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There is no news here. All it says is that they've ported it to the iPhone hardware (not just the simulator, as they announced in June). And Apple has promised them nothing.

This prompted me to write an email to Steve Jobs (sjobs@apple.com--he apparently actually reads all his email) as a nearly 20-year Mac (and now iPhone) ISV, begging him to stand firm and refuse to allow any kind of Flash technology on the phone.

Flash flies in the face of all open Internet standards, and is a huge resource hog. Flash is Adobe's ploy to build an alternative OS that makes Windows and Mac OS irrelevant. Why should Apple give Adobe any ground on which to stand?

Also see http://counternotions.com/2008/06/17/flash-iphone/ .
Yes, "The Unix Hater's Handbook" is outdated. Then again, it is 14 years old. Who wouldn't think it was obsolete.
honestly I wouldn't hire anyone that can't take the time to spell out "you"
This is great ... since one of my main businesses is providing Flash-based sites, this is welcome news (if it performs well).
may 2008.
Bankruptcy leads to more business opportunities and jobs.
Great article. I completely agree that we need to start thinking smarter before it is too late and we are up to our ears in debt. I also agree that there are numerous ways of getting extra cash such as starting a blog and placing ads on it. This is a way to have some fun, get your opinions out and possibly pay a bill or two.
If only the bootstrapping option weren’t so damn hard. Quitting your day job is quite a bit easier when you’ve got a war chest of VC funds that will carry you through for a year or two.
> honestly I wouldn't hire anyone that can't take the time to spell out "you"

How about people who don't capitalize first letter in the sentence and don't put a dot at the end ? :)
> In my experience, learning OCaml is a good way to become accustomed to the type system Haskell uses

I'd agree with this. In addition I'd recommend "The Little MLer" as a great book on how to think in terms of types.

edit. didn't read further down. Seems as if it is already mentioned:)
This looks like an interesting site, something I've long been interested in, colors and their emotive inductions.

This site looks to have set up a nice data gathering method, they are not pioneers in the field though, as lots of work on the subject exists already, but more won't hurt.

Some things I recall -

red & yellow - can induce hunger (McDonalds)

blue - calming, trust

green - peace, calming (nature)

Another thing I recall reading is that people are more trusting of websites with white backgrounds. Though this could simply stem from the fact that the majority of 'major' websites people are familiar with have white backgrounds.
You can use side effects with lazy evaluation, it's just that if you guarantee that you won't, various things suddenly become much easier to do safely (and to optimize for). It's a trade-off. Haskell is lazy by default, but you can also do lazy evaluation in Scheme and OCaml, for example.

In Scheme (PLT):

(define lazy-with-side-effect
(delay (begin (print "Hey, a side effect!")
#t)))

> lazy-with-side-effect
#<promise>
> (force lazy-with-side-effect)
"Hey, a side effect!"#t
> (force lazy-with-side-effect)
#t

In the OCaml toplevel:

# let lwse = lazy (print_string "(Side effect)\n"; true);;
val lwse : bool lazy_t = <lazy>
# lwse;;
- : bool lazy_t = <lazy>
# Lazy.force lwse;;
(Side effect)
- : bool = true
# Lazy.force lwse;;
- : bool = true
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A car is depreciated on the books per standard rules and traditions, generally around 5 years.

Computers are depreciated around 3 years.

The above is true only if a purchase is "capitalized" and classified as an asset. This "depreciation" allows you to deduct a loss per that 3 or 5 years on your taxes, or incrementally decrease your assets on your balance sheet.

If it is not capitalized and classified as an asset, it is an expense. An expense is noted on the income statement and the entire cost is accounted for in that quarter.
Definitely. I'd recommend the book even if you don't use OCaml or Haskell, really; it made me a lot more conscious of how types can help think out a problem. It's one more technique for your conceptual toolbox.

It's also a fairly fast read. It's in the same format as _The Little Schemer_, FWIW.
I agree. If flash came to the iPhone I'd certainly want it "opt-in". Personally I'd rather not have any flash at all... anywhere.
It irritates me that he lumps together those that say The worst has come! along with those that say Now is the time to buy! It can be the right time to buy, even if you're not 100% sure that we've hit rock bottom.

As Warren Buffet put it: Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.

Well, there's a crap-ton of fear floating around right now, so maybe it's a good time to buy. Maybe not the best time, but if you know when that is, you already know the future so you've got nothing to worry about, right?
Under most circumstances I would not and have not hired any programmer who could not provide some sort of demonstration program with a clean source and stable compile (depending on the language).
Anyone able to access the link? Seems to have been down for the last couple of hours, even though the main site norvig.com comes up just fine.
Ask HN: Startup blogs?
I'm trying to compile a list of blogs that focus on just startups. I'm finding a number of my go to sites have turned into general tech news and lost some of that startup focus.
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ESR missed the entire point of the Unix Hater's Handbook. He apparently couldn't be bothered to note who the authors were. The book isn't a "polemic" against Unix; it's an affectionate critique from people "in the family". The Unix Haters clearly think Unix is the worst OS out there, except for all the others, and they clearly understand Unix better than ESR claims to.
Well, all those 'gentrifiers' took out interest-only or teaser loans, with the expectation that real-estate prices would only ever rise. When the time came for the re-fi, the market had tanked, so they now had negative equity in their assets, and couldn't refi based on the value of the asset. Hence, default. Many of the so-called 'gentrifiers,' in the true American Spirit, were 'strivers' without the cash reserves to take the loss and keep their homes.
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Does it include Squirrelfish Extreme?
This comes across as a bit rant-ish, but I can absolutely see his point. Apple has a fine line to walk in terms of continuing to present it's users with the level of quality applications they are used to however the lack of clarity from Apple about the approval process coupled with the NDA means that nobody can even learn from other developer's experiences.
I liked the article and found it extremely interesting how easy it was for him to circumvent the lines and policies of these places and get service that could in many ways be considered "above the rest."

However, in the mind of an entrepreneur I have to say that it seems as generally a waste of money to do such things, at least on a regular basis. Even if you had the money to do it, it would be extremely unwise. This would be the kind of thing you do and the kind of restaraunts you should eat at when it IS a special occassion... not because you're hungry.
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This is on my list, pretty good resource. I was actually looking more for startup review sites. Thanks!
I just kicked off a long-running javascript function in it, and it locked up just like Safari or Firefox.
Never the less, compromising for the sake of compromising is by no means a smart strategy.
This American Life "The Giant Pool of Money" episode offers a good background on the crisis:
http://www.thislife.org/extras/radio/355_transcript.pdf

Act I: "Alan Greenspan: 'The FOMC stands prepared to maintain a highly accommodative stance of policy for as long as needed to promote satisfactory economic performance.'...

What he’s technically saying is he’s going to keep the Fed Funds rate at the absurdly low level of one percent. It tells every investor in the world: you are not going to
make any money at all on US treasury bonds for a very long time. Go somewhere else. We can’t help you."

Act II "And they sold so many mortgages that there came a point in 2003 where just about everybody who wanted a mortgage and was qualified to get one .... had gotten one.

But the pool of money had just gotten started. They wanted more mortgage backed securities.

So Wall Street had to find more people to take out mortgages. Which meant lending to people who never would’ve qualified before."

"At the height I was making between 75 and 100 grand a month" -Glen Pizzolorusso, who was an area sales manager at an outfit called WMC mortgage in upstate New York."

Act III:
"The global pool of money is avoiding anything with even the slightest hint of risk and that affects everybody, no matter who you are. It's harder to borrow money to buy a house, or build a factory, or bring your country boldly into the 21st century. Take Iceland. A year ago it was easy for them to borrow billions. Now, they're seen as too risky. Their central bank has to pay more than 15 percent interest get anyone to loan them money. They could do better putting their national debt on a credit
card."
"The Millionaire Mind" and "The Millionaire Next Door" have hard data on this. (Mediocre books, BTW.) The answer is that high net worth individuals are predominantly low B students.

A possible explanation for this is simply that lower scoring yet ambitious students are forced to take bigger risks. Johnny A student has a decision tree with more safe salaried gigs on it, but fewer big payoffs.

I saw once that one of the better income predictors was having had more than one sexual partner in high school. I don't know how applicable this is in the top quarter of the income scale. But for people in general I think it illustrates the criticality of social skills over other factors.
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I also had trouble at first but its okay now.
You can always use the google cache of course (note that it looks the same way):
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:WpuLq6wYdewJ:norvig.com...

BTW, why doesn't Norvig use googlepages or blogger? Research?
I've noticed this in not only my current project but previous projects that I've worked on. When we're looking for someone to help do some specific programming tasks we tend to have a problem with people not really being polite in their applications. They treat it as though they did it as more of an afterthought. I don't seem to see this problem in artistic positions...
Here's all this amounts to: (note, this is a itunes store link so it will launch itunes)

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?...
Couldn't Adobe just make the Flash runtime available as a free download from the App Store in the interim. Maybe even an AIR-like runtime -- scaled down for performance. Obviously, Adobe would like full integration with the browser, but a downloadable runtime could at least be available for those who develop Flash content.
The problem is that the leter-grade system doesn't give this information. "A" could mean you're a super-genius, or a plain old genius, or a reasonably good student, or a so-so student at a place with severe grade inflation.

At my school (in Australia) we didn't have letter grades, we had a mark out of (say) one hundred combined with an indication of your ranking within the class. Bold, stark information which told you in no uncertain terms exactly how many people in your class or year were better than you. No doubt it was ego-destroying if you got "150/150", but pretty motivating if you got "11/150", and suitably rewarding if you got "1/150".

This wasn't continued through to the university level, but at least we still got a nice high-resolution mark on a 0-100 scale for each course. And the grades weren't too inflated, so any mark over 90 was a real achievement even for the top students. Getting 100 for any course was unheard of (not quite true, I did hear of somebody getting one once.)

I work at a university in the US now, and I'm really confused about why they still use such a low-resolution system for grading students.
I agree with the post that not only is VC funding hard when you're working with a web-oriented project (I've tried), but in many cases its unreasonable. The relatively low operations cost has lead to making it a more viable option to make a Web 2.0 company and still keep your head without VC funding.

More appropriate, which the article failed to mention, would be Angel funding.
That's a substantial investment @ $250k. Congrats! This was demo'ed here a while back, right?
This article would have been better if it actually addressed the "very real" concerns Stallman raises instead of babbling about a bunch of things that don't.
You may find a few here: http://web20.originalsignal.com/
I would have ignored the application when I saw the first email. 1 year experience + no English is a bad combination.

+ lack of open source and 1 year, tells me that this is someone who just picked up a book and hasn't really done anything yet
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There is also the "Planet Money" podcast that the same guys at NPR have been putting together. They've been discussing the most recent parts of the crisis as they unfold; hours of super depressing fun!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

It includes parts-in-development of the upcoming This American Life episode referred to by noodle.
It seems every day someone or other discovers this, and the sheer magnitude of money there is to be made (and the bonus: having fun while doing it). I discovered it early this year, when I realized I was only one of two open-source developers in the entire world with my specific expertise... and the other apparently has been rather difficult to hire.
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The letter grade system is basically this:

A - 80-100
B - 70-80
C - 60-70
D - 50-60
F - Less than 50%

In terms of rebuttal, what scott_s said.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac simply packaged debt, and hardly the worst of the stuff. The real culprit was the widespread growth of variable rate mortgages.

Most traditional mortgages are fixed-rate. Homeowners agree to pay the bank __% over the course of the mortgage in return for the bank providing payment up front. The house is collateral so the bank doesn't lose money if the homeowner fails to make payment. Variable rate mortgages are simply promises to pay the bank a certain percentage over its own cost of securing funding. This is usually tied to inter-bank lending rates.

Variable rate loans were popular with banks because they pushed risk onto homeowners. Banks no longer risked losing money if their cost of borrowing spiked (and interest rates were at historic lows....). The same loans were popular with speculators who could get cheap capital to purchase housing in a rising market.

This causes: (1) an explosion of variable rate mortgage products, and lots of people getting them to cover real estate purchases, (2) increased (speculative) demand which drives up housing prices and encourages speculation, (3) people going further into debt using the increased value of their existing property as collateral. In many cases homeowners took out second mortgages just to give themselves more free income. This is a lot like borrowing cash from the bank using your Pets.com stock as collateral back in 1999.

The game becomes untenable in two situations (1) when money stops flowing into the housing market and prices stop rising, or (2) when interest rates rise.

The Republicans have really screwed up here. The Fed is trying to lower the cost of borrowing between banks to help push down the interest rate and keep people from being forced out of their homes by rising payments - a situation that would only exacerbate the financial crisis from the perspective of lenders who have paid $$$$ and are now stuck with the collateral worth $$ and falling. Banks are failing and so banks don't want to lend money to other banks. This causes the inter-bank borrowing rate to shoot up, further exacerbating the problem.

Now that spreads are soaring again we can expect a lot more foreclosures which will push more glut onto housing markets and tank the price of property. Perhaps even the collapse of the banking system. That might have happened anyway though, since no-one has any clue about what sort of money is being lost in derivatives.
That is why they need Apple's blessing. They can still get the player itself working as a standalone app so when Apple says it's okay, they can integrate it with Mobile Safari and roll it out.
Ranking within your class tells you just as little. Even worse, you'll be biased against schools filled with bright students.
This type of tax is usually called a "stamp tax". China has such a tax, although it's quite low. http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/xw/t428357.htm
See, that was meant as sarcasm.
Interesting concept... and valid points given as to why... but how is another question.
Since a grade is supposed to correlate with how much you've learned, I'm not convinced higher resolution is necessary. It's already fuzzy how well any grade can represent actual knowledge, skills and experience gained.

Improving the precision doesn't necessarily improve the accuracy. But if improving the precision increases our confidence in the metric - without necessarily increasing it's accuracy - maybe we're better off not doing it.
These are all the big players that I am aware of. Getting the feeling I'm not going to find exactly what I want. Thanks, this is a pretty nice way of seeing everything at once though. Just bookmarked it!
The "pain of a monad" is pretty much the same any many other topics in programming that are tricky for beginners: pointers, recursive functions, linked lists, etc. In fact, monads aren't even a language feature, they are a data structure just like a linked list, defined just like any other data structure. There have even been several articles describing how to implement a monad in other popular languages(monads in ruby, monads in C++, monads in lisp).

As for your second question, it's funny that you ask it after mentioning haskell. The solution of course is that a collection of haskell features offer tools that are "better than Lisp macros" and support side effects. Lazy evaluation and monads cover most cases where you would use a macro in lisp. There are also more complex things like comonads and arrows. These solve the problems that lisp macros solve in a different way. And if you really need the ultimate power that lisp macros provide, then the haskell equivalent is template haskell.
Thanks,
I'll look into that
The best thing is to read a lot of sources yourself and try and make up your own mind. Everyone's trying to sell something, whether it's the libertopians telling you that if there were just no regulations at all, everything would finally work out, or the complete-faith-in-the-government left which thinks that everything will be just great once we regulate everything down to the last detail (caricatures... well, yeah, sorry guys, but reams have been written on this stuff, and I kind of like satirizing it).

Also, the above fundamental philosophical differences are one reason why this stuff just shouldn't be here: people completely disagree and are just going to go on and on and on without really concluding anything.
Hypothetically, as a 28 year old in 2005 I would have little problem getting an interest only loan on a 400k home. If the market drops 100k within a year or two I might as well default and rent for a while or move in with a girlfriend and who could then buy back in at the bottom.

Note: I am not alone and I am not stupid.
When was Apple ever not "evil"?
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Just because you have the source code to Android doesn't mean you have a fully-open phone or operating system. Your Android apps are still limited to their Java sandbox, and you still don't necessarily have any sort of access to tinker with the OS installed on your phone, let alone re-flash it at will like I can with my Neo.

If I screw something up, or if I one day decide I want to run Debian Linux instead of Angstrom/Openmoko, I'm free to reflash my phone's bootloader, kernel, and rootfs, or specially format its Micro SD card and boot from that instead. With Android, you don't yet have any of that freedom, and if the American cellular companies have anything to say about, you never will.

However, I will grant you the fact that Google has a gigantically higher chance of changing the face of mobile communications with Android than Openmoko, but I'd still rather have my Neo any day.
In the U.S.? I have always seen closer to this:

A 100-90 B 89-80 C 79-70 D 69-60 F 59-0
Impressive . . . they decided to forgo search driven ad revenue for the day.
No, that depends on the developer. A lot of developers don't want to worry about memory management and memory leaks.

That has nothing to do with what I said. If you want to avoid the peak memory overhead of using a GC (and the peak memory overhead is quite a bit higher if you don't want to kill performance -- you'd need to run the GC after every statement that could possibly kill garbage otherwise), you need to use C or C++.

And as for other mobile platforms -- Windows Mobile allows C++, IPhone is in Objective-C, Symbian is C++, etc. Java is popular, but it's not overwhelmingly so. And this is even taking into account that it's easier to get a Java based device approved by carriers/regulators because the VM can trap more attempts to break the OS and thus make sure that you can't trick the software into doing out-of-spec stuff.

GC is a wonderful tool. it prevents leaks, but it needs more memory when you're rapidly generating garbage. I wouldn't want to program without it... unless I'm trying to shoehorn things onto a tiny system.
Yeah, there are different versions... and I could be wrong. I gave the high school one since it's what I could remember off hand. Getting a "D" was just as bad as failing though.
I would like to point out that we do tax profits.
Nor does it make much sense. I was 28/290 in high school, but voted "Most Likely to Succeed" at graduation. Now I'm a hacker in a successful startup. Obviously something other than my grades caused everyone to vote me over 27 other people. 5 of my classmates above me went to Harvard, 2 to Columbia, 2 to NYU, 1 to MIT, I went to a state school. I'm doing better than of them today. How did my classmates know that was going to happen? Not to mention in college I knew a couple valedictorians who wouldn't be #40 in our high school. So rank doesn't mean anything, and grades mean less.

I was an A- student in high school and a B student in college, but with all the extra time I had I hacked and read. The A+ students spent all their time working on their homework and learned nothing else. That has something to do with it.
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