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Hell must be freezing over.

10 June 2011: Duke Nukem Forever released - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Development_o...

12 July 2011: PuTTY 0.61 released - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht...

20 July 2011: "Signs of life from GNU Hurd" - https://lwn.net/Articles/452296/

28 July 2011: GNU Emacs developers discover that Emacs has been violating the GPL since 2009 - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-07/msg01...

26 September 2011: Textmate 2 Alpha announced

I joked about this on my blog earlier this year, but wasn't expecting it to happen.
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TBH they can't really get that many correspondence from people who're in such an elevated position in their industry. Indeed I'd be amazed if they've had any feedback on computing curriculum from more than one or two people of similar standing. In which case the response is pretty poor to say the least.

To get a reasoned response I'd imagine you'd have to get together a group of cronies from the BCS or similar and send an officially sanctioned letter?
textmate.el is decent. https://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el
Self-service check outs did not catch on [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/09/26/superm...]. I don't see how using your own phone would make it any better for the avg. consumer.
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The good ol' days! I started programming with BASIC on BBC Micro Model B, in high school, and absolutely loved it. I guess a big reason for igniting my passion were the amazing books that came with it. Huge, glossy pages in full color with what were to me the most beautiful graphics. I remember writing programs on paper and then typing them in later --- debugging beforehand by running the program in my head! I wrote a graphics calculator for a science fair at school and remember having the whole program memorized!!!

Aah, glory days ;-)
This is the situation apprenticeships and education were made for. Loss of low-level jobs only worries those who are unwilling to learn a trade skill. In the old days, that wasn't a problem because you could apprentice to a master and end up with one. These days, we don't seem to do that any more. We expect colleges to teach newcomers instead. And not everyone can afford college.

We have interns, but by law, interns can't produce real output or you'll get your pants sued off. This prevents internships from being apprenticeships, where someone could earn a bare living and a learn a tradeskill, then move on to earning a good living with that new skill.
Using the singular would be standard, yes.

I think in this case, though, I suspect it's used semi-intentionally because the plural "jobs" is more of a political buzzword than the singular. The issue is jobs, not any individual's job.
Indeed. Google Wallet? As he described the scan-and-walk process, it sounds more like Google Shoplift -- but maybe that's just the first thing that came to my mind. Of course, if you had some kind of disposable "smart bag" to do an RFID scan of its contents, you might be getting somewhere with this.
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Another option is that the guy does not know what he is talking about ...

I guess we will never know for sure.
what do the controllers actually do? Synchronize state? Verify that constraints are met?
I beg to differ, the ultimate goal of a business should be to create value. Money should only serve as a yardstick for the value created.
I don't understand what it is needed for. What does a record label do these days? Not counting the few people who still want to buy actual records.
A lot of Stop & Shops here in the Boston area have that too. Someone will randomly audit your shopping cart once every 10 trips so or to prevent theft, which is a hugh time-consuming PITA. Personally, the novelty wore off after the first use.
Agile "works" because neither "agile" nor "works" is well defined. (Some agile methodologies are well-defined, of course.)
Yep - that is the right number. I was backer #15 (I think) and just watched the numbers climb and climb. It was pretty amazing.
Dup - HN discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3038264
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I'd suggest keynotopia.com. I just re-read the article in the Hacker News Monthly magazine (Startup Stories, which is for free I think). According to the founder it makes him around $5000 - $10000 per month.
Has Posterous lost the race against Tumblr yet?
Thanks for the JetPens love cobrabyte! I'm the exact same on the Hi-Tec-C as you - the 0.3mm is the sweet spot.
Mostly. I patched that package to support global search (show all tags across all files that roughly match this string) and I fixed a number of bugs where file paths didn't get normalized correctly. And I refactored the indexing logic (moved it to the crontab) so all libraries I use also get indexed properly.

Since I use it for Python/Django/CSS/JS work I also had to add some rules to ~/.ctags to correctly identify JS and CSS declarations.
Have you tried the app in question? Even with the low quality cameras on the first Androids, it worked really well. On my 8MP camera now, it's insanely fast. And since everyone would be doing it as they picked things up, the lines to check out will be limited to making sure people didn't steal.

Having said all that, I think elimination of the traditional supermarket is more in line with what I want in the future. There was a startup on here that talked about having no customer-accessible store. The customer orders from home, drives up in their car, the store loads the order in the car and collects the money, and the customer drives home. Eliminating the customer's driving is a logistical nightmare, but I expect that will eventually be solved, too.
Tip 1 is misleading. if you're using Java package conventions (like com.example.myapp), you won't have any conflicts because you own the domain name.
The really irresponsible thing here is that the article doesn't make an explicit point of Tumblr's lack of revenue or revenue model and ask 'wtf is the plan?'.

Reminds me of ra-ra coverage celebrating the 'success' of Digg.
You should have mentioned that, I'd have thought - if there was a personal link in the email, it might have got past the first level of screening?

I don't think Sandra's substantive response was terrible (save for your name being wrong); your initial email does read somewhat as if it's primarily about the Raspberry Pi initiative rather than the broader issues (which you use as a foundation for the Pi suggestion).

All I'd say is don't give up - just bear in mind Gove will be up to his neck in conference prep at the moment. I know you've good experience in successful campaigning...
Yes there are many subjects that do not lead to jobs, but it was suggested that programming should be taught as a fundimental subject, allongside english and maths. Most subjects you can drop when you're 16 and take the things that not only intrest you, but should be relevant to your job. When I was 15, we did 1 hour a week of history, and 3 hours a week of maths.

Being a lawer is well payed, I'd never do it and it isn't getting taught in school. And they only attract jobs now because not many people can do it, if every graduate could program to a reasonable level, salleries would go down and the number of people unemployed with these skills would go up.
I wonder if this "entrepreneur" also isn't getting paid. This is the classic bad business proposition - i.e. I won't pay you now but I might at some unspecified point in future.
I'm not sure why this was posted here. Based on the response, you're knocking on the wrong door?

However, the role of this Department is limited to setting the policy framework of the National Curriculum of what is taught in terms of content, attainment targets and how performance is assessed and reported. Therefore, we do not endorse, fund or promote specific resources or activities for use in schools.
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This isn't self-checkout, it's the scan-as-you-place-in-the-cart wand things you can use at Stop & Shop.
The industrial revolution keeps on destroying low skill jobs, for the benefit of everyone overall. There is always a group of people who lose these jobs initially but in the long term it's never been that big problem for society after about 200 years of doing this. However, it won't hurt to be more proactive in helping people get retrained and move into other kinds of jobs. There is even some opportunity in offering a path for people who lose their jobs in one industry to get trained to work in other industries which has demand. I think the people who suffer the most are those who insist on trying to hold onto a type of job that is disappearing, being the last group to lose their jobs and being behind others when it comes to retraining. I think it's the same as people who refuse to move away from a town when industry there is shutting down.
The idea is that they won't set problems where the answer to be supplied is a program, but they will set problems which would be tedious or impractical to answer without writing code to help you arrive at the answer.
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As a BSD fan in general, I do wish there was a bit less fragmentation in the BSD community. With the dwindling user community of OpenBSD, and also FreeBSD to a degree, a part of me wishes these teams would join forces to a bigger extent than they currently do. I don't necessarily mean that there should be one "BSD" distribution, but rather shared codebases and such, making it easier to take feature X from FreeBSD and using it in OpenBSD, and vice versa. Whenever a technology (such as ZFS) was implemented in FreeBSD, it should be extremely easy to port to OpenBSD (on that note, there may be licensing issues that keep OpenBSD from using ZFS).
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The mbed team in Cambridge has been very successful at engaging with local schools - I can also hook you up with them.
I'd love to see the caliber of people joining this.
I'm sure some people have applied. Some with some deception in their heart. None the less, interesting.

I have my own 112,347 projects to finish.

I would have hoped he would have been clear about the idea/business/challenge/work and more transparent about the ownership/revenue/raised funds.

And coders that accept no salary for coding, except for close friends or family seem dubious.
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This article doesn't make any sense... This is NOT the future, Self-scanners have been around for a long time and have never caught on anywhere to my knowledge.

Self-scanners have been around for several years. Market District in Pittsburgh had them in 2005 when I lived there (http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/09/01/review-grocery-stor...). They never caught on, and ultimately the company stopped using them in 09 (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09226/990741-28.stm note: this article doesn't provide any details).

The problem is theft prevention and time. Every so often (appx every 10 customers), they would randomly check every item on your receipt. You think you're done, but you aren't, they need to check every item on your receipt.

The thing that IS potentially a game changer in this regard (which the article doesn't mention) is RFID. With RFID combined with Google Wallet, the theft prevention problem can be solved much easier (ie alarm goes off if you are stealing)
It's obvious that they either A) didn't read the letter or B) had no clue what JGC was talking about.
Turn it into a competition with your friend. And don't be afraid to embarrass yourselves (remember it's a game/competition) in terms of advertising a little louder than normal. What helps also: Ask your potential customers about the pitch afterwards (what they thought about it, whether they liked it) - nice side effect: you get to meet awesome people who'd like to help you.
Have you tried the app No I haven't - I've just used the 'standard' Android barcode scanner. So now I feel a bit sheepish given that I may have over-egged the pudding with that little scenario!

I've used internet supermarket shopping in the past, when I didn't own a car. It was reasonably good, and you paid £5 for delivery within a 2 hour window. You would tend to sometimes accidentally buy a weird size of some item though.
I've thought about that and I still don't have a good answer. My guess is that it is only marginally more theft-prone than the self checkout stations. It probably helps that the store is in an affluent suburb. They won't be setting up such a system in Baltimore where I live any time soon.

When I lived in the area I only used the system once because it just took too long. My mom stopped using it because she found on one trip she had effectively stolen two items by forgetting to scan them and was so horribly embarrassed she gave up on it.
They did catch on in the UK, but I think minimum wage and other labour regulation had a lot to do with encouraging it.
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>Why should kids be taught programming instead of reading, writing, language and maths? //

>adding an extra topic that will only be useful to a small number of people would be wasteful. //

Just as a comparison. In Wales, Welsh language is taught throughout school and in every lesson. Yet English language is understood and used by nearly everyone in Wales and Welsh language is used by less than 20% of people. In addition Wales is the only country where it has any significant use. Welsh language is taught as the most important subject.

Clearly UK curricula don't look at utility or life application as the most important aspects of subjects taught.

Yes, it's a bit of a bête noire for me.

>how much better do you think they would be able to do their job if they knew how to program //

A little? How much better can they do their job if they know how to do algebra, or order a sandwich in France?

I'm not sure I agree with jgrahamc but I'm not sure I'm with you either ...
I believe Google sending you an email asking..

Can Google Wallet schedule your weekly/monthly/periodic shopping list
for the following items from <your-regular-store>?

- <item-1> - <quantity>
- <item-2> - <quantity>
- ..

[Yes, schedule now] [No] [Change item-list and schedule]

..should be the eventual evolution of such a service.
The cotton gin (1793) separates the cotton fibers from the seeds. The cotton still needs to be picked. Machines were eventually built to pick cotton but didn't get good until the 1950s, well after many blues and early country and western songs could be written about picking cotton.

In a historical pre-echo, Ely Whitney spent a lot of time and money suing planters for making illegal copies of his cotton gin.
> If you took a random person you passed on a busy London street at lunch time, how much better do you think they would be able to do their job if they knew how to program?

How many would benefit from learning more physics, microbiology, or reading more Shakspeare? I would say it is about the same.

For example a specific example from the article is Excel. I might not like and would never use it personally but it is useful to teach it to kids. They can just use it to track their personal finances to start with. A lot of businesses use it. Knowing how to automate things in can be a great timesaver. Heck, just knowing that it is possible to automate things in it using scripting would be good to know.

There is game programming, and that can be used to attract kids to go and study programming in depth. I think we would benefit as a society from kids wanting to go into CS more than wanting to go into Communications or English majors. Then there is the whole web aspect of it.

Then just basic literacy of using the web & the privacy implications are very important to know. Network privacy and security is one of those things along law, personal finance & propaganda techniques that should be taught first and foremost in schools because those are probably going to be important in anyone's lives -- more so than ancient history or even learning Visual Basic programming. But it seems important & practical subjects like that are excluded from our (American) education system, not sure about the British one...
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p.s. You will get paid. I just needed to filter out people who only do this for money.
"Therefore, we do not endorse, fund or promote specific resources or activities for use in schools."

Holy crap, nobody else agrees with this? This is a government entity refusing to grasp more control than it should have! They are actively saying that they trust their school system to improve itself organically, and they aren't not going to slow it down by mandating the tools used.

Had he left it at 'We need to promote computer understanding, not just usage', they might have bit on that and considered it as part of their mission. But instead, the mention of the Raspberry Pi made it sound like a sales call, and they don't do that. They aren't going to mandate or even recommend individual tools.
Second the suggestion. Hoboken's got fantastic access into the city, they have their own tech meetup too (NJ Tech) and there's a new shared workspace that's opened up there too: http://www.missionfifty.com/
I think that's overengineering. Why not just use weight, like they already do in the self-checkout line? Weigh the shopping cart full of groceries, subtract the weight of the cart itself, and compare to what they're paying for. If it seems wrong, investigate.
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I suppose they could use the scales that are integrated into current self-checkout stations to compare the aggregate weight of your purchase against what it should be.

Seems like a lot of hassle.
Because teaching programming is a broad policy decision. It's exactly the sort of thing the particular department would be in charge of. If JGC had merely been suggesting a certain programming language or teaching software, then the response would have been appropriate. As it is, it sounds like they didn't understand what JGC wrote.

"Be it with Raspberry Pi computers in schools, or with some other hardware, we need to get back on top."

Rasberry Pi was just a suggestion. The broader idea of "teaching programming" was ignored.
They have some impressive numbers:

Mr. Karp said that Tumblr’s growth has exploded in the past year. It’s attracted popular musicians such as Lady Gaga and traffic leapt to 13 billion page views per month from 2 billion page views per month. Since the site was first introduced, 30 million blogs have been created using the tool. Those 30 million blogs now generate more than 40 million posts each day.

A recent report from Nielsen said that the audience for the site tripled in the past year and has drawn more female teens to the site than any other social network. Although Facebook still dominates the majority of the time Americans spend on the Web, occupying more than 53 billion minutes each month, Tumblr manages to capture a reasonable share of screen time as well, with more than 623 million minutes per month.

So the avg. American spends ~3hrs a month on Facebook and 2mins on Tumblr.
> It's a big leap from free to €99 + VAT. Indie iOS developers don't pay VAT (it's taken by Apple on top of our 30% cut), so a VAT-inclusive price is easier.

I always thought that "VAT-inclusive" meant that the price included VAT. If so, doesn't charging VAT-inclusive mean that those developers are now paying VAT twice on this expense, once through Apple and a second time as part of this purchase. (Ordinarily they'd be able to take a credit for the latter, buf if it's bundled, they don't have the relevant information, or rather, receipt.)
Thanks for the tip on the book, I'll check it out.

I considered monthly subscription and want to offer it in the long run. Recurly looks like the best solution out there, but it's also pricey when you're starting out and want to keep costs low.

I really went with the most simple solution I could come up with, which is one price point and Harvest+PayPal as a super cheap payment solution that does not require payment gateway and merchant account.
Honestly, school time is not that scarce. An adult can learn to read and write in a couple of days of intensive practice. Maths can take longer, but have the same issues as programming - how many cruise directors use more than arithmetic?

Learning programming can be easily misconstrued. Lets call it logic, algorithms and applied maths. Now is it a good idea? Sure, and its something a hypothetical cruise director could actually use.
I don't think any of the answers fit for me. I keep facebook open all the time, but don't really check very often. Only periodically when checking rss and such stuff or when I'm really bored.
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The key here is the hybrid-model (think Kickstarter + traditional label). Labels promote their artists. Very few artists succeed in do-it-yourself models like Kickstarter. They may be able to raise the money needed to record an album, but do they have the resources and expertise to market it on their own?

Secondly, getting the fans involved in the whole process is interesting (especially when they can derive rewards from their engagement). There are a lot of big music fans out there that would love to have a say and a piece in the action.
He does say, at the end of the piece, that nouns that happen to end in -er are an exception.
As a mid 20 something in a major city, facebook is still important when it comes to knowing about any events/parties/shows/gatherings coming up, sharing pics and catching up with people you don't get to meet up with too often. Pretty much everyone I know of uses it actively, some more than others. A few did try google+ but with the exception of a small handful of friends who work in the tech industry, all of them stopped using it already.

As an aside, I feel as if hn is a giant echo chamber when it comes to facebook complaints, especially the past few days. Most people don't know or don't care about these issues.
My thoughts...

Supermarket clerk is hardly an ultimate job.

Tediousness of checkout is as much a psychological issue as a real one. I rarely spend more than a fraction of the time checking out as actually selecting the groceries I want.

Produce usually doesn't have a barcode, especially anything sold by weight. Bakery items often have no barcode either.

The problem of trying to buy an entire week's worth of groceries for a whole family in one shot isn't addressed at all by google wallet. It sounds like this guy should look into some sort of service that delivers groceries to his door. (Which could create jobs, incidentally)
To clarify this a bit: I use Facebook as a passive notification platform where people can contact me when they don't want or can't use another channel.
I'm kind of in favor of rebranding "startups" that have no business like Twitter or Tumblr as "charities."

"For only 30¢ per day you can make a difference in the life of a young adult who wants to reblog naked girls from other Tumblr sites and tweet about animated GIFs."
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I would like:

1. An API to connect to non-profits and donate to them.

2. An API to retrieve college textbook information..like what are all the courses for the fall semester and their required textbooks.
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This letter received in response really doesn't mean anything, it's just a generic "thank you for contacting us" letter. You'll (usually, 99 times out of 100) get a similar equivilent if you ever contact your MP, although in those cases it will generally be even less involved in the subject, along the lines of "Dear name, I agree that this matter is important and that is why I support this matter, yours, MP"

It shouldn't be taken as an indication of how well the government is handling this issue, just that it was treated as "yet another thing for someone unimportant to reply to". (That's not to say that they are treating it well... just that it can't be judged from this letter.)