the purpose of each is, especially if you were coming into jQuery fresh. I would have interpreted .prop as something more like .data.

The doc reads:
"The difference between attributes and properties can be important in specific situations. Before jQuery 1.6, the .attr() method sometimes took property values into account when retrieving some attributes, which could cause inconsistent behavior. As of jQuery 1.6, the .prop() method provides a way to explicitly retrieve property values, while .attr() only retrieves attributes.

For example, consider a DOM element defined by the HTML markup <input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />..."

The docs then go into the example on this thread.

Personally, I think that if this is the only specific situation we can think of, it probably wasn't worth introducing a method that parallels attr. As a higher-level library, jQuery ideally will do the right thing without the calling code thinking too hard about exactly what mechanism it's using to do it. (It does this with cross-browser issues, for example.) This was the case already with .attr("checked")...

So if I'm approaching jQuery for the first time, do I use prop or attr, and why?
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Awesome stuff being available there!
Gather everything needed for project. Turn off internet.
Does it have a timer to keep me from modifying it every 2 minutes?
They might or might not be underestimating, but it is an interesting experiment nevertheless with potentially huge impact. It's easy to be a naysayer in advance, but it worked out for Wikipedia.
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Perhaps I'm being needlessly grumpy, but I find it difficult to take advice about doing X from someone who is about to do X.

Do X for 3 years, then give advice to others on how to do it.
I would imagine there are plenty of ways to get a unique ID for a phone, by fingerprinting the system or saving a cookie, so Apple providing an ID in the API is not really an issue. These are the issues:

1. OpenFeint needs to lock down their DB

2. Phones are great for spying on people
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Now I'm confused, I thought they were ninjas. Or Pirates. One of those, I'm sure
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Take time spent reading about "productivity hacks", apply towards projects. Diminishing returns, people.

Just one suggestion: Write things down. Whether on paper or on a computer. Don't get too caught up in "having a system", though - it's WAY too easy to procrastinate by tinkering with your system.
Hi all,

Long time reader, first time submitter! I recently launched my first proper web app, tweetvaultHQ (http://tweetvaulthq.com/), which is a hosted personal archiving service for Twitter. A while back I was in need of a more effective way of accessing my own historic content on Twitter, so I created a very simple app that would periodically grab my tweets and store them. A friend suggested this would make a useful hosted service, so that is what it became.

tweetvaultHQ archives your tweets and favourites from Twitter, presenting them in an easily searchable interface. It features export options to get your data out in various formats, and also provides a bunch of stats on your tweeting activity that may inform or amuse in equal measure.

For me, it addresses two major needs: 1) giving better access to the content I've placed on Twitter and 2) giving me better ownership of that data, in the event of something awful happening to Twitter or my being otherwise unable to access that content. I've built up quite a collection of tweets over the last few years, and additionally have quite a bit of value in my favourites collection. I wanted better control over that data.

This is the first app I've produced to provide a service to the public, so this has been a real learning experience. Any feedback would be hugely appreciated - I've received some valuable advice already, including suggestions that I should raise the price (currently £1/$1.60 per month)! Several people have mentioned competitors to this app (a few self-install apps exist, such as TweetNest, and I'm aware of ThinkUp which has similar functions), but I'm not too worried about being a market leader right now, I'd just like to make enough for lunch now and again, and learn what I can.

I've got plenty of features on the roadmap, but feel free to suggest any you desire. If you like the app, let me know. If you don't, I'd still like to know! Many thanks for reading.
Not literature, but the Bose QC15 noise cancelling headphones work wonders for my productivity. Also, completely clearing my desk is surprisingly helpful.
I read an essay, I think by Isaac Asimov, where he described a graph like this as a "shotgun curve"
I was forced (by the client) to use custom scrollbars for a project about a year ago. Ended up using jscrollpane, a jquery plugin. This seems like a better solution.
I used LaTeX when writing papers for my PHD thesis. After that, I haven't really touched it. It is great for scientific books and papers (especially the $math$ is superb), but it is just too complicated for the usually simple documents I write. These days I prefer RestructuredText, Markdown.
For reference I tried to put a range of $ into your form (30 - 50), and it gave me an unfriendly error and cleared all of the fields.

You might throw some client-side validation on those fields to help rebels like me who can't follow simple directions. =)
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Turns out that Linus Torvalds has more google results than most of the absolute top pop/rockstars, (much more google results than John Lennon)

Though to be fair, John Lennon wasn't very active on mailing lists, and didn't even have a blog.
You should be able to use an asynchronous cron scheduler to implement something like Pomodoro with this. Combined with the right notification tool this could work quite well.
You think it will cost more than $141 million per year? Somehow I doubt that.

Number based on data that 4700 institutions use the data from web of science, multiplied by $30000 per year cost.