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Because every programming language's library does it slightly different. With the T, without the T, with or without the Z, converted to UTC or not.. Of course it's no rocket science to figure out, but it's work every time.

Notably, JavaScript has no standard way to convert a Date to e.g. 2007-03-01T13:00:00Z.

UNIX timestamps are worse because there's no hint about the timezone (should be UTC but often isn't), plus no space for milliseconds. Of course you can just *1000 for msecs and document that it's UTC, but once again, not trivial.

Basically, you can't just convert a JSON string date into your language's Date(Time) class and be sure that it went right. This is a lot of energy wasted.
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That's really cool! Non-incremental innovation indeed. Thanks for the link! Has this been submitted to HN proper?
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I wasn’t really trying to, I was merely trying to point out an interesting lead. Whether the type of rocket used has anything to do with this is, however, a very interesting and relevant question, especially considering that the ISS depends on Soyuz launches for replacing the crew.

Soyuz-U is quite old, has few flights today and will soon be completely replaced by other Soyuz variants. It doesn’t do any manned flights anymore. I bet it would be a huge relief if Roscomos were to find out that it’s really the type of rocket (and only this type of rocket) that had something to do with the failure.

A manned Soyuz flight to the ISS is coming up soon, it would be best if Roscomos wouldn’t have to delay that one. But in order to do that they have to find the reason for the failure and fix it.

This is the worst time for a Progress mission to fail. None of the previous Progress missions failed. And now? The first one after the Shuttle retires fails. The timing would be comical if it weren’t so serious.

Consequences for the ISS could be serious. The six person crew might have to be reduced to three people.
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Is the mentioned option set to something else than "immediately"? If it allows you to log back in that certain period of time after explicitly logging out, which it shouldn't (it should only work that way after sleep or screen saver begins, from its description) it might be a bug in OS X itself. You should try testing it a bit more and submit a bug report on http://bugreport.apple.com/ if it indeed looks like a bug. :)
From reading more into the project, it sure looks like Broadcom is giving this group a significant helping hand.

Given that Eben Upton is currently a technical director at Broadcom while simultaneously working on this Raspberry Pi project...maybe I'm not so shocked anymore. It's actually refreshing to see chipmakers put out cheaper EVKs to play with instead of $4000 development systems. It's good marketing.

I'd single out TI as the largest culprit of making EVKs hard to get, but I'm also inclined to believe they've been giving Beagleboard/Pandaboard a helping hand (like where can you find loose OMAP4s on the market? I sure can't.)
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Yup, I just read that one this hour.

Also see this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/business/schneiderman-is-s...

and

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre...

And remember that's Rolling Stone and Matt Taibbi is also rather left leaning from what I can tell off his wikipedia entry (I'm more progressive than him and I believe Obama is making one mistake after another for reasons I cannot fathom).
Games are eminently sharable, and I suspect there is a large overlap between people who would like to play games made with your platform and people who would like to make games with your platform.

Have you considered publishing an arcade of really playable games? Or how about a hosting platform for your user's creations? Then users would do the work of propagating your URL. A cross-Scirra high score system could also add a lot of appeal and virality.

In other words, I think there are some really promising ways for you to show off your product entirely apart from SEO.
On my local box, pypy changes execution time from ~17 seconds to 10 seconds.
"They hanged the man and flogged the woman,
Who stole the goose from off the common.
But they let the greater villain loose,
Who stole the common from under the goose."

Or to relate it to this case, how is claiming that only you can make rectangles or any of these patent hold-ups not "theft" that everyone knows about but can't do anything about?
Huh? It looks like SpaceX might be able to supply the ISS with cargo very soon. If that works people will follow not to long after that.

Sure, they are paid by NASA to do that but currently NASA is completely unable to supply the ISS with anything.

NASA is awesome at putting together science missions. SpaceX (currently) doesn’t want to do that, you can’t even compare the two in that respect. But what’s so bad about launching all your stuff with rockets from a private company?
Yeah, that's what I thought.

Why not just create another stack exchange just for facebook? I mean, they've already got that system working for other topics.

Putting a filter on all SO questions and slapping a subdomain on it feels like it's a solution they created in 30 seconds.
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You've hit on one big risk in this new way of doing business. If Heroku or AWS or Urban Airship goes down, we all get pissed. This is why these companies emphasize their reliability and customer service.

However, the better question is "would the service be more reliable if my team had written it?" People feel safer when they are in control (people are more scared flying than driving a car, yet driving is much more dangerous.). Chances are Urban Airship is going to offer a more reliable notification system than you would build yourself because this is the one thing they do.
I didn't use the term "teaching the East a lesson" nor was it implied. I just said that Asian companies have long made it a habit of copying successful designs and ideas. I don't think anyone can argue with this proposition.

Now, this not an "evil" thing to do. I am up for abolishing the current atrocious use of software copyrights as the next person: let all the copy cats come out with the stuff and let the market decide in a fair battle. However, to do this, the market conditions must be made level, which it definitely is not, especially in China (I don't know the situation in Taiwan or South Korea).

This certainly is no "cultural pudding match" and if you are in the tech sector it is very relevant.

As for downvoting: People's comments are their opinions, you may disagree or they may be wrong. What do you do when you get stuck with a boring person in a meetup, you just ignore them and move to the next person to talk. I do the same for comments here (or in any other forum) and do not downvote, unless they are offensive or badly formulated.
No, I'm comparing it with Plano and surrounding areas, which is larger than Portland. There are aspects of SF I like, I've been. The problem is the housing costs. It's just much cheaper to live in the DFW area. And not only is it cheaper, you can buy a new home that's much larger compared to what one could buy in Portland or SF. Even in Seattle, the houses here are very old, small, and expensive. Some people like that style of home, it's just not me. What I do like about Portland, SF, and Seattle is the geek culture.
This reads like a submarine PR article for McDonalds and Jim Skinner.
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Interesting article.

IMO, the Internet is making people more connected but it's having the disastrous effect of causing people to consume too much information. Normal memory functions are being altered and attention spans are decreasing.

I haven't seen any research in this, but anecdotally I'm finding that the people who very connected to the Internet and not speaking to other people directly, are becoming more socially awkward and show lack of enunciation. These are things that aren't noticeable over the Internet when people type and read all day to each other.
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From your link:

"we need to verify that your identity matches the one on the profile"

That doesn't necessarily mean that the profile has your [full] legal name attached to it just that it is properly associated with you. YMMV and probably will.
Repost of my comment on the atlantic article:

The fault lies with the college board. A useful standardized test would either:
* not require a calculator at all, testing understanding instead of computation or
* allow access to real world tools-- including free ones like http://wolframalpha.com and http://desmos.com/calculator (full disclosure-- I helped build the latter)

How much time is wasted teaching the unnecessary skills of how to use an antiquated, expensive device merely because tests require it? We should be teaching our students which resources are available, which to use in which situations, and how to plug in the gaps between them
Yes. This seems more like an anti-competitive move to protect their own move into digital distribution.
How do etalons and optics apply here?
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"We have been ignoring you developers a bit much on the existing forums, so, how about a do-over where you guys help yourselves?"

Accurate or no?
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You can also outsource the task to India for a similar amount, or even less, and get someone who will be better than a high schooler. That's the thing that should make some North American developers nervous.
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You are right, it is tangentially relevant to this particular case. Yet the fact remains that there is a certain mindset in some Asian companies. I am not saying that was the case here.
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You're correct and this is done by design. We're not a security feature but a soft-monetization one.

99% of people aren't technical enough to go through any other way than retyping.
My father's/family friend opened a McDonalds franchise about 20 years ago. He needed to have approximately $350k, 'non-borrowed' cash on hand to be considered as a franchisee.

> How's the experience?

It must be good because he now owns 4 McD franchises. All his kids worked there through HS and (some) college. His son is the "Manager" of all 4.

> Does it require lots of work?

I think after their first couple of restaurants, they have developed and refined their management system. The son works a typical work week floating between restaurants and balancing books, hiring managers, etc.

> Or just require passive monitoring?

My fathers friend was at the first restaurant from almost open to close everyday for several years. (I used to ride my bike there for free ice cream and he was always there). The son seems to have enough free time - its almost like a 8-6pm type job for him.

> How's the cost vs payout?

He and his family are very well off and have been able to invest in other money making areas as well. A lot of hard work on the front end but now he has 4 cash cows that his son manages.
Really? I'm not trying to knock them, they seem like they'll make money, but the one you are most excited about?

http://www.quartzy.com/

http://marketbrief.com/

http://bushi.do/

https://mongohq.com

http://scienceexchange.com/

All look far more exciting to me.
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Yes I meant to save the wildlife for future generations to admire not to bulldozer and pave over. In the US we have 30% federal owned land reserved for things like parks and wild life areas but a lot of it is areas that no one really wanted (desert) or areas where there aren't any people anyway.

Future generations shouldn't have to travel to another state to get to a nature reserve.
I'm trying to decide if I want to try this.

I'm suspicious that I won't find it useful. Pencils and paper are awfully nice. I bet that even a trained user of this software can't write an equation faster than I can.

Sometimes it is nice to be able to typeset equations, or feed them into Matlab or Mathematica, and I guess this might help with that. But I don't own Matlab or Mathematica anymore.

And, yes, the paper requires you to know that m is a mass with units of kilograms and q is a charge with units of coulombs, and that the m in one equation is the same as the m in another. But if you can't keep track of that yourself I'm not sure why you're bothering to write down equations.
All the stuff shipped into Europe by Samsung (and by many other companies) goes through the Netherlands. If you ban import into the Netherlands you would need to route around it. Setting up an entire operation in another country is hard enough to make it unprofitable to do for a few models.

The Netherlands has Europe's largest port (Rotterdam) owing to its lucky geographic position at the end of the Rhine and Meuse, two of the largest rivers. Since transportation by boat is several times cheaper than rail or truck this has caused most logistics companies to set up shop there.
What happened to your father is just plain wrong.

Growing up, we had a family doctor that we went to for everything and he referred us to a specialist if need be, but otherwise, he handled everything (which was pretty rare, luckily).

I'm slowly trying to establish the same relationship with a new doctor here (well, technically a Nurse-Practictioner).
This is great stuff. I've often encountered corporate lies like this, which caused me to wonder, "Ok, I get that they feel they need to lie to me. But couldn't they at least tell a lie that doesn't blatantly insult my intelligence or make them look like bigger idiots than necessary? Aren't they smart enough to do that, if they are smart enough to figure out the need to lie?"
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If you ask other people to do your homework for you, you'll never learn. Go back to math.stackexhange, and provide the solution up to the point where you're stuck, and specifically identify what's causing you trouble.
It is a particularly broad definition. One could argue that 'anything in business can fall under marketing in some way'.

A personal definition I like to use is 'marketing is any activity designed to increase the top-line sales revenue number'. If you research and launch a new product, that's marketing. If you cold call, that's marketing. If you write inventory control software, that's not marketing. If the software reduces delivery time, that's marketing (since you could argue that improved delivery time translates to increased customer satisfaction, and ultimately increased sales).
True. But native Alaskans don't pave everything over with malls and parking lots.

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Also you can't have a rail line that goes on for thousands of miles without any maintanance stations, rest stops, etc... I'm worried that small towns will pop up along the route, as more trade occurs along the route the towns will grow and then the shit hits the fan from there.
Here is, in my mind, the #1 benefit of polyglot programming: it refines your aesthetic sense, and it also gives you a sense of intrinsic vs. accidental complexity, the former being the innate complexity associated with the problem being solved, and the latter being complexity imposed by implementation details. It's crucial to know the difference, because good software engineering is about exposing people who have to use your code only to intrinsic complexity.

Ideal engineering practice: write the "beautiful" program first that only presents the intrinsic complexity (logic of the problem being solved). If performance is an issue, then optimize, a practice that often imposes accidental complexity on the code. Put said accidental complexity behind an interface as much as possible.

C++ and Java force a lot of the accidental complexity into source code and in these languages, it's hard to pick up the difference between intrinsic vs. accidental complexities.
It only cares a little bit in some professions, such as humanities professors. They almost certainly went to school for longer than the lawyer did, but make far less. So the market value in this case is closely related to the work that is being done.
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Gamestop may have Streisand effected themselves. I hadn't heard of OnLive before today but will probably try it out tonight.
That is brilliant. If I had an iPhone, I would have math touch.
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Of course book-learning and in-class learning needs to be supplemented with a large amount of self-directed learning. As a professor I'm sure Matt is perfectly well acquainted with the limitations of a 4-year degree program.
Why the downvote. He has a point. Preinstalled operating systems are incredibly convenient, something the average user doesn't want to have to do.
Ha that is nothing. There is a turist shop in Berlin which sells, among other things, authentic canned Berlin Air.

Yes that is right, they are selling empty (but closed and captioned) cans.
Cleaner, yes. I picked OCaml because it seemed easier to find information about, and more widely ported.

Also, I think most people fail to appreciate how useful compiler techniques are outside of "compilers". Even just knowing a little about lexing and parsing goes a long way.

For Prolog, I'd also recommend _The Art of Prolog_ by Sterling & Shapiro and/or Clocksin's _Clause & Effect_.
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Eww, that's so manipulative. I will never use this service.
Saw this series two days back.Do follow if you need to get some push for writing your first gem.And he has a shared a nice collection of links too(see bottom for .Delicious bookmarks related to rubygems.)
I'll use this story next time I explain net neutrality to anyone. "Think what GameStop is doing is bad? Imagine your ISP engaging in similar practices."
In this very particular case you're right, as far as I understand the situation the infringing Gallery app is a standard Android app.

However, why did Apple focus on Samsung? Yes they are #2, but could it also be how the original looked imitated an iPhone, e.g. http://www.edibleapple.com/did-samsung-make-last-minute-desi...? Compare these looks with a aMotorola Droid 3.
When I was out in California, my company closed up our Santa Cruz office very suddenly.

A large contingent of people working there decided to move to just outside of Portland (Vancouver Washington) mainly because of the fact that by living in Washington you wouldn't pay any income tax, and by adjoining Portland, you could do all your shopping and avoid paying sales tax.

I opted not to relocate there with everyone else (it seemed silly to move somewhere just for tax reasons), but I imagine there are at least a fair number of people who use that scenario.
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Maybe so for their higher end boards, but TI supplies the cheapest eval kit I know of at $4.30[1] for the MSP430 Launchpad.

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we hear you. SolveMedia has video, I'm not sure about engagement quality on that.
Maybe it's simple experience and observation? Do those still count anymore? Does everything have to be written up in BusinessWeek before it becomes assertable?
It works really well, just check your bandwidth. I spent most of last Saturday playing OnLive and watching Netflix and between them it chewed up 8 gigs of data. I've got a fairly generous cap though so I'm not worried.
I wrote a blog post about not building Swiss Army Knives a little while back myself.
What i like about your approach is that you gave actual practical advice on how product focus should be achieved, whereas my post was more philosophical in nature.
> Would you want your lawyer or doctor to have Star Wars toys and Nerf guns in their office?

Well, that depends... Do I get to play too?
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I would add "Out of the Tarpit" by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks. I read it at least twice a year.

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I wonder if they had to tell a lie because switching which passengers had to wait would have violated some FAA regulation?
I haven't changed the batteries in 8 months. I can do math on my TI-89 Titanium without even looking at it, that's not possible with any tablet. Real buttons are worth the extra money. Depending on the complexity of the problem, there's many I'd rather use a calculator than even Maple or Mathematica, both of which would be an absolute nightmare to do on my iPhone. Also, you can still program it, which isn't available on anything iOS related unless you used javascript somehow (Fucking up the semi-empirical mass formula in Nuclear Physics was practically a pastime on my homework before I wrote a small basic program). Furthermore, no teacher/professor in their right mind is going to let anyone use a device capable of wireless communications on a test.
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What does 0^0 equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree?
I would love to see companies with APIs and active developer communities provide rewards to high reputation developers.

e.g. Facebook offers devs with over X reputation access to alpha APIs, devs with over Y reputation direct email support, devs with over Z reputation are recommended on the Facebook.com site as developers to hire for freelance work, etc.
Posting this because it may be an indication that the Big Media companies are starting to get this, and thus may be of interest to HN types.
Somehow I connected this to our current startup environment
The point is that it's not worth a patent.
Average polish wages, according to his post, are about 12k a year. Average american is around 50k, he would have to multiply his salary times 4 here to match cost of living increase, roughly.