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> It's fine for presentations at conferences

Even then, the approach taken by Lawrence Lessig (hundreds of slides, very rythmic), makes the point across. Yet the slides alone are worth nothing without the presenter.

The biggest mistake is to think that the slides contain the message, a mistake often shared both by the presenter and the audience. How many times have I heard "can we get a copy of those slides?". If I ever hear this question it means I have failed as a presenter.

It's useless and missing the point to ask for the slides. Slides are not the vector of the argument, you – the presenter – are; Slides are merely here to outline the point.

Nobody reads the bullets and listen to you at the same time. Nobody will read those tables projected on that small screen at a jittery resolution. It could be bogus data and no one would care yet their mind will focus on it instead of what you say. You built a table to compute a total, so only the total matters. Guess what? Just show the total. Your discourse will expose what the bullets say, your discourse will sum up what's in the tables. Then you nail it by showing the total slide. If people do want the table to check values then its place is not in the slides, it's in a report. A document with content that you hopefully provide when it matters. Slides on the opposite should basically have a very low content ratio in contrast with your speech, or people will simply be distracted from you and read. Worse, they will unconsciously wonder why they're here listening to you when they could just as well read the content by themselves, and end up getting bored.
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concurrent = competitor
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PyPy's support for the C API is highly limited and not something to be relied upon for new code. IIRC the Cython plan is for Cython to grow the ability to emit pure Python with ctypes.
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Weird title - nothing about this company seems French
Am I right in assuming that the stated temperatures are just estimates based on proximity to the star? The Bad Astronomy article suggests this, but doesn't explicitly state this.
Really impressed with how much this feels like a native app! I've always maintained that web apps are the way forward and native apps will die.

Looking forward to checking out the code on GitHub and playing around with it.
Can you imagine "programmer's day" being officially recognized in a western society such as the US or the UK? Over here, intellectual pursuits such as programming are effectively spat upon.
He is a lefty in house of righties so the mouse never works the way he wants it to.

You didn't state your son's age, but if he is around 3 or 4yo and you have a roller-ball mouse, it might help to teach him to put the mouse in his lap and manipulate the roller ball with his thumb. The scale of the mouse has a small child moving their entire arm instead of just hand/wrist motions. This was something my youngest son did when he was 2 or 3 and it made computers much more accessible for him and he became much less dependent on me doing stuff for him.
Nice, website now 404ing and blog is private.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JqLMFQ-...

:)
Some related links worth reading:

How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman...

The food bubble:
How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/07/0083022
I really liked the idea, "a presentation, being about content, not about slides". But enforcing 3 slides per presentation is ridiculous.

A presentation should be balanced between content and visuals. Content should be presented in a manner supported by visuals. You liked the graph because it was essential and supporting the information being transmitted to you.

Also, filling a presentation with unnecessary information and talk would turn the audience off and bore them.

So stopping and thinking before doing any writing down or creating any slides is good behaviour leading good presentations.
Founder Gina Bianchini (ex-Ning) explained on launch.is that it is about setting up correct expectations: it'll have a strong "premium" component to it after launch, so apparently they don't want anyone to expect different.

I find it an interesting move given the large number of beta signups pages these days, but wouldn't sign up for MB, either.
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What are you supposed to do on "Martin Luther King" day?
In Firefox I see

- a link to a video

- a link to the source

Is the title misleading? "A html5 based iOS application to convert currencies" maybe?
I do think the competing link is a bridge too far, mostly because it involves a third party.
And from the blog: "We’ve been at our NYC office for only a month and ..."
I have noticed something, when I watch a movie with subtitles ( I am from Spain) even if it is in english, if I pay attention to the text I " disconnect" from the cinversation taking place. My attention gets focused in reading and I find difficult doing both at the same time.
I don't see it as a good way to learn a language. I never thought about powerpoints though. It is an interesting idea....
Only the word 'concurrent' is French
You can buy commercial set ups that do this, but they don't have daylight bulbs, which is how I got the idea to do it to my tank.

I used all off the shelf products. The first step was an electric wall socket timer. You can pick these up at any hardware store.

I had one going off at 6:30am for the fish tank lights (one daylight/UV & one standard neon), second one at 7am for a desk lamp to complete the full bright light effect.

On the fish tank I lights I had a second device I'm pretty sure I brought off a marine tank supplier. All it did was slowly ramp up power flow. I just put it between the lights and the wall timer and it just slowly lifted the current flow to the lights.

Last bit was a dual alarm clock, first alarm at 7am played music, second at 7:15 set the alarm.

Oh and the curtains, the main bit to hide the actual outside light pollution which could undermine the whole trick.
"The biggest mistake is to think that the slides contain the message, a mistake often shared both by the presenter and the audience. How many times have I heard "can we get a copy of those slides?". If I ever hear this question it means I have failed as a presenter." I can not agree more. A presentation must be a tool to support your ideas, your information, your thoughts. Not the way around.
Useless trivia: the French word for a competitor is "concourant", hence the mistranslation.
If they are able to be more creative and reliable without making those sacrifices, does a lack of willingness to make them matter?
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Good call, although I still feel a serious disorder might make one feel successful even in the face of failure. Too much of anything can hurt.
I agree with your sentiment but I see the other side of it. Technology is cumulative but noise slows down decision making and fragments knowledge.

The world does not need 200 programming languages, 1000 javascript frameworks, 500 different web servers and 20-odd social platforms which exist only to boost the ego of the originator who can market their idea better than othersr. It needs some concise, un-fancy-looking tools that are fit for purpose and can be used as a common ground for communicating ideas. There is so much fragmentation it's unbelievable.

Everyone thinks they can do better, yet no-one delivers any real efficiency improvement.

TBH going back in time, I can still deliver the same output as node.js with classic ASP/Jscript from 1998 arguably with less code and time spent.

Back on the subject of med research; they tend to still use Perl, bits of sticky tape and TI89/92 calculators a lot apparently (word of mouth from a friend who works in tissue sample analysis).
I still use Ubuntu because all the hardware works on my laptop. Changing UI's is easy, changing OS's is less so.

I heartily recommend XFCE with Nautilus. Simple and works like a charm for quickly loading and switching applications, which is essentially all a desktop environment needs to do.
From the help page (emphasis mine):

> Why is Minus absolutely free?
>
> Our goal is to create a world-class product and experience for our users and the business model will follow. We can see many ways Minus can monetize itself.

Wow. Wishful thinking?
Maybe I'm missing something, but VCs take a management fee, correct? So, if you raised a $200M fund, and your management fee was %5 a year, then you'd be bringing in $10M a year before you even get started. If you have 5 partners, that's $2M a year each.

Then, if you make some good investments, your firm gets a cut of the returns, plus being on boards often results in stock options in the company, etc. etc.

It seems to me that being a VC is the catbird seat of leverage. You invest other people's money and get a cut of the results.
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On that same note, all the contracts I've signed say that they own anything that relates to their core business, whenever I create it, and that makes sense to me.

So I just don't create things in my free time that relate to my day job's core business. And I think that's fair, as they pay me handsomely for all my time and ideas that apply.

Luckily, my hobby interests lie in a different realm than my day jobs usually do, so it shouldn't ever be a problem. Oddly enough, in my interview, they asked me if I was interested in the business. I told them I wasn't really, but I love programming. That turned out to be better for me than I expected. Hehe.
no, it is not. the french word for a competitor is "concurrent".
Why the iOS jail? I can think of plenty of cases where it'd be useful to have this, even on a desktop...

I know it may be 'designed' for iOS and mobile screen formats, but it seems to me a seriously bad decision not to have a 'show it to me anyway' button, along with a disclaimer that it (might) be broken on $platform...

And saying 'fork it' for an issue this trivial is not a great way to promote yourselves.
I agree with dirkdeman: make it free for beta users we provide feedback etc or change it to an early signup offer...the idea seems to very good indeed. It reminds me of the Game startup by Andrew Hsu:
http://www.andrewhsu.com/projects/gamestudio.htm.
"Concurrent"? Did you mean competitor, or counterpart, or clone?
I wonder how well it applies to schooling?
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Speaking only to the differences between PostgreSQL and SQL Server:

1. "Live" clustered indexes

2. Query Parallelism

3. A richer API for data partitioning and _arguably_ a better query optimizer for partitioned data. 9.1 sees some wonderful improvements to the optimizer in this regard and I'll be poking at those very features in the coming months.

SQL Server has query hints, but I strongly agree with the PostgreSQL's team stance on them; I'm glad they avoid them.

As far as special index types: If you need a specialized index type, and nobody supports it, you're dramatically, drastically, fantastically more likely to implement it/find someone to implement it in PostgreSQL than any commercial engine.
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Definitely. Still I am not sure if subscription is adapted on the net - do they also offer single issues? As a buyer, I rather pay single issues. At the time where there were only paper issues, we used to take a subscription for the local or national newspapers. Now that the net has so much diversity, I want to multiply my sources. The single issue order that many iPad apps offer seem more comfortable to me.
Useless trivia, round 2: concourant(fr) is concurrent(en) as in concurrency(en), concurrent(fr) from concourir(fr) is indeed competitor(en)
What about me? :) I agree with him.

So you're suggesting that the time to market of an ASP.Net MVC, NHibernate, Autofac, Razor, SQL Server application is going to be lower than a classic asp and SQL server application?
Nice app, it would be nice to see the current exchange rate that it's using on the app to calculate
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Best way is to drive it until it breaks and then you'll find out. In the meantime, save up some money for your next car.

I don't get why people have this mindset 'I best replace my car before it starts costing me money'. Even an expensive repair of $2000 is a _lot_ cheaper than investing $20,000+ in a new car. Plus it's not as if you're forced to pay the repair. If it is expensive, you can just scrap it and then spend that 20k you've been saving.

I drove my last car into the ground and will do the same with this one.
Most people seem to be fixating on the changes introduced by Unity rather than the stability and usability of the entire distribution as a whole. My thoughts:

On Unity: The fact is, Canonical cannot possibly satisfy every single Ubuntu user with a single interface. They will alienate some users and acquire others with their changes. In the end, I think Unity is a good development for the Linux community as a whole as it will probably attract many users to Linux who wouldn't normally have been. The ones who really know what they want will find a way to get around it one way or another (that is a sort of universal constant in geeks).

I can also see why they are unwilling to provide a simple option to allow both Unity and GNOME2 (in future releases I mean). Having a single codebase for a desktop environment will probably allow them to focus on real usability issues rather than compatibility ones (and whether the usability suits us hardcore geeks or not, I suspect Canonical does usability testing on these interfaces before introducing major changes. Can anyone corroborate this?). Overall, I think it's good. I have friends who would never have touched Linux with a 10 foot pole who are now loving Ubuntu with Unity (and more importantly, the ideas and community behind it).

On general stability: I think the Ubuntu team is doing a better job than most can possibly hope for. There are bugs and they will take time to fix. I suspect the priorities of these bugs is different for Ubuntu developers and for us here on HN, thus the complaints. I don't know much about their development process and efficiency level so I won't say more.
Generally, the management fee is 2%, and you get 20% of all profit (known as 'two and twenty').
Just FYI, it's "per se", not "per say" : latin for "by itself".
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I didn't say I hate Unity, I just liked Gnome better. I could live with Unity, or I could use another manager altogether...

Actually, Unity might be nice, I just like my Compiz shortcuts (center window et al).
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fredrick-pohl's novel 'jem' investigates this theme pretty nicely. highly recommended if you have not read it already.
The firm also seems to prefer investing in very young entrepreneurs. Leone said it typically invests in people who are age 25 or younger these days. [...]

Leone called the shift a thankful one, explaining that if you want a founder to serve as the VP of product or in a very important technical role or as the CEO, it’s possible to have such conversations, whereas it’s “different conversation” with a 45-year-old founder who’s “bent on being CEO.”

Read: We'd rather fund a young person who's thankful just to get funding and doesn't know his rights, because it's easier to ask for onerous terms and to boot him later.
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The (almost) only valid use of pie charts: http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html
It's not an HTML5 currency converter but an iPhone/iPod Touch currency converter. It doesn't work on iPad (and Android, and desktop browser, etc.). What are we supposed to learn from this? Bad practices? Arrogance?
Thumbs up for the hacking part!
Regarding your karma - 1001 and 4 fans seems suspicious, but is a normal consequence by getting the gorilla too quickly, because then you don't interact enough with fellow DJs / listeners and build your "network". I got it in 4 days without cheating.. but I spent way too much time in coding soundtrack (just repeating what everyone else was playing) and felt that way after:

< 1000 : I NEED bouncer gorilla !!
> 1000 : the gorilla is ridiculous.. I take the geeky red ape!
Demand for founders who've already been through an exit is high, because (especially given how the past decade has been) the number of people out there who've done an exit and are up for a second go is small. These are the people who can raise $25 million before a launch.

Demand for unproven but capable talent is nearly zero.
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This could be a very good or very bad idea; a lot will depend on the execution, even more will depend on whether it gains enough acceptance. Overall, I think it should be handled more like a console and less like a tablet; its tablety goodness should be the extra but its core should be a carefully customized Android aimed at games, a solid SDK and some solid titles on release.
Pie charts are fine if you use them carefully. Funnel charts are a sin though:

http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/bad-graphics-funnel-chart/
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I think pie charts are a nice way to convey the ratio of 2 or 3 elements, particularly when the actual numbers are unimportant.

But I agree they are sometimes used when a bar graph would be much more appropriate.
Well… its built as a demo, and we learnt a lot from it.

I'm sure we could add a button to show it on devices that wouldn't experience what it was 'designed' for… but really, we open sourced it to share some of the things we learnt along the way—not pour time into testing over various fragmented devices.
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Its a gorgeous app and works well. The touch events feel a little laggy though (samsung galaxy s, android 2.3.4 / dolphin hd).

Also I would love to try it on the desktop, this would make a great widget. Any reason not to allow it to run on desktop browsers?
Someone is already working on it:

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-upd...
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Well they did rip those OnLive coupons out of those boxes because they were creating a competitor to it... So this would kind of make sense.

I wonder if creating a whole new tablet is really the way to go, though. Seems it might be easier to release a controller and app for existing tablets, and a set top box, and be done with it.
I'm more concerned that jjp9999 hasn't contributed a single comment on any article, not even his/her own.
So he took a single case where pie chart has been used wrongly and from that extrapolated we shouldn't be using pie charts?

Seriously... either explain your logic with supports or don't bother writing such misleading pieces of text.
Yeah sorry seems that I completely mixed two news at the same time. This one about a dropbox "clone" and a one about a new cloud solution by a French company.
That argument reduces to:

* The medieval warm period was warmed than today, which is false; thus
* Solar activity might be the cause of large climate changes, which is doubtful, more so because the premise is wrong.

Not enough to explain ocean acidity, why climate change is global, why there's a hole in the Antarctic's atmosphere...
It's worth noting that the Boston Globe is owned by the New York Times Co. I'd be somewhat comfortable (and admittedly, somewhat hopeful) venturing a guess that they're pushing this design as some sort of skunkworks project for their bigger brands.
> The fact Windows probably contains code written
> for release 2.x is a weakness, not a strength.

No way - it's a strength, so much so that I think you're getting downvotes because saying otherwise reads like a troll. Maybe you can support your position better.

Code that is battled-tested by millions of hours of runtime is extremely valuable. Consider protocol code. Or processor-optimised assembly language that has backwards compatibility and which hardware manufacturers have developed against.

Microsoft is a great example of a company that has been far too ready to rewrite. They could have had happier consumers for far less effort, and be in a better strategic position now if they'd followed a conservative OS strategy and tried to preserve NT and leveraged virtualisation to get the feature and security advances they needed. There was precedent for this (IBM VM) and they had experience with that kind of thing with their OS/2 v2 exposure (win32s API ran on OS/2 v2, and OS/2 1.x stuff ran on NT4), which isn't to say they would have needed to exactly mirror either of those approaches.

Even with near-infinite resources at their disposal they have struggled with the pace of change they've put Windows through, and significantly alienated the customer base in the process.
Sorry, as I said in another comment I mixed two news at the same time. I edited the title to reflect the proper pitch about Minus. My bad!
Apparently the answer was - as many as are needed. Just why did the author write this - and why did it get posted here?

Am I missing something profound?
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Wimax is not disappearing. Just because it it not widespread in America, does not mean its dead. In most of the world high speed Internet is still a dream. Wimax is one way to connect people cheaply and quickly. As the original article pointed out " there are more WiMax networks in emerging markets across Latin America and Africa than in the Europe and the US combined." Lets not forget Asia. That might be a sizable market.
I don't think it means anything at all. People mostly ask for slide decks out of reflex, often because they weren't paying attention because they know they can get the slides later on.
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Obviously hinting at something. Author is ex-Sun, disgruntled with Oracle. Oracle has been offering some open soruce stuff to foundations. Someone who knows more than me could probably elaborate.
I'm pretty sure its clear what 'platforms' its built for on the site… but, some of the takeaway learnings are:

• HTML5 Application cache
• localStorage
• Developing a 'installable' web app for iOS
• Yahoo YQL
• Building a sintra app
Of course, these are interesting and great numbers, but I don't think that they are the only measure of value.

McDonalds may make 'only' $60,000 per employee, but it employs over 1.5 million people. I'm grateful that McDs are providing jobs for those who need them. They also of course offer opportunities for people to own franchises and run their 'own' businesses
Replace "," with "—", and you got it right.