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Expecting less or nothing can indeed be calming, but it's not the only Way.

Rather than letting go of all expectation, simply shift your expectations as required by reality, and shift them without anger or regret. If one of your predicted expectations goes wrong, use Bayes' Theorem to adjust your probability functions until your expectations are right. If expectations turn out to be unpredictable, then we might wish to not have them. I don't think that is the case.

Here's more from the Tao Te Ching:

The Master's power is like this.
He lets all things come and go
effortlessly, without desire.
He never expects results;
thus he is never disappointed.
He is never disappointed;
thus his spirit never grows old.

People focus their thoughts in the "results tank" but not in the "effort tank" or the "action tank". It's always "I want money!" not "I will learn a valuable skill and start working to use this skill." It's not that people have expectations, it's just that their expectations are often wrong and they don't adjust or take action.
Misleading to the extreme. It's not like the employees who built Google+ aren't producing value on other projects—now through code reuse, and in the future more directly.
MG is happy. It worked for Apple and Google was left out. That's all there is to the post. I naively expected some more details.
Is that a case of the bank not having the money or just that branch not having the cash on hand?
My Advice: A first job just out of school if heading to an established company your going to fall into their base cookie cutter template so whatever you put down is not really going to matter much, infact you could leave it blank and when HR asks you say 'I'm a n00b'

Salary negotiations don't really come into place until you have a few years under your belt, acquired some domain knowledge and have become seasoned, that's when the real fun starts.

If you really feel 'I must put something down' then ask a friend with a similar background who has already gotten an offer or already in the workforce what to expect based on the area you are looking in. Lastly, if moving to another state, city etc.. checkout how salary conversions for the areas.

What it really boils down to is you have to do your homework.....
CDMA is cool and it had a lot of advantages back in the 2G days, but it's not good for bursty data traffic. It seems like everybody is going back to TDMA or OFDMA now.
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The money spent on these patents creates a market for innovation by monetizing patents. If Google et al. thought these patents were invalid, obvious extensions of the prior art, would they be willing to spend this much money?
Echo location, just like a dog or any animal with long ears.
I was a fan of the Google Wave robot APIs - I hope that they build something similar. It was just for an article I wrote, but my favorite robot listened to my Wave notes and looked for food references - it then tried to add recipes from my personal recipe app.

I think that there are opportunities for developers who want to write real (as opposed to my toy robot) software helper-agents for Google+ and similar services.
No, we haven't worked together. My "cursory knowledge" comment was more directed at the people running MTGox, not you. Sorry if I phrased it in such a way to imply so.

I agree, there could be an implementation where applying multiple salts might have a benefit, but SHA-512 is not that implementation. I was not slavishly repeating 'standard methods', but pointing out that they are or were widely wrong in whatever they were doing to begin with. An MD5 is hilariously weak for password hashing, and salting an MD5 only makes an extremely weak password hashing scheme moderately weak. It honestly sounds like they took the first hashing implementation with the largest number tacked on the back of it that came to mind and called it good. This is not the right thing to do, and anyone that 1) cares about the security of their online web app's users information, and 2) has spent more than 2 minutes reading about the correct ways to secure an online web app, should be able to figure this out.

Point being, the fact that they originally only had MD5, and then "upgraded" to a salted MD5, and now are going to a triple-salted (whatever that means) SHA-512, is a BIG clue that they really don't know what they are doing, and a complex homebrew triple salt implementation that passes a password to 3 different places to be salted is bound to be broken. Unless they have hired a well known experienced cryptographer, I wouldn't trust MTGox with a dime of my internet money.
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These guys handle the daily pancake rush for the Iowa Ragbrai. They easily handle thousands of pancakes every morning. http://www.chriscakes.com/Video.htm

I know it's not robotics, but the process is unbelievably efficient -- and fun.
I think the patent law being broken arguement that the article is trying to make is as follows:

the consortium that bought nortel's patents didn't do so for the patents themselves, they did so to prevent google from having the patents. And they didn't want google to not have the patents not because they were afraid of google bringing products to market based on those patents, but because they didn't want google to be able to shield themselves from patent lawsuits.
I'm currently in my sixth and final year of pharmacy school which consists entirely of clinical rotations at different practice sites in the area. Not only are these internships completely unpaid, we have to pay ~$30k for the priviledge which equates to almost $1000/week (6 x 6 week rotations). It's a complete scam.
Yes, and you get my respect for that. It is probably also the smartest solution to try to use Javascript for that purpose, because it has such a large following. But expect not so smart people to come up with a multi-device solution that isn't based on Javascript :-)
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No, it creates a market for filing patents by monetizing patents. Innovation means coming up with an idea, implementing it, and bringing it to market in a way that's cost-sustainable. Filing a patent just requires a lawyer.

The evidence that things are broken is that a bunch of otherwise productive companies just paid a boatload of money for a grab-bag of IP, primarily to immunize themselves from lawsuits from companies with less productive revenue sources.
I don't know, I haven't had to do transactions. Another advantage of the web2py DAL is that it doesn't have any dependencies. It's just a single file which could be used by any other web framework to decouple from BigTable and enhance portability. An Argentinian developer shows how easy it is to use the web2py DAL with Bottle:

http://martin.tecnodoc.com.ar/default/post/2011/05/25/21_bot...
What about simultaneous calls and data transmissions?
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did you mean to give a 3rd reference?

Thanks.
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"Always use the best tool for the job".

Also, switching from Java to Scala without leveraging it's main features (using Actors, functional programming) seems like switching for no good reason, other than the fact that Scala is trendy nowadays.
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Excellent advice from an intern that just finished her coop with us.
There are plenty of instances where someone comes up with a good idea, and the only way he is able to monetize it is through patent protection.
Exactly! If I told my family that the grandkid photos were moving from Flickr to Google+, that would be the end of it. I'm thinking about doing just that too.
The thing I love to see is how badly 'process' is implemented. In theory you should be able to get everyone who's approval you need in one room at one time, take 10 minutes to explain your requirements and answer questions, then have them all rubber stamp whatever it is you need and get going with doing your work. In practice people do exactly the opposite, trying to add distance to slow down the process. I'm wondering if what we all need is a more human communication method to speed up resolution of problems and process.
Exactly; Having a secret hash is just another example of futile security through obscurity. You want an attacker to be able to know as many parts of the puzzle as possible and still be thwarted.
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The lifetime membership seems like a solid idea. It might also be worth charging, say, $1 to just use it once.

Regardless, though, $18/hr (($200 - $20 theme) / 10 hours) is not bad.
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What I especially hate is that where I work, executives will send out e-mails about something with the body "please see the attachment about blah" and then include the actual message content in an attached word doc. On the upside, I've learned that anything sent this way can safely be ignored.
I think Justin needs calendar intervention, there's way too much info there no matter how you slice and dice it. There's always iCal or Fantastical on the Mac for nice and crisp colors.

PS I don't care for Google's new designs so much either
> just as a body without a brain is useless, so a brain without a body is useless

RIM's problem isn't a lack of a body or a brain, but rather a broken nervous system. RIM's fingers are slowly being burned in the fire and the brain is just happily looking on, since it's not feeling the danger from any nerve impulses.
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very simple, because as a company we'd like for manufacturers (think Samsung or LG) to come to us for licensing if they want to release a device using the framework.

That business plan allows us to avoid dicking around with developers like others do (we're on github, we don't try to obfuscate anything in order to sell "support") while still being able to make real money.

opinions on this position for an open source editor are welcome! we're still young :)
Very odd, what sector has a majority of Safari/Chrome users? Even general public (non-enterprise) wouldn't skew like that.
An executive of one company isn't likely going to complement another company. They're going to do everything in their power to downgrade products of their competition. I really don't think it makes a difference whether your friend worked for RIM, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, or HP because all of Apple's competitors followed this exact train of thought for several years.
Actually Twitter has open-sourced some of their core Scala code.
I just hope it doesn't degrade into what Facebook has become because of all the useless game shares. I'm probably ok with seeing a game on my feed that a friend +1'ed or shared something about it once, but I don't want to see 20 shares in a day with his achievements in the game.

Google doesn't need to enable that, because they don't really have to make money by taking a cut from the game developers. So I hope they are much more strict with what developers can enable for users to share.
To bold text you surround that text with asterisks. Like this* GEEKY ALERT! Italicize? Put underscores around the text. Strikeout? Put hyphens around it.*

Really? The most trivial markdown syntax is for the Geeks only? I don't want to live in that world; that sounds like a nightmare of truly incompetent users.
>In concrete terms, imagine if, just as individuals in a company cooperate, companies cooperated with each other. Everyone would be better off. At it's root, this is the difference between seeing life as a non-zero-sum game as opposed to a zero-sum one.

So... it's exactly what MS, Apple, RIM, etc. did. They cooperated, combined their resources, and outbid Google for the pool. There's no indication that these patents aren't going to be used. Since RIM is in the group, it seems that the hardware patents are definitely going to be used, and who knows what Apple and MS want from the pot.

I still don't see how this is an argument specifically against software patents.
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Only those tools are included which supports Windows, OSX, Android and iOS devices; and give some GBs to their users as free.

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Haha nice, I publish an essay on amazon kindle a few months ago along the same line. http://www.amazon.co.uk/To-Be-Human-ebook/dp/B00551JJTM/ref=...
No. My statement was short, but that's not what I said at all. And while I'm not an expert, I've read extensively on the subject (20 books?), am actually quite familiar with and fond of eastern ways of thought, and am well aware of common misconceptions.

My main point, though, is in striving to be desire-free. (To the adept, this is an upaya, a clever means of potentially pointing out the truth, not the truth itself. However, it's an oft used one.) In the case of this article, being desire-free is translated into being expectation-free. They're the same idea to the author.

I'm not discussing what reality is here, or what it is not, but am looking at the idea that desire causes suffering. I've imagined this phrased as a set of coefficients indicating quantity for all desires in the world, i.e. x1 is how much you have desire d1:

x1 * d1 + x2 * d2 + ... = Suffering

In the classic Buddhist disciplines, one eliminates desire (whether as an end goal or upaya is up to you to decide, or more appropriately, ignore). To phrase it again as math, it's the trivial solution to the equation above:

0 * d1 + 0 * d2 + ... = No Suffering

My hypothesis is that the coefficients need not be 0 to find a non-suffering answer.

(And, in fact, I do believe that's what Buddhism teaches, or shows, eventually. But all of the above holds.)
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The redesign doesn't bother me, what bothers me is that they have let issues with the calendar sit for so long that effect functionality.

Ical and other calendar feed changes will not appear in Google calendar after days or possibly, weeks.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=7c...
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Just wait until Lady Gaga joins Google+. You'll see millions of her fans alone joining Google+. I think she'll do it soon if she's not on it already. I know she likes tech stuff and she's also a fan of Google.
What was the point of saying that the size of the winning bid "echoes the sentiment" of a rant about Lodsys?
If you're boss can't imagine how "delivering better software cheaper and more quickly" could get him a larger quarterly bonus, you need a better boss.
> we want a world free from police, prisons and politicians altogether.

I hear Somalia is nice this time of year.
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I'm maybe a bit more n00bish than most, but I don't get the usecase, and the examples don't really explain it either. Anyone want to enlighten me? Is it just a way of writing an app in JS, and having something else translate it for whichever platform its on?
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It might also be worth charging, say, $1 to just use it once.

I'm kinda torn on the $1 idea. Whilst I like it in principle, I think in reality it might attract customers who'll be a pain. At the same time though - I can always experiment and find out! :)
woa, is that http://documentcloud.github.com/visualsearch/ in those screenshots? if so, wow for fast adoption.
Podcasts?
This has likely been asked before but can anyone recommend some podcasts in the programming/startups area? I've got a long drive ahead of me and would like some good listening material.
Hi, thanks for an interesting article. I'm curious about the user experience they had -- did users use the tool successfully?

Do you have a measure of their average stay or actions?

I'd be interested to know if some arrived thinking it did one thing and ended up not getting what they wanted.
With the notable exception being Google who immediately changed the direction android was going to account for the innovations Apple had developed. RIM and Microsoft laughed the iPhone off and now wonder why Google and Apple are so far ahead.
- To bold text you surround that text with asterisks. Like this GEEKY ALERT!

If non-geeks are using @ to mention people on Twitter, they'll also use * to make text bold.
No way!

Look at the Office 2007 transition. They fundamentally changed the UI, broke alot of (poorly conceived and implemented) customer-implemented applications and changed the file format. They were in many respects new applications.

I worked for a very large organization that very strongly considered a major embrace of OpenOffice. The lawyers loved it, ODF scratched number of political itches, and Microsoft Office spend is incredible. User preference is weak when you're converting a $10,000,000 annual Office subcription spend into $500k of support staff expenses.

Problem was, when the time for talking ended and testing began, the application was universally reviled. The problem wasn't that users didn't like the apps, but they couldn't get things done.
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I suspect $1 is too low, especially if the 6 month theory is correct. I imagine users more likely to pay 5 or 10 dollars because the perceived value of the product is higher, making it more attractive. I feel at $1 the user might think that the task offered isn't worth it.
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It is possible to get an invite? We would like to try it. This is exactly what we are doing by ourself when supporting our customers by combining Rapportive, Twitter, Google Spreadsheets, and magic.
I'll do you one better: bug reports filed as screenshots of a web page showing an exception message pasted into a word document, attached to an email. Of course, the screenshots had been scaled down to fit on a portrait page, so the text of the actual exception (the only information we actually needed) was too small to read.

Good times.
The concept that verse espouses is Wu Wei. It's worth anyone's time to understand. My favorite explanations of it come from Alan Watts in Tao: The Watercourse Way [0], but Wikipedia [1] is not terrible.

The other concept indicated in the last paragraph on "results tank" not "effort tank" is lust of result. There aren't as many sources discussing this topic directly, but Zen in the Art of Archery [2] is good, as is Watts' Way of Zen [3].

I highly recommend them all for anyone interested in creating things.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Watercourse-Way-Alan-Watts/dp/0394...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Archery-Eugen-Herrigel/dp/0375...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104
Very interesting from a number of viewpoints, but...

They left off how such a joint would evolve. It's all nice and good to say that a screw-thread join allows better mobility in forest-floor-litter. But how does a clade go from ball-and-socket or hinges to screw-and-threads in easy, evolvable steps?
Isn't that close enough to the same thing?

There was also a period of a few years where facebook was college-only. Now everyone's mom is on it and some aren't fans of being FB friends with their parents, or friend's parents. They keep them on limited profiles, or even decline to friend them.
Ever since I stopped waiting on TextMate 2 and learned to love myself more, I've moved on to vim and now emacs. I'd be weary of any editor that isn't open source or has a solid organization behind it.
I'd be interested to know if some arrived thinking it did one thing and ended up not getting what they wanted.

You know how sometimes someone says something really obvious and you want to hit yourself because you haven't thought it through properly? Thank you :)

I've had a quick look through the stats, and users appear to be coming back repeatedly (no errors on the server - will try and see if there's anything else going wrong, e.g. IE6 problems). I think I'm going to try and find those cancelled users and ask them what happened :)
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Nortel has several 4G LTE-related patents in the pool(http://mobile.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/RIM-Not-Goog...). Those are HUGELY valuable to Apple, RIM, Sony Ericsson and Nokia. I would be very surprised if none of those companies came out with 4G phones in the next year or so. Getting control of the patents can save them a pretty tremendous amount of money on licensing fees.

These were probably the ones that those companies wanted, and the entire reason that the price is so high. They simply could not let Google be the sole owner of the patents, because that would give Google way too much power in the mobile space.

Out of all the companies, MS is probably the only one that did it specifically to hurt Google. However, this also could signal that MS is going to make their own WM7 phone.
Anything aimed at technologists (e.g. this website), or any site aimed at Apple users/developers.
I am a big fan of this project, and it's made some great progress over the months. Only thing holding me back right now: code navigator. The overview display is nice, but a full code navigator would seal the deal.
why does it requires executable stacks?
and I wonder how many new created.
It should be added to the documentation which datastore features it doesn't support, to warn users and avoid that the GAE support is misinterpreted as bad advertisement.
This is clearly bunk. It's just Janet Napolitano doing some scaremongering to get the US Congress to panic into giving her department more money, and a bigger headcount, and more purview.
They also don't work very well if you're trying to build a site that looks decent on a mobile browser... You can do some cool CSS tricks to facilitate different screen sizes. See http://cssgrid.net/ for an example (resize your browser window and see how things change)
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The great thing about IE being now a minority browser is that web developers can now say "Oh you want IE6/7/8 support? Oh, that's a minority browser that doesn't support recent things, we can't do that/will charge lots more/etc."
not a very good due to transaction costs.
You can change R3RS Scheme a little to get a language whose types are all functions that defines cons in the same way as in the lambda calculus, but passing around symbols to describe types:

(define cons (lambda (car cdr) (lambda (z) (z 'pair car cdr))))
(define car (lambda (pair) (pair (lambda (type car cdr) car)))) ; we don't actually check type correctness in this simple example
(define cdr (lambda (pair) (pair (lambda (type car cdr) cdr))))
(define type-of (lambda (x) (x (lambda (type . rest) type))))
(define pair? (lambda (x) (eqv? 'pair (type-of x))))

Similar techniques can be used to code Booleans, nil, &c.

Symbols in turn can be lifted out to be functions, whose type "symbol" is some particular function, say identity: here we need to have an atomic operation to define whether two functions are realised using the same closure, which is the usual meaning of eqv?.

While Scheme has mutable structures (e.g., set-car!) and circular structures, this alternate language would not.

Note that the Haskell 98 standard does not require implementations to let circular structures be defined, ghc does allow them (e.g., ones = 1:ones is a circular structure in ghc, but Haskell 98 would allow a Haskell to implement it as an infinite list).
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Keep Microsoft and Apple on their toes? The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Google (nominally) have several mutually aligned interests with Mozilla, namely the Open Web.
There's a hotkey that brings up a search with all of the methods in a particular file (apple-r on a mac) that does the trick for me. Be nice if it did a bit more, but it does enough for now.