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Yeah, I'm fine with all that and I appreciate your input. But I'm looking to at least keep up with trends, best practices, what sorts of things I should at least have a passing knowledge of.

For some concrete info, I'm a java developer in an "enterprisey" shop, and I do a lot of unit testing. Two things I was grilled on and didn't really have first-hand knowledge of were patterns in the EAI Patterns book, or anyting out of the xUnit patterns book. Now it could be argued that this interviewer was a patterns freak, but regardless, I should have at least known what the formalisms were called, etc. So, I've ordered those 2 books to get some handle on those. And, having looked at the books, I realized I DID know a lot of what he was talking about, I just didn't know the names or that they'd even been given names, as such.

So I've come to realize that I don't really have (for example) 10 years of experience with Java; I have 3-4 years experience repeated 2-3 times. And I want to alleviate that.

So given that, where can I be exposed to "new stuff", either from reading or conferences or something else? I'm clearly not getting it at my job, so am looking to not have my personal line drawn in the sand be "2004", if that makes sense.
See also: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/01/mac-os-x-lion-features-hidden...
I mentioned this in a comment above too but I feel like it can be used to design UI (like dragging and dropping components with gestures). Are there any apps that take a crack at this?
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I once submitted a friend's blog entry to slashdot. It was picked for the front page. I can't remember exactly how it works, but you get an email or a notice on the site saying your story will appear shortly.

I was in my friend's living room at the time, sitting near the laptop on the end of an ADSL connection that served his blog.

"Ummmm.... I think i've done a baaaaad thing."

That lil' ol' laptop was absolutely hammered for the next day, even after moving the images, etc., on to 'proper' servers and making the site static.
:-). Amazing.
Honestly, I don't think Cringely has said a single astute or accurate thing about Apple in a long while. His track record is terrible--just a stream of semi-coherent link-bait. Someone should put a garbage disposal over Cringely's mouth; at least that way his garbage would be easier to digest.
created Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:32:30 UTC

Wow, that's nice and clean for a morning project (and thanks!)
I think a lot of people have a similar history with slashdot. I still ocationally go back but reading his fairwell and by his partner Hemos (2)'s reply reminded me of the best parts of Slashdot.

PS: Ok, I admit it. I found the "you must be new here." reply really funny.
1 and 2 I did; I emailed all the major video game blogs and news sites with a sort of "friendly press release" in which I pointed out the features of my service that would make great attention-grabbing headlines and really appeal to video game players. Only one, relatively small, game news site actually posted about it, and they only did because a friend of mine is an editor there and he specifically told them to.

3: There's a Facebook "like" button and a Google "+1" button on every game's page, and there's a general "+1" button for the entire site.

4 I should look into. A few of my most well-connected users have evangelized about the service quite a bit without any incentives (although they probably understand that the more users and ratings are in the service the better the recommendations will be). So I don't know how much more effective incentivizing evangelism will be; it might be what finally cracks the big game forums as users post their referral links there, but most of those forums forbid referral links in the same breath that they forbid talking about your own service. So, it might get some people banned from their favorite forums, but it would get me a few more users in the process. :\
"students can now solve problems that were previously too time-consuming to attempt, and can focus on underlying concepts."

The question should be whether the more time-consuming problems are helping to understand the underlying concepts.

In my experience this is not always the case. My high school maths teacher made us do extensive graph plotting by hand and it was slow and tedious.

At university, my physics course used software to visualise vector fields. We could tweak the inputs and see WHAT it did immediately. We could examine much more complicated scenarios and it seemed we were gaining an intuitive feel for the subject, but we didn't really learn HOW the inputs lead to the outputs so we couldn't apply the knowledge to other scenarios (even simpler ones) without the software.

2 decades on, and I wouldn't know where to start if I had to tackle even a trivial vector field but I can still picture reasonably complex graphs in my head just from looking at a formula which I find surprisingly useful in everyday life.

Perhaps mine was just not a very good course (in an otherwise excellent program) but care should be taken to ensure the technology really does aid the understanding of the underlying concepts and not distract from them.
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Writing Headlines that Work
Multi-valued headers and multiple headers are interchangeable as long long as the order of values is maintained. Haproxy therefor parses the two into the same internal representation, and the rule works for either.
The original paper is available via the open access journal PLoS: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo...

Also worth reading is Robert May's commentary "Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss?" http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo...
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I'd rather learn that in the headline, thus knowing whether it's worth my while to read the whole story.
I think someone could understand object oriented concepts and event drivent programming concepts quite well, either form reading about them or being familiar with them in one language. That persone could them start trying to program in Java/Eclipse or C#/VS, and, with the aid of the IDE, effectively implement the program idea they have in their mind. Being able to program without an IDE is usually a function of being very familiar with the language's syntax, but syntax and programming concepts are different things.
Yeah, just like asking "What would Jesus do?" works for a lot of other people, right?
I feel envious for the guy who lives as if it's 1975 and never touches a computer. Must be nice.
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Yeah, reading this I thought he was talking about "build your user base first, and your brand second", so it wasn't entirely clear from the title of the article.
My mother runs a dental practice and I was just looking into Wufoo for her new patient registration, medical history, and consent forms. After some searching around a bit, I came across several examples of what I'm after but I'm not so sure of the legality.

https://hdp.wufoo.com/forms/p7x3x5/

https://dentists4kids.wufoo.com/forms/s7p7r3/

http://drbobporter.wufoo.com/forms/hipaa-and-consultation-pa...

https://dentalbliss.wufoo.com/forms/p7x3a1/

Because I'm just now getting plugged into the healthcare sector, what is allowed and what isn't in regards to data on 3rd party websites? How do digital signature work? Is there a central place I could go to learn?

Because my mother's practice has always been pen and paper for the past 25 years, they haven't even started looking into digital options. Now that we are, I need make sure that everything is legal since the practice means everything to her.

Thanks for any insight and guidance! This post is exactly what I was looking for.
>I am not sure what are the advantages of having file synced between basecamp and dropbox

It's one of the most frequently requested items on the Basecamp forums. People tend to get a little upset that it hasn't been done already.

http://answers.37signals.com/basecamp/873-dropbox-integratio...
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"Chat roulette for language learning" should be their five-word pitch.

Great idea. I've been learning French, Italian, and Spanish via lingq.com and what it's missing most is the ability to practise live with native speakers without having to schedule a call with a tutor.

It could prove a great way to practise a language, assuming they can work out a way to police it. What's to stop it filling with the type of crowd that frequents chat roulette, for example?
I remember "luggable" as the adjective of choice for such machines through the late 80's and early 90's. The PC Magazine columnists (Dvorak and Seymour and others) were fond of it.
I don't know. They might have just been hamming it up for the benefit of the story. Those guys all have a seemingly weird attitude towards death, often appearing somewhat blasé about it. They can't take things too personally when someone dies while they're working on them.

Me? I build websites. If something blows up it can always be fixed. New hardware can be bought. Back ups restored. Apart from some downtime, everything is as good as new.

Them? Turn up on a job not necessarily knowing what to expect. Some times they'll find a situation they can literally do nothing about and, oooops, someone's dead.

Someone dying in front of me is an incredibly bad day at the office i'll never forget. Watching people die as an emergency responder is kinda part of the job description.
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Also proprietary screw heads.
A web-based, text-only usenet reader modeled after Google groups (tree threading, favoriting of threads, robust search), but more reliable and with the ability to ignore trolls and spammers. An additional, streamlined, "mobile" option would be a big plus. :)
Exactly.

"TANSTAAFL" :)

Now, I'm not against free lunches. In a large enough group, I think it's a nice thing to offer - you get a variety of stuff you might not otherwise cook for yourself, communal eating is fun sometimes (not all the time), etc. But... as a stated 'benefit' that you know is being offered in lieu of extra cash... not sure that sways me.
That's a rather nostalgic way of looking at life. :-). You are right it is nice in some aspects. However there are disadvantages. The biggest one is that you feel out of place and lonely. The rules of social engagement change. For example, my father is not allowed to smoke in restaurant anymore which he thinks is an abomination.
Beautiful? Maybe. Functional? I'd rather service a Thinkpad.
This is much exactly what Blackberry has done with the Playbook, yet I'd prefer to have a native development kit available, ASAP.
I'm well aware but it seems we're more willing to find a way into space than into the ocean depths. If we found it more important, we would've developed a better way to explore the deep blue.

I think we've come to understand that whatever we perceive to be greater than us from what exists beyond the clouds.
Just like OS X. (I assume that’s the reason why iOS supports them.) Couldn’t survive without those.
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But another peculiarity of the ITC is that its rulings can be waived by the president. Verizon thinks it would be great if President Obama, in a blanket statement, made clear he would not let stand any decision blocking importation of consumer wireless devices.

Is there any precedent for a President doing this?

It doesn't seem wise either from a political or from a good-governance point of view for the President to wade in and overrule decisions made by other bodies.
I would need paper for all but the first, and could not solve the 4th without a calculator. Not sure what the norm is, here's my data point.
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I stopped using The Games Factory at the end of the 90s. My introduction to the sequel product (Multimedia Fusion) actually came from playing a game using the web plugin they developed for TGF. Nowadays, as sibling comment pointed out, there's a Flash plugin, so if you ever want to let your younger self out, you can do it right away!

Of course, there were always people with websites where you could download games (hope you had a 56k modem!). And I know I certainly sent a few floppy discs around. So even back then, you weren't limited.

Disclosure: also a Clickteam programmer.
And he'll resign again in a few hours.
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I'm not sure the people calling for "ditch Enyo" have any idea just how much fun it can be to use or how easy it is to build apps that easily change the appearance based on the size of the device it's on. Think fragments in Android, but with HTML/JS. It's quite neat.
> Slashdot still has the best comment moderation system

I disagree. It has a fundamental problem of earlier posts having far more chances to go +5 than those posted later. Something that is handled far better on HN that starts newer posts at the top of the comment page and lets them sink down.
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Not if you have an Google apps account it doesn't!
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Ask HN: How do I sell an entire tech stack?
What possibilities are there out there for liquidating technology/applications instead of websites? We have developed a multi platform mobile technology for game development but would like to focus more on pure app development with the company in the future. It's actually very interesting for existing (social) game developers or for an entrepreneur that wants to have some building block to start from.

I'm actually not looking for a super high amount, more like 30-75k. Considering the year we spent working on this, I am merely trying to recuperate some of the costs.

What possibilities are there? I know that for websites there are sites such as Flippa -- is there anything similar for pure software/IP?
Reminds me of the classic story of Richard Feynman vs the Abacus: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html

I never really memorized basic math tables in school and it annoyed me at a low level for years. So a few weeks ago I added addition (0+0 ~ 50+50) and multiplication (0x0 ~ 12x12) tables to my flashcard app to try and remedy that lacking. It's been depressingly and frustratingly difficult so far.
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I was just wondering what will happen if tomorrow everyone owning Dollars dumps them back in America?
woohoo! Linux! A couple of years back,when I was still in School, I was so darn scared to even touch linux. The reason being, I used to write "Hello World" type of programs and I'd be so so restless if I was asked to work on anything other than windows Turbo C++ . I now know how much power - raw computing gives.. Linux, Happy Birthday, its all cuz of you :)
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Neither Groupon nor Google would come close to Amazon offers because both of these requires you to explicitly sign up, where as you are already getting local deals in your inbox if you have signed up for Amazon or one of their credit cards.
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This is very cool. Especially for ASL.
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Oh yeah? Check this out
http://gamma-level.com/iphoneos/ports/emacs

Jailbroken only, sadly. But one can dream of the day dev stuff is allowed into the walled garden :)
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You don't understand that the Kindle is geared towards something very specific. Apple is building an entire OS. You can three-finger tap to get the dictionary, after highlighting, in iOS 5.

Sidenote: Apple views these gestures as the equivalent to keyboard shortcuts. For the end user you want to create the obvious so they won't be confused.
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Great idea, kinda sad it has no Portuguese.
I tried to submit this post earlier, but the title got changed (which defeats the whole point of the article, haha), and also I was only able to see it when I was logged in. Not when I was logged out. Also, wasn't able to comment.

Is this a normal moderation process, fluke, or bug?

If you have any insight or if this has happened to you, I'd love to hear it.
If I buy a billionth of your company for a dollar you now have a company with a billion dollar valuation. The problem with these stories and funding stories in general are that they focus on pre-money/earning valuations and not actual _worth_.
I think there's something there, but what you're getting at might be scope?

The less the details matter, the easier it is to scale and abstract the business by hiring sub-managers and not worrying about implementation details.
That would not be honest at all. Putting in a redeemable game voucher for On-Live was not "accidentally packed" into each game. Square-Enix came to an agreement with On-Live to include On-Live digital copies.

I'm amazed at how Gamestop doesn't even try to lie or spin their way out. They state, "Square Enix packed a competitor’s coupon within the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution without our prior knowledge and we did pull these coupons."
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Can you share some finished examples?
"Having children really changes your view on these things."

Did he? In true Apple form, we (at least I) know absolutely nothing about his private life. Only hint of offspring is on his new house blueprint marked "playroom".
Heard about this a while back. Still waiting for them to support other languages.
What are you talking about? He made some of the best gadgets ever. Absolutely. But I think you've spent too much time watching Apple marketing material.
I'm interested too if there is such site as Flippa to sell software. If not. We have to create one! :D
The day it dawned on me that the way you pronounced k5 was "corrosion" my mind was blown.
Agreed, HD space on personal computer isn't the limiting factor.

Slow broadband speed and download caps would limit your ability to download games over and over.
No, initially they would not comment on it, despite the fact that people knew it was going on. It wasn't until they realized the internet had ahold of it like a rabid dog that they decided to talk. At that point, they had no choice but to tell the truth.

Don't give them points for following the only course they had open to them.
> I'll probably convert it over and release the link on hacker news when ready.

Awesome, looking forward.
That's a fairly accurate representation of the two.
It is not that much of a problem, since 95% of the people probably use one of the top-5 distributions. If we go by Distrowatch's popularity, those are Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE. Two those are derived directly or indirectly from Debian (Ubuntu and Mint). So, three of the five are virtually the same, except that Ubuntu and Mint are more focused on user-friendliness.

The more serious problem is the immense amount of resources that are wasted on developing multiple desktops, photo editors, photo managers, music players, chat clients, etc.

Some people will say that competition is good, but if you have that tiny market share, I think it would be better to focus on the overall experience.
Exactly. Apple didn't add them so much as they came along for the ride.
Not that I have much experience doing this, I would think selling the entirety of a product including IP is quite a tricky process for which there is no real template in terms of how you should go about it. I know it definitely happens in the sphere of enterprise software where it is usually smaller companies selling some software which large firms have found happens to suit their needs at a particular time. But I think establishing those kinds of interested contacts would take time and a careful awareness of opportunities.

It might be worth considering other possibilities in terms of generating revenue, perhaps by licencing the platform.

It is frustrating when you have a good piece of technology / application and you know it would be useful somewhere, but struggling to make that sale. If the economy was in better shape, larger companies would probably be much more willing to invest in full software / IP acquisition.

One other route is that of making some aspect open source but sell consultancy and support.

I would definitely be interested in any success stories of the kind you are hoping to achieve.
Well, it was less than a week before the MacWorld keynote, where the logo would be shown on a giant screen in front of a huge audience.
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I understand your concern. But this is not how stories work in general. There is always the risk of wasting time when you read a little story, watch a movie etc...I apologize if the story wasn't worth your while. I tried my best to put it as elegantly as I can.
I've always thought the best explanation was

7^2=7 * 7=49

7^2/7^2=7 * 7/ 7 * 7=49/49=7^(2-2)=7^0=1

But 0^0 was never intuitive to me.
Nice use of Twitter's Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

I've used it for a recent one-off project and it's great and meant for that kind of things: good looking pages even if they were thrown together quickly.
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> the sine of a broken education system.

:D
I'm sure this will vary by individual, but for me:

70+21

(40 * 25) * 3 + 43 + 3 * 75 + 3

(123 * 40) + 123 * 2

paper and/or calculator for the last

sin(PI/3) is an interesting case. I don't deal with trigonometry very often. If the problem is in the context of a project where I will be using trigonometry frequently, I'll go refresh my memory about the easier-to-retain points in addition to what already I remember: sin(N * PI) = 0, sin((2N-1/2) = -1 and sin((2N+1/2) * PI) = 1 for integer N; given a unit circle and an angle between the line segment [(0,0), (0,1)] and another line segment reaching the circumference of that circle, sin(angle) = y, cos(angle) = x of that point (x,y) on the circle (this latter used as a mental-vision sanity check on any answer proposed). If it's truly a one-off, I'll just use the calculator.
Thanks a lot for sharing this, especially with the mention of apps and tools you use. I really should consider at least trying it out at some point.
If you dun mind me asking, what tech did you use to capture the screenshot? I need to screenshot webpage for my client programmatically and I'm kinda lost