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>Qt is natively on the new BBX and will probably be on Android.

What do you mean exactly?

The only thing I am afraid of losing if Nokia goes down is Qt.
The messaging is definitely lacking. My first reaction was why are all the images in the gallery out of focus.

This is quite amazing.
Google "surrendered" on this in the same way that the Sun eventually "surrenders" to those at night calling for day.
StartupThreads.com (my site) will do some of this. There are some others like StartupSchwag.com that used to do it (Roddy actually gave me the StartupThreads domain, awesome guy) along with SwagLove (they do fulfillment for startup t-shirts).
Inside the Lytro camera
Lytro's CEO dissertation: https://www.lytro.com/renng-thesis.pdf
Weight isn't some property we just defined based on the compression of a spring, and we aren't measuring just a correlation. When we measure weight on an analog scale we already know several, quantitative physical properties of the spring, we also have a mathematical model of how exactly the compression of a spring is directly related (not correlated) to the force of weight. Given that we know all of the additional variables of a spring we take it's compression and determine the weight. Inaccuracies in analog scales are not due to some stochastic process involved with the correlation between weight and compression, but inaccuracies measuring the quantitative properties of the spring.

In an IQ test we are merely counting a set of qualitative properties (answered question n correctly). There is no underlying model that we are using to determine "intelligence", there is nothing quantitative about the IQ test other than counting the correct answers. We don't even have a quantitative model of intelligence at all, so there is simply no way to measure it. It is not pedantry to say that what an IQ test does is merely measure answered questions and not intelligence. If there where a.) a quantitative model of intelligence, and b.) a formula mapping this to IQ tests then, yes we could say we were measuring intelligence in the same way an analog scale measures weight.
At least one other problem is that the term Gundrotta used, 'pseudonym', implies it will be connected to their primary account and real id, rather than being an entirely separate account under a anonymous persona. Hence, it doesn't sound like it will offer dissidents and whistleblowers real protection from a government order to Google for their identity.
No, not hundreds of smaller pictures.

A photosensor is (roughly speaking) sensitive only to the intensity of light falling on it, and not the angle the light comes from. A plenoptic camera (this is what Lytro are selling) trades off resolution against the ability to discriminate between angles.

Take an ordinary camera sensor, with (let's say) 16MP in a 4000x4000 array. Group them into (let's say) 8x8 blocks, of which there are 500x500. Now put a little lens in front of each block, with focal length equal to the distance from lens to sensor.

A light ray reaching one of those blocks will end up on one of the block's pixels; which ray depends on (not the exact position at which the ray meets the array of lenses, but) the angle at which it's travelling.

Now, imagine an image that's not quite focused correctly on the camera sensor. What that means is that for each point of the object you're imaging, you get a cone of light rays that are converging towards some point either in front of the sensor or behind it. With an ordinary camera, that just gives you a circular blur and you're screwed. With a plenoptic camera, you can tell what angle the light in that circular blur was coming in at, which means you can determine where it would have gone if the sensor had been further back or further forward, which means you can reconstruct what you'd have got if the focus had been different. (What if it is focused perfectly? Well, you still get to know the distribution of angles from which the light is reaching the sensor, which means you can work out how the image would have been blurred out with a different focus.)

The main price you pay for all this is a severe loss of resolution: your output "pixels" are the blocks of pixels on the sensor. So the physical size and noise level of the sensor, and the size of your raw image files, are those of (in my example) a 16MP sensor, while the final image is (in my example) only 1/4 MP.
Can a mediocre programmer tell the difference between mediocre code and good code?

Maybe not directly, but they can probably tell how well they understand the code and how hard it is to change. Not as well as a good programmer, since they'll have more trouble with both regardless, but somewhat.
This long article does a much better job of explaining matters than the link-bait here.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...

This guy has atleast a plan after Nokia realized it needs a big shake, unlike RIM which is in a similar situation but burning it's hands with 'me-too' tablets that no one wants and handwaving about the awesomeness of QNX instead of pivoting quickly before it's too late. How a QNX based OS will save them is beyond me, because 99.9% of smartphone buyers wouldn't even know what that means.

As Elop said, the mobile arena has moved from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems. If you can't break past the chicken and egg problem of creating an ecosystem and court developers, it's a death sentence. Just see Palm, they had a nice product, but they never had a chance.
I have my own Apps account and was peeved at having to create another Google account for Google+, but now I'll continue to use a "personal" Google account for Plus. This way my Google+ will never be tied down to one organization (even if it happens to be my own at the moment).

They really need to decouple a Google account from a person's email address(s).
We recently did a ton of customer development in this area. They are pretty good at using iPads and apps, if the font is scalable, but transitioning between apps is harder. Agreed, though, that "appliance" is the mindset to go with.
But its not an Obj-C to javascript compiler: its Objective-J, a entirely new language that is a strict superset of Javascript: pure Javascript is also valid Obj-J. You wouldnt call Objective-C an "Objective C to C compiler" since valid C is Objective-C.

Contrast this with GWT, which is a Java to Javascript compiler. Unless you wrap it in a native method, you dont write javascript with GWT: i.e. GWT is a Java-Javascript compiler, not a new language like Obj-J
One thing that all these ridiculous conspiracy theories miss is that Elop spent a very short time at MSFT - around 2 years. He seems to switch companies often, except for one long stint in Macromedia.
At mine sites, we used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
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In the US unlimited messaging typically means just that. And thankfully so, because about a year ago my teenage brother was on my plan and managed to send/receive 16,000 texts in a single month.
> Why put lipstick on a pig? I'd rather use Stripe (not as full featured yet, but getting there)

Because that pig lets me use it as a non-US citizen.
Play in Silverlight.

Cause that's always the best way to get your message across.
Yes. Notice my choice of words. "Not so much" vs "not at all."
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That's true. It's not so much about other programmers being a passive critic of your code so much as it is about the maintenance programmer down the line being able to understand what your code is doing and either fix bugs or add features to it.

The maintenance programmer should be competent, but shouldn't have to be brilliant to understand what's doing on (except in the rare case that your code actually is doing something brilliant). If the maintenance programmer doesn't understand a basic language feature, it's his fault if he doesn't understand your use of it (be it ternary operators, blocks, list comprehensions, regular expressions...). If the maintenance programmer does understand ternary operators but you do something like nest them four layers deep, it's probably your fault if he gets lost.
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Honestly, I like this service. While I agree with everyone's sentiments as to it addressing a problem but not fixing it, I believe it's a great alternative. There's not a "one size fits all" solution to email overload, and this allows a user another channel to express their availability.

I would only suggest allowing a user to set their own alert levels for each category-- my emails constantly go upwards of 100, 200, 300 unread at a time, but I still consider that manageable. Allow it to be customized and you have an interesting project that has some great potential.
> Truly understanding the Church-Turing thesis probably requires more computability theory than the two-week overview even top CS students and otherwise great programmers get in their ABET-required Discrete Math course.

Mathematicians may have more luck in their training. But that depends on your chosen speciality.
Of course, signing up for Facebook is completely voluntary in a legal sense. No-one can strong-arm you into creating an account.

My point is that social pressure can often make people do things that they don't really want to do. And sadly, many people do not have the courage to stand up to their peers and tell them no.

It's more common in US culture to do that, and largely encouraged by US societal norms, but that isn't always the case in other cultures. This is based on my experience growing up outside of the US (and also spending time in high school and college in the US).
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Why would EFF phrase it this way? Do we really need to make policy debates into wars? This sort of gloating is not useful. Google did not make this decision. People inside Google, subject to the same biases and ego defense mechanisms as anyone else in the world, made this decision. If you really want people to resist you at every turn, by all means, taunt people for agreeing with you.
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YouTube had a pre-existing community and screen name conventions long before Google bought it.
$630? Why is this on the front page? Why does anyone even care? This is not important.
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Let's wait for official word, instead of rumor. This twitter-able statement doesn't really say anything except that Google is listening... It doesn't say what they heard, or what the full reaction to it is.

He states that they are 'moving away' from the Real Name policy, but... Is that his interpretation of what was said, or was that actually said? We don't know. He probably doesn't even know.
You seem to imply that it was inevitable. The big blue and white gorilla in the room begs to differ. It certainly positions G+ slightly differently than FB, but whether this is actually a competitive advantage is still to be seen.
It's seen many changes over time, but gave up the idea of being an intelligence test over 20 years ago.

The name originally stood for "Scholastic Aptitude Test".[35] But in 1990, because of uncertainty about the SAT's ability to function as an intelligence test, the name was changed to Scholastic Assessment Test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#History
No, we just differ on this point. As I said, "Focus is about making a decision as a photographer about what you’re taking a picture of." Lytro removes that decision.
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Chunking out in more functions is good in itself, because there's usually a well defined interface for what can get in and out of a function.

Whitespace and comments can suggest that some pieces of code don't interact that much, but chunking into functions lets the compiler prove it.
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It doesn't. I've seen it in a normal camera form-factor. It does require a larger sensor, though.
In defense of google -- and I fully support anonymity -- youtube comments make the btards look like friendly socially adjusted grownups.
Google also does not want device manufacturers to ship pre-release versions of Android just to be first to market. This was apparently a problem with Froyo or Gingerbread.

Google could hold back the sexy UI and application changes and just develop the kernel and foundation libraries in the open. But some of their hardware partners are very secretive and do not want any details leaked about the capabilities of their new hardware that may be revealed in device drivers.
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Hmm, they don't mention image size on the details page. So lets guess at it ourselves.

The viewable area of the flash widget is 540x540. You can zoom in 2x. There's plenty of sensor artefacting at that zoom, (even in these carefully chosen press-kit photos, which is worrying) so lets assume it's 1:1... which makes the image size 1080x1080. 1.16 megapixels, for $400? Ouch. For that much money, two ounces more weight, and a much more conventional form factor, you can get a DMC-LX5, which is probably the best single-lens digital camera on the market. (Full disclosure: I bought a LX3 with my own money back in 2009)

Poking around with Chrome's network tools will tell you that the LFP file is between 900 and 1100 kilobytes, about four times bigger than a JPEG of the same dimensions.
I'm still steadily toiling away on my app project. Called Radi, it's a content creation app for the modern web. It does Flash-like vector animation using Canvas, but also video effects and JavaScript graphics coding:
http://radiapp.com

I just finished another update with some new features that I think are pretty nice, so I thought I'd post it here.

It's still a free download. (Mac only for now... I've made an experimental Windows port, but it's not close to being releasable, lots of broken stuff.)
That's pretty much how I described it in the 6th paragraph. The aperture is still restricted, I believe (F/4 in the paper, F/2 in the production device), and the exposure is governed by sensitivity and exposure length. But I'm not entirely sure about it.
The IQ test is multivariate and has a number of axes which are not boolean like your teakettle test is.

Intelligence is not a property like physical attributes. It is fuzzy and has a lot of aspects. Some forms of intelligence aren't tested with the IQ test (unless somehow done recently), the primary one that comes to mind is social nous.

The psychology of intelligence is a complex, varied, and interesting field, and those who naysay "you can't study / define / measure intelligence!" are submitting to pop science just like "take this pop IQ quiz!". I've lost track of it over the years, but there are reams of research into intelligence, what it is, how it's defined, how tests do or don't reflect intelligence.

The IQ test covers a lot of different aspects of intelligence - it gives a fairly comprehensive representation of many aspects, and hence why it's a decent measure of intelligence. It's not a cut-and-dried thermometer measure, yes - but this is because psychology never works that way, something that engineers have trouble getting their heads around. Nothing in psychology is concrete, and if you're going to dismiss based on not being 100% precise, well, then psychology can't exist, nor can any of the fields based from it (like sociology, criminology, so on and so forth)
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Sure, but what is the upper limit for peak performance for each individual? If you can't use IQ to compare to other people's IQ (because of innumerable variations imposing on peak performance) and you can't use it to compare to your own potential peak performance (because you don't know if you've attained it yet), then how or why is IQ relevant at all?

No one who does well on an IQ test likes to be told an IQ test means very little, keeping in mind that high IQ doesn't determine your success, or guarantee you any specific lifestyle.

IQ is more of a horoscope than it is a method of science.
Well, hundreds of INTERLEAVED pictures, sorta.

This explains how it works in a bit more viceral way: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
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Another sign: not reading this article because you couldn't possibly be a bad programmer and therefor this article can't have anything to offer.
actually the LFP file will be around 20 megabytes on the camera. After processing and encoding it'll probably be much smaller, since it can throw away garbage data and redundant image slices. But megapixels aren't really the right metric anyway.

And the LX5 is good but for my money I'd want a P5000 or XZ-1.
Your username doesn't aid in your argument against criticism of bad code. Just sayin.
I guess the point is that there's no "privileged" position in these systems which changes with time, like the point of execution in programming.

What is the proper name for the bit of code that's currently being executed? I've suddenly realised that its a concept you think about constantly when coding, but its so much a part of the scenery so to speak that you never consciously consider it.
Correlate well, yes, but a full test will show a better spread of aptitudes.

I did a partial IQ test when I was studying intelligence. I was on track for getting around 140 according to the conductor of the test. But I can't say my IQ is 140 because I may have fared worse (or better!) on other parts of the test (for example, we didn't even touch on the verbal tests).
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Yeah with a darker lens they could have gotten away with something shorter, but an F/2 with internal 8x zoom is going to be pretty big no matter what.
Nokia is incomparable to Palm, you'd be more likely to know that if you've spent considerable time in Europe or Asia (apart from Japan). There are millions of people there who will blindly buy a Nokia phone regardless of the software. How do you think Symbian is still pushing so many sales?

Palm? It has nothing on Nokia, 'Nokia' is synonymous for 'cell phone' in many countries.
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Take a look at:

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http://www.cloudsurfing.com/

and

http://web.appstorm.net/

In addition to the already mentioned http://www.bestvendor.com (which I look forward to checking out).
It's called "nymwars" because ... that's what it's been called. If online communities had a more Muslim bent, it might have been a jihad, whatever. It was a struggle between ideologies over resources, and that's fundamentally what a war is.

"Google" made this decision and by all appearances (see Eric Schmidt's "identity service" comments) at the very most senior levels.
You're maintaining 5000 lines of J code huh? Sounds like a decent sized project. If you are spending 5-10 hours every week or two maintaining it, why not have a go at replacing it with something you do know? I would love to know how it went.

As for your other throwaway comments, any code, in any language is hard to read and maintain when you don't know what you are looking at. Or, as better stated by Whitehead (whose quote led off this thread), "Of course, nothing is more incomprehensible than a symbolism which we do not understand.".

Concerning the community you "hate" for some small-minded reason, my experience has been quite the opposite, I have not found a more informed, helpful or friendly group anywhere, and this also includes the APL/k/q/A+/NARS/SAC communities (all languages designed or influenced by Iverson).

As for pragmatism, Iverson was probably one of the most pragmatic language designers in history. Don't take my word for it though, here is what Dr. Fred Brooks has to say:

I once asked Kenneth Iverson, Turing Award winner and inventor of the APL programming language, "Why is APL so easy to use?" His answer spoke volumes: "It does what you expect it to do." APL epitomizes consistency, illustrating in detail orthogonality, propriety, and generality. It also epitomizes parsimony, providing many functions with few concepts. - Fred Brooks, "The Design of Design" page 72
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The EFF raises money through gloating about the good they do. If they didn't trumpet their successes people wouldn't see the value. Frankly, Google was forced to make this decision by people like danah boyd, poor press, and a bad position in the market. They aren't doing this based on any moral reason but because their position was unsustainable for logical reasons.

I believe that when companies make terrible decisions, organizations like the EFF should shame them, because it sets the standard for the future.
There's been lots of testing, refinement, and correlation for each subtest and what real-world aspects they're meant to represent. The test derives from a number of psych tests and concepts which have been well-researched over the years.

I don't know if you could say "would mean you would make a good mechanic" based on that one test because that involves other aspects, not just spatial reasoning, but being a mechanic would mean you (probably) deal with spatial reasoning more often than say a journalist or call-centre worker.
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So, so true.

From xkcd: "The internet has always had loud dumb people, but I've never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos."

http://xkcd.com/202/
why is H/T equal to 2p(1-p) rather than p(1-p)?
I don't understand. Why wouldn't a dissident or whistleblower just create a separate account under a fake but real-sounding name, then use their preferred pseudonym?

It seems to me that the issue wasn't about anonymity from government, since that's easy with a fake name. The issue was about respecting people's choice of self-representation, which this policy does in a way that more accurately mirrors our analog procedures.
In my experience you have nothing to fear: such thinking and self understanding makes you a better programmer than many I have worked with. The worst usually think they are way better than they are, and the better ones usually know where they can improve.

I have worked with people who do some or most of these, and let me tell you, the experience is not pleasant -- frequently turning into "Oh you changed that code, I can't maintain it anymore, object are too tricky" (when refactoring bulldozer functions and dicts of lists of dicts of tuples (some of which contained dicts) into a few classes in python) or "My code was working, why would you change that? I can't be responsible for looking at it anymore!" (When the spec changed and we needed to check for extra error conditions.)

Basically what I'm suggesting here, is bad programmer is less a function of skill at any particular moment, but of attitude and approach. Skills that don't change, continued lack of understanding, and laziness, are all symptoms of a bad programmer, who won't improve. I'd rather work with a neophyte who wants to improve over a veteran who is static any day.