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You can get up to speed in 4 weeks if you put in 6-8 hours a day. Five days a week x 8 over 4 weeks is 160 hours which is more time than you would get in a college course.

For $150 I'd suggest the Hillegass book and a membership to the dev center. The downside to most learning materials out now is that they are all using XCode3, so the illustrated examples can be confusing to a beginner. There is a lot of new stuff in iOS5, so the dev membership is essential for the WWDC videos alone.

Not sure this video is worthwhile. You can watch the latest Stanford iOS class on iTunes U for free.

That said, the idea behind the video you linked to is not a bad one. The problem with iTunes U courses like the one I mentioned is that they are not optimized for web viewing. 40-60% of each video is useless because it's class administration or the instructor is a poor speaker. The stuff on the whiteboard is usually unreadable. The lighting is bad, nobody cares about seeing the instructor up there talking. A video with the same content but with professional voice over, no time wasted, four dozen "ums" edited out, crisp information on the screen and up to date walkthroughs of stuff in IB and XCode4 would be worth a lot more than $150. However, $150 is a lot to pay for content you don't really know anything about.
I think the reason why people hate caps is because there is nonobvious how much data you have used or even are currently using at any moment. Sure you can typically log in and discover how much you have used but that workflow is well beyond what the average consumer is willing to do, even if they are technologically aware enough to know to do so.

This, combined with borderline draconian pricing schemes, makes for horror stories where someone had a $30/month plan and they end up getting charged $300 for using 2x their rate.

When you decide to use your hair dryer, you don't have to wonder if it's going to cost you $0.15 or $15.00. Electricity or water utilities are billed generally flat per-usage, the pricing schemes that come with bandwidth caps are not. So you paid $30 for X amount of data, which should indicate that the cost per data is $30/X, but if you use Y amount of data you have no idea what the price of it will be; it depends on your historical usage (and that of your teenage kid or neighbor who was on your open wifi or ...)

Bandwidth caps are a perfectly reasonable concept; higher usage actually does cost the company more to provide. But it is simply not the case that sending 1000 texts costs the company $10 but sending 2000 texts costs the company $100. It seems extremely likely to me that the plans are deliberately obtuse so that they can fleece customers of their money without any way of the user knowing until very far after the fact.

ISPs easily could redirect users to a page that says "You have used your quota for the month, would you like to continue at our per-byte rate of XXXX?" and block all their traffic until the user sees the page in the browser and click yes. I'm fairly certain that anyone who actually uses a capped plan would greatly prefer having the choice. They do not do this because they don't actually care about overages, they are being underhanded to trick people into using an expensive service without their knowledge.
I wrote up a little blurb about this, but this is my first HN submission and I don't really know where it went. Anyway: I wrote this article last night to clarify some points I made to a coworker about closures in PHP. I couldn't find a really good overview of them online (what they aren't, what they are), so I rolled my own! I hope someone out there gets some utility from it.
Then what does "real time" mean in this context?
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But Google isn't an ISP and an ISP only. They make a ton of money as a direct result of you having an internet connection.
I added it to my Read-It-Later queue.

I win.
I really enjoyed this. It was very informative and interesting. The production quality was excellent.

It seemed like the guys in the interview tried to talk over each other at times which was annoying, but overall the interview was great.
>All heritable behaviors that lead to men or women not reproducing don't stay in a population very long

I'm not sure about this. What I mean is that I can clearly see the logic here, but I'd love to see a discussion for instance on the continual existence of evolutionary destructive traits such as homosexuality, which by all accounts has not only been around for a great deal of human existence, but also other species.

It's possible perhaps that there are evolutionary paths that, although dead-ends, are easily mutated into and thus always present in a species...
Have you considered going through android market/developer relations instead of general support?

If you google enough times you will find names and email and position titles(ie what areas of developer relations they handle) In fact there is a specific page listing all this stuff even..
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On OKCupid, you can narrow your search by languages spoken. Two of the languages they list are C++ and Lisp. It's worked for me.
As an alternative explanation for why we procrastinate, I'd like to introduce the idea that modern society is fundamentally broken. If we have social structures (software) in place which go so deeply against the grain (wetware) then the problem is not the grain but the direction that we are sanding in. In essence, modern society is trying to run ARM instructions on an x86 CPU. It's a testament to how broken it is that someone would suggest that the effect is the thing to be cured, as opposed to the cause.

The fact of the matter is that we have orders of magnitude more knowledge about how we work and what makes us happy than even 50 years ago. Yet we do not apply it. It's the same as the issue in software development where we have accepted industry standards for producing quality work yet relatively few teams use them, and hardly any use all of them.

Ofcourse, the reason for these inefficiencies at processing new information is the same as the one which causes procrastination - the wetware simply isn't built for it. And so we have a vicious circle. There is, however, light at the end of the tunnel. Whatever we are aware of at a given point in time will shape the next moment. Yes, our wetware is at odds with the environment it has created, but our wetware is capable of self-modification, hence the author's suggestion being a perfectly good one until we can reach the tipping point as a collective. But I still argue that curing procrastination is putting a bandage on a rotting limb which desperately needs to be amputated and replaced with a tentacle.
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We had a lot of web design customers (about 200) but you can only work on so many projects at a time - we would typically have 30-40 in our pipeline, but only 10 or so would finish each month. And those projects aren't even in size - we'd normally have a couple big ones accounting for over half our income.

So even with 200 customers our income came mostly down to a handful of customers each month.
DanielBMarkham, let me try again using quotes from Google's last two earning transcripts from the last two quarters and see whether that helps to clarify.

I'm loath to go anywhere near a subject like corporate earnings for various reasons, but Foremski says "There is no explanation from Google or Wall Street analysts that I could find," but anyone can go read Google's Q2 2011 earnings call transcript, which you can find at http://seekingalpha.com/article/279555-google-s-ceo-discusse... . The relevant sentence is "Network revenue was again negatively impacted by the Search quality improvements made during the latter part of Q1, as you will remember, and know that Q2 reflects a full quarter of this impact."

Now go read Google's Q1 earning's transcript at http://seekingalpha.com/article/263665-google-s-ceo-discusse... . The relevant section is "The Google Network revenue was up 19% year-over-year to $2.4 billion. That Network revenue was negatively impacted by two things, the loss of a Search distribution partnership deal and also, what has been broadly communicated, by Search quality improvement made during the quarter. Regarding the Search quality improvement, remember that we regularly make such trade-offs. We really believe that the quality improvements that benefit the user always serves us well both in the short term and in the mid term in terms of revenue."

So Foremski claims that "For some strange reason no one has picked up on this or noticed this huge change in its business model. There is no explanation from Google or Wall Street analysts that I could find." I would contend that Google has actually been quite clear about the reasons for the change in network revenue in its earnings calls.

In particular, Google has been clear in that it's willing to accept an impact in our revenue in order to improve the quality of our search results.
Microsoft's "single Windows ecosystem" makes more sense than you think
I don't understand. Why was it a mistake? What was the consequence of telling him how much you made?
He was probably talking about the quality of shopping list apps when they were surveying the various market places. Its not necessarily an indication of the situation now.
I personally don't like it, because it really does not give any information about the sender. Just my opinion.
The generalizations aren't interesting though because they provide no fodder, no argument. Even without picking apart an argument line-by-line, your conclusions should be supported. Your response actually raises interesting points, but then leaves them without any supporting logic. Why is his analysis of women's creativity wrong? Where is the fault in his logic? What is a better analysis? Why is his discussion on relative sex spurious? I'm left with a lot of unanswered questions. I do not expect everyone to be able to give a very detailed analysis of an argument, but if there are key arguments you disagree with, it is not too much work to sketch your logic so that others understand your point.
Sparked.com looks beautifully designed and executed, but this directs helpers toward a cause. My interest here is directing my help toward an industry or specific group which I am actively involved. Would love something like this if you are aware of anything...

Bookmarked sparked.com for later, though! Thanks for heads up.
Just saw the issue updated. Also: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GitFAQ
Oh boy. I am not talking about any political agenda. All I am saying is that (1) it costs the ISP less to transmit data between their servers and your house than between Netflix to their servers to your house and (2) the ISP can charge almost whatever it wants. The only reason why they do not, is because they actually want to make money.

Also, it's not quite right: the tax payers did not pay for the infrastructure. The local government did, based on lobbyist pressure from the ISP. While you and are are shooting shit on HN companies like Time Warner Cable do this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/op-ed-north-...
Having done this same calculation myself, this was part of the reason I moved to Business Class. That and that I actually wanted to start a business eventually.

I think the ratio should be something much higher, such as 80%, not 0.69%. That would give you 7.56 TB of available bandwidth of the maximum possible 9.45 TB, based on the 105Mbps speed listed. And that's only downstream.
Some large Amercian cities -- San Fran comes to mind, Chicago maybe just as much -- are microcosms of countries like Greece. Enormous government payrolls locked up in union contracts, massive social regimes from which a large part of the population either draws upon or derives job security, and a corrupt and labyrinthine tax system.
Interesting: the current price shown for me is $250...
Huh? Last time I checked Google was a advertising giant who collects data on people's data/details (be it internet usage or whatever and be it "anonymised" or not). Google is not a charity.
So Comcast's 250gb limit costs them $2.50?
Thanks! This is great news!
(Oliver from Silktide here, I wrote that article).

Might be useful to see our own Terms, they're still online here:

www.silktidestudios.com/tandc

We always charged 50% upfront for anything over £1,000 (about $1,600). Projects over around £20,000 usually had three way splits.

Of course some bigger contracts (esp. government) insist on their own onerous terms but usually they're decent payers.

Hmm. Perhaps I should write an article on getting this too...
That was known a long time ago, actually. I remember people discussing it way back when this first came out.
Yes, haven't been doing any development for a long time. I became the 'business' guy in all the startups I have been involved in. Someone's gotta do it : )

Thanks for the tip Allen
Unlimited isn't evil, it's the lack of definition that's evil. Define it better and everything is fine. For example, Unlimited internet at 20% duty cycle works the same as an arbitrary 300GB cap at 5Mbps.
I'm not asking you to continue to defend the Empire. I'm asking you to analyze the multitude of institutional forces that contributed to the structure Empire in a way that lets you causally analyze which forces produced which outcomes. This is a discussion of what the structure of our institutions ought to be. To answer that we need to be a little more subtle than evaluating the Empire as a singular, whole unit.
You have business class at home? What is the cost delta compared to their residential service?
It's $150 on AppSumo
Thanks Rolf
Feminism was born out of women recognizing a discrepancy between what women attained and what men attained. It's not that suddenly women became motivated to reach higher level of achievement but merely that they noticed that men had more than them and decided such inequality was unacceptable.
Indeed. Any critique which is of the form "X will fail in the long run because it lacks some important, but readily implementable feature Y" is doomed to look silly in retrospect.

PS: This is especially true when talking about Google. They are the king of iterative development, if they have a product with sound fundamentals and a few flaws you can bet that those flaws will get ironed out quickly.
This article is incorrect.

https://twitter.com/#!/ShawInfo/status/91924351456260096
On the GP's point, isn't a gold certificate a debt instrument? If you use a gold certificate for convenience, then you are introducing counterparty risk.

Most people are willing to pay a few cents on the dollar (whether that rears its head as actual risk of theft, risk of default or risk of inflation, or as insurance against those possibilities) in order to be able to trade things with other people.

The modern economy is very good about keeping its costs stable and low, while steadily increasing the speed and ease with which we complete transactions. I'd say that's a pretty good thing.
I would gladly pay per gig at that rate, and then some.
Selling a commodity is not automatically a bad idea. Chilean miners have been doing very well for the last ten years by selling copper, moly, silver, gold, at huge margins. (Before 2003 they merely did OK).
It's a consumer plan, they're always absurdly oversubscribed. It doesn't make any sense to charge consumers for a leased line because even if they're listening to Pandora and watching Netflix like crazy they won't hit the (currently) high data cap.

If you don't want caps (either explicit or defacto) get a business plan from Comcast; It's quite afordable relative to other options that businesses would pay for. Of course it isn't anything different than what you're paying for right now, but they won't shut it off after you've uploaded the contents of a 1TB hard drive to a backup service.
I can't remember the number off the top of my head, but I think it was about $20 more a month.
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A brief look at the market shows that you have competitors. At the least, OI Shopping list appears to have a lot of downloads as well. Your app does show up in the side bar, and in the top free category.

This doesn't sound like a market problem so much as a business model issue. If one of the free apps does what people need, they won't pay for a $5.00 version, even if it's slightly prettier. Hell, a quick look at the Apple app store lists apps that range from free to $3.00. I'd suggest changing your business model.

Try in-app ads with a lower cost ad-free version (say $1). Or add features that are both extremely useful and hard to duplicate for a competitor that is working for free. Some ideas: GPS proximity alarm when passing a grocery store, or a tie in to a desktop client or website.
Ask HN: Instructions in job descriptions?
So I'm looking for a Flash game developer in Montreal (http://bit.ly/pY1jt1) but I want to make sure that I only spend my time on people who are fun and really into their work. So I stuck a simple question at the end of the job: If your goal was to break into a bank with a giant robot, what two weapons would you equip as its arms?​

Almost nobody who replied bothered answering the question! I can appreciate that it's a hassle to write a long, well thought-out cover letter, but am I being too picky here?
"The drug companies convince foreign governments to let them charge more because they say it costs a lot to develop the drugs."

It's kind of funny that they say that, since they're effectively heavily subsidized by the US government -- because virtually all of the basic research in the US (and in the world) is funded by the US government. Pharmaceutical companies get to use the fruits of all that basic research for free.
I'm pretty sure we have made pretty big strides in achieving the Turning test in the last 25 years.
I see he says "(As in my previous post, I’m using an evolutionary explanation metaphorically — as a way to help explain a concrete phenomenon I’ve observed in my research and writing on this topic. Whether the evolutionary explanation for the phenomenon is strictly true is somewhat beside the point and beyond my expertise.)", which makes the evolutionary biology bit sound more like a vehicle for the argument than the argument itself.
Clickable: http://bit.ly/pY1jt1

Short answer: don't use Monster :)
Hold on, slash at the end is not standard?
Well, from my perspective I would want more time to prepare for the transition. But putting that in a contract unnecessarily restricts people. Our company doesn't even require the 2 weeks, so I can't complain. But not everyone leaves under duress. My point was, I never see posts about quitting jobs to join startups mention any consideration to the employer. To me, unless I hate my employer, I'd want to make efforts to help out. I was curious if people usually give more than required/minimal warning. I guess not.
Are you doing a reddit style performance based on your username? If so it is not funny or appropriate, if not I don't get why you're so aggressive and accusatory with your reply.
For engineers, I think the key is not to try to "sell yourself" or even talk much about yourself at all. Instead, just start digging right into the details. Act like they've already given you the job and you're trying to get oriented so you can start. If you're smart and qualified, it will come through very clearly if you take this approach. It focuses the interview on tangible details and your problem solving abilities instead of amorphous qualifications and experience that anyone can bs (and which interviewers are naturally suspicious of). Also, if you are being interviewed by a less technical person, asking detail-oriented questions (which they often won't have thought about themselves) puts you in the driver's seat and gives you that 'tech guru' halo that business guy types are secretly in awe of. Note I'm not saying you should speak in techno-babble. Use plain speech, but focus on details.
I doubt it. This is just the cost of transmitting data from say Netflix to Comcast.
The best thing I got out of this is that I discovered Square's GitHub account... with an astonishing 65 repositories. I already held Square in high regard; this just icing on the cake.
Humans are social (group) creatures. This means anything that promotes group survival is good. So how does your favorite strawman play out here? Well assuming an extremely strong genetic component:

1. Homosexuals by not being inclined to reproduce may now contribute excess resources to the group well-being.

2. Homosexuals can pick up slack child-rearing duties, e.g. in cases of orphaned children, and do so without the complications and child favoring that happens very frequently when a child is adopted by someone with his own offspring.

Furhter contributing: Homosexuality is not strictly binary, it is a combination of factors, so that those who never mate will not contribute too strong of a homosexual orientation to future generations, there are those who are bisexual or "a little gay" who can keep passing the genes that will make some portion of the population homosexual. Cultural norms of course will play in here as well sometimes being more permissive, other times not, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that there is subtle genetic idea of balance that is driving this cultural throttle to the homosexual thing.

The big thing to remember tho, is that evolution doesn't always select on individual basis, but frequently on a group basis.

NOTE: i use active words here, as if evolution has a goal, but that is just because I don't want to write like: the selection pressures sometimes result in an overal systemic balance and species or group wide advantage while at the same time resulting in some individuals with a much lower reproductive probability.
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I doubt there is anything but a corollary connection.
I think the strength of GitHub is lying in it's focus on code. And that's the point of a code hosting website, isn't it?
You visit a GitHub repository... what's the first thing you see?
Instead of a blank page with some numbers and a project summary you're directly looking at the core of every project: its code. The presentation of the readme file is just one more thing which speaks for GitHub. Your project summary is integrated into the actual process of development because it's a part of it.

Plus, you really get this feeling of activity while browsing projects and code on GitHub. Google Code and SourceForge seem so abandoned in comparison.
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Nice to see a post on this topic from a neuroscientist, as I am very interested in this area but know little biology.

One question though--the author says "while the fundamental insights that have emerged to date from the human genome sequence have been important, they have been far from evelatory." While not guaranteed, doesn't it seem likely that we will understand much, much more about the human genome once the economies of scale come into play? The price of sequencing a genome is currently on the order
of about $10000, and if they continue to fall at the rate they have (which seems likely, based both past price decay and in-development technologies), the cost to sequence a genome will be on the order of $100 well before the end of this decade. Once we sequence millions-billions of genomes and compare the information in said genomes with data from the corresponding human subjects, I suspect we will learn a lot more than we would by trying to understand a single
person's genome. Moreover, given that the human genome is on the order of roughly a gigabyte, it would seem difficult, but not unreasonably so, to try and understand most the information in our DNA.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.
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