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I just bought it. A couple of notes on the process (I haven't received it yet): I paid with PayPal (yeah, I know, but I figured I would probably be the only one in this crowd who would do that for you) and it was weird because after I paid I was asked for "billing information" (notably email address, etc.). I was wondering if my payment had been registered.

Secondly, in my "profile", I elected to take advantage of your delivery to my wi-fi Kindle. However, my email account for delivery is not @free.kindle.com, but just @kindle.com

Will I get it?

EDIT: The download link landed in my spam box. Still haven't received the wifi download. Not giving up on it just yet.
To be frank, market rate is however little your employer thinks they can get away with paying you, or someone comparable to you.

Look at indeed.com and salary.com and aim for 75th percentile and higher. Unfortunately the only way to really know is to put yourself out there and see what offers you get.
"Y Combinator started the year before us, and it’s the same genre, but under the microscope, we could not be more different," said Mr. Cohen. "The fundamental difference between us and the other accelerator programs is they have a black box, while we have open sourced our model."

TechStars and YC are certainly different but having read:

What Happens At Y Combinator: http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html

and the TechStars equivalent:

Do More Faster:
http://www.domorefasterbook.com/

YC doesn't seem like any more of a black box than they are.
I'm guessing, with no evidence whatsoever, that this is an off-the-shelf desktop all-in-one running android x86.

Something like http://www.ebuyer.com/281328-acer-aspire-z3101-aio-desktop-p...
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This article reveals a shaky grasp of statistics and demographics. For instance:

>Since when has diversity and more students taking the test become a legitimate excuse for bad scores?

Actually, diversity is a very big factor. Especially language diversity. Bilingual households have proliferated dramatically in the last few decades, and bilingual students have placed enormous strains on already resource-poor public schools trying to push standardized curricula on increasingly large classes of students. And you'd fully expect to see English test scores declining, on average, as more English-as-a-second-language students start entering the test-taking population.

>A conservative certainly could not get away with blaming falling test scores on diversity. Imagine the outcry.

Ugh. Here he's conflating "diversity" the political buzzword with diversity the demographic measurement.

No one is "blaming" diversity for declining performance, or claiming that we don't want diverse students to succeed. Diversity is a great thing. But it can have a very real, though hopefully corrigible, effect on test metrics. You're going to see some lower median scores as we wait for ESL/bilingual populations to acculturate over a generation or two. That's a fact of our demography, not a value judgment on said demography.

>As the United States increases education spending, our students' scores should not be getting worse.

Perhaps, but this begs for further analytical consideration. First of all, is educational spending actually increasing year over year, accounting for inflation? If so, where is it being allocated? Bear in mind that population is also increasing, and as it increases (and as its demography shifts), it's going to place increasing strains on the public schooling system. Has the school system grown in accordance with population growth? I would find that very hard to believe, especially with all the budget cuts at the national, state, and local level over the last five or six years.

>"The solution, Brill says, is to overhaul the public school education system in order to motivate and inspire better teachers."

That's a fine and dandy solution on a case-by-case basis, but is it scalable? Do we have the resources, and will the demographics support, a scaling up of the Harlem Success I story? Do we even have enough great teachers to ensure that every student in a growing population is served by great teachers? The school system needs thorough reconsideration, and perhaps even an "overhaul." But what's the rollout plan? Theory is great, but what about implementation? What's the halfway point between naively idealistic and depressingly pragmatic?
It lets you choose whatever ORM (Mongoose!), templating (Weld!), and CRUD routing you want. It's like Rack or maybe Sinatra, but definitely not Rails.

And it's much nicer to use than the http module: layerable middleware, streaming responses, routing...
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I have basically no background writing applications on Windows outside of .Net but I love reading posts by Raymond Chen. I always enjoying learning about things that seem crazy from the outside from have a real purpose that you're just missing information to understand. That's pretty much what looking at someone else's code is often like so it's helpful to remember that even seemingly crazy things have a purpose.

I feel like I've learned a lot from reading his blog over the years. I even bought his book years ago because I felt like I was getting a lot of value from the blog.

It's really too bad Microsoft doesn't seem to value backwards compatibility as much as they did during the times Chen often writes about. It seems like an interesting challenge that they've pretty much given up on. I can't even count how many conversations I've been in where people complained on one hand that Microsoft focused on that backwards compatibility too much and on the other that their driver from 2001 doesn't work right in Windows 7. Often these statements happen moments apart.
All Windows Live properties are in the "Windows and Windows Live" division under Sinofsky. Not in OSD.

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I want to completely agree with this guy, I really do. But Visual Studio 2010 supported more of C++11 then most other major compilers (except I think for Comeau and GCC) when it was released.

Apple didn't choose Clang over GCC for political reasons, a lot of Clang devs are actually on the Apple payroll.. and Clang is just a far superior compiler to GCC architecture-wise -- it just needs a few more years to catch up to full C++11 support.

The fact of the matter is that unless you're starting a new project you're probably tied to your old version of the compiler, to upgrade to something newer would require weeks of updating the toolchain.
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WebGL makes it really easy for anyone to start now: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217?

You can also see the framework Three.Js[1], which Mr. Doob used/created on his Google Colabs[2]

[1] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js

[2] http://www.ro.me/tech/
Not to put words in your mouth, but I am asking myself this question:

Yahoo! and Twitter care enough about between 200-5,000 protestors marching on Wall Street to commit acts of censorship? Why? What does this accomplish for these companies? They're protecting the tight-knit oligarchy which they are a part of?

I'm struggling to see why this would even be on Yahoo!'s radar.
"How many Mac applications still support OS X 10.2? 10.3? 10.4? Half of the web doesn’t work anymore on KDE 3.5′s Konqueror."

I'm not familiar with the author's product and can't say whether C++11 is the right choice for him, but I wouldn't consider the constant API churn of OS X or the constant web standard and web standard extension churn to be a good argument in favor of anything.
Regarding transparency: TechStars New York is currently on Bloomberg as a series, albeit quite some time after the fact (e.g., Toviefor folded just weeks after TechStars ended & is one of the featured startups).

HN link (submitted by me): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3021939
video: http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/shows/techstars/
> Yup, Microsoft Word is much nicer than LibreOffice Writer or AbiWord. But you don't know that if you've never used it. Or, you don't care, because you're writing a memo, not a book. And that's $600 Microsoft loses right there.

The very last thing for which I'd consider using MS Word (or any WYSIWYG processor, for that matter) would be writing a book (or any prolonged text which concentrates on the content). Seriously, if you do this you've never even thought about the fact that there are alternatives which are vastly superior for such tasks (one of which being plaintext. Yes, plaintext). I don't get why you would even consider writing a book in a document processor - save for LyX, but that's not exactly a standard word processor.

Sorry for the rant, I mostly agree with you. The general development still scares me though.
Many displays do indeed do blurring at the lesser end of the sharpness scale, as mseebach notes, and their 'no alteration' point is then normally about 10% from the bottom. It can be easily observed on edges that aren't text, even if text is subpixel rendered.
Google's results were dramatically better, but I'm not sure that was the biggest reason most people were switching. I remember it was also out-of-control blazing fast. No more waits at all. Performing a single query would change the expression on most people's faces.

The user experience changed from "tell us what you want, and we'll go out and see what we can find" to "we have everything right here, just let us know what you are looking for."
Most people might want that but this legislation isn't aimed at most people. It's for the segment of society that do want their own business.
Even Obama wants to cut Post Office delivery. What was Netflix supposed to do?
Netflix is utterly dependent on the Post Office for delivering DVDs in a timely fashion for cheap. Imagine no Saturday delivery. Imagine delivery only three days a week. It’s too expensive to deliver DVDs via UPS or FedEx. Would you really want to bet the future of your business on the Post Office? Netflix doesn’t. And frankly, I don’t know how strong a future DVDs in the mail would for any company, with or without streaming.
I want to post a longer and more detailed post in a few days, but at a high level, this is a TI Pandaboard (dual core 1GHz, 1GB RAM) running Gingerbread attached to a Quanta touchpanel (the Acer T230H in this case). The monitor costs around $330, the pandaboard around $175 and you'll need a few other things like a power adapter etc.

The setup is a bit laggy in parts for different reasons. Google earth shows a lot of IO errors, while the launcher just wasn't made to push that many pixels around - taking the resolution down gets rid of it. On the other hand, once the GPU takes over in Fruit Ninja, everything works fine and is actually quite a lot of fun.

Like I mentioned in the post, the size of this thing makes simultaneous use by 2 people practical - Fruit Ninja is a lot of fun with 2 people and games like Flight Control will work very well too.
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Yes- audio is great for commute. But I can read the transcript in a fraction of the time. I do both depending on schedule, and like the option.
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You're missing 'increased potential massive returns' from the right hand of your dichotomy.
EDIT: Strata ships with cookie-based sessions but it's pretty easy to write your own storage middleware: var app = strata.redisSession(app, options);

After seeing how awesome the default cookie-based sessions are in Rails, I'm not sure I'd ever care to go back. Maybe for a high security banking app where breaking the cookie encryption could have catastrophic, permanent repercussions? Short of that, load balancing shared-nothing cookie-based sessions is a joy. Gotta agree with the Lift guys there.
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Its great for startup companies, now they just have to worry about executing in the first year. I do think they will miss a lot of the struggle and hardwork in fundraising, but as pg says thats just a time sink. One jab: Whats better than 100K...150K
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Okay I have two questions that might be very clueless but I don't know the answer to them so I will ask them anyway.

1) In the comments Raymond says, "Hot-patching is not an application feature. It's an OS internal feature for servicing." Then why does the compiler put hot-patch points in my code? Why not use a special compiler flag when building Windows DLLs?

2) Why do we need a special hot-patch point at all? What's wrong with just overwriting the first few bytes of the function you want to hot-patch?
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There's a project here in my town by a couple of my fellow engineering students working on a related idea they're calling awesometouch. They've installed a few in our city already as far as I know.

I don't believe they're running Android, and the machines are pretty special purpose, but still similar in concept as far as huge touchscreens go: http://awesometouch.org/
Maybe some companies like the idea of you having a Github account (maps to "really into coding" on their candidate checklist) but don't have the time to actually evaluate the code that you've posted, due to having too many candidates/applications to sift through, etc. That could be one explanation...
So you know how startups are a star search with returns dominated by whether you invest in Google/FB/etc? This is apparently pretty true for YC as well: the AirbnBoxen/Dropboxes will swamp most everything. Given that everyone is trying to invest in that one best startup this year, the prior valuations of "we guess the best starup will be in this pool" are pulling away from the generic "two guys with a gleam in their eye" ones, as a consequence of market participants reacting to YC et al being ridiculously better at picking winners than previous screening mechanisms.

Yay capitalism, by the way.
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I think the wait until Oct is basically and acknowledgment the the iPod / Music event doesn't have the importance it once had so rolling the iPhone into that makes sense.

Also, I wonder if putting the current iPad processor into a phone means that this will be the new cycle.
Didn't Microsoft shun any mention of the word "Microsoft" in XBOX marketing, at least initially? That might've played a big part in it's success. Or at least a big part in giving it a fair shot.
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> Would you like to know more?

Is this a Starship Troopers reference? Because kudos, if so.
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I can't tell if it's the case here, but I get a little unnerved when a web framework doesn't even use it for their website.
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the rumours this summer were pretty confident of not just a spec bump but a new air-like design for the next iteration of mbp. i'm sure it'll get it's own event.
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I used to be an avid reader of TC but lately even all things digital sounds like a better read(when swisher is not picking fights with TC, of course)
1) I didn't see anything that suggested that all DLL functions have this hot-patch point. I think from his perspective "Windows DLL" means "a DLL that is part of the Windows operating system", not "a DLL used by an application executing on Windows".

2) I think he addressed this - someone might be executing the function while you are trying to patch it. Having a 2-byte, one clock cycle NOP at the front means that you can replace it "atomically" from the perspective that nobody can walk into the middle of you updating the memory.
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About 2: You would have to copy the overwritten bytes to another place in memory to execute them later. As the length of x86 instructions is not fixed you would need a whole disassembler to find out what bytes belong to what instruction. Easier to have just two bytes you can overwrite at will. Saves the hassle of calculating how many bytes you need to copy.
Most definitely some do.
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Just me, or do others think any tutorial about python decorators ought to introduce and encourage the use of functools.wraps() ?
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A good friend and I are looking to transition out of our current full-time jobs and start our own thing. Together we have extensive experience in UX, web dev, programming, and databases and we feel like we're ready to put those skills to the test. We've both been out of college for less than 5 years, and since we both have enjoyable jobs with flexible hours, we feel like the time is now.

Some people say ideas are a dime a dozen since most fail to deploy. We're having trouble finding really solid ideas, but we're passionate about execution. We're very interested in productivity tools, ticketing systems, CRMs, and other SaaS apps that might fall into those categories and help people like you.

What are some areas where your current tools just aren't cutting it?
It's unfortunate this doesn't just use JSGI, which is much closer to Rack/WSGI than Connect, and has a fair amount of usage in Node (https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-middleware-...), as well as other server-side JavaScript platforms (Ringo, Akshell, Pintura, Narwhal)

I'd love to hear the reasoning for the differences between the two.

(Disclaimer: I started JSGI)
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I would tend to agree. Most women in tech have their shit together. It's a man dominated world, and sometimes we can get caught up in our ideas... whereas women make a list, stay on task and get things done. I've met WAY more kick ass women project managers than I have men. Maybe it's a coincidence, I don't think so. Women are more organized and aren't' afraid to do the worst tasks first.
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Some entertaining bits from the article:

"How many Mac applications still support OS X 10.2? 10.3? 10.4?"

"Then why should we be so conservative when it comes to C++, the very core of what we work with?"

"C++11 is a much more productive language than C++98. We as an industry can, however, only reap that productivity gain if we stop throwing C++ productivity out of the window by the bucket-load in the hopeless pursuit of compatibility with non-standard implementations."

I'm as much for iconoclasm as the next person, but this whole C++ madness is starting to make me worry. While the rest of us have been off in the trenches of maintenance and production, some cabal of academics and chuckleheads has been cooking up this monstrosity of a language, and now it is finally coming to a head.

Folks, conservatism in software design is appreciated--in language design, essential. Python 3 is still not support by many useful libraries. Perl 5, over ten years later, is still in production and use. ECMA/Javascript is only now really taking off, after 15 years.

And on the darker, even more depressing side of things, you've still F77 codes in "production" and active maintenance--a friend of mine who is a graduate student is dealing with this right now. These are souls being fed to the gaping maw of legacy code.

I'm sure C++ has some interesting features. I understand, for example, why the "auto" keyword is being given new meaning (because the syntax of the STL, classes, and templates is so mindnumbingly awful!). I understand why explicit defaulting and deleting of function might lead to cleaner code (regardless of, say, an explicit that already exists). I understand why I might want 3 different declensions of 'u' in front of a string to support various forms of Unicode (where is your liberalism about forcing everyone to using UTF-8 and being done with it?).

I also understand that D probably has a better execution on these ideas than C++.

And that Javascript and C# have a better implementation of lambdas and closures.

And that for raw power and readability, C with embedded assembly (still!) can probably eat the lunch of any C++.
(for an example of rational language evolution, see C1X: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/ )

And that C++ still doesn't have anything other than a crackheaded set of half-idioms for exporting classes for dynamic linking in a crossplatform way, or even for binding to another language! Go ask the poor bastard who wrote SWIG's comments on the same--he quit programming for several years to stop dealing with C++'s increasing garbage.

I feel reasonable in saying this: C++ is not going away soon. One day (even sooner if you are in academic circles and dealing with libraries) we maintenance programmers are going to have to start dealing with code written to take advantage of the new features in C++11.

And on that day, all of us will be wondering why the hell we are still using that katamari of language features, instead of something less baroque--perhaps Perl.
If your supported platform list looks like this:

Windows

Switch to C++11 NOW. You will kick yourself for not doing it earlier.
I think trust in the context of Linux has nothing to do with interpersonal context and is about procedural trust (kind of like CA certificates and SSL). Not the same thing at all.
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It's not so much that the new hotness invalidates existing business models--I don't think it does--it's more that wildly successful business models will suffer from the law of decreasing returns sooner or later and this causes companies to go into areas they wouldn't normally if investors were not so focused on continued hyper growth and the new new thing. So if I'm reading you right, I think we agree on the point, if not the analogy :-)