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I appreciate that symbols can be an odd way to represent every day quantitative problems, but I have never had a problem with it. Sure, some people do, but this guy seems really royally pissed off at ordinary mathematics.

I have always been a proponent of having more than one way to teach a certain subject. Studies have shown that different people perceive and interact with information in very different ways. The current "one size fits all methodology" to teaching is lame, to say the least. So a new way of teaching people mathematics is welcome.

But that's not to say the old way didn't work for people like me. If this site kills math so that English majors can cope, I hope someday someone will kill poetry so that I can cope.
For how it was ranked:
http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/2011-jobs-rated-methodo...
For my laptop (OSX) I use CrashPlan plus[1] for minute to minute backups of my entire home folder where all my data lives. I also use Dropbox but that's more for collaboration than backup. I occasionally boot with up with my OSX CD and use Disk Utility to do a complete disk clone of my solid state laptop drive onto the original factory 2.5" DeathStar drive. My projects live in git and are pushed to GitHub and Email and contacts live at google and sync to my iPhone via their active sync implementation.

For my windows machines I used to use Mozy but it does not stay out of the way as well as CrashPlan so if I cared at all about what was on my windows computers anymore I would probably use CrashPlan there as well.

[1] http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/crashplan-plus.html
Was just looking into Deja Dup yesterday as a better alternative to copy/paste. If it's good enough for you two...
Highly recommended reading by the same author: http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk

(To pique your curiosity: read it to understand why Hipmunk is awesome - there's much more to it than just that of course)
Negativity always helps, right?

These exist. If you really have a problem finding them, look for European based companies. The work/life balance there is much more reasonable.

Kill it doing your 40 hours, and no one will have any complaints with you. If you're REALLY passionate about entrepreneurship, you won't be there for more X years anyway (different for each person) so making a 30 year career out of it doesn't really matter.

Again, these exist -- just filter through opportunities correctly and stay confident. If you do good work, you shouldn't have any problem finding such a fit.

And with these gas prices, a unicorn would be sweet too. I'll google what's available later.
This is awesome: http://worrydream.com/SimulationAsAPracticalTool/
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You can try this yourself, it looks pretty good to me. The webkit guys seem pretty impressed.

https://twitter.com/beverloo/status/67946771208343552
I had great hopes for Chrome OS... that was before I actually used it. It is literally just a browser. After using the iPad and I'm assuming Android 3.0 is just as good if not better. Does the world really need Chrome? If I'm going to have a notebook, desktop or server I will run Ubuntu, any other flavor of Linux, OS X or Windows. On a smartphone or tablet iOS and Android, maybe Web-OS, QT, whatever Windows 8 will be if they ever get their act together. Has the time for Chrome OS passed before it ever arrived?

Blog post of my experience with Ubuntu and Chrome OS if interested: http://www.rakkhis.com/2010/07/preparing-for-chrome-living-w...
Like many other folks I am on a Mac, so I have a Time Machine with 1 TB for local backup and I use CrashPlan family plan purchased around XMas when they were offering a really cool discount and got 3 years paid for.
I really like CrashPlan: it took a while for the initial backup on my iMac but after a few weeks all my data have been backed up. CrashPlan is now installed on all the mac in my household (wife MacBook Pro and her business iMac).
I had at one time to restore a few files for my wife's iMac and everything went smoothly so quite happy with the service.

I use DropBox too but I don't consider it as a backup solution rather a file sync solution.
Our team uses video chat a lot. With a highly distributed team actually being able to see the people you talk to I find to be worth a lot.
This seems like an interesting idea, but the samples provided by Adobe are frankly terrible. The text just cuts off at an arbitrary point when the regions run out of room.

I have no idea how you would use this to lay out articles of varying length on multiple screen sizes – unless you use JavaScript to dynamically generate regions. And if you do, the whole point of doing this through CSS is pretty much lost.
Mathematician falls into the 10 least stressful jobs (at #8) after years of also being in the 10 best jobs in America (at #2):

http://ti.me/ivYEZr

http://on.wsj.com/g7MTWh

Both lists also contain Software Engineers. Does that mean math majors (esp. computer oriented ones) should take more software engineering classes? SE helped me (although I was surprised how much), I encounter Use Cases and Requirements on a daily basis here. I majored in Computational Mathematics.
Do you usually ask the same question to white Canadians as well ("Where are you from?", "Oh, where are your parents from then?")? It would be safe to assume that white Canadians are generally confronted with those questions with much less frequency than Asian Canadians are.

May be some do have a sense of self-hatred like you said, but I would guess most people are simply annoyed by those questions so they respond adversely. Like others have mentioned already, it's really frustrating from a point of view of a person who might be a 3rd generation Canadian, as the questions can make him/her feel like perpetual foreigner. Why can't you take "Canadian" as an answer when those people have lived there for all their lives and might have never even visited their grandparents' country of origin?

As you've said you're an immigrant, your ethnicity and the fact that you're a first generation immigrant might be a big part of who you are (if you do treat them importantly, that is). For second generation Canadians and on, that might be not so true. It's not that they are embarrassed by their respective ethnicity, but it just doesn't play a big part in their lives in their thoughts.
ext. drive for normal stuff. Dropbox for more important stuff
Talking about Math as a single subject is like talking about Sports. Chess, Boxing, Baseball, Snowboarding, Curling, and Luge may have some things in common. However, suggesting that DiffEq and Fractions are equally meaningless to most people seems just as out of place as assuming a chess grandmaster is also a champion snowboarder.
Met a guy last year who worked on the last major version of Skype and he admitted it was garbage. He said the new version (not sure if it's out) is drastically better. Besides the quality of the client software, I'd hesitate to say they were in a "death spiral". MySpace is in a death spiral, Skype not so much.
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I am working on a project Comment Reader.
It's a tool to follow updates on comments through different sites or singles pages.

In my view the biggest value it would have that you can track comments from sharing portals like reddit,HN and others.

Idea came by other person who don't want to subscribe email updates after leaving comment in some regular site but want to know if there are replies.

I have told about it to several people but they weren't that much excited. As it's almost ready for launch I will make it public.

If you have idea how smartly it can help someone, please let's talk :)
http://comreapp.com/
Windows version written in delphi.
So do the co founders list themselves as 2X entrepreneurs? lol "Oversaw the successful acquisition of Skype to eBay and Micorsoft." Talk about double dipping.
Fair enough. I've always seen my robots.txt files as a friendly way of saying "you probably don't need to worry about this stuff" to crawlers. That's not your use case, and I'm happy to have my "Disallowed" content to be crawled, I expect poorly written bots to do so anyway. If I actually want to prevent browsing/crawling of something, I wont ask politely I'm just going to throw up 403s.
There's some discussion on that here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600799 (from about 2 years ago)
The shift to more symbols and more and better notation has also drastically increased mathematical productivity and rigor. In fact, most of the notation emerged together with the axiomatization of the foundations of mathematics in the early 20th century.

If we were to follow this guy's ideas it would cause even more of a class divide between those who can understand the "magical symbols" and those who can't. Doing what he suggests would mean that the non-cognoscenti wouldn't even have access to the understanding of simple algebraic equations.
When the author says "command line Vim" he means "Vim running in a terminal emulator".

And pasting to terminal Vim doesn't suck if your Vim is configured to detect mouse clicks or interface with the system clipboard. Using the system paste shortcut (command- or ctrl-V) in insert mode is not the way to do it.
And you will understand, why we switched from prose to symbols. But that doesn't mean we should go overboard with the symbols.
Think of the potential alternatives. One is everything can be crawled with no way for the site owner to say "no, please don't crawl this."

The other major one is to legally bar all crawling without express permission.

The current de facto world - crawling is OK unless robots.txt says otherwise - is pretty nice. If we want that to be a legal defense in court ("You didn't put up a robots.txt, so my indexing was legal, so you can't sue me."), which seems useful, then the necessary flipside of that is that violating robots.txt exposes the crawler to liability. That's a tradeoff I'm perfectly willing to accept to allow the web, and necessary services such as indexers and crawlers, to work while still allowing publishers to have some reasonable control over their content distribution.

I seem to remember one of the writers at Search Engine Land presenting a nice description of the robots.txt request in contract negotiation terms. Something like this:

Archiver: "Are there any limits on what I can archive or index from your site?" (translation: GET /robots.txt)

Site: "Nope." (translation: 404 Not Found)

or

Site: "Yep, here they are." (translation: 200 OK followed by restrictions in robots.txt format)

So, by asking for /robots.txt, the crawler can be construed as asking permission to index, and the response setting up the terms of indexing. That seems like a really useful defense and sane compromise in this age of "indexing so you can drive search users to our content is copyright infringement."

[EDIT: fix formatting]
I cant imagine a social network that only runs on one device (an iPhone) ever working.
>They define 'connected users' as active within a financial quarter

This number is inflated by the fact that Skype requires you to login periodically and use any credit you have in order to keep it from expiring.
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But the jury is still out on the question of whether concrete examples are usefull in maths education: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/mathed.htm
I use JungleDisk on both my desktop and my personal file server. The desktop has it on both the Ubuntu and the Windows partition. I use it for the irreplaceable stuff like documents and pictures on the server, and for application data on the desktop. Laptop intentionally has zero irreplaceable data on it. I couldn't be more happy with JungleDisk despite RackSpace owning it.

The file server is 2 TB x2 RAID 1, so there's some protection there - one of the disks actually just failed, and I was able to successfully recover.

I only run hobby sites, so the databases on those I'm currently just backing up to AWS.
Huh? There are plenty of better voice-only Linux clients. It's really only in video that Skype has the edge.
Dirvish
It is strange. The linked page works for me (ff4.0.1 on Kubuntu) but not the homepage - appears to be related to download of the CSS file. Saving locally the page opens properly however but I noticed that the CSS file is now named with .ACS extension (in the saved page's files folder).
The main sources of stress in computer related jobs:

- Dealing with failure scenarios (everything's down and won't come back up)

- External time pressure (This needed to be done yesterday)

- Dealing with human issues (payment, expectations of work, etc.)

Some bits of programming/SE are high on certain forms of this - for example in the service provider world, it's often #1, whereas game development is high on #2 (and #1 if it's an online game).

But for the most part, programming is somewhat stress free.
I also have a problem with the way mathematics is taught currently where the student is more adept at the mechanics than the philosophy of mathematics. If anybody is attempting to change that, my best wishes. I don't necessarily have a problem with the current system of notations. It is just the method of teaching that lacks.

Just started with 'What is Mathematics' by Courant and I am totally hooked on. He talks about everything from why we chose to adopt the decimal system to why pi was needed to solve certain problems.

As Hammock says, the author has to be clear about defining the problem itself. Is it mathematics as it is represented today which is lacking or the method of teaching which is lacking
Less stressful...? Let's see...

Burning your brain all day to solve problems that are usually underspecified, while having to meet deadlines set by people that don't have much of a clue of what it really means to program, to satisfy users which don't know exactly what they want, and wouldn't like it even if you gave it to them.

Yeah, what's to be stressed about...
We moved off Skype chat at our company partly due to the fact that the Linux client makes you keep a separate window open for every chat you're in, making it basically unusable beyond 5 or so chats. Throw in the fact that the usernames aren't color coded and you can't bump the font size and switching to IRC was a no-brainer.
The underlying theme here is that of maintaining the integrity of your relationships and the way you do that is by maintaining your own integrity.

In any business (law included), you can, if you want, burn someone for a short-term advantage; you can, if you want, duck responsibility when you may have made a mistake rather than own up to it; you can, if you want, push people around by being a jerk in order to get ahead; you can, if you want, dissemble and deceive to put one over in a negotiation; you can, if you want, violate trust just because it is not in a binding contract and you are not technically bound to do something; you can, if you want, do these things and much more of like kind, but when you do so, your name, your word, and your integrity will ultimately become mud - and so in winning in this way, you ultimately lose is ways that count most.

Valuing friends is another way of saying that you value integrity. When you treat people right, you build trust and loyalty and, in business (as in life), those intangibles can be worth far more than any reserves you might have in your bank account. This piece, with the author's usual fine insights, is an excellent illustration of that principle.
I quite like the fact that the article ended with a trite piece of business advice thus completely disproving itself
In Canada, part of the distinction is that Software Engineers are real (with a ring) engineers. A lot of their education is in engineering principles - same classes as Electrical, Mechanical and Computer engineers.

I know in the states Software Engineer describes most developers. How many Twitter engineers are actual engineers? Exactly.
Fiscal conservatism has its place, depending on the business's specific risk profile, but it's not any better a way to conduct business than taking some financial risks.

There's a reason my mum is familiar with YouTube but not ww.com - they took risks that Jacques elected not to.

It's not fair to say (and I note that you didn't say this, I'm just concluding my point) that fiscal conservatism is the better way to conduct business because it would have avoided the OP's situation, any more than it's fair to say the better way is to take financial risks because survivor bias demonstrates it worked for YouTube.
And THIS is what you call a turning point, let's see what comes out of all this.
Could somebody please point me to a longer yet still intelligent comparison of MyISAM and InnoDB? Thx.
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«Dealing with failure scenarios (everything's down and won't come back up)»

This is avoidable, if you do your job well.

«External time pressure (This needed to be done yesterday)»

This tends to get worse if you do your job well. Do something in a month once, and get asked to do it in a week the next...

«Dealing with human issues (payment, expectations of work, etc.)»

Every problem is a people problem. Between the users complaining, co-workers blocking your work and management putting impossible deadlines.
Actually it is the attitude like this -- the attitude that equates self-promotion with bullshit -- that causes problems for people with an engineering mindset.

The problem is that you have to get your audience to buy into what they don't know enough about to understand. Really, it's not their fault that they don't have your specialist knowledge. This is where, "Sell them what they want, but give them what they need," comes from. You can't sell someone something that they don't understand. But if you can sell them something and get their rave-reviews, they can bridge that gap for you.
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I use Duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org) for incremental and full backups. It has built-in encryption as a default (but can be disabled). It also manages secure transfert to a distant host via rsync over ssh.

I use it to store my distant backups on http://rsync.net, which is most likely the best storage service I have ever used (simple, fast, reliable, relatively cheap and run by smart + nice people).
That was/is one of my favorite parts of The Rails Tutorial. Love that TDD is explained, enforced, and used at every step.

Would be great to see hear as well.
I'm going to say that's definitely naive. It's a well-known fact that the US government has gradually been placing more and more emphasis on "cyber-warfare" over the last several years. A 0-day vulnerability allowing code execution (in a browser that's popular with tech-savvy users, even) is a very valuable tool in that regard.
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seriously? and your contribution to helping people understand maths is ...?

You've given him some arbitrary credibility rating of -3 because his examples weren't exactly how you would have done them, except that you didn't write them, he did. You contribution was to write some bitchy comment about it.
I use a cron job that wakes my machine in the night and starts TimeMachine.

Independent of the tm backup, I also mirror my disk with carbon copy cloner every night.

Carbon Copy Cloner was one of the main reasons why I stayed with macs. A great software that is perfectly supplemented with Time Machine, IMHO.
If you look closely enough, they didn't say anything incorrect. The name "relational database" is the correct name for the structure they describe. Their description might not be precise, but it's accurate.

Yes, the common misconception is that the word "relational" has to do with relationships between the tables, where in fact it comes from the mathematical concept of relations. However, the text you quoted doesn't claim anywhere that the word "relational" has to do with relationships between tables.
What's wrong and misleading about each of the four quotes you've picked?
Is it truly a loan or convertible debt?
I disagree with this post almost as strongly as I agree with it.

Robots.txt is a suicide note. It's utter short-sighted hubris to say "this is MY information and I don't want you spidering it". Are you volunteering to maintain that information forever? Are you promising to never go out of business? Never be ordered to remove it by the government? Never be bought out by Oracle?

Right now there seems to be a lot of confusion over the morality of information. People are possessed by the strange idea that you, mister content provider, own that content and have an inalienable right to control it any way you can get away with. But someday you will die, and your company will die, just like Geocities, Google Video, and the Library of Alexandria. Society should have a right to keep that information after you're gone.

Of course, the law disagrees. And without the efforts of criminals like geohot, the iPhone DevTeam, The Nomad, Muslix64 and, yes, The Archive Team, people of the future will have no way to access the information we've locked up through our own paranoia. You don't have to cast your mind to a thousand years in the future - it's happening right now. Vast swathes of data are disappearing as DRM servers go dark only a few years after they appear (thanks, MSN Music, Yahoo Music Store).

I believe that we owe it to our descendants to give them access to their history. I believe it's not our decision whether the things we make are too valuable or too uncomfortable to be preserved. And I believe that robots.txt is a suicide note, a product of the diseased minds that think our short-term desire for control outweighs our legacy.

But I don't know what the fuck the article's talking about. It seems to be making a bunch of points that don't matter. Use robots.txt to prevent technical problems if you like, I don't care. Just don't use it to stop people from crawling your content or you're shitting on the future.
lol sebastianavina!

I am sure your "eagerness" got you noticed by the Federalies. the fixi guys put their bare hands in the honey jar, and I am sure those bees are really pied now.

Wouldnt be suprised if you get questioned "randomly" soon, LOOL!
If this site kills math so that English majors can cope, I hope someday someone will kill poetry so that I can cope.

Modded up for this line alone.

[Not that there's anything wrong with the rest of the lines. ;) ]
I use Git to keep track of all my code. It lives on either Github, Dropbox, or AeroFS.

Movies, Music, eBooks live on a WD World Book and aren't backed up. (no real need since I can download them all again)

The few servers that I managed are backed up by http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ and pushed to an s3 bucket. Code is always in a Git repo so no need. Images and other data from user uploads are backed up by http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki is used to keep track of changes I make to my.conf, http.conf, php.ini, etc. Backup is done by s3cmd again.

Images of my son are saved using AeroFS since there's no size limit.

Business documents are stored using Dropbox and Google Docs (nothing too confidential)

For documents that are pretty important, they are stored off line on a printed piece of paper and stored in a filing cabinet. IRS documents, Business contracts, etc.
Who do you get upset at? And what is enough notice?
Agreed. This is, overall, bad news for users of Skype because it will now be part of the only company fighting to keep people locked into a desktop platform. Then again, the only reason I use Skype is because the Windows users on the other end of the line have no better option.
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