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I agree with this up to a point. Probably the best programming book I ever worked through was Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial. It was great to learn a full workflow start to finish.

While I don't necessarily have to take the concept as far as Hartl did for it to work, I would suggest that the code relating to every concept/portion of the book is capable of doing something in and of itself, regardless of how small.

Actually the Hello Backbone.js tutorial is a good example of this. http://arturadib.com/hello-backbonejs/ Every page works on it's own and build on the code from the page before.
It is easy to forget that Siggraph is about interactive techniques as well as graphics. Some of the best things I've ever seen there were in the Emerging technologies area.
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^great advice. there's a good chance the business will morph with time so i wouldn't drop anywhere near that kind of money until you've started making money with a product.

actually wrote a quick blog post about this subject as we were battling the issue recently: http://adamwexler.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/why-does-naming-a... it's a bitch-and-a-half to find a great URL these days, but try not to let it get in your way.
Huh? Browsers support client SSL certs today, but for some reason nobody uses them except intranets.
Microsoft's debt would be issued in dollars.
If the US fails to back the dollar, Microsoft's debt is also worthless, because it's also dollars.
So it would make no sense for MS bonds to be rated higher than the US.
>but standards of living and of most economies will definitely decline...the stuff that you bought from china for really cheap wont be so cheap anymore

You've completely forgotten about automation. Within a generation robotics will make low cost labor obsolete. We won't need factories of Chinese workers to build our products; We'll have factories full of robots.

Also, I don't really care who has the most power. I don't care if America has the largest military in the world. I only want our military to protect our borders and police shipping lanes.

If China becomes more powerful than the west and my standard of living increases thanks to technology, I don't care. The only thing to worry about is chinese military intervention, but even if they have a significantly more powerful military our nuclear deterrents will prevent them from directly harming us.
I've never heard of being laid off as being looked down upon. Firing, sure, but not laid off. That's beyond your control and is a business decision. If your company wipes out an entire product because of some acquisition or poor executive "vision" and decides they need to wipe out two thirds of your division, that's hardly your fault. And if they have a habit of favoring seniority, then it's even less a comment on you.
Mike, thank you. I do appreciate the help. I used to work with PHP and MySQL, but recently I've moved to Javascript on both backend (Node.js) and frontend (Backbone.js, jQuery, etc.). I love improving UX until it's dead simple.

If it's Rails that people are looking for, I can learn it fast.

Can I get in touch over email or Twitter to continue this?
I'm pretty sure the threat of terrorism in Israel is greater on any scale than America's.
There are legitimate reasons to whitelist OpenID providers, especially if you are dealing with $$ or want to minimize support costs.
love it, mike. you in miami?

as for a simple request, our startup ( http://gorankem.com ) should be getting a nice mashable writeup soon enough tonight in their spark of genius feature.

if you could share that across your networks using the six buttons from the mashable article, i'd really appreciate it!

-adam
It give me one less site I need to check.

Going to facebook.com is psychologically saying "I want to waste time". Going to gmail.com is saying "I plan to be productive" (not always, but often so).

G+ brings social out of the time-wasting world and into the productive world. Now with Circles I can post a programming question to my "Hackers Circle". I can ask my fellow engineering students about the latest homework assignment. I could ask my "Coworkers" Circle if anyone can cover my shift.

Facebook is entertainment. Google+ is productivity. Yammer is dead in the water when G+ for Google Apps comes out.

They aren't apples to oranges, G+ and Facebook, but perhaps Gala to Granny Smith. A great snack and a great pie. They can substitute for each other if needed, but each do far better in their designed task.
Based on U.S. expectations, I don't really see any poor form on the employee's part. The fact that it hit the supervisor out of left field is usually more indicative of a lack of ongoing communication than anything else. The implication that production employees are expected to wait while their replacement is hired and trained may be a side effect the way in which the workplace environment operates.

To put it another way, it sounds like management wanted all the benefits of employment at will without accepting the costs.
Bad article: "There are multiple types of 64-bit processors – there are those based on the old x86 architectures (now known synonymously with 32-bit) which are basically 64-bit extensions, rather than native 64-bit processors, and then there are full 64-bit processors." -- [sic].

x86-64 architecture is a full native 64-bit architecture. Non-native would be something like using two DWORDs in software to emulate a 64-bit pointer -- which is not the case at all since x86-64 has native 64-bit pointers.
"Our world is one of second chances, of comebacks and turn arounds." So true. It seems that every major success story had a dark period when things weren't going well. The comeback may be more the rule than the exception.
When it comes to world-spanning Empires, the British were one of the more benevolent -- and this especially applies for India. It's worth noting that the most powerful British Empire builders like Cecil Rhodes were planning for Indian swaraj decades before it became a popular idea among Indians.

Hindu culture was not going anywhere, it desperately needed an injection of rationality and a forced demonstration of good government. India is on a very good path now and it owes most of that to the British. The British used raw force to reform Indian culture away from degenerate, irrational religious fatalism toward a progressive, modern approach to life.

Anyway Indian culture today is unrecognizable compared to pre-British India. The most important part of culture is the approach to law, property, government, and individual rights, and these are the fruits of the British Empire in India. Underestimating these crucial factors is very easy now that you are reaping their benefits. India today would look like Somalia if it wasn't for the Empire.

In 19th century India the British really did reform the savages. They ended wife burning, vigilante decapitations, cannibalism, among other savage but accepted cultural norms. They significantly curtailed the systematic corruption, clarified property rights, introduced representative government, paved the way for social mobility, and are really solely responsible for the slow turning away from pernicious Hindu mysticism -- which is the bane of civilization. Hindu mysticism is really the most damaging kind of irrational religiosity on Earth and causes tremendous suffering and poverty.

The Brits were surprisingly generous given their global hegemony. It is easy to argue that the American Empire is more exploitative and uncaring with respect to their colonies: and the American Empire is less powerful today thanks to the liberalizing influence of the British who themselves foresaw independence for every colony, often before the colonies did. The positive effects of Rhodesian foreign policy should not be underestimated.

It's popular to hate Empires but there really is nothing romantic about cannibalism, institutionalized irrationality, rigid caste systems and all the other savage cultural features of many parts of the world before the age of sail. For all the faults of the British, we often forget just how good England and her colonies had life in comparison to the alternatives.
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I wouldn't agree about layoff being a red-flag as long as you can explain it, at least in the silicon valley, speaking from personal experience.

Layoff and bad credit history are not the same. Here companies die left and right and layoffs happen and people understand that.
It comes down to there being logical use case scenarios for it.

Most computers can't write to disk at 1Gbit/s, and the power and related infrastructure (multiple PCIe lines) required for a 10Gbit Ethernet transceiver is higher than for a gigabit one.

When some application comes along that is greatly improved by 10 gigabit networking (rather than point to point like Thunderbolt, USB3, or SATA), then we'll see it happen.
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FAIL

Why would I want to use my email address as an identity? I already get more than enough spam.
You guy should just give up, because google won't fix their customer service and won't fix your search rankings and probably in general won't do anything to help you.

I disagree, if it weren't for the complains of developers and users google wouldn't fix the search algorithm like it's doing right now.
If we developers didn't complain about issues with the Developer Console things would have been much worse than it is now...

If something isn't right we have the obligation to speak and not just accept it like it's a done deal and we can't do anything about it...
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>The fact that a totally generic AI system with zero knowledge of the game can learn on the fly and beat the hand-tuned AI is pretty impressive.

Yes; but, like, Samuel's learning checker playing programs in the 50s and 60s did that.

>They were training online during gameplay, so each round started fresh with an untrained system.

I'm not really sure how that is considered training.
Like Tim_Benham's comment, on a first read of the paper, I would be concerned that the AI is beating to inbuilt AI due to what could be termed 'save-game cheating'.
And there's still the issue of whether it is overspecialised to just exploit the inbuilt AI in some way.
It only hurts the first time. After you get fired/quit many times, it's like taking out trash for you. Developing some confidence goes a great way.

I mean, look, the first time I had to throw out my sketches in the dumpster because I thought they sucked it was a painful experience. But after a while I grew detached to the sketch, which allowed me to concentrate on my vision more than the actual piece of paper.
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I'm in Seattle a bit early for a conference next week, what's some cool stuff to do?
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This has been happening in Australia for a little while now. 2 of the biggest providers have struck deals with all sorts content providers (IPTV, music, etc) to provide unmetered access. Most people see this as a good thing (data caps are pretty high here, reasonably priced for 100GB/month), but as more and more content starts coming via the internet, 100GB won't last very long.

Here are the 2 "freezone" or unmetered offerings by bigpond and iinet in Australia
http://www.bigpond.com/unmetered/
http://freezone.iinet.net.au/ (Freezone Partners at the bottom).

Very clever..
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It was only recently that Greece stopped openly calling for enosis, enjoining Cypriots to overthrow their own government if necessary. They've been quieter about that crap over the last couple of decades, but Greece still clings to the territorial dispute to justify its overgrown military. It is quite accurate to say that Greece hasn't yet let go of Cyprus, and that doing so would save it considerable money.

To my knowledge, the U.S. has never encouraged Canadians to overthrow their government, nor do they use Canada as an excuse to justify an expensive cold war against, say, France.
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The difference is that the British, instead of killing the "lower races", sought to reform them with what history indicates was a genuine sense of altruism among British Empire-builders.

Hitler put the minorities in gas chambers.

England invited minorities to Oxford and taught them everything they knew.
Well done! Congrats on your launch. I thought about a similar service too when I was pregnant and spoke with a few mommies and moms to be and abandoned the idea. I found the mommy network of family and friends giving you used baby clothes is a huge competitor.

With that being said though, I would probably try this service out, if I weren't in Japan. But I'd give it as one-time gift. Not sure I'd pay a monthly subscription for it.
as an android developer myself...hes hit every point on!! im experiencing the exact same problems...its crazy!!
I expected libraries like the ones in the Java SDK. One nice addition is a low-level ORM wrapper for SimpleDB for use in Rails. It looks like there is also nice support for Amazon Simple Email Service, notification service, SQS and S3.

Nothing that you can't put together with existing libraries but probably good to have in one place.
If you want to sue based on immoral business plans consider that T-Mobile recently doubled the cost of incoming text messages for prepaid customers. These are texts you can't control getting, yet when you do they charge you anyway. Incidentally, their highest mobile data plan includes 10Gb for $89.99. At the same rate as they charge for texts, that plan would cost $6.4Million. I honestly don't understand why congress hasn't demanded cell phone carriers include texts in the cost of plans.
- Basically the front page of any google project is like the readme in github or bitbucket. Some repos use github pages for a full site. This makes it like a google code site and better as you can actually host content.

-Issues? Github has that.
-Wiki? Same.

I don't see anything feature wise that Google brings to the table that GitHub or Bitbucket doesn't out of the box or manually with even greater control.

I really want to understand what the issues are, help me understand.
go to gasworks park, go to paseos (sandwich place), go for a ride or run on the burke gilman trail, go see the mariners or the sounders if they are playing, go to pike place market (if you feel like being touristy), go "ride the duck" and i will yell at you from my window, go to the emp if you aren't adverse to wasting money, go see some live music at tula's or jazz alley if you like jazz, go play pickup basketball at greenlake or university of washington, go on a seaplane tour from union bay...maybe, go to the top of the space needle if the emp hadn't quelled you desire to waste money, i dont know
I'm not sure what's supposed to happen.
i can totally understand this...we were getting 1000's of downloads a day down to 100 or so.

for an exact search on our app we were 50 out of 50 with the other results being totally unrelated.

it seems as of yesterday they sort of fixed the problem and were ranking first for our terms. have u seen any improvement?

the last 2 weeks have been stressfull!!
not a seo issue at all.

the algorithm was totally broken. luckily for most of us they started fixing it yesterday and today.
What if we uncover a "whole new world" of unknowns? How do you know we won't?
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It seems to ... generate different robot images, based on the names you type in, I guess?
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Same can be done on github. I can even do a cname redirect on a bare domain.

When a user thus opts for this functionality what then is the differential factor in comparing it to GitHub?
Speaking of such (which is a valid concern) I always use a nice feature from gmail which gives the ability to append +anything to your username. Mail will be forwarded to your inbox as usual where you can apply filtering to know whom as leaked your email. Hence you can use username+foobar@gmail.com while registering for foobar webapp.

This assumes that foobar webapp accepts + as a valid email local part character which is not always the case unfortunately (and against RFC) but that is another story.

Just sayin
I think that's what Sidnic meant by templating -- that you have precisely one well tested encoding step in the system, near the end. This reduces the number of failure modes you need to test for.

In a previous project, we didn't even have an effective means of counting all the potential points of failure; you really don't want that, because it takes a lot of effort to fix.
it's just a quick way of comparing robohashes to see which looks cooler!
After scrolling down to the footer, I found http://robohash.org/ linked: "Robohash is a easy web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text.
Put in any text, such as IP address, email, filename, userid, or whatever else you like, and get back a pretty image for your site."
based on http://robohash.org/ but doesn't seem to add anything other than the ability to see two robots side by side
I recall the original robohash thread. This is obviously something built using it. I'm mostly curious about how this made it to the #1 article with only 9 votes, in 20 minutes.
right, we just built this site as a quick way of doing fun comparisons between robohashes to see which looks cooler
My advice would be to try and come up with a name that's not registered. You don't want to lock up half your capital speculating on a domain, when you can spend a weekend brainstorming to come up with a domain you'll be happy with. Also, remember that the domain won't be unavailable forever if you should miss it this time around. It might come available again if and or when you get funded.
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The "wars" and "Fight!" implies the robots will actually battle in some way. It's not clear that your site doesn't do anything but show you the non-fighting robots.
appbrains search has always been solid!!

good job guys!!
I simply say that I'm in sales. Unless I'm talking to a good friend or a potential investor, people don't need to know what I do. Perhaps that's just me.
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we would have called it robohashsidebysidecomparison.com but it didn't seem as sexy.
they are actually fixing the search algortithm due to the massive complaints they have gotten recently.

especially in the support forums. hes just stating the truth. i know because im experiencing the exact same thing.
I know what you mean. I tried outsourcing some support when my app first went live. I couldn't do it because the requests I was getting just needed me to support it, partly because many questions were (and still are) often things I need to think about to answer well.

I guess the solution there is to, over time: dumb down the support required, transfer the remaining knowledge required to the support person (policy and feature documents), accept that some things just have to be answered be us.

Shout if you find a solution to that :)
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SIR - I am a retired aerospace engineer who worked on the design of components for the Apollo Command Module. It is a common mistake to think that humans in space conduct “space exploration” and “space science” (“The end of the Space Age”, July 2nd). Space exploration, in the sense of discovering new information about the space environment, is done with sensoring and data-gathering instruments, supported and controlled by robotic spacecraft. This was true in the earliest days of the Apollo programme, and will be true for any future human-crewed space project. Humans would not be sent anywhere in space without our first obtaining a thorough understanding of that environment.

Nor do humans carry out significant science in space. High-precision, ultra-clean instruments, designed to measure specific parts of the electromagnetic spectrum and other aspects of the space environment, are used to generate scientific data in space. Human crews would interfere with, rather than contribute to, the ability of the instruments to perform their mission. Human crews would provide biological contamination and disturb the ultra-high stability required of typical scientific instruments in space.

Al Barrett
Santa Monica, California

-- http://www.economist.com/node/18956507?story_id=18956507&fsrc=rss
a good thing ive found because im facing the same issues is google and find memebers on the android team on google+/quora?twitter and let them know firsthand the problems

this has seem to work for me and escalates the prob very fast! :)
I do like their last point that the system is designed to be integrated directly into the browser. That avoids the issue of OpenID requiring that a popup be displayed to the user from their OpenID provider, which was a significant usability problem.

Having the browser handle the authentication makes for a much more seamless experience.
Bad call on the name, guys. There's already a project using the name "Hermes" that is related to messaging.[1] Granted, it's JMS specific, but the domains are close enough for it to be confusing.

[1]: http://www.hermesjms.com/confluence/display/HJMS/Home
I should have qualified my statement to performance problems rather than HR violations. Agree, if you are doing your work poorly, it is either because you are never going to be good at it or because the company hasn't set you up to succeed. In most cases, the manager and the employee should know in advance that there are opportunities for improvement.

Fortunately, the author doesn't say why she was fired. This allows us to wonder if she was fired for having sex in the supply closet or doing oxy off her company-issued tablet, which is a terminable offense at most places of employment. If this is the case, immediate sacking is appropriate. Not that I, as a manager, would terminate her, though. I'm a fun manager.
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Walter Russel Mead of The American Interest offers a nice summary:

"43 percent of all grades given in American colleges are A's. Social science grades are higher than grades in science and math. Humanities grades are higher still. Grades in private colleges are higher than grades at public universities. Northern schools give A's more freely than southern ones, and prestigious colleges have flabbier standards than their less fashionable rivals."
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I don't understand the concern about typing non-ASCII Unicode characters on a Windows box. I know of at least 3 easy ways: charmap, alt+numpad, and editor-specific support.
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Turntable is fun with friends. But being a listener in a DJd room is no different than listening to a curated playlist, a curated radio station, and probably worse than personalized algorithmic radio in terms of efficacy of discovery.

You'll discover music on Turntable, but for the same amount of time spent on an algorithmic radio station you'll probably discover more.