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Not to argue with the sentiment -- you can and should always learn new things -- but I wonder... How true is it?

In linguistics, the conventional wisdom is that native-language acquisition is fundamentally different from non-. Anyone besides a small child will quite likely never develop native fluency in a new language, no matter how long they speak it.

I often feel that way about programming-- I started learning C at an incredibly young age, and while I sure wasn't very good at it, I do think it patterned my brain somehow.

I get the sense when I work with other developers, people who learned to code in their teens or twenties, that there's something different going on. They're fluent in the language, they probably know more about it than I do, but they're thinking differently. I'm certainly not a genius or a savant, I've never taken a programming class in my life that taught me something, and I don't brag about my code, but I often experience a near-effortless acquisition of new languages, styles, even paradigms that other, talented devs seem to struggle with. I'm sure there must be many other people out there who share this experience.

So this is just speculation, but is it possible there's some underlying aspect of code-thinking which, sadly, it is too late to learn?
Hows this for a brand. We are hard working and dedicated and if you cant hack the flat mountainless humid summers and frigid winters, you can sit your sissy ass somewhere else. What we do have is a greasy, leather-palmed commitment to revitalization and a group of people you would be crazy to call 'soft.' architecturally we are a powerhouse. You see decay and and decline in abundance we see the freedom of a city that has hit a bottom and is willing to support anything to climb back up to the top. We have a lot of people with your attitude living here currently, and I offer them all $100 subsidy for their moving vans.

You are certainly right about the space though. Think about having an internet startup that sells its G&S anywhere in the world, why spend $1800 on an apartment elsewhere when you can spend half that and live in a creative urban area, and spend the other half on travel, or your startup.

Lastly, and the most important thing we have going for us, is momentum. We get a fair amount of comments like this, but we used to get a fair amount more. This place is nothing like it was 2 years ago and has changed even more drastically over the past 5 years.

[sarcasm]if you want to strike tech gold and buy $1000 sunglasses and flirt with plastic blondes and surf duuuude then head out west,[/sarcasm] but if you want agency - if you want to affect change, and be part of a movement, if you want to influence a renaissance then send me a message and I will be more than happy to subsidize your plane ticket here to help me count cranes.
The best blogs don't have daily content. In fact, the best blogs usually post once a month, or less - often much less. Here are some:

http://prog21.dadgum.com
http://www.moserware.com
http://ridiculousfish.com/blog
http://wingolog.org/
Entertaining rants, compression (data & image) & general sweng.

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/
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When lots of people make the same error, it gradually becomes part of the language.
> Right, but you don't need a publisher to do that. Algorithms are great at it.

Not at finding factual mistakes.
I am on the 3GS cycle too and I am holding until the 5. I want to get the really new stuff not the somewhat improved versions.
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All of this assumes, of course, that there was a contract or signed, written agreement in place, with vesting as an explicitly stated term. What "usually" happens is, sadly, irrelevant unless it was stated in a contract in this case.

There are moral arguments to be made here, and there are standards and practices that can be applied for and against those moral arguments. But it all comes down to what was, or was not, signed on paper.

Founders should have written agreements in place, or else risk some very expensive lessons in due diligence.
I upgraded from the 3GS. The difference in processing speed is very noticeable. I used to have some apps lag the keyboard input because they were taxing the processor. Updating apps took awhile, and some opened slow. All that goes away thanks to more speed and dual-core; it is almost worth it just for that.
This is pretty interesting (and entertaining).

Another idea would be the reverse - find trending videos on a particular subject and post an insult to try and get some profile views. For example, typing "star wars" would post things like "123 people said NOOOOOOO!" or "29 people think Han shot first".

I wonder if all comment systems that have some form of rating eventually degenerate into appealing to the lowest common denominator to get votes.
I didn't understand that attitude either. The iPhone 4S seemed a fairly good upgrade to the iPhone 4 which follows Apple's release pattern. Seems to me some people let the rumors of an iPhone5 cloud their judgement. After all, we've known there would be a 4S for a while now. It's just the people who should know better discounted it as a "cheap version" because they were expecting the iPhone 5.
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What kind of apps can you build?
It's definitely a positive trend, but I don't think there's been much of a change in mindset. Have these schools ever taken pleasure in limiting access to their teaching? No one's going to stop you from walking into the AI class tomorrow and seeing lectures in person, and I presume that's always been the case for large classes.

The real innovation in the AI, ML and DB classes is making automated grading of creative work available to everyone for free. It's a very altruistic thing to do, but other than the effort needed to build and maintain the systems, I don't see the downsides for the school. Fancy schools are for letting other people know you're smart enough to get into a fancy school, meeting other smart people, and having access to people who are doing cutting-edge research. The content isn't the distinguishing factor.
> But this sales boost will confirm to Apple that it's ok for them to just release the same phone for 2 years with some spec upgrades in the 2nd year.

The 3GS was already persuasive evidence of this pattern, though.
Your point stands, but three times as many US carriers is really only 2.5x as many subscribers; AT&T and Verizon each have about 100 million subs and Sprint has 51 million.

Increases in non-US availability notwithstanding, the 2.5x increase in US availability is close to the 2.3x increase in sales. I would expect AT&T sales to be down from the iPhone 4 and Verizon/Sprint to be up.

Sprint likely offered early upgrades to most customers who want an iPhone in order to keep them from going to Verizon or AT&T. There's probably a lot of pent up demand on Verizon from users who skipped the mid-cycle CDMA iPhone 4 in hopes of a newer iPhone a few months later. On the flip side, AT&T has been a lot stricter about early upgrades this year, leaving many who spend less than $100/month without a full subsidy until November. This is different from their past policy, where early adopter of the previous-gen iPhone users were granted early upgrades.
Beyond it being crazy slow?
That's what vesting is for. He's clearly not entitled to 20% of the sale price, but these people are behaving like contemptible assholes and he should get something.

He should figure out what he'd have if there were a 4-year vesting schedule in place and settle for that. He would get 1/4 of his partner's take if he had stayed for the entire vesting period, so if he was there for exactly 1 year, he should get 1/16 of whatever his partner got.

Here's the reality he faces, though. He's up against sleazebags who are going to try to make sure he gets $0.00 and he's going to have to fight to get anything. He needs a good lawyer. We can't help him.
http://altdevblogaday.com/

This is a blog with multiple authors, so I check this once a day.
About #7: since the last WWDC, it looks like they will be strongly pushing http://lldb.llvm.org/

Once it matures I expect the Xcode debugging experience will become quite a bit different from the current (flimsy) gdb shell-out.
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http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ is also an interesting blog to read.
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AFAIUI, what you're missing is that PyPy can (and often does) interface directly to C libraries, from RPython. So the prospect of re-implementing those specialized codebases isn't a real issue: only the CPython-API based wrappers would need re-implementing. I believe those are a small part of the total code you mention.
Apple's been doing that for a while now. In fact, that's a common release pattern for several companies in the electronics industry.

In a way, you could say the iPhone 4S is just an original iPhone with some spec upgrades.
I'd be interested to see the comparison between _enterprise_ SaaS and normal $39.95/month SaaS.

The churn on enterprise SaaS would presumably be incredibly low, because once a company invests in integration, workflows, training, etc. for a particular system, it's going to be very hard to switch.
Meh, his point is arguable, but could see how reasonable minds can disagree.

Understanding new biology can be akin to reverse engineering a really complex piece of software, except you have you have an editor that's cumbersome and hard to use, you can't see the entire codebase, and running the program once could take months. There are some functions in the code that you don't what they do. For the functions that you think you understand, they may modify variables in other functions unbeknownst to you. In software, you can just add a 'NOT/!' to change the effect of a conditional. In biology this could be an involved experiment taking a very long time.

So yeah, biology can be pretty complex, but physics certainly has its fair share of challenges.
Seeing those images side-by-side, the matte black with simple icons on the iPad looks clean and appealing and the glossy beveled borders on the iPhone look a bit garish. Also the type for the iPad interface is much more pleasing.

I don't think I would have noticed if they images weren't right next to each other.
Very realistic. My first thought was that if this can be done without leaving detectable artifacts, then it will inevitably impact the admissibility of photographs as evidence in trials.
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Can you have a bunch of these installed concurrently and switch between them to try them out?
For people here inside the region this is actually common to say Metro area or SE MI it is just difficult for people outside or who have never been. They just say Detroit. In fact, when I am away on travel, I will tell people I am originally from Lansing and they simply say "so Detroit?" and I def wouldnt consider Lansing part of the MDA
Some qualities of good code:

- Decoupled
- Light
- Explicit
- Straightforward
- Humble
- Balanced
- Self-explanatory
- Obvious
- Neutral
- Delineated
- Malleable
- Greppable
- Luminous
- Harmonious
- Limited
- Dense
- Short
- Homogeneic
- Unique
- Complete

Some qualities of bad code:

- Magic
- Intrusive
- Terse
- Long
- Convoluted
- Implicit
- Bizarre
- Complex
- Personal
- Creative
- General
- Colored
- Variable
- Grandiloquent
- Poetic
- Cryptic

(Just my personal list of synonyms for good or bad code)
Even if the iPhone 4S would've been a worse phone than iPhone 4, they would've still sold at least a million units in first weekend. I think everyone knows that.

No, I don't think everyone knows that. If we learned anything from the past few Apple product launches, it's that customers aren't shy about complaining even if they aren't completely sure what they're complaining about.

But this sales boost will confirm to Apple that it's ok for them to just release the same phone for 2 years with some spec upgrades in the 2nd year.

It is okay. The economics behind producing this many millions of a devices doesn't allow them to change the design every single year without jacking up the price. And for what?

A "tick tock" schedule, like the one Intel has adopted, makes tons of sense for Apple too. You just can't completely rethink a product design every year once it's matured.
Don't know what you're talking about. The article is about unproved theorems. They are described as being simple or obvious, but there's nothing obvious about

Prove that for n > 1,
divsum(n) < H_n + exp(H_n)log(H_n)

why exp log? That's the question.
Availability is a big thing, I think. For about 5 months after the iPhone launched in Australia, we couldn't keep enough of them in stock (have a box arrive Friday, all gone by Saturday arvo and none for the rest of the week).

With the 4S, we have a hundred of the damn things sitting on our shelves. If it's a similar thing in other countries, then that's probably a large part of why (vodafoneAU staff here).
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So you need a Google account to login? That's going to be a problem.

At my college Blackboard isn't tied in to the administrative processes (there's another system for that), so hopefully they will consider this. "Free" is a word that they like to hear. I don't know too much about the guts of Blackboard but it doesn't seem to be as customizable as a Google system will be.
For the hackers on this thread in South East Michigan, there's a Ann Arbor CoffeeHouseCoders meetup tomorrow: http://www.meetup.com/coffeehousecoders/

It's a great way to meet the other area hackers and hear what other people are working on.
More on the management side of development, but I like rands a lot
http://www.randsinrepose.com/
Yep, no complaints with the new XCode 4 autocomplete. There are also other cool IDE features such as cmd+shift+F á la Visual Studio.
Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is the title supposed to read 'What programming blogs do you read daily?' instead of 'What programming blogs your read daily?'

Both have subtle differences that poke at the perfectionist in me.
Imagine a ship sitting in the middle of the ocean

Ships are expensive to operate, difficult to keep running, break a lot. Why not park this ashore and then pipe or ship the fuel where needed?

A giant array of mirrors, individually small, but in total much larger than the hull of the ship,

You're going to have problems with balance. Such a large array might unbalance your ship and capsize her. Sail area should not be discounted: the wind is going to push on the array and kick your ship around.

Once the ship is full of natural gas, it folds up its solar array

Where do they stow the array? If it's on deck the salt air is going to corrode everything, quick. If it's inside where do you store the fuel?
Unless you spend the extra money to buy a new phone every year, you're going to have to watch as your new shiny gets one-upped by something better either way, so you might as well go for something better now.
Yup. It's only too late if you don't want to do it in the first place.

While I started programming at 13, I didn't become a pastor until age 40. I suppose I could have said that I was too old to add such a different activity to my life, but I wanted to do it and dove in with enthusiasm. Was it difficult? Yes thank you. It's a small congregation and I still have to work the day job as a programmer, but coming up on five years now and we are close to doubling the original size of the congregation (was just over twenty people). It's the best job I've ever had and my dream is to eventually go full time ... just gotta get Ramen sustainable!
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Have you looked at Theano ( http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/ ) ? It is a Python-based JIT for GPUs. Using Python you can build the computation pipeline symbolically, and the formulas are automatically converted to GPU code and scheduled as deemed fit (this can be extended to multiple GPUs, and could theoretically scale to an even higher level).

I think this is a promising idea for the future of array-oriented computing, as it can make use of one more level of parallelism / scaling than the current Numpy paradigm, which is limited to one operation at a time and the user providing the ordering of operations.
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I really hope Apple promotes MacRuby to first class citizen for both OS X and iOS development. That would make things a whole lot more modern and easier. Who knows, once we have quad core CPUs on even the lowliest of iDevices we could see this happening.
Should be interesting to see where Shopify goes from here. I've started several clients on Shopify but eventually had to move them to Magento as they needed more features.
The LMS Service market for higher education is surely right for disruption. Personally, I would have been more excited if there was a startup, instead of Google had taken this initiative.
I have always struggled with coding even though my University major was CS.

I feel like I'm missing so many basics, like a major 'a-ha' moment. I've done the codecademy & codeschool tuts, the MIT and Stanford online courseware and built a few bits and pieces.

When I build things I just sort of hack it together from whatever resources I have available. I've got no idea of how to build robust systems from scratch.

I still don't feel even remotely capable. I think spending time with established (and patient) coders would be really useful.

Even just videos of folks explaining what working environment they have set up for themselves, some good practices and how they leave projects ready to work on again would explain so much.

I want to balance the enjoyment to frustration ratio out a bit more! :)
I just want to point out that Canvas is doing a rather good job of modernizing LMS software: http://www.instructure.com ...It took me a long time to find that tool when I needed to spin up an LMS, so I wanted to make sure folks were aware of it.

p.s. Canvas is foss https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki
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iOS4 and iOS4-compatible apps run very slow on my 3G, even with Spotlight turned off. Apps crash all the time including Safari. I've lost calls because of the phone bogging down at various times. That's just the top of my list.
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between 2005 and 2010 what was your relationship to anakam? did you receive any benefit for your 20% claim, why do you believe you are 20% owner, and why haven't you made any claims to any money earned by anakam before

and even more importantly how did you leave, how did you settle when you left?

there is a lot of missing details here
Ideas for games are not at all scarse. They are not at all hard to come up with. They are not at all unique. In fact, ideas for games are much more trouble than they are worth. Game developers don't need any more ideas. The only way to ship a game on time is to brutally throw away as many ideas as you can, until you have the smallest design that will actually work and be fun, and then EXECUTE on that.

Execution is what matters, not ideas. Everybody wants to be the "idea guy," because they think that's the easy part, and the glorious part, where they just sit there and tell other people what to do, and get all the credit. But there are very few positions in the industry for "idea guy", and the only people who get them have a proven track record.

I work for Will Wright, who is an idea guy. It's my job to execute on his ideas, come up with prototypes that let him play around with the ideas, and then throw them away and start from scratch when he gets different ideas, or rewrite, iterate and polish the good ones until they're production quality. The designs he gives me are high level enough that there's lots of room for creativity, filling in the gaps between the design and the implementation. But the only reason I get the privilege to exercise any creativity is because I'm also executing on the hard part: implementing the code.

If you don't want to actually do the heavy lifting and grunt work of writing code, and if you aren't willing to throw it all away and start from scratch when the designers decide they want something else, or work on the complex, tedious plumbing that nobody will notice, then it's going to be very hard for you to find a job in the games industry.

The best thing to do is to write your own game, all by yourself. Then you will have something to show. But nobody in the industry wants to hear your idea, if you don't have something to show that works and is fun, because it's just a distraction from executing on their own ideas.

But now days it's entirely possible for one person or a small team to actually execute on their own idea and produce a good game, like Minecraft for example, as long as they're willing to do the hard work, and not just into it just because they think it will be an easy, glorious job to be the "idea guy" who tells other people what to do and takes all the credit.

And for god's sake, if you have no intention of doing any programming or other hard work, and you are just looking for a programmer to do all the "easy" work for you for equity instead of salary, now that you've done the "hard part" of coming up with the idea for the world's greatest game or iPhone app, then please fuck off and die. There are already enough narcissists polluting the games industry, thank you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Games
I'm I the only one who doesn't place Facebook in the class as Amazon/Google/Apple?

Maybe, someday, but not quite yet.
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Of course, it looks beautiful, and I really want it.
Is there any solution for Android? I've messed with some of the 3rd party apps but I haven't had any success.
If it was a startup, they couldn't have done it for free.

Google seems to like rolling into an industry and laying waste to it. As a consumer, I'm happy about that. As a CS student, it makes me nervous.
Do this mean I can no longer move articles to the archive with one click?

It may sound a little trivial but I tend to remove the articles when I have read them and it gets annoying when I have to remove 15 (I tend to add a lot of articles).
Just a passing note here without commenting on the substance of these claims.

Many founders do a "quickie LLC" on their own "just to get started" with the expectation that they will get a lawyer later to clean up the paperwork.

When they do this, the two classic mistakes they make are: (1) not imposing vesting requirements on grants made to founders; and (2) not requiring that founders assign all IP rights into the company in exchange for the grant.

In most cases, this becomes no-harm-no-foul and is simply cleaned up at a later stage. If there is an early falling out, though, you can have founders who leave the company and subsequently assert expensive legal claims even though their contributions to the venture may have been slight. In such a case, the do-it-yourself attempt to save a few dollars at the outset becomes a very expensive lesson in just how badly things can go wrong when you cut corners on such matters.

Don't know the facts here and am not commenting on OP's position, which might be entirely legitimate and which can only be evaluated by those who know the facts.