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But with all the problems of rsync and cygwin on Windows, Robocopy is the more logical choice for such tasks. I'm not going to load up explorer.exe in WINE on Linux so I can move some files around with the mouse.
I think this comic comparing the org charts of various tech companies is relevant to your analysis. :)

http://www.bonkersworld.net/2011/06/27/organizational-charts...
Try Python 2.7 under Google AppEngine
which is possibly quite a few university macs in libraries and computer labs.
Glad you like it!

There are ways of handling spam via filtering out who we count's tweets. For example if somebody doesn't have a twitter profile pic, we can eliminate them.
"Daily views" is a bad metric to measure this sort of thing and to me implies they don't have impressive interaction figures so they're picking the biggest number they have. The only thing that "daily views" proves is that some large sites have chosen to use it, but this is supposed to be about user adoption.
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Upvoted.

This definition always caused me to roll my eyes when I heard it from profs, "Everything from R&D to operations falls under marketing" but it actually proves valuable; limiting your thinking about marketing to promotion and sales means you leave a lot of opportunities unexamined.
This is how bullying works.

If the victim is small and accessible, with their reputation on the line, you can put them in their place.

When DropBox broke, the community pounced.

Apple can't be bullied.

With DropBox I can just cancel my membership and sign-up somewhere else.

I'm not going to throw out my $1000+ Mac with $1000+ in software on it out the Window, right along with my livelihood of creating software for iOS. I'm not going to cancel my iPhone contract and pay hundreds in penalties too, and throw out all my apps and games and switch to Android. Not happening.

They've got us by the balls here, we just have to let them fix this and move on.
I've seen this story in 4 or 5 places today and I still can't seem to find the details of the issue. Anyone have any links or info?
If it's paid by my taxes they better remove that GPL license out of it.

Tax money = public domain
I think it's a good move that they are making +1's shareable. At first I thought I wouldn't want to be spammed by +1's, but if they aren't shared, then there isn't much point to them anyway, is there? And it might not be so bad. But are they going to make +1-ing a 2-click action, instead of one? I'm not sure what to think about that yet.
In terms of audience... At $120 CPMs, I think this might be NICE for consumers-- ad-driven sites/apps need fewer ads to make a profit, can afford higher quality content with higher revenues, etc.

Read about priming studies and call it "cute" again... I dare ya! :-)

Here's a summary of some of Bargh's priming experiments I grabbed from http://jurylaw.typepad.com/deliberations/2007/05/two_interes...:

In one experiment, Yale's John Bargh gave subjects seemingly random word puzzles, with no apparent point or thread. Some of the puzzles containing a subtle preponderence of "old" words: Florida, gray, wrinkle, lonely, bingo. Walking down the hallway to leave after the exercise, the subjects who had the "old" words walked more slowly.

The same paper describes an experiment in which, when they finished the word puzzles, subjects were asked to find "the experimenter" to get their next task. The experimenter was always involved in an interminable conversation with someone else. Subjects whose word puzzles had scattered words invoking rudeness -- bold, rude, bother, disturb, intrude -- had no trouble interrupting. But a huge majority of subjects whose puzzles were full of "polite" words -- respect, considerate, appreciate, patiently, courteous -- never interrupted the experimenter's conversation at all.

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With these studies in mind, I wonder about the impact of typing "diet coke skinny" in terms of brand recall AND in terms of behavior after the fact.
This reminds me of the "Free Day Pass" salon.com used to have before it scrapped the idea entirely:

"So we put up an ad over the front door of the site. Subscribers wouldn't see it at all; other readers had to watch a 30-second video ad, then they got a 'day pass.'

"The day pass approach was beloved by the advertisers and hated by many, though not all, readers. More important, by this point the public was, understandably, thoroughly confused about how to get to read Salon content. It took many years for our traffic to begin to grow again."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/03/memories-paywall...
Your comment displays the very asymmetric bias the article is about: we're not like them. Our children are raised properly.
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> Brainfuck. I'm not kidding. Brainfuck is to Turing machines as Lisp is to lambda calculus. Knowing how to program Turing machines with pen and paper is also useful.

... why? when was the last time that turing machines were useful to you?
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I would totally go for a minor if my school offered them, but they don't, instead making it slightly easier to double major (about a third of students do so).

I've yet to have an assignment that was too far beyond a proof of concept. Students who wish to pursue such projects are encourage to do so during the summer as extracurricular projects.
They let you use a calculator on the SAT now?

Indeed. It seems like more and more, math classes are teaching students how to use a graphing calculator to avoid solving problems.

I used a scientific calculator all through high school and college. I don't remember if I got to use it on the SAT.
This reads to me much less like "What every CS major should know" than "Wouldn't it be nice if all CS majors knew...." What I mean by that is I'm not sure it's possible to learn all of that stuff in 4 years at any school anywhere, but it's all useful in certain very broad contexts.

Of course, I may lack perspective, having been a math major (or due to some other deficiency in my background), but I consider myself pretty comfortable with about half the list and somewhat familiar with about half the remainder. How much of it did I learn as an undergrad, though? Not very damn much, and I don't think I would have even been exposed to it all even if I had done CS instead of math.
It's not bullying to tell people to fix security bugs.

It's not bullying to use your own resources to entice (or force) them to do so in a timely manner.

You're right that no one can threaten Apple and get action, but you're wrong in characterizing the threat as bullying.
Yes, if you have created something that people want to game youve probably done something right.
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This.
I'm usually pretty pedantic about this sort of thing, but don't submit very often, and wasn't aware of the 80 char limit. Forced to pare a more descriptive headline and get back to work, I made a mistake.

It looks as though it's been replaced with the actual headline now anyway, though I don't think that highlights the most interesting part of the article.
Quick question, are you taking those stock photos yourself? Or contracting out to photographers, buying the rights, and just running the istock account? Seems like some solid stock photos there.
The Wikipedia page on Brainfuck has some common Brainfuck idioms that will help you get a grasp of the language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Well, jrockway's deconstruction was pretty nice to read even if the original was boring.
That's because graphing calculators are, as best I understand it, really a tool for post-undergraduate level math.

Of course, anymore if you're doing anything that requires the full muscle of a graphing calculator, you're using Mathematica or MATLAB instead.
? The gap is in time--the time between now and when the next resupply mission will be authorized to fly. In the case of Progress, it is uncertain when that will be.
This is the first time I've seen the distinction made between waterfall and spiral methodologies, with agile seemingly considered a subset of the spiral model. Any other resources anyone knows about on this distinction?
This is the feature I've been waiting for to really increase my use of G+.

+1
Has anyone own or run a McDonald franchise? How's the experience? Does it require lots of work? Or just require passive monitoring? How's the cost vs payout?
Speaking as an ex-googler, the 20% time is much more about encouraging side-projects. Time management is completely up to the employee - there is no set day for 20% projects (which leads to the internal joke that it's really 120% time).

Some people choose to make time for their side projects, and some don't. The real benefit to 20% time is fostering the environment where employees are encouraged to help other areas of the company or to step outside of their day to day responsibilities.

This also promotes teamwork across teams, which is really important when you have so many different products that need to feel cohesive.
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For the sake of discussion, here's a counter argument to that. Windows is the most common desktop OS, as you note.

That means it is the one most likely to be officially supported everywhere you go. You get to your new job, you'll find a Windows box on your desk, set up by IT, configured the way they like it--and the way they want it to stay.

If you run OS X or Linux at home, and only use Windows on boxes provided and administered by someone else, why learn how to administer Windows boxes? None of us have time to become experts in every technology we encounter as users. Not knowing how to reconfigure an IP address on Windows seems no worse than not knowing how to change a spark plug on a rental car.
Often, the act of paying a few bucks online is sufficiently annoying (fill in billing address, think of a username and generate a password, fish out my credit card because I forgot the CVV2 code, wait for several page loads, etc.) that I would rather avoid it even if I don't mind parting with the money. On the other hand reading an ad and typing a few words sounds comparatively non-stressful, unless it is an overly long video ad.
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I like to believe this would be less than 1%.

But unfortunately medical errors kill a lot of people: http://www.bbraunusa.com/index-A3866CA8D0B759A1E395A615A2C00...
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It's worse. If you look closely, it's really one data point not two, since the value is not given for the lower french fry. By the way, that footnote is hilarious.
I'd like to say that I'm amazed that GameStop would steal from their customers, but they haven't been the bastions of honesty that I'd like to think they were.

So no, I'm not amazed.

If they were honest, they'd either send the boxes back to the manufacturer and ask for ones that didn't have the codes, or leave them intact. Stealing something out of the box, then wrapping it up like it's new and selling it... That's just dishonest.
Glassdoor.com has salary reports that, though anonymous and self-reported, are seemingly accurate:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Apple-Salaries-E1138.htm

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Microsoft-Salaries-E1651.htm
This happens after I explicitly log out of my user account, though.
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You're entitled to your preferences, but a community filled with people who always reject cost-benefit analysis will have more premature, preventable deaths than another community that does the macabre math.

I'd rather live longer, with more friends and family who live longer, in the cost-benefit community.
I think it's a pity that you focus on general purpose programming languages. In place of perl, I would put

11) A domain specific programming language.

Perl could be an example (text manipulation) but could also include R (statistics), Frink (units of measure), etc.
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The last time I've used Turing machines was when I was trying to build one in Minecraft using redstone and pistons.

But in general, Turing machines are a useful mental model when thinking about the fundamental nature of algorithms as well as when trying to reason if some non-trivial problem is computable or not.

And in general, knowing Turing machines and being able to write Brainfuck is exactly the kind of mental game that will help you think and approach problems in a new way.

And besides, writing Brainfuck is a helluva lot of fun!
I'm not sure I like the way that my personal and professional life are suddenly becoming intertwined ... I want a few online identities dammit, not one!
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Lies, damn lies and statistics. Weekends and teenagers probably raise that average a lot.

Besides, having free time doesn't mean you have it before meal hours, and even if you cook the day before, not every workplace has somewhere to heat the meal.

By the way, some time ago when I was working far from home, I ate everyday at a MacDonalds - they had a cheap but excellent vegetable soup made right there in the restaurant. That counts as 'fast food', but it's far from the junk they usually sell.
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I don't see the stack overflow model as being a great fit for what facebook api developers need. The main problem I saw with facebook api was that the right way to do things kept changing, and the docs and forum didn't keep up well. You basically needed to begin facebook API work by reading the entire blog in chronological order and then keep on scanning the dev blog daily, which may work ok if you're a fulltime facebook API developer but it is not a good fit for contract or part-time or hobby development.

I think changing APIs is begging for a wiki much more than a Q&A site. Facebook used to have a wiki for their api, but they went and deleted it, which I considered basically unforgiveable and proceeded to do my best to avoid having to touch the API after that.

In short, bringing back http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/ and focusing on keeping it current would be a much better start than a Q&A site, even a really good Q&A site. You'd still have the need-to-keep-with-changes problem, but at least you'd have somewhere to start from, and wouldn't keep getting referred to out of date information when googling answers.

Yes I know Stack Overflow has community editable wiki question styles, but then you just compound the problem and now need to update 100 different 'how do I [x]' questions every time the API changes.
Ideally, wouldn't math classes teach students how to solve the parts of problems that computers aren't as good at? I mean, I'm happy that I can use memorized multiplication tables to make my quick estimates of various quantities accurate to two orders of magnitude instead of one, but that's about all they're good for. Anything more, and I pull out my phone or head over to wolframalpha. And I'd much rather have spent those years of brute-force arithmetic practice advancing to higher, more interesting math.
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Even so, I cant find an ARM11 chip for less than 10$ on octopart, and in the 700MHz range its more like 20-30$ just for 1 chip. For qty purchases that can come down to 7.50, but thats being REALLY generous. I have trouble believing they can buy a 700MHz (unspecified on their materials and I couldnt get it off their snapshot either) for less than 15$. The headers and other plastic is at LEAST 4$, USB connectors alone are almost 1$ in qty 5000.

Add in the passives and other junk, and leave out the ethernet module and we are talking about a bill of materials of close to $20.

Now add 1.75 for the PCB (qty 5000), 2.50$ for assembly, another $2.00 for testing, packaging and assorted costs (like shipping raw materials and finished goods to and from china, since US assembly and PCB costs are at least 3 times what I noted) and the bare per-unit cost is $25.

Dont forget to factor in costs like - uhh - keeping the lights on in their officepartment - and even if their dev time is free they just cant sell that product for $25 without outside cash subsidizing the whole thing.

In this business, distributors pretty much demand the product at 25-40% discount, so if they want to be in shops and catalogs, you have to factor that in as well.

Consider the raw cost per arduino is probably around 10.50$, they sell 100,000 units a year, and their onboard processor is about 1$ and they have less overall plastic, passives, and other overhead parts than this thing.
That's got it. Good eye!
Ah somehow I missed you had people in Portland on the first read. It makes much more sense especially if some of the founders are located there.
Arguably, Prolog would fall into the category of domain specific languages.
You could do with a demo/example I think. It's tough to even bother to signup without knowing what I'm going to be getting.
I'm not clear on if there's any direct effect on the rest of the EU from this ruling, however the Netherlands happens to be Samsung's primary hub in the EU. So even if the ban has no legal weight in other countries, Samsung would need to re-route their supply chain through another country to continue bringing their phones into the rest of the EU.
This brings up an interesting question: assuming that these things can't be taught in four years and that they matter, should we expect that a degree in CS should require more time?
Or if they were honest, they could at least get a statement from Square Enix accepting blame for mis-packaging.
And, at the lower end, HP also has a presence.

The HP 32SII (discontinued, now $139 on ebay; originally sold for less than half that price) and the HP 35S (redesigned version of the 33 which was the ugly successor to the 32SII) are non-graphing RPN machines that are very good for quick calculations. (My first and favorite HP, the 41, is much older than these, but it's too expensive to have one laying around everywhere I might need one.)

Even if I'm in front of a computer, typing in to a console window, it's faster to turn on the calculator than to enter bc, python, or matlab and type in the calculation. And with RPN you get to see the intermediate results so you know you're not forgetting something.
It's not the doing that matters, it's that abilities that get sharpened.

No, I'm not going to be specific, because it's different for every person, but learning things like this help, even if you never actually use them as they are.

Doing calculus has helped me because it improved and shaped the way I think about how things evolve through time and space. Learning topology has helped me because I can picture inter-relationships as weird spaces, not just as lists of rules. Learning to juggle has improved my spatial awareness, and my abilities to gestalt patterns.

I don't differentiate or integrate on a daily basis. I don't prove theorems about metric, Hausdorff or Baire spaces, and I don't stand up on stage to perform as a juggler for audiences. Nevertheless, the learning has had beneficial effects elsewhere.

Sometimes it's not the skill itself that matters, it's the learning of the skill. To think otherwise is to tread an overly narrow path that leads to looking at everything new and saying "When am I ever going to use this?"
Portland is a great town.... but seriously gastro-pubs are silly, get some real restaurants people.
"When the average corporate user spends most of his time in front of a computer, forced to use boring applications day-in and day-out, how do you think he feels about the people that build those applications?"

The thing is that those apps don't have to be boring. Most apps are low-quality, in code and design, as a result of a management philosophy that considers developers as low-value. Apple is a good counter-example. They put a high value in quality of code and design, and as a result even their settings dialogs are a pleasure to use. I've never come across a category of software that couldn't be made pleasant to use with some inspired design and coding.
My anecdote:

I have a H.BSc. in Biomedical Sciences and my only university course was Intro to Programming.

I've worked as a programmer at start-up in Waterloo, won a series of international programming competitions that had a decent number of CS competitors and done a fair bit of contract programming for some decent sized organizations.
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Are you sure you're thinking of Portland? Portland is consistently named one of (if not THE) America's cleanest cities. http://www.google.com/search?q=americas+cleanest+city

What are you comparing it against?
Woohoo! More fragmentation! If this is true the nightmare of testing on and supporting multiple devices is going to get even worse. Not only supporting 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X android, but in two different form factors (tablet vs. phone) and two different operating systems (android and blackberry).

This could backfire on RIM if developers decide they have enough to worry about without buying a handful of blackberries.
This is not true. There is a history of technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley going back (at least) 60 years. There are a great many pieces of human infrastructure that exist in SF that do not exist in Portland from the largest collection of technology VCs & Angels in the world, to lawyers that understand corporate structure and stock options, to bankers that understand IPOs, and of course thousands and thousands of engineers.

A 20 year difference if a vast understatement.
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Well, the heart still has to be in more-or-less the right "shape", right? If the valves are messed up, blood won't circulate through the lungs and back to the organs properly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heart_diagram_blood_flow_e...
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There are demos on the pricing page... although I should probably put them on the home page also now that you mention it.
See also the blog.stackoverflow.com side of the partnership here:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/facebook-stackoverflow...

Basically, it's a siloed version of stackoverflow.com containing only the tags relevant to Facebook. They're thinking about creating mini-sites for other major subdomains (see also http://meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/913/is-this-...).
Three of the five, by my debatable assessment, use technology to have a direct impact on human lives. Really impressed to see YC going after "stuff that matters".
Aw shucks, guys ... you make me blush with your compliments.

Tell you what, Ill make a deal: I'll keep writing if you keep reading. K?
True. While I'm not experienced with Prolog my impression is that it's often embedded in other languages, which I see as a very positive thing.

Beyond simply knowing a large amount of languages I think it's important for a programmer to be proficient at getting different languages/environments to operate together, as this opens up the ability to use domain specific languages. So, kudos, Prolog is probably a perfect example of this.
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