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Hidden variables have not been disproved. What has been proved by Bell's inequalities is that any hidden variables that exist must themselves be irreducibly "quantum", so interest in the theory faded because for those of us on the inside of the universe the existence of fundamentally indeterminate hidden variables is just an unnecessary useless complication. But hidden variables may still exist. For instance, a computer simulating our universe may be using a deterministic PRNG (with strong statistical properties) to resolve quantum mechanics, which makes it deterministic on the outside for those who know and control the PRNG, while appearing fully random on the inside.

There is no such thing as "absolutely random". I'm not kidding, if you try to really seriously define it with math it comes apart in your hands. Both randomness and probability are intrinsically relative.
Yes, and to add on that, I think for JS there is a lot of ugly code out there on the web. I have actually used them a lot before watching Crockford video's and I found them quite late!

BTW, are there any other resources similar to these videos? (Or, to put it differently, is Douglas Crockford the authority for JS?)
His hypothesis had nothing to do with the angle of the leaves but rather with the Fibonacci sequence. For some reason he also decided to angle the leaves in his test, which I suspect were the true cause of the efficiency gain.
"You are the company that names your beta builds after candy, ice cream, and sugared cereals. Apple names their betas after things that will eat your things along with the tasty human wrapper that eats that crap. Do you honestly think anyone can take you seriously?"

Funny, because Android has 20% of the market. (http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/12/android-tablets-peel-away-...)

And that's without having a compelling price point. Right now a rooted Nook is the only value product point out there in Android, and Google still has a 20% OS share. When somebody inevitably figures out how to pump out an equivalently featured tablet at the sub $200 range, volume market shares will change dramatically. This does not, of course, mean that the iPad will not continue to earn the vast majority of the market's profits. But that's a different story...

As to the main thrust of the argument, I think that disruptive innovation from Apple's competitors will continue to be exceptionally rare (rather than the norm, as it is at Apple) as long as product development is feature driven rather than UX driven. Please correct me if you think there are other structural factors in play.
Main takeaway points:

1) The iPad is disruptive. Interesting evidence for that from HP, but the point is not surprising.

2) In order to be very successful, do something "disruptive, mind blowing, magical" (which the author hasn't thought of yet). No Duh.
No, I got that. And I still wouldn't work for free.

Even if I worked for myself, I'd expect my efforts to reward me.
I sincerely hope courts take this travesty seriously. Intentionally submitting doctored and misleading evidence should be ground for immediate dismissal of the case.
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Some jobs are a way of working yourself up to the job you'd do for free and that's what a McDonalds job is to people who aren't stuck in it. If I were the author I'd make that an addendum.
This has nothing to do with each other. Classes with variable generic arities are syntax sugar provided by the C# compiler. Behind your back it will just create Function`0 Function`1 and so on.

Seeing how much havoc method overloading creates, I'm fine without this feature.

About Kotlin: Before it can fix issues, it should probably start to exist first.
I agree with the previous response. As long as you create a company around the work (Even if it is just a good name and not a real entity, it still sounds better than "self-employed").

Get some apps (or GitHub contributions) out there during this time and you'll be fine.

If I saw something like this on a candidates resume, I'd be impressed (and jealous), and would probably spend most of the interview talking about these projects and your motivation behind them. My only concern would be that you'd leave in 6 months to go play with some new shiny technology our company was not currently using. So you'd need to frame your answers to satisfy that concern.

HTHs!
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He may be, but your fanboy is showing. Woz was the hacker, Steve is a smart businessman with a good eye for style.
If you perceive that Colin is repeatedly linking to dupes or calling out policies, isn't that a flaw in the UI and UX of HN rather than him just being a complainer? If someone picks up an Android phone and is confused by what the menu button does, and someone kept telling them that they're doing it wrong, wouldn't we be missing the point? If the user doesn't get what the menu button is, it's not the other person's problem for pointing out what it is; It's the manufacturer's problem for not making it clearer. I, too, see Colin's contributions as helpful, and I wish there was a "mark as duplicate" or "redirect" option so he didn't have to type the same stuff every time.
Thanks for the correction. I updated the mistaken paragraph.
I wasn't even aware of maps and filters :)
So basically, there is a lot to learn!
I think we are simply seeing the beginning of a world where you think less about the gadget that you are using and more about what you want to do.

Sensibly put, but the TouchPad illustrates the dilemma at play: what if the main thing you "want to do" is use a new app that is only available on iPad? I think that many people are assuming that this will play out like iPhone/Android, where the sheer volume of Android phones incentivised Android developers enough to build a competitive (if not equal) app library, but I think the tablet space will play out much more favorably for Apple. Without the carrier system limiting their market share, Apple's brand name and quality reputation could lead to an even more dominant market position than the iPod enjoyed.

An often overlooked related issue: what happens if the iOS UI is the new "normal"? All the other comers are attempting to offer different/improved interfaces, just as iPod competitors tried to differentiate from the clickwheel, but if iOS dominates, the alternatives might find themselves increasingly marginalized in contrast to an increasingly iconic/familiar interface.
There are plenty of rewards that aren't monetary. The author isn't saying you should work in a job that provides no benefits. He's saying the benefit of money shouldn't be the primary one because other benefits (like fulfillment) are more important.

So the point of the mental exercise is to help you find a job that is worthwhile regardless of the money you're paid to do it. So you'd still be rewarded for your efforts just not in money (which again wouldn't mean anything to you anyway if you had a billion dollars in the bank)
"You will never be able to build at the same cost they do and produce anything even close."

Umm..the Galaxy Tab 10.1? Also the Asus Transformer tablet is pretty close, too, and $100 cheaper.

And speaking about the Transformer. I think this it. That is the new market. The evolution of both notebooks and tablets - the Transfomer style notebook. You get iPad style consumption by detaching the tablet, and you get productivity, too, by attaching it to the keyboard dock. Although, having a keyboard and 50% higher battery life (Asus Transformer with keyboard lasts 15-16 hours) will not be enough for "productivity". You also need some productivity apps, and Google should work harder on that. But luckily for them, and Microsoft, the world is moving to HTML5 web-apps, and the tablets are catching up quickly in performance with most notebooks.

Why did I say for Microsoft's sake, too? Because whether Microsoft or Intel likes it, the world is moving to ARM based machines. And when Microsoft will do that with Windows 8, they'll have zero legacy apps on it. They'll have to start from scratch. This is why they need HTML5 apps, and are trying to promote them over Silverlight apps, because they think it's the quicker/easier way to get into the market.

So yeah, think about it - the Transformer style notebook/tablet. It's both a tablet and an evolution of the notebook. It's the best of both world's and this way the tablet can also become a "necessity" not just a luxury item, because you won't be using it just for consumption anymore.

Yes, there is an "iPad market" out there, and although it's growing, it's still tiny and I don't think people will ever consider them their main "computers". They could consider their main computers a Transformer style tablet, though. Two years from now they'll have enough performance and apps to do just that for everyone. But the trend starts today, and Asus is leading the pack.

The others should follow them if they want to outsell the iPad and make themselves relevant for the future. They need to make the tablet something that is a necessity for everyone, just like a phone or a notebook is (the iPad isn't). And the Transformer style tablet/notebook is the way to do that.

There's a reason why Apple promoted a keyboard with the iPad from day one. They felt the iPad is an incomplete product without it. And it is.
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I'd love to see the image in context. How is Apple using the image? If this is so egregious, then show it all.

If Apple's point is "Samsung copies our design slavishly" and the defense is "wait, ours may look identical, but it's 6% larger", then good luck with that.

All I see so far is Samsung building devices that are identical to Apple modulo the screens they're able to source. This may be exactly Apple's point.
I find it hard to put into words but something about their service (which I've been on the beta of) feels more "direct" than AWS. I like and use AWS (EC2 and S3) but it feels like swimming in (tasty) treacle with layer upon layer of abstraction and minor delays (how long to boot an instance sometimes..?) Brightbox has its own downsides but there's a certain immediacy and directness to it that I find hard to explain here.
You might acquire some first class experience, while having a lot more fun (and stress) than at your regular job.

As a bonus, you may even built some passive cash flow that will help you stay financially secure.

Careers are overrated anyway.
Have you ever taught programming to adults?

I have. Some people were nearly incapable of grasping the matter. Others could do it as easily as buttering a sandwich. I do not believe it is always a question of circumstance, but a question of an innate, inbuilt ability. Some people can and did rise above their personal weakness, through hard work and study.

Chess and programming are cousins in thought.
RiderOfGiraffes did it by hand, and he was similarly driven away by what I understand to be a minority of people who did not like the practice. He was our semantic dupe-checker, and losing him was bad for the community.

I've explained why I see it as beneficial: it connects related discussions. It is not itself discussion, but it points readers to discussions. So, no, I do not see why you have a problem with it.
On Vodafone I have a contract that gets me free phones.

If I switched to sim-only and bought my phones seperately, it would save me £10/month for the same number of included minutes/data/etc.

Over 24 months that's a saving of £240. The phone I just upgraded to is currently selling at a retail price of £520. That's a pretty good deal as far as I'm concerned.

As to the ASA, the first reason against this is: nobody has EVER signed up to a contract to get a free phone, without realising that they would have to pay a monthly fee. It might confuse some people, but it doesn't mislead.

The second reason is that, even if everyone agreed that it was a good thing to do, it's pointless. Some (maybe all except the UK, I've no idea) European countries have banned this, and you know what adverts you see over there? "New iPhone, just €0.99!" Great, thank god they banned "free" phones, now people have to pay 99 cents
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Since its inception, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has quickly replaced CAD as the most preferred design technology for the architectural community. BIM, as a 3D modeling mechanism, is founded on the usage of objects which reflect the accurate measurements and real-world behavior of products within a building.
Interesting offering, looks damn cool ^_^.

There are a few interesting questions raised, though.

Are you guys using local disks or SAN?

Are you guys using Eucalyptus?

Also, it's interesting that you charge less for incoming data then outgoing. I understand that standard asym links are cheaper upload then download, due to them being basically "slack" cap from Adsl tails/etc. Why is your outbound data more expensive then?

How are you securing KVM?

(assuming somebody from there is around, or that anybody else would have answers....)
OK, but the reference to athletics is valid. There are outliers -- Muggsy Bogues or Dustin Pedroia -- but there's a reason that most professional pitchers are 6'2''. You can't get taller, no matter how hard you try.
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could you write about how you went from a non-programmer to be able to launch that web site? would be super-interesting.
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Where did you get the $10/year figure from?
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So what about the Kindle and the Nook? They seem to be doing okay, and would anyone really call them a different market? I mean, they're obviously specialized as e-readers while the iPad is more general-purpose, but I don't see why Kindles and Nooks won't morph into more general-purpose devices as well (the Nooks already are fairly general-purpose)?

That is to say, are Kindles and Nooks fundamentally different from iPads, and therefore would be considered to serve different markets, or is it much more like Apple computers vs. PC's in the 80's? One had a much larger market share than the other, and they were different enough that we had a divide between "Apple Computers" and "Personal Computers", even though they largely did the same stuff?
If anything, this test illustrates that assignment is a very confusing concept, even more so if you pick a silly symbol like = for it. I wonder if they tried to teach any of these students a more functional language that doesn't rely on the idea of assignment.
The stock market's reaction is understandable to me. This is a big change in what HP does and it's going to take a long time for this to play out.
Please be aware that this is a local authority, it does not apply to whole germany. Also, Thilo Weichert is not a politician, his job is to enforce standing data protection laws in Schleswig-Holstein.

While I do not support his interpretation of the law, I see how he came to his conclusions. And his job is to enforce these conclusions, so I am a bit split on that topic.
I've always found "through" to be confusing when used like this. It's like the whole "Next Friday" thing - is that the one about to happen (it's the "next" one to occur), or is it the one after that? (in Australia, it's usually the later)
I much prefer "valid until August 19"

(I'm a native English speaker, not from the US where "through" seems more common)
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Summary: Some of the side-by-side images of Apple iPhone & Samsung Galaxy S show the phones apparing visually similar, but the Samsung image has been scaled down 6%.

It's the newspaper that claims that the evidence in inaccurate. What would be very interesting is if the court involved also found it inaccurate, but I can't find any decision one way or the other on this...
Okay, I see what your saying. Thanks!
Same thing happened to me while I was testing it out, page crashed so there's no error message for me to paste from dev. console.
The problem with online multi-player is that generally, if you're a normal guy with just an hour to spend, you simply get instantly destroyed/swept the floor with your guts by the no-lifers that are spending their whole lives playing the very game you're trying to get into.
"I believe that in hindsight, webOS will go down in history as one of those great operating systems that died for reasons not related to it's quality as an OS."

Yes. I would say that webOS will more than likely be the beOS of the mobile world. Not that the two OS's are similar technologically, but in that they're both generally held in fairly high esteem but no one actually uses them.
Amazon has some pretty damn amazing uptime overall. Given the number of regions that are sitting at 100% uptime (like say, all of s3) it's hard to argue that they have uptime problems.

They really do need to work on getting ebs to cold boot properly though. It seems to have a habit of biting them. (But there's a good chance that anybody else at that sort of scale would have the same sort of issues)
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Your notion about bees cooperating isn't the accepted view in modern biology. The Selfish Gene does a good job of explaining why this isn't the case, there's a lot of competition going on within a bee hive.
Sorry to be so blunt, but for someone who doesn't have any social skills, it's odd you would feel that Dale Carnegie's book is outdated. It doesn't seem like you are qualified to know what is outdated or not, given your lack of expertise.

I suggest you follow that book because it concentrates on the fundamentals. It's very important you internalize this.

When you go to the Hackers and Founders meetup, every 1 hr, walk up to someone and say "Hi, my name is gs7. So what brings you here?" It is awkward and embarrassing, but work through it. You'll get over it. At least it's friendly and people won't think you're a jerk. And then you can engage people on things that are interesting to both of you.

If you do this exactly 100 times over the course of several months, you'll find that it's not a problem anymore. All it takes is practice. You will fail miserably the first 40 times. The next 30 times, you'll do crappy, but you'll be doing better. The next 20 times, you'll be doing okay. And the last 10 times, you'll be good at it.
the market always hates big risky decisions. it isn't any indicator of whether it is a good choice or not.
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Thanks, I am positively predisposed over indie titles, though the only indie CRPGs that I really liked were those from SpiderWeb.
First, they're messing up the aspect ratio of the devices with the manipulation. Second, there is no real need to do this, if the sizes are just 6% different, why change the image at all?. Third, this is showing up to be a pattern, thus not just 'sloppy lawyering' like Gruber would want us to believe.

>All I see so far is Samsung building devices that are identical to Apple modulo the screens they're able to source. This may be exactly Apple's point.

And there is no better way to project that point except by making the screens look exactly the same size without a note saying 'scaled size to show similarities'? All this in a court filing.

Lets be honest here, if this was MS in place of Apple, everyone would be screaming bloody murder.
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I think the owner of "minimalmac.com" is probably quite happy that it's an iPad-only market (even if it isn't really), because Our Lord and Savior Steve Jobs presented the iPad and every other tablet is just a heathenish mockery.
The entire post bleeds with broad generalities about hipsters and neckbeards. How does this pass for discourse?
A few points:

1. There is no guild. Just a cultural and perhaps even a generational gap.

2. This "guild" is not isolated to Silicon Valley. I would venture to guess that the neckbeard-to-hipster ratio is far higher everywhere outside of the Bay Area.

3. There is a minor inconsistency in the claim that the neckbeards don't use social media, and the claim that they receive recruiting messages on LinkedIn.

4. The neckbeards most assuredly DO use perl.
It's funny how someone like Bill Gates or your college math professor can make the observation that many people just aren't as good at some thing as others and you decide they're simply idiots, but you, who have accomplished so much and acquired so much wisdom, know differently.

When I was a kid, I played soccer every day, as often as I could. I loved it. And I never got particularly good. But when I started programming I was soon better than my peers, my teachers, and anyone I knew or could find to talk to.

But I guess my soccer coach was just an idiot.
I don't think the engineers disregarded everything that is not based on logic, but any good engineer will disregard everything that somebody believes, feels or thinks is the right solution unless they can give a good, well reasoned argument.

Most design people aren't happy about that level of scrutiny, but that is something they should do, as it will improve their craft.
"An interesting hypothesis, but the game used as an example in the article features emergent gameplay. In RDR, you progressively receive more weapons, mounts, and (to some degree) abilities as the game progresses. I think emergent gameplay pulls some players in, but I'm not sure it explains the statistics provided by the article."

To your point, there's actually a very good argument to be made that emergent gameplay (or the possibility thereof) decreases the desire to finish the game. It increases replayability, and total time played, but it creates incentives to "mess around" within the game and not to play it in a linear fashion.

My overall thesis is that games seem to have shifted away from linearity on aggregate, to the point where "story mode" is now a value-add. Single-player, linear, traditional gameplay is the side option that multiplayer or sandbox used to be in the early days of console gaming. Fewer people are finishing games in the traditional sense, because fewer games are being published that are designed to be finished. [That design choice may not be intentional, as evidenced by the exhorbitant production values and costs being sunk by developers and publishers into "story mode" voice acting, cinematics, art direction, and so forth.]
Apple fanboy takes cheap shots at Google for eating Apple's smartphone lunch, film at 11 :)
Yes ... and the world is controlled by the Illuminati ... </sarcasm>

On a more serious note, I find this statement to be BS:
"Their tools of choice are C, C++, and Java — not Javascript, Perl, or PHP".

I'm a C person and have been for over a decade. That doesn't mean I think every problem can be solved by C. Most recently, I have fallen head over heals for Rails. I truly think that is an excellent tool for prototyping of web applications. Would I use C or C++ for this task? Absolutely not!

You have to use the right tool for the job.
Nothing wrong with pair programming, but it sure is easier to be "a profitable company that had two programmers sitting in front of one computer, writing code, together" if the company charges by the hour!
What the author carefully sidesteps is that, according to Gartner, Apple market share is DROPPING fast. And, that Android has reached a critical "over 20%" market share this year.
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