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So there is no mistake, let me describe the bottom of this slippery slope more forthrightly. You are opposed to knowledge as such. You contemptuously dismiss experts who have it; you claim that books are outmoded, including classics, which contain the most significant knowledge generated by humankind thus far; you want to memorize as little as possible, and you want to upload what you have memorized to the net as soon as possible; you don’t want schools to make students memorize anything; and you discourage most people from going to college.

I think this is the core of the article.

Firstly, geeks are not opposed to knowledge, as such. There's knowledge, and the ability to apply it, and geeks value both. We don't all value both equally, there's a bit of diversity here, but "put up or shut up" is seen as a valid call. You can't just claim to know better.

You contemptuously dismiss experts who have it

We dismis experts who flash their "expert card". We are deeply suspicious of experts of the esoteric, unless they can show they are also proficient in the familiar.

you claim that books are outmoded, including classics, which contain the most significant knowledge generated by humankind thus far

Here is where we start deeply mistrusting experts of the esoteric. Notice how the author refuses to actually specify which old books are important? Criticize Plato and he will say he is talking about Gothe. Or Victor Hugo. Or Sun Zi. Or Spinoza.

you want to memorize as little as possible, and you want to upload what you have memorized to the net as soon as possible

I advocate memorizing as much as possible. Cognitive psychology has a lot of evidence that low level knowledge is the foundation of higher order skills. A lot of modern educationalists dismiss this, but they don't have any evidence; just credentials of esoteric expertise.

you want to upload what you have memorized to the net as soon as possible; you don’t want schools to make students memorize anything; and you discourage most people from going to college

Accessible knowledge is a good thing - would the author have opposed the Gutenberg press? Probably.

As I've stated, I do want students to memorize as much as possible. If there are any geeks who think differently, they should read "Why Students Don't like School" - which presents a fair amount of cognitive psychology in a very easy format.

Finally, we get to the real point. Because of our virolent anti-intellectualism, we discourage students from attending university. Bullshit. We discourage some students for going to university for three reasons: Firstly, we don't think it's necessarily the best way to educate themselves, mostly because class sizes are so big you might as well just watch a better lecturer on youtube. Second, it's not necessarily worth it, from an economic point of view. Finally, universities need a bit of competition.
I recently went to 1 infinite loop for the first time, and was extremely disappointed with the building. It was strikingly anti-apple in its aesthetic, seeming more like it was something out of Office Space from most angles rather than from the mind of Johnny Ives.

I am really glad to see how forward-thinking the concept looks.
I completely agree about Springer and Elsevier, but the ACM and IEEE both offer "Digital Library" subscriptions that give you complete access to the entire archives of all of their publications for a couple of hundred bucks a year (including their membership fee.) That's a small price to pay for the quantity and quality of material available, at least in my opinion-- and I'd be ecstatic if Elsevier or Springer offered a similar option. (I've probably paid more than that to Springer this year alone just to get a half-dozen individual articles.)
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Firefox has proven that your claim is false, it is possible to have an updated browser and still ask for permission.

As for the concessions you're willing to make, it's your choice after all. Some people are scarily comfortable in giving up control over their machine for convenience.
I agree that the square dongle probably won't take over the world, and square register can't take over the world's PoS market, as it is now.

I'd happily bet that the Square team, and the evolution of the Square payment products, will.

I think of the square reader as the mailed dvd is to netflix. I suspect Square feels the same way. Their customers love them, they are disrupting a very non-innovative industry, and they've gotten customers fast enough, and sustained growth long enough, to have hit escape velocity.

(I don't work for Square, unfortunately; I did work for some NFC payment stuff in the past, and tried to launch an ecash system in the 1990s.)
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How does the author equate: "Recently, Sir Ken Robinson has got a lot of attention by speaking out–inspiringly to some, outrageously to others–saying that K-12 education needs a sea change away from “boring” academics and toward collaborative methods that foster “creativity.” "

To: "Experts do not deserve any special role in declaring what is known"?

I recently attended a paid training course run by the authors of some well known toolkit. They are, without discussion, the experts on their own software.

Nobody in the course got to 'hello world' before 2PM, the instructors constantly bickered between each other what tools the students should be using, and further discussion was limited to 'check our kitchen sink app for more demo code'. Everyone on the course

This is because having knowledge of a topic, and being able to teach others, are separate skills. Both are required, however academics - people who spend their live in academia and are used to learning things for the purpose of learning, whereas most others are goal oriented - tend to lack the latter skill, despite their expertise in the former.

This is not anti intellectualism. This is about requiring teachers to have the ability to teach.
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It's easier to take a shit on a sidewalk when you are outside instead of using a toilet too.
They should have asked when the iPhone 5 is coming out

Plus: very sneaky for the council to ask for free wifi, ipads, more apple stores, donations for schools in this presentation...
If I have to read an entire page about their updater and then change system configuration files I don't consider this "allowing" me to turn off updates.
According to my very unscientific measurements (I didn't bother looking which files are potentially auto generated), I got:

182kloc of C (.c files)
110kloc of c++ (.h + .cpp files)
558kloc of ruby (.rb files)

That puts C/C++ at roughly 40% of total. Unless proven otherwise I would say "ruby written in ruby" is a bit untrue.
He wants a language which can (preferably) run on everything from 8 bit to 64 bit CPUs and also run on various embedded OSes.

C# only covers a very small subset. Somewhat more if you include Mono, but I guess that puts it in the same league as Java which he did mention.
Only Steve could glue me to the screen for 20 mins to watch a city council meeting.

It's like listening to PT Barnum read the J Peterman catalog.
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Common options are Craigslist, LoopNet, CoStar, a broker, referral, etc.

What do founders and startups feel the best method is for them taking into account budget, special needs for the business, location requirements, etc.?
What about something that lets you record a voice/text message and relay that to someone at a later time? (I haven't searched if such an app exists)
Abstractly, I'm referring to the fact that we used to build web apps that output HTML web pages, which were streamed over HTTP. The "application" was entirely on the server. The browser was, in effect, a dumb terminal.

Then 1999 happened and we got true Web apps (smarts in the browser fetching data from the server) as well as the mixed-bag of XML-RPC and HTTP as a post-Web-page transport[0].

Not that I don't think that Apple is seeing the Internet as that thing that connect Apple products, just that this is not a rare or recent concept.

[0] Or earlier, depending on your view of Java applets.
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The problem seems to be with the explosion of knowledge around us. Very often, beyond basic principles, what we are being taught in school is failing us in real life by being too general, too generic, and too broad to solve the problems we face. Given this, and given the lengths to which one must dig by oneself to solve a problem, a self reflecting geek tends to look back and see that his education has not been of much help. This is more so among information technology professionals and maybe among some in fundamental research.

This doesn't make education unnecessary, just that there needs to be a way of making it more relevant to people, problems and choices.
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Very true! I like to have my documents on my own computer creating backups by myself. There might be people who like to have there documents in the clouds but others don't.

I'm an Ubuntu user and never used Ubuntu One.
And predictably you were downvoted...

First of all, like you've mentioned, his C++ example code is bogus.
Second of all he says "modern funkiness of dynamic languages" only to continue with lambda, map/reduce and type independence. The first two are unrelated to dynamic/static typing, the latter is incorrect or badly phrased. You don't get "type independence" in dynamic typed languages, the types are still there.
Thirdly, he greatly exagerates the complexity of templates (thousands of incorrect syntax options for smart pointers, all you have is a hammer, etc)

It's a classic case of fishing for arguments to support an idea.
Well, Ritchie is normally credited with the creation of C and Thompson with its predecessor B. You're probably right, with the two coworkers working closely together on Unix Thompson probably made a lot of direct contributions to early C. But it was Ritchie that took C as his project and shepherded it through its growth and standardization.
Go is NOT C-like. The same semantics could have been achieved by making minimal changes to the existing C syntax. For me, Go seems to be suffering from the NIH syndrome -- they made many syntax and cosmetic changes to C just for the sake of change itself. (Using {} for compound statements is not enough to qualify the language as 'c-like'.)

I have no doubts that Go authors think that their syntax is superior, but they'll have a hard time convincing me that

switch nr, er := f.Read(buf[:]); true {

is understandable (snippet taken from Go tutorial).
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Watching this presentation makes me think of how important it is to stick to your values across everything you are doing. The building Steve jobs presented has some of the same design principles found in the recent apple products; roundness, simplicity, clean neutral colors, environmental friendly, etc. I think this gives apple great appeal.
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Posted 4 min ago but its already hacked. I guess that should have been expected when you challenge hackers like that.
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That council is so embarrassing.
What matters is the interaction between the user and the news system. For this reason, I don't believe the comparison with a shop, tv or a magazine is pertinent. IMO the key element is that the news system should never lock the user up. The most annoying thing with personalized filters is that they're mostly invisible.
Examples of beautiful Go?
I wish I knew. I have yet to see anything like it outside of Austin. The Alamo nailed the best way to run a theater, really.
During one of the last FOSDEMs (fosdem.org) we noticed similar thing - the RTT to google.com was slightly smaller over IPv6 than IPv4.

But it's a mixed bag. All one can conclusively say that the average patient temperature in the hospital is pretty close to normal.
Wow, such a beautiful campus.
Everybody notice the part:

face:b00c

Cool! :)
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The classics have their place as art and as sources of prestige, but if you're looking to learn things there are usually better places to look.

It depends, of course, on what kinds of things you are trying to learn. And that is precisely what is at stake here.

You definitely don't go to the classics to learn science or technology. But is that all there is that is worth knowing?

And don't be too hasty in your division of "fields that make progress" and "fields that don't." Our knowledge of Ancient Greece, for example, has grown substantially in the past century, and there has definitely been progress in historiography--but that does not eliminate the need (or, more to the point, the desirability) to read the primary texts.
Regarding #1: for some reason this is exaggerated in UX and especially IA fields.
I unsubscribed from IA mailing lists because most of the traffic there was argument what IA is and what it is not.
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Certainly Dennis Ritchie is the primary author of C, but given the very close historical relationship between C and unix, we know that there was a tight synergistic evolution that shaped each in relation to the other. As an example, very early C didn't have structs, but Thompson clearly needed a bit more powerful abstractions for some of the work on converting unix into C from pdp assembler, so Ritchie added them.

I was really just quibbling over definitions and connotations, when I hear of an "indirect" involvement I think of something very different and much more remote than the deeply intertwined stories of unix and C and Thompson and Ritchie at Bell Labs in the 69-74 era.
When I saw the photos, I figured that the building's circumference would be so wide that curved glass would not just be unnecessary, but almost counter-productive, as it's difficult to curve glass without imperfections that might ruin its reflections.

Surely we'd be talking about small fractions of a degree per pane.

Can anyone estimate what the building circumference is, and therefore what amount of curve would be called for?
Even the descendants of ADD immigrants are more likely to have ADD themselves. There is a 30% chance for children to get ADD when 1 parent has got it and 50% chance when both parents have it.

Therefore percentage of people having ADD should be much higher in America than anywhere else.
Also possible that the traffic generated resulted in the server crashing. I guess, time will tell.
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Because they're trying to make a point. I love this about Google.

Also, even though it is trivial to do, it is effort unasked for, just to satisfy some politician's power craze.

(also I'm pretty sure that later on they will roll back in the customization though a parameter, just not immediately)
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The Infinite Loop campus was actually buit in 1993, before Steve returned and Jony was made head of ID.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Loop_(street)
Here's a clue on the taxi situation. SF is 7 miles x 7 miles (and the bulk of this is Richmond or Sunset where you'll rarely go). Walk. Ride a bike. Take the Muni or BART. Problem solved.
But he also calls it 'human scale', while in the pictures the building looks huge: it's a kind of hollow frisbee, pentagon-style.

Maybe it's because I'm from a small country, we don't have skyscrapers here ;-)
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Nice idea. It also led me to another application idea - an app that

a)Let you store birthdays, anniversary etc in your calendar
b)Let you record a text/audio/picture/video greeting
c)Schedule those greetings to be delivered on particular day/time.
d)reminds you about it so that you can make a personal call.
that could have ended up much worse...
everyone learns to not play with the fire. But obviously the managers of security agencys not...
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I laughed when he projected the estimated percent increase in trees. I hope this filters into future presentations. "We're here to announce the iPhone 5, but first...we've been really, really happy with the growth of our tree population here at Apple."
Could have been worse. They could have requested hookers and blow. And donations wired to an offshore account :-)
That sounds like a straw man. He wasn't arguing for monopolies. He was just saying that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should be added to the postitive effects which Microsoft has contributed to the world.
All the greenery and landscaping also made me wondering in what extent this new campus will be accessible to the general public. Will you be able to just go there and take a walk in Apple Park, or will there a big fence around it?

In the presentation you see casual people walking and playing about.
It reminds me somewhat of the Borland campus. That thing was Japanese inspired, and shaped like a kind of jagged C, but similarly had a large central courtyard, and due to its shape had lots of natural light in the offices.
They haven't built the new one yet; they could always make it bigger. Even simply thickening it would likely add a ton of space.
And all the ugly parking lots will be underground! What a huge gain. It almost makes me want to work for Apple and move to Cupertino.
Seriously the questions they asked were just ridiculous.
There are some interesting ideas here, but it's a little heavy on opinion. Rob's obviously an agile zealot. These myths he's refuting are not universal, though.

For example, pair programming doesn't work for everyone, nor does the open office + headphones arrangement. Some people are extremely productive working alone uninterrupted.

While I agree that the "full-stack" generalist is good, sometimes you do need people who can specialize, deep dive, and "own code"--even if others play in that part of the code base. Some technologies actually do require hard thinking and deep understanding of 10's of thousands of lines of code.

I'm afraid he's painting with a pretty broad brush.
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It would also darken the building and require more artificial light, which it seems they're trying to avoid.
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I find it extremely interesting that they'll be using natural gas as their primary energy source for the campus and using the electrical grid as their backup. Is this really cost effective? Are many businesses doing this?
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No. Foxconn makes products not only for Apple, but for those and other companies too. Hence my question, why should Apple be responsible for the pay.
And Jobs' desire is not to improve experience for those making the products, but for those using them.
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Typed languages (like C# and Scala) can definitely use non-booleans in boolean expressions; the thing they're lacking here is that you can't return non-booleans from boolean expressions, e.g. you can't have a line like

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Wow. I was prepared to denounce this as a fake, mouthpiece for LulzSec made to look like a hacking challenge (for the lulz), etc. A facebook page like this[1] is so laughably over the top.. But perhaps not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywUK2Jat5k

Now I just feel a bit sorry for him. A very fast lesson to not consider yourself "trained by the best in the world" or go around putting up $10k prizes like this without actually having a few crises under your belt.

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