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In the Java ecosystem, they call it best practices. But of course using the phrase "best practices" these days is considered taboo. Thus the use of the word "idiomatic"?
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Yeah, I don't really get the big deal either. If the quality is so bad, people will stop crowdsourcing and if the pay is so low for designers, they will stop doing spec work. It seems like there's a lot of designers who want to make a cartel to keep prices higher and prevent direct competition between designers.

I suspect (but have no proof) that crowdsourcing appeals to designers who might have more trouble working on regular projects with obligations such as younger people, busy parents with day jobs and third-worlders who lack the English skills to effectively market and communicate otherwise. Which makes things better for the customer, but introduces new competition into the design world.
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There's no chance the Gov would allow them to merge. They're just doing it to drive up the price for Microsoft.
It depends on how you define "natural". Is anything that happens in real life "unnatural"? Didn't it come about through "natural" biological desires, created by evolution? As long as you don't believe in God, anyway.

So you have to define some dividing line, or at least a scale, telling when humans exercising their "natural" intelligence leads to "unnatural" results.

I don't know if I'm disagreeing with you or not. It's just a tricky idea that needs to be defined.
I'm not downvoting you, but I think this is a kind of problem that seems solvable on the surface, but is very, very difficult to get right. You will always have situations where all speed indicators fail in a similar way leading the software to believe that the speed is correct. With all the erring on the side of caution that aircraft makes have used, we've had a couple of cases where the software "decided" something and caused incidents.

Studies in N-version programming (such as used in Airbus planes) show that software written by different teams often fail in the same corner cases (with differing outputs).

Eventually you might have software with "situational awareness" that can be trusted to make fewer mistakes than humans, but we're not there yet.
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"Obama was elected in an election with a turnout that exceeded FDR's"

Yeah, I think that's a pretty strong point in my favor actually.
So, let's do the macaroni calculation.

The first step would be to answer, "What is the name of the Macaroni factory Milner bought?" (Answer: "Extra M JSC". Source: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=196698.0 )

The next step might be to figure out the size of that Extra M deal, in order to gauge its then-profitability. (Even though that has no bearing on its profitability afterwards, it is at least a starting point.)

Some sparse Extra M performance information from 2007: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/julia-malofeeva/5/98a/39a

Financial information about the Consumer Goods sector: http://biz.yahoo.com/p/3conameu.html

This is little bizarre: http://search.appliances-china.com/Look.php?ID=CaoGP4TW%2F%2... ...
Extra M "company details" reads as follows: "We are international purchaser of Machinery & Industrial products for long time." It's proving difficult to find much info about Extra M.

Here's some company backround: http://enc.ex.ru/cgi-bin/n1firm.pl?lang=2&f=1143
"I'm still confident that Microsoft will add WebGL support to IE" - hmm! Really?
His point is that dpkg is unable to support installation of multiple versions of a package. update-alternatives and having custom packaging (like with python2.6 and python2.7) solves some of this issue, but Gobolinux deals with it a lot better
It's easily measurable.
The odds of your product ever having to scale are vanishingly small. Until you prove your product will actually need to grow to web scales, you should use whatever language allows you to deliver a product for the lowest possible cost in the shortest possible time. That usually means dynamic languages.
I think this looks promising. Does it handle custom fonts? I had a problem with rendering custom fonts with the hack job of a screenshot app I'd built for myself. Best of luck to you though!
He bought into Russia's mail.ru (through a merger; he's considered a founder, even though mail.ru's roots go back years before), during the first dotcom boom.

He led it and helped it get huge. A lot of people got rich, including Millner, and Russians had great mail service. It went public on the LSE a few years ago, and is worth billions.

So, on top of substantial personal wealth, he became a known successful tech entrepreneur, so it was possible for him to get LPs for his fund.

If you change the countries and company names around, he's basically Marc Andreessen or one of the PayPal mafia.

It's not so much that silicon valley is like the Russian finance economy, it's that tech businesses are pretty similar the world around.

It's a lot more probable than a journalist becoming one of Silicon Valley's top VCs (Mike Moritz).
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It made a lot more sense before hibernation and sleep matured and stabilised.
#2 is patently false and the biggest reason I don't try to train people not to use Google as their URL bar. It is not cool when a tween kid tries to visit the Poly Pocket web site and finds something very different.

#1 is partially true. It won't block somebody trying to get around it, but it will prevent #2 from happening.

And a breast is the least of concerns with some of the trash parked on misspelled domains.
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I was trying to illustrate how pointless the "natural vs unnatural" argument is. If we were truly concerned with only doing things naturally then we would be living in hunter gatherer groups and not living past 18. Farming wouldn't be allowed, as that's just as unnatural as any other extension of our tool use.
Toxic waste is a perfectly natural by-product of our industrial processes. (You could argue those are natural too). Similarly, introducing these wastes into the air and ocean also leads to natural consequences.

I think the issue is that people confuse "natural" with "able to sustain human life". The planet Mercury is perfectly natural, but humans can't live there. In the same vein, we can do lots of natural things and our environment will find a way to balance things out.

Where I feel people are short-sighted is that eventually that ecological balancing act precludes the existence of human beings in this planet.
The end of the article talks about systems that will automatically take over if a crash is imminent.
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The end of the article talks about software that does exactly this.
Needs more demoscene. No aspect of computing more succinctly captures the title of this course IMHO.
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"It is not cool when"

Seriously now, what is the worst case scenario? This is a fabricated concern.
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> You don't actually need an IDE to write Java

Correct. You don't actually need an IDE to write Java but unless you have one you're going to be writing a lot of boilerplate by hand. That is the point I am making. The language is verbose whether or not you have an IDE. The IDE simply helps you manage that verbosity.
Is it that the top funds are packed with smart people, or there are smart people at the top of a lot of funds with lots of less-intelligent junior people?

From what I've seen, the top funds (at least the smaller ones) are 75+% smart people (at partner level; I never met enough associates/principals to evaluate them); there are entire bad funds full of mainly dumb people from the top down.

This is kind of different from operating entities, where even stupid-dominated organizations often have some great people hiding out, or even entire great teams.
I don't buy this for a second for many reasons. First, in Java I have to deal with a lot of other headaches. Heaven forbid I have to customize maven! Or, I'm using some annotation based framework, let's say jax-rs, and I'm trying to figure out why the annotations I'm putting on something aren't having the effect I think they should be having. Then there is the fact that my java project will likely have more lines of xml than lines of code in the equivalent ruby project.

But, at the end of the day I'll bet money that I can write a non trivial website faster with rails using notepad than the vast majority of java people can with their favorite IDE and java framework.
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Aircraft are a lot more deadly than roads. An air collision is pretty much fatal, whereas automobiles hit things all the time, often with no real damage to the occupants.

If your software is making the decisions, then the pilot can't make an educated response to unusual decisions. Big commercial aircraft are already largely run by software, but the pilot is there for unusual situations because there's often a lot of conflicting issues.
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Andrey Ternovskiy also turned down several large investment offers from U.S. firms. His refusal to deal with DST doesn't necessarily mean he had ethical problems with the source. Maybe he just didn't want VC money.
I was in your position. I was doing very well in college academically and yet I felt I didn't know enough. People with lower grades than me simply knew a lot more and built significant things. And I didn't realize the issue until relatively late, close to graduation. At that point, it limited potential job opportunities. I still got a good job based on academic performance. However, others were getting better opportunities because they could do more.

It's good that you at least recognize this and are thinking about doing something. I echo the others in regards to building things in order to learn. Keep doing this. Make it a priority. Classwork will provide some educational value to a point. Do enough of it to maintain decent grades and get the educational value (the theory by design). However, make the time to work on your personal stuff every week even if just a little bit. I'd even go as far as sacrificing some school assignments if you want to do your personal stuff.

Java is used a lot out in the real world so it's not bad to know it. I work for a late-stage startup that makes money and runs on Java. Look at Android and a lot of server-side web stuff that the big players use. If you know Java, you can start building bigger things. Look at the Play! Framework (playframework.org) for building web applications. Learn some basic HTML, JS, and CSS for the client side (I recommend w3schools.com). Deploy to Heroku so you can publish it the world (http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/play). Now you have a product.

Get internships and/or co-ops. Get exposed to the world outside of the classroom for the applied skills. Those can be effective opportunities to bridge the gap. Your personal projects will be valuable in getting these opportunities.

If you want to understand the value of the college courses to the applied world, ask your professors about how the course content solves real-world problems.
A "best practice" is essentially the same thing as "idiomatic python" in my opinion - I could pick apart different meanings from each but often times, it really is used to say the same thing.

The phrase "best practice" isn't taboo in my experience - I'll often ask what the "best practice would be for implementing XYZ". If you rephrase that, "what is an idiomatic way to implement XYZ", it's saying the same thing.

Python's community probably leans toward this diction because the culture of python revolves around the nebulous concepts of simplicity, obviousness, and "only one way", that in order to make those concepts more hylic and less "abstract and subjective" there is a lot of education (in the form of docs, PEP8, the very doc linked to in this post) to set the stage for what the expected idiom is.
I'm going to guess you're with the CIA. Can you guys have accounts on other social networks?
Well it's easier to engineer, cheaper to construct small rockets. All you need to get to the moon is a reusable rocket capable of making orbit, and enough flights.
I just hired (or rather, gave a contract task to) a guy that has a full-time non-technical job and a few technical (unpaid) positions. He's going to be part-time (as a paid technical person) for me.

But yeah, I see what you are saying; You have a really hard time hiring known good people this way; known good people, if they want full-time work can pretty much write their own tickets without working two jobs for a while first. Known good people who want to be contractors, generally speaking, want to be contractors and don't want to be employees.

Of course, most businesses of my revenue/in my market simply can't hire known good people; we can't afford their rates.

Businesses at my end of the market are betting that we can get good people that other people don't think are good; so really, an extended screening process is more important than if you can pay google rates to begin with.

None the less, there are many small businesses that operate like this; we do find good people; of course, we also end up kissing some frogs, and when we do find good people, they don't stick around forever; people with the ability to pay well eventually notice they are good.

I think it works out okay for all involved; most companies that can afford to pay the rates 'known good' people demand simply won't look at people who have been unemployed (or employed doing something non-technical) for a while, or people who don't have experience; that's where I get most of my people. And after working for me for a while? they have something technical to put on their resume, and people who can pay real money look at them seriously.
I debated the WMD topic in high school pre-Iraq war and the expert consensus was that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons. Arguing otherwise was a losing debate. It may have been obvious that invading Iraq would be disastrous, but it wasn't obvious that they didn't have WMD. The experts had little information and were misinformed.

The tone of your response to the OP is belittling and adds little to discussion of what experts knew or thought they knew. You think the Economist relied solely on Fox News and Bush intelligence when believing that Iraq had WMDs?
I cannot imagine how the physics of this idea make sense. You still have to put the fuel in orbit. You could do the same with orbital assembly of the vehicle. I suppose you'll have a pretty good idea what you'll use the fuel for.
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I wonder if any YC companies have passed on Milner's generous investment offer due to these allegations?
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Exactly. The real question is whether it is a difference in type or a difference in scale. "Laundering" may be a dirty word used to make things untracable, but it is equally possible to do unseemly things so well that no one can call you to account. If so, you do not need to launder your money -- but the question remains as to whether or not what you are doing qualifies as a difference in type.
I think pg has a different definition of smart than you do. Think Chuck Norris smart and you'll be on the right track.
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I always find these sorts of allegations lacking a certain credibility. In the sense that a 10% share holder really can't over whelm the company's direction without a lot of help from other share holders.
I think it's easy to say that without taking into account all the experience that pilots may bring to the table when an incident occurs.

Pilots (and airlines) seem more than happy to turn flying over to the computers, in fact FAA and Airbus are concerned that modern pilots lack hand-flying skills due to over-automation. The AF447 crew did not have training in high altitude hand-flying, for instance.

Until you have a situationally aware computer that consistently beats humans in accident scenarios, we still have to trust humans to do the job, for better or worse.
I agree it will take a long time to develop automated systems that can be trusted. It took 26 years for tech to develop from the first ILS assisted passenger landing to the first fully automated ILS landing.

If you were to take this specific speed sensor issue, I'm more concerned there aren't different types of systems being used to try to cross-validate the numbers. The pitot-static system has its own backup on the plane, but if there is an inherent weakness of that particular system (e.g. ice), there is no other way to measure speed that is not susceptible to icing. Surely that particular problem is within our reach, no?
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There isn't. Homo Sapiens is an animal and what animals do are generally considered natural.

Now that isn't to say that a toxic waste dump is good (it is not) or healthy (it is toxic) or desirable (parasites are natural and certainly not desirable).
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Let me play devil's advocate: Does the Mafia care that they have only 10% share?
If you don't end up needing to scale then your application is most likely a failure, I guess I just don't quite get this approach of "we'll build it as cheaply as possible and then re-work it if needed" because I'm looking at this from the perspective of having worked for companies that did this (before I was working there) and then needing to deal with cleaning up the mess since their hastily built app did end up needing to scale. Web apps, by default, usually have the intention of attracting a wide user base so I can't say I agree with this line of thinking
You can see Java running on most university's websites, and those websites look awful. One thing I experienced with Java is that it is much slower than other web technologies.
Just had a look at gobolinux now - that filesystem change seems like a sledgehammer to counter the 'lack of ease' in tapping in the picture-hook problem of installing two programs.
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It seems that the author had to come up with those complicated theories b/c he couldn't get Milner to open up. The loan insight that he uncovers about the perception that led to investing in SV is that YM foresaw that social networks could generate huge margins from advertising. Well, that certainly was smart of him, but how did he get there and how did he pick the companies he did? He buys Mail.ru and then ... he buys facebook? One dinner with Goldman people in Moscow and voila!?! The article provides a decent biographical sketch but the author is left to speculate on all the whys. I wonder whether he asked tough questions and was simply rebuffed or whether YM provided access but laid strict ground rules. If so, the author should have let the readers know this.

That he would prefer to remain enigmatic rather than open up about his process means that he is at least partly responsible for the overly complicated theories about him. Maybe he has good reasons not to or maybe it reflects a different culture. But I find it more than a little ironic that someone so tight-lipped is a social network tycoon.
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The simplest explanation for the volatility is that brutal tax rates prior to the Reagan tax cuts led the wealthy to keep their money safe and to try not to realize too much income in any given year -- and if possible, hide their income entirely so that they didn't have to pay taxes.

Slashing the tax rates made it more practical to just go ahead and realize any income you can get. Since earning an anomalously high income is -- obviously -- itself anomalous, it stands to reason that a high percentage of the highest incomes were due to one-shot gains, whether from cashing in on options in a company after an IPO or a vesting, making a huge trade in the market that pans out impossibly well, or simply making the deal of a lifetime in a business arrangement.

Any disagreements? Other possible explanations? This is pretty interesting macroeconomic data, so I'd love to hear more thoughts.
I agree, I use what I consider to be a great IDE for the language I work in, it does variable suggestion, everything and its great because it makes me write code faster and not cut corners
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"... If there's one mistake this story makes, it's in trying to come up with complicated theories about why Yuri does well. He's simply smart. ..."

Smart in Russia isn't unique.

Opportunity is the scarcity. Smart also doesn't fully explain the "new money" problem. Timing might. Instability in the 90's meant opportunity but opportunity only happens in Russia with influence, in Yuri's case, "Usmanov". Expert knowledge of western economics & Russian business could also explain the ability to conceive & create a western style business in emerging Russia of the late 90's. [0] For me though, it's the link with Usmanov that clouds the "new money" problem. [1] The article also mentions Milner's religion. Highlighting Milner's religion, then questioning his integrity could be viewed as a smear attempt.

[0] The investment could be explained knowing that Boris Zakharovich Milńer PhD (father) is member of the "Russian Academy of Sciences" ~ http://www.gbata.com/jgbat.html & member of "Russian Institute of Economics" ~ http://www.guu.ru/files/gbata/english_program.doc

[1] Bill Powell, Jessi Hempel, Fortune, "Who is Alisher Usmanov?" ~ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/04/who-is-alisher-usmano...
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For further reading about Steve Jobs on education and innovation, I highly suggest "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing" from Wired 4.02 (February 1996, If I'm not mistaken).

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html

It just so happens that it is my favorite Wired article of all time.
Very impressive technology, but I agree with the conclusion in the article: 6.1" seems like an odd niche. Too large to fit in most pockets, so it doesn't work for a smartphone, but a bit on the small side for a tablet.

The same 494.9 DPI would allow for a ~4.5" 1080p display, or ~3" 720p display, both of which seem far more practical for smartphones. For a tablet, the 2560x1600 10.1" screen from Samsung seems sensible, and personally I'd settle for a 10" 1080p display to reduce cost.

(All of this and still no 12" laptop displays with better than 1366x768 or so.)
Ah, it's from a simulator, where you don't get the benefit of your own body responses - no inner ear cues, no tactile feedback, no proprioception feedback.

People driving cars in simulators also do worse than in the real thing - a simulated car doesn't have all the ways a car tells you that you're driving close to the envelope.
Actually, it would seem to be just as simple as he implies. VCs in the valley care only about money and don't give a hoot about morality. You haven't debated the fact that Milner is linked to the looting of state resources; you've simply said that anyone else would also take his money if they could.

Makes all you VCs and Angels in the Valley seem like dogs fighting over a doggie biscuit -- or in this case, the looted flesh and bones of the Russian people.
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