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Honestly, I have to believe that it is some sort of homage to The Simpsons' Qwik-e-Mart. Otherwise, it is probably the worst name I have heard in a very long time, probably since Motorola's consonant craze started by RAZR (ROKR, PEBL, etc)
Thanks for the info but that has nothing to do with what I said :)

To clarify: To enter the _MAC_ _MUSIC_ top 5 you need ~15 sales. Not overall. Storming overall with a music app is pretty unlikely.
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Content is everything... and Netflix is finding that losing Starz (and by proxy, Disney and Sony catalog) really really hurts.

Why did they lose Starz? Because they are too successful, and their suppliers are nervous about Netflix. Too many subscribers = too much cost.

To reduce their size they'll need to split the two services, and let each one compete directly.

To be honest, I would love to have Netflix's problems. Growing too fast and having to pivot your business model to keep your agility? Netflix is operating like a startup. Good for them.
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Yes. I forgot to mention that as the original submission is about the Mac App Store.
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I'm sure I don't know what you are talking about ;)

This plus the links in the comments are a great starting up point for someone looking to do this for the first time, something I wish I had years ago when I started.
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Just use indeed for resumes.

http://www.indeed.com/resumes
We used Moodle in the engineering department at my Uni and let me say - its better than blackboard (what isn't?) but its not "miles ahead" by a long shot. Its still pretty awful. I think the space is ripe for disruption.
You do face a two less barriers - employers don't hate talking to engineers, and you know you are a good fit for the org. Employers don't want to talk to requiters, because they are afraid they will just get a stack of un-targeted resumes, probably from job seekers who have never even heard of them.

Yes, and applying for multiple jobs is also a PITA. There's no ideal way. Targeting employers has the advantage that the manager isn't looking at a pile of 500 mostly unqualified resumes, just yours.

It's not easy. But it's obviously a reasonable way to do it, as that's what professional requiters do.
Having real people using the app in a video demo is 10x more effective than a cute animation explaining your features.
It seems that paying taxes is the most patriotic thing you can do; being rich just allows you to pay more of them, as well as benefiting the economy in other ways.
tldr: Drchrono does the exact same thing as any other EHR...but on an iPad.

"Physicians can each create their own exam templates and enter data quickly by tapping checkboxes or selecting from menus, rather than having to write or type. For physicians who don’t type well, the touchscreen makes information-gathering a lot simpler than trying to use a keypad, says staff physician Dr. Carol Ann Smith, who also takes advantage of the speech-to-text feature in drchrono EHR to dictate notes."

As someone who spent the last hour charting(takes me about 2 minutes a patient with templates) I think this part of the article glosses over the real difficulty of using a tablet for EHR--namely that when patients are sick you have to manually enter a lot of data that wouldn't be in your template.

For example:

Subjective Findings: Patient presented to clinic for a 4 day history of cough and 2 day history of vomiting. He has vomited 3 times and there is phlegm in the vomitus. He also complains of a rash on his forehead that has spread down to his trunk that is maculopapular and itchy. The patient denies any fever, chills, dizziness, or headache.

A template can't do that for me...and it's a pain to enter that on a tablet. It effectively nullifies the use of tablets as effective EHR.

In my opinion the ideal solution is a macbook air(or similar ultralight) based EHR.
It's all about internal purpose.
Any experience with iPad in public access that all the customers of the point of sales can use?
Steam works on consoles? this was news to me. IIRC, it looks like Qwikster's gaming strategy is more focused on consoles than PC.
Interesting that the author of the article chose to post a link on HN, with a substantially more linkbait title than he picked for the article itself.

The "SO has more activity around Android which proves more developers are using Android" claim is so obviously nonsense that the whole thing just looks like a shameless attempt to get Stackoverflow into news headlines.
I'm seriously considering dumping my TeX version for something else. It's just too fiddly to adjust simple formatting. I'd like to use HTML, but I need more print-specific control.
Very dodgy methodology...
Government and other nation-wide institutions are one of the few things that should be designed with the worst case scenario in mind, because history has shown with admirable consistency that this worst case comes up again, and again, and again.

If you don't want "the next Hitler" you need your political system to be designed to avoid allowing "him" to happen. Communism largely failed as a system because it consistently brought out the worst dictators in each country and put them on top. Having all this data in one place has no historical precedent. It is only smart to at least consider the worst case, given the potential damage.

If you don't like the Hitler analogy, then consider something close to home:

What would the Taliban have done with all this data on their people? The answer seems pretty obvious.
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As a paying customer,

I don't want my experience dominated by picking between one medium and another.

I want to pick from a unified comprehensive content catalog, and get the content on whatever medium is available/convenient.

I want a single unified queue which I can append and rearrange with ease, not have to maintain 2+ queues of content separated only by medium.

I want to add title X with the intent of seeing it on pristine Blu-ray, and then on a whim watching it right now when streaming rights are negotiated - _without_ having to do a deliberate search on another site ("nope, not streaming yet").

FWIW: I was at Kodak when they decided that the distribution model was more important than the customer experience. You remember Kodak? used to make film for cameras? film? nevermind. Big name in the photography business, now bulldozing five miles of disused manufacturing buildings for tax reasons.

Splitting the delivery departments was smart, realizing streaming is the winning long-term move was smart, unifying the customer-facing content selection to cover all media would be smart. If I pick a title, I want the choice of media subordinate, not dominant.
I want to clarify my statement about not seeing value. I'm talking specifically about ME, as a technically savvy individual, not getting value out of this. Typically, I'm already aware of the technical landscape of laptops, specifically. And if I'm making a big purchase in an industry/market I'm not already familiar with, I prefer to do my research manually and make a personally well-informed decision. More about my process is found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2771521

This may still be valuable to another individual with different research habits and time limitations.

Regarding buying experiences at different websites... I think each website attracts a specific type of buyer. Newegg has a very technical audience, and as a result, you're able to refine purchases by VERY specific features and specifications. People who purchase at BestBuy are looking for convenience. You'll notice their buying flow is focused more on that (by offering in-store pickup for free, for instance).

Another example might be Zappos...who has a customer base which really appreciates how they offer a worry-free shoe buying experience. They offer as much media as possible at point of sale, but more importantly, the user is reassured at each step of the process that if they don't like something, returns are easy and free.

Each retailer specializes on specific parts of the market and for you to be successful, you need to identify what type of buyer you are trying to attract. And (most importantly) IF that type of buyer operates the same way across different types of products/verticals.
I want one, and I know several others that will as well. The 32-bit Cortex-M3 core at 96 MHz leaves an AVR in the dust; it has low-power modes that make power consumption comparable; and the peripheral set advantage of the AT91SAM3U over an ATmega is huge.

Also, ARM Thumb2 is a much nicer instruction set than AVR in my humble opinion. Cortex-M3 also has some great instructions to improve the efficiency of real-time preemptive kernels (e.g. RBIT, CLZ and automatic pushing of registers on interrupt). I've written my own tiny kernel for this microcontroller, and I'll definitely be putting it up on github since this release increases the likelihood that others will contribute to it.

Also, Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS) [1] makes porting between vendor's offerings (e.g. STM32 or Stellaris) much easier than going from say AVR to MSP430.

[1] http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-m/cortex-micro...
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This makes no sense to me. How about something like this instead:

1. An interface must ally itself with the user not the data.

2. How an interface works is more important than how an interface looks.

3. An interface must be as simple as possible but no simpler.

4. No interface is good interface, unless it breaks the other 3 rules.
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It doesn't seem all that unrealistic to me. My dad, who has actually lived in a communist dictatorship for most of his life, and experienced this type of thing first-hand, constantly criticises me for all the dangerous stuff I post online. The fact is, if such a regime comes up unexpectedly, I'll be against the wall before I know it.

My plan to deal with this is to keep extremely aware of the political evolution where I live and to make sure that if it looks like such a regime is about to take power, I'm on the other side of the world with my family when that happens.

What's your plan?
Depends on the size, but I've found startups pretty responsive via email. I haven't asked for a job, but I'd imagine there's a good chance a real human will read it, and might remember you if your skills are relevant and they later need someone in that area.
Not to burst any bubbles, but the static analysis technique shown is capable of detecting recursion only in static call chains. It doesn't seem to even have any handling (even to say "warning! unhandled call!") for something like function pointers. Feed this a C++ program with recursive virtual functions and it will, apparently, return "OK!"
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Yeah, but letting users specify if views are MERGE or TEMPTABLE seems quite pointless. Why not always use UNDEFINED and let the planner chose. The planner knows which tables are large.
OK, when two of my favorite HN commentators disagree with something I said it's worth a second thought.

Yes, the strategic shift you point out was immense, but it was also a market shift in response to Apple's products. It wasn't until the iPod took off that Apple's position in the market changed any, they just went from selling 12 poorly differentiated lines of Macs to 4 or 5, but to the same niche. Apple can't strategically will themselves into a mass market, the most they can do is create products that might have a broader appeal than Macs do.
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Lowe's is deploying 42,000 iPhone apps for use on the retail floor.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/09/08/lowes_deployin...
It looks like Omnigraffle, which runs on OS X. Given that llvm is mostly sponsored by Apple, I could imagine a lot of the devs are running OS X. I used a bit back in college and I remember the shadowed boxes looking like that. I especially liked it because it generates vector graphics for inclusion in LaTeX documents.
Also, the specs are a bit misleading. The 16 ADC are broken down into half 12-bit and half 10-bit inputs. The article makes it sound like all 16 ADC lines are 12 bits while only 8 of them are.
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If you are an experienced programmer, probably this book is not for you. You should start reading a more "formal" book like "On Lisp" by Paul Graham.

If you are a novice coder the book will show you how to code some neat apps in Lisp, Common Lisp to be more precise.
Woah. Launch a Storm cluster on AWS with one line:

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-deploy/wiki

All of these storm projects with their project.clj files betray the Clojure roots (using Leiningen as the build tool, which is amazingly great). Here's to hoping for more Clojure examples/docs.
I think you're correct and I still don't think you invalidate Gladwell's point. Remember Gladwell originally proposed his idea on what it takes to become a "genius" to dispel the conventional notion of what it takes to become the Bill Gates's, Wayne Gretzkys, and Mozarts of the world. He's challenging the notion that these geniuses achieved their success by way of some innate talent in their fields. Whereas, he applies the ten thousand hours theory to show that the idea of some innate genius is a myth, but rather requires much work to achieve that level of success (not that profound). I think it's hard to argue with this point.

Where you (and many other people including myself) find trouble in Gladwell's work is that it's too cursory and often overreaching. It's true that he's doesn't go into the specifics of various fields in defining the specific areas that each requires to achieve that genius level. But such a study would be extremely exhausting, if not impossible. It's also not where Gladwell sees his role; he's a pop scientist, not an academic. His job isn't to take academic studies and dig deeper. Quite the opposite. As a pop scientist, he takes academic research proposed in academic fields such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology and he extrapolates these ideas into popular culture to cater to a much broader audience. Taken in this context, I think you'll have a much different experience reading his work.
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"The project is not pitched as a Blackboard alternative, for a number of reasons (primary among which is that the Commons’s Terms of Service prohibit undergraduate courses from being held on the site)."

Is there any particular reason undergraduate courses prohibited?
I've never had a patient ask for their medical records...and frankly they wouldn't understand them if they saw it. It's filled with doctor's handwriting, abbreviations like OM(otitis media), PRN(take med as needed), etc. It's mostly a reflection of what the patient has told the doctor and doesn't contain much information that is useful to the patient. It would be better to ask the doctor your questions directly.

If you read the chart and asked me "hey what's this?" for every question I would be tired of you within 2 minutes and tell you not to worry. If it was important I would tell you.
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Actually, function pointers are... not allowed in space SW.

And remember, this is just a hack I did - I wanted to show people the things one can do with objdump. From the article:

"This kind of functionality is usually part of far more mature tools than... quickly-hacked Python scripts. Don't use this to send your spaceship in orbit :-)"
The application in question disallows heap usage. In "no runtime errors allowed" environment like this, everything is pre-allocated. This is easy for data structures (though it gets hairy once the usages start overlapping). This including the stack, which is hard to prove bounds for with traditional tools. So the author wrote some scripts to parse the disassembly.
Fact is, investors think differently. All you need to do is look at the stock price.

Not to mention the diminished role MS has with developer mindshare.

Obviously, Windows is a great cash cow and I'm not saying they should have spun it off. I'm saying a VP should have taken responsibility for it and the CEO should have focused most of his/her energy on the Web.
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This is valuable advice even for people with work experience but who are changing companies, industries, etc.

One thing I did note is that why do we have to bend over backwards at times at places where people are just rude and lack basic soft skills ? The comment about being talked to in a very harsh tone if you ask a "stupid" question particularly hit home with me as I have had to face that many times even after having done my initial research and I make sure to write down everything in my trusted notepad.
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I'm more interested in the Leonardo with the 32u4 chip myself. Much smaller than the Arduino, simpler circuit, built-in USB for higher data transfer bandwidth and comes with lots of A/D's. The 32u4 has been _the_ chip for low-cost projects that involve communication with a computer for some time now (Adafruit and PJRC [Teensy] make one), but Arduino is going to bring it to a bigger audience. The Teensy already worked with Arduino libraries, but the boot loader wasn't free and it wasn't 'officially supported'.
It's harder to provision an Android device to HIPAA requirements. iPads are also cheaper.
Really enjoyed these posts/discussion. Here are the HN discussions to the first three parts of this series:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955214 (Part 1)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965929 (Part 2)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978598 (Part 3)
I like mine a little better: https://github.com/jimktrains/Resume/raw/master/Jim_Keener_r...
Still misses the point. A quickly hacked script can be really useful if it shows real bugs (where a recursive call in this case is a "bug"). There's nothing wrong with the development methodology: who cares how ugly the code is that found the bug as long as it's fixed?

The problem is that the mathematical problem being attacked is undecidable. This script only approximates a solution in the case where function pointers don't exist. Even that would be OK if you knew about the limitation and the script flagged indirect jumps as errors too. It looked like you didn't realize that though, so I thought it had to be mentioned.
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Before anyone gets too upset: both Batman.js and the code examples are written in Coffeescript. If you wish, you may write Batman apps in js, since Batman compiles to native js.

Calling it Batman.coffee just didn't sound as cool.
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Not everybody, of course. But enough to discern a pattern. Programming requires the kind of intellectual rigor and purity that’s incompatible with political correctness. On a good number of the threads, you don’t see enough of the kind of reductionist thinking that one would apply to hacking, applied to just ideas in general. Two examples: every once in a while, the topic of how difficult it is to learn to program well will pop up. And the general consensus often seems to be that anybody can learn to hack well and that learning how to program well has little to do with how smart you are. It’s hard to see how anybody who knows how to program can deny that abstract thinking capacity is a serious factor in learning how to code; and that it isn’t distributed evenly. Second is the issue of why there are so few female hackers or women in technology overall. How many millions of dollars have been pumped into efforts to get girls interested in tech. The results are always dismal. The thinking, even on here, seems to be that women don’t have enough good role models. Hard to believe if you think about it for a second. So few people are willing to admit that the reason women generally don’t get into tech is because they’re not interested in it. I don’t know many females in my life who’d rather spend hours focusing on impersonal abstractions rather than people. It’s generally not a female inclination. This phenomenon plays itself out in college classrooms all over America. How many female nerds do you know? Would be great if more people were honest about what they really believed.
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Sadly, it's true and not uncommon for academic research as well...
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I think a keyboard dock could make those cases bearable, though, no?
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I created one here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3014502 It doesn't look like it's getting many upvotes.
Netflix is well known for its amazing delivery system, and this new name emphasizes that - not what product is being delivered at all. I think Qwikster will be expanding into shipment of all sorts of non DVD movie type things. They are already going to be doing video games.

That said, yes Qwikster sounds stupid. But the same could be said for such words as Google, iPad, etc.
I thought it allows for dictation as input?
“A template can't do that for me...and it's a pain to enter that on a tablet. It effectively nullifies the use of tablets as effective EHR.”

Entering so little text on a tablet is definitely not a pain for me and, though quite a bit slower than typing on a hardware keyboard, it’s also quite a bit faster than handwriting for me.

I don’t get why so many people seem to think that tablet keyboards are unusable, I never had any problems typing a few paragraphs of text on them. This seems like some kind of weird meme demonizing all software keyboards as inferior to everything.
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He's making a few assumptions:

1) Government knows how to spend our money wisely on things that improve the quality of our lives

2) Getting rich equates to improving the quality of lives of society, as a whole. I know several industries where this isn't the case.. (gambling, cigarettes, fast food)
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