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>If all the unmotivated students would be put to work for a few weeks in picking crops, with the promise that this will be their lot in life if they don't learn, I suspect the education problem would solve itself quickly.

Except this wouldn't work for the kids of rich parents who wouldn't have to worry about that actually being their lot in life. Also people can say "fuck that" & go to a life of crime. This also assumes that our agriculture sector would even want these legal workers who they'd have to provide at least minimum wage to.
That a $25 USD computer can also have on-board audio that is CD quality is of note though isn't it? Probably not headline worthy like you said.
Most programmers I know never read papers, they read plenty of code but the code usually sucks. The reason why it sucks is because it was written by programmers that never read papers and so the cycle continues.

If you don't start somewhere then you'll miss out on papers being an excellent source of knowledge about algorithms, datastructures and the like. They also introduce you to a more mathematical approach to problem solving.

More papers, less code, and if you read code for its educational value make sure it is excellent code.

Then go back to your daily drudge of fixing bugs in crappy code, hopefully transforming it into something more elegant along the way with the knowledge you pick up.

Read papers, read good code to educate yourself.
I had similar experiences in the Sacramento area, but almost exactly one decade after you (probably ten years younger) - the idea that stings me the most is the "door to inexpensive public education" being slammed shut - I've got to say that the door being slammed has greatly accelerated these past 6 years, as tuition has jumped. In the 70s, education at a UC school was nearly free. Today it costs $30k/year including your fees, books and living expenses.

In light of flat income growth, that means families either work more or do without. The scary thing (for me) is that we're reaching the maximum of the "work more" strategy when both parents work 1+ jobs. Where do people go from here, considering that they've reached the maximum of their family's earning potential while prices are still rising? I suspect that we're seeing the beginning of the real decline these past few years - with not only stagnant real income growth, but a decline in the amount of things we can afford, and that means less college education, a less educated work force, and rapidly accelerating (if it wasn't already) income inequality.

When you're priced out of a good education (can't afford one) that's when we cease to be a merit-based society where able people work their way up. That's the end of the American Dream in not so many words.
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As it said, it's an ultralight which means that (at least in the US) you apparently don't need a license. You probably still need to conform to some FAA flight rules, so I doubt they would like you to meander into SFO Class B airspace...
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Where can reviewers come up with admirable Hydroxatone handbooks? That is a large operation. I'm always adding new guesses dealing with Hydroxatone. I am being somewhat confusing. They ought to have realistic expectations as long as now I'm off to Fantasy Land. How thrilling! That was a customized version. Hydroxatone is kind of in the background. In this post I wanted to give you a shortcut to begin that with Hydroxatone.
I miss "The earth abides".
To put it in a slightly hyperbolic yet entirely honest way: I want Apple (or brand of your choice) to make decisions for me; to tell me what I want and what I want more; to assure me my decisions are unequivocally right and indeed, mine. In this my desire for desires is validated, encouraged and fulfilled.

We need to go deeper.

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Sounds awesome, but I wonder about reliability and the consequences of engine failure. You can land airplanes and helicopters without power, but if that two-stroker kicks it in air I fail to see how there'll be anything but a big splat. And two-strokes aren't exactly known for being the most reliable either...
"The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.

Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion."

--> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.htm...

Also: "Back when taxes were so high, the rich were really good at tax avoidance."

I have yet to see any time-series on tax avoidance or loopholes. If you do have some data on this claim, please give a reference; otherwise, you know...
There's a difference between questioning authority and disrespecting authority. I agree that one should question authority, but if you start a relationship from a position of disrespect, the relationship can go nowhere but down.

There is also a difference between questioning the teacher as a person versus questioning the material he teaches. The students may not agree with some of the material, but most of the time the teacher is someone who's underpaid, and works way too hard to try to give them knowledge to give them a better life and to help them succeed, often times to lift them out of a life of poverty and low skilled labor. You can question his methods, his material, but to question his intentions can be going too far.
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Bioinformatic workloads, huh? Sounds important.

I don't believe you.

If it was major number crunching, you'd batch that crap on the fastest servers you could afford.

If it's interactive, the computer is waiting on you more than doing work.

Just admit it: you're a technophile that likes to fiddle with all the knobs. Fine. Whatever floats your boat.

But don't play stupid about the OP's article.

HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. have TERRIBLE marketing communications supported by TERRIBLE product family line ups.

The OP's point (hello!) is Apple's simplified product family allows them to achieve better economies of scale then their competitors.

Very simple.
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I specifically paged through the read to make sure that link had been given, and then came to this comment page to do the same thing.

Few people seem to know that we have real and valid reasons for indexing from 0 instead of 1.
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Basically the same thing, except the day is divided up into 1000 parts instead of 100.
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That was funny yes. I also loved the slideshow itself. I wonder if it's written in CoffeeScript? If so, that really shows that you can make really cool things like this (interactive, cool effects, and even with code interpreters) in CoffeeScript.
Safety issues aside, how practical is this really for a daily commute? Even if you halve the 60mph for 30 minutes estimate, that still works for a lot of executive's commutes.
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That product suffers from what I call "the Segway syndrome". Namely, you look extremely dorky on it.
From what I understand it's not audits, exactly. It's to make scamming the company harder.

The Barings bank collapse, for example, was brought about by one guy who juggled the books and hid information over a long period. That's much easier to pull off if you are around all the time.
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Compared to bicycles and shapes, this book is a step in the right^H^H^H a different direction in that it is data-oriented rather than object-oriented. Rather than make the claim (as they do in the introduction) that other textbooks are doing it wrong, I would have prefered to see acknowledgment that different tasks call for different approaches, and highlight that the data-oriented design presented here is usually left out of other texts. Giving examples, as they do, of tasks where the goal is simply to store and present data, it is only natural that a data-oriented design is what shows up. That does not mean that there are not programs whose job is to act on and manipulate data.

But. Fundamentally, designing classes upfront is simply the wrong way to go about it. The argument may be made that the end result (I now know what good classes look like) justifies the method, but I disagree. It is the journey that is important, not the result. The students will not remember what a good jogging journal class hierarchy is. They will remember how to design classes on paper. In my experience, classes hierarchies written on paper or on fancy UML software, are bound to be "wrong". This is a Bad Thing.

UPDATE: In fact, any tutorial about how to design classes that does not describe an iterative process, and make use of all the refactorings built into Eclipse or IntelliJ, is guaranteed to fail to teach kids what I do every day I program java (or C#).
The article says:

"The Dash Cross Compiler should be capable of taking typed Closure code (with some restrictions) and converting to Dash. Although the migration process won’t be fully automatic, it should make moving over to a Dash codebase somewhat easier."

I agree that a JS->Dash/Dart compiler is necessary to improve take-up of the new language.
He links a picture that says 2.9+ lbs., which I'll guess is possible but reeks of dodginess given that 90% of the major reviews (cnet, pcmag, engadget, laptopmag, all quote 3.3 (or 3.5) pounds for 6 cell configuration, these are easy to find with google, here's one that weighed it himself:

http://www.studenttechguide.com/2011/08/lenovo-thinkpad-x220...

I'm guessing 2.9 pounds might be for the originally planned 3 cell battery version which may be offered somehow but is not configurable through the online order at lenovo.
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I didn't want to get into a slinging match, but I take issue with all of your points.

"Error codes are a poor substitutions for Exceptions" This is debatable.

"Have to code around lack of generics" Some people complain about this, but in practice their absence hasn't been a big problem. It's still an open issue, though.

"Defer less desirable and intuitive than C# using" Again, debatable.

"array bracket notation prefixing the variable" http://blog.golang.org/2010/07/gos-declaration-syntax.html

"No proper classes?" This is a bizarre complaint. Go doesn't have classes. It has types and methods. Why would you need classes? What is a "proper" class?

The tone of your complaints implies that we didn't consider any of these things, or that these decisions were made through sheer incompetence. This couldn't be further from the truth. Language design is just as much about what you exclude as what you include. One of Go's major strengths is its simplicity. It's a very small language; so small, you can read the spec in one sitting! http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html

As has been pointed out already, your comparison between Go and CoffeeScript is not illustrative of much. Go is typed, CoffeeScript is not. The "cat" comparison is very strange. Your (very unidiomatic, and in some places plain wrong) Go program re-implements everything from a syscall level, while the CoffeeScript example uses library calls. Why?

Here's how one might write a similar "cat" in Go:

package main

import (
"io"
"log"
"os"
)

func cat(name string) os.Error {
f, err := os.Open(name)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer f.Close()
if _, err = io.Copy(os.Stdout, f); err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}

func main() {
for _, arg := range os.Args[1:] {
if err := cat(arg); err != nil {
log.Print(err)
}
}
}

This handles multiple files specified on the command line, and handles errors. (The CoffeeScript one just throws them, right?) Not bad for 24 lines of code.
> make me think coffeescript is more of a giant bag of good ideas

Just a giant bag, period.
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Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but I don't get why there's such a hype over CoffeeScript. People seem to prefer learning a brand new language in order to avoid getting proficient in another language they already (should) know.
Or in other words, people prefer to learn a language that will code another language for them. Its like I'll go and learn Japanese just so I can use it to write phonetic English.
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Trust is a problem. I'm going to hand over my package to someone I don't know, and give them money? What motivation do they then have to actually deliver it?

I love the idea of crowd-sourcing things like this. If we could trust everyone then the savings and efficiencies would be phenomenal. Unfortunately you can't trust everybody, and given a network that relies on trust, someone will exploit it to personal gain and other people's loss.

If you can crack that problem then you've really got something.
Regarding #2: plug in your previous Mac's Time Machine drive and it takes two minutes to initiate a restore. All your apps and data are restored automatically for you while you sit back and have lunch. What's that process like on Windows?
I'm a little sad they didn't take it further. Some silly sites out there (I can haz...) are just begging to be written in something like this.
Notebook shopping for "dummies":

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Browse for notebooks and write down those that fit all of your criteria.

Choose the one that has the shiniest finish or cutest name.

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Pretty sure CouchSurfing is probably the inspiration for AirBnb.
These only work as no one is really competing. If other people were trying harder they would be finding different components, as happened when ibm cornered the 386 and everyone moved to the 486 instead.
Apologies if this appears dumb. After going through the link I still could not understand why is it ok to exclude the upper bound while including the lower bound? Is it because the lower bound is fixed as 0 is the smallest natural number? Or is there some other reason.
This looks appealing, especially if you have a short commute you take regularly, and assuming the unit is rugged enough to be used on a regular basis.

The interesting question to me is what kind of flight profile I'd use. 1,000 feet and fast? Or low and slow? If you knew where the power lines and towers were, it'd almost make sense to do something like fly at 100-200' or so at max speed. Assuming you had ten seconds or more of notice before the thing shut down, you could probably plop yourself quickly into some kind of landing. Much easier that screwing around with the parachute. If I were going to be doing engine diagnostics and parachute drills, I'd want to be up in the 3000-5000' range, and personally I'd get a little woozy at that altitude zooming along without nav lights, a transponder, or even a big profile. But perhaps that's the recommended operation?
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Choice of syntax affects how easy it will be to create tools for the language (IDE syntax highlighting, code browsing/navigation, automated refactoring, etc). There is still plenty of room (and need!) for improvement, for innovation. At the other extreme, imagine a world where every language used C++'s syntax.
o_O makes no sense at all. I won't have my code look like crap just because somebody found it incredibly hilarious.
I am going to switch away from Apple's shitty notebooks and probably never use one again, and I agree with the GP.
FYI (based on comments in this thread made by you and others), C# is nothing like Java, despite similar C-derived syntax.
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Oh, I'm absolutely not trying to bash Brendan. The fact that he managed to produce anything at all in the short time he had is profoundly impressive on its own, and the core of genius that exists in between the Bad Parts is worthy of all kinds of admiration. Also, the way I understand it, he originally intended to make a Scheme implementation for the browser - unsuccessfully, alas, but it still suggests he may well be the most amazing man in web history, even if he does know how to use a razor.

The point of the JS bashing in the slides is that the Bad Parts do exist, and CoffeeScript does a great job of routing around them, as does Strict Mode.
I never thought of it that way before. That's brilliant. :)
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But The Shawshank Redemption taught me no one ever looks at a man's shoes! Or has that reached enough critical mass to make it so people notice shoes now? Or are you just implying people's brains notice, but for most people it won't be a conscious notice and they'll just subconsciously want nice shoes or respect/disrespect someone?
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Ah, I see... so they're about 5 months away from canceling the project. (http://xkcd.com/678/)
Why? Most of the contents of these papers have made their way into books and programming languages. There's nothing wrong with getting it from a secondary source.
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No, it really isn't. There's a reason Intel's integrated graphics have improved so significantly with Sandy Bridge.
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Ah, I didn't notice that, thank you. You are correct, that would have been much better.

Fortunately, it's pretty easy to convert to Python 2.7, so hopefully people will do it quickly.
It really depends on the technology. If Apple buys all of the production next gen chips not much people can do about it, unless they beat Apple to the punch, and so far they haven't.
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It worked on one level: this is the first time I (and I suspect many of you) has voluntarily tried Bing for a long time.
The Microsoft stores feel like really bad rip-offs of the Apple stores and overall their employees do not seem to be knowledgeable about the stuff they are selling. That has been my experience when walking into a Microsoft store.
I'd say that iTunes killed itself in the debugger because the music industry didn't want you to see what their DRM does.

:/
assign it to whatever name you like...?

Javascript functions are first class citizens.
In the case of CoffeeScript, the appeal, in my mind, is that it's _not_ a brand new language, it's just an improved syntax and some extra language features over what is essentially plain old JavaScript. Anyone who already grasps the fundamental concepts of JavaScript can master CoffeeScript in a matter of hours. Of course, the syntax is a matter of taste, and one might prefer something like JavaScript 1.8, which comes with the same new language features as CoffeeScript, and more. But some of us (and I suspect we come mostly from Python and Ruby) prefer the concise syntax of CoffeeScript over all those curly braces and semicolons.
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As a consumer of programming languages, I'd like the evolution of languages in the mainstream to be less incremental and more punctuated.

While there is such a thing as punctuated equilibrium, I believe you'll find that evolution is largely incremental in nature. Seems like evolution simply has to happen this way, whether we're talking about biology or technology, including programming languages.
I don't think many people want videophones. That would mean having to wear pants and t-shirts all day and combing your hair. That's to me why it never became reality.

So in effect people didn't know they wanted SMS but when they got it they loved it. People claimed they wanted Videophones but when they understood the drawbacks they balked.
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Why would significant whitespace impede tooling? If the compiler can parse it, why can't your refactoring tools?
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Pre-conditioned to like. Interesting way of putting it, but then how exactly has Apple pre-conditioned people to like their designs?

I think it's more likely that Apple's choice of aesthetic just appeal to the majority.
Dijkstra explains it pretty clearly - there are two main reasons.

The first is so that the number of elements in the array/list/vector/collection is given by upper-lower.

The second is so that successive intervals re-use the same number, the upper bound of one becoming the lower bound of the next.

This is python we can have:

L[:3], L[3:6], L[6:23], L[23:40], L[40:]

With the repeated numbers we know that all elements of L have been included. Further, we know that given:

L[start:end]

... then (provided L had at least "end" elements to start with) the resulting length is end-start. If you included the end point then the length would be end-start+1 which is fertile ground for fence-post errors.
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Well, can you develop a little bit please?
Well, its true the syntax of CoffeeScript is trivial, and coming from Python background myself I find it very easy to comprehend. But I also find Javascript fairly easy to work with and to be honest I rather work on my target language without the abstraction of another (at least in the case of JavaScript). Take the javascript issues covered in the presentation - they are not hard to work with as long as you treat them as part of the Javascript package (for example, var your local variables to make them local. not hard to make into a habit).
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