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So that's it, it's just a big screen.

The TV we watch most often is a Panasonic 42" commercial plasma display. Just a big monitor. No tuner, no speakers, just a screen and some inputs.

One of those inputs is a Tivo, and 1/2 of the time we're watching Netflix through it. 1/4 of the time we're watching torrented shows off of a WD media player box. The other 1/4 of the time we're watching the local news, or listening to it in the background (for what purpose I'm not sure, it's mostly garbage).

I had digital cable for about 3 months earlier this year. Decided to finally try it. And, after 3 months, decided it wasn't worth it.

The US is moving away from the old "broadcast" models quickly. People almost don't even care about the actual content, to the extent that there are many viable options to fill a block of time with various programs.
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Freudian slip?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/01/...

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What is required to trigger the bumb in the salary? I ask, because I assume that the education has to be relevant.
Just apply and find out. Honestly, you may well end up making a fool of yourself -- but at least you'll have an answer. Fear/ego is a pretty poor excuse for not trying. I'm saying this as someone who has bombed a couple of coding interviews recently. It's frustrating and embarrassing, but you just pick yourself up, learn from your mistakes, and move on. If nothing else, coding interviews are great learning experiences.
I don't know about the quality of the other subjects (since I don't know enough about them to judge him) but I do know that his economy lectures were pretty good.
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> 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.

Even if this is true (which is debatable at best), it's a long stretch from the blogger's aphorism "If you don't know $VOCAL_DIVA_PROGRAMMER, Scala==hard". He obviously doesn't imply you should be familiar with Mongrel to have a chance to become good in Scala.

All this nonsense would be unnecessary if the author made his point by mentioning, say, "referential transparency" or "map-reduce" instead of "Zed Shaw".
I'm no statistical whiz but I'm not sure they can even claim There was no significant difference between the two teaching methods, but rather we have not demonstrated a signifiant difference (i.e. absence of proof vs proof of absence). Despite being supportive of the Khan Academy, I can't conclude that it isn't in fact terrible compared with traditional methods on the basis of this experiment. And given that, if this article is the first step, it's the first step in the wrong direction, like starting out to optimise software based on a faulty benchmark.
Yeah, a month of 100 hours work weeks can be bad. Three months are much, much worse.

It's not just hours, though; what's worse is that "no time to stop for gas, we're already late" mentality of all deathmarches. So you end up working from unrealistic specs implementing architecturally unsound decisions using wrong tools and digging through a mess of unreadable ad-hoc code along the way. For 100 hours a week, no less.

It's funny, but what helps me most to recover after a deathmarch is more programming -- but done right this time. Something small, something smart, something that needs more thinking than typing. Maybe Euler project or codegolf, or maybe your own small scheme or forth implementation, or something :)
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Much better.

But VSS is so horrid, that's not really saying much.

Microsoft has never figured out the whole "team" aspect of collaborative work, and heavily relies on file locking to prevent things like merge conflicts. Whether you find this a plus or not is really up to you.

There are much better and cheaper options available.
Not just lack of documentation either. It is really complex spaghetti code with almost no modularization. What modularization there is (organs and even tissues) is on a gross (output) level, on the genetic (code) level almost everything affects almost everything.
I agree with your opinion this part of the article is silly/wrong. Then again, I was responding directly to the parent's claim, rather than "commending on the article through responding to the parent" ;)
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Smartest thing I ever did: I went to a TMRC open house in what must have been the final year or two of their relay-based switching system. That thing was just awesome. It made all these great clacking noises.

Now if only I'd made it before MIT destroyed building 20.
This was a result of kernel.org being compromised. Kernel.org is rebuilding all of their servers, and the android repo will return soon (it was reported it could be as early as yesterday [1], but that was obviously not the case)

[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/09/linux-kernel...
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You may be correct about the ratings(though there are such things as single tranche CDOs), but regardless of how the rating happens, the toxic assets were insanely overrated. Most of what we call toxic assets now had very little of any quality assets in them, this is especially so since a lot of these CDOs were made up of the "stinky sausage" tranches from another CDO or MBS. They were the hotdogs & mystery meats of the financial industry, but those marketing them advertised them as a "good source of protein".

You should take some of your own medicine & read my first link to Huffington Post:

"Perhaps more than 10,000 Wells Fargo borrowers were inappropriately steered into more expensive subprime mortgages or had their loan documents falsified by bank personnel, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday."

I added the robo-signing scandal as more evidence that they are willing to play underhanded. Additionally the reason for robo-signing & rushing through the foreclosures may have been a tactic to hide deals that had less than valid documentation & sweep them under the carpet.

As for editing, I did rearrange or restate some things differently, but I didn't remove the two lines you quoted.
You're probably right. Now I recall reading about kernel.org being hacked.
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I had a course split between low level computer architecture and networks. The low level part was awesome, but the guy who did the network part was reading from the powerpoint slides that came with the teachers manual.

It was so bad, I stopped going to the lectures. Ended up with the highest possible grade, so little was lost.
> Tim Cook is weak and Apple is doomed

Sarcasm aside, that's probably true (ignoring your hypothetical person doing poor inference).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting
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Google did a pretty extensive ad campaign on TV and print in India for Chrome - recently. Maybe that has given them a push.

Tough to explain FF's performance though. Surprising.
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> 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

This quote made by day, thanks.
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Bangladesh got recognition from the UK and several European countries in 1971 AFAIK. By December of 1971, even the armed conflict was over.

Actually, being off by one year isn't such a big deal. Most maps from the first half of 1971 would not show Bangladesh. But it lists Bangladesh as being previously of India before 1971. That is just wrong since it was part of Pakistan from 1947 to 1971.
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How big is the pipe comming in to the server?

Because unless it is very large, chances are that it will not be able to banckrupt Linode.

On the other hand, they pretty much sealed the deal about where I will host my next project.
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I really hate it when people (mathematicians?) misuse the percentage notation...

> increased their percentage of correct answers by 5.2% over the five-week period
> ...
> For example, a student who started the summer knowing 60% of the correct answers in the traditional class ended the five weeks knowing 65.2% of the correct answers.

This means that the percentage of correct answers increased 5.2 percentage points, which is actually an 8.67% improvement (60% + 60% * 8.76 / 100 = 65.2%).
It lists Bangladesh as formerly being a part of India. That is not just an error in a date - it is just factually wrong.
You don't need any projects or open-source commitments to get a job, let alone an internship. Just find a company that you think is interesting, and ask around. If it's a small company, they might not have a formal internship program, and you might get a job just by having the initiative to ask. Companies are always in a war for talent.

Be aware, companies are not monolithic entities. There's the "functional departments" (HR, accounting), and they are easy to find. But they are useless for making contacts. If the core business is IT (and you really want to be in an IT shop, not just plugging in people's network cards) then you need to get onto the project managers (or just project workers) in the company. HR is a waste of time, unless you must talk to them. Google, LinkedIn, the companies website, email, and a phone are your friends. Find someone who looks like a developer, email, then follow up with a call. It never hurts to ask.

If you want to do a demo project (and while you might not need it, but it won't hurt), tell us your skills, and I'm sure someone will suggest a reasonable "Hello world"y project you could do. It doesn't have to be revolutionary, or even good. Just enough to show you know how to get stuff working.
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Pretty excited to see. The research community needs a standardized corpus.

However, not as exciting as I hoped it would be from the heading.

What would be awesome - for us anyway - is if it was all/most tweets from a sampling of users (not just random tweets across all users) because then we could do the kind of analysis we're trying to do at hashmapd.com. Now that would be awesome.

If it's not that why not just consume the spritzer for a few days? You'd get the same kind of data. Well I guess the objective is to create a standardized dataset, which is neat, but not what we need.
Strange indeed. If her answer had been that it's unnatural, she may have a point (not one I'd uphold thouhg), but unethical makes no sense.
It's well known to any UK resident that the bank system here is broken, made for and run by the large corporate companies. They are not used to dealing with startups, and I have a feeling that they don't want to either..
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Resigned, but still writing for the site, which is continued bullshit.
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Funny that their current e-mail contact is: crunchfund@gmail.com on CrunchBase page: http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/crunchfund
>most developers use fairly explicitly defined state machines [...] Every time they fire up a regular expression

They're not using state machines, in that case it just happens to be an implementation detail of the regular expression library they're using.
If I remember correctly, there are two main arguments: First, tactics. You learn how to move in a combat situation, you can theoretically recreate your school in your favorite game etc.

Secondly, it (along with violent movies) makes you more callous towards violence, so that you're able to pull the trigger (repeatedly) in the first place.

The latter is actually somewhat based on reality. The military has spent lots of effort in the last few decades to increase and focus the killing instinct of their soldiers. If I remember correctly, soldiers in WW2 (on any side) often shot over the head of their enemies because they couldn't imagine themselves killing another human being. Needless to say, the world's armies have spent a lot of moolah to correct that.

And while Germany apparently thought that once you're 18 it's okay to imprint you in that manner (well, theoretically, it's not like the German Bundeswehr does a good job with this -- or anything at all), adolescents should be "protected" from this at any cost.

It's a slippery slope with civil liberties in Germany. It's somewhat understandable that there were laws being put into place in '49 to prevent a Fourth Reich from rising. The problem is that once you start censorship for one reason, it's getting increasingly easier to extend the principle to other areas.

Meanwhile, I haven't read a single news item that has any problems with the fact that a lot of people on the African continent get killed by German guns. I hear that the G36s are quite popular on both sides of the Libyan conflict.
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For a model railroad similar in spirit (I think) that was built out into a startup and now a successful business (by charging visitors and selling merchandise), check out the "Miniatur Wunderland" in Hamburg, Germany.

They build and program many things by themselves. Recently, they completed a very impressive addition: an airport, complete with starting and landing airplanes, cars etc.
I listened to an interview with one of the founders, Gerrit Braun, where he says that for the airport alone they wrote several hundred thousand lines of code.

The airport:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz4NcTnQedo

Camera mounted on train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBArNAyODLc

More:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV
The junior and senior tranches can only be equally risky if the probability distribution is perfectly binary (i.e., the only possibilities are either all borrowers pay 100% back, or all borrowers pay 0% back). This is simply a mathematical identity.

Or if you're in bed with ratings agencies who will rate whatever, however you want & you have an entire industry that will take their word for it.
The ethical motivation is a lot smaller though, I presume.
> which is actually an 8.67% improvement (60% + 60% * 8.76 / 100 = 65.2%).

Yes, it is 8.67%.

Illustrating the calculation is better served by:

Initial: 60

After: 65.2

Increase: 5.2

% Increase: 5.2 / 60 * 100 = 8.76
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Really waiting for a frameworks that makes sharing server/client models easy. Using backbone on the server feels like such a hack, as it was designed for the client. You end up being forced to use jsdom to create a server side dom so that the jquery heavy backbones views can work.
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It was transferred to an "internal account" which they keep for assets awaiting solicitors to approach them with respect to wills and inheritance. They stuck it all back in a new account without too much hassle after a couple of (very awkward and strange) phone calls and a visit to the branch to make sure I was indeed still alive and breathing.
Yeah, I mean it's not like that's the original price of FCP7 before it was pulled or anything.

Wait, yes it is, FCPX is basically a different product and production house (the kind of people who will buy a 5-figure piece of single-user software if they need it) have asked for FCP7 to be available again for their production due to features missing from FCPX and the inanity of switching mid-project.

FYI, Avid Media Composer (one of FCP7's competitor) is 3 times the price of FCP7.
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My experience is with Java and Python mainly. I have done a little with C, C++, and JavaScript, but not enough that I would even consider including them on my resume.

I'll be taking 4 CS courses this year (2 in the Fall, 2 in the Winter), they are: Object-Oriented Programming II (Java), Data Analysis with Scripting Languages (Python), Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures (Java), and Logic for Computer Science.

I don't consider myself incompetent by any means, but I still have a lot to learn. I find problem solving fun, but unfortunately I get fed up if I get stuck and can't make in progress towards finding a solution.
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As someone who was there, I think it's fair to say that this article had no real business being written. Yes, the quote from Eric is accurate. However, it was literally the only sentence he spoke about the deal and it was completely devoid of any information. The two main topics of the interview were the economy (and the political landscape) and the history of modern computing as see through Eric's lens (PARC --> Sun --> Novell --> Google).
When I follow this link from the US I see: €2,136.05 – €2,216.00 (roughly $3000).

Based on the other posts, maybe you misread € for $?
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Getting a piece of paper (i.e. degree/certification). Lots of old fashioned rules are still around that automatically promote you to a new pay grade if you suddenly have a new qualification
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Yes, that is a gross oversimplification, I don't see what's stopping somebody with deep pockets like Starz from coming along and building essentially the same thing

Less space than a Nomad, no wireless. Lame.
I knew a doctor at a noted research hospital who was using Bayes to fine tune cancer treatments. I still wonder if he was on the right track with his research or was he as you put it a "crank".
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> Another example of this that John gave is when they prematurely removed Firewire from the 13" Macbook. While Steve was CEO they realized that the market wasn't ready for that so they put it back in. And everyone was happy.

A much better example is iMovie, because the exact same events unfolded as with FCP:

* Apple has iMovie HD 6, a product with its roots in iMac DV but well understood and liked by its users.

* Apple releases iMovie '08, a complete rewrite of iMovie lacking many of HD6's features and completely panned by critics, HD6 is not available anymore

* Apple makes HD6 available as a free download to all iMovie '08 owners
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The most notable part of this post for me was this quote:

> I went through a major transformation during my burnout: I now see programming as a means, not an end.

People, which is more typically a fallacy of youth, waste a lot of time arguing about pointless crap like Python vs Ruby (which are so similar technically that it's basically an argument about idioms).

Part of this I can understand: people often argue about things as a formative stage for their own views.

This also manifests itself with programmers trying to make the code "perfect", which will often entail overengineering or constant refactors (note: lack of sufficient refactoring/rewriting is a problem at the other end of the spectrum).

Another antidote to programmer burnout is this: go get a non-programming job if you've never had one. There are few better cures for your current woes than seeing how much worse things could be.
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The energy motivation is a TON of a lot smaller. Milk doesn't take near the energy to make as meat.
Just installed it. I wish it would let me browse movies by genre. Unless I'm missing it, there's no way to do that.
I'm even done with sketchy torrent sites, and different scene groups fighting over who gets to release what, and a billion codecs and formats.

What torrent sites have you ben using? I use tvtorrents, demonoid and thepiratebay, and they are great. "Billion codecs"?! my media player (totem on linux) can play them all, I don't know what codecs they are in. I never notice anything about groups fighting, there's always a file there, sometimes more than one. Doesn't matter to me if there's > 1 file. "Sketchy sites" might apply if you're using windows, which is insecure, but I use Linux and it's fine.

IME torrent sites are some of the best (and often only) ways to get lots of music, tv and film.
On portability...

I've been thinking that a laptop tripod would be nice. Googling around, I see that there are some out there, but they are too short and look too flimsy.

I think a solution could be rigged up with a good, sturdy surveying tripod.
Thats a personal blog. I would hope and expect a VC to write about the companies he has invested in on his personal blog. Cheerleading and all.
Piracy has none of these problems.
> I'm not convinced a personal stake necessarily makes for uninteresting writing, though.

I don't think the objection is it's uninteresting, rather that it's unethical.
>. It doesn't seem right that one can receive credit hours for knowledge previously held.

Sure it does. It shows you've met a bar of learning.
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