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I read your advice about applying and finding a professor. But i have
another question.
I have a bachelor of computer engineering. I do some projects in Image
processing and software developing. I don't know
which one i should mention in my emails to professors. Can you help me?
Of course, back in (my) day, the web didn't exist, so there was no flipcode.com. :| Now off to trim the lawn.
Is it me, or does this all start to read like a Neal Stephenson novel?
By population I think they are limiting it to 'people who use the internet and could use google'.
You should have read the link at the top as well, providing a follow-up that mostly contains "Ok, I didn't know thaat much about GWT when I wrote the first post, so here's my largely revised and far less polarizing opinion".
I like the point about how being in covers of tech blogs doesn't mean much. It's all mostly noise, and if one did a study, I bet they'd find the failure rate of startups covered by tech blogs to be around the same as the overall failure rate of the average business. E
as far as i can read, that's incorrect.
VMWare virtualize the phone's hardware. That's actually adding some security between the 2 environments (personal and business, mind you).

The linked article seems to be about 2 separate disk partitions, but the same user space. And that doesn't sound good then.
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Is this new? Am I just finding this after John Andrews' post a few days ago as a coincidence? http://www.johnon.com/764/seo-myths.html
Wouldn't it make more sense to use a reverse proxy like nginx?
I think there is a lot of refreshing stuff going on in this slide deck, thank you for sharing!
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Very good point. I can't untangle mine and I am way, way smaller than your company.
"well-designed" is actually the point of contention, is it not? You're blithely asserting facts not in evidence.

Smart, experienced people "taking a dump" on things that "don't feel right" to them are in fact valuable and worth paying attention to (even if you ultimately ignore them).

There are many, many cases of teams of brilliant people producing deeply flawed stuff that turns out to be useless. Apple's ATG produced many useless products on top of Lisp back in the day (SK8, Dylan,...). Dylan in particular was "well-designed" for certain values of "well-designed" that turned out to be insufficient — time will tell, but don't assume talent + money -> useful.

Google right now "feels" a lot like Apple ca. 1993.
I know Jake. I had the proud privilege of employing Jake. This is a fishing expedition, and an absolute abuse of the EPIC and PATRIOT acts.

The NYT filed a lawsuit yesterday to try to start getting some transparency into these matters -- even Congress is urging people to find out the truth:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111010/04043716279/nytime...

People can dislike Wikileaks all they want, but this is exactly why they exist. The raw information is not being released and they see fit to do so. When the USG has a law on the books that congress passed but the DoJ won't share their interpretation of what the law means, you know something is very very wrong. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial )
He can find a us lawyer on elance to set him up and advise him on all this. Get a us tax record etc. He will want to talk to a us tax specialist too. I know both if he wants referrals
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So it's mostly useless because everything else will change in a decade.

Research isn't useless just because it's not going to directly be used. Research produces knowledge and understand which can then be used as the basis for other research.

If you think of it from a programming perspective, are all early implementations of a program worthless if you go back and essentially rewrite everything? No, because through the process you gained a better understanding of your domain and your problem, and you've also probably determined some solutions that aren't optimal to your problem.
Not use email. Seriously, how many times do people have to get burned? Don't write anything down you don't want anyone to know about.
Unless you write your software in binary, every piece of code you write will be converted into another language.
At home I have a Hag Capisco: http://www.haginc.com/products/hag-capisco/

I have the saddle seat chair without head support (the 8106) and I love it! It is quite expensive, but totally worth the money.

I have also brought this chair to the offices of some customers when I have to work on site and when they allow it (I work as a freelancer).
I have an iPhone 3G, and the upgrade to iOS 4 did render it unusuable. I hear they've fixed it in later OS updates but it's just an Angry Birds player for my kid now.

But I agree with your main point. I switched to an Android device that had even less processing power than the 3G and I don't really see much need to buy a new phone until this one falls apart.
I mostly agree with your comment about Jews maintaining their cultural identity and can't really speak to how Jews live in other countries. But I wanted to make the point that in the USA Jews have been if anything more involved in civic life (just look at the profound role Jews played in the civil rights movement of the 60s) and certainly have had great influence on what we think of as American cultural. So insular doesn't characterized American Jews at least in the 20th century.
If you didn't know that, anything that sounds like a negative comment of a G. product on HN is down voted. It's like a meme. No need to worry.

The kernel vulns are still there in most phones and exploitable from user space.

Have a look at the very new Android security review, by "experts" and official:

http://source.android.com/tech/security/index.html

While its a good start (user separation among others), it doesnt address any core security issue, like timely kernel updates (and many phones don't even support OTA properly/don't get updates pushed, so no timely Android core updates either), sdcard security, drivers fully communicating in user space (this one won't be fixed as its a work-around to avoid GPL).
I agree - time tracking on a granualar level is very high friction and ends up being a waste of time. Better to focus on things that bring more ROI, like product.

Unless your billing on an hourly basis, chances are that counting hours is too much micromanagement.
This was explicitly announced as "work in progress", "please give us feedback", "this is the first impression" and so forth. If you read the language spec, it has "we don't know how to do this yet" and "we're requesting feedback on this" all over the place.

I really fail to see the imperial decree part here. In any case, JavaScript is there, it's supported by Google (and really only has been made viable by the speed improvements triggered by V8's development), it's not like anyone is taking anything away.
Then perhaps it can be implemented on a newer Android version or in the (soon to arrive) big 10" Kindle Fire.

This is a perfect "web service" where you can profit from selling the device to have free access to the service.
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They do, but it's a heck of a lot of work. The CLR has the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) that does a lot of the work for you now, but it's still a pain.
Don't they already ? Every multi-billion $ business has lobbyists that dictate the law.
You may be right - as I said, I'm tempted. I am somewhat concerned that they will have a "Chargify moment" when support costs become a driver. But I hope that's not the case - Stripe looks amazing.
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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison. I've never seen that quote before but I love it. Great slideshow and thanks for sharing.
I assume the RedLaser barcode app uses something similar from captured video frames combined with data from the accelerometer, no?
Yes, it was all projected. (also the side walls of the theatre). Some 20+ projectors pushing 300 million pixels/sec. The intro to the keynotes was pretty amazing as well, meshing the projection with light effects and live performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDPgUjqTQ8&feature=relat...
Have you tried a non-local bank with Aussie branches, or just the Big Four? HSBC is pretty big, and has a fair few Aussie branches. Though maybe it's a subsidiary, not a branch. There's also Barclays Capital - I've heard of them so they must be big. If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_Australia, there's quite a few subsidiaries and branches of foreign banks.
I like imagining that world. Trouble is, I don't see a clear political and societal path from here to there. (I do see a technical path.) So the question is, how can we, as a society, become less dependent on jobs at at least the same rate we are becoming more dependent on products of automation?
Actually, my first thought when reading this blog post was "oh no, it's C vs. hand-tunes assembly again." We know, how that ended up.
Well, believe it or not, some people will choose safety net of Java the language over JavaScript, especially for web application.

It takes a lot of discipline to work on large JS code bases, and writing Java instead of JS could be a good choice for some projects if developer skill set is leaning towards Java.

Also, it seems that there is a fraction in Google which likes Java, hates JavaScript and has enough resources to go with projects that bring Java to browser like GWT or Darts.

Personally, if they already like Java so hard, why they don't "just" create nice JRE/browser/DOM integration package so we could use any JVM language instead of JavaScript.
You don't really believe that.

Or if you do, you will have to concede that it is wrong to write anything but assembler code.
Outsource it? http://swreg.org/ is what I use.
In the UK, there's http://mumsnet.com Obviously it's a mother's online community.
Why Dart is not the language of the future.
I'm surprised it doesn't say 'Did you mean "Source Code"?'
New cars in California don't come with plates, so it's not uncommon to see cars without any plates at all, especially in the Bay Area. You get temporary plates in the mail and are responsible for affixing them yourself. As long as your registration is current, your taxes are paid, and you have insurance, getting caught without the plates is a small fine.
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"Mozilla" consists in part of a bunch of people working to write down standards precisely so new browser implementors can enter the market and interoperate. I've spent years at this for the JS standard. It's part of the inevitable commoditization you cite.

Also, going back to 2006 or so when I invited pre-Google Alex Russell and other JS hackers to Ecma TC39 meetings, Mozillans including yours truly have tried to open up the standards process. Mozilla, Opera, and Apple co-founded the WHATWG and set up an open membership structure for it in 2004, to create HTML5. W3C finally relented and internalized much of that structure.

So alleging that "Mozilla" is trying to keep the old boy's club closed is simply false.

I've cited hard, in some cases physical (as in physics) reasons for why there won't be a lower-level bytecode standard for browser-based VMs any time soon. I'm not blowing smoke.

http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20101122

A high level bytecode sounds a lot like minified JS source, with a relatively-few extensions to the standard language. Extending is easier than replacing or setting up a new, parallel cross-browser standard.

Your inflamed sense of grievance at "Mozilla" is misplaced. Mozilla has no control other than what users of our software delegate to us by trusting us enough to download and run our stuff. We do not have hundreds of millions in our browser advertising budgets. We do not have billions of revenue with which to influence people or pay for attention and distribution.

If we are really in the way of Web standards, I'll personally pull the plug.
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that's a really interesting comment. where exactly is the line drawn between "just syntactic sugar" and "a different language"?

Here we have two ways of expressing code, coffeescript and dart. Both are syntactically quite different from js, both offer features not found in js, both encourage you to write code differently to how you would in js and both compile to plain js.
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Very nice presentation, loved the tables, very helpful
As a Jewish American, the biggest question I have is "How does any college/institution know that I (or my children) are Jewish?"

We don't have a particularly Jewish last name, have some Irish mixed in with an Eastern European background, etc - without putting "Fluent in Yiddish" and "President of Temple Beth Sholom" on a resume, I don't see how anyone would ever pick us out from the crowd as being Jewish.

I can see how it would be easier to discriminate based on race, country of origin, or gender, than religion, that's all.
I think this year, for many different reasons, is the first time that I've really felt like I was living in The Future.
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HTC Desire won last year.

It's worth pointing out that this is a UK award, so some things are different from the U.S. market e.g. iPhone is available on all networks, but it's easier to save money if you buy a less full featured phone, less people own Macs, both Nokia and Blackberry have strong (though fading) presences, texting was a social force before the US (and local calls generally weren't free) and this pushed mobile adoption amongst the young earlier compared to the US.

Also, I think, this was based on tech-mag reader votes i.e. the slightly nerdy.
I have long been an advocate for a single internet currency, independent of all governments. Looks like I'm not alone.

It's a hard sell though because so much of our lives are tied into the currency of the region that we live. How would you pay your rent online? How would your landlord settle their mortgage repayments?

We tend to believe that the fabric of our society is tied to the currency, and "real-world" money, even if in reality it no more exists than virtual money. In fact in the UK there have been a number of Towns who have printed their own money, and visitors come and buy that currency in preference to the National Currency for use in the town's shops bars and restaurants.
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I agree CoffeeScript has nicer syntax, but it retains all of Javascript's semantic warts

that comes across as both patronising and ignorant (although it could be me who's the latter). any examples of "all Javascript's semantic warts" coffeescript retains?
I posted the same thing on TC. The Twitter iPad app has become the defacto iPad UI. If Apple could, I think they would've made the stacked split pane view controller part of UIKit. I don't know if Twitter has a patent on it, but it's effectively public domain given how many people are already using that UX paradigm. That said, I don't know if it's safe for Apple to absorb into UIKit.
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.

- Henry Ford

http://startupquote.com/post/11315452477
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> probably avoid introducing pointers until very late

Introduce shared_ptr<> early, explain how actual pointers should pretty much only be used for compatibility with old-style libraries or if you're the one writing the standard library.
"China is not threatening military action, it is simply saying it doesn't like this occurring."

China imposes trade bans on countries that offend it. As China has trade surplus with almost all countries, trade becomes a powerful blackmailing tool for it which is worrying, especially for economically weak countries.
Quick thoughts -

Here's an ebook that might help folks understand the gateway/processor dynamic: http://feefighters.com/ebooks/what-is-credit-card-processing... (written with US audience in mind, but most of it holds true worldwide)

To get a US merchant account, you need a US Tax ID/Bank account (acquirable with Delaware company) AND a US Social Security number for someone who has ownership in the company. Unfortunately that is the minimum that underwriters will accept... AFAIK you need the same stuff with Stripe, Samurai, and Braintree.

One thing to realize is that for us startups serving startups, we would love to do the rest of the world but there are a bunch of complications that come with doing so (timezones, currencies, partners, taxes).

We (http://samurai.feefighters.com) hope to be in Australia in the near future. If interested in Samurai for Europe or Australia, give us your email address here:
https://docs.google.com/a/transfs.com/spreadsheet/embeddedfo...

If interested in Canada, use this form:
https://docs.google.com/a/transfs.com/spreadsheet/embeddedfo...

As for the beaches, I hope to find out soon :)
The final publication costs about $400 USD. Here is a working draft:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n324...
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That's a really nice list, although I'm disappointed that BBC's Visual Language didn't make the cut. It's one of the best done in my opinion but it is a few years old now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/desed/visual_lan...
Almost certainly someone who reads HN.
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I absolutely LOVE it ... got one for my apartment after using it at work.
Javascript is interpreted. Which actually highlights my point that languages (of any level) have usually been designed to solve a particular set of problems or targetted for a particular type of runtime environment.

Thus, the likelihood is that converting Java into Javascript or Pl/SQL into LISP or ActionScript into Python will provide no benefit but will almost certainly complicate the development process.
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For 'dumb' (not protocol aware) redirection you can just use iptables, it'll probably be much faster.

For protocol aware redirection, there are various reverse proxies with that ability. TCPMUX was probably one of the firsts, but it requires explicit support by the client. Delegate[1], on the other hand, can identify the protocol and multiplex based on that, IINM.

[1]: http://www.delegate.org/delegate/
Try being in Brazil then... All of these hurdles, plus the craziest tax laws in the world. It's almost like a Kafka story trying to run a business here.
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> Gadget personality of the year: Mark Zuckerberg

Anyone know what this one was actually for? (ie. what did Zuckerberg to do get this award?)
Well then, Samsung wins. Clearly.
Agreed, I went to groovy.me, and didn't notice the third o until I saw the groovy.me site.
So this is what we call investigative journalism these days?
Javascript is interpreted.

No, it's JIT compiled, at least in any recent browser or in Node.JS.

Which actually highlights my point that languages (of any level) have usually be designed to solve a particular set of problems or targetted for a particular type of runtime environment.

But what if you have a problem that fits Java much better than JS, but you just need to distribute the client through the browser?
I wasn’t claiming that. It was honest but nice enough to not be bad mouthing.
As mentioned by xavi, betterplace is working on quick change battery tech. You drive up a ramp and the robot is inside the ramp.

Regarding slightly degraded batteries, I think that's less of a concern. You'd pay less for a less charged or capable battery (only fair). There'd probably even be grades of batteries, like we have for gasoline (RON or octane).

Also, people seem to have no problem doing exactly this with propane tanks (in the USA) for their BBQ grills. The tanks you exchange are definitely not as nice as the ones you can buy new and get filled but the convenience of being able to exchange a tank outweighs a lot of people's desire to get their tank refilled. You can always get your tank refilled, even if you previously exchanged it, you're not required to only exchange them. Same exact business model as exchangeable batteries.

The exchange system (or fast charge) is simply for longer trips exceeding battery range or when you weren't able to recharge enough at home. Curb-side parking spot chargers don't do anything different than in-home chargers, they're still slow and still don't solve the "I want to go further than my battery" problem.

Fast chargers, if used sparingly, could work. It's overuse of it that's the problem. I guess it all depends on how often people are using them. The one worry I'd think is that people won't install a home charger ($2k or so investment) but will rely upon the fast chargers or exchange systems as they do now for gasoline. If you're fast charging every other day or even twice a week, that's not good.
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After a big PR scandal.

Originally they just threw useless code patches back at KHTML to minimally comply with the license (LGPL, iirc).
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This is really awesome... I didn't even know they had a real company, I thought it was just another open source entity. Can't wait to see the awesome software they produce!

The days of Apache are dwindling!
That's an interesting argument. whether or not one agrees with the premising, it's interesting to consider that those at the top might.

God forbid we the people (of the US) put a stop to untaxed imports and the like and stop feeding the beasts oversees. Perhaps too late for that to have much impact now, anyway. Somehow we managed to compete with the Soviet's without being pressed into serfdom, but I guess it doesn't matter what I believe.
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thanks, but although they look like good authors, and it's promisingly slim, it's also worryingly old. is there nothing more modern? will it include things like boost's shared_ptr (see comment above)?
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Google Dart was designed to build large scale web applications, yet all their demos and example code only includes small applications. That still require quite a lot of code to build.

I don't see any profit of building a application in dart, if you have to create more code your self than you would with a regular HTML5 based application.

As this "Hello World" demo shows, the only thing It's good at is creating bloat and this will probably stay this way until native parsers are implemented.