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As someone who started writing HTML in early elementary school, that's a terrible thing to say, IMO. My biggest programming-related anxiety while growing up was that I would stop learning.
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This is good advice. I started writing stuff in early elementary school, but I didn't have any mentorship whatsoever until well into college. A mentor would be fantastic.
Yeah, I'm definitely lucky but man, sometimes it's stressful. Especially recently, I've had some really difficult problems to get through.

I kind of work for myself though it's more accurate to say that I work for a lot of people in various highly technical and often mathematically intensive industries...
Re: Android vs. iPhone, Android has quite a few quirks and if you're looking to avoid getting mired in confusing details of the system, I would steer clear (the UI layout system in particular can be pretty arcane, but there are other flaws as well). It's easier, and in my opinion, more fun to ship something with iOS. I recommend it highly over the Android SDK.

(I do Android and iOS for a living)
Wikipedia is roughly ten years old. Does that still count?
First, many local libraries offer digital check-out services. Call up or email your local library to find out.

Secondly, insofar as a business idea? Publishers already want to force libraries to constantly re-license eBooks after they've been check out X number of times. (As low as ten.) I can only imagine how they'd treat a for-profit venture. I wish you luck if you want to try this, but I imagine that magic number for price of subscription fees (first appealing to voracious readers I'm sure) and the cost for licensing book rentals would be tough to get right.
If they think they can make any serious amount of money by trying to beat Facebook at their own game, they aren't so bright, I think.
Hey, you are my inspiration! You actually inspired me to make my own products.

The problem is, matching the day job pay is pretty hard because it's pretty high (should get paid more even though I'm paid well.) I think I'll get there eventually, just need to keep plugging away at it.
I am not sure about the border, I just clicked off the background color through Chrome developer tool, and liked it better. You have a good concept, btw.
To be fair, the tools they develop to understand a chaotic system like the stock market might be interesting outside of the field of algorithmic trading.
Read the article to the end. It says almost exactly this.
Rampant speculation is exactly what the author of the article is doing, I don't see why it can't go both ways :)
Dammit. Now I need a firewall and a sanitizing html proxy for my car too. May as well put it behind tor while I'm at it.

Lessee: Iptables redirect of outbound port 80, squid, squidguard with http request rewriting, onion router with tor...

Das ist mein Car-Tor.
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The darkness disappears when I go out the abyss. The best place to see Green Lantern online for free here. In my sleep I've never felt the hand slapping my mouth
I suspect the streams are optimized for people whose "friends" are actually their friends. My friends list contains 30 of my real friends that I care about, so these notifications you mention aren't actually Spam to me.

The problem is that a lot of people have turned number of friends into a high score, but when your friends list is 500 people you barely know, it seems like you are basically using Facebook for the wrong thing.
This looks like so much fun. Not to mention a way to get rid of excess accumulated 'junk', that I can't bear to just throw out.

Too bad I'm in Australia, and it could never work here.
He's not perceiving any particular weird weather events as evidence for climate change -- we won't know for some time whether the freaky weather is or isn't evidence climate change related because the data are so noisy. That said, in general, extreme weather has been predicted by climate change models[1].

If your neighbor said to you "looks like it's going to rain tomorrow night -- I saw a storm system coming in while I was out of town", and then tomorrow night it rains, you don't say "well, Fred, you predicted it, but we don't know for sure that the rain was caused by the storm you saw, so we're going to be sure we take everything we hear from you with a grain of salt."

The author wasn't saying "the rain was caused by the storm Fred saw". Rather, he's saying that no one is listening to Fred even though the freaky weather suggests that he's been right so far.

[1] http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/news/increasingly-variable-summ...
Would you rather the title was "Man builds knife from raw materials but using modern tools, and has to build a smelter first" or something?
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Hi, I am not a designer, tsycho. I emailed you.
I know of quite a few products that have not been updated since the late 90's, early 2000's and bring in quite a nice chunk of change.

The common characteristics:

* The customers are not whiners: Does it work? Yes? Sold

* Non-trivial problem: Inventory, computer graphics, math

* Pricing: Expensive

So, ok, some company making a subversion interface stopped updating their software. Someone else picks it up because it's /easy/.

That's why you don't make software for software developers! Sell them chairs or something.

These guys keep making money because the problems they solve are hard.
I am having a hard time determining if its the vehicle making the actual request, or if the request is somehow proxied from the Nissan CARWINGS data center. If its just the CARWINGS data center, that is probably a really easy fix.....but if its the car....ugh...
I don't suppose you have a spare power cord for a HP 5061A cesium beam atomic clock?
Uses a weird round mil-style connector, never have been able to find one.
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Only the car can transmit its own gps and heading data. If it gets to the logs of your own web server, it came from the car somehow or another. If its glommed on to the request on its way through the CARWINGS datacenter after arriving there by another protocol, that's worse. It means they're hoarding the data in their cloud and your privacy has never even crossed their minds.
While I find the idea of many micro-communities compelling, I don't think that this is the direction things are going.

Here's why: the Internet is extremely diverse as it is and overall makes for a bad user experience where people have to cognitively deal with many different (and disagreeing) interfaces, rules, quirks, web addresses, and so on. At the beginning this heterogeneity was seen as an advantage because the amount of easily accessible information was unparalleled. However, in the past few years it seems like most successful platforms (be it YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Amazon, Wikipedia, iOS, etc.) have done well because there was a consistent and one-stop shop experience throughout.

There is still tons of room on many different verticals to improve and disruption to occur, but I wouldn't expect things to come full circle.
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If you cannot type the Arabic URL, there are chances you don't need to. Maybe you'd want to follow a link and read the page using a translator, but not type the URL.

The non latin URL is totally coherent with the freedom to have a non latin content and, ultimately, some web users knowing only languages without latin letters.
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http://www.winrumors.com/silverlight-isnt-dead-its-the-heart...

There is another article too in relation to this. Also, Mary Jo Foley and others have posted 'information' about Jupiter and whatnot.

It seems people are quickly taking advantage of this 'outrage' on the internets for some 'good' news stories.
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To elaborate, you should start a page, then message the group members to switch to the page to continue getting updates. After a while it seems you won't have the option to contact the members anymore.
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25 millions ipads sold and still no way to get a decent user experience on the iPad. And i have tried a lot of apps...
Company who made it:

AeroVironment http://www.avinc.com/
Awesome, 11 minutes of flying is not bad considering its size and current battery technology.

It literally gives a birds eye view :)
Are you saying that global warming isn't real? Are you suggesting that humans aren't responsible? Because if so, you're Just Plain Wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

For some reason, millions of people believe that scientists, who spend all day trying to prove each other wrong, have been conspiring to lie about global warming. At the same time, those millions ignore the actual organized disinformation campaign perpetrated by those whose businesses get hurt whenever people start conserving fuel.
and also Conan's commencement speech to Stuyvesant High School in 2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4-1d9DB9Q
Congratulations to those who gain benefit from this, but I can't help but feel that a little bit of introspection is all that is really needed. Listen to your body. It is always talking to you, reporting how it is doing. Most of the time we just aren't listening.
I can't answer for SoftwareMaven but I use the same sources as where I get my news, such as HN. Any startup worth its salt is content marketing, blogging, podcasting, or whatever, and its stuff comes up on sites like HN.

That said, sites like ReadWriteWeb and Mashable also cover the beat well.
This type of flying machine is called an ornithopter in general, and many hobbyists have made their own. You can even buy toy ornithopters I believe. However, most cannot be controlled, and those that can probably can't be maneuvered as well as with this particular design.

http://www.ornithopter.org/

Many ornithopters use elastic bands for power, whereas this seems to be battery-based. I'm impressed with the 11 minutes of flying time. I wonder what sort of battery they are using that's so light. The weight of batteries seems to me to be the biggest issue in making smaller ornithopters.
As a second opinion, I had never thought of housefeed when thinking about housefed. Housefed is like grassfed, and I would never think of grassfeed.
Show HN: Weekend project - a WebGL Orrery
This was my recent weekend project, aimed at teaching me JavaScript, a bit of HTML5, and (mostly) WebGL. The orbital data are from NASA JPL. I was inspired in part by this Flash app: http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/orrery_2011_bce.swf, but wanted to do something in 3D.

Coming from the games-dev world, this is my first introduction to web coding. The UI is jquery. I mostly used http://learningwebgl.com/blog for the 3D stuff. Being WebGL, it will work mostly on Chrome, Firefox 4 Beta. Forget about IE.

I needed to figure out how to render text to the WebGL canvas - I won't say I have the perfect solution, but the general approach is to use a conventional HTML5 canvas, then copy it once per frame into a WebGL texture. There's something funky going on in this process - the textures get corrupted, and resizing the window leads to slowdown.

For the future I'd like to make the planets clickable and zoomable, maybe put in a search box to zoom to objects of interest. I'd like to build it up to a full catalogue of the Solar System - comets, the larger asteroids, dwarf planets - and maybe add the capability to put in known space mission trajectories.
Even though I've seen people explain it as a story arc of communications technology, Nokia's progress through paper, cables, TVs and mobile phones doesn't really make a compelling single service vision that the article was aiming for.
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The article was aiming to explain the characteristics of a company likely to make it, not exactly to say which companies will.

What is nearly certain is that there will be major technological shifts in the next hundred years. What they are is impossible to say. But the less married a core business idea of a company is to the current technologies, the more likely they can make the jump to whatever comes first.
Not entirely -- it's better to think of "unknown unknowns" that current circumstances might well contribute to the probability of occurring. We might know of 10 events that all "only" have a 1% chance of occurring, causing us to estimate risk of any one occurring at 10%. But because of how much everything is getting mucked with, there might not be 10 events that have a 1% chance, but instead 50, or 100.
This was my recent weekend project, aimed at teaching me JavaScript, a bit of HTML5, and (mostly) WebGL. The orbital data are from NASA JPL. I was inspired in part by this Flash app: http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/or..., but wanted to do something in 3D.

Coming from the games-dev world, this is my first introduction to web coding. The UI is jquery. I mostly used http://learningwebgl.com/blog for the 3D stuff. Being WebGL, it will work mostly on Chrome, Firefox 4 Beta. Forget about IE.

I needed to figure out how to render text to the WebGL canvas - I won't say I have the perfect solution, but the general approach is to use a conventional HTML5 canvas, then copy it once per frame into a WebGL texture. There's something funky going on in this process - the textures get corrupted, and resizing the window leads to slowdown.

For the future I'd like to make the planets clickable and zoomable, maybe put in a search box to zoom to objects of interest. I'd like to build it up to a full catalogue of the Solar System - comets, the larger asteroids, dwarf planets - and maybe add the capability to put in known space mission trajectories.
I'm not sure you could call LinkedIn a social network. It can be nice to find out about an old friend, but most of it is pure business. So I'm not surprised about the survey.
Let's see, 349 friends today. I personally know every single one of them. Do you really care when one of your friends adds someone they met last night at a bar? Or when they change their profile pic, again?
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Looks to me that it's not so much that "the CLR will become first class" as they've broken down the CLR and .NET into little pieces (GC = SLR/Redhawk, type system/metadata = WinRT/WinTypes.dll, XAML = Jupiter/DirectUI, C# = the new AOT compiler, if it exists), and are using each one individually where appropriate.
Most of templating is relatively simple rules: put attribute foo of object bar inside this div, repeat members of collection baz here.

These can just as easily be described using RDFa as using TAL or Jade or whatever. The benefit of RDFa is that the templating information stays with the page, so client-side can also utilize it.

The library I made for this is https://github.com/bergie/VIE
There is no facebook ipad app. Just a poorly implemented mobile site. It would be perfectly easy for them to have done it right.
This is a problem inherent in any form of social media. Unfortunately, it's not easily fixed. You need to find a way to strike a balance between rewarding content creation and punishing spam, and the line in thin.
I have to say that that sounds awesome. I'll happily trade you my job (no serious academic thinking required) and work for 20% less of whatever they're paying you.
> People spend tons of effort to create a uniform interface
> for seemingly disparate systems.

The world is bigger than US and ASCII is not enough for all.

> Why anyone would think this is a great idea to
> "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me.

Why? To have domain name in other languages. Or do you assume
the web is English-only?

If my favorite basketball club is "Žalgiris" why should it be zalgiris.lt instead of žalgiris.lt? And you don't know how to type in some specific URL chances are that you won't be interested in site's content anyway.
Some good points in there but I think the section on branching strategy might be a throwback to the old, centralised paradigm. You can have master/dev repos, with feature branches off dev. Not sure if you need a release repo, but the main point is that access-controlled repos can replace the branching you'd use in older systems.
I would say it's a combination of caring a little bit and having those events be so rare with only 30 friends that the signal to noise ratio is still really high.
« Why anyone would think this is a great idea to "accommodating" other languages in this manner is beyond me. »

Why anyone would think that forcing a large part of the world to use a foreign alphabet is a good idea is beyond me.

Do you realize that the latin alphabet is actually _hard_ to read/write for a lot of people out there ? Do you realize that it is as annoying for them to write in latin that it is for you to write in, say, cyrillic ?
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Also removing those 'strange' dots and dashes from a word can in many languages leave you with a new valid word, with a completely different meaning.
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Cross posting here in case it can help connect with someone that might be able to help:
The problem with the geographical filtering is that very, very few tweets sent about the subject of the earthquake are geotagged.. as far as I can tell that is what twitter uses for the 'near: filter'.

For what its worth I set up this site http://chchneeds.org.nz immediately after the last big earthquake.. and it is still operating today. As a first step to finding tweets relevant to chch earthquake and filtering out spam it does also allow for filtering by address when people mention an actual address in the tweet.

For example if they say 'at 23 Maidavale lane' or 'in Sydenham' it tags those tweets as being in a particular suburb and in the region of canterbury. For example:
http://chchneeds.org.nz/#!/loc/canterbury

I had grander ideas for this but it was all about people in canterbury choosing to actively use the tags #offer and #need. When I realised that eq.org.nz and their volunteers were doing a better job of filtering and sorting (and getting their message out) than i put my time into helping them.

At this time eq.org.nz has been shut down as it does use quite a lot of volunteer hours to keep going, but everyone and anyone is welcome to try and use the data from chchneeds in anyway that they think it may helps. It's all open data made publically available of course. I'm @chchneeds on twitter if you want to get in touch with me.

Also for what its worth I also set up a similar service for the japanese earthquake, but was overwhelmed by the amount of data, and I wasn't keeping up so I had to shut it down. The new rate limiting rules from twitter don't help much with this.
That depends entirely on the cost of a mistake. If the cost of mistake is low, it's better to make a lots of decisions quickly than it is to try to get each decision correct.
Bump – useful technology or another redundant service?
I agree with your point about the survey results being due to it being pure business, but I still think it is a 'social network'; it's just not one that is made to spend a long time on. I take a gander at it circa once a month. (Their new feature that shows everybody that I looked at their profile though really concerns me.)
Twitter's inability to deal with spam accounts is quite bewildering. Tweeting the same link over and over again? Spam. Follow hundreds and no one follows back? Spam. A high percentage of blocks/spam reports? Spam. Every tweet contains a link? Spam. Does anyone I follow, follow this person? Perhaps not spam but not a good start either
I suspect progress would be really fast. Even if you can't find someone who has the right knowledge to do X, simply know that X can be done would make all the difference.
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Just want to add its really such a goddamn shame that spammers are doing this - basically polluting the public resource of ad-hoc hash tags with their probably automated choosing of popular hash tags. I do hope twitter finds a way to deal with this.
Hi,

I am not sure about SEO exposure from TC, it certainly helps, but I would guess it is not as important as it used to be.

More quality posts wouldn't be enough imho, they should probably have/use more sub sites for what we consider noise and have the main site only talk about startups and related stories (maybe try to limit the number of stories per day, working a bit like a real newspaper in this respect).
But it will probably never happen since it means less ad revenue.

Maybe it is too late anyway, I would guess the audience has changed a lot since it has broaden its topics selection, it wouldn't be considered a good judge of talent anymore, and I guess it isn't their primary goal anyway.
It is awesome.

Here's the problem: I do it all the time and I'm good at it. So people have an expectation of me that I do the hard stuff well. Sometimes, that's not true or a problem is exceptionally hard and those times it's really stressful. It's doubly so when even the experts argue amongst themselves regarding solutions. It's been like that recently so as a result, sometimes I wish I was just doing some CRUD with Django :)
I think bias might be a little too strong a word. While there's always going to be some bias, my guess is the reluctance to promote WP7 is half lack of training (have the MS reps been by for a morning training session, did they bring marketing materials, and did they leave their contact info?) and half skepticism that the device is probably a lame duck.

If MS is really selling the thing for 1 cent online, that also creates a perception that the phone has little value (if they're just giving it away!), and reinforces its small market share.

They've been thoroughly beaten to the punch in every way by their competitors and no amount of playing catch up is likely going to help them.In the words of Sun Tzu, "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win."
Followed up your suggestion of Gosu, which I hadn't heard about before. Looks interesting but this feature comparison chart is hilarious:
http://gosu-lang.org/comparison.shtml

It's the first time I've seen "not lisp" as a checkbox feature. :)