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The worst code I've seen is from programmers who had no mental model of what they were doing, just changed things at random until tests passed.

The worst writing I've seen:

* is ungrammatical to the point of incoherency

* loses its train of thought mid-sentence and talks about
something unrelated

* is full of irrelevant details

* simply ignores everything above the sentence level, producing mere text, no argument, story or whatever it was supposed to be

Not really the same failure modes.
Today's Mac mini's are more than powerful enough to write code on. But the gist of your argument seems to be that the cost of buying a mac seems to be a big barrier to entry in some markets.

While I would agree with that to some degree, the fact that there is over 400k apps in the appstore tells me that the barrier is either non existent or a lot lower than people are making it out to be.

Furthermore, there are other costs besides the computer itself when developing for iOS. So if the developer isn't making enough money to cover all of those costs, the that developer needs to try something else to make money.

Which isn't to say "not to do iOS development" but to find out why their app isn't selling and adjust. The "build it and they will come" is a fallacy and many developers fall into that trap.
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But it might bring us apricots with arsenic in the flesh (instead of just in the pit) for instance. Or berries that harbor e-coli more readily.

With splicing we can examine the goals and techniques and make a reasoned conclusion.

Its astonishing to me that we accept "natural" (read: unknown, random) genetic modification without a peep. And yet when an Engineer creates a deliberate breed, the level of fear jumps off the chart. Says more about the public perception of science than it does about genetics I think.
Tagging is a pretty fundamental feature of Facebook, in my opinion. That being said, there actually already is an option in the privacy settings to prevent anyone from seeing the images you're tagged in. That's slightly different from preventing the tagging in the first place, but the effect is the same.
vermontvirtual.org doesn't resolve. Does anyone know what's going on there?
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>Actually, now the other cars on the road looked strange. Why were they so large? Why did cars stick out six feet in front of the driver? Why did they drag around another eight feet of metal behind? It was an epidemic of automotive obesity.

Smarts aren't actually that efficient. The small body means that the car has to be very strong, and therefore very heavy in order to withstand collisions. I was looking at a Smart on display, and I was surprised to see that it got poorer mileage than my Hyundai Elantra, despite the fact that my Elantra is about twice as large.
I don't really count those, because historically speaking having to buy extra peripherals limits the amount of success such things can have. Effective failure of addons isn't proof that a console can't make a go of the some technology if it ships with it; motion controls are one example, hard drives are another. (The PS2 could have a hard drive, but until consoles shipped with them and they could basically be counted on (yes you could get XBox 360s without hard drives but it was understood that you were going to have a limited experience), they weren't useful for very much.)
Of course they get it. They just don't care.

If this was opt-in by default, it wouldn't get nearly the same adoption. Lots of people would click no, then never change the setting.

The general public will eventually get over it, the same way they got over {the news feed, suggest a friend, changing interests to likes, letting people without .edu accounts sign up, ...}. Facebook knows this. PR probably had the apology written before the feature was turned on.
The title didn't reflect that hence my snakiness about the numbers
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Raul Ruiz is a director of mazes A wonderful storyteller band a caustic wit and an anti-determinist Rivette Chilean author is fascinated by the stories that expand on the inside apparently filled with images of secret passages and story tellers who gather toys In this sense
Since you want to stay in the US, you should investigate the various visa possibilities there. Spend some money (few K) on an immigration laywer.
Actually, Apple will specifically tell you which rule(s) in the App Store terms and conditions that your application breaks. You can change your app and then resubmit, or appeal the decision (I had a little app rejected, appealed and it was approved about four days later)
How much money has the Gates Foundation spent in total over its decade or so of work? What is the USA humanitarian aid budget for a single year?

US federal Humanitarian aid budget for 2009: $4.3bn

Gates Foundation total charitable distribution 2009: $3.65bn

Gates Foundation total grant commitments since inception: $24.81bn

So it seems you're either seriously over estimating The US Government spending or seriously underestimating the Gates foundation.
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The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is Hell NO!
Just knowing Steve's personality of "total control of the Stack" is enough to discount this. Plus, the pictures of their massive new data center http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/06/06/datacenter-equipment-app... do no make it sound so.
It's true; iCloud has the potential to be a massive lock-in mechanism, ensuring that people will continue to buy Apple devices for years on end because buying anything else will mean manually moving your data out of iCloud - which probably won't be easy for the average user.
Always better to ask forgiveness than permission, no?
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Thanks. I still think it's a good question (especially relative to the other questions). I wouldn't be surprised if there's some congestion already - it's not like the traffic is starting at zero. Thanks for clarifying the numbers.

> Also the council would object to the idea if it would cause much traffic congestion

The thing is, they're not up to that stage yet. They haven't even seen the plans. The question that guy asked was objecting to the idea, to the extent possible at this early stage.

BTW: When starting off replies with "You are wrong", it's best to be sure that (a) it is an issue that one can be clearly right or wrong about (e.g. arithmetic); and (b) you are correct. In fact, given (a) and (b), it is better to not even say that, and shorten it to simply present the correct answer: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Please, tell me it's a very subtle joke.
For the record, Dolly was "born" in 1996.

How about a good old: there are things we don't fully understand yet, let's debug some more?

Dolly also died in 2003. From the Wikipedia page (take it for what it is):

On 14 February 2003, Dolly was euthanised because she had a progressive lung disease and severe arthritis. A Finn Dorset such as Dolly has a life expectancy of around 11 to 12 years, but Dolly lived to be only six years of age. A post-mortem examination showed she had a form of lung cancer called Jaagsiekte, which is a fairly common disease of sheep and is caused by the retrovirus JSRV. Roslin scientists stated that they did not think there was a connection with Dolly being a clone, and that other sheep in the same flock had died of the same disease. Such lung diseases are a particular danger for sheep kept indoors, and Dolly had to sleep inside for security reasons.

Some have speculated that a contributing factor to Dolly's death was that she could have been born with a genetic age of six years, the same age as the sheep from which she was cloned. One basis for this idea was the finding that Dolly's telomeres were short, which typically is a result of the ageing process. The Roslin Institute have stated that intensive health screening did not reveal any abnormalities in Dolly that could have come from advanced ageing.
How would Facebook be able to innovate if everything they released was opt-out? This isn't some privacy-leaking piece of the site, it is a feature that helps one of their core components be better.

If you are that much of a privacy freak, don't make a Facebook account. It's that simple - either you want your data out there to some degree or not (and don't glorify Facebook into something that it is not).
The point is to have someone make a statement, on record, that they take responsibility for the issue.
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It's not that others haven't done it before. It's that Apple hasn't done it until now.

That is the big thing. Not the technology in itself.
"Try leaving your Apple iPhone open while 3G roaming in Taiwan for a week and see what kind of bill you get," said Barak in a RCR Unplugged story. "Just try it. I dare you. And sure, it works on Wi-Fi, but who cares, so does Google chat."

That's a funny statement - it takes away all the benefit that imessage provides because most of the high-end users do travel a lot .... but who knows apple may do something about it in few months and give a final blow to BBM.
Why do you think that? We're talking huge scale data, not hosting a web page. Any rates Amazon would charge apple (millions upon millions) would obviously have a profit margin for Amazon (this is how businesses work). Since we're talking petabytes of data, Apple can save money dealing with it themselves.
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Quote - " Who wants to go back to emailing documents to yourself, or firing up Dropbox to move media from one device to another, when iCloud will–if it works properly–obviate the need for both by enabling change-on-one-device, update-to-all computing that’s ostensibly effortless and invisible?"

" Add to that a price point of free and a software-driven ecosystem like the one Apple’s developed and, well, that’s an offer not easily refused. Not easily duplicated, either–particularly for more fragmented platforms like Android"

Hmm. Never used Android before or just paying it back Mr. Writer? Apple patted him in the back and John is just doing his best in response. WSJ is Apple's guerilla marketing arm.
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Yeah, but part of the fun of this is to visualize 89 space shuttles. If not then another q1tifier could be used. We'll slowly fine-tune so the numbers wouldnt be so crazy.
We have added the spaces. No imperial units because we used SI units as our base, but we're planning to add it in the future
"I think you are hugely underestimating the difference in possible use cases between the Dreamcast's 32 x 48 pixel, black and white, non-backlit, non-touchscreen display and the Wii U's 6.2" HD color motion-sensing touchscreen."

I would agree, if I had not just spent the rest of my argument making points that apply equally to both screens. If anything the Dreamcast screen by virtue of being simpler is easier to acquire. Use cases don't matter if the entire idea of a screen in your hands is fundamentally unusable, a violation of Fitt's law suitably modified.

Also, broadly speaking, the further you have to reach for a suitable use of the controller, the more likely it is not to really work. Again, I've seen craploads of innovative ideas like that, and they look a lot more interesting in your imagination or YouTube videos (where details like "being fun for more than 30 seconds" can be easily glossed over) than they do in real life .

"The screen also allows you to continue playing when someone else wants to use the television."

This, by the way, is a really stupid use case in 2011, at least in the US. For the same reason that screens are cheap enough to put in your controller in the first place, screen contention is already not a very significant problem and over the lifespan of the console will effectively go away. When it would have been helpful was when we were all fighting over the family 26" tube TV. The fact that this is even used as justification is another smell to me that this isn't really that great an idea, if that's in the list of "best arguments".
Well, there went my excuse. I tried to set up a tunnel the other day and couldn't get it to work, but this worked like a champ. I can proudly say my client now owns two of the few IPv6-enabled porn sites on the planet.

CloudFlare handled the DNS like a champ (although I did have to disable and re-enable acceleration for one of the domains to get it to work).
> Have you ever tried to compile Xcode samples on a MacMini?

Yes, I have been doing it on a four year old, Core Duo one for the whole three years since the iOS SDK became available and have had zero compilation performance issues. Keep in mind that the vast majority of iOS applications are laughably small compared to desktop apps.

I'm not disputing that a Mini is still too costly for many, but I think it is unfair to exclude it as development machine.
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1. AAARG contact form. Get rid of the form please. PUT YOUR EMAIL ON THAT PAGE! Thanks.

2. Put your location, phone number and email at the top of the page.

3. If this is your portfolio to sell your design services, what's up with "blogger entrepreneur"?

4. Please explain what kind of work you specialize in. It may seem obvious to you, but it's not to us. Mobile experience? etc.

5. The examples are too small, and should link to a larger image, not to the actual website (which will change).

In short: right now, I can't tell what kind of work you do, and I can't contact you easily.
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He is exactly right.

As a beginning-programming instructor, my students have little difficulty understanding language syntax and operation - much like the "language lawyers" mentioned. Their recurring problem is not correct syntax, it's internalizing the process of expressing a solution to a problem using that syntax. They have few unto no examples of what a program - a real, functioning, well written program - looks like.

Indeed, programming is writing: it's expressing the solution to a problem using a formalized language. Understanding how the program works is one thing (and yes, all too often this is a problem); a good program also expresses why.

A 3 year old writing a novel won't succeed because, despite the ability to speak, he does not comprehend the process of concocting and presenting the story; all he knows is the minimum needed to just read one. He's not going to write good novels until he reads lots of good novels, and groks the literary structure and process of having and expressing an idea. Ditto programming: students may know the syntax, but they don't grasp the notion of "writing" because they haven't seen any decent examples.

Rosettacode.org may be a good starting place.

Thanks for the article, I may finally have identified the gap in my teaching. Now to find concise examples to fill it with, as the curriculum does not allocate copious time for reading lots of coding examples. Anyone have links to good examples for beginners regarding fundamental concepts? I don't mean syntax (I teach that well enough), I mean elegant uses akin to poetry or short stories. IOCCC (a moment of reverent silence for greatness ended) has wonderful examples of cool things in minimal code, but commands obfuscation. Anything akin to IOCCC for good readable nifty code?
Generally true, although the Engineering department at my university (Waterloo) had a focus on making sure the teachers met a high "you must be this good at teaching bar" so the professors I had were routinely good.
You must live in a city with a public transportation system that doesn't take 2 hours to get you to a destination only 5 to 7 miles away and doesn't require huge taxpayer subsidaries to exist. I would gladly use public transportation if it didn't suck so hard in my city.
How can a noob know?
I'm what I describe as a self-taught noob hacker wannabe. I have a few years experience in hobby/amature/aiming-at-startup-as-soon-as-possible level relational db design and TSQL as well as, to a lesser degree VB.NET. I'm wanting to learn clojure and with the recent article stating that immersion in good code is potentially a far better for real literacy/composition I'm with the foreseeable dilemma of not knowing what is good clojure (or really any language for that matter) code.

Help? Please?
I've not completely waded through the either the draft or the implementation document, but this should help you: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/C++0xFAQ.html
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The program also doesn't seem to understand that kg and g are measuring the same thing. I added the fact that an iPhone weighs 137 grams, and if I search for 137 g, I find it. But if I search for 0.137 kg, the program finds nothing at all.
It means that the building doesn't overwhelm you. Like the buildings in Paris for example.
I get tired of the "blame the shitty programmers" line of thought. We're all shitty programmers. Yet we all "understand variable scope" and "what the code was supposed to do." Some of us have such a large ego that we think it's others. No, Sancho. It's you.

Code gets complex as hell very quickly. If it was building a house, it would be built in a week and architected on the fly. The person mixing the concrete, who has to know the concrete grade and drying time, also has to know that the upstairs has just shifted and now the load is too much on the center beam.

The reality is that, unless your dealing with tiny apps, that "bad programmer"? It's you.
> The first stage in understanding complexity is invariably "messing" with it.

Agreed. Shall we mess with it in a closed environment or in our stores? Put another way, the human race has just built its first whip, do we let all humans board or do we check if it actually sails first?
I may be wrong, but the impression I'm getting is that people are offended that facebook have used the photos that have people tagged them in as data for training their facial recognition software without them agreeing to it.

It's the fact that they now have the power to determine whether you're in a photo, any photo, or even any video, anywhere in the world, that has people worried. What might facebook end up doing with that?

Of course there was nothing stopping them doing this without it being obvious to anyone.
Very cool, I would definitely circulate this to various news agencies, and teachers groups, they tend to love to quantify numbers with visual solutions (ie our debt, in dollars stacked, would reach from here to the ....)
What? Of course SS and Medicare count. They're taxes. Europeans get pension plans too, and they have universal healthcare, and those services are included in the taxes that europeans pay.

You just argued "If I take the tax rate, and subtract 15%, I get 28%". That's ridiculous.

And, nobody in SS is subsidized by anyone -- those who max out don't pay any more beyond the max.
I'm more curious about why grads are redoing the program...I understand the stick with what works mentality but Y-comb alumni should already have the ears of investors. You don't need yc to focus on product. As I'm writing this I guess the exception might be if your customers are heavily technical, like the heroku for NFC.
Engineers ideas are not necessarily ranked by business value when you have more than just a few customers.
Essentially, "computer science" is a myopic name for what is really "process studies."

Actually the name isn't myopic at all. Computers are basically entities that follow instructions. There was a time when the definition for the word computer was a person who did computation processes.
Hm, I didn't realize that it was the same as my Apple account. I think I'll go change that, now. :)
You can sync to the cloud and access files from the cloud OR you can actually choose files/folders to sync across hardware.

There is a huge usability difference between putting a file in some folder, and having it synced, and automatically syncing all relevant data in an application.

This is easy to underestimate for us technical people, but it is very difficult to explain my mother that she has to put files in, say, Dropbox on her iPod Touch to be able to access it on her iPad. Do something on the iPod Touch, have it available nearly instantly on the iPad in the same application, she understands.
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The clustering doesn't indicate that there's a cartel, rather that the banks do not compete on price. The real compensation that the banks receive isn't from the fees. The real compensation is received in the form of quid-pro-quo from their top customers to whom they allocate shares. This is the same reason that the IPOs are usually very underpriced.
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> Japan is somewhat famous for churning out students who know a lot about English, but can't order a drink at Mac Donald's.

An old friend of mine had a master's degree in French literature. She used to live in Ottawa, Ontario and was fond of a pizza place just across the river in Hull, Quebec. One day she called to order a pizza, and when it came time to ask for it to be delivered she realized she didn't know how. She asked if the pizza place could put the pizza into a car and drive to her house with it.

The order taker replied, "Oui, delivery. Nous pouvons le faire."
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Why?:

die unless $file;

if (!$file){
die;
}

Which is neater? Should I not be able to write the first one?
Me in particular uses different passwords for different accounts, but you're right - most people probably use "bob123" for everything from their bank account to their email.
a noob/newbie doesnt has to know. But he should be able to use google, and ask good questions.

so, for your clojure example, google it, write some code, and put it on http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ . They will tell you whats wrong with your code, and what's right.
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Thanks
It is your life even if people you don't like benefit from it.

How cliched is the "I'm unhappy now, but at some future time when XYZ, then I'll be happy (but not until then!)"? That's pretty much what I meant.
No it's not - I want people to see pictures of myself that I'm tagging myself.
If you're trying to identify and eliminate bottlenecks, benchmarks like this are tremendously helpful. If the theoretical limit of a component exceeds the practical limit of other resources, I know I can look elsewhere to improve performance.
Actually I've done that many times. Great exercise.
I like the use of textures on the site.

Did you do the UX of the sites in your portfolio? Everything? Since there are so few, maybe turn them into case studies and describe what the client needed and why you did what you did.
The truth is, all of you call all code written by someone else bad because understanding code is mentally painful. Stick with the code for a while and you'll start liking it more. Any code you don't understand is "bad".

Every single programmer, even with only 1 year experience is heavily opinionated and reckons himself a guru. Everybody God damn programmer thinks he's a guru!

Once you're not a newbie programmer, you'll stop complaining about all the minor formatting issues and stuff. A seasoned programmer follows, "When in Rome, do as the Romans."