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Unfortunately, journals also act as:

* preventers of anything too new (like fashion, if unrooted in the previous fashion, it's not acceptable.)

* delayers when the work is in conflict with current work by the editor, one of the reviewers, or any of their direct colleagues.

What you are referring to is the review process. Which, while essential, is also severely flawed. Making reviewers lose their anonimity, and publishing their reviews along with the paper when editor and reviewers consider it acceptable -- now, that would change the game for the better, for criticism would drift towards constructive criticism only.
No, these figures are figures supplied to the government on the H1-B visa supposedly saying "we're paying more then market rate and can't find anyone able to the job in this country".

In practice some companies do pay below the market rate by comparing the rate to that offered to a lower skill level - for example for a "senior" job hire a foreign senior developer as a "junior" thus be able to compare their salary to the average salary for a junior and underpay them.

Also the majority of market rate comparisions are done using the Bureau of Labor Statistics "Occupational Employment Survey" which people have argued undervalues certain jobs due to jobs with different requirements being lumped into a single category.
I don't think Microsoft even agrees with your statements.
I agree. Passion is the best force. And I think you are passionate for two or more ideas, then you picks one that makes some money.
FT: Facebook sues German StudiVZ
I wonder if that's all there is to this; I find it hard to believe that StudiVZ actually copied directly from Facebook. Maybe they did in the early days, but I'd have thought that at the very latest the due diligence before acquisition would have found any such cases.

If they have any success with this because the site is "similar" then that would set a precedent for about a gazillion other websites.
I think people are creative at night because the body becomes tired and has less energy to interfere with inspiration.
must have meant "am I too young" since too old doesn't make any sense for 38.
I'm most productive in the early morning. I think the key to creativity is that leisure is an important part of it. The best ideas come during downtime of one form or another - hence we hear of people having ideas in the shower, or when they sleep, or walking around (my personal favorite). We generally have more leisure at night.
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It's exactly the opposite for me. If I don't eat a good breakfast I'm likely to get nothing done.
Go to www.t-nation.com and read all their diet and nutrition articles. Chris Shugart et al write from personal experience, and they've got the results to prove their ideas work.
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I wonder if that's all there is to this; I find it hard to believe that StudiVZ actually copied directly from Facebook. Maybe they did in the early days, but I'd have thought that at the very latest the due diligence before acquisition would have found any such cases.

If they have any success with this because the site is "similar" then that would set a precedent for about a gazillion other websites.
solving a problem you have and have a passion for (hat tip to yangyang)
The challenge of iWorks for Microsoft is that Microsoft can no longer hold a gun to Apple's head, threatening the removal of Office from the Mac platform if Apple doesn't play ball in other areas (licensing Exchange for the iPhone, for example). Or rather, they still can at the moment (iWorks is not a perfect drop in replacement for Office... yet!) but as time goes by, that threat becomes less and less impressive.

Of course, Google Docs/Open Office also have a role to play here. Microsoft is slowly but surely losing it's hegemony.
Sure, but don't you think Microsoft should be scared long before Apple starts to hit saturation limits? I mean, major growth is still possible when you have about a third of the market, but I doubt Microsoft wants to see Apple holding 33% of the OS market share...
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I would go for the earning potential. I see myself doing consistenly more interesting/complicated stuff, but I think I would be much better off if I would do more lucrative boring stuff!
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The thing is StudiVZ is EXACTLY as Facebook...
Hysterical.

The Samwer brothers funded StudiVz and sold it for > 85 million Euros.

With the proceeds of the sale, they then invested in Facebook.

Facebook then sues StudiVz.

What about the Chinese and Russian clones?
But MySQL/SUN is willing to host a donation page at their official site. Does this mean they have this same ask-everyone-else-to-fork-over-cash strategy in place for all contributors?
With billions in hand, if they are willing to host a page, shouldn't they pay the bill atleast to look 'non evil'?
SQL Injection Part II? It's a textbook example of SQL injection. I guess it's interesting if you haven't seen one before, but this isn't some new and more evil version of an old attack. It's just the same old attack that's been around since the beginning of SQL-backed applications. The moral of the story is to always validate user input.

All these examples are in ColdFusion and for many years- going back at least 5 years ago when I used it- CF developers have known to use <cfqueryparam> to pass user data to queries. It's the CF equivalent of binding parameters to a query. Every example presented here can easily be protected against using that method.

The only people that have to worry about this are the laziest of the lazy developers.
Oh. ColdFusion.

And I thought this article might have had some relevance.
It depends which webmasters you talk to. If you run around on digitalPoint, people think he's an internet god. If you go to wickedfire, you see a completely different opinion.
Very interesting - I've often wondered what the rest of us can learn from Taleb's advice.

I've seen a slightly more watered down approach at use. Put 60-70% of your money in government bonds (regular and inflation-indexed), and the other rest in US small-cap value stocks, international small-cap value stocks, and emerging market stocks. These sectors have been more volatile, but with higher returns, over the last 80 years. Historically, this portfolio would perform about as well as an 80/20 stock/bond split. And if the market drops 90%, you still have 60%+ of your money safe.

I'm not convinced that this is the way to go, but it is interesting.
Its possible to do bone marrow transplantation for approx. $10000 here in Kerala(South India). The service is world class. Can someone close to MySQL/SUN pass this information?

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solving a problem you have and have a passion for and is a problem that lots of other people have too
Money first and foremost.

Passion and motivation to love and accomplish what you do.

But money should be the force behind your motivation.
Wing and Komodo IDE are great if you get somebody to shell out the cash. I think everybody should have a main editor, that may or may not be vim or emacs, but also learn one of these, since they will always be available on whatever platform you're forced to use.

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http://www.protocolostomy.com/2008/04/28/ubuntu-804-and-pyth...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130429
I liked "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever" by Ray Kurzweil. Arthur De Vany's evolutionary fitness essay is also very good:
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Depends on what you're comparing with.

It's better than C++, it's worse than C. Better than Perl, maybe worse than Python. It's the perfect language for classes which don't actually teach you how to program, but instead just teach you how to be a code monkey.

As andreyf said, if you're serious, high school may not teach you much, or so says my own experience. I am only in tenth grade right now, but by my estimation I probably already know the whole CS curriculum at my school (although supposedly it is advanced). I suppose this is actually a very good thing, because I've learned how to learn on my own.

I'm sort of in the same boat as you. What I've noticed though, is that many (if not most) of the students don't really want to learn CS, they just want to take the course. Sad but true.
wow. a thousands block userid.

But the idea of gentrification to me still means that something old and busted becomes new again by an influx of cash, people and culture. Not necessarily in that order.

The argument that sites are are doing it, seems backwards. The sites that were good, become worse through the influx of people and potentially cash.

I will admit there is a sort of parallel. I keep trying to prove it to myself, but i always hit snags.
"For example Office could be attacked by the emergence of more advanced browsers, standards and broadband infrastructure through creating web office."

Could be? My company uses Google Docs almost exclusively now.
I guess the rebuttal to that is http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Jan:Hendrik:Schon:MC.htm .
I was wondering the same thing - they must have picking the sweetcorn for aeons, and never came up with a better way?

Also I wonder how much point is to the improvements as long as there is no functional economy/market? I think if it was possible for a startup to start making and selling those sweetcorn peelers there and make a profit, somebody would have done so ages ago. Same for the mills: if there was a proper market and competition, the mill makers would have fixed their mills a long time ago.
In this case productive for me means "focused on closure" or "getting things done" and creative means "generating possibilities, exploring new approaches." Obviously inspiration can strike at any time, and you have to find ways to get things done and even when you are not inspired.
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Learn more about how to select ideas. Not only is this a good thing to do, it will help you out once you get started on something. Seriously. You should be able to take a list of twelve ideas and take both sides of the do/don't do argument. What's the market size? What's market entry like? How close can you get to the customer? Are you selling information or entertainment? (It's all info, yes, but people buy some apps based on unique data, some on the way it makes them feel) What's your team-forming potential? Is this something that just sounds good on a napkin, or when it is implemented is there really core value for the consumer there? etc.

There are lots more questions. You don't have to score high on all of these to have a winner, but you DO need to intimately know the reasons why your idea might suck before you take it up. You can't overcome weaknesses you don't understand that you have. And BTW, I would rank "How close are you to the customer" and "how big is the market size" pretty close to the top of the list. This is why, for instance, we see college kids writing apps that other college kids pick up and play with -- a huge market that they are very close to.

I've found that enthusiasm/passion can come after you analyze the heck out of a project just as easily as it can come randomly speculating about good business ideas. In fact, an idea that you've tried and tried to kill but couldn't? Combine that with some good old hard work and a skeptical eye and you'll be a million times more enthusiastic than somebody with no skin in the game.
Be too selective and you won't hire anyone good either. Great people are often eccentric, with weird personality kinks that can make them harder to work with. In my experience, smart, creative, brilliant people are pretty much always harder to work with, opinionated, pushy, and demanding. But I'll take that over "average but does what he's told" any day.
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I disagree - Apple was pushing the entire idea of a Personal Computer before that market existed.

Okay, time to channel Grandpa Simpson! Where's my cane?

<grandpa>

Now, sonny, what people forget is that Apple Computer brought their Apple II to an existing market for home PCs. [1] The first home PC had been introduced in January 1975, and by 1977 when the Apple II came out there were already multiple PC enthusiast magazines, Microsoft had been in the software business for two years, and there were multiple companies selling PC hardware. The Apple II was introduced at a personal computer show.

Even the Apple I was an entry into an existing market.

Jobs and Wozniak certainly pushed the envelope: The Apple II was, for example, arguably the first PC to be marketed at folks who didn't know how to solder, who didn't even care about hardware but just wanted to buy or write software and run it. But the hardware hackers drooled over it too [2], and they bought it, and thus the venture was less risky that you think -- it didn't have to create its own market, because Jobs knew the core market was already there; the challenge was to grow the market.

Pioneering the PC market was the work of the Altair guys at MITS, two years prior. MITS, of course, followed the usual good advice for people who are trying to discover a brand-new market: They launched early to test the market. They launched really early. As in "before they actually built more than a single prototype, they photographed a mockup and sent that photo plus the schematic to the editor of Popular Electronics [3], who read the schematic, concluded that the hardware was probably real, and published an article on it that drove hundreds and hundreds of mail orders in a few weeks." Then the company used the money from the mail orders to actually buy the parts, package the kits and send them out. [4]

You could even argue that MITS was targeting an existing market: If the folks writing Popular Electronics hadn't built a fan base that was ready and waiting to solder together computers, the PC revolution wouldn't have caught fire in 1975.

</grandpa>

All of this is cribbed from Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, a book you should really read.

[1] Note: Here "PC" has its original meaning of "generic personal computer" and does not refer to MS/DOS compatible boxen. Those came later, obviously.

[2] It helped that the Apple II not only came with schematics and a complete listing of its ROM, but had been designed by a hardware-hacking genius of the first water who liked to show off.

[3] MITS also mailed their single prototype to Popular Electronics. It got lost in the mail and was never seen again. If you find it, contact some historians.

[4] If you think you intend to follow this business plan, make sure your lawyer is sitting down before you broach the subject.
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on what basis could they sue in a US court, Studi VZ is not active in the US
it depends upon whether or not you're expecting your livelihood from your ideas ... if you are making money from other sources then you must go with an idea that makes you passionate and has a huge market.

Passion will keep you going and huge market will make you some money (one day) if your product is good - and your product will be definitely good if you're passionate about it, it may take little longer though.
There is also the Bogdanov Affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair. Where Sokal was a deliberate hoax, the Bogdanovs seem to be crackpots. However both affairs show serious problems with the peer review systems in their respective fields.

XKCD probably assume that things he don't understand is nonsense - which is a common held belief. Therefore the further he comes from his own area of expertise, the more nonsensical he assumes the jargon is.
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Probably more than you can trust it to your own IT dept.
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It's not the fact that the examples are in ColdFusion that makes this article mostly irrelevant. To suggest that it does really just makes you sound ignorant, especially since the particular attack being demonstrated is not language specific.

ColdFusion isn't the best language, but it's certainly not one of the worst either. I think the poor reputation mostly stems from complaints about the joe-shmoe-friendly tag-based syntax and the fact that it's commercial, but most of these probably come from people who have never even used it. I spent some time with it and there are some pretty nifty things you can do with it. The fact that it's built on Java is nice too since you can leverage the entire Java standard library and run on all the so-called enterprise-y application servers all without the pain of having to use Java. This leads to rapid, corporate-friendly development which makes developers and PHBs happy. That's probably there are still lots of businesses out there using it.
Yeah, the first time I saw studiVZ the only difference seemed to be the css changed from blue to red...
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I'd agree that Cambridge is the intellectual capital of the world, but I think you may have the wrong Cambridge.

I'm biased, of course. I was lucky enough to be a student at the other Cambridge. My old college (Trinity) boasts more Nobel Prize winners than the whole of France.

Cambridge, England, like Cambridge Mass, is blessed with a climate bad enough that no-one would go there for the weather.

The English Cambridge is a delightfully compact city, with the University at its heart. You can go almost anywhere on foot or bicycle. It's also cool to wander through a courtyard unchanged since Isaac Newton knew it.

What message does the city send? Perhaps that you are mortal, but that learning is eternal.
http://img-a4.pe.imagevz.net/photo3/f3/9a/ce37499d84437cb744...

The faceook management team with the StudiVZ founders: Matt Cohler + Owen Van Natta

The T-shirts say "Poke me!" in German. (the equiv on studiVZ)
Which would be a lot more credible as a comment if he'd given any indication at all that he knew which package managers were available on a Mac, and giving specific examples of packages that are 'out-of-date' and by how much.

Instead, there was a throw-away one-liner, which gives the impression that he doesn't know what he's actually talking about. All of which is to say that I personally think that the person you responded to had read the post, and came away with the same impression as me - that perhaps the OP needs some pointers in the right direction.
OK, that's got me intrigued - I haven't really noticed a difference between the terminal in Tiger and the terminal in Leopard. What are the improvements that I'm missing out on? :-)
So apply asymmetric management here; use basic Aikido. Tell Joe to go code it. In JavaScript. Put up or shut up.

Yes, Joe might be a bad apple. Or Joe might really have a better solution; either client- or server-side JavaScript.

Either of the two probable outcomes here works for the team.
I'd check out the free version of WingWare first. It feels not so polished in terms of the GUI, but the features/integration with Python in general is pretty sweet. What are your complaints/missing features of some of the other things you've used?
That describes what every developer aspires to until sales and marketing gets involved and messes everything up.
thanks Scott .. I did look at CL and didn't find anything crazy, but you are right if I put up a post that might change things
I agree and thanks for the link I'll see what I can find there
What I'd really like to see (and assumed this was at first) is a representation of how the estimate of a circle's area changes as you get more digits.
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Wasn't all of MySpace built on CF?

It's clearly not a win for security, whatever else you might say about it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250596
MySpace is the largest CF site I'm aware of. I think they actually use the BlueDragon flavor of CF- or at least they did at one time. Most people haven't heard of it, but there's actually another implementation besides the one from Adobe. I remember some talk about MySpace being ported to .NET, but I still see a bunch of .cfm URLs on there so I'm not sure what they're doing.

I don't know what you mean by that security remark. You can develop secure applications in CF just like you can with any other language. Some languages might require some more hoop jumping than others (example: protecting against SQL injection in PHP was a real drag for a long time), but I'm not aware of anything inherent in CF that makes it particularly difficult. In fact, I've found that many things tend to be easier in CF.

Don't get me wrong- I'm not saying everyone should go out and learn ColdFusion. I just think it may be undeserving of the snide comments it seems to attract.
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Like the wireless keys used in various cars like the Prius? You can press the start button, as long as the key is detectable somewhere on your person?

There are some mods to do that kind of thing (door unlocking, etc) with bluetooth. It would be nice if you could access your car and your house with the cell phone you keep in your pocket anyway.
All that selling. All that marketing. Disgusting.
Right, the author neglects to mention that most people would be willing to spend a lot more of their income on a mortgage payment then they would on apartment rent. Where mortgage counts partially toward savings rent is just flushing money down the craper 100%. If you spent the same amount on rent as you did on a house payment you could probably get a pretty nice place.