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There are tons of developers in India, check this out:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=programming

The problem is for many, its a job, just like working at McDonalds — they aren't like us, they don't go home and work on open source projects and the like.

Also, with the mass of people doing it, especially those with little passion for the industry, they sometimes don't take care when it comes to security, etc..

Now thats not to say all developers from India are bad programmers, I've worked with quite a few code ninjas...you've just got to be careful!
In some places, sadly, getting a low B is considered 'failing'... In most of my classes, at least. But I suppose the pressure gets you to work more quickly and efficiently.
Are their any financial types that have listened to this and can verify their claims?

In typical fashion they did a great job with storytelling and production. However, I hear conflicting reports about some of the underlying causes, including ones they discuss.
The markets were heavily influenced by the government. Risk was removed because of the GSE status of Fannie and Freddie. At the same time the government (both Congress and the president through HUD) pushed Fannie and Freddie to take on more risk to "help the poor".
I'd say it's an open question. It depends on the hardware manufacturers and carriers and what they let you do, and at this point it's anyone's guess as to what will be allowed where. Initially we probably won't see "anything goes" types of deals, but maybe we will later on. Once you get sources though... I don't think it'll be long before people start doing C-based stuff. The Java environment (which isn't really Java in terms of the VM) is so that they can keep some semblance of control for non-hacker type people.
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One person is applying for a job, the other is writing on a social news site. Yeah those are the same.
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http://startups.alltop.com/. They have a pretty decent startup section.

Side note: I really love their site design!
In Florida they mandated that an A be 100-94 to "raise standards" for education. You can imagine how much impact that really had.
Call it irony, but I think this produces higher quality results than paid results.

Interesting little quirk, search for 'gmail' and look at the results. Nostalgia of proportions only a true geek would appreciate.
It's a good time to buy if you aren't looking to get out tomorrow. That's why day trading is such a shady and risky call.

Most of us will still be around when we pull out of this recession, so a buy anytime that we're in it is a good call... you may have to wade through a little muck, but it doesn't really matter if you make $10 or $20, what matters is that you make money.
would you provide a way to process|program|re-use the "files"?

(i guess my question is, since you are doing a file explorer, can users run scripts on the "files" ?)
Yeah, Apple has always been as evil as Microsoft, but with better PR.
apparently one offer was for $1m
"Your search - youtube - did not match any documents."

What a crazy world we lived in.
How do you get from

> It only costs $8 million per quarter (see AT&T) to hire a team of lobbyists and Senators to unfairly block your competition out of the game and take over an entire industry (see network neutrality).

to

> I agree with you; government regulation is good, meddling is bad.

Is "unfairly block" and "takes over" good?

Surely you're not suggesting that we can have good govt regulation if only we believed in Tinkerbelle.
"We only work with devlopers who are willing to donate 20000$ to charity"????
> They would have all gone bankrupt or had to be rescued by the government

But isn't the point to separate the investment banks away from the savings banks? There's a fundamental type difference between a dollar earned and saved, and a promissory-based dollar conjured up by a debt instrument.

When an investment bank fails (as it should when it's made a bad mortal investment), the funny money dries up, leaving the holder high and dry. If this holder employed bad accounting (by counting promised dollars as dollars-in-hand), then they may fail as well (and so on). However, this should not continue into the institutions that hold the savings of the people who didn't want to play economic make-believe.

> Many foreign countries never had any law like Glass-Steagall in place and they don't seem to be suffering the same problems

How many other countries have currencies that are used as reserve by the rest of the world? (which greatly lengthens the time for consequence of inflationary policy to be felt)
ya, i prefer all my videos to be in javascript
Ok, http://mediawombat.com (Flash Search Engine) is officially developing an iPhone Flash Search app now.
I don't think I'm necessarily an example, but in high school I was generally a A- student who got As because of either inflation or I just sucked up to the teachers to give me an A. =P In college I'm more of a B student but I also haven't changed any habbits and can happily say I am able to spend an abundance of time working on my start-up and driving it forward. It helps, however, that most of my professors are leanient on allowing me to miss classes for various business reasons without reprocussions.

I can say that I hope the stat about the B student tending to have the highest net worth is accurate. =)
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I'm a bit sceptical about the googlephone being the good guy. I wish he hadn't started on that. It's very tempting to pit the google phone against the iphone, but to be fair the only good guy in town is openmoko. The problem with openmoko though is that the interface is utter crap, but it's the best bet for a "free" platform for developers.
Foreclosed houses are houses that can be sold to folks who can afford them.

You know these folks. They've been saving for a house and watching the market run away from them. Now that prices have dropped, they can afford to buy IF we don't insist on taking their money and giving it to the folks who couldn't handle their existing mortgage keep the house.
I agree, it's an excellent article indeed. And also, note that its advice doesn't apply only for the open source world but to any kind of software contracting.
Great, congratulation. I'd be curious to hear more about your experiences. ;-)
I was thinking more along the lines that if someone is OCD they can probably detect incomplete plans and lines of thought more easily than others, and so see in general that most ideas are not well supported or understood by people. Thus, a person's society and culture in general may not seem very well thought out, which can be a source of anxiety and depression.
I disagree completely.

It is true that a few years ago, OCaml was more "practical" then haskell. It was faster and had more libraries.

But today haskell is superior to OCaml in nearly all aspects.

As a language, haskell has always been cleaner and more elegant. It has simpler syntax, a more powerful type system, lazy evaluation, and in general more features.

In terms of performance, haskell has caught up with OCaml and exceeded it. The leading haskell compiler(GHC) has been adding in optimizations one after another the past few years. Deforestation, pointer tagging, parallel garbage collection, and other techniques from various research papers. GHC is a top quality professional compiler built by a bunch of geniuses. Haskell also has several implementations and compilers(GHC, Hugs, yhc, nhc, jhc...) while OCaml has only a single implementation.

In terms of tool support, haskell has a debugger(ghci debugger), a profiler(ghc) an excellent documentation generation tool(haddock), and a standard build system(cabal). These are all superior to their OCaml equivalents(where they exist at all: OCaml build systems usually are a mess of makefiles or autohell)

Haskell is catching up to OCaml in the number of libraries available. Haskell now has a CPAN-like website called hackage with hundreds of libraries for all application domains (see the list: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html ). Libraries can be downloaded and installed with haskell's build system using a single command, with dependencies also automatically taken care of. The haskell standard library is also a lot better then OCaml's. OCaml has two different incompatible list types(one lazy and one strict). OCaml's file handles can be either written to or read from, not both. (It's not possible to open a file for RW in OCaml). And OCaml infamously requires special syntax for doing arithmatic with floating point numbers(1 + 2 for integer, 3.0 +. 4.0 for floating point).

In terms of community I think that both languages are about equal. Haskell has active and beginner-helpful mailing lists and an IRC channel (one of freenode's most crowded).

Overall, I believe that Haskell is more "practical" then OCaml in nearly every domain. The only thing where OCaml might be preferable is high performance numeric stuff. But this might not be the case for much longer when the haskell GHC compiler will soon get it's new native code generator.

Haskell popularity has been exploding in the past few years, with tons of new libraries and books. There have always been myths about haskell that have caused it to have a perception of being impractical, kind of similar to lisp. But the truth is that haskell is a practical language, and depending on what you need to do, it can even compete with other practical languages like java and python.
Presumably the question is whether it uses squirrelfish or V8, as it says its "inspired" by Chrome? Does inspired mean, "Wow, google made a browser from webkit" or does it mean that they base a lot from the chromium source code (a forked os x version of chrome?)
You should read up on the great depression.
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I think you meant it sarcastically, but it's on the way, and I actually agree with you strongly. Heck you don't even need Javascript -- HTML5 is supported by Webkit.
Of course they are not. That's why there's a :) at the end.
Ha! Joel on Software was at http://joel.editthispage.com/
The results come from the definition of religion and the conclusions use a different one.

The whole "they're daft" argument applies just as well to believers in astrology, Jedi, Wicca, and other variants of the flying spaghetti monster, yet the "religious" percentage excludes those.

That's a problem because standard religious folks are less likely to believe in those things. As a result, if you just count "standard" religion, you undercount supernatural believers and the error increases as the percentage of standard religious believers decreases.
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That it was sarcastic was clear to me. The point you were trying to make with that sarcasm was not. (Note: I didn't downmod you.)
Android found a great balance between a virtual environment and a good API. It pretty much covers everything a developer needs.

What's more the SDK is also great, I tried to run the latest S60 SDK (Nokia) and after 2 weeks gave up, MS is great but its not for free. With Android it's free and straight forward.
Getting a B in grad school is basically failing.
I agree, but this can be offset by saving more money while you are employed.
There is an older index. Why does no one use The Way Back Machine?

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.ed...

Perhaps this is when Google became google.com?
Hint: any book that comes packaged with a barf bag may not be taking the subject quite so seriously as you believe it is.
I disagree.

Take a midsize bank market cap of $5B and multiply it by 25-50 for the number of banks that might fail. That is a total loss of around $125B-$250B for which shareholders and employees of these companies bear the losses. Also should these banks fail, the government will have to step in via FDIC. The problem with this is that assuming an average balance of $10000 per depositor $700B covers 70 Million accounts. While this is probably sufficient for average individual depositors, what is to happen to the small businesses that have greater than $100k in assets? Also, what happens to the availability of credit with so many banks in default?

Bankruptcy actually seems more risky, as the people who would lose are small businesses and those with over $100k in the bank, people who would never have recourse to get their money back. Rather than socialized losses (through inflation), its losses for an unlucky few. The bailout plan, however, which involves taking warrants in the companies we are giving money to seems to have a good chance of repaying at least a significant portion of what it costs overall.

Thoughts?
I was thinking of Jamestown, which was founded independently of the New England colonies at about the same time. Jamestown had different types of Englishmen from different regions of England with different religious beliefs went than the ones who went to New England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed

The South didn't get nearly as many immigrants as the North until recently, so the great waves of immigration later on weren't as influential.
GoBig usually drives me crazy, but this is really good advice.
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Non-Apple-approved runtimes like Java, Flash, Silverlight aren't allowed on the App Store.
I'd like to read more about the majority of defaults being middle-class, gentrified buyers. Are there public sources available? It's very much at odds with the "common wisdom" portrayed by the media.

As for how it could happen - my cubemate bought a house in the South End of Boston in 2006, right next to downtown. He's a well-established professional, solid skills, solid resume, and I believe makes over 6 figures. But he bought the house with a $500k interest only mortgage. His banker told him that nearly everything they wrote these days is interest-only, and he should buy the biggest home he could afford. So if housing prices fall, he has every incentive to walk away. It hasn't happened yet (he got promoted to CTO, and prices are still rising in the South End), but I could imagine there're many people who took out similar terms but don't have the same wherewithal to pay them.
Apple prohibits iPhone apps that can download code. Perhaps Adobe could provide a Flash Player "library" that app developers could "link" into their Flash apps. I wonder how successful such apps would be, given that they wouldn't support multi-touch and probably wouldn't follow iPhone UI guidelines.
On the whole some good tips - I do think these should be applied more generally too. It's always important to stay lean and watch the bottom line.

I have to disagree on the point about putting 20% down on a property! I've grown up around property investment and in my opinion the current economics are brilliant. I'm getting ready to borrow more and more to snap up some great bargains. The important thing with property is cashflow... it doesn't matter whether prices fluctuate. Lower capital values just mean higher cashflow... so bring on the good times!
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IIRC Alfie Kohn's book What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated has a couple studies on it. I believe he says that GPA accounts for about 3% of future income potential.

Many firms have done their own internal studies though. IIRC Google undertook a big study and found no correlation between gpa and job performance. I'm sure financial firms have probably looked at the link between gpa and alpha, if only because it's so easy to measure.

A more interesting thought experiment is to ask yourself the opposite question: For students who have jobs before going to college or grad school, would you expect those who made more money to later get a higher GPA?
Hmm. This doesn't work for me. A search for anything takes me to a 404 not found.
It is TREMENDOUSLY biased, as Norvig has been in previous elections when he wrote about the topic.

One example: he mentions McCain receiving Fannie Mae money - but, Obama (despite his much shorter stint in the Senate and indeed, politics at the national level) is #2 on the list of those receiving the most money from Fannie Mae (McCain is about # 50 on the list) .

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/update-fannie-mae-an...
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Historically, I've only ever hired developers I've found through their contributions to Open Source software...but I've always built Open Source software, predominantly, so I wouldn't know how to select developers otherwise. But, it pretty much rules out the process of weeding through dozens of pointless applications like this, since I usually approach the developers I want to hire.
To be clear, I'm specifically talking about web startups and companies.
Obviously, Flash on iPhone is in Adobe's interests, and against Apple's interests.

But in terms of consumer interests, is it such a bad thing? There are three posts in favor of Flash on the iPhone here and as of this posting, they have all been downmodded to -1. Assuming they are legit opinions, I don't understand the Flash hate.

In the face of standards, fine. But knowing that the consumer doesn't care about standards, the ability for a Flash application to appear consistent across platforms, which is plain drudgery in HTML now (and given IE6's prevalence, will last for a good while, like it or not), I can see downsides, but it doesn't look overwhelmingly bad.

Or, would you explain the principle argument against it, aside of the standards bit?
I'm curious how the openmoko is more open than the android platform?
haha.

You know, I didn't appreciate the magnitude of what they did until trying out your suggestion. I didn't realize that they'd literally gone back to the old search index . . . I thought it was just a superficial change.
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Not a JS guru, but is streaming media over JS on its way? Sockets? Somehow I think RIA in these categories have been dominated by big fat Flash (or Java maybe), and it doesn't seem like it's going to budge.
I don't know. Maybe it doesn't differ from it at all. I'm not a domain expert by any means...

Thanks for the tip.
Here's the rub: a divergence of incentives...

"The typical investment manager/financial innovator thinks: 'If I win, my profit will be proportional to the gross sales I have initiated. If I lose, I will be dismissed, and perhaps I will lose my reputation in the process.' Thinking even further, the manager realises that the downside is limited to being fired, but the upside is limitless. This asymmetry between profits and losses encourages audacity. Once a certain risk threshold is breached, the investment manager who places bets with other people’s money ignores danger. From a social point of view, the problem stems from the divergence of incentives. Even though the intermediary knows that he may suffer a severe personal loss, it will never be proportional to the losses inflicted on investors."
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When I search for Perl, it seems like nothing has changed. When I click through to Perl.com and look at the archived articles, they look like they all could have been written today.

I'm not sure what this says about anything, but it is interesting.
The fifth result when searching for "wikipedia" has the text:

"WikiPedia is a new wiki site I have set up at http://www.wikipedia.com/ .
WikiPedia is an offshoot project of NuPedias OpenContent encyclopedia project."

There are only 681 results (3 pages), and all of the Internet Archive links go nowhere.
I could care less if they closed as long as I could still put music on my iPod.
From the 'Preface' part:
"I know and rather like some of the authors, so it actually makes me a little sad to report that fourteen years later, writing them off this way is easier than ever."

He knows who they are and what they were about. His point was not that it was a 'polemic' against Unix. It was that their wordplay was ineffective and is now dated and shortsighted, when they could have delivered a directed and informed critique that might have inspired more.
Speaking pragmatically, what should people be using for interactive visuals on the web? I used Flash to create Stormpulse.com ... and I can't help but notice that I've never seen a complex GMaps application run fast.
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This is just IMHO: The whole "rant on Apple's app store policies" meme has run out of mileage. Its kinda getting like Rickrolls, except not as funny. I know several developers that have successfully gotten apps into the store. One of them is doing VERY well. His opinion when I asked him about this was basically, "Apple states it all pretty clearly in the documentation when you sign up. Some types of apps (podcaster for example) are obviously going to run up against functionality Apple already has implemented, if in a different form. You just don't develop for those areas."
It seems like mostly the only people who have been yelling, complaining, bellyaching, and blogging about Apple's policies are the ones that can't read the frakking docs. The developers who are all doing quite well don't have a big problem with the restrictions.

Bottom line, the iPhone SDK wasn't developed by an organization like W3C. It was built by a company that wants to make a profit. They own the incredibly popular platform. If you want to play, you play by their rules.

Otherwise, you can write apps for Android. You can sell your apps to the 1/10 of a percent of people that will buy the clunky HTC Dream and similar devices that do or will run the Android platform. I'd love to see Android running on the iPhone. That would give the great hardware plus the open OS. I would stick with the iPhone OS, but the option should be out there.
There was no budget surplus when the current administration started. It only looked like a surplus if you ignored many of the real financial obligations.
Judging only the tax itself: it'd have to be a percentage, not a fixed amount.
- Code exactly what your client wants, not what you think the world wants. -

I had to point this out. Having been a leader on a good amount of projects that involved programming, I have completely lost count of the number of times someone didn't do their job and coded something completely different because they thought they were superman and could save the world by coding something else or coding it differently than what we thought. It turns out when their submission goes to be implemented, it doesn't work at all with the rest of the system.
I'm confused by your punctuation, but it looks like:

I'm just asking you to accept that [...s]piritual and religious people might retort with a scale of their own about atheists

Sure. As for the subgroup you're talking about, I sometimes refer to them as "evangelical atheists". The word seems a fairly precise fit. They propagate a different evangel, of course.
Agree on all points, just that image was so inane and off the wall that it gave me a belly laugh after a tough day of coding. That was about the only thing I got out of the whole thread; for reasons you outlined this discussion conveyed zero bits of information to me as well. I expected the usual ideology and armchair analysis, and got it, along with an unexpected laugh.
Many software licenses contain this as a restriction - i.e. "no nukes".

Many licenses just simply say the code is "not intended" for nuclear facilities - usually also extended to other critical systems such as aircraft or medical applications.

If your startup is using this code, then it's likely you need to pass this restriction on.

Edit: I may be wrong, but this might also relate to export restrictions in some countries.