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No. It is exactly the right question.

Suppose the person hasn't already asked this question to google:

Take the opportunity to provide them some good resources. Teach them some basics. Teach them how to use google well to find their own resources. Here's the kicker - when people ask questions like this, maybe they aren't autodidacts, maybe they just need some support getting over the fear of the unknown, maybe they just want feedback from someone who actually knows (something JFGI doesn't provide too well...)

Now suppose they have:

The course of action is surprisingly similar, but ask them what they've already learned and what the confusion is before showing them stuff. Perhaps the person asking has done this but doesn't know where to start -- there is a lot of conflicting and bad advice on the web. Perhaps they don't have the framework to filter things that are and aren't related. Maybe they don't even know what they actually want to do -- there have been plenty of times I've asked someone how to $X only to discover that I really wanted to do $Y that I didn't even know about (even though Google will happily provide 100000 how to $X guides).

Half of understanding anything is understanding the vocabulary surrounding it. If a person doesn't know the vocabulary, they can't just google it. (Also, those of us who spend all day programming and basically live in front of the computer at places like HN have a surprisingly deep understanding of who to trust and who not to trust and apply these filters without even realizing it when scouring google results, as well as a good social network of chatrooms and twitter etc to ask for pointers at, which a noob may well be trying to establish when asking the question).
Lack of money is a much more severe situation than lack of sex. Lack of money comes with the possibility of poverty, while lack of sex just means that you will have to wait longer for sex.
Love the analogy. It really is fitting.
1.9.2 doesn't have any GC tuning options, so it proved slower than REE in production for us. Thus we needed to go to 1.9.3 to get the GC tuning.
My experiences haven't found it to be that cut-and-dry:

I moved from Boston to Silicon Valley in '99, and found it was significantly more expensive with only marginally better salary (which I was happy to accept as we would leave at lunch and go surfing, which for me was a worthwhile tradeoff).

I moved from SV to Washington DC in '01, and found the cost of living slightly less, but salaries approximately the same.

I'm now in the process of moving to NYC, and the cost of living and salaries both are a little higher (I don't really care about money though, so I'll admit that it hasn't been a factor in my moving decision).
Looks like you didn't check your talking points, once again.

"So who is John S Theon?

John Theon was not Hansen's supervisor.

The usual denialists (e.g. The Register) are excited because some guy they never heard of before has joined Inhofe's merry band, writing:

"I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those

who disagree that global warming is man made."

M. J. Murphy has some information about Theon. It seems that Inhofe's claim that Theon was Hansen's supervisor is
completely untrue:

Theon wrote to the Minority Office at the

Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15, 2009.
"I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to
justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate
his results. I did not have the authority to give him his
annual performance evaluation...

Read the last bit closely. Being "in effect" Hansen's

supervisor is here contrasted with being "in reality"
Hansen's supervisor--being the guy who gives Hansen his
annual performance appraisal, in other words--which,
frankly, does linguistic violence to the term.

Gavin Schmidt writes:

Dr. Theon appears to have RETIRED from NASA in 1994,

some 15 YEARS AGO. Until yesterday I had never heard of him
(despite working with and for NASA for the last 13 years).
His insights into both modelling and publicity appear to
date from then, rather than any recent events. He was not
Hansen's 'boss' (the director of GISS reports to the director of GSFC, who reports to the NASA Administrator).
His "some scientists" quote is simply a smear - which scientists? where? what did they do? what data? what manipulation? This kind of thing plays well with Inhofe et al because it appears to add something to the 'debate', but in actual fact there is nothing here. Just vague, unsubstantiated accusations.

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/01/so_who_is_john_s_the...

Got anyone that isn't so old one suspects they'll say anything to keep from having to go back to the nursing home alone.
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> To test this proposition, make college free.

In this case you'd still be taking money from rich men and women and giving them to the people going to college, only without the services rendered.

It's like asking whether I'd still do IT if I were paid to hang around playing video games. Obviously I'd rather study, tinker or engage in leisure rather than do my job. This doesn't answer the question of whether the exploitation is right or wrong.
As somebody who's been quite happily building a system around Brubeck for the better part of two months now, it's nice to see the background story pieced together into a cogent storyline.

What's more interesting, I think, is the insight into the thought process and background that goes into building something that is exquisitely elegant in its simplicity and at the same time incredibly powerful and flexible.

Working with Brubeck has been a delight since the very beginning. Granted I've had experience building MVC type systems before, including in Python, but I think Brubeck's ease-of-use is quite significant compared to other frameworks.
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You are right, taking a limited project scope is a virtue:

We merely want to make a proof of concept that inspires users with a mind-opening sense that the world's data can have higher dimensionality than just 2 dimensions.

I (Jon) read the novel Flatland when I was a kid, and have ever since been yearning to see in more than just 2 dimensions. This project is an attempt to open users eyes in the same way.

--

With the goal defined as proving a concept, it becomes apparent that we do not need to permanently solve every challenge with AR in a scalable way.

We merely need to kludge around them (for example using tons of computing power) enough to make a convincing temporary experience:

1. Patterns of marks or lights can be placed on the outside of the headset, detectable by cameras in the environment.

2. True. Luckily we can achieve a kludgy demo by having one entire rendering computer (with graphics card) per depth slice, and selecting between their outputs as a dumb switch, post-rendering.

3. The plenoptic camera from lytro.com should provide the necessary post-capture-focusable images. We are meeting with Prof. Marc Levoy today to ask about partnering.

--

We merely hope that once the concept of voxel vision has been proven, that all future AR systems will feature it as a standard mode of interaction.
The founder of reddit throwing a "nailed it" at me is kind of a swoon-worthy moment. Thanks.
In this blog post, the author is reifying concepts and improving separation of concerns(1). This is basic software development. Which makes me wonder why the OP got the impression this kind of thing was "secret"?

(1)The usual warnings about premature optimization apply.
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very nice. This is something I'm very interested in. I even wrote something like it which uses a bookmarklet, though I believe browser extensions are the way to go.

http://omnigeist.com/
https://github.com/mwhooker/omnigeist.js

It was mostly a vehicle for me to learn coffeescript & node.js, so it's got some rough edges.
Conde Nast buys reddit, and people predict a train wreck. Conde Nast spins reddit off, and people predict a train wreck.

There's just no pleasing you guys...
Although you can get money in many more ways than you can get sex.
Why are you talking about efficiency? I don't understand. The preference for warm light has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with what people like.

Its like you saying "but we can produce this green fabric much more cheaply, why do people like those damn red t-shirts so much?" One is not related to the other.
That's the theoretical maximum, in reality it's much much lower. For the sake of this comment I just visited a few random reddit pages, I saw:

2 adverts for reddit merchandise,

1 reddit flash game,

1 advert for reddit gold,

1 for a subreddit,

1 "thanks for not using adblock",

1 for the reddit ad system,

1 for a conference called poptech

and then on 3 pages I saw "sponsored links".
You could also say, "When a young man is in desperate need of money, and a wealthy corporation comes along and uses that vulnerability to get work, that's the definition of exploitation."
I tried to do the same thing for myself with some sunlight bulbs in my bedroom and I couldn't stand it.
"My one true fear working in software is letting my skill-set become deeply disjointed from what the market values."

Excellent truth, it is a market, with supply and demand. Be hungry to learn.
Modern "electronic" fluorescent ballasts don't flicker, at least when not broken. (They use a frequency that is high enough that the phosphors' glow hasn't stopped before the cycle is over). The old "magnetic" ones did, but those really ought not be used anymore. They're less efficient and often flicker and hum.

Bulbs at the end of their life can flicker, but those of course should be replaced.
I do not know whether to remove only the parentheses, or also the text fragments inside them to get closest to the truth, but I think this changeover is not (only) optimized for the short-term good of consumers. It (also) is optimized for the good of lightbulb producers.

They want a fast transition, so that they can scale up production fast. Regulations that forbid production and/or sale of old-style bulbs make such a scale up easier for them.

Enforcing a fast change also may have a net positive effect when looking at the entire transition period.
The article also says "To test this proposition, make college free. If college girls were no longer desperately in need of money, I would be more than willing to bet that SeekingArrangement.com would cease to be highly profitable."

Seems to me he's saying that the women aren't doing it to survive, they're doing it to get a college education. I would submit that the drive for sex is a much more primal urge, going back a half billion years or so, than the drive for a college education.
That's a polite way of putting it.

But thats all it is. They're on a website where the community actively discusses their opinion of submissions, and it was their opinion that the ad or advertized product wasn't good.

I haven't been to reddit in a while, but when I did, I saw that when an advertiser had a good product (I'm recalling A Small Orange or rsync.net) and understood that they didn't need patronizing or dumb ads, the comments were mostly inquiring about the service, or users saying they were happy with it.
Every time a site's traffic doubles, it also doubles the number of people saying it sucks.
If you didn't care about power efficiency, then presumably you wouldn't use LED lighting at all. No matter how cheap a LED lamp gets, it's never going to match a piece of wire in a glass bulb.
Seems complicated when compared to PhantomJS (Headless Webkit, http://www.phantomjs.org/).
By the way, yes they do. Every post Arrington will say he or someone at TC is an investor. Not that it's too regular.
Sure, it´s not easy. But there are and will be many reveue sources. http://mashable.com/2011/02/08/reddit-hires/ once said: "This kind of traffic growth has helped the site lure “big-ticket” advertisers, according to site admins; another rising source of revenue is the site’s sponsored link system, which is used to promote SMBs, startups, blog posts, YouTube videos and other kinds of content. And Reddit Gold continues to be a success, too."
The fact that woman feel compelled to go to such lengths is a problem, the fact that this site (in part) exploits that may be a problem morally speaking but what are those women supposed to do instead? To which length would they feel compelled to go if they didn't have this option? It appears to be that this site provides at least some sort of security. I don't think anyone wants to see them "work the street" either.

I think the real problem is at an entirely different level and begs an entirely different set of questions:

- Why do these women feel compelled to do this?

- Do they have alternatives and if so why don't they use them?

- If they have usable alternatives how do we educate them about those?

- If they don't have alternatives should they be given financial help and by whom?

EDIT: How do I make this a proper list?
But please 1. get a noise cancelling microphone, 2. adjust the volume so both are about the same and 3. draw up a plan on who says what in order to not interrupt each other all the time.
I agree, but I would like to point out that if you use Virtualbox, you can script the whole setup of the VM with vagrant. The only downside I have with using VMs is that it's hard to use some of the nice OSX GUI tools ( GitX, Pixelmator) on the files in the VM.
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The only difference between the advice given and the strawman argued against is giving the urls of search engines to find tutorials and answer questions rather than giving specific resources.

The idea of cultivating a self starter, motivated to research mindset is good, for people halfway through the beginner stage. The idea that a complete beginner even knows how to "bounce around between [different search results] to find the best ones" is silly, even starting with generally high quality content like quora and stack overflow. It leads people to learn the easiest things rather than walking the line between motivation through fast results and pushing themselves to learn good techniques and challenging subjects. There is a reason that good educators, who design curricula walking this line, are respected.

This type of "ignore the so called 'experts' and absorb the lowest common denominator crap soup of online programming advice" learning plan is doomed. The best case is that it wastes the persons time and saps their motivation. The probable case is that they end up learning a large number of bad habits, do things like reimplement a bubble sort based on advice from the comments on the php documentation site and forever end up as hack intermediate coders.

People asking for this kind of advice want some guidelines from people who've done this before and have perspective on good paths to learning and how to avoid mistakes that no one needs to repeat.

I am a proponent of branching out early in your programming career to learn different languages, toolsets and problem domains because it makes you a better programmer. But only once you've got a base level of knowledge as to how coding works and even then they will need advice on what other paths to take to help the most.
The life of any app is measured in years, the best of which is when you sell to a "larger organization that can use its widespread exposure to further grow the community" while it dies a couple of years later. Just look at Yahoo!'s portfolio. Arrington wanting his baby back is a bunch of BS.

Reddit would be an anomaly, I'm happy to say, although it still has a ways to grow out of its niche.
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Are you seriously arguing that The Beatles are the underdog in this scenario? Also, "Apple Inc. had more money than Apple Corp, meaning that it can afford to do whatever it wishes to do" implies there was something improper, which is clearly not the case. It's not like Apple, Inc. bribed the courts to force Apple Corp. to hand over their trademark; Apple, Inc. reportedly paid as much as $500 million to Apple Corp. to control the trademark. Sounds like the real winner was Apple Corp.
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I had a classmate in college that was blind and all he had was his Apple laptop with VoiceOver enabled. He said that using it felt like he could see it, he described it in exactly those words as well. He said he could see the user interface and it made sense, he was able to take notes and overall used a computer much like other people in the class.

before getting the MacBook my class mate had tried to use Windows based machines and found that they did not work nearly as well and that the voice over stuff in Windows was primitive.
There is a middle you conveniently excluded. It's possible to care about efficiency but not quite so much as to want green light. As far as I know it is possible to make LED lights with red light which are more efficient than light bulbs.

And besides: In my country I will soon be unable to buy wires in glass bulbs. I and everyone else needs an alternative.
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> And electric heat is much less efficient than natural gas

Not this argument again. Keep in mind that not everyone has natural gas heating. In my part of the country (Pacific Northwest), many homes are electric heat only. So during the winter time it's a zero sum game.
To be fair, you wrote
"the fastest way to get people to stop telling you their ideas" which sounds a lot like shutting people up.
Of course. I am not complaining (may be a little) but I am trying to look at it from a purely business point of view. Its good to hit critical mass, it will be more attractive for advertisers. Reddit will get users that might actually click on some ads unlike me :)
I hope not. I spend a fortune on an led bulb a half or so year ago.

Not only was the light so bad my desk looked like the inside of a morque, but as the sun went down I discovered that the light it did send out was so weak that I could't see anything.

One expensive lesson later and I am not going to be using anything like an led again.

I had planed to stay with the good old fashioned lightbulb (I can afford the bill) but the ever meddlesome lawmakers made those illegal to import.
If you look closely you can see a wire running from the mains straight to the sensor board next to the arduino, clearance is on the order of a few mm. All it takes is a little bit of condensation for a nasty accident, the voltage between those two conductors is 110V AC on one side and +5 V with some unknown level of insulation from mains on the other.

Making assumptions about which line carries phase and which is neutral can cause very nasty surprises and should never be a factor. You're one broken circuit away from being the shortest path to ground, even in the neutral line (you'll still have the load as a drop resistor but it's not good).
There's basic "stat" for the social sciences (nothing but arithmetic for means, medians, standard deviation, and so forth). Then there's calculus-based probability, which can be very rigorous. The CS curriculum at rigorous programs tends to require the harder, calculus-based probability. I was a math major, but there were a lot of CS and engineering students in my stats class.

BTW, even with the calculus prereq, I'd agree that linear algebra would typically be a harder class, so I definitely understand why you're surprised someone would pass Linear Algebra and fail Stats.
Pile on Arrington?

Techcrunch is an interesting read now and then and certainly draws people that love what they do and others that don't. Lots of trolls anytime Steve Gilmour or MG Siegler post, it is the nature of the Web.

This very much seems like a spat between Arriana Huffington and Michael Arrington, both of which have very public forums to address their sides. At the end of the day, if the paperwork signed says that TC was to have "editorial independence" from Huffington Post, then AOL needs to address that. If it doesn't, then the parties involved need to figure out how to salve the assorted egos.

The CrunchFund thing? I get the impression that Armstrong and Arrington get along and Armstrong/AOL see the Crunchfund as a way of getting AOL (event at a distance) more involved in developing new companies. Does it make things more complicated? Probably.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Hmm. If you asked guys whether they would rather be permanently poor but be able to have sex with attractive women whenever they wanted, or to be wealthy but have no possibility of sex, I'd expect it to be close. (Assuming of course a first world environment where poverty doesn't mean starvation).
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This often comes out whenever a post about Reddit hits the front page, but I beg to disagree. I think the ratio of quality/to quantity has slid in the wrong direction, but the quality is still there - you just need to know where you look.
That is the point of this post, to get them over the fear, to give them the confidence to do it.

Having a personal tutor can accelerate the learning process dramatically. Even if you can teach yourself, you can learn faster if someone just tells you the answer. But, you can also just do it. And, the process will teach you the benefits of being precise with your searches and that if you know to use the work "toggle" rather than "switch back and forth", you'll get to the answer faster next time (though, you'll get to it both ways and you'll learn a lot while you're reading).

I was fortunate enough to have great engineers accelerate my learning but I also did a lot on my own and that process gave me a deeper understanding and taught me the right mindset to now continue improving on my own forever.
Apple has definitely done a good job in accessibility. I think the article may be trying to draw a parallel between the way that Apple has done so much to design beautiful products that enable us to be more productive, efficient, etc. and the work that 6dot appears to be doing specifically for the blind community. If 6dot really does what they claim, perhaps they will transform the way blind people experience the world in the same way that Apple has changed all our lives.

Yay for accessibility at Apple! And let's get moving, Google!
Thanks, that's a good tip. I'm surprised that all my CFLs (even ones with supposedly good CRI) show up as red, green, and blue blotches...
That has no bearing on the truth of the statement.

Personally, I have few qualms with the quality of the content on reddit. I think the subreddit subscription model the site is centered around did an excellent job at helping users weed out content they weren't interested in.
Ask HN: How can I get more speaking events?
Im a 21 year old angel investor, software developer, and hacker. I have spoken at a few smaller events (wordcamps/startup weekends) but want to move into larger events. How can I gain more visibility to get these speaking events?

Im not necessarily just interested in just speaking about programming (although thats my strong suit), I feel like I could contribute a great deal elsewhere as well. At 21, I have had quite the journey to get where I am, I pay all expenses for my younger sister, and have overcome a fair share of obstacles to get here.

I have started blogging, and have been focusing on getting other speaking events, but what else can I do?
My, my, what do we have here?
Yup, but "code of ethics" means:

A set of "rules" that sounds good to outsiders but lets insiders do what they want.

Most "code of ethics" make it easy for insiders to call outsiders "unethical" for doing things that insiders do.

For example, "journalists" are allowed to make up quotes. Outsiders aren't.
agreed, actually, I want to know how long it takes to run on say... an i7, I've gotten pretty poor performance out of those amazon small instances when doing alot of cpu oriented tasks.
They probably think you're kidding.