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Playing around with projects and making stuff is a good start.

Here's a warning though. Doing a lot of projects will help but be careful in considering this as a silver bullet. You will probably pick up some bad habits as well as future stuff people will go crazy over.

I would try to do something that involves working with other people. You'll probably have a headache, have an awful time at first but it will teach you a big lesson - how to structure your code in a way that it's more a diplomat that plays nicely with other people's code rather than a war mine that nobody wants to touch with a 1000 foot poll! Once you done that, then choose something in a completely different area (e.g. if you did client-server, try UI desktop application as an example). It doesn't have to be a big project but it will teach you how things can be similar and different.

So in short, solo projects then find your way into a team project of some type.

Just my two cents. Take what's useful and throwaway what you think is bad.
I think it's only ever been used by snarky lmgtfy-ers.
On the one hand, I don't feel too bad for trolling you, since your comment basically glorifies the same activity. Lulz and all that.

On the other hand, I feel that you should understand why your comment is not smart. "X bad/useless activity is better than Y bad/useless activity, therefore X is ok" is always a stupid argument.
Success through atypical educational models is something we desperately need to counteract the overwhelming failure of the typical ones.
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The update at the bottom is most telling: Google decided to go for a third option they hadn't enumerated in the original emails: not using Sun's JVM or bytecode at all and instead writing their own.

Or you could even consider that to be a part of their #2 option; the "making enemies along the way" likely doesn't mean willful patent infringement, just that Sun would get pissed off that Google decided to circumvent their patents by reimplementing the VM.

On a side note, I'm kinda sad that G investigated a bunch of alternatives for Java and decided that they all sucked. I mean, really... Java is the best we can do? Ugh.
My father's computer uses msn.com as the homepage, which automatically grabs the focus and puts in in the search field of MSN. I'd guess that 90% of his queries on MSN are w.example.com, where the first "W"s are in the address bar where he placed his cursor, and then the actual input is queried to Bing.
Hence why I added (in my opinion) right after. What's misleading and ignorant in stating an opinion? I didn't state that as a fact. For the few times where I had to fix things in Opera (can't remember which version it was but it's no more than 2-3 years ago) the rendering was really off compared to FF, Chrome and even IE.
If a private school can provide a superior education to non-disruptive children, and public schools continue to provide the same education to disruptive children, isn't that a good thing?
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More likely a European middle power that doesn't have the capacity to build one. France has a single usable active aircraft carrier. The United Kingdom has no usable aircraft carriers at the moment. HMS Invincible was decommissioned years ago, HMS Illustrious was modified recently so that it can only handle helicopters and Harriers except that Harriers have been decommissioned and all the helicopters are busy in Afghanistan. HMS Ark Royal has been decommissioned. HMS Queen Elizabeth won't be ready before 2020. Germany has no aircraft carrier.

The problems caused by the lack of aircraft carriers in Europe were clearly demonstrated during the recent conflict in Libya. I wouldn't be surprised at all if one of the European countries would be interested in purchasing or leasing a carrier. The United States would obviously never sell such a ship to a random third world dictator but I don't see why wouldn't they sell it to one of their allies.
Examples are abundant. Stephen Wolfram would be a prominent example.

The "I need X, but existing X is nonexistent or crappy, so I'm going to make my own X" thinking seems to be a common motivator. Technically-competent entrepreneurs often fall into this case.

Meet some more grad students and you'll get a clearer picture of this fairly quickly. This is at least a consideration for many engineering grads.
Yes, you're right. I was just saying that "not caring about market share" is false, they do care and would certainly be worried if it was shrinking.
Supposing many more problems sets are added, how're they going to manage this proliferation.

My 6yo has been using it for a little while - I've not investigated it deeply but it seems that videos and exercises are quite tightly paired. Having many more exercise [overlapping] sets would make it hard to choose which to do.

It seems the whole system wouldn't work as well with an open access method of submitting exercises, so what's this leading towards?

Aside: I think the scratch pad could be vastly improved. When my 6 yo is doing addition/subtraction trying to write out a number line on the scratchpad is harder for them than doing the sums, it gets in the way. Of course he uses a pieces of paper instead but that seems a bit silly. They could integrate a number line drawing tool, ...
I wonder if those ideas would have needed a lot of funding to fly or risked the company if implemented. Probably what company should have done is let the employees implement one of those good ideas and have it implemented during a "20 percent time" like Google and make it grow organically.
Not sure if this is an urban myth or not, but I've heard Cheese Wiz is actually grey. Orange food coloring is later added to the goo to give it that cheddar color.
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Don't you think it's a bit tragic that the two most sophisticated OSs widely available are either direct descendants of or largely inspired by AT&T 60's technology, while the third is the bastard child of VMS?

Try new ideas, prove them with a large audience and see what you can get from them.

One of these days someone will come up with the idea that replaces Unix. Didn't happen until now, but the only way to be sure it never happens is to stop trying new ideas.
No Emacs? It's useless ;-)

That, OTOH, may explain low productivity by its developers.
There are many real-world, practical examples of code that is a huge clanking mess of boilerplate in Java but yet just a few lines in a more expressive language like Ruby, Python, or C#.
A business cannot run that way.
By "privatized", I meant a system comparable to the one most education privatization activists push - public money follows the student to the school of their choice, which may be public or private.
Maybe something related to the Expendables case?
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> it is a clear indication that individuals on the lower side of the IQ scale tend to resist a change/upgrade of their browsers.

AptiQuant needs to review their correlation/causation definitions. Resisting change is one plausible explanation, but the only thing the data clearly show is that the people who scored low on this IQ test tended to be using out of date browsers at the time they took the test. "Resistance" implies agency, which correlation studies do not establish.

I choose to go with the reverse explanation: older browsers actively reduce user intelligence.
> I care because it's wasted effort that would be better spent elsewhere.

Too bad it's not your effort that's being used. If you want things you find interesting (and seemingly no one else do) you've got to be prepared to do them yourself.
The orange color you associate with cheddar is artificial. Originally it was due to annatto, though they may use something else now.
hm. Since source code available, just deploy site to new server under new domain name. If for every domain blocked Hollywood lawyers will need to ask court - this become unprofitable soon =))
You gotta beat them.
This dude is my mentee as part of 20 under 20. He is super sweet, super humble, and super curious about the world in a way that is refreshing to see for someone so accomplished at his age. This "Zen mind is beginner's mind" mentality is a harbinger of success IMHO. <3
There are not damaging at all, not even a whimper..remember is was slightly before those emails that Google and Sun were in talks for Sun to become a partner in completing android.
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You are correct. But You can't start work before October 1st. Since application are being accepted from April 1st (and you'd better apply in first day) - there is 6 month gap.
They have to compare to something someone knows about. If you see a comparison of Minix3 and Genode/L4 with Linux, you can determine what the comparison between Hurd and them would be.
Limiting software patents only to "non-obvious" ones sounds good in theory, but I suspect it breaks down in practice. Most software patents are written up in "mumbo jumbo" language, to use the term from the recent piece on This American Life. If you're a patent examiner, working under a backlog, and every day trying to wrap your head around obfuscated nonsense that doesn't even make sense to the original "inventors", are you really going to do complete diligence to determine obviousness? For that matter, is it even possible to determine?

I think it would be simpler just to eliminate software patents entirely. You can cherry-pick maybe one or two examples of possibly beneficial software patents (e.g. public key encryption as you mention), but for the most part software patents have been economically destructive. And further, even stuff like RSA would most likely get created without patents anyway, because that stuff tends to come out of academia where many researchers would be happy just to have some influential papers. I doubt profit motive is really even a significant factor.
Perhaps you can pay them to not work on it. Kickstarter FTW!
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Making them do chairspins and chair races was funny :p
What I meant was, "it's fixed somehow". I assume the original reasoning for why code is copyrightable is that when I write, say, a book, that is copyrightable. Code is written down just like a book is, so it follows that copyright will apply. I'm not saying that's the legal reasoning. I'm saying that was probably the initial gut-reaction to why copyright should apply to code, and the legal reasoning came afterwards.

I have spent time with the various forms of IP, and I feel I have a pretty good grasp of what copyright is. I can't correct any misconceptions unless you point them out - although I have a feeling it's more that I did a poor job of expressing myself.

Attempt the second: with non-software inventions, you can have a copyright on the documents that explain how to build the invention. You can have a patent on the invention itself. Software can be both copyrighted and patented. You object to this because it's the only instance we have of something that can be both copyrighted and patented - it's a unique exception. I responded to this objection by pointing out that software is also unique in that what you use to describe exactly how to make the invention is the invention itself.
You sound a bit biased. There is love for both iOS and Android in and out of the "geek" community. My dad who is far from a geek has owned an iPhone and iPad. Now my mom owns them both and he owns a Droid X and Xoom.
Kickstopper? :-)

We used to joke about governmental 'Stop Grants' at our startup to match the 'Start Grants'. The idea would be that they would pay you to "please, just go away".
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> Where do you draw the line on pharmaceutical marketing?

The line is pretty straightforward. No marketing to patients of any drug that requires a prescription whatsoever. The reason why these medicines require prescriptions is because they are more serious than aspirin or sunscreen, so it's an easy and reasonable line to draw. Marketing to doctors is fine (i.e. the market actors who have the base knowledge necessary to make reasonably informed decisions). There are plenty of policy arguments to be found on why direct marketing of pharmaceuticals is not a net win. There's a reason why it only happens in the United States and New Zealand.

> If you are seriously worried about a highly educated segment of society being misled by a simple numerical trick like the one you describe, there must be no hope whatsoever for humanity if the only people we can trust to watch commercials are people with a Ph.D in stats.

The same arguments were made about predatory lending agreements and similarly misleading financial mechanisms. Society has come down in large part against these things, rejecting the idea that the consumer is wholly responsible to educate themselves. Marketing with law schools is a serious problem and the ABA is currently under investigation by several senators on this issue.

> If someone has not become well acquainted with the sorts of semi-misleading things mentioned in ads by the time he/she is an adult, something is seriously wrong, and the sort of paternalistic society needed to protect this person from him/herself is unacceptably oppressive to everyone else's freedom.

Sounds great on paper, but like most arguments of this type it doesn't hold up. In reality you've got people with average college educations going up against PhDs in finance, economics, psychology, etc. Companies can afford to pay these people huge salaries in order to increase sales, while the consumers are just regular people who get home after a hard days work and don't want to spend the balance of their free time on figuring out how the business execs are trying to trip them up. The bottom line is that in this country and others companies don't have the absolute freedom to represent their product how they want. As a practical consideration consumers don't have the time to educate themselves to the proper level and so regulation stops companies from taking advantage of consumers.

The argument that typically comes back is nanny state, etc, etc, etc. But I find it telling that it is only the people with the ability and education to combat predatory practices that make this argument. In reality America is composed of a diverse set of people, some with education, some without, some native speakers, some not. Some regulation to protect everyone who otherwise would trample the average citizen because of greed is the right thing to do.
There appear to be two different senses of the word "iteration" in play here.

There's the sense common on HN, where it refers to getting the idea out in front of real customers, and then making changes to it in an attempt to improve it. HN folks generally think this kind of iteration should be done as rapidly as possible.

The article uses "iteration" in a different sense, to mean repeated cycles of discussion and rethinking the idea, before getting it in front of real customers.

The first kind of iteration can be measured by the number of successive versions of the software, website, product, whatever get shown to real users. The second kind (as the article describes) can be measured by the number of meetings held to discuss and refine the idea.
I wouldn't get too excited. Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of the Federal government actually paying out this incentive? I say this because I have medical professionals in my own family, and at least from their experience and from every physician they have spoken to - the incentive is promised again and again, but never materializes despite physicians and medical professionals jumping through the myriad hoops. Like many government incentives, it looks great on paper - but actually getting the thing is entirely different story.
Do you need a book? If not, then http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ Anything by Douglas Crockford is especially useful.

Warning: Douglas is only one man and he is very opinionated about some stuff but he is also smart. So, take the good and leave the bad. Or sometimes, you have to take the bad because everyone else in the world forces you to.
I've never understood why trade secrets need any special treatment as "intellectual property" in our legal system. Aren't trespassing and contract laws (non-compete, NDA, etc.) sufficient?
> I choose to go with the reverse explanation: older browsers actively reduce user intelligence.

Do you have any reason for that? Because frankly it just sounds ridiculous.

It would make sense that someone with a higher IQ would be able to consider the possibility that their browser was replaceable and take the necessary steps to replace it. But I don't see how which browser you use could have an appreciable effect on your intelligence.
Arch Linux^H^H^H^H^H has had a Hurd variant for some time.

http://www.archhurd.org/

I installed it on VirtualBox. Smelled like Unix.
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Could you describe what you mean by "home schooled" a little more. For example:

>I was able to do things like take the day off of school to copilot with my uncle

// Confuses me because when you're copiloting with your uncle you're being home-schooled; you're not having the day off from education you're just doing it differently (right!).

Presumably where you are just being educated at home doesn't fit the definition of "home schooled"?
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It was a joke, along the lines of xkcd comics. See: http://xkcd.com/925/
An interesting idea than cropped up in another thread was taxing IP according to its valuation. If I find a million dollars in gold in my backyard, I'll have to declare it in my tax form, so if I stumble upon and patent an idea that I think is worth a million dollars, isn't it fair that I pay taxes on it? Then later if I sue a company I can't say my idea is actually worth 20 million dollars.
If I understand correctly, some templating transforms the <var>s, etc., into JavaScript. Why not write the JS as a regular program? The syntax you have doesn't seem dramatically easier than just ordinary JS and has to be a bit confining.

Is it really that repetitive, or does the code need to be expanded in different ways in different contexts?
Good attitude.

Why should anyone impart knowledge without monetarily profiting?

Let them all water their crops with Brawndo.
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Go ahead. Put that stupid +1 button on your website. Tell your mother and all your friends to click on it.

I hope you're my competition :)
Is cheddar usually orange? I think all of the cheddar I have ever bought in NH and VT is a pale yellow.

I'm crazy about cheeses, but the only orange cheeses I've ever seen were all very poor brands, unless I'm forgetting something.
Hmm,

Although I don't put this below the food industry to do, it is peculiar that the sources listed are all other blogs. Looking through the blog links I found a NYT article sourced but it said nothing about chemically processed orange products being added to 100% orange juice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/business/22pepsi.html?scp=...

Any one have any better sources?
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Your analogy has a flaw: gold is a commodity with a known price. If I discover a rare artifact in my backyard, I can't be taxed on that because no one has any idea what it's worth— arguably it doesn't have worth unless someone pays me for it.
> Limiting software patents only to "non-obvious" ones sounds good in theory, but I suspect it breaks down in practice.

You don't need to merely suspect. The law already ostensibly limits patents only to non-obvious ones. We can observe directly that it is breaking down in practice.
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I'm not as optomistic as yourself. Outside of my IT friends Google+ is currently a joke. Even inside my group theres a strong division, theres a strong feeling that Google is going to far, alot of people are already upset with Googles privacy issues adn this is a whole new level of issues.

The next thing is 20mil may seem like a great figure, but thats only ~7% of gmail users. That figure is actually pretty average in terms of its user base and a hot new product a month in. I would be slightly concerned if I was the product manager... especially with reports of decline already...

And don't pretend the invite thing why its low, I don't know a person who hasn't got an invite including both my elderly parents.

I don't think Google will fail because of the army of fan boys and wannabes, but I don't think in its current iteration it offers anything that can grow a community.
Not that you may care, but posting photos of Google search result pages is now a dangerous thing and comes with a bunch of privacy concerns.

Search result pages are personalized based on your previous searches and location. Simply from the image we can tell where you live (even if it didn't say so explicitly in the left tool bar).
I don't think that the health conclusions of this piece (don't drink orange juice from the supermarket!) are warranted. All the sources listed in it lead back to Alissa Hamilton's book "Squeezed." While not having read it, all of the information I can find suggest that Hamilton is not trying to suggest that orange juice is unhealthy. For example, this interview in the Boston Globe - http://articles.boston.com/2009-02-22/bostonglobe/29257797_1... :

You'd be better off with a whole orange than a glass of orange juice. It has more fiber and more vitamin C. But I'm not a dietitian. The book is not about whether you should drink orange juice and whether it's healthy. It's about how little consumers know about how popular and - in the case of orange juice - seemingly straightforward foods are produced and the repercussions for agriculture.
Oh, algorithms.
This actually had been done a couple times before. The person who actually did it most completely was not Caesar, but instead Sulla (the generation before Caesar).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla

They were called the Cornealian Laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Cornelius_Sulla#Dictator...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Reforms_of_Luciu...

Caesar did similar things, but in the other direction, and less like the guy specified.
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Could, but likely won't.

One of the emails is the 'we might make enemies' quote I've seen bandied about on HN. It's not necessary to infringe patents to make enemies.

The other quote is talking about the needing a license to use Java, but that could be talking about using Sun's JVM, and may not imply that they knew that they needed to license patents, or that Dalvik would infringe those patents.
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But why even explain the arguments to others that may be religious (or vice-versa for religious people to atheists)? If it's what you believe, why not just leave it at that and keep it to yourself? Of course, when I say this, I direct it at Atheists AND Religious people.

I just never saw the need to convince or push other people to believe the same things you do. We can't even begin to fully understand the complexity that is the universe, science and religion are both continuously wrong, and we are imperfect beings.

We are blind leading blind.
>But letting a bright, ultra-focused kid master an entire grade level over the summer and then the kid will be a hellraiser in school for the next 9.

If kids fall behind or are poorly motivated then they get extra attention. But if they shoot ahead or are strongly motivated they get ignored? Chastised?

I'm interested in presenting the best opportunities for education to my children and instead of being concerned with making the current educational frameworks run more smoothly (they're not mutually exclusive interests though).
There have been some GPU implementations of the Barnes-Hut algorithm [O(nlogn) n-body problem].