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"neural nets can be strengthened like any other muscle, especially if there is social encouragement pushing in one direction or the other."

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Just like everything else in the world of human beings, we are seeing mutual feedback between society and genetics, which flows in both directions and is impossible to separate.

Like I said in my other comment, I am not arguing that biology isn't a factor. On the contrary, I am arguing that biology and society both play mutually reinforcing roles, the problems begin when people start trying to paint behaviour as an immutable product of predefined genetic destiny, and then using this to support political stances that promote their own status in society.
You'd like to buy the whole boxed set of articles, rather than watch the articles once per week with ads between?

Me too. But I also like the tease.
I'm observing some people trying to break into technology. Yes, there are online tools available. Yes, many of them are free. One of the complaints I hear is that the target platform you choose moves so fast.

Generalized, it means software -- the technology and the economy -- runs at a higher tempo. In order to step into the stream, you have to first match the new tempo.

I suspect that the rest of the economy stays in a slump because they are out-of-phase tempo-wise with software technology ... or that the tools that drive up the tempo of innovation in software has not made it out to the mainstream yet. (And even if it did, it will leave people behind simply because there are people who will refuse to impedance match).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA The original Comodo attack was discussed by Moxie Marlinspike at Blackhat USA 2011 - quite an interesting discussion on the issue.
>>>> Even if they're only relaying the news without checking.

Dunno if you recognize that, but it's my premise from earlier. In it I was talking about a scenario like the one in Mexico is thought to be - a re-tweeter, not a rumor creator.
They have that (instead of report a problem, click "Edit this place"). They also let you change your own businesses name whenever you want. It's an easy process.
It had a slight iPhone success. ~5,000 copies, never got very much publicity despite an average review of about 4.5, now taken down I'm afraid.

I'm currently playing around doing a HTML (DOM, not 5) version. Unfortunately I don't have as much time as I'd like to play with such things on the side. Everyone who has played it agrees it's fun.
It happens. I used to work with a guy whose expertise was Java GUI development and who knew NOTHING about web stacks at all. He's been looking for work, and kept getting told that it was a big problem that he didn't know anything about web development. Someone even told him in an interview that he was getting dangerously close to the "point of no return" where his skills were so stale that he'd be unemployable anywhere else.

I spent a lot of late nights helping him come up to speed because he's not a bad guy. Even though he probably should have been doing this himself, the fact of the matter is that he chose poorly and now knows a lot about something that is growing less and less valuable every day. You can say that he's not an "engineer" but that's really just the No True Scotsman fallacy talking. It's really hard to compete on the job market when hiring managers just cut out huge swathes of your knowledge a priori, and the fact that happens is what concerns me.
Oh, in the morning it occurs to me that a simple argument by induction will show that any function g with g = F(g) must in fact be factorial, so that's one way we can know the fixed point is unique. :)
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The way he imports the module is just crazy. Just download the file and import it normally.
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That doesn't change the situation. Right now, writing applications is harder to get right, because the basic storage mechanism is a filesystem that forces a hierarchy upon you and provides only the most rudimentary safety guarantees (no ACID, no snapshots, etc.).

It happens that Solaris, FreeBSD, OSX, and windows (yes, windows) have taken a good, strong step forward to address this issue. Unfortunately, linux is behind. I say that mainly to show priorities -- one would think that any feature that fundamentally makes applications easier to write would be the top priority of an OS.
I recently finished Priceless: The Hidden Psychology of Value by William Poundstone [1]

A number of great lessons in this, but perhaps the key one was that pricing is not as much of a 'dark art' as many of us believe. There's a good deal of scientific research into pricing successfully and profitably, which is detailed therein.

In relation to the OP, of course you need to know where to start - is $100/hour high or low for my industry and my experience? - etc. Once you have that information you can build your pricing strategy

The next step (as chopsueyar alludes to elsewhere in this discussion) is clearly communicating all of the right expectations so you do what the client wants, the client is delivered what they want, they pay you on time, and you have the choice to delight them and win loyalty and/or referrals.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Priceless-Hidden-Psychology-William-...
Uhhh... but aren't all the cool kids using nginx?
there should be API but for programming the city. and regulations written in programming language.
I'm sure if the economy continues its downward spiral, these software jobs will evaporate just like many of the others.
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Feynman would be pleased. It would seem there's no longer "plenty of room at he bottom", and only 50 years after his challenge.

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
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I always thought it was evolutionary. To be afraid of change and new things because new things bring unforeseen consequences. Better to stick with what works, picking berries in this bush, rather than venture across the river to get to the other bushes and risk being eaten by something.

Also, I remember a study done a long time ago on primates on an island. They all had a very specific way of opening coconuts or whatever, that they taught their young and each other, it wasn't very effective. So the researchers taught one of the primates a new and better way of opening a coconut and released him back with the others. Even though they others could clearly see that his way of opening coconuts was better and easier, the group stuck with the ways of the old. Perhaps because they wanted to conform and not stand out. Little by little a large number of them started using the new method over time. And when a certain percentage of them were using the new method the others converted as well. Lesson: We do what we do because society tells us to.
> TC has a huge impact on the startup market. They are the most powerful tech news business in the world and can literally move the market on a startup with a single blog post.

In my experience this is exaggerated. What TC can do is put you on the radar with early adopters for 24 hours. This does not make or break your company. Awareness is only one small problem you have, and TC readers are some of the least sticky hits you will get.
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How about evil-mode? I heard it's newer than vimpulse.
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Cool, never used hg, thanks.
Git might have a module; I've never seen it if it does.
However, having it separate to git means we can pull in other data to build up a complete picture of the users activity - the comments made in an issue tracker for instance.
We have many ways of defining [ab]normality in human physiology and behaviour. Statistical abnormality, what you are using in your comment, is just one, and it alone is insufficient: if we only relied on statistical abnormality, maths geniuses would be just as in need of treatment as those with downs syndrome!

So, we must consider other factors, such as distress, social norms, and maladaptivity. Obviously these bring their own attendant set of intractable ethical problems. Such is the lot of the medical practitioner.

See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Abnormality_(...
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This talk by Jonathan Blow (author of Braid) has totally changed how I think about writing games, and certainly since I listened to it I've got much closer to finishing any of my personal projects than I have in years, hopefully will release something soon (I believe that games are one of the few areas where 'release quick, release often' is a bad idea, although I seem to be getting proved wrong by minecraft).

http://the-witness.net/news/2011/06/how-to-program-independe...
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It varies based on location. The unrealistic "we require 5 years experience in a technology that's 3 years old" HR people still exit. Even more common is N years of desktop app programming experience counting as 0 years of web programming experience (regardless of platform).
Found this original interview abt Fiplab and copterkid along with founders Pix. Great going guys. All the very best. http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/OpenFeint/m_news.asp?c=1...
Mathematical literacy is more than just writing down complex equations.

for (a = 0; a < n; a++) {
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do_something(a,b);
}}

How many times is do_something called? If you can say n^2 in under 15 seconds you are now better at math than the average American.
CAs will continue to be broken into, or be pressured by governments. If the trust model doesn't change, nothing else will matter. The best suggestion I've seen is to allow certs to be signed by multiple CAs (currently the X.509 certificate format doesn't allow this). Subverting multiple certificate authorities is much harder. (This will also need browser checks to ensure they're from truly different organizations, rather than just different names, or even from different countries for the paranoid.) It also gives software vendors a nice way to show which CAs they trust -- rather than including the list of keys with their software, instead they can sign the CAs certifying keys, and revoke when they are no longer trusted.
I am baffled. He's talking about them trying to settle how companies would bill each other for email, and the complications of interconnected email as if it was a complex subject, in 1990. SMTP was first defined in 1982.

The problem they had was that they were trying to charge for each email sent, and the internet doesn't really support that kind of thing.

The sooner that ISPs realise that they are suppliers of dumb pipes, and charge accordingly, the faster they'll be making money from what is their real business.
It's pretty region and skill specific.

If you live somewhere outside of about 4 or 5 locations in the USA, getting a programming job can be hard. Also, skills that are hot in a place like NYC or Silicon Valley are often next to useless in other areas. (learning this the hard way)
How does his app not match your requirements? It took some fairly hard work (well, he claims) to write the code, it took him a lot of work to actually send out the invites, and people certainly received some value out of the app.

So what should he have done differently?
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My last space-constrained project, I had 1920 bytes to work with.

It's amazing what functionality you can cram into that amount of code, without really trying all that hard.

(Then going back to C# tools and having GB of RAM to muck with, that's fun).
i've been trying to think of possible biases in this. one that i've come up with is that (i am probably going to explain clumsily here, but i hope you get the idea) women tend to share problems and express feelings more. so perhaps it's just that i hear women discuss this problem more.

maybe men feel as bad, but don't say.
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There is some video of this camera in action on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfnU7ts7mlk
That's exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks.
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Disagree on "tough math". Strongly disagree.

Be analytical, practical and tenacious. Know how to abstract, design, program. Know tools, know platforms. Know how to triage and actually ship stuff. Be good to work with. Keep learning, constantly. Read tons of code.

But "tough math"? Honestly, haven't needed anything more than simple statistics for most problems.

"Tough math" seems more like an ego thing. I'd watch out for that.
It's always great to see startup success stories outside of San Francisco. Well done fiplap! (cups of tea all round)
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A photo is a snapshot of an instant - and without an immediate 'before' and 'after' context, the moment is open to interpretation. Thus it's not an accurate photographic record of an event, even though the photo itself is fantastic (in the original sense of the word).

Here's another example: the 'Falling Man' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man) - perceived by many as calm, serene, even graceful... Totally inaccurate: other photos in that sequence showed him to be in obvious distress.
I am sure it doesnt exist as you sir marshray havent seen it. I must have just woken up from a dream where Windows machines running on Itanium also ran Oracle database ported to Windows Itanium.
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I'd go further and say this is a big problem for any supply-demand system where there is significant latency. Farming, Degrees etc. Wave effects seem inevitable in this case
That isn't considered "tough math" though. Surely basic math is needed but most developers won't actually use high level math (except to get the degree).
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From the article:

That's a total of more than 21 PB of configured storage capacity! This is larger than the previously known Yahoo!'s cluster[1] of 14 PB.

Guess they are comparing data volumes. But great for pointing out that they do not have the largest in machine count.

[1] http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/posts/2010/05/scalab...
You're correct for general problem solving in computer science. However, in order to get a degree from most universities you have to have taken 3 courses in calculus, a course in linear algebra and a course in differential equations. To most people those courses are "tough math".
I don't want to spoil your day, but do you realize that you have no idea, what runs on the broadband core of your HTC (Samsung, Motorola, whatever) phone? That's the core that boots first and then loads SPL on your application processor.
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I don't see the problem? You just tell them your fee is more than that, and that's it.

Basically, you either work for free (as a favour to friends or charity) or full charge. No in between.

The power of "free" over "friend's fee" is that they know it's a favour so they can't feel entitled to anything--and if they still do, you may feel entitled to take a dump in their kitchen sink (free of charge).
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If you don't mind having your statistics in public, have a look at Masterbranch http://www.masterbranch.com/

It also serves very well as a CV for programmers.
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That sounds like exactly what Linus does with pull requests on LKML.
There is no such issue. You dont seem to understand what you are talking about. Look up ABI. They couldnt possibly port software as big as the OS itself and MS Office / Oracle DB to Itanium without having stable C/C++ and Win32 ABI/API.
Thanks for pointing that out. Firefox doesn't show that, but Chrome and Safari do. Opera kinda shows that. Will work on fixing it though. Thanks!
There has been loads of cultural change, even in the USA. For example, it's no longer accepted that all women really want is to have kids & raise a family. (There are several instances of this in Mad Men, from Betty Draper's psych issues at the start) This change is due to 'second wave feminisim', have a look at this book which covers it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique . To think that all that has is the ratios in university is ignoring attitudes, which did change.

Yes, women are not the largest ratio of militaries, however the attitude to women in military has change. Today people would balk at the idea of putting 5 years in the military, we think they should be protected, and being in the military would harm them. This used to be the attitude to women in the military.

Attitudes have changed.
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This, and previous FB APIs, seem to really be lacking. For a Python API, for instance, you shouldn't be calling generic 'graph' functions and then passing strings to tell it what to do. If you want to do that, you might as well just construct the URL yourself.

Python is powerful for hackers because of introspection. You can pull up a shell and all of the documentation is available with type() and dir() and iPython's tricks. An API that takes actions as strings fails for Python.
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Ok two suggestions. Let the page title match the document name, and save all documents implicitly, or at least documents that have been edited to more than, say 32 characters. The save button is hard to find
(I work at GitHub.)

Linus wrote into github support with some good and pointed feedback as well, most of which was related to email sent when a pull request is opened vs. what you might expect to see when someone submits a patch series to a mailing list. I assume this is what he's referring to with, "so from the pull request it's actually hard to see what somebody asks you to pull," in the quoted bit from the article. We have some changes lined up that we hope will address this.

As for the quality of pull requests, it's unfortunate that a people took this as an opportunity to troll (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/6). That will hopefully settle down once this is no longer "news". If not, we'll find a way to a address it.

Lastly, it's worth noting that the linux-kernel mailing list -- where the majority of linux related development and discussion happens -- is an open list (i.e. doesn't require subscribing / passing moderation to post). The ability for anyone to send a pull request to anyone at any time on GitHub is based somewhat on the success of open-list policies on projects like the kernel. While we're always looking for ways to help with trolls, the basic model isn't something we think needs to be "fixed".
I actually believe Siegler here. Arrington does have integrity in my eyes, and I don't see investing and reporting on startups to be some insurmountable conflict of interest. Most of the time the interests are in alignment—you wouldn't invest in something that you don't like. Granted there is a potentially more serious conflict of interest in the case of negative press, but TC is far from the only tech news source, they aren't a regulator or someone with real power to suppress a story. And contrary to popular mythology, TC coverage does not make or break a startup.

That's all my personal opinion though (I just don't take TC that seriously). In the public sphere you can't afford even the appearance of impropriety, and Arrington wants to have his cake and eat it too. If he really wanted to give all his detractors a big "Fuck You" on the ethics front then he never should have sold to AOL. Just in general, you can't sell to a major corporation and believe that you'll still be a scrappy upstart. They might have a hands-off policy as long as it's profitable, but when the chips are down their collective asshole will pucker up so hard it'll pop the old head off like a dandelion.

Siegler needs to grow up and realize that TC was done the day Arrington sold out.
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Some corrections.

NetBurst was not 'cheating' by using a long pipeline to get higher clock speeds. NetBurst was purposely designed to get higher clock speeds therefore better performance. Intel thought it would get to 4 ghz, 5 ghz, 6 ghz, and beyond on NetBurst which would theoretically be better than what we have today if it had worked. Obviously it didn't.

The Core Duo was not based on NetBurst (i.e. Pentium 4). It was based on the Pentium M which was an improved Pentium 3. The Core Duo and everything that came after it are based on the old P6 architecture that started with the Pentium Pro.

Intel's saving grace was going back to the P6 and abandoning NetBurst. Intel had adopted x86_64 on NetBurst and it was worthless.

PowerPC can get smaller dies and lower power consumption just fine. In fact most PowerPC chips today are smaller and lower power than the G4 ever was. Motorola makes them all day long for automaters, defense contractors, and network device makers. The problem was Motorola's other customers didn't care about performance. Nobody wanted to run Photoshop on guided missiles.

The PPC 970 (i.e. G5) was powerful, but IBM made CPUs for big iron. When a CPU ran hotter than expected it was the mechanical engineer's problem to fix in the enclosure. IBM just didn't need to figure out how to make chips with tight operational constraints. IBM didn't have the expertise to get the PPC 970 to work in a Power Book and IBM didn't have any incentive moving forward to build that expertise.

It just so happened that Intel was in the middle of its NetBurst epiphany. NetBurst was bad. Centrino was great. The Core Duo was the future. Now Intel was talking Apple's language.

PS. IBM's POWER7 just came out in 2010. The PPC 970 that Apple called the G5 was a low power version of the POWER4.
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