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i do! i write custom code for a small "consultancy" in geophysics (we're a handful of people from academia that somehow ended up developing software for people - and it doesn't really have to be geophysics, that's just where we started...).

my most successful project was an inverse problem for mining - taking a bunch of seismic traces and, from that, calculating a 3d map of the source structure (microseismicity - this technique is called SET (seismic emission tomography)). there's an abstract here - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AGUFMIN41A1352D (if anyone wants i can send them the poster, if i can find it!).

incidentally, the AMD OpenCL implementation worked fine on Intel processors already (and has done for a year or so now). i made some notes at http://www.acooke.org/cute/Developing0.html

it's very similar to cuda, but has a couple of advantages. first, it's really well supported on macs. second you aren't stuck with nvidia's hardware (their support is terrible - had a client stuck waiting on results for weeks because they wouldn't respond to issues that eventually turned out to be a failed board). the main disadvantage is that the associated tools/libs aren't as mature.

and a final piece of advice - if you have a finite budget, and don't need 64bit support, you get way better performance per $ using average gaming cards rather than their top-end GPU hardware (although i suspect we'll try out amazon's gpu cloud stuff soon and avoid our own hardware for projects that don't have huge data sets).
Are these guys reliable?

Not to prejudice only by name, but the word "cheap" makes me a bit nervous.
They demoed it using IE8 on Win7, but did he ever specifically state that it works only there?
In the IP sphere, free trade agreements are more often focused on the types of laws countries must put in place to protect (or limit, depending on your point of view :)) IP within their own country. So, for example, the US-Australian FTA requires that both countries provides for copyright to exist for at least the author's life + 70 years, or that the only grounds for the revocation of a patent are those that would mean the initial filing was invalid.

The USFTA doesn't automatically mean that Australian IP decisions gain legal significance in the US, or vice versa. For this decision to actually have any impact on Amazon's patent in the US, someone would have to litigate it. The Australian decision could certainly be used as evidence in that litigation (as the questions of novelty would be similar), but as noted about would not have any binding authority.
If you're using the HTTPS-Everywhere Firefox addon (1), or the HTTPS-Everywhere Squid redirector (2), you don't need to know/remember about the SSL versions of Wikipedia or Google. You're just sent there by default.

1.) https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

2.) https://github.com/mikecardwell/perl-HTTPSEverywhere
priceline was a good start at this years ago, but failed to disrupt as much as I'd thought it would. You're typically buying only one ticket at a time.

What they could do is expand to groups. For example, if I could create a signup site for a particular trip (RDU->LAX) and get X people to purchase from my site, we'd all get the deal at $Y instead of $Z.

I think this would throw off the current models airlines live by. If you and I each buy the same ticket on the same route, even just a few hours apart, we may pay different prices, because of the complex pricing models airlines use. Group/demand pricing would seem to make sense, but it may shake up the status quo too much, and since they own the data and the product for sale, there's little that could be done. I suspect groupon may be in a financial position to approach airlines about this to test some ideas, but it's a pretty big change to existing systems for any airline to 'experiment' at that level.
As snprbob86 already mentioned, you pre-allocate all the memory you will need, so GC never runs.
That's what I also thought at first, but the second question of the FAQ on the site lends itself to the interpretation that working at Apple was a "mistake". But yeah, the title is somewhat editorializing...
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Incidentally, I'm working on a language comparison which includes Perl and Python and I would be interested to see how Perl string handling is superior. Did you mean speed or syntax or both? I always thought that the Perl way is quite friendly if you have Unix background, but since Python does everything by function calls it's also fine.

As for exception handling, I guess it'll always be shorter in Perl since it doesn't really support exceptions...
Please change the title. No way does Bret state that you shouldn't work there. Just that he can't show you anything.
So why don't you start selling CSS with them too?
No; the larger sensor size of the Mamiya as a medium format camera will give less depth of field for a given aperture than the 35mm Nikon.

Otherwise you're right, so in the odd circumstance the poster has a Nikkor 50/1.4 medium format or Mamiya small format 50/6.3 then their depth of field characteristics will be as you said. I'm also pretty sure that even on 6x7 50mm @ f/6.3 wouldn't give DoF characteristics anywhere near 50mm @ f/1.4 on a DX sensor (as the extreme examples to artificially push them closer together), and they'd have a radically different field of view.
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so why would Tv mode be more educational than M (which I am guessing stands for Manual) which also allows for playing with shutter speed and ISO ?
I'm not sure about that. From their website:

However, BankSimple is not a "bank." We partner with chartered banks who provide FDIC-insured products, leaving us free to concentrate on designing the complete consumer banking experience, via the web and your smartphone.

What implications this has on their regulatory requirements, whether banking or money transfering, would be interesting to discover.
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Regulations can also be good for individual businesses, bad for their competitors and bad for society in aggregate.
It's a lot more systematic than in JavaScript, rather similar to Python's semicoloning rules.
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Reminds me of mortgage lead generation.

If you want to take people's names and then pass them on to mortgage brokers, LowerMyBills style, you have to register as a mortgage broker in almost all fifty states. Requirements vary widely from state-to-state but included obnoxious things like high fees, local residency requirements, and annual written tests.

The end result - mortgage lead generation didn't stop, but it became something that was difficult to legally bootstrap. You needed one hell of a GC, and he needed to have experience. Venture-backed companies had a big advantage in the space.

As long as the rewards are high enough, I suspect the same will be true here. Nothing great, but not the apocalypse.
Why is banking (specifically money transfering) different than other kinds of business? Seems to me that money transfer is a particularly easy business for the market to regulate. A failed money transfer is a lot easier to spot than, say, a dangerously defective physical product.
You know... If you look like a bank, walk like a bank and quack like a bank, you should obey the same regulations banks do.

Some laws exist to protect the establishment. Others exist to protect society from it. I am not sure where this one sits.
I don't think this would work mgkimsal makes a good point. When you ring up to get a price for a ticket from a reseller, they actively log into the airlines system to get the current price. The price could change from minute to minute based on supply and demand.

The problem you have with group buying tickets to airlines is that they need to sell those tickets, you cannot reserve space without paying for it. An airline would not set you aside x amount of tickets in the hope that you sell it.

I have done a website for a company that offers group tickets to resellers, they deal with BA. BA do not deal with their own group tickets, they use a company who sort all the headache out. That company take the order on behalf of resellers and they can reserve the space.

To make this work, you would need to ensure you booked months in advance and you could actually fulfil the ticket needs if you do get enough people on board.

I like the idea, the logistics would be a nightmare though
So here's a related question: How do you avoid having to do all the manual customer relations work yourself?

Is there a service you can pay to handle that? Some kind of helpdesk you can pay according to how many traffic (emails/phonecalls) they have to handle? Of course, for anything not already in the documentation, they'd still have to contact me for info, but that would dramatically cut down on the support time.
I'm really not sure what kind of point you're trying to make with that terrible comparison; those two companies couldn't be any more different.

Show me what European storefront sites looked like in 2001.
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Apart from a monetary contribution by a single co-founder I don't like to odds of uneven ownerships working well. Too much opportunity for bad feelings to develop on either side of the equation.
Copy and paste? Any! Learning from the code is one thing, but just taking it is wrong and illegal.
I'm still reading the ICO report. It does talk at some length about what kind of measures are needed to comply with the coming legislation, and emphasises that the rule is about privacy protection, and that uses of cookies that don't build up a picture of users aren't what it targets.

The legislation does look bad for startups whose business plan revolves around accumulating data on users or selling targeted ads, but the ICO report looks pretty aware of how cookies are used in practice and not at all the "ignorant intervention" that the article describes.
Also, the following reviews doesn't look too encouraging:
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Maybe, but I don't think that's where the OP was going. My understanding of the OP was that instead of, say using the large S symbol to mean integral, why not use this type of notation:

integrate(start, end, function)

Of course, I can think of a few problems with this. The large 'S' symbol is understood by everybody, regardless of their language, is one advantage of symbols that comes immediately to mind.
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good points. i know this is going to be very tough sale to airlines but still believe that if someone will be able to offer some win-win deal and partner with some (or maybe just one) airlines it might be huge.

airlines want to make more money and sell more seats, while not decreasing current sales. while some segment of buyers are interested in cheap deals - and have very flexible schedule. I am sure someone can find some smart scheme to balance these needs in win-win solution. This may be "last second" un-guaranteed purchases of free seats on flights, group purchases or something else.

Anyway these are just my 2c, i dont have any experience in this field, but if someone here does - i'd love to use this kind of site.
Surely that goes for employees at any salary level be it $10K, $100K or $1000K?
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That's sufficient, really. China's firewall can be penetrated, it's just too much of a bother for the average citizen - which suffices to maintain stability.
ah yes, the Zip-drive. I remember those... shudder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
Wait, if you launched Threadbox why are you asking to be hired for it? I don't understand.
Yep, BankSimple doesn't have to apply for a regular banking license because they don't hold the actual deposits. (See SmartyPig for an example of a startup in the market that uses the same 'we don't hold the deposits' strategy.)

Piggybacking off of someone else's banking license isn't trivial, but it beats the delays and capital requirements associated with starting a bank.

Of course, they still have to deal with all the internal industry regulations in order to offer things like ATM cards that work across ATM networks. Those aren't regulatory requirements, but when you're dealing with VISA-size entities they might as well be.
Replaced my IP with 123.123.123.123 in the paste below

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{"suits":[],"ip":"123.123.123.123","guilty":"false"}

mike@gum:~$
Not sure what you mean. It works just fine on my iPhone. Maybe you need to update your iOS version on your device?
This is just the nature of the business. I have nothing in my portfolio from 2007 until now. None of my work is as interesting or potentially valuable as anything I might have done at Apple - mostly UIs for games then UIs for banks. But all of it is under NDA.
No it is not worth it in 90% of our cases, we monitor traffic religiously and you greatly compound your cost to chase what (according to out stats) is less than 5% of the market, when you compound that by the fact that you are not going to convert that entire 5% the numbers are dismal for adding the cost and complexity to a project.

We have found that one average that building in fallback modes adds 15% to 20% of cost and time to a project. We have also found that that money roughly equates to a mobile version of the web front end, which we see a higher market conversion percentage, in other words, that money would be better spent chasing mobile or adding features and revenue streams to an existing web app, than to chase a dwindling market of last gen technology adopters.

When a client of ours absolutely insists on providing a noscript site for that segment, we tend to opt for browser sniffing and segmenting that traffic to a completely separate site built for those clients. We have found that keeping the noscript version and the full version separate greatly reduces the maintenance cost of both.
i am not saying its easy. in fact i think its actually very-very hard thing to do. but if someone can do this - this is something i am willing to pay for. and i am sure its doable in some way, but not sure if new startup can do this or it will be a feature of some big player (kayak, groupon, etc..)
Not really, I already brought the movie.

Or rather I didn't because it wasn't yet available outside the US.
> I believe that so-files must have been

should, no? Considering you can not — as far as I know — compile to shared libraries in Go.
I've never done this kind of programming around GC, is manual memory management in a garbage collected language any better than manual memory management in a language without GC?

>I'm not so sure there are applications which simply cannot tolerate garbage collection.

From your post, it sounds like "tolerating garbage collection" is the same as making sure it never ever happens. The application clearly doesn't tolerate GC, the programmer tolerates the language enough to bend over backwards to avoid one of its central features.
Just to provide a counter-point, from a usability point of view I found that article terrible.

On the 1920 pixels wide screen at work, more than half the horizontal width became buttons (previous and next). As soon as the mouse pointer was outside the white background for the linked-to article, a click lead to navigating away from the article.

It took me at least two or three times of wondering where the fsck the article I was reading went, before I realized what was going on. Apparantly randomly clicking on what looks like (and ought to be) passive whitespace is a bad habit, on today's web.
A little confused by the line: 'Women who sit 6 hours a day are 40% more likely to die'

Given that dying is a certainty, I feel there's something missing from that sentence.
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I am always impressed by this when I read it--not because of the cars but the motivation. Here's a company that is so desperate to increase its ad revenue that it's willing to build robot cars so that it has that many more eyeballs to serve up advertisements to.
"Implicitly allow it with terms and conditions"

The ICO report says that is fine, provided that it is (i) sufficiently informative and (ii) you provide an update to existing users about the change in terms.

I'm wondering about the following: what if I wrote a bit of Javascript serving up a picture of a pile of cookies during normal use, which can be clicked on to to call up a pop-up window describing how my site makes use of customer-tracking software with a dialog allowing the user to switch to untracked mode. Untracked mode could be implemented by issuing -you guessed it- a cookie, but one which is only used to check that the user opts out, and so is "strictly necessary" for this approach.

It's sailing close to the wind: there's no positive act of consent; but by making it easy to see the state of privacy and change it, it is arguably more privacy-friendly than a T&C. I'm tempted to try it on my site and get feedback.

The ICO report also talks about use of browser settings to govern privacy.
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Another thing is that any accident that an autonomously driven car gets into will be blamed on the car automatically, before any information is available.

In other words, it probably only takes an accident, not even culpability, to get demonized.
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Pascal and related languages that include various flavours of object Pascal like Delphi and other languages like Modula-2 and Ada are there. There were probably a bunch of them in the late 1980s.

The thing is for this kind of language C/C++ won. None of the others offers any substantial advantages over C/C++ so that's what stuck.

C for systems programming and C++ for applications programming could well be the default 20 years into the future just as they were 20 years in the past.
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> Things that need to be really seriously realtime

Real-time garbage collection (hard and soft) is not a work of fiction. Hell, the first papers on real-time GCs were in the 70s.

> I think these cannot use stuff like GC because there is no room for the slightest deviation in performance.

IBM's Metronome (Bacon & al) is a hard real-time GC.
> Traditionally, the US and the UK have taken a more relaxed approach to privacy. But the legislative and interventionist tendencies of Europe -- and of France and Germany in particular

Now, this is the first time in a decade that I couldn't avoid a smug face and tiny bit of affection formy home country..

Seriously: As others pointed out here, this is a targeted law against privacy breaches. If your company builds its business model on user tracking you'd better ask them to opt in.

I seriously cannot even understand the negative sentiment.
It believe he's got a bad kind of metric. Tracking "hours I spent thinking hard about computer science research problems" will reward you for spending more time, but not necessarily delivering results.

Why not put up all of your problems on a piece of paper and cross them out when you've solved them. If you can solve all of your problems in one 30 minute block, you should.
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Well, losing all your customers' money is certainly an innovative way to run a bank.
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I'm sure for someone in this position it could get pretty frustrating to work at a place like Apple. On the one hand, you could invent something that could end up being used on a device used by hundreds of millions of people. On the other hand, that bar, purposely, is insanely high, so the likelihood that will happen is low. Corporate security aside, that just seems like the nature of the game at a company that values (and delivers) on a world class user experience.
No semicolons at the end of lines. For me, that's a killer feature ;-)

Now, seriously, it has some nice constructs like goroutines and channels. Go check http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
Or Rapidshare, megaupload, etc, etc

The diabolical genius is that (as far as I understand it) you can avoid the enormously high payouts because you don't share it with anyone you just download it. The services are in the clear as long as they respond to DMCA requests and nobody goes after the uploaders.
Blackberries do this.
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No I don't think most regulations are good for society in aggregate, including building codes. What if we had software codes to make sure we write secure software, would that be a good or a bad thing?

Take this payments law for example. Its intended objectives are admirable but I don't believe it will accomplish them nor benefit consumers in the long run.

By artificially imposing a high barrier to entry (licensing fee), the consequence will be to encourage the formation of monopolies.

Furthermore, payment companies will have a lesser incentive to secure their service or build a reputation of trust since consumers will be led to believe that "all payment companies must be secure since they are all approved by the government". What was once an important competitive advantage will lose a lot of its importance.

There are probably other perverse effects I could think of but my point is that things are much more complex than they might seem.
But isn't it possible that the IPO could go very well, then MS would have a bigger price to pay?
Yes, thanks for reminding this essay. I think though that de-duplication is a lawyer oriented smoke-screen. It is based on a complete misunderstanding of Colour because Colour tracking happens at the wrong abstraction level. Colour does not exist in the computer but it is a property of the whole process. Therfore tracking content ownership doesn't happen at the bit-level of storing a copy or a pointer, but it is rather the consistency of the owner/content association.
Why, the beautiful all-black page I get loading it without js enabled is quite elegant. I might well not have read the page, but I certainly appreciated it.
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