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Yup, Galois is the most obvious direct recruiter from PSU, but there are others, to be sure, but not enough. I've got a few friends in the MS and PHd programs at PSU and they certainly don't have people beating down their doors, I'm sorry to say. It would certainly be good to see more direct recruiting and internship opportunities opening up.
Maybe when the person is already on life support, and you're trying to make a decision about whether the person is "dead" even if most of their organs are alive.
Brainfuck just might be the easiest language to actually implement. It's a learning experience and can provide a minimal understanding of how programming languages work. I'm sure someone can write the whole language in one line of Perl. The programs may not be pretty, but neither are programs written in lambda calculus.
None of them were successful, and I don't mean business-wise. They existed as niche applications at best. I'm not claiming Apple invented tablets.

What you've linked looks really nothing like the iPad, except insofar as it's a screen without a keyboard. And that's what all those previous tablets were: PC's with a novel input device. Virtually every tablet device before the iPad had:

Resistive touchscreen
Stylus
Windows OS
Plenty of buttons and connectors
12"+ screens
PC-grade processors and hardware
$2000+ price tag

They are honestly not even in the same product category as:

capacitive touchscreen
finger-based UI written from the ground up
one button
10" screen
low-power ARM and big battery
$500 price tag

Samsung didn't go back to 2001 or the Electrovaya Scribbler for their ideas, nor did they come up with the basic design on their own. They had many years in which to do that if they wanted to. They saw that Apple had hit on the right basic form factor, and copied it. Fair enough, to a point. Great artists steal, etc. But trade dress can be serious business if it causes confusion between competitors in a fierce market, and Apple is certainly entitled to their day in court. (Shape/look considerations fall under trademark, not patents.)

What Apple does best is not invent new fundamental technologies, it's pick which precise combination of them is going to work best. That is hard work. These kinds of conversations seem to systematically devalue it.
I like the idea but someone technically minded enough could scrape the article from the source (at least from the demo CNN page they have up) [1]. But then again, that would be a lot of work especially compared to typing in two to three words.

[1] http://cnnmoney.transformer.doublerecall.com/2011/08/24/news...
graph of parties to patent litigation: http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1473307539
They let you use a calculator on the SAT now?

Yes, because they are more interested in your understanding of math, not your ability to perform arithmetic. In my math and physics classes in college and high school, I typically only picked up my calculator once I had solved the problem. My real answer was an expression with variables in it, but to check my work with the back of the book, I had to plug numbers into the expression I derived.
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The argument for the oligopoly protection goes that, without that protection, the pharma companies would not have invented the drugs in the first place because their ROI would be insufficient without the government-protected price premium. IOW, the Canadian pharmacies can offer so cheaply because they copy from the original inventors rather than doing the expensive research themselves. To what extent the pharma inventors truly need the protection versus to what extent pharmaceutical policing is cartel profit-taking is an open question, but it's worth keeping both points of view in mind.
I'd argue that consumers are accustomed to filling out CAPTCHAs, and thus are less likely to be confused by these ads. As a reader, I would hate filling out a DoubleRecall ad much less than being denied access altogether because I am unwilling to subscribe. Of all of the Y-Combinator companies that I've read about in this batch, I'm most excited about DoubleRecall on the basis of the idea alone.
I wonder how long those salads would hold up before they decay visibly :-/
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Yeah but that takes work, why would they want to do that when they could just let the community-based Q&A site take care of it?
Im sure I dont want that.

Does this mean stackoverflow will share their user data with facebook? If so, thats a disaster.
Medicine is science and as such is always evolving.

I recently got certified in CPR and defibrillator use. Turns out that CPR guidelines keep changing as scientific research advances our knowledge of what is actually going on. One of the reasons why a first responder should keep getting re-certified every year or so.
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It all comes down to the point you make about there being no widespread absolute consensus on the best way to develop software: our industry moves too fast and contradicts itself too often for institutions and standards to become permanently established. But I suspect, comparatively, we are actually doing much better than more mature fields such as law and medicine (who took hundreds of years from their founding to reach what they have achieved today).

Also, maybe law and medicine aren’t that great. Every time I visit my GP these days I’m always struck by how he basically has no idea what is wrong with me. And our legal system seems to be pretty out of date in the light of more recent findings in psychology and changes in society caused by the Internet.
I moved to Portland from California in 2001. I love it here, and can't imagine ever moving back. That being said, the big adjustment for me (and for many folks moving from further south) isn't the rain. It's that the days are so much shorter in the wintertime, and even when the sun is technically up, you can't see it through the cloud cover.

It's easy to love Portland in the summer (and, having grown up in Sacramento with weeks of temperatures over 110 degrees, I was very surprised to discover that I actually like summer now). The real test is whether you still love it in the middle of your second or third winter. ;>
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Hate the idea. SO's search is decent. This is just the kind of fragmentation that I already don't like about programmers., unix. etc.. You can easily filter your lists by tags, you can easily search by tag.

Where's the benefit?
fooled by randomness - nassim taleb.

his books get progressively worse, but this one is excellent
I would bump up compilers to their own level.

Implementing intepreters is cool. But the key value of studying compilers is that it provides you with the tools to build robust, extensible input processing (and, to a slightly lesser extent, data processing and output) code. If programmers are confident with using regular expressions and context-free grammars as appropriate, even if it's just coding up recursive descent parsers, I think they can produce much better input processing in their software.

And a large quantity of software needs to parse input, and possibly turn it in to different output, at some point in its execution.
Genuinely curious:

“I respect people who came to programming 'for the money' rather than because of being interested”

Why?
That's exactly my conclusion. I stopped buying marketing/sales/copywriting help material when I realised the best material was the one I was reading already for free - the one which convinced me to buy the material in the first place! Sure, I still need to deconstruct how to make such material, but imitating and testing works.
Google 20% time is very much a myth
This is awesome. I develop quite a bit on facebook, but turn to SO for most of my needs. The forum is terrible, but it really does not make sense for them to build a new system from scratch.
Thank you President Obama for saving the space shuttle program!

After all, it would be idiotic to trust another country with something as important as manned space exploration.

It is equally idiotic to cancel a spaceship program until another one is in the air. What a relief!
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NPR is not trying Google's 20% time, per se; what they call "Serendipity Day" is simply their adaptation of the idea. The next one is planned for September, and the goal is to make it a quarterly event.
Did you RTFA?

This is just providing a view of Stack Overflow that's limited to Facebook questions, and Facebook staff providing more support there. Facebook has been a login option for Stack Overflow for a long time, but don't even require you to even make an account to ask questions.
Of course it doesn't mean that, but even if it did, what user data are you talking about? The only non-public info that Stack Overflow has from (some) users is their email address and real name, which Facebook already knows.
Spacecraft programs run on science, not hope.

It is preposterous to think they will replace NASA on any level. It's amateur hour now.
The point of a math education is to understand what's going on. If you can't work problems, you don't really know what's happening, and you will have trouble applying the concepts outside of strictly defined problem spaces from classrooms.

Learning to use computing to do the heavy lifting is great, but I often see learning to use the sin() function used as a proxy for learning what sin() is, for example.
That is...really off-topic.

For what it's worth: I agree. I hate the StackExchange, and I want to get rid of it. But our support team is extremely serious about fixing it, cleaning it up, keeping it up-to-date, and using it as a platform from which we can distribute printed, old-school manuals. The idea here would be that appropriately tagged answers are automatically collated into a print manual; keeping the manual up-to-date would necessarily also ensure that the StackExchange is up-to-date and vice-versa. Think a QA-focused wiki, more than anything else.

They're working on this very hard right now, so I'm hoping that I have something concrete to point to, soon. If it works out, I think it might be a great direction for Facebook to go, too, both providing the social pressures necessary to keep lightly trod StackExchanges up-to-date, and providing a way for Facebook to possibly have organized, accurate documentation for the first time in forever.
I disagree - I find the stack overflow model much better than a wiki. In practice the search on SO is much better than a wiki because of how the questions are phrased. Using your how do I (x) example that is how the SO title would be phrased and that is how a developer searches for a solution.

Facebooks API docs are improving too - so this combination of quality docs and SO could be great.
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This has nothing to do with Obama. STS was planned for decommission in the Bush era. Blaming it on Obama is reactionary tripe.

Also, Soyuz is STILL the most reliable launch system on the planet after Delta II, and the most reliable manned system.

In addition this was a failure of a Soyuz-U, not a Soyuz-FG which is used for crew rotation. The QA process on the two is quite different, and it appears (still too early to tell, but it is likely) that this error was a QA failure.

Shuttle needed to be retired to move forward with anything else, as the program costs were too high to realistically move forward with any other development work with the current NASA budget.
Thanks for the link. I just finished listening to the talk in its entirety. I would love to know what you thought about the actual content of the talk ( ie. not the presentation skills...Conrad Wolfram is charismatic and his analogies are compelling ). I personally think he has completely missed the whole point of math, why does one do math, math education, and problem solving using math.
I know where you're going with this and agree with what you're saying.

I'm just waiting for Google or Facebook employees to chime in on this discussion. They love to talk about the great things they're working on, such as building "better" advertising, but never talk about the content of these ads.

Having run targeted PPC campaigns on Facebook before, I can report back that the ROAS/ROI is typically not very good at all.
You mention version control in passing, but it probably deserves more emphasis. CS majors who aren't comfortable using version control are likely to be at a disadvantage.

OCaml may work as an alternative to SML.

You could also mention Information Retrieval, alongside Machine Learning.

Compilers/parsing/interpreters/etc. could really be its own top level item.

Learning to use profilers / performance optimization. _The Practice of Programming_ covers this (and many other things!) quite well.

All in all, a great list. Probably also useful to suggest starting points for people (like myself) who are self-taught.
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The SO model works better is the API never changes - but since it does, a Wiki would probably be best.
Try emailing LulzSec.
The dropbox bug only affected 100 people? Or it affected everyone but only 100 people logged in with it? That's a big difference.
Sorry I deleted my post before I saw your reply because it was ridiculously off-topic and I felt like it didn't really belong.. But to provide some context I essentially said that Stack Exchange was an unacceptable replacement for a manual in Fogbugz and Kiln.

Mainly that's because a lot of the right questions haven't been asked yet (I could probably provide a few of those instead of searching then quitting when I don't find what I need), or the information is out of date. It doesn't seem like there's a critical mass of users yet for it to be solid enough to replace the manual.

Also note I'm not saying I need a physical book in my hands. Just something indexed with a table of contents with most of the info I might go looking for.

I appreciate the responses here and on Twitter though, guys. Your support (excluding my qualms wrt documentation) really does seem top notch.
Mr. Norvig has been a huge inspiration to me ove the years. I sent him an e-mail a couple of years ago with a quick question. He responded within minutes, and as a young lad, that was huge.

It's really inspired me to try and become someone who not only writes and creates brilliant things, but also helps to foster that same ability in the younger generation.
I don't love that facebook.stackoverflow.com looks exactly like stackoverflow.com — there’s no easy way to tell where you are, or to get back to the main stack overflow.

Even more confusing, you can get to un-Facebook-related questions on facebook.stackoverflow.com (e.g. from your inbox, or from a user page). Since there are no redirects between regular and Facebook SO, this means that every question on Stack Overflow now has two URLs, and you might see links to both.
"According to our records, there were fewer than a hundred affected users and neither account settings nor files were modified in any of these accounts."

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=821

Everyone was vulnerable for 4 hours.
I still think that kind of thing is very different than what is going on here. That's theft, and it's not patent infringement but copyright infringement. If apple had claim that their code or that the chips in samsung's phones were taken from Apple I'd think it's warranted to go after them but suing for someone using the same swipe move as you?
2000 pounds a day (for say, a 12 hour day) would come out to about $273 USD an hour.

That's not inconceivable, especially for a non-technical business contractor.
I've recently dived into Perl. Its most powerful feature, in my relatively short experience, is that it provides powerful semantics for everything - text manipulation, symbol table manipulation at runtime, packages, etc - and it also just gives up and assumes it's on a Unix system (hence the power as a "glue" language). Additionally, you can define new subroutines at run-time and replace most any part of the language at a whim. It's fast, and there is a very sane and simple subset of the language that's very readable and easy.

It is not, however, terribly sexy, and the cult of personality around Wall has turned off a few people I know. I am continually surprised at the simple solutions I can get out of Perl (and the complexity I am allowed to work with should I choose to).
What I don't understand is why you are trying to compare programmers with doctors and lawyers. Why not choose fields that are more closely related and let's see how the average software developer is doing vs. those working in those fields?

For example, let's say, electronics engineer - I would hazard to say that the average software developer is earning higher than the average circuit designer.

Sure, you are saying that software is pervasive in our lives and extremly important - but all software runs on some hardware, which was designed by an electronics engineer.

Engineering and science related careers have never been amongst the top paid jobs in the society we live in - and you could argue for many engineering fields that they are amongst the most important jobs in our current economy (be it construction engineers, automotive, aerospace engineering, energy production, whatever). I don't really see why programmers should earn much more than people working in these fields.
I know Intel recruits heavily out of PSU.
I would like to say that I've been generally happy with Stack Overflow as the official Q&A site for Android Developers. It seems to work pretty well for that purpose and I usually find what I need.
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I think no matter how well you raise a 10 or 11 year old, at that age they are still impressionable and subject to a lot of group-think and peer pressure.
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It’s really just a view into Stack O. A set of filters and customizations under a subdomain. (It took quite a bit of work under the covers, natch.)

If you’re already a Stack O user, this will hopefully provide a focused experience if you’re also a Facebook dev. Or not. In which case it’s ignorable.

If you’re a Facebook dev who isn’t involved with Stack O, it’s a curated experience and hopefully better than what existed previous.
This is a huge improvement over their developer forums, which are a mess of unanswered duplicate questions, terrible search, and didn't even support Facebook login.
Is dress code a factor? Would you want your lawyer or doctor to have Star Wars toys and Nerf guns in their office?

I propose "Formal Friday", where programmers wear ties and nice shirts (or skirts, as appropriate).
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Omg, this is pretty awesome. Facebook API is terrible, and having one, unified and usable channel to bounce questions would be great. Given that we are all used to Stack model, this should really help at speeding things up.
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If you use a randomized implementation the worst-case behaviour is expected to be O(n log n).

(Worst-case in the input, averaged over your random bits.)
Could you bear to increase the contrast of the light grey on white font color? And remove the long sequence of queries from the recipe URLs. Otherwise I really dig this design. The guiding arrows on the homepage are a nice, casual and inviting touch.
Google 20% time is a way for engineers to provide justification for resource which they may otherwise be unable to get from their managers, and would have to keep secret (as some managers will object to you doing it in your spare time, too). It's a way to mitigate the productivity drain from managerial micromanagement. Whether or not it works for any given project is subject to many other variables.
the portland area has some amazing restaurants, such as: Beast, Pok Pok, Nostrana, Le Pigeon, and Gruner. Those are all beard nominees. Not one of them is a gastropub. Have you not been to any of the above? If not, I'd suggest you get to "some real restaurants"
Are the more significant inabilities you are _actually_ complaining about here?

I don't have any idea how Windows 7's (or Vista, or OS X, etc. hell, I vaguely remember how to do this on my *nix box) networking software works, but I guarantee you I could google it and solve my problem in minutes.
> Say what you will about Microsoft but in my several years of using Windows I rarely had these type of glaring issues even with the awful amount of hardware it supports.

I'm an ex-MS employee. One thing that really impressed me about my team at MS is the depth and quality of testing that was done. Unit tests, integration, fuzz, load, UI, regression, etc. All done in extreme depth, extremely efficiently, and across every supported SKU (and when you consider every possible OS, culture and .NET combinations out there, that's a lot)
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Remote DoS for all versions of Apache in the wild.
How is the economy/credit downgrade affecting VC and Angel funding
I heard some rumors that VCs and Angels might start getting more conservative, and the spending spree in Silicon Valley might be coming to an end. However, other people counter that the money put into VC funds is committed over a long period so they can't just withdraw at the slightest sign of an economic dip, so it shouldn't have an effect.

Do you think the economy and specifically the credit downgrade will have any effect on the difficultly to obtain angel or vc money?
In fact, you made me wonder: how the hell do you determine that one city is better than another for "customer service hiring"? I don't imagine there's indexes for these sorts of things.

Or education programmes for customer service people, at all. Or a single "best profile", even?
Facebook will likely benefit a lot more.. They had a crappy forum, and they can let the rest of the folks actually do their support work I think :)

Well, come to think of it, I think google's support forums suck even more. You can post a problem on google support forums, and pray and hope for an answer from their developers.
Purportedly, this works better than filtering by tags.

I'm not sure that this level of filtering is quite necessary, but I think that the community fragmentation is useful: People go to each site (SO, SE, SU, Programmers, etc) with a specific purpose, and the topics on each site are broken up by tags. Trying to filter both purpose and topic on one site would be problematic.

(Also, the Unix/AskUbuntu/SuperUser debacle is a special case, IMO)
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But facebook can't associate Real Names with questions asked on stackoverflow.

If they had data-sharing in place, they could.
At first I figured they just created a separate SE site specific to Facebook development but it appears to just be a filter on all questions which have a tag that contains "facebook" while hiding all others.
Is this even their prerogative? Presumably, Square Enix would have partnered directly with OnLive and made some contractual arrangement to include the promotion in their product packaging. I'm certainly not a lawyer, but I can't imagine this being within GameStop's rights.
great call, rhizome. everyone should read the full playbook, fantastic read.