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I want to build something that I can be proud of. I want to prove to myself after years of watching other people succeed, that I too can create something meaningful.

I want to be able to dictate my own schedule. I can't see myself being happy any other way.

Oh, and I want to be rich. I've always thought...if other people can do it, why can't I? I don't want to have to worry about money like I did growing up, and I want to be able to one day invest to help other people make their dreams a reality.
For those who want something minimal.. http://jsfiddle.net/4mrCU/2/embedded/result/
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Have you seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I ?

Anyway, thanks for the maximum 4 downvotes HN.
I recommend Richard Feynman books.

also see this:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2501560
Theoretically, maybe.

But, as with everything, things have the tendency to screw up and you should know why they did. (or somebody better paid should)
It should be noted that on the class page it states that a book is not necessary. Also, the 2nd edition is similar to the third.
Can Google/Moto fix the cable box? Don't bet on it.
As one of the few people that's actually used WebOS on a phone, when I try the TouchPad I'm baffled at how slow and clunky it is. The UI is smooth on even the Palm Pixi but on the TouchPad I get plenty of lag and glitches.
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tchrist seems pretty knowledgeable on unicode issues. He even did 3 talks at OSCON on the topic. My takeaway wasthat the best language for dealing with Unicode was Perl, and Ruby was the second best.
Nit: these are not selectors. They are declarations:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#declaration
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I imagine HP will be dismayed to discover they were Glass Joe. They were shooting for Super Macho Man but they thought they were at least Don Flamenco.
Dear ideamonger,

You keep submitting links from the same site. They rarely get any votes. You might consider stopping doing what you're doing.

HN isn't intended as a platform for the submission of every goddamn article you write.
They won't sell a thousand text books, though.
We live near each other -- according to their website, their business is right next to where I live.

Yet, the address is of a parking lot... (10 E 3rd Street in San Jose). Strange.
Thanks - if I get some time I may consider augmenting it - that visualisation was put together as a proof of concept and as my first <canvas> experiment - it needs some more work ^_^.
I meant I see Microsoft's Windows Phone platform ending up in the same place the WebOS platform is in. Certainly Microsoft may stay in business selling refreshed versions of Office and Exchange. But I don't see how that will translate into success in an all-mobile + all-cloud computing world where Microsoft has no strength.
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Used to do this all the time at my old job. There were so many distractions during the day that I would just come in late and code all by myself. It was awesome.
When I was considering what to name "bulbs" (http://bulbflow.com), the round corners of the letters was one of the factors. For example, I think the round letters in google and apple help give the brands a soothing feel.

Likewise, I think the soft edges in the python and ruby syntax are more pleasant, and I find it irritating to switch between python and sharp-edged languages such as JavaScript }{ -- this may be one of the reasons lisp is so beloved :)
A cousin poster said "I don't think it's gonna work because this isn't a site that will garner much loyalty. Students will eventually graduate, plus buying textbooks is seasonal. He's just gonna do a lot of manual work for one-time sales. It's not gonna improve traction in the long-term.".

Students can spread my website to their friends via words of mouth and improve traffic, but usually majority of a student's friends are in the same year...

This directly improves match rate though, because I'm trying to match as many as possible by myself. I'll think about it some more.
Wow seriously psyched about Skitch and Evernote. These are two tools that are completely ingrained in my daily workflow. Glad to see a great exit for the Skitch team!
You definitely have a point with the visuals.

As for how people feel about certain things, I've always preferred informal lunches over meetings.
... and Microsoft is about to get a bigger piece of the pie in the enterprise sales as IBM is slowly moving away from their own software offerings.
They might sell a thousand (then he would get $25k) but the certainly won't sell anywhere near 100k.

I doubt more than 1 in 10 will even do two assignments.
> Size is always a trade-off and there won't be one standard for encoding.

I don't see why, in modern multi-core CPUs/GPUs where 99% of time is spent idle, we can't just have "raw" text (UCS4) to manipulate in memory, and compressed text (using any standard stream compression algorithm) on disk/in the DB/over the wire.

Anything that's not UCS4 is already variable-length-encoded, so you lose the ability to random-seek it anyway; and (safely performing) any complex text manipulation, e.g. upper-casing, requires temporarily converting the text to UCS4 anyway. At that point, you may as well go all the way, and serialize it as efficiently as possible, if you're just going to spit it out somewhere else. I guess the only difference is that string-append operations would require un-compressing compressed strings and then re-compressing the result—but you could defer that as long as necessary using rope[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(computer_science)
In all apps i've worked on, passing dates around as 'seconds since 1970' has made date parsing on ios effortless - you may want to try that.
What happens when the library has issues or doesn't follow the unicode spec? What about the fact that Unicode Is Hard(tm) and you will end up shooting yourself in the foot if you think that you can bury your head in the sand about it? Not many regex implementations allow you to reference unicode chars by name or type rather than directly by hex code.
Might also be nice to have a very simple push notification enabled mobile app for active reminders in addition to passive checks via Twitter. It'll be way less actions from a user's point of view compared to email when on the go.
I know it's a stereotype, but I've always liked this about Italians. There's a lot of ogling, but the women are "in" on it. It's not demeaning, creepy, or one-sided. The women aren't just playing along, they're participating. I wonder if we could import that atmosphere.
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Sorry, it can't compete with hacker news. :(
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... and SharePoint, and Windows OS, and quite possibly Azure.

More "enterprise" companies seem to trust MS more than say Amazon or Google.

Should Microsoft worry when it comes to mobile? Maybe. But keep in mind that there's a niche market of creating some sort of "adapter" from native mobile app to render Microsoft non-compatible-but-crucial-enterprise-software from SharePoint to quite possibly Dynamic CRM/ERP.

Not defending MS, just stating what I see these days.
Considering I can only get about sixty percent conversion to making a bingo card if I catch you in the same session as signup, and that making a bingo card is vastly easier than programming, I think you're overestimating by probably 100x or so.

People are, statistically, flakes.
Does anybody here think that Microsoft will publicly concede defeat in the smartphone business like HP did today at any time in the next 4 years?
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How is this new?
The stanford iPhone course (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/) has been downloaded more than a million times.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/may20/million-052009.html
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The two flow diagrams don't convey the same information because the left one lacks symmetry and singles out B. As such there is significant cognitive overhead as you have to convince yourself they mean the same thing (and only in this context, in most contexts I would not consider B and C to be equivalent choices). It can be easily fixed, but wasn't.
Good point; I shouldn't done some maths before I started. I thought by hiding how many users this website has, new users won't be daunted by the lack of other users.

But no.

Limiting my site will only serve to decrease traffic, I think this might be counter productive.

I'll think of ways I can increase traffic further cheaply.
From the class page - "Peter Norvig is co-author of this text and is donating all royalties earned from his text to charity."
Considering Outlook and Gmail block them by default, it's extremely unreliable
I always wondered why aggrieved FBI / CIA agents don't use this type of service to mail out their uncensored memoirs to 100 different newspapers & underground conspiracy nuts.

Obviously this site is a huge target for government organizations who have a lot of secrets - whenever a service like this springs up I bet the first order of business is for someone to install a permanent tap on it, and a way to block the emails if need be.
I would be honest with them but if you're that concerned about "fitting in"...just order a soda. If somebody asks, tell them you prefer mixed drinks and that it's a rum and coke. Nobody will know the difference.
I don't think I actually mentioned iPhone or Android in my comment -- did you mean to reply to someone else?

However, I think you're excessively conflating different types of fanaticism here. Fanaticism about personal electronics, or TV shows, or brands of car, or brands of camera, is silly because these things don't fucking matter. Religious fanaticism, on the other hand, is fanaticism about something that is important. I myself don't believe any religion is likely to be true, but if I did, then this would be a sensible thing to get all worked up about.

The stakes of choosing the wrong camera are that you might wind up taking slightly worse pictures under certain circumstances. The stakes of choosing the wrong religion are (according to the tenets of those religions) that you'll get rewarded or punished for all eternity.

Likewise, patriotism can often be silly but at least it's about something important. If my favourite TV show ceased to exist it would be a minor bummer, whereas if my favourite country ceased to exist then I'd have some serious problems.
Mr. Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation says that if his children would start companies, he would advise them stay the hell away from investors and bootstrap!
I think personality comes from nature, but character comes (initially) from nurture.
This is why you test features before deploying them
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Not having int64/uint64 is kind of a deal-breaker for any such library. Which means, in JavaScript, a big integer library. I don't see one.
"I’ve said this before, but thought it was worth repeating: It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing." - Steve Jobs
1. There should be a blurb about the site. But focus on the 'Why' and not the other W's.
2. Beef up on SEO and spread the word on other sites, blogs
To get to the 99.984% number, 160 people out of every million users would have no access to the application on any given moment. The number doesn't look that inflated. Most of the time, our (disclaimer: I don't work for Google, but I host a couple web apps) stuff just works.
In the past I have used an Aeron for about a year. The Mirra comes very close to the adjustability and I would say is just as comfortable.
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> What happens when they need to charge more (or less) than one dollar?

Why would they need to charge more? And the nice thing about computer tech is that with dropping costs, you don't have to change the price, just the quantity each $1 buys you...

(Right now $1 only buys you 100 pages, which is an awful small book.)
In fairness to Stewart, his calculus book is actually pretty awesome. I had a class that used another book, written by one of the professors, and went out and bought another copy of Stewart's book because I could actually follow it. He does a very good job of explaining something that can be difficult. Trying to learn from a poorly constructed book really increased my respect for the quality of Stewart's explanations. There is a very good reason that his book is so well used.
Is the Stanford iphone class interactive? It seems like something you just download and watch.
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All is good but do not aim for 'rich', prefer 'well off'. Because rich is temporary.
Quantum effects are not chaotic, they are random.

Does determinism rule out free will? I don't think it does.
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> You can't find a job without having an apprenticeship under your belt in Germany.

You can. E.g. you can go study at university.

Also there are vocational training programs that are done purely at a Berufsschule. Though they are seen as worse than an apprenticeship.
That confused me. Am I overlooking something that makes the problem non-trivial?

On further reading I'm pretty sure I'm not, but perhaps the very triviality of the problem confuses people enough that they have difficulty with it. ("Is there some weird edge case I'm not considering?")

The other big question with FizzBuzz is whether it's worth making your code more complicated in order to make it slightly shorter. That is, do you start off with a "if i % 15 == 0" or not? My inclination is yes, because I'd rather have ten lines that obviously work than eight lines that might not.
Sounds like what Tahoe-Lafs does - uses the ZFEC (another FEC algorithm, like Reed-Solomon, but much faster) library to let you specify how much redundancy to generate; you can have 2-out-of-3 or 3-out-of-9 or other ratios.
Thanks for being my editor.
What's the best wording for email body with confirmation link?

Currently I use:

====

Please open this link to confirm your email:

http://www.postjobfree.com/a.aspx?k=c3d26a0fc5d145cf88898a92...

This link will expire on: 8/19/2011 10:29:11 PM EST.

====

Thanks for the tip about subject for email confirmation!

In the past I was using "Link to confirm your PostJobFree email", but your new version with clear call to action ("Please confirm your email address") should perform better.
Ohio is the East Coast, only if you consider Nebraska to be on the West Coast.
What do you mean trying? It does what it says in the title.
Germany is successful despite the Hauptschulen, not because of it. The apprenticeships are one of the things that allow Germany to get away with its aweful schooling system.
>I meant I see Microsoft's Windows Phone platform ending up in the same place the WebOS platform is in.

Ah.
Amazing graphic of customer experience touchpoints
The twin cities are known for their hipster movement. I suspect that is what is driving mac adoption over a technological choice like in the bay area.
In this case though, it shouldn't hard confirmations, a possibly increase them a little. Unless people choose not to confim because they get a "images have been blocked" message.
Simplest would just be to have the 3-of-50 decrypt to another encrypted file, and give the wife the passphrase to that. Nobody holds multiple keys, satisfies the 'AND', and is simple.
check out Business in a Box for the documentation and templates. They have different plans

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At the risk of getting seriously offtopic, my map shows bits of Ohio being closer to the Atlantic than parts of Oregon and Washington are to the Pacific, so perhaps we should say "Ohio is the East Coast only if Spokane is the West Coast".
Yes, there are.

Recently Quora announced it was running on PyPy[1]. Some other disclosures were made (a Django project[2], LWN internal processing[3], tweets about speedups in production, etc.), but the PyPy team is thinking about officially asking for success stories in the near future[4].

[1]: http://www.quora.com/Alex-Gaynor/Quora-product/Quora-is-now-...

[2]: https://convore.com/python/whos-using-pypy-in-production/

[3]: http://lwn.net/Articles/442268/

[4]: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/src/tip/blog/draft/succe...
Who said anything about causal?

"However, there is evidence to suggest an inverse relationship may exist."

So you'd bet that if I shadowed 1,000 self-made millionaires while they were building their businesses, and then shadowed a random sampling of (employed) Americans, the millionaires would work LESS than average? Really?

FWIW, I do agree that specialized knowledge work doesn't benefit from tons of hours... As someone pointed out in another comment, entrepreneurial success generally requires a wide variety of different tasks.
I'd go with the latter. Remember, the highly paid web guys at the large organizations find out about alot of the 0-day attacks around the same time the rest of us do.
> So, why wasn't it as appealing to the broader base of consumers?

A fruity brand is important these days. Fashion dictates what people buy. "Fashion over function".
I feel that one of the main problems with webOS is that many people like it a lot for the design and want to see its potential unleashed.

Yet users don't vote for webOS with their wallets and developers don't make webOS apps, because many question whether it can be a sustainable mobile platform. Another reason is that the hardware running webOS has always been a bit of a let-down.

On a side note, I can't help but wonder if Steve Jobs feels a little saddened to see HP's lack of vision and commitment nowadays to make great products. Yes, HP's obviously a major competitor but mostly in the PC industry where it makes much slimmer margins. Jobs' first summer job was at Hewlett-Packard and also where he met Steve Wozniak, so it's more of a personal sting to witness the once iconic company giving up on post-PC devices.
What about:

Next Step: Confirm your email address

Thinking along the lines of how "Follow me on Twitter" tests better than "If you liked this blog entry, please follow me on Twitter." Just give people a direct order. "Next step" might make it clearer that they're not yet finished with the process?
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Did they just ignore all the non-rounded rectangles around them? They're everywhere, too, and I fail to see how this does or does not argue for their use.
> next time you woo us to develop for your platform?

What next time? HP jumped off a cliff. There will be no next platform. Not from them.
| If a vulnerability requires root or elevated privileges to occur, don’t waste your time resolving it. If the attacker already has root, you have bigger problems on your hands.

Well said. I've never considered it that way.

| No system is perfect.

A perfect system is an unplugged system.
Fabulous. Can we shut down the Paris Metro for revenge?
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> Time for Nintendo to buy WebOS

And do what Access did for the original PalmOS?

I'm sorry. I am just not feeling optimistic right now. It's bedtime for me. See you all tomorrow.
If I'm not mistaken all people did was sign up for a mailing list to receive updates about the course.
Good for him, but he comes off as his own circle jerk.
Only yesterday I received this email from a HP.com email address.

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I am in business development with the HP Touchpad group and we are recruiting apps to be ported to our Touchpad Platform. I saw your app on the chrome store and wanted to reach out to gauge the interest. Since the Touchpad supports both Flash and HTML5, our technical team believes that porting your Scribble and Pixza Lite apps to our platform should be fairly easy. We have support resources, MDF, marketing programs, and loaner devices to assist the effort. I would be happy to do a quick call to explain things further.

Thanks,"
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Do you guys also face the problem in appengine today?
What a fabulous story! As the father of an 8 year old daughter, I only hope to be able to provide experiences like this to her. It is absolutely the small things in life that make all the difference. Kudos to you Katie for keeping the magic alive!
It seems that this library relies on hash keys being returned in the same order that they appear in a literal hash constructor. I.e., if var x = { "b":3, "a":10 }, then for (n in x) will _always_ assign n to "b" first before assigning it to "a".

Is this something that is guaranteed by javascript?
If you can honestly spend 75% of your office time doing actual development, and divide the rest evenly between breaks and meetings, I'd like to see how.

I've recently got into pomodoro timing. I set the timer for 45 minutes, focus totally on work, then take a fifteenish-minute break. I can't do it all day though.

I know the classic pomodoro technique is supposed to be 25 minutes on, 5 minutes off, but a five minute break is too short for me (I like to get out of the building) and the rhythm of the half-hours just goes by too quickly. 45 minute serious-work periods work much better for me.
> the number of purchases per customer will likely continue to decline over time

Actually, as Groupon dials down on acquisition and dials up on activity, the reverse is more likely.

> the costs associated with building that network are analogous to building product in more traditional companies

Right. Which is why product development costs are frequently split out form operating expenses into line items such as R&D.
Rumours has Blaze, Google's build tool the article describes, is being open sourced. At least this information was floating around early 2011.
The Plus Minus Chrome plug-in handles this, turning the list of circles into checkboxes so you can have default stream that is a subset of your total streams.

Of course, if you're not using Chrome ...
God I wish Nokia had bought Palm and WebOS. I used to work for Elop and I like him, but my heart sank when he hitched Nokia's wagon to MS.
> Has calculus or calculus pedagogy seriously changed in the last 10 years in a way that requires a stream of new calc book editions?

Speaking as a math prof: No. No. NO. It is a ripoff of our students, pure and simple.

When teaching calculus at a previous job we used the eighth edition of this calculus book by Varberg et al., and the statement of Taylor's theorem (one of the major theorems of calculus) was wrong. You figure, eight editions, you could get it right. But evidently I was naive.

However, a couple of universities I have taught at have explicitly told publishers that if they go to a new edition, and stop selling the old one, then the department will move to a different book entirely. I've finally moved up to a tenure track job; I'm going to enjoy this game of hardball :)
The OS is on par with the iPad but the hardware is not. An iPad is thinner and lighter and made of glass and metal (as opposed to plastic) but they both cost $500. If you can't match Apple's aesthetics then you shouldn't charge the same price. Either take the loss for market share or figure out how to produce something that feels higher quality or go home.
Best thing I've seen all week. Yet another nail in the coffin for image assets on the web. Thanks, CSS3!
| A perfect system is an unplugged system.

I like that quote, do you recall the owner?
The dynamic features of ruby are not so different than those of python, lua, or javascript. Actually in terms of reasonable memory consumption I think rubinius is quite a bit better than pypy.
Has the android application been published yet ? I can't seem to find in on market.android.com yet. If not is there a published release date ?