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>let principals hire/fire based on merit

Its a simplistic idea. Principals weren't hired because of their ability to build a successful team of teachers. They are administrators. Why does anybody think they can suddenly (successfully and equitably) cast judgement on teachers? If you want to transform how teachers are hired, managed, and evaluated, to be more similar to a private business, you have to start at the top.
Thank you for spotting that! The link's been changed to the mailto.

And it's aligned on the same line and centered now, with an e-mail icon instead. Icons are cute!
Yeah, because an anonymous HN commenter knows more about the state of American education than the guy who ran the company that provided American schools with leading-edge technology for the past 3 decades.
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These are inconveniences, not fundamental obstacles. Our preference for convenience at the expense of results has led us to our current position of having a poorly educated underclass and a higher educational establishment in which the biggest earners are football coaches. Jobs' specific proposals may not be the right ones, and simply jacking up time spent in school without addressing educational methods etc is not going to take care of the problem by itself. but we have some serious catching up to do.
'I'm going to destroy Android': Steve Jobs
So from what I understand you are looking at a game that incorporates characters that are much more re-marketable than the standard fare of video games in the United States. Having the ability to re-market characters could really build up a brand or series identity... Some American game studios have already thought of making characters like Laura Croft and Gordan Freeman and even making these characters into a series of movies, but I don't know about how it has been applied to iOS/casual gaming.

How are you going to do pricing of upgrades aka DLC?

Have you considered pricing it at ~>=$1.99 instead of $.99 depending upon how much content is included in the original game?
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First, because I knew Io and not Lua. I had gotten interested in Io years before. Io was actually my first dynamic language, not Python or Ruby or Javascript. I stopped using Io for a few years when I moved on to other things, but _why's article "Io Has a Very Clean Mirror" brought it back to mind.

I seriously considered Lua but I felt object orientation needs to be incorporated very fundamentally in a language. I had previous experience with mIRC which shares Lua's idea of "everything is a table", and while mIRC is no doubt productive I felt tables would be a step backwards compared to Io's objects.

At the time I started, the C/C++ binding frameworks for Lua were not as mature as they are now, not as numerous, or I simply wasn't aware of them.

From a language aesthetic standpoint my decision came down to Io, or Ruby, but I looked at the C Ruby source code and it didn't seem very suited to embedding. For instance the official implementation of Ruby had some dependence on global/static variables which precluded the idea of running multiple instances of the VM in a process. Io allows this, although I haven't used it yet; I plan to use it to support threading, one VM per thread. And basically the Ruby interpreter codebase wants to own main() and call my code as a library; I wanted to own main() and call the interpreter as a library. Io supports this, and it's codebase is smaller.
This is by no means a new exploit. I've know about it for about a year and sent warning emails to rather large players. The response, when I got one, was that its the industry standard. Publisher's developers see the scripts when network request to host them, and they often raise the issue. Yet the type of the ads that require those frame busters pay well, and unfortunately those concerns are swept away.
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You mean the guy that beat cancer?
Is there any research that indicates that more time in school leads to better educational outcomes?
Jobs was one of the captains of US industry - who else should the head of government turn to for specialist advice on business? If your head of government isn't talking to the captains of industry, then there's something wrong - it's not just a US thing.
Fair enough on the 6pm thing. However, there seems to be evidence [1] that the typical 2 month summer break is hurting student performance - especially for poorer students whose parents can't afford to put them into enrichment activities in the summer. How, exactly, would 11 month school years be a nightmare? Misalignment already exists - Colleges get 4 months off, don't they?

I also recall seeing a talk about this exact topic, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/education/lear...
Yeah! I wanted to have a thanking board or some sort of real-time donation tracker (a la humble bundle), but I'm not a developer/didn't know how to implement such a thing that linked to my PayPal/WePay =(
Just put up a WePay button. =) Thanks everyone!
He's making a C API call to essentially compare two integers instead of just comparing them directly in Lua. You can fix that by pushing the enum values to Lua as numbers instead of userdata with metatables for comparisons.
Of course not. But many people still would take subordinate position during in a meeting with the US President.
> maximizing the interactions...optimizing it to be viral..

You lost me.
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One of the patents Apple is using in their lawsuits is "infringed" right here: http://www.google.com

The claimed infringement is Android's "Linkify" functionality. What does "Linkify" do? It scans free-form text for recognizable items (e.g. URLs, email addresses, phone numbers, etc. Apple originally did something similar with the Mac help system and patented it in 1996 and is now suing HTC, etc. over the functionality.

To me, this is an open-and-shut example of Apple attempting to claim ownership of an unrealized idea. What do you think?

Oh, by the way, I almost forgot the best bit. Even if you do think this is patentable, there is an open-and-shut example of prior art. Netscape Navigator 2.0b1, released in 1995, included "Live URL" support within its mail and newsgroup client, which does exactly what you think it does.

Apple claims it has a patent that can prevent Android from doing the same thing today. To me, this is an obvious abuse of the patent system (and I feel similarly about slide-to-unlock, photo gallery scrolling, ...).

I'm not saying Apple has no quality technical patents (the design stuff is a whole different discussion), but I'm very skeptical of the ones they're asserting against Android manufacturers. By and large, they seem to revolve around functionality that, once you've seen it being used, you need no other technical information to reconstruct it. To me, that sounds like the look-and-feel lawsuit all over again, dressed up in patent clothing. In my opinion, if the change of outfit means the suit ends up going the other way, we will all be poorer for it.

And while I don't think a "no patent" system is the best answer, it does sound a lot better than the the current system of flimsy, overbroad patents leading to rampant patent abuse from all players. I'll add that I, personally, don't distinguish much between practicing and non-practicing entities, I care far more about the quality of what you're asserting than about who you are. I'd even argue that there are cases where a practicing entity abusing overbroad, flimsy patents to stifle competition in an area can be worse (for society) than a non-practicing entity merely trying to "tax" the same area.
Regarding China factory regulations vs US factory regulations, does anyone have a good point of view regarding working conditions at Apple's factories in Asia? ie, http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hexyl-hydride-n-hexane-pois...
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That's correct. The Social Security "trust fund" is really just an accounting fiction. Most of the money paid in SS taxes always went right back out to recipients. For awhile the government was collecting more than it was paying out (for demographic reasons) and the surplus was borrowed by the government. But I believe at this point the program has a negative cash flow, so the government will have to issue new bonds to pay off the bonds in the "trust fund".

It's really a lot like your right pocket borrowing from your left pocket.
I don't expect to jump straight to the level of Japanese corporate networks, but it's an area that deserves further exploration. I think that the "cross-platform mega-success" and "merchandise of awesome characters" model can be used at lower levels, too.
Look, it's an incremental update to a phone.

Will it be loved by millions? Probably. But, seriously, it's just a phone.

I guess I don't get it.
Well, for one thing you have to pay interest on the debt, so in theory you can afford more by not borrowing for it.
What's the marketing plan?
"Is that really what's holding manufacturing back here?"

While I also have various ideological preconceptions about the source of the economic problems in the US and elsewhere, I would observe that when someone like the CEO of Apple is expressing an opinion about what makes a factory easier to open in China than in the US, someone who has actually been the guy-who-can-say-yes to actual factories for which that decision was actually made, it's probably worth listening to that opinion. Even if you can somehow prove he's objectively wrong on the merits, his perception would still be a useful data point.

On the other hand I wouldn't expect any particular insight into our school problems from him, beyond what any reasonably skilled businessman could present.
"the touch models were more popular".... are you kidding? Are you saying touch smartphones were popular before iPhones? Do you have any statistics?

I hadn't seen even one of these before the iPhone (there were a few people who used them, but i would say their market share would be less than 1% in smartphones)
It seems a lot of smaller towns with local Universities or Colleges have more activity than one might expect. Slashdot came out of Holland, MI while Rob Malda and Jeff Bates were attending Hope College.
There are some follow-up posts in the thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/84469/fo...

To summarize, use the FFI library (http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html) which enables LuaJIT to directly access C types and functions, bypassing the Lua C API. Or, write more of your code in pure Lua, reducing usage of the Lua C API bridge.
> This is typical of Apple, though: it is also fun to carry around an Apple Remote if you know people with MacBooks. You walk up behind them, hit the menu button, and yell "FRONT ROW!", at which point their computer (default setting: accept any random remote) will /slowly/ fade to black, and then /slowly/ fade into a TV-like UI the user has probably never seen before.

It's /more/ fun to walk around with a defcon 2008 badge hacked to mash the "menu" button ten times a second rolling through the different pairing codes :)
While the adage "physical access == game over" is definitely true, it's a bit less useful now as more & more devices are portable.

Previously, physical access meant someone broke in or fraudulently gained entry to a room where your pc/server lives. Nowadays it means someone grabbed your tablet/smartphone for a minute while you are in the bathroom.
C++ function to compare two enums:
bool operator ==(SomeEnum left, SomeEnum right) { return left == right; }

In my bindings (in C++):
LM_BIND_NONMEMBER_OP(SomeEnum, (==))

In Io script:
if( obj property == SomeEnumInstance, doStuff())

The == in the script calls the overloaded == operator defined in C++, via the binding. Turns out, you do a lot of this in game programming, at least with Irrlicht (or maybe it's a quirk of what I'm doing in my game scripts). Testing an enum for equality is cheap in C++. Calling == from script via a binding adds an order magnitude (or two!) more overhead. I could improve this by optimizing for this case.

(You may wonder - why I don't just convert enums to script numbers, which surely are faster. Mainly because I wrote my Io to C++ binding library to be strongly typed; it does not allow mixing a number with an enum and if you auto-demoted enums to numbers in script that type information would be lost. And I don't think Io's interpreter goes to the same lengths as, say, a Smalltalk does to optimize for numbers; Io takes an even more purist approach to treating everything as an object.)
I'm not so sure multi-touch was inevitable. I mean, as a general concept perhaps. But the trend for phone during the time that the iPhone was released was tiny-keyboards. It was the Blackberry era. It's no accident that 2006 era Android protoypes looked like Blackberrys. Jobs made a point that they were going to do away with that, and go full screen multitouch.

It wasn't obvious and there were a lot of skeptics about giving up a physical keyboard. Typing on a screen just hadn't been done sucessfully.

You say this is obvious now, but what phone did you own in early 2007? I had a Palm Treo.... with a keyboard.
This is clearly a bug, if you don't hold the power button until the slider appears, you need to enter a passcode.
I wish you every success, but think that you're running a business model based on three unlikely events all resolving in your favor. (#1, game is a hit. #2, massive demand for goods. #3, you turn out to be good at merchandising.)

Any one of these propositions seems sufficiently challenging to focus on, to my point of view.
Because we can increase GDP (via public spending, yay!) and make our debt situation look like it's improving. Look, nominal total debt may not be perfect either, but saying Clinton reduced debt is factually wrong. In every year, we spent more than we had. Debt increased. They all do it.

The debt dollar is a horrible instrument that will not end well. We may be decades off, but it's gonna be ugly.
> I think for myself

Then you should think that there may be others who aren't really that concerned about being their own boss and financial freedom(strange as it might sound); others who love learning new perspectives. Other than saying that clojure may not be worth your time, you offer no insight. Thanks for making your preference clear, now can we get back to discussing the talk?
$16 USD in the US goes a lot further than $16 in Oz. From what I can tell Aussies pay anywhere from 20% to 100% more than Americans for the same products if you do the currency conversion.
Yah, but of course it's the SSD part of this that makes it interesting now.
Great job! Looking forward to hearing the end result. Never quit!

-A
The 2010 HTC model in question is the Nexus One (a key point of contention in the Apple vs HTC lawsuits).
Sorry, if 7-8 hours of schooling isn't enough couple more hours won't change much.
"It's hard enough to figure out how much money a product will make when you're building, but you want companies to come out with SEC-acceptable projections for how much they would have made on projects they chose not to build?"

Historically this is precisely why Google has declined to provide any guidance at all. At the time Google starts being able to provide SEC-acceptable guidance on their income I would expect the creative people there will have left.

As WOPR would say, "The only way to win is to not play the game."
Really? I would have considered 'this rant is dumb' to be meaner than 'make it shorter'. 'Make it shorter' is, on the whole, pretty good advice for anyone who's trying to get their point across.
Right, you can do all of it in JS/Canvas, but hardware acceleration support is lacking. From my understanding, these CSS animations have full hardware acceleration, but like ceejayoz said, only some of the latest browsers have full support at the moment.
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The "Main differences from HTTP" section says this:

"SPDY is intended to be as compatible as possible with current web-based applications. This means that, from the perspective of the server business logic or application API, nothing has changed. To achieve this, all of the application request and response header semantics are preserved. SPDY introduces a "session" which resides between the HTTP application layer and the TCP transport to regulate the flow of data."

This even explicitly says that SPDY resides underneath the HTTP application layer.

So from the point of view of e.g. GMail, it is making HTTP requests via XmlHttpRequest still is it not? And from the point of view of my Django application sitting behind some future apache/nginx SPDY module I will still be accepting HTTP requests and responding with HTTP responses will I not?

It seems like SPDY sits in the same layer as SSL/TLS in HTTPS. It doesn't replace HTTP, merely changes how the messages are transported over the wire. To use your logic, you can't point an HTTPS-only client at an HTTP server and have it work or vice-versa, and yet I quote from wikipedia:

"HTTP operates at the highest layer of the OSI Model, the Application layer; but the security protocol operates at a lower sublayer, encrypting an HTTP message prior to transmission and decrypting a message upon arrival. Strictly speaking, HTTPS is not a separate protocol, but refers to use of ordinary HTTP over an encrypted SSL/TLS connection."
Thats a percentage of revenues, and Apple's revenues are very high. Also -- I agree Microsoft spends a lot of money on research in their "Microsoft Research" division, but the fact is, most of their research does not end up in products. I don't know about Google - I don't think they spend a lot on Research...the link you pointed to does not talk about Google. :-)
This isn't exactly the best first impression ever: http://i.imgur.com/r2vwo.png
It may be an extra layer of interaction for a regular website, but if you are doing something entirely different like native browser games, it becomes more essential.
Steve Jobs: Not a very nice person to know
I am also moving to Seattle in a few months after I finish school. Having spent my summer there, I can't say I have any complaints, winters however, are a different story I hear. Coming from the Midwest though, I think I would prefer the rain over 3 months of harsh winters.

On a side note, I am curious in finding out why do so many high-achieving computer science folks in academia make the jump to work at Google? It takes a lot of effort to reach the point where some of these people are at, so there must be great incentives to make that move. What are those?
I e-mailed you, no response.

Best of luck.
The average is frankly, fairly uninteresting given what the distribution looks like. It's not a "typical" income, or the 50th percentile. It's just basically the sum of income divided by the number of earners.

Reminds me of the old saw about how when Bill Gates walks into a bar, everyone turns into a millionaire, on average.
Isn't that more or less the exact use-case for Membase? Or does Redis offer a lot that Membase doesn't when the data does all fit in memory?
Right. So ideally, we want a big public spending program without a war.
Thanks! Keep working hard and you'll be just fine. We all feel that we need to play catch-up to someone. My boss had like 25 publications by the time he was my age, so I know the feeling. Like others have said, use it to your advantage as a way to push yourself harder.

There are a few competitors, but generally they're celeb fashion/gossip blogs. We're the only site that I'm aware of which is focused on actually being more like a search engine. It's been tried a few times throughout the last 15 years, and even Liz Lemon mentions it at the end of a 30 Rock episode. The problem is that costume designers are very busy and in general Hollywood does not want to work with you, so you need to do all the legwork yourself.

Additionally, it's only in recent years that crowdsourcing has become a viable solution, both in terms of paid (e.g., Mechanical Turk) and organic (e.g., StackOverflow) platforms. We rely heavily on crowdsourcing to help us generate some of our data and it's so far worked out really well in private testing. The key is really about getting an efficient, organized workflow that you can repeat and scale out. It wasn't easy to find, but I think we have it down now and are looking forward to launching in November! :D
It wouldn't surprise me if Obama was more in awe of Jobs than the other way around. After all, Steve's been in the spotlight for 30+ years now, and Obama was an unknown until 2004.
Yes. My point was to juxtapose the release cycle of hard drives back then to SSDs now. Poor attempt, I know.
Well it's Io but you're still correct, I could fix that by letting enums "decay" into Numbers. In fact, I originally had that happen accidentally and I actually considered it a bug. The reason I considered that a bug was that I made a design decision to strongly type everything that goes across the boundary between script and C++.
A new product. They've developed a reasonably low latency P2P streaming protocol for delivering live events.
Smooth as butter, love it!
No, it's not. It's ironic.
Here's what I'm reading: Jobs, like many salesmen, tries to instill fear in Obama then offers to help with his campaign

It's super sad that will never happen. It's crazy imagining what a Jobs final product towards a political campaign may have looked like.
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IMO, as ex-Googler, academic minded engineers will find more "kindred spirits" at a company like Google than most others.
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Every time I hear this charged leveled against HTC, of all companies, I want to shake people who have no sense of history. Go look up the O2 XDA, one of the first touch-screen smartphones. If you can't see the evolution of the touch-screen form-factor (and there are plenty of later examples), I don't know what to say.

Apple deserves tons of credit for making that form-factor much more elegant, but the idea that other companies are "stealing" by trying to come up with their own interpretations of that elegance, without acknowledging that Apple did the exact same thing, is just silly.
Really makes you appreciate what Apple has done for phone design.
Still working on that, but making a really fun game seems more important than anything else, since popular iPhone games spread quickly by word of mouth and social networks.
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If you'd read it properly, you'd notice that Australia kept a pool of debt-in-name-only turning over to serve local financial market needs. About 100 billion AUD IIRC, or ~10% of GDP at the time. The money raised through those particular bonds was never used. It just came in, sat around for a while, and went back out with a very small interest payment attached.

The US could have done the same and I understand that is what this "secret report" recommended.
Why would you leave your electronics out while you're in the bathroom? Especially a smartphone---you can just put that in your pocket.
Because the defaults allow no passcode, somebody could carry a SmartCover with them, and break in to any iPad they "borrow" for a few minutes.