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"The better sort" and "gifted" could mean those women with the will and bravery to ignore the social stigma rather than the intelligence that you are implying.

It read to me like he was insulting women who choose to not act this way rather than implying the gender was genetically unable to do so.
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It hasn't been so since before you were born. Your experiences in your mother's womb have shaped your brain. All that your DNA contains is the basic rules on how to assemble a generic human brain. What happens to it has far greater consequence on what you become.

I like to joke I was born an engineer. While it's true I have always been curious towards all things technological (I was born during the height of the Apollo program and, as a kid, wanted to be an astronaut) but parental support (getting lego-like kits with transmissions, gears, motors, good books and a good school) landed me on one of the most prestigious engineering schools in Brazil where I was further "perfected" by some good teachers (and some awful ones - you have to learn to avoid them, after all).
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The Shanghai ranking doesn't put much weight on student performance.

"The ranking compares 1200 higher education institutions worldwide according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10 percent), staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20 percent), highly-cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories (20 percent), articles published in the journals Nature and Science (20 percent), the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index (20 percent) and the per capita academic performance (on the indicators above) of an institution (10 percent)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Unive...

However, nice bit of selective statistics to only use the top 300 in your calculation. The shanghai list actually has 500 universities listed, which bumps the number of Finnish universities to 5. So on a per capita basis Finland comes out ahead of USA!*

* - Cherry picked and irrelevant
Process takes a long time to change because you have to overhaul the entire bureaucracy or get entirely new companies. They are trying. It might take them 10, 20 years.
That statement is useless, it can be reversed easily. "Anyone can make soft serve ice cream. No one makes Groupons but Groupon."
There was one Steve Jobs. If only two people can replace him, it's a little miracle. A master manager, and a master designer. They can continue w/o the ego fights.
Like Bill Hewlet and the other guy (JOKING! Please spare my carma).
They will do it, we all need them to do it.
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"Why does Unity suck so much? Because it assumes you're a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons."

To answer snark with snark: No, it assumes you either like to click shiny buttons or you know how to use a keyboard. Unity works a lot better for my keyboard-centric workflow than Gnome2 did, and it was enough to lure me away from tiling window managers for weeks, way more than I expected to spend in it.
The reason why buying a house is considered a good "investement" is because the government/federal reserve keeps creating more money and devaluing the dollar. Under such conditions, the person who borrows a lot of money now will do well. Homes are convenient for this because there is a lot of infrastructure/expertise in place to make this happen (mortgage industry), but the purchase of any large, permanent asset will work.

When you buy a house on credit now, you're spending newly created money. You're purchasing a large asset at current prices (which are set by the current money supply.) As the new money you've injected into the economy circulates, prices rise. But you had the advantage of buying before you injected the new money.

If money were not continually being created, eg if it were backed by gold, then prices would drop over time, because the rate of innovation and productivity gains is greater than the rate of new production of gold. In this scenario, houses should depreciate over time.
If you've suffered with a disorder of any kind that effects the brain, make an effort holds no meaning to you, other than possible ignorance.

If I use a measuring tape to record the length of a piece of wood - unless I cut the piece of wood, or damage it in some way - this measurement will always be the same. In the cold, it might shrink and in the heat it may expand - but I can measure those variations and account for them using the basic laws of math. Can you do the same with IQ?

> But having worked with people that don't have the best minds, you start to believe IQ is not just crap.

It's not that I don't believe intelligence varies, I just don't think we have the ability to measure it - yet.
If you give me free access to monopoly powers (i.e. you guarantee me no competition), I'm quite sure I can suck the public dry without ever getting a direct handout.

The USPS is waste that endures solely because of government power. It just happens that it isn't government's taxing power that keeps it alive.
Right. I wasn't referring to the mixed language approach, rather I meant the overengineering he's talking about. Things like FactoryFactories can be understandably infuriating to work with.
You got it the other way round. QT is LGPL, PyQT has always been GPL. For Python, there is an alternative Qt binding called PySide which is LGPL.
Be careful. Tptacek may show up soon to explain in more detail why this is a dangerous direction to go, but the fact that PBKDF2 is a reasonably well-studied key stretching algorithm is the only reason I'd be comfortable iterating SHA1.

To put it simply, there's just so many incredibly subtle ways to introduce weaknesses into crypto that even if you really do understand everything that's going on, you'll still break things by building it yourself.
I would have thought the primary reason an iOS app would be removed from the store (once already approved) is that the developer stopped paying the $99/year to renew their account.
I'm going to contradict everyone who's yet replied (5 at the time of writing) because I sense the reason you posted here is because you feel a bit guilty about wanting to jack it all in and jump into technology.

You'll be under a lot of pressure to accept that offer and people will tell you not to do it, but somewhere in your heart there is something saying "I made a mistake doing pharmacy, I should have done CS".

Firstly there are no mistakes in education. I studied art and design, and worked in advertising for 7 years before a learnt a single line of code. I've been in tech ever since.

One regret? Nah. If I hadn't done design there's no way I could reverse engineer any piece of art/digital image just by looking at it. I learnt skills that tech people pay others for.

What I'm trying to say, is that you can do it anyway you want, but somewhere at some time in some place you are going to wish you could code. You'll know it'll put you in a place the competition can't touch, and you'll be glad you did it.

If you're worried about stability, take the job. If you're young enough to pick up the pieces and start over when it doesn't go your way, then jump ship.

They don't just say "fail fast" for a gimmick. It's all about that in tech. You'll know soon enough if it was the right choice for you.
I like to say that these are the ugly nuances where code should be commented well.
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This. It becomes harder and harder to develop interfaces using progressive enhancement, since the expectations from web interfaces are keep changing while the UI components available in native HTML are stuck in the early nineties. HTML 5 didn't fully address this issue.

For example, this is how sliders really should look like:
http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

We need trees. We need pure-HTML drag-and-drop support. We need simple components that can be combined to create complex, usable interfaces.
This is basically the origin of all religions, especially 'modern' monotheistic ones.

Good, sensible ideas (at the time!) get codified. Throw in a charismatic leader of some kind who (apparently) goes around trumpeting these smart ideas. Voila, religion.
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Wow, this is next to impossible on a trackpad. Great job though! I'll try with a mouse when i get a chance.
That's kinda what NFC is.. Some phones are starting to have this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
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It will definitely sell for that much. After 4 days it will reach its all time high and then plummet. Pump and dump!
Even the best managers are led by the incentives. If you want a project to succeed, make sure incentives are lining up. If you have a project outside the incentive structure, plan on it failing.
Who did they leave in charge of making sure people listen to him?
> I'm sure many of us have been bitten by this as developers. You see a few lines of codes or a feature and you have no idea why it's there, so you remove it. What happens? Random, seemingly unrelated application starts failing or angry customer calls wondering why some feature is no longer available. Whoops...

Yep. Tells me OP is not a developer, and has not read the article he linked. Because the title makes no sense at all.
The only problem is that retail stores are designed to prevent you from getting the one thing you originally went in to get;

For most retailers, the customers' convenience necessarily lowers their bottom line.
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Couldn't they have just grabbed info useful for law enforcement? Or installed malware useful for law enforcement?
I believe some phones with NFC hardware are already able to read 13.45Mhz ISO 14443 and MiFare cards.

EDIT: beat by 2 minutes...

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This is purely FUD. Nokia employees remain the largest contributors to Qt, and as I said above, it remains a key component for their strategy for price-points below those offered by Windows Phone.
Why do that when 11.04 is supported until the end of 2012 and 10.04 would only extend that by 6 months.

A lot can happen in a year and I'm sure someone will create a flavour of Ubuntu to you liking based on 12.04 LTS.
By the time the book comes out all the content will be all over the internet.
Shouldn't these posts have some kind of spoiler alert??
Some of us want to read the actual book.
No shit. It's very unlike Steve Jobs to suggest using other products with his own. That's like admitting their products are insufficient.
People hate changes. I think Canonical underestimates this.

(I switched to Xubuntu so in my mind things didn't change very much. Only that Xubuntu is way faster and is using less resources than Ubuntu.)
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Looking at all the policy difficulties the iPhone App Store initially had, I think we can safely say he was right about that.
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> If the priority is to not break anything, sure, don't fix what's not broken.

The issue generally arises because things are broken, investigation leads to a piece of code which creates the breakage (everything is perfect before, things are broken after), nothing seems to use it (the project is naturally pretty much void of automated tests), you remove the code, it fixes the issue, and then you learn that prod has started failing hard.
After upgrading to 11.10 I kinda raged for about one hour. Then installed KDE. And I am looking out for an alternative distro that fits my needs.
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Any dead religion is by definition not a modern religion. If you look at religious movements started within the last 50 years in the U.S., there are few if any that fit that pattern.
I'm afraid that i will know everything from the book by monday if this press coverage continues.
> why it's good to have a global economic system that is at great risk if the United States gets rid of it's debt

The banking industry makes money when it issues loans. So it's very important that people keep borrowing. To keep people borrowing from the banks and not from each other or private savings, the banks are allowed to create money and lend it at below-market rates. So in general, it's always a better deal for a borrower to borrow from a bank than from private savings.

The current system is great for bankers, great for government (who can essentially get all the money it wants from the bankers), and great for borrowers. It's bad for people who don't borrow, especially savers.
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> Why does Unity suck so much? Because it assumes you're a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons.

Unity allows you to drive most of the UI with the keyboard. Which makes easier to use, after you learn them. See:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboar...
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It's at odds with the title, and in line with the content of TFA. OP used a title which has no bearing in the article he linked.
"Some industry watchers suggested Apple should appoint an independent chairman from outside the company to take charge."

That's a sure way to Dell-ify the company.
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You should've left it at that.
I wonder if that is true. By the time Jobs came back in '97 he had recognized Ive's talent and they released the iMac in '98. It took Apple one year to make that adjustment. How long should it really take others to do the same?
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Drag terminal onto the application launch bar.

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We could pay off the debt if we wanted to; it definitely is possible.

The question in my mind is - if a country like the US has the ability to print the world's reserve currency, isn't it beneficial to run a small deficit to increase GDP? I don't see any problems running small deficits, of course large amounts of public debt are rarely ever a good idea.
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Bitcoins are backed by math and math is better than gold because smiling bankers in silk suits can't steal your math and the government can't send men with guns to confiscate your math.
Maybe I need caffeine, but I don't follow your comment.

Who adds these items to increase weight? Why? If my item is <50g, I use the Polish monopoly mail service (PMMS?) and pay 1.55pln (40% of what I'd pay with the competition, according to your numbers.) If PMMS is adding this weight, the mind boggles - they're wasting fuel delivering light items. If customers are adding the weight, why would they want to increase their costs to mail light items?
I would highly recommend XFCE4 over LXDE if you are doing development work. I switched to XFCE4 2 weeks ago and it's still impressing the hell out of me. It's just really simple to get things done quickly.
What gives you that impression? Where did you get the numbers from?

I reckon RoR is faster for rapid prototyping and development of new features so I'd choose that in the beginning for a one or two man startup.

Later on if there's anything in particular you need that Python does, you can always recode once you're profitable.
> 1. If the windows are maximized

Please Unity stop maximizing the window!

> 2. Drag a window to the left or right side of the screen. It will resize and snap to the edge of the window taking up 50% of the display. (Great for having two windows side-by-side.)

How do I stop Unity from resizing and snapping the window?

I spend more effort and suffer more distraction undoing Unity's "helpfulness" than I ever spent on window management before, on any OS.
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HR was never involved in this (except in doing the admin stuff after the termination).

And it wasn't about my true feelings or me being right. I enjoy analyzing and thinking about stuff, and so when you give me an assessment form with about 20 topics, you will get a (critical) analysis of them. With my thoughts on what's good and what could be improved. And many questions. For me it was like a code or design review.
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This is apparently a huge surprise to the people who've never seen the apps' page in the App Store.

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You're probably right that it improved, but it's still not nearly polished and robust enough (compared to gnome2).

You get the exact same window placement stuff by activating the Put compiz plugin (which is more customizable than unity).

Yes, gnome-do worked in unity in 11.10 once you disable the launcher bar shortcut.

I guess my point is that unity made everything much more sluggish and introduced crashes/buggy behaviour without really adding anything for a power user who doesn't use the mouse.
Frictionless (micro)payments. Paying for access to premium content on the Web should be as easy as buying a song on iTunes. People will pay for stuff if it's super-easy.

It could save newspapers. It could change the Web from an advertiser-oriented medium (like TV) to a user-oriented medium (like iPod/iPad apps).
I said Asimov "posited", which seems pretty clear to me. FWIW, Asimov has a certain cachet these days among some Keynesian economists.

When you are able to usefully, and predictively model "politics and power and sex and violence" then you will be doing extraordinary work and I'll look forward to you getting your well deserved Nobel Prize. :)
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To me, this is the real point of the story. If you are doing anything at all non-obvious, then eventually it will make no sense at all, so write down why you did it.
I couldn't agree more. xubuntu or moreso XFCE4 rocks.
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Umm.. I am pretty certain he actually went on public record about this back in the 1st gen iPhone days. I recall that the only thing that was in doubt was if his justification was honest or was he just trying to appease AT&T.
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Sure, I don't mean to commend them on their efficiency ('bloated'), but they have a startlingly wide offering of software. It's not limited to just Office and Windows de jure.

I don't really think it's fair to compare the R&D budgets - there's a lot of difference - MS has an extremely broad array of software (multiplied by i18n), while Apple has an extremely vertical stack of products. I don't think these differences can be hand-waved as being theoretically financially equivalent.
Don't get caught up on the metaphor. It's ice cream. That was the point.

If you, or anyone else, wants to explain why Groupon is doomed, then do so without saying the reason is because it's "not based on any real technology". That's the comment I was replying to. I'm not defending Groupon.
You can't evaluate the interaction reading that pull request comments. The key point is that I was marked as clueless for the idea of iterating SHA1. I was replied that it was ok only after other guys showed it was a proven and ok alternative.

I don't like when people turn down learning. I don't like dogmas. I also have the bad habit of reacting in a non kind way after being stretched too much, read the insults I got on twitter. I'm usually very kind but there is a limit to what I tollerate.
Can someone explain to me how salts help a hashing algorithm secure itself against a rainbow table? For example, let's say my password is "justinbieber", which then has a salt prefixed to it which turns it into "iheartjustinbieber". If an attacker is unfortunately able to gain access to the hash of my password and the rainbow table he uses has an entry for hash("iheartjustinbieber"), how is that any more secure than the original?

Edit: changed "iheartjustinbieber" to hash("iheartjustinbieber") in the last sentence.
Thomas wasn't really discussing about this in regards to the external CDN going down he was discussing it in regards to the CDN being a large point of attack with little benefit to your speed increase.

Look at it this way: if google's jquery is attacked and becomes compromised you and everyone else who uses it has become compromised because you were relying on third party security.

Next if you use jquery from google's cdn for the reason of they can do file security better than you you are already fucked because if someone is targeting your specific jquery hosted on your server chances are you are compromised in other ways.

If you want to use it for the precaching you can but I don't think precaching the 100kb jquery is really going to give you that much benefit in the long run, especially if your website is an application or something along those lines.
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Well then next time Apple introduces a new design, he better hauls his ass up on the stage to receive the applauds.

I personally would love that.
So far you haven't provided a credible reason to think that "more Startups are using Python over Ruby?"
the salt should be a long complex string that is unlikely to be a prefix in your table. Also if the salt is just long this is enough, since the table will hold anyway passwords up to a given length.
Could you be more specific on what these reasons are? You seem to imply that it's easy or obvious but I think it's neither. Success is never easy. There is no magic bullet, there is no blueprint.