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Fair enough - I wouldn't claim to be an expert!

So what did go wrong with the way CDOs were supposed to work and they did work in reality?

Edit:

Actually - genuine question here. When someone says "This is simply a mathematical identity." - how is all of this stuff grounded in reality - do people actually do controlled experiments to work out if any of this stuff is scientific?

Are any of these theories falsifiable?
They don't hold shit. If it isn't more convenient to use their service than it is to get the content for free, they lose. Netflix is there, but just barely.
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The only "result" that the article could claim is the unfortunate There was no significant difference between the two teaching methods.

However, we could probably regain hope for Khan Academy by pointing out that the (five-week) summer school was almost entirely worthless for 2/3rds of the students anyway:

In terms of distribution, in each class approximately one third of the students saw some significant gains (ten percent or higher gains in percentage of questions answered correctly), whereas two thirds of the students’ scores were essentially flat (less than four percent increase or decrease).

If anything, it is this that should make us eager to explore alternative methods of teaching. I am hopeful that Khan Academy or a similar online learning provider will revolutionise education, and this article is the first step along the way to discovering how to use it.
Most of the talk of Google buying Motorola Mobile has been about the patents and more control over the hardware. I think it's also important to consider the tax breaks Google could be aiming for -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/google_buys_tax_brea...
We cannot "remove the 10,000 copies reference" because this was an article written about us, not by us.

Also, we like the way our graphs are inflecting. In the first week we pushed way less than 700/day and in the second week we pushed way more. Dividing it out and saying 700/day is a bit simplistic.

In any case, I fail to see the purpose of your comments. What's the goal?
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第二言語を起動するには最高の年齢は何ですか？
前回の記事では、子供たちは最高の第二言語学習者であるという神話を議論した。実際には、研究では、青少年と大人が多くの方法で発音の地域を除いて、子どもたちよりも、新しい言語を学ぶことで優れていることが示されている。彼らは第一言語で既に識字であり、第二言語を学習するときに、言語と言語学習に関する知識の一部を使用できるためと考えられる。しかし、これは重要な質問に答えていない：新しい言語を習得する最良の年齢は？この質問は、言語学習についての最も好きなので、単純に答えることができます。それは状況によって異なります。
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For another good read, check out "Jargon File" (many may have already read this) http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg262.txt (1991 Revision)
In the comments, the authors give the sample size as about 20 in each group. Here's a more sensible graph (error bars to create a 95% CI on the estimated group means):

https://skitch.com/johnjosephhorton/fih62/quartz-2

Obviously, there are some statistical power issues. It's unfortunate that they didn't get someone to help them with a power analysis up front---given how many very tech savvy people are interested in Kahn Academy and want to see it succeed, I think they could have gotten this sort of assistance pretty easily.
Check out the video overview of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxiuUo0y0EA

You can see the tetris in action
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Because techcrunch is popular. Other than that, the guy is very temperamental as the crunchpad story shows.
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That's a bit dated now, the scene's moved on a lot in the last year. The best way to learn about events tends to be by following startup people on twitter.

But if you're not a twitter user there are a couple of people who do weekly emails about startup events in London:

Startup Digest London:
http://startupdigest.com/london-startup/

London Silicon Roundabout (a meetup in it's own right but they also send out a weekly newsletter):
http://www.meetup.com/london-silicon-roundabout

If you search meetup.com there's also a bunch of other startup events listed on there, including the monthly HN meetup.
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I find this technique works too. Come up with general ideas that describe your product, expand into metaphors. Try synonyms for the metaphors. Combine words.

In the end, the name doesn't have to be descriptive, but it does have to be unique and pronouncable.
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"The point this time is this: your office space and how you design it is an expression of your priorities as a company. It speaks to everyone who comes through the space, every day. Do not be shy about spending money on it."

And that of course extends to developers' tools. If/when I can get to a city where I can try out $1000 chairs I'm going to buy one (I declined to let my company by me an Aeron chair in 1997 because its not a good fit for my body, otherwise I'd already have one of those). I personally am satisfied with one high end 24" NEC monitor, but I wouldn't object to a larger one (two or three would be bad for my neck).

"just to write code"

Just how important is correct code to you and your ventures?
it seems like a transformation from programming itself as a goal to delivery of product/service whatever achieved with programming. I personally favor this view of programming as a tool not as a goal
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The Jargon File pre-Eric Raymond is worth reading because it doesn't include all the extra information that Raymond decided to add about what he thinks the hacker culture is, who hackers are etc.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg140.txt
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When I follow your link from the UK it lists the price as £1,869.95 which is about $3000. Outrageous.
It's all so extremely hard to judge. I don't plan on ever taking small decisions like this one into account when I evaluate Cook. Not because it's not valuable information, I just feel that you would have to be Steve Jobs to judge whether something was right or wrong and I'm no Steve Jobs. Tim Cook is closer to being Steve Jobs than I will ever be.

More often than not reversals are probably not a sign of Cook's poor performance. But sometimes they could be. There are times when it pays to be stubborn. How am I supposed to judge whether Tim Cook is exactly the right amount of stubborn?

I think the only (more or less) good way of evaluating Cook is to look at Apple's financial performace and even that is hard. Limitless growth is likely not possible, so when Apple's growth inevitably slows or stops, is that a sign of Cook's poor performance or would that have happened anyway?

I think I should right now write down some criteria by which to judge Cook or else I'm in danger of endlessly shifting goalposts.

Truly, we need a second universive with a healthy Jobs to compare.
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The Scala type system is tremendously powerful

But it's not tho', well maybe it is if you're used to Java, but coming from ML you will boggle that it can't infer types in function arguments.

Also Zed Shaw, WTF has he got to do with Scala? I think you will find most people who are more into code than they are into flamewars/trainwrecks won't have heard of him, and why should they?
Strictly speaking, writing something negative would be biased the other way, while writing nothing is neutral. But I see your point that not allowing the fact of it to change your behavior at all is the perfectly ethical solution. It is also impossible for humans to accomplish (and moreover to even know for certain they've accomplished it), so it's a moot point. There is also something to be said for avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, which yours doesn't address.
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stats looks nice, but there is still A LOT of IE6 users (a little below 9-10% as trying to read from graph) ... sad for web developers
Doldrums more like? ;)
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And they can pay for it from their gold which nearly doubled in the last year alone because everyone else is buying too.
This was posted yesterday (41 points, 4 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949780
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Not knowing KA well enough, would anyone here hire someone with only KA credentials? Does a KA certification add much in hirability value?
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Balance. Work hard, sure, it's fun, but exercise, eat well, and sleep. You have to fill up the tank once in awhile too...
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It's true that UK banking system is totally wrong (which is interesting, considering that they invented modern banking). There are multiple regulations that make bankers life hard, most prominent being the anti-money-laundering regulation. Generally a completely useless regulation that doesn't protect the financial system in any way (but that's a different story). This system can be hacked though. Normally it will take a foreigner a couple weeks (if not months) to set up a business bank account. But if you will set up a personal account with that bank first, and follow up with setting up the business account later - no problems and instant service. Lesson learned - you need to know your way around, and there's plenty of people that will help you (other startups). You have to consider that London is the financial capital of the world (or used to be), hence the number of fraud and cheating is enormous. They need some ways to structure it, otherwise it would all collapse.
Also, if opening a bank account is something that can kill the startup, please - what will you do when US competitors actually take notice of you?
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Sorry if I sound rude, but you are very, very naive. Before you even think about this, do this:

1. Create a product/service, website and in general - get the product ready.
2. Register with a payment provider. I recommend FastSpring. They offer a) direct bank transfers to your PERSONAL bank account. b) they can send you Payoneer (payoneer.com) Mastercard cards where they flush your money twice a month

They handle all payments (credit card, paypal, purchase orders) on your behalf an send you the money bi-monthly using one of the schemes described above. The rates may vary, on average 5%.

Do this for an year or two. Make sure you have customers and recurring income that is worth the risk. If you wish to pay taxes, tax them as personal consulting income.

JUST AFTER THAT, go with the steps you mention. At this point, if successful, you'll be able to register anywhere. I'm doing this from a shady Eastern European country and pulling 7-figures net. I do not have a company yet.
What happened to the money in the account they closed when you died?
The UK patent box [58% tax discount] proposal: how does it measure up?
Actually, it usually depends on the department not individual professors. In some departments you can test out of classes for credit, in others you can test out of prerequisites so you can move directly to more advanced classes but you don't get credit, and in others you can get credit for some classes but not others. From what I have seen, credit tends to be most available for math classes, many computer science courses will let you test out of lower level (especially language) prerequisites but often won't give you credit for them, and engineering departments will often let you test out of math and science and lower-level departmental courses, but limit the amount of credit you can earn this way. And some courses, especially English and other humanities, sometimes actually take roll and penalize you if you aren't filling a seat.
Significance - no. Familiarity - I'd say yes. Unfortunately I don't know the projects you mentioned that well, so I can't say anything about them. But from the projects I do deal with (either developers or people related to project in some way):

- Python: van Rossum, Beazley, ...
- Mono: de Icaza
- Mysql: Monty Widenius
- Ruby: Katz, Shaw, Bini, ...
- Chef: Matt Ray
...

Yes - I do believe that if you claim serious knowledge about some project, but can't name anyone involved into that project in one way or another, there's something weird going on. Typically you'd run into some reoccurring name while looking through bugs, mailing lists, manuals, etc.
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KA will matter to for-profit universities the minute a KA score triggers your union contract to bump your salary up. (The existence of this interaction is a major reason why for-profit universities love teachers.)
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Well, that's a rather different situation.

The cause of the underlying collapse in the securitised mortgage market was borrowers being over-rated on credit worthiness and the securities derived from these mortgages then also subsequently being overrated. Market starts tightening, the underlying value of the overvalued securities starts becoming apparent and you've got a burst bubble and a general market liquidity problem, hence TARP and QE. All of which was sadly predictable - when the nominal lending institution is given a financial incentive to write loans without the balancing disincentive of default to ensure they only write repayable loans, or the equally strong financial incentive to overvalue their securities, why wouldn't they?

The US approach to this (all set up by Bush, lest we forget) is what's leading to this round of very reasonable lawsuits about financial fraud. The UK approach you've highlighted was rather different though. Northern Rock was completely sunk through illiquidity and is now wholly owned by the state. RBS was little better (thanks largely to a poor purchase of ABN AMRO) and is heavy majority state owned, Lloyds tried to buy the similarly sunken HBOS at a fire-sale price without doing proper due diligence, got into trouble and is now state owned to a lesser degree.

Let's not forget; the names are nothing more than proxies for their collective owners who reaped their profits. There is merit to sueing those who profited from the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac debacle because the entities still meaningfully exist with continuity of ownership. This isn't true with any of the UK institutions; they made their poor decisions, their companies started foundering and to protect both depositors and the wider economy, the government stepped in, heavily diluted (wiped out with Northern Rock) the share capital of the owners who could no longer support the businesses and put new management in place. They aren't being sued in the way you propose because the responsible parties have already been penalised.
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Seems like if you really need the old version, you can probably afford the extra $700.
Seems like extreme shipping needs breaks of equal time :)
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I stopped reading what he had to say after his campaign against raw sockets in Windows.
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Depends on whether or not they open Go up after it's clear that the cable companies aren't capable of dealing with the modern world.
$20 million. Who said we are having a eco crunch?
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Then there's a good chance you will burn out. You have to balance the risk of burnout with the risk of failure. It comes down to how much you value your daily happiness vs future happiness.

Personally, my father valued his future happiness more and worked himself half to death until retirement. At which point, he had money, but all the rest of his plans fell apart. Now, I can't say he's happier than when he was working.

I've gone the other direction. My work is fun, my rest is fun, my fun is fun. I make decent money, but I'll never be as important to a company as my dad was. And he was that important to quite a few companies. Literally saving them from bankruptcy.

A part of me wants those kind of tales to tell when I'm old, and the money that goes along with it... But I know better than to give up my short and medium term happiness to do it.
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If "cutting edge" means "cookie-cutter websites". Seriously, a small niche of the computing world.
Not the full versions but still good:

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If you buy 100 dollars of mortgage bonds at a price of p and I buy it from you at a price of q, then your profit in that transaction is 100*(q-p), not 100. Besides, if you look at the profits made by investment banks since 2008 you'll see that they're nowhere close to trillions. Even the most profitable investment bank in the world, Goldman Sachs, had a total net income in the last three years of less than 25 billion. But your implication was that they made trillions as a result of what happened in the financial crisis, which is an even stronger claim.
Good call on sushi-grade fish, though I could imagine people still being picky about it (i.e. what's the point of eating sushi if it's not real, or tastes even 10% off).
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Think that depends heavily on your age (pre-college, during, after?). If you're already getting that higher education, you'll want to get the ball rolling on just crushing it and learning as much as you can, maybe even release something small on github. At the stage you're at, the only thing you can be doing is shipping.
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"The responsible parties have already been penalised"

The responsible parties being the shareholders rather than the executives? I know that is correct, and I know some people who lost a lot of money in RBS, but it does seem wrong to me that the executives that led these companies to epic disasters simply walk away keeping the bonuses they accumulated along the way.

However, I'm not naive enough to think that any of this will change any time soon.
> It's more like there is an important project, and there is a loud mouth, and you use that project - you have most likely heard of the loudmouth.

True, but the point is many/most people have heard of Zed without knowing or ever using his project(s). On the other hand the number of people who know Linus as the creator of Linux is orders of magnitude larger than those who also happen to know he's sometimes arrogant.
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I believe hé meant superficial in the way that the courses don't go into the deep end of the subject the way a university course might (which is absolutely ok, as it is not aimed at students at that level, but at the same time it means that it cannot replace a real university).
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The vast majority of US universities and colleges are non-profit. Kaplan and Phoenix are for-profit and mostly online.

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