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I spent 10+ years of my life working on technology that makes cell phone chips better and your processor in your laptop faster. But you never heard of that company, because it's obscure, hardcore tech that no media will ever cover (if you are curious, read http://www.eve-team.com/demos/linux_boot_demo.html)

Now I work on fluff ideas, consumer Internet concepts. It's flashy, people get excited about the space. It probably has less impact. But it's more visible. I'm not the only one in that situation. Even within large companies like Intel, Microsoft or VMWare, the products that people discuss the most are not usually the ones that bring the most revenue, or impact more people.
I'd also like to see someone with knowledge weigh in. I find it unthinkable that Apple would give more than a 5-10% margin on those gift cards. Retail stores love them despite the small cut because they're pure profit on the books: there's no inventory since they have no value until sold. I think they also get favorable terms on the transfer of cash from the sale of the gift card.

This also shows where retailers can be confusing (to me): it takes labor to ship, display, and activate those cards (activation can be a huge pain) but that's all considered fixed overhead I suppose.
HTML5ify your existing code base
Use these handy-dandy shell scripts to convert your old files in html5 :D
http://mrcoles.com/blog/html5ify-your-existing-code-base/
Yea - there’s a lot of overlap with different things. Ryan’s screencasts on one hand, which are amazing even when out of date, and things like http://ruby-toolbox.com/, which give you a list of gems to look at/choose from on the other. Plus github itself is the best place to find actual code, and is peer reviewed in the sense of watch counts, etc...

All I can hope for is that with some community involvement, ScaffoldHub might become something useful in the middle: not in depth tutorials, not a code repository, but a series of helpful working examples.

I certainly can’t do it alone!
Some progress can only be made using advanced math. But that doesn't mean that no progress can be made without advanced math. That said, I wouldn't recommend a PhD in computer science to anyone afraid of mathematics.

Either way, I think that more advanced math needs to be taught earlier. Otherwise you get big cargo cult disciples with their own re-invented wheels and funny terminology, and no interest in math from other fields. Economics in particular.
In the US a biscuit is a "cookie" and if you tell people that you do Monte Carlo simulations but not the kind related to biscuits they will smile politely and slowly back away from you...
That's the sort of thing I used to say before I had kids. :D

The reality is more complex. When they get hungry they also start to lose a lot of self control: running around and screaming; fighting; raiding the fridge; etc. And these are kids that are normally very well behaved.

I suppose if I ruled the house with an iron fist I could enforce the "they'll eat it when they get hungry" paradigm. But doing that results in other (far less desirable) rebellious behaviour.
I'm in your exact position.
I'm bored with traditional resume and even if I'm a developer I want do create a creative one instead of a plain PDF to reach out creative agencies too.
But I think that I'll follow the path of a single page portfolio with some css3 and js effects that stand out without being too fancy and disruptive.
Where can I find out more about the free hardware that Google are offering mildly interested developers? It sounds great.
Your statements are just completely misguided. We're finding more and more sources of energy everyday. Our sources for energy isn't decreasing; it's increasing because techology allows us to extract more oil, more natural gas, more coal, and more uranium, as well as discovering newer and more efficient means to extract energy. We're also innovating on renewables; we're rapidly finding newer methods to get more energy out of wind and sun for example. Remember, we hadn't exploited natural gas for energy use until recently; technological innovations are helping us continually extract more and more energy out of that resource.

Before finding any uses for fossil fuels, we survived off of hydropower, an inifinite supply of energy. Predicting a doom and gloom because we'll run out of fossil fuels makes you forget that humans have survived for thousands and thousands of centuries without fossil fuels.

Further, stating that we'll run out of resources ignores the laws of supply and demand: if resources start to dry up, prices will increase, prompting people to find alternative sources for energy. Guess where the next growth industry will be, and where people will spend their money.

With economic growth, comes new and better ways of extracting energy (see natural gas and nuclear power, recent phenomenons). Humans are innovative, and we'll find even newer sources of energy in the future like we have been doing since the dawn of time.
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The first one seems spot on, but I know a number of people who have staid at Accenture, and some who were or are partners, and they are far from mediocre... Anecdotal evidence again, I guess...
I've worked on problems that are famously profound (cancer research!) and problems that people think are stupid, trivial, and ephemeral. I've also worked for big, famous institutions, and I've worked for tiny companies.

And I caution everyone not to fall into the mental trap of overvaluing mass at the expense of momentum. When Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML, it looked kind of silly. And, actually, it has looked kind of silly ever since. But make no mistake: The invention of the web is probably a more important human advance than anything else that has happened in the last twenty years. It has probably already saved more years of human life than the last twenty years of cancer research, for example.

A lot of the problems that people think are important and profound are intractable. Intractable problems don't go away, because they don't get solved. They are around for the long haul. There's time to build institutions around them, to build popular awareness of them, to get really good at marketing them. When someone claims to be working on a Very Important Intractable Problem everyone knows they are Smart.

Whereas many world-changing practical inventions are never profound. They are always either silly or boring. They start off silly. When you first invent the mobile radio people laugh at you, because you are a ham radio geek and you carry around some big ugly boxes in a van. Then mobile radios become frivolous things carried only by the CEOs in the movie Wall Street. Then they become frivolous things carried only by hipsters. Then they become frivolous things carried only by salarymen. Then they become frivolous things carried by the young. And then... they become ubiquitous, no big deal, boring. In a handful of decades we are going to equip everyone in the world with a goddamn tricorder and society is barely going to consciously notice.

That is a technology with momentum. Yeah, nobody takes mobiles seriously. They're disposable, and they never work as well as you think they should, and they're used for frivolous purposes like having fun and raising children and reading tedious emails from your boss. But that doesn't mean they aren't important.
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So ask them; they aren't stupid, they wouldn't be building a business based on A/B testing without using valid methods of testing and displaying results. That you call the results crap because you don't have the perfect details of everything is simply absurd.
I seem to have movie maker installed and I certainly didn't download it.

Possibly it came down in a Windows Update (I tend to just say "everything") but if that's the case it's surely only the finest of whiskers away from being a default install.
That seems like an overly romantic way to look at it though. I'm sure I would probably derive some happiness from growing my own food; after all that's mostly why people tend to gardens/model railways/personal blogs/etc. However, if it's something that needs to be done to be able to actually eat, that work soon becomes just that: work.
Why do i need to provide you data? If i were to hack your email account there is no way i'd use the web interface to trawl through them one-by-one.

Initial hack->Gains credentials->Pull down everything imap/pop->Load that shit into thunderbird on a dedicated vm->And we're away
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I seriously doubt it. 70 lbs/week is about the order of magnitude of what one person would eat in a week, but people who eat mostly from their gardens normally are working more on the order of a couple thousand sf/person.

You can jack the numbers up a lot with heavy irrigation/fertilization/perfect climate and lots of experience and work, like in some of the urban homesteading movement. But even the urban homesteaders are serious outliers.
The dollars don't matter so much. eBay matters is that you are seen providing better value (which may indue cost). Unfortunately, with the WWDC announcements, it really doesn't look like HP has a better value.

They need something more to compete if they don't want it to be a race to the bottom with Chinese, Taiwanese, and South Korean vendors.
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Is the purpose of scaffolding just for learning? When I was just starting, I built a twitter clone using a scaffold in about 5 minutes and ... I learned nothing. I then spent a week coding it by hand and learned rails.

I don't think I'd ever use a scaffold in a production app though. For that, I'd ether find an appropriate gem or write the code myself.
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I think that's a good idea, but I didn't realize (at the time I created my canary mail) that it would be possible for me to write a Google Gadget inside Gmail that would do this sort of thing. It turns out that it would be possible to have a Gadget that reports the IP address when the UI is loaded and from that an interesting service could be built. From there I could probably do similar work for other online services.

I can imagine paying for a 'cloud watch' service that keeps an eye on all my online accounts and tells me if something odd is happening.
Palm made the mistake of not realizing fanfare isn't the same as distribution. Touchpads are going to be available at Amazon.com, HP.com, BestBuy, Walmart, Sam's Club, OfficeMax and several others within two weeks of launch, not to mention the international push. The Pre was stuck on the nation's 3rd largest network for like 6 months. It really had no chance of competing with current offerings on AT&T and Verizon being that old.
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I have definitely encountered bugs that I could not track down, which very well might have been a hardware problem. I was eventually forced to give up on it. (And I've gotten better at giving up earlier when something is going to be impossible to find.)

But I have never said, 'I won't look into a bug until multiple people have it.'
If you have chickens in your garden, you won't have any spinach left. Chickens _love_ fresh greens.
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I'm in the same boat. Useful for learning new techniques and digging into the code.
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Thanks David! That'd be great. She'll be in touch.
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That is a scary ruling. It basically strengthens software patents (and all patents for that matter). But in particular solidifies that once you have a patent, you aren't likely to get them overturned in court.

If you can invest in a patent troll -- now is a good time.
What does it feel like to work directly for the President of the United States?
It's probably from the exercise of tending a large garden.
"do we believe that American society needs the Memphises and Tupeloes and Detroits and Clevelands?"

American society doesn't need any city. Outside of the city they live in and those they visit, the whole rest of America (and the world) is an abstraction to any given person. I don't ultimately care if my car is assembled in Detroit or Ohio or South Carolina or Mexico or Japan - I mainly care about build quality, reliability, price, etc. Despite repeated campaigns to "Buy American", people favor local and personal interests over national ones.

Now if X,000 productive people decide they need a place, they can turn it into something meaningful. If Memphis had 5,000 new businesses generating $3M, then Memphis will live and prosper. Sounds like it's one down, 4,999 to go :)
Have to disagree with the second comment. My experience was that the partners were exceptionally good at their job, which is essentially sales. Perhaps they are mediocre along other measurements? Every single one of them was a workaholic, which I don't find to be an admirable quality, so there's that.

Off topic from this comment thread, but the best part about working for Accenture is the extremely transparent career ladder and laddering process, (at least in the consulting workforce). It's something you only appreciate once you don't have it. I was able to look out 10 years and see that I would gradually be transformed into a workaholic sales guy that makes huge amounts of money. As soon as I figured that out I was out of there.
(I'm involved with several student groups on campus.)

Facebook is an amazing tool for getting people out to your events. It doesn't matter if the event is really "public" because the only people who could make it (or that will come) will already be on campus and be invited to the event. (They will see it in news feeds)

So, is it bad that the event data is locked in Facebook? Yes. But, does it matter? No.
Most of his arguments come from flawed premises* and are riddled with logical fallacies, especially straw man, no true Scotsman, hasty generalization, and appeal to authority. But the essence of his argument essentially comes down to:

(1) "There are geeks that are anti-intellectual"
(a premise I reject)

(2) "The geeks that are anti-intellectual are an increasing larger subset of geekdom"
(ironically (given that he advocates for facts), an opinion given without facts)

(3) "Anti-intellectual geekdom is bad"
(something I would concur with if it weren't a contradiction in terms)

*(e.g., geeks love knowledge, we go to parties and talk about up and down quarks, politics, theory of the mind, nature of reality, Aristotle vs Plato, metaphysics, and all sorts of philosophically rooted stuff)
Great post. Thanks for the praise of New Relic as well.

I'd love to get your feedback on what use cases you had where we were not sufficient. Given that we've been around for 3 years and this is the first release of your profiler, it's not fair to compare features, but I'd still love to know what metrics tipped the scale toward building this.

Three huge features we offer that it seems like you're currently missing out on are automatic profiling of slow requests (vs. manual profiling), automatic real user monitoring to provide insight into the end-user experience, and automatic instrumentation (vs. stitching profiling code into your app).

We totally agree that it would be nice to see web frameworks embrace the concept of performance metrics and provide hooks that tools can use. Rails is way ahead of the curve here. Starting with version 3, Rails ships with plenty of hooks across various aspects of the models, views and controllers.
I recently started growing potatoes, tomatoes, chilli peppers and basil on the back patio of my house in the city.

When I'm at work I find myself looking forward to getting home so I can spend my 20 minutes doting over my plants. It's also really rewarding seeing how much everything has grown by since yesterday (sometimes it's by surprising amounts).

At the sort of scale I'm doing it... it doesn't feel like work at all. But I can imagine that changing if I was depending on it for survival. If I scale it up, I very much intend to rely on supermarkets as a backup (especially as I'm still learning). Eliminating the stress (and work aspect).
That's exactly what I've been thinking about (I noodled on the idea earlier this week: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/6277876911/the-personal-cloud )!

I mean, with services like FIOS that offer upstream parity, I think this is a pretty appealing idea. There are some interesting points in the comments on that link, too.
While I agree that the division between «fields that make progress» and «fields that don't» is hasty, there is a division, in all fields, between research and the object of study, and research tends to change while the object of study doesn't; the Pythagorean Theorem, for example, is still widely taught, even if it's not necessarily taught from Euclid's Elements. Similarly, while, say, Jane Eyre(I hated that book, but it's a good example) persists, today's criticism of the book is far different from that which was written when the Brontës were still alive.
Quick question: for someone or a team already extremely well versed in Node.JS, HTML5 and Socket.io, where the core product is already real-time by design from the ground up (rather than a legacy HTML page-based experience that needs to be "up-realtime-d quickly") -- should they be looking into Pusher and how would it help them?

I really mean folks who diligently code their own server sides and client sides "completely" (utilizing OS libs of course) by themselves and work on a for-local-installation product that should not require www/online connectivity (think non-public intranet servers) to run its core real-time functions -- should they be looking at Pusher at all? Or is this "just a quick external JS lib to add a chat, drawing or puzzle game to your popular HTML 4 website"?
Can you share those scripts?
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If they were to put Rhapsody out of business that would qualify as restricting trade, no?
> No, they aren't.

You seem to be confusing "creative" with "artistic". Creativity can mean a customer service employee coming up with an imaginative, memorable and successful way of satisfying an upset customer. It can mean a driver finding ways to shave five or ten minutes off a delivery route. It can mean a coffee shop owner turning a "cash only" sign into a "we accept these currencies" sign (as per a recent HN post). It can mean reorganizing a paper route to reduce "dead-walking". It can mean finding a way to cut 50 pounds of onions without getting teary-eyed. It can mean reorganizing a desk to make it more effective. It can mean taking the time to codify a word-of-mouth business process in a clear process document. It can mean a manager setting up a venue for staff meetings that encourages meaningful participation. It can mean tweaks to an assembly procedure that reduce errors.

I'm firmly of the opinion that there is no job so menial and mechanical that it can't benefit from creative input by the people doing it. Companies that cherish and empower their employees unleash these kinds of creative improvements and enjoy the productivity gains they produce.
They said they're going to review their options: https://twitter.com/#!/readability/status/78858529263464448
Very good points, sounds obvious but I had to learn those based on my own mistakes.
Beg? Most {cities, counties, states} throw the bank at companies to get them to move a couple miles.

Read the "economic development" stories on this blog (http://globalmidwest.typepad.com/global-midwest/) if you're ever in the mood to throw up in your mouth.
Well, since you can walk back and forth across rows, you'll have to compute all of the probabilities for a given row at once by solving the resulting system of equations. This is generally quite simple.

For example, take a four-column, one-row version, with probability-of-falling like so:

* 0 0 0 0 *
1 x y y x 1

We have:

x = 0 / 4 + 1 / 4 + y / 4 + x / 4

y = 0 / 4 + x / 4 + y / 4 + y / 4

giving the solutions x = 2/5 and y = 1/5. It is easier, of course, if you exploit the symmetry of the situation, as here (by writing x y y x instead of x y z w).
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amusingly, I've used KDE on my desktop for more than the last year and this is the first I'd heard of it. It's certainly not featured well with the software.
he makes a very good point.

the U.S. government relaxed it's restrictions on key lengths after it came to the conclusion that vendors in general would not get key management right
Absolutely. That's why I chose "plausible."

I will be the first to recognize that the plausibility of one line of speculation regarding the course of Apple's actions is no more evidence of an actual state of affairs than the plausibility of other lines of speculation within the discussion are evidence that those events indeed occurred.
I think HP's marketing is wrong, they shouldn't be touting the WebOS operating system so much because ordinary people don't care. The operating system is irrelevant in this type of device. In fact, I think something along the lines of Google's ChromeOS is the right operating system for a tablet -- an ultralight web-browsing only device with cloud-connected filesystem for downloads/photos/movies etc. It's the only type of device that I foresee being able to really compete against the iPad.
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The site doesn't use much js itself (other than to wrap the images which sometimes seems to look like a rebuild). I should probably just modify the textile formatter to do that...

The bulk of the js is disqus and a code pretty printer.

For actual performance it seems to be doing pretty well for me. See here for a before/after: http://steve-lacey.com/2011/04/perf_improvement
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He totally lost me with the part about IPv6. What does any of that have to do with security or government eavesdropping?

I read the linked article and it just says that the NSA recommends you disable IPv6 if you're not using it. Which, well... duh.
Not under the Agency model where they still owe publishers 70% of the sale and Apple 30% of the sale. If they want a cut, they can only sell from a website, outside the app. They had a flawed business model to egin with in my opinion.
BTW this comment refers to the bogus site this originally linked to.
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I agree on the bootloader front. I wish they would just settle on a single implementation. NXP's version is however useful, since it requires no tools to operate (delete file from "disk", copy new file to "disk").
He forgot: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs345/whyfp.pdf

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Rumors, just rumors...
That's just too much manual work that's the same over and over again. We already know what elements are different between browsers, and reset fixes that, without requiring manual labor; it's a better approach.
Maybe it has to do with devices and computers being directly addressable?
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In absolute terms, there are probably more command-line users today than there were in the 1990's...