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I'm absurd, but I am constantly on the hunt for pens with a good flow that don't smudge the second you accidentally rub your hand against what you just wrote. I love the uni-ball pens, but unfortunately my handwriting is completely illegible with these :/
It's a mental thing - I feel like my hand is an extension of my mind and I can't tell you how many times I write code on paper before typing it up. It just helps me organize.
When it came down to everything, the amount of aid I got from MIT made it cheeper than going to my state university. I paid it off over the course of 6 or 7 years, with a payment that was less than a car payment.

It really doesn't hurt to apply - I got my aid package before I had to decided to commit to any school.
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Vim can reflow too, but I will admit that 'gwap' is a bit unintuitive...
http://lanyrd.com/ and in fact it was a YC Winter 11 company to boot :)
Paul has done a lot of work in the field of playlist evaluation.

I think that if you survey the researchers in the field, the "WTF test" would be considered fairly reasonable - especially for a quick-and-dirty evaluation. Can you point to any specific songs that he said were WTF's and you think aren't, or vice/versa? If not then it would appear to meet the objectivity criteria.

Using his own music collection might be slightly more suspect. Changing that might have flipped the outcome of iTunes vs EchoNest, but wouldn't have changed the real news here: Google does really, really badly.
Specifically: http://lanyrd.com/2011/strange-loop
PS3 jailbreaking enabled the Showtime media center developer to port the media player to the PS3: http://www.lonelycoder.com/hts/showtime_overview.html

It's much better than jumping through DLNA hoops.
Yeah, and remember it was the idea of "ignorance of the law is no excuse", that ended the sitcom Seinfeld. Sad.
Re: Grooveshark logo - it is a design process documented alright, but the logo itself was designed by someone else and then cleaned up by David Pache of Helvetic Brands. Nowhere does he mention this though, which really rubs me the wrong way. Especially considering how he presents the design process, as if the final logo was a natural evolution of his own sketches.

http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/6499 - Jan '07

http://logopond.com/gallery/detail/41685 - Oct '08

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Also, it's worth noting that the design process illustrations are commonly put together after the logo is done and they are meant to be promo pieces, so they do not accurately reflect the actual logo creation process, but rather an idealization of thereof. The actual process is far more hectic and zig-zag'ing towards the target than these illustrations depict it to be.
What annoyed me about the movie was in the end you realise the movies premise contradicts itself.

The sequence of events would never have happened if she hadn't shown him committing the murder, and Tom Cruise would have kept going about his job.
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That's not quite fair. Erlang was designed from the start to be very, very fast at process switching and message passing. True, that design took a while to bear fruit, but my understanding (from listening to Joe Armstrong speak about it) is that being able to make the core of the language highly efficient was a goal from the start.
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There has been a big influx of bitcoin related news lately. Nothing wrong with that, I am not interested in it.

a tweet by @jacobian (https://twitter.com/#!/jacobian/status/69985853354672128) reminded me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721

Changed one word in the script.
Crazy that that would get taken so far.
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> Big Pharma" invest more in marketing and advertising than in R&D.

That marketing and advertising spending is dominated by free and discounted drugs for folks who can't afford list price.

Are you opposed to that spending?
On average it is anywhere between $500 and $1500 for the quality stuff that comes with a great concept and great execution and that is result of an iterative refinement process between the designer and the customer.
Edit:I am the poster. I was just explaining the reason it was posted.

There has been a big uptick in bitcoin related articles lately. Nothing wrong with it - just not my cup of tea.

A recent tweet from @jacobian reminded me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721

Changed "ipad" to "bitcoin"

All credit goes to Tom Hastjarjanto
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I think books are becoming more souvenirs than strictly vessels for information.

People I know get most of their information digitally, reading books, articles, news, doing research, etc., all via computers, ipads, kindles, etc. It's just an easier way to consume information.

But, a physical book can easily serve as a party favor or a souvenir, of an event or of an idea. If some information is particularly valuable, or moving, or memorable, it's nice to have something to put on your coffee table or shelf. I would guess that the types of books that fit that description, just like Go the Fuck to Sleep does, are going to be the only books that are still profitably printed a decade from now.
It probably has to do with how word of this book and the book itself was practically viral among parents and the content was good enough to deem buying in hardcopy for a lot of those pirates. I was under the assumption that this is generally how the piracy success stories work. A lot of people pirate something only to discover that they really like it, and they'll buy it to make up for the piracy.

I'm not even a parent, but I saw the book on facebook through a friend-with-kids and was howling the entire way through. I preordered a copy on Amazon immediately after finishing reading the book and I bookmarked it for future reference for gifts to new parents. If it wasn't for the book being on facebook, I never would have heard of it and I probably wouldn't have bought it if I only saw the cover or a page or two on Amazon or at a physical bookstore.
I find this discussion of filtering out bitcoin-related stories particularly interesting because just a few days ago this video hit the front page: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...

I'm still not really sure whether I believe that video's thesis, but I certainly now believe that it's worth thinking about.
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> A lot of lenders also have heavy penalties for early payment.

I've had at least 5 mortages (in the US) and have never seen a prepayment penalty. That's not to say that they don't exist, but I'd like to see some evidence for "a lot of lenders". More specifics please.
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I'm not buying to make up for piracy.

But I like books in printed form, so I usually try out reading a 2-3 chapters of the pirated version, then if I like it I'll buy it.

The book in the article also appears to be a nice gift. You obviously can't give pirated PDFs as gifts :)
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Something about this reminds me of Hipmunk.
> Thus the landlord could charge less than a current or recent homebuyer could charge while still profiting or at least covering costs.

That landlord would be better off selling.

Folks don't charge based on their costs. They charge what the market will bear above their costs.
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You're talking about "doing research" but reading a technical reference on a PC / iPad / Kindle DX is very painful - first you need a big screen (plain Kindle won't do), devices like the iPad don't do so well in strong light, and one thing I really miss - taking notes, which is very hard, if possible at all.

That said, a device like Kindle DX could very well replace my printed books someday.
I was just talking to [redacted] about this last night. He said that they've had plenty of requests and that this has been a long time coming. In fact, he mentioned when he interviewed with GWU, they honestly wondered why people had been requesting Seattle, as they felt there was nothing going on there.
2-Google probably doesnt care about the product itself, more likely it just wants to mine the data that gets put into it. Like goog-411, the service is just a conduit to acquire data.

To what end? Unless Google is trying to make sure that when its software becomes sentient and takes over the world it has good taste in music (heh) I can't see much use for the data beyond building a recommender.
Since this is self imposed, it isnt quite the same issue, no?

I would think this would fall more under the risk of narrowing our world view with things that are not inline with our own beliefs. That, again, though, isn't as much of an issue (in my opinion) in this case, because I have looked into it - I just don't want to look into it more.
I am eternally grateful that MIT has provided me unbelievable aid which without it would've been extremely difficult on my family to send me to college. Hopefully one day when I'm making money in the work force, I'll be sending money back to my school and paying it forward.
Self-help books and the like can be comfort objects. When I was new to poly, though I had a PDF of The Ethical Slut, I remember wanting a physical copy to keep in my backpack and thumb through when I felt worried/jealous/uncertain.
Seriously. How do you write an article referencing one of the most iconic, symbolic and emotive engineering creations of the 20th century and slap an image so glaringly incorrect onto it?
Yesod/Warp seems to be incredibly fast according to a benchmark conducted by the Yesod devs. [1] I would also like to see a comparison with Erlang.

[1] - http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/preliminary-warp-cross-language...
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Minor gripe, just because the contents are stored in the registry doesn't preclude them from being exported or clearly identified. The clearly identifying anything I entirely agree that Microsoft has done a poor job of.

Edit: more clarity on clarity
Georgia Tech (my college) recently announced a similar thing. Basically a Y-Combinator for students and alumni. More details at flashpoint.gatech.edu (Website doesn't launch till tuesday, so you'll have to be patient)
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I'd prefer instead that it just be switched to the original title "Nanolaw with Daughter", either with or without the subtitle "Why privacy mattered".

While the current title isn't bad, I think it's better to discourage the editorialization of titles, whether by adding tags such as "fiction" or by using catchy excerpts.
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would be interesting how this compare to manos de mono https://github.com/jacksonh/manos
I think he meant, TL;DE (To Long; Didn't Expand)

;)
Apple has data about purchased music from iTunes, with which it can do pretty damn good similarity scores. Google has no such data.
A reverse tl;dr.
I've got an urge to try formatting my resume like this.
I still see that as a composition problem and not one of abstraction.
I'm not arguing in favor of the law.

I'm arguing against rhetoric slippery slope arguments that hide the actual issues. It's easy to talk about how ridiculous it is to ban linking, because "for God's sake it's just a link". I'm trying to give the perspective that sometimes, even "just giving out a link" is illegal.
You could call it a warm-up period, but the point is that period is pre-launch. I think it is fair to assume a team at Google worked on this project before launch as well. I don't know how long they did for, but they could have chosen to take the time to develop a better algorithm prior to launch as well. (Note: Google's historical use of the Beta tag, has made it effectively meaningless IMO.) For whatever reason they chose not to, and it's kind of surprising how poor a product they launched with.

Why do they think it is so important to get in this market ASAP? Perhaps under Page there is additional pressure to launch fast and early a la start-ups?

With that said, I have no idea if the quality of EN is as good as he claims.
I was just thinking the other day that someone should make something like this. Thanks, bookmarked :)
If that's the result of a) to g) PLUS 100 hours of your own research, I'm quite disappointed because there's various misconceptions and hand-waving.
Bad conclusion.

The same factors that make something inherenty viral or popular will also make something highly pirated. You can't draw causation because they are born from the same factor.

(Just from the excerpt in this article, I sent a link to this book to 3 people this moment.)
I agree, and did a little example of such:

http://www.telescopictext.org/text/3r3OhSm1fuXVT

I did a better go at it, but then realized I'd yet to sign up... I didn't quite have the mettle to do as good a job on the second attempt. But I certainly think it'd be interesting to have this on a site.
Any advice or thoughts about what we (Pittsburgh startups) can do to get students excited about our respective companies and convince them to take a role with us over another job?
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The only problem with Jessica's chart is she didn't make the NO in red font and twice as big.
I don't feel like he's saying anything particularly enlightening - he's just stating that scientific research is important, and so are the institutions that engage in it.
I see. My two projects are indeed quite small yet (but running the tests already takes quite long).

But: the solution to this problem isn't not upgrading and then demanding support for your outdated environment. The solution is to fix whatever is slow and try to get a patch upstream.

Now I don't know how likely the ruby developers are to accept a patch, but once this becomes too painful for me, I will try and have a look. I might not be able to fix it, but at least I know that I'm not stuck in the past, terrified and unable to move
very insightful, its good to read this again.
This is awesome. His Tetris skills do leave something to be desired though :)

Btw, the only thing I would think could make this better is if a punch did a hard drop.
Totally agreed. I did not mean to imply all you need is functions. Just that Haskell allows for much more flexible and correct composition of software (especially when dealing with side effects) solving many of the issues in the OP without reflection and meta interface complexity. Not to say Haskell is perfect, just that I see this as a composition problem, not a failure of black box abstraction.
It looks pretty slick but interestingly WorldTimeBuddy was easier for me to understand immediately (having never seen either before).

WorldTimeBuddy doesn't take any effort to see what the time in each zone is, for any time in the next few hours. I also default to thinking in hours (not minutes) for these, which WTB presents by default, but with EveryTimeZone almost all clicked positions have to be adjusted to get an on-the-hour line. I can't really figure out how to add my city (or if it's possible). So, personal view - ETZ shows a lot of 'cool stuff' but doesn't really solve my problem as well as WTB.

Again, not related to either project, YMMV, etc.
I can't really speak to doing technical research digitally. I've read many coding/graphics/web books, all digitally, and found it pretty much the same as reading a book.

Literally all legal research is done online now, though.

What, specifically, is so difficult about replicating technical references digitally? Is it just the screen/notes aspect? (I bet that is fixed within 2 generations) Layout? Graphics? Is it limited by the reproductions rather than the physical displays?
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There is some good level-headed non-dogmatic discussion in this thread. Here's some: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-05/msg00757.html

As another comment points out, this decision was made a year ago. Any updates on how the transition is going?

I searched a little, but found nothing. I did happen across an interesting earlier proposal though:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/187
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I agree. It is nice to thumb through some books. But, if the kindle (or 2020's kindle equivalent) version is half the price of a hardback or paperback, are you really going to buy the physical version if you don't already know you'll love it and want to keep it on your shelf?

Some people will. They just like physical books. But I bet most people, in the future, would rather have it stored and available digitally at all times. Especially if they're worried about people seeing "How to be a Man" or "The Ethical Slut" on their bookshelves.
Will you be able to take public credit for your contribution, and will it be big enough to impress people? What I'm thinking here is that if they become very successful and well known, and you can point to them and say "I'm the guy who built their infrastructure" or something like that, that might get you a really good high paying job somewhere else or get a good consulting career launched.

But generally, unless you have some specific plan like that in mind, I think the vast majority here are right and it is a bad idea.
The interest rate risk on a house isn't just the mortgage payment. It's also the value of the house itself.

House prices tend to move inversely to interest rates. When interest rates are low, then new home buyers can afford a bigger principal values on a loan of a given monthly payment. The market adjusts to accomodate this, and house prices rise to take up that principal value. When interest rates fall, new home buyers can't afford to take out as big a mortgage, so the supply of cash available in the market declines, and prices fall accordingly.

In 2006, when interest rates were at historic lows and home prices were at historic highs, I worked out who was making the profit from all of this. Obviously, existing homeowners who sold into that market were making a killing; where was the money coming from? It wasn't coming from the people who bought the house: they were paying the same monthly payment, for the same loan terms, as people who bought in the not-so-bubble years before. It might've been coming from the banks, but ultimately their profits were indifferent too, because they were just passing along their low borrowing costs. Trace the money all the way back, and it was being injected directly into the economy by the Fed, through low discount rates. That reduced the banks' borrowing costs, which reduced their mortgage rates, which increased the size of the loan that could be written for a given monthly payment, which increased the amount of cash in the housing market, which made housing prices go up.

And then I wondered what would happen when this system went into reverse, interest rates started to rise, and cash came out of the system. This started to happen in 2007, but then the system froze up, the Fed panicked, and the floodgates opened again. It will probably happen again at some point in the future, unless we get full-on hyperinflation.

Anyway, the obvious losers are people who bought houses with inflated mortgages for inflated prices. With high interest rates, new home buyers can't afford as big a mortgage for the same monthly payment, so house prices must come down for anyone to be able to buy. But who are the winners? Not (really) banks, who're just passing along the borrowing costs from the deposits they have. It's actually people who are holding cash right now and looking to buy in the near future. They're acting as a mini-bank in their own right: if you can buy a house with cash (or put down an absurd down payment like 50+%), then you're effectively acting as your own bank, but without any borrowing costs. Any rise in interest rates goes straight to your pocket.

tl;dr: Falling interest rates are good for homeowners, ambivalent for mortgaged buyers, and bad for people with cash savings. Rising interest rates a bad for homeowners, ambivalent for mortgaged buyers, and good for people with cash savings.
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Where could I get an architectural review for an idea?
I've been building out some stuff on the side, and I really want to sit down with some folks to just get an architectural review of the application that I'm building. I'd love to hear people's thoughts from an engineering perspective about how to do it differently/better than what I'm doing right now.

Is there such a group?
I think the change in mentality will take a series of successful Pittsburgh companies. There's no lack of resources for a student (or anyone) who wants to start a company in Pittsburgh. If you've got a skilled team and an intriguing market and problem you're addressing, you can absolutely get the resources you need here.

Local companies like The Resumator, ShoeFitr, ShowClix and others are making national headlines. As these companies bring in or continue to bring in revenue and investment dollars to town, and become a cool or interesting place to work, it'll be easier for students to stick around and put down roots. Some of them might even think about starting their own project after awhile.
The Essential C# book is very good.

But why do you need structure? Learning by doing is a good approach to begin with, followed up a bit later on with deliberate study of the seemingly important bits you've managed to avoid so far because the payoff of learning them on the fly wasn't worth it.
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