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A buddy of mine and I were looking into writing an open-source replacement for both that didn't suck. We did market research first. Absolutely no one would even consider switching, it's way too far embedded in the schools that we talked to that attempting to get them to switch would take much more effort than we were willing to put in.

That, and Blackboard loves to sue anyone that even breaths the words eLearning software.
Hey cool, your two emoticons are wearing a tie.
The article talks about "nanowires" embedded in polymer, so no this isn't acoustic.
for academic research, oftentimes it's not a matter of keeping results secret for years before publishing ... it's simply because the academic peer review and publishing process has such high latency
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I might as well throw mine in the ring as well: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume (Example: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume/blob/master/Chris_Met...).

I like the modernCV format a lot, I'll likely try to crib some features from there.
I'm not denying the benefits of SSD. I just don't think throwing hardware at a problem caused by bad algorithms is a good general principle. It may still be the best choice in a particular situation and timeframe.
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Thinking about doing Android-apps. And definitely thinking about exploiting the platforms (current) lack of tablet-optimised apps to make my own stand out.
Thanks! Good documentation is a critical part of having a usable project, and that will always be a focus of Storm. If you have any feedback for how the documentation can be better, please let me know.
It's not a "weird meme". It's my personal experience. You may be able to enter data quickly on a tablet but many of the physicians I work with still type(painfully slowly) with 2 fingers. Maybe drchrono will be appealing to younger physicians who are comfortable with tablets...but the average physician is old.

If I demo'd drchrono and it was slower than my current system you're not going to sell me by telling me that "I'll get used to it." They're definitely not going to sell any major hospital on drchrono unless they also offer a computer based interface. The "old dog" physicians will never figure out how to type on it.
In safety critical applications everything is very conservative by necessity: they are complicated systems consisting of many parts, ensuring correctness requires a rigorous workflow and complete toolchain. They involve not just multiple people but whole industries (think automotive).

Most innovations fail because they do not integrate in the existing chain. Radical change can be accepted if, and only if it has extreme potential (orders of magnitude), because the existing methods are continously improved by small steps as well.
That kind of defeats the purpose. Heap allocation is meant for objects that persist for the long-term. Stack allocation is meant for short-term storage, and anything that is allocated on the stack is lost when the function returns.
Oh! How is it?
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This stuff looks too coarse to use as a laptop controller. Watch the second video at 1:04, the cursor is way off from where he pointed.

The cheaper Chinese procap screens use single-axis sensing wires which kind of correlates to what they're describing here. If you can make a massive 167-inch display, you need a hell of a lot of room to carry your Y-axis signals back to the controller. So you go punt and just make very long X-axis sensors.

These kind of controllers, um, work, in most normal cases. I just don't see anything in the demo videos showing any kind of precision. Procap displays also tend to need a lot of TLC when placed over a live noisy LCD display, which probably explains why all of these demos are using rear-projection video (except maybe the last one?)
Sell it to another party, maybe?
The most fundamental flaw of this stupid idea is still trying to merge Desktop and Tablet features. It's what makes Unity suck beyond saving grace, it's what makes Lion the most colossal fail in the history of fails from Apple, and it's the same thing that will break Metro.

You don't put Tablet features on a Desktop OS. You don't put Desktop features on a Tablet OS. Either way is doomed to fail because they are completely different input paradigms and entirely opposed areas of usage (tablets being communication devices with multimedia functions, Desktop machines being where actual work gets done).

I see this entire thing as Microsoft's last desperate attempt to get into the Tablet market - where they've already lost to UNIX (Android and iOS) - and I doubt it's going to get any better. And since the Desktop market is going to shrink tremendously in the future in terms of multimedia usage for the everyman, eventually leaving only the power users on the Desktops, they've pretty doomed to eventually loose the shrinking Desktop market as well, as power usage is the territory of GNU/Linux, whether you like it or not.

But oh well, it's going to be funny to watch from the sidelines.
> Right, but this sounds like blaming a nail

Well, more accurately, I'm blaming people who think that nails are awesome and the only way to do things - and in fact we should structure all our applications by making use of a relatively obscure aspect of how nails work :)
What is there to stop me switching to Amazon or other competing streaming service tomorrow?

The quality of those services compared to Netflix.

Netflix realizes that they have to move quickly to cement their dominance in this field over the long term. If they are held back by their legacy business, they are going to die quickly. They would rather risk pissing off their biggest fans than jeopardize their stake in streaming.
There's no question anymore. The iPad is what engineers and visionaries envisioned personal computing to look like ever since the early seventies at least. So in a way, the PC isn't dying, it's just now coming alive.

Now that we're officially in the future, the conventional PC isn't going to die. But it will dwindle, become a specialty tool for specialty users. The iPad and iPhone will take over as mass-market general computing devices.
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Your argument might have some merit, except that you could apply it to almost anything and get non-sensical results. Django for example has close to half of the activity that Ruby on Rails does. Does that mean that Rails has severely worse documentation or APIs? Doubtful.

The more developers use a piece of technology, the more that will have questions about said technology. Poor documentation will certainly lead to more questions, but you can't look at these graphs and have any real data to support your case one way or the other.
"If we understand what the extremes are, the middle will take care of itself" ~~ Dan Formosa / Smart Design. from Documentary "Objectified"
2nd most patriotic thing you can do - fight corruption by supporting increase of oversight and transparency in government.

Corruption (both Dems and Reps are guilty of this) is the disease will kill capitalism as it clogs the arteries of the economy.

I also love Cuban's logic - be happy you have a large tax bill to pay for that is a good problem to have.
eCollege from the standpoint of an TA was absolute crap, we as students experimented with several professors with Moodle and found it MUCH MUCH better than anything eCollege had to offer.
Wow, downvotes with no response? In what way was this message not adding to the conversation?

Not that I didn't expect it, since so many HN readers seem to disagree.
Very surprised, as it works on Linux.
How strange, I remember distinctly reading that it was a legal action (not the raid) that gave the idea to the founders to make a political party but I don't manage to find references.
I really like this fascinating website ! The highly discounted deals and tools that it provides for designers are really helpful. I will definitely add it to my favorite bookmarks to keep an eye on in the future.
Absolutely stunned by the cost of Blackboard referenced here: http://bit.ly/pjCNow. No software that is as poorly made as Blackboard should ever cost that much. Glad to know my now former university is ditching BB for a different service.
The biggest problem is that both eCollege and Blackboard hold many patents related to the space, AND any solution has to follow certain guidelines/requirements set forth in some law somewhere (never did try to get more into it, our proposal was shot down hard).
This can't be stressed enough.

Lorem Ipsum is great for sites where the copy is not the function. Say a message board. Its purpose is to provide unpredictable quantities of text. Using it for definite amounts, like marketing copy, is damn close to a misuse of the tool.
The passage about IMVU from Ries' book, The Lean Startup:

"She downloads the product, and then we say 'Okay, invite one of your friends to chat.' And she says, 'No way!' We say, 'Why not?' And she says, 'Well, I don't know if this thing is cool yet. You want me to risk inviting one of my friends? What are they going to think of me? If it sucks, they're going to think I suck, right?' And we say, 'No, no it's going to be so much fun once you get the person in there; it's a social product.' She looks at us, her face filled with doubt; you can see that this is a deal breaker."
+1 for J2ME. Some of us will not let our Nokia 6303's go :)
I also noticed that someone recently posted a list of publications by Microsoft Research (MSR), presumably to contrast with Google's publication list. MSR does some amazing academic research, but it's not a fair apples-to-apples comparison to compare their publications with Google's, since the primary output of MSR is academic research papers (that's why the lab was founded!), while the primary output of Google is free web-based consumer products :)
But I thought that was the law they just passed - applications can be repealed up to 9 months after publication?
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Ok - fair enough. SOAP sucks.

But we've known to use GET for operations with no side-effects, and POST for operations that change stuff for many years now, without needing to attach a name to it, throw PUT/DELETE into the mix, or CRUDdifying every operation.

It's the verb part that I really don't get. That, and the general level of excitement surrounding REST. Why are there so damn many articles like this one?
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Sweet, but it's strange a slow human brain can solve this even when we have super computers and the like working on the problem for many years. What's so special about our brains?
That still sounds like a contract issue. It should be included in your contract that if the client does something like that, then they should pay extra. If that still doesn't alleviate the frustration, you aren't aren't charging them enough.
If I saw a phsycisan painfully typing with two fingers I'd be running from that hospital.
Ghostery is a good choice: http://www.ghostery.com/
Microsoft UI:Win32/MFC - WinForms - WPF - Sliverlight - WinRT ?

Which technology does MS Office use ? Which one will MS Office 2015 use ?

If you want to create a word or excel document in the future, will you use a tablet with Metro or "classic desktop" with a mouse and keyboard ?
1) It is not a confusingly similar service or product

and

2) I doubt DC Comics cares
Yeah, that's exactly where I am. The current lack of Android tablet apps is actually kind of exciting - we're in the calm before the storm, and anyone who puts out a kickass Android tablet app now is in a good position.
Storm does not have 100's of jars of dependencies, nor does it require much memory to run. In fact, it's quite straightforward to spin up a Storm cluster (see https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Setting-up-a-Storm-... ) and Storm has a local mode where you can develop/test topologies on your local mode completely in-process.
Two quick facts, as a hiring manager (your mileage may vary, but this is how I think):

1) I can usually tell that you wrote your resume in TeX

2) I then classify you immediately in the "advanced geeks" category, with a "probably hard to work with because is picky" flag...
Linkbait title, please fix.

The article title itself isn't much better (but in the context of stackoverflow blogs, it is a bit more constrained).
Sending and receiving emails with attachments on Node.js
It's good to see that a large research institution like Microsoft Research realizes that having your papers freely available on the web is a good way to give it some visibility.
That's a fallacy of datamining. More data does not equate better algorithms, it equates more false positives.

As an extreme example, imagine using just random data. Any pattern you look for will occur sooner or later in pure random data. The rarity of the pattern is offset by the amount of data you generate. More data -> more patterns. That doesn't mean the incidence of the real thing increased at all.
While this may seem impossible, it has been done before. A supposed asteroid has been identified as the fourth stage of the Saturn V [1]. This is so fascinating. What I would give to get a look in there. I presume it's still in pristine condition, because what could have done damage safe for the constant heating and cooling?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3
A limited version of Java 1.4, the UI set is custom build, Writing a kindlet bit similar to writing an old fashioned applet.
Limited memory/processing power though, but you can do fun some stuff, but the eInk slow refresh rates is the largest limitation.
[cross-posting from the Googlers publication thread ...]

I also noticed that someone recently posted a list of publications by Microsoft Research (MSR), presumably to contrast with Google's publication list. MSR does some amazing academic research, but it's not a fair apples-to-apples comparison to compare their publications with Google's, since the primary output of MSR is academic research papers (that's why the lab was founded!), while the primary output of Google is free web-based consumer products :)
I consider myself a mere tinkerer in mobile development (my day job does not involve such technologies directly). I like to learn new stuff, just out of curiosity. In the past I published an iOS game which netted me a whopping $55. I also have an android game in active (but very very slow) development, as well as a mobile-friendly web app. I don't expect to monetize (or even finish) the latter.
Wut? None of the jobs listed would make even the top 1000 of shitty ways to make a living.
As a counterpoint, I've recently had two interviewers recognize (and comment) on me using TeX because they recognized Computer Modern. One commented that I should have typed '\latex' instead of just 'latex' (I agreed of course, but mentioned that I didn't want to be too flashy). I got offers from both.

I don't use recruiters, preferring to rely on personal connections, but would they really balk that much at a PDF resume?
Ask HN: Would you buy an Amazon Kindle tablet for an 11 y.o.?
You've heard about it. It is coming out soon. Will you buy one? Why or why not? Considering buying one for my daughter because she wanted a Nook Color, but I've heard the touchscreen on the Nook Color is a pain. She is 11 years old, so I don't think I'm going to let her have a generic Android OS device (as I'd like it to be more limited and easier to control).
"A senior developer is expected to be fluent in client-side and server-side contexts, and know his or her way around Python, Ruby, or whatever other arcane technology requires taming."

There are definitely arcane technologies that developers have deal with, but Python and Ruby? Really?
Still works though; a thing that many people don't consider!
I like this - time to start hunting for interesting startups in NYC
That is an interesting perspective, but it runs directly counter to my experience. I've experimented with many different business models; building hardware and selling it (and then renting co-location) charging a setup fee that covered the parts costs (and then charging a just above cost fee for running the server) and traditional renting.

Renting hardware, for me, has been vastly more profitable than any other option.

I can build a 32GiB ram server with an 8 core opteron, 4 'enterprise sata' disks, etc... for well under fifteen hundred bucks. I could probably sell it for two grand, if I spent a lot of effort on sales.

Alternately, I can rent the thing for $300/month. Heck I can rent a three year old server with similar specs for $300/month. This is without really trying; I thought I was going to have to part out those old servers, but people keep emailing me asking for high-ram dedicated servers. I'm honest about the age of the hardware, and yet I still have more demand for old servers than I have old servers. (I'm working on moving my xen customers on to new servers, so I will have more old servers shortly.) Those old servers cost maybe $60/month for me to host; the new ones? $30/month.

As far as I can tell, you can charge vastly higher prices if you rent your product rather than sell it.

From my perspective, renting is more profitable than selling even if I'm paying credit card rates on the capital.

I self-finance by offering people a discount if they pay 3, 6, or 12 months ahead; 5% for 3 months, 10% for 6 and 20% for 12 months. It works quite well, new signups on a server will pay for the hardware the first month. 20% is kind of costly capital, but it still makes more sense for me to borrow and rent than to sell.
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I only use one: the two finger scroll. I started using it about a year before I owned any apple laptop (I think it was on a viao?) And it bugs the crap out of me that my lenovo doesn't use it.

The two-finger back-forth fills me with rage b/c of how often I have lost unsaved work on the Internet by accidentally going back one page. <sigh>

Then again, I do the same thing with [backspace] on my windows box sometimes.
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I've always been happy about in-game ads, so long as they don't look out of place. McDonald's on a billboard in Fallout New Vegas? So long as the sign doesn't look new, I'd be fine with it, despite disliking that company and ads in general. If they had used a real Sarsaparilla brand for the second soft drink in the game, I'd be fine with that, too.

If they plastered the loading screens with them, I'd have been upset. Or if someone comes up to me and their speech is obviously an ad for a real life product, I'd be really upset.

It's all about being reasonable and not harming the game experience.
This very clearly demonstrates Facebook's advantage: despite recent buzz about Facebook being boring, losing its vision, etc, they have built an enormous moat through the developer platform, and the true test for the competition (Google+ or otherwise) is whether or not they can compete on that platform level.
The weird meme are the grandiose claims of failure. I can’t square those with reality.
Clearly, it's not enough of one to stop them from reaching out to me and asking if I'm looking for work.
This is awesome, really excited to see this get released!
Looks nice. To nit pick, I am a believer that, unless you are a recent college grad, your work experience should come first, before your education. Unless you are applying for a teaching job, or you otherwise want to purposefully highlight your educational achievements, I feel that a few years after graduation, what you did in school is mostly irrelevant.

I'm interested in hearing counter arguments.
"A senior developer is expected to be fluent in client-side and server-side contexts, and know his or her way around Python, Ruby, or whatever other arcane technology requires taming."

Being fluent in client-side and server-side contexts are a perk, otherwise I'm doing the same thing every day.
The (negative) "picky flag" says more about you or the company that you represent than the person applying.

Being picky about your tools and what you produce should be a positive sign. It shows that you care. It doesn't say anything about how flexible the person is.
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When have security vulnerabilities not been found in Blackboard? Seriously, anyone in Instructional Technology can tell you that Blackboard isn't worth the metaphorical paper it's coded on.

In fact, it's so poorly put together perhaps the paper isn't metaphorical at all, and Blackboard are actually writing out their code by hand and having trained monkeys type the result up.
Perhaps, instead of asking yourself how this could help you with something you already do competently, you might try asking yourself “What does this make possible that was previously painful?”
I don't think we can make an absolute comparison based on those numbers, but the trends should be fairly significant. So it could be safe to say that the number of iOS developers slowed its growth or even stopped, while the number of Android devs is growing faster than before.

Just a personal note here: I just finished developing my first android app using a cross platform solution; I could have started with ios... but I don't have a mac!
That line was referring to restarting just the mongod process on a running machine (eg, when upgrading or changing config flags). In that case, the data should still be in the OS file cache and will result in minor rather than major pagefaults when mongod accesses data so it will not go to disk. The case where you do a full reboot is mentioned two sentences later: "Of course on a full server reboot MongoDB must reheat too."
I designed mine from scratch with HTML + CSS and use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ to render to PDF from there. Really handy. https://github.com/daeken/daeken.github.com/blob/master/CV.h... is clean and simple and gets turned into http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf (which is woefully out of date at this point). Feel free to use it as a base.
As far as I know, even clojure-contrib requires lots of jars, and I guess Scala is also very costly, but let it go.

I appreciate your innovative idea and amount of work you have done, so this small efficiency issue does not really matter.

btw, who cares about resources when hardware is so cheap and purchased in ocean containers? ^_^
You can always allocate stack space (static or dynamic with alloca()) in main() before kicking off the application.
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Why did you guys go with clojure, instead of something maybe like scala?
IO has a tangential benefit as well when it comes to recovery. For some large disk drive raids (1tb+) the rebuild time has gotten so large that even with an available hot spare you have a considerable exposure window during a rebuild. I believe this is what helped drive the push of RAID 6 over RAID5. In theory you still had 1 disk of protection during a rebuild. Although SSD's are primarily champions ins random IO and not the linear read/write of a rebuild they still have the potential to reduce this window of risk.
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I've had a ton of success using Clojure with projects like Cascalog and ElephantDB. It's a phenomenal language.
The worst is how "backspace" on a Google-Instant search page gives focus to the textbox and types a backspace rather than going Back in the history.