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I often find that I want to comment on stories like this to express my enthusiasm for an interesting topic, but yeah I know that by doing so there is the risk that I'll expose myself as being pretty naive & unsophisticated in an advanced subject.

And I'd be doing this in front of a large audience of very intelligent yet potentially ruthless peers ;)
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Yes you can definitely establish whatever image you'd like to project, with practice.

It's all about perception and stereotypes. From the clothes you wear, the tone you speak, the way you shake hands, and the amount of smile you give, etc etc.

I'm by no means good at this, but here are a few things I'm learning to become a good projector with some success:

to look confident, remember confidence ~= competence
- strong hand-shake, with a warm and dry hand. I have slow blood flow, so sometimes I get a hot coffee to warm them up before meeting someone.
- open arms, do not cross fingers
- show disagreement with good reasons occasionally, but do not argue.
- throw a witty joke/comment here and there
- do not smile all the time (this is because I was raised to smile a lot, which seems to be the case for many Asians)
- pay attention when listening, but do not fear asking questions or admit I do not understand particular thing
- pay attention when speaking, adjust speed/explanation based on reaction

to look funny in casual environments, just one particular type of funny out of the many
- a joke/exaggeration must be thrown into the mix within first 5 minutes, to establish the expectation of being funny
- step out of social boundaries as soon as I can, like a funny comment on racism/sexism/stereotype
- never laugh at my own jokes, and try to keep a straight face
- not be afraid of offending others, actually make fun of them whenever possible, and try to never get offended myself
- do not apologize
I suspect DC Comics and/or Warner Bros may be getting in touch soon.
Exponential function is not defined by the axioms of real numbers, as opposed to addition and multiplication, so this point is irrelevant -- you can define it in any way you want. There's no inconvenience in defining 0^0 = 1, apart from misunderstanding the concept of limits by some people. Defining 0^0 = 1 is universal convention -- people either do it like this, or do not define 0^0 at all, which I'm fighting against.

The whole point of distinguishing some forms as "indeterminate" is to work around the fact that you're trying to conduct operations on the real numbers that are not defined

I am not. Are you? Let me reiterate: the whole concept of "indeterminate forms" (which, I repeat, is not formal at all) stems from misunderstanding the process of taking limits.
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The only really good way to walk confidently is to feel confidence. In order to feel confident you have to be less self-conscious. The best way to do this is to focus your attention outside of yourself on your surroundings, other people, etc.

Where you look or focus conveys immense confidence. You can practice looking at people directly in the eyes as you walk up to them.

Confidence is relaxed and not self-conscious or tight. So if you must focus on yourself, I'd begin by focusing on breathing deeply and easily while walking. Try walking and moving your arms slower. Confident people seem to never hurry.

Confident walking is really tough thing to isolate outside of confidence in general.
Thank you for your input, and I think I'm going to build a school for tech-based entrepreneurs, possibly walking the students from concept to launch, and teaching programming, system administration, and more as needed.

I need to get some sleep or I'll lose myself in this idea. :)
Steve has instilled a culture of innovation and creativity at Apple.

The board and the senior management team are all top-notch innovators and leaders that Steve hand-picked.
Why did't they do this on Friday evening? That would have given enough time for people to fully understand what this means. Instead, there is going to be a big sell off tomorrow morning. I understand there would be a sell off tomorrow, but maybe not as big. The stock has dropped nearly 20 points in after hours.

http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/after-hours.aspx
The key to Apple and Tim Cook doing well is not asking "What would Steve do?", IMO. Trying to 'be' Steve or emulate him is not going to help. If the company and Tim Cook can continue to build a new unique character, which maintaining the foundation built by Steve, they will be fine.
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A plausible explanation is because Steve created an enduring culture at Apple, one which strongly set Apple apart. Not only does this permeate from the upper management down to the rank and file, but Apple also has the benefit of seeing how well it did without that culture.
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I spent several years of my life at GameStop, and I miss it.

I was hired long before the EB/GameStop merger and watched as the company adopted EB's culture. GameStop was a bottom-up company, and EB was a top-down company. Much more authoritarian in its management, and saw the customer more like a piece of meat.

In the years just after the merger, I watched morale fall as the "scratch protection" plans became a priority, trade prices plummeted, and we stopped stocking PC games in several stores. They replaced GameStop's functional, DOS-based POS and adopted EB's slow, windows version. The transition was terrible, and the company seemed deaf to the complaints that holiday lines were getting longer and longer as they added features to an already slow and bloated system.

I quit and returned to school a couple years after the merger, it was the right decision, of course.

I loved my time at GameStop. I built a community around the store I managed and did everything I could to do right by the customer. I knew several managers (on both sides) who were as dedicated as I was to this goal. The culture at corporate was focused on marketing and was in no way supportive of this goal, and I'm saddened to see what they've become. But it was probably inevitable.

The comments here are pretty disdainful, and I definitely understand why. But there are a lot of good people working in the trenches that deserve thanks for what they've done for their customers.
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You're right, apart from the fact that real exponentiation does not really belong to group theory -- or even abstract algebra, for that matter.
And? ...

I guess he didn't get the job. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Early_journa...

I would have at least interviewed him.
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Could you model your PR business to take equity in exchange for your services? Most lean startups wouldn't be able to pay you much cash, but I think a lot of them would be willing to give you equity. In fact, I think taking equity rather than cash would offset the "the results are difficult to measure" issue you mentioned; if I give you $5,000 to do some PR for my startup, then (to my mind) you have the money regardless, and you could be spending 60 hours a week for two months traveling the world and evangelizing about my startup to all the right people, or you could just ask a friend to post it to his blog and call it good.

If you have equity, however, then your profit is tied directly to the success of my startup, so I could rest assured that you would have a (literal) vested interest in making my company successful.
Consider this related case: if you evaluate a limit and you get 0/0

What do you mean by "getting 0/0" in the process of evaluating limits?

The issue is not the continuity of x/x; the issue is whether setting a convention for 0/0 would give you the right value for a limit.

Please, tell me - what is the relation between lim f(a_n) and f(lim a_n) ?
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Right, but I suspect that your parents do not watch multi-hour movies holding the tablet in their hands. You can do that with notebook or even hybrid notebook/tablet as the device screen stands up vertically by itself, so you do not have to hold it.
> "people either do it like this, or do not define 0^0 at all, which I'm fighting against."

I think it's silly to fight against it. There are circumstances in which leaving it undefined is good, and in which trying to define it as 1 would lead to either misunderstandings (in the case of beginners doing limits, a case you are too quick to dismiss) or actually incorrect (an equivalent problem in the hyperreals could violate the transfer principle).

It's a broad convention, but it is not universal, and it shouldn't be.
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I think the biggest thing is that everyone in Apple has a question they can ask themselves, "What would Steve Jobs do?". And if they can honestly answer the question and take decisions based on that, Apple with its lead and its teams and its products will stay ahead for a while to come.
Only superficially related, but there are typos in this parent post and its parent, which makes the grandparent's point by example.

In case adjustments are made:

grandparent: "mistake, me[a]nt to be"

parent: "into tha[t] one line"
>It's posted on HN - the context makes it pretty obvious.

I've read (and commented on) all kinds of front-page articles of interest to non-software hackers & engineers, including articles on the economy, construction projects, healthcare, education, transportation, and other issues:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918950
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2881546
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2871117
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498109
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477475
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2276033
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240603
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176868
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2108564
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086873
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029281
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973985
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486745
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1434017
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1423352
etc.

I'm not aware that this is a forum that caters to software-only topics. Please enlighten me if I am mistaken. I'm certainly not a software guy and yet HN is one of my go-to sites because I am a hacker.
I think the biggest thing is that everyone in Apple has a question they can ask themselves, "What would Steve Jobs do?". And if they can honestly answer the question and take decisions based on that, Apple with its lead and its teams and its products will stay ahead for a while to come.
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The culture will change... it'll be slow and people won't notice it while it's happening. Then one day, you look back and go "man this is different."

It can change for the better... or it can change for the worse. There is no question that it will change.

I've always found it fascinating at how large companies, armies, or anything else really have a way of taking on the personality of their leadership. It's why CEO's make so much money. I hope that this will be a change for the better.
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Any principle of 'good program structure' that applies across "computational fluid dynamics simulation, nearest neighbor classifier, relational database, enterprise inventory control, or a simple blog engine" is so vague as to be meaningless - or at least, not very interesting.

Methodology weenies are always claiming that they've got abstractions that are absolutely key across very diverse problem areas, usually without any demonstration that said abstractions are useful for solving hard problems in any areas at all.

Compared to this kind of waffly crapulousness, we should compare the classic papers on the design of, say, RISC, TCP/IP, etc. Grinding through how Tomasulo's algorithm worked on the IBM/360, for example, will greatly expand your understanding of actual computer architecture; the only weakness is that it will not especially expand your ability to Issue Pronouncements About What Good Programs Look Like.
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Maybe the guy you're replying to edited his post, but "If it's a JavaScript framework, please give code examples in JavaScript"--to me--reads as a rather polite request, rather than a dictum as you suggested.
Interesting (to me, anyway) that the pundit I referred to in the above linked topic (Bob Cringely) still doesn't think Cook is the replacement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2923808
Yeah, I was just talking about the easier concept of x^0. Going the other way, 0^x it makes a lot less sense to me. I know that for all positive x, 0^x = 0. That it pops up to 1 at the origin means the thing is not smooth so drawing lines isn't going to help us.

Plotting z = y^x could be interesting but we're going to see asymptotic behaviour at x = y = 0 (when going in the x direction). So no easy wins there.
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It's vague cause that's the way he wants it.
Instead of being frank and saying "I'm sorry, but that's none of your business.", I just say "A good amount." and no one has the balls to pursue further. :P
I'd be surprised if it was common... if you think about it, startups are basically "20% projects" that everyone in the company is spending 100% of their time on. :-)
When I saw Codecademy I was quite impressed and I truly enjoyed it, even though it was extremely basic for me. It was actually really fun, remembering what it was like when I first started learning I WISH there was a site like this. I am so happy that this site was released and that I was turned on to it.

My question is when will we start to see more lessons/courses? Will they stay at a beginner level or get more advanced? Will there be some sort of discussion/forum section to the site? And lastly, do you feel there will ever be an article/paper section to the site (Such as a section where submitted papers, tutorials, articles, etc are posted when approved by the main staff at Codecademy)?

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Which is 5%, not a huge amount especially compared to the recent market volatility. This is sort of a test of the efficient market hypothesis: everyone with any knowledge of the situation would have been expecting Jobs to step down sometime in the next few years, so it should be mostly priced into the stock already.
You seem to have a misunderstanding about what an undergrad CS degree is about. It's not vocational training. If you want that, you can probably find something better at a community college.

If you want to "build things that people actually use," do it. No one's stopping you, and there's not a college major for that - you just do it. Most bright CS majors learn programming on their own time. Completing a CS degree will give you skills and knowledge that will help with your goal but building web apps is not the focus and it's not supposed to be.
Gruber always makes a more compelling argument than the masses constantly slinging "fanboy" around innumerable internet forums. So you disagree with him, fine, why don't you post your own analysis instead of the incessant name calling.
> So Apple doing bad things makes you mad at Apple. But the fact that other companies also play the same game, some less successfully and most importantly, with less press, doesn't impact your opinion of those companies?

Since when has "everyone else is doing it" been a good justification? I'm tired of this kind of lowest-common-denominator-thinking in business. I'm tired of this implicit assumption that the only rational purpose for companies is to maximize profit and minimize their competition.

Maybe that's unfair, ridiculous, or childish. I don't really know.

> You should direct your anger at the source of the issue, software patents.

I do. I've also sunk software patents. While working at Microsoft I worked hard to find prior art for every patent proposed from any work I touched.

> Getting angry at companies doing what they need to in the current environment isn't very productive.

What's unproductive is maintaining the status quo. Apple is using patents to tactically bludgeon their strongest competition, and raising the cost of innovation in the process. This translates into less innovation, less competition, and higher prices for consumers in the mobile space.
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This seems backwards - you didn't like business because it "taught you how to build things" (i.e. balance sheets) and liked econ for the theory...then you didn't like CS for the theory and switched to ECE to learn to build things.
>Their framework is intended solely for coffeescript devs

Would makes sense to say this on the front page of the project. Most Coffeescript projects do.
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Quite a few netbooks on the larger end of the scale can run games. I'm on an HP/Compaq Mini 311c, Atom 260, ION, and 3GB RAM (I upgraded it). I made a post on Reddit explaining what I did[1] - bear in mind this is definitely a compromise, while it boosted one person's framerate from 20 FPS to 60 it bears more than a passing resemblance to Minecraft and 1997. TF2 is on the absolute edge of what I can play on here, but many games run perfectly fine with very few issues. However it's taken me 5 minutes to post this reply because every 20 seconds, textarea inputs on Firefox freeze and ignore anything I type for 10 seconds. Odd!

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[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/e43fm/how_to_play_tf2_o...
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Let's not go crazy now. Silicon Valley is what it is because of all the people you haven't heard about, that were willing to try something crazy in order to do something great.

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And tried again anyway.
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I worked for a company that over customized it, but I was not a huge fan of it. I don't think that the support or the quality of software justified the price tag.
Maybe, but a lot of this is just a matter of picking the biggest new trend in consumer electronics and entering that market

I think Microsoft is a splendid example of how this strategy can fail. Zune? Mobile Phones? Tablets?
I'm surprised there is no mention of Jonathan Ive needing to step up. I think he's got a lot of Steve's aesthetic senses, and also has some of the same unquestioned authority/credibility that Steve does.
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Horrible. What does he do? Why should I not toss this card in recycle? Biz card needs to convey why I'd want to contact you, not just how.