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I'm 39 years old, very slightly near sighted

Hey - me too!

At that range, I can just barely perceive single-pixel transitions if the contrast is very high

I can still see the vague indications of pixel boundaries in fine fonts on my iPhone 4, if I concentrate and squint my eyes. But I can't really see individual pixels with clarity.

And while I don't use one daily, I honestly can't tell the difference between that and the 30% larger pixels on my Galaxy S. I think we're well beyond the point of diminishing returns

I have both (well, I have an iPhone 4 and my wife has a Nexus S). Text on her Nexus S looks terrible compared to my I4. It's OK if I haven't been using my phone for a while, but if I pick up hers after using my I4 for a bit, the lower resolution and those terrible 2 colour pixels really stand out. White backgrounds look speckled, gradient transitions have banding, pure colours look impure, fine lines look stippled, and there are no smooth curves. Again - this is only when looking at her Nexus S after staring at my iPhone 4 for a while. The Nexus S is a fine phone otherwise - responsive, flexible, intuitive. And the OLED screen is arresting in low light conditions. But otherwise the screen looks noticeably worse than the I4's.

I didn't think that I had especially good eyesight - very slightly near sighted, as you said. But if you want to keep using your Samsung S, I wouldn't recommend spending any more time with an iPhone 4. Or just do yourself a favour and get this Galaxy-Nexus-Prime.
You'll see this typically listed as a LP64 model. The other common option is ILP64, where int == long == long long == void * == 8.

It should also be noted that this has nothing to do with the underlying hardware. Instead it's a decision made by the OS ABI. There's nothing that says you can't have sizeof(int) == 8 on a 32-bit system.
if you are using the default search in chrome, I am sure that google will update it to be the encrypted by default. If you manually change to the unencrypted version, it'll likely stay that way. Pure conjecture, but really likely, in my opinion.
Replace "phone" with a channel in unified communications and you have what is already happening in the post pc era. Look at tablets that use something like Totkumi's Line2 for a soft VOIP device over 3g/4g/wireless/voice and this is where we're headed. The small, handheld device that is currently called a phone(now smartphone) will in short order be the single device we use. Plug the phone into your dock and you've got your computer(such as current Motorolas).

Laptops and tablets are already being used in certain school districts and required as such. Convincing the mobile phone providers that we only need IP access and not expensive monthly phone bills is going to be one ugly battle. Hence, my asking who's going to cover the subscription costs until this becomes settled and normal. And relying on someone like Google to make this "free" while becoming my child's identity provider is not OK.
Actually a lot of it is specific to TV, because some families just leave it on in the background all the time:

“I like to call it secondhand TV,” said Dr. Brown...
Studies cited in the guidelines say that parents interact less with children when the television is on, and that a young child at play will glance at the TV — if it is on, even in the background — three times a minute.
Same guy from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAihDAJX8Ow ?

EDIT: Yup: http://www.fearnet.com/news/b23933_mastodon_premiere_twisted...
The web app itself uses bootstrap. Slightly modified.
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This is a big deal. There are entire businesses built on this default (e.g. Compete.com's competitive keyword sniffing, or to some extent DDG's role as 'the good guy').

Seems like this will mean hugely asymmetrical information about search queries -- Google will still see all Google queries, but nobody else will.

This might also prevent even toolbars from seeing this stuff (remember when Google and Bing went tete-a-tete over that issue?).
With all due respect I think you both misunderstand the principle of Gold as currency (or bitcoin as currency for that matter).

Currency at its most basic level is a representation of the value generated by the society it is used in. So the number of U.S. dollars represents the entire value of what U.S. citizens produce at any given time.

What makes commodities valuable as currency is they are finite. There's only so much Gold, Silver, and Bitcoins in the world. Since all these commodities can be used as currencies (i.e. they can be converted to paper currency) they represent value beyond just its practicality because it stays consistent as the amount of each fiat currency available grows.

So Gold goes up in value because it isn't really going up in value. Everything else is going down.
This is an intro to Python course and he's making us do all these complex progrms when we're still python noobs

the prof is also very vague with his instruction
Thanks for the tip. Changed it on the front page and linked to the FAQ
Clearly I'm no expert, nor do I know if studies have been done on the effect of TV watching on ASL acquisition.

I'll bet good money, however, that however many signs your <2yo son learns from watching a DVD, he would learn more from signing with you instead of passively watching the device. Which, for verbal speech, is exactly what the studies show.
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There is a major difference between viewing TV content on your computer and TV content on your television - on your computer, you need to actively select new content once your current content is finished. Television has the property that once turned on, you are subjected to a constant stream of content (including advertisements) and thus it is much easier to turn your brain off.
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I don't disagree with you re: iCloud, as that Apple's MO in all their actions.

However I can only gauge risk based on what I can see. It's possible that dropbox can revolutionize some new space that changes the equation, but this isn't evident right now, nor is it easily foreseen to be imminent. Given that, it doesn't look like a viable strategy for them, at least from my removed vantage point.
Too bad Google is also preventing the rest of the web from also being secure as any AdSense-supported website can't have ads and SSL at the same time.

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
For emacs there is http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings
Sure, it could be a scam. But for what it's worth, it's not - we absolutely didn't cheat. Cheating in a benchmark might work some places, but it certainly doesn't work for a company that sells to hackers.

If you want to verify the results yourself, we're going to post the benchmarking source code to Github this afternoon. You can review the methodology that CloudHarmony used and run the tests yourself, with your own account, without us having any knowledge that you're testing us. That way, we have no way of cheating. You can even change up the files and use different encoding profiles to be sure that we didn't pick specific files or settings that happen to be faster at Zencoder.
I don't closely follow the changes to Apple developer APIs, so this may be blindingly obvious to others but not to me. Does anyone know if Apple is providing iCloud APIs for iOS/OSX?

I suppose, something similar to the file/db libraries, only these would go let you persist files and settings to iCloud (similar to Valve's SteamCloud for games).
remind101 launched during the imaginek12 demo day. which was exactly the same day startup weekend started (when we started). They have a 3-4 month lead on us, and about 3 times our users. I haven't met with them yet, but they seem like a solid team and worth competitors.
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The government robbed us, gave it to GS, and then GS pays the government back and the government blows up brown people.

What a win for the U.S. tax payer!
Myspace moving to node.js
The biggest .NET website, myspace.com, is rumored to be moving everything over to node.js and using google developed API's.
My answer to question 1) would be, "are you happy doing what you're currently doing?" If the answer is "yes," then it might not be worthwhile unless you enjoy it for its own sake. I'm older than you and learning rails just for fun. Perhaps it'll result in a career move, perhaps not. I figure, at a minimum, it can't hurt.

For question 2), a lot of people suggest creating a side project as a sort of demo/walking resume. The limiting factor there, esp. if you're older, is simply the time/effort required to do that outside of work. I'm also curious about the pay issue. Are there any stats comparing jobs by dev stack?
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I have no idea why you're being down voted.

I see it as a very real possibility that there is a "C" leading to both increased TV consumption and developmental challenges, namely, poor parenting.

There are statistical tools that can be used to control for confounding variables, unfortunately they are not always used correctly. Often a study in psychology relies on methodology to control for confounding variables, using only a chi-squared test (or similar) as their statistical measure. In many of these cases, the data is screaming for the use of a marginally more complex statistical method. A simple linear regression attempting to control for omitted variable bias would be a great improvement in many cases.

When you're making a claim about causation, there is certainly more required than simply statistical evidence of correlation. Even if some of these studies did more work on controlling for omitted variable bias, you would never know it from reading this article and for that reason should take it with a grain of salt.
You won't find :: and => in Hoogle because they're keywords, not functions. For keywords, see the the wiki page that gtani posted:

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Keywords

I recommend reading Learn You a Haskell instead; the keywords were second nature to me by the time I finished.

I agree that there's too much "symbol soup" Haskell out there that uses infix functions excessively. Even if you recognize all of the functions, you still need to have their precedences memorized to decode the soup.
This is a big deal when you're passing multi-dimensional arrays into functions.
Could you ping me with the email address you used. I would love to clear this up. shereef@classparrot.com
if they are software buttons, i have no doubt they will be customizable.

The buttons are incredibly useful. The back button in Android is incredibly convenient. In ios you click on a link from an app, launches the browser now you have to figure out how to go back. Either hold down the home button or as I see a lot of people, go back to dashboard and launch app again. On android a things are able to be shared between apps. Example I take a picture, I can send it right away to dropbox, photoshop.. do what I need to do and press the back button. The menu button is always consistent, no need to try to figure on an app by app basis. This is preferable for myself at least.
Would be interesting if someone independent could corroborate the results. The sponsorship disclosure is appreciated, but I agree with the original comment - raises red flags.
Thanks for the info! I understand that the number of engineer posts will be large in comparison to Analysts/Sales/Marketing/HR. Good to know though.
>The only valid reason for people to be mad is because tax-payer money was used to provide them with liquidity during the financial crisis. That money has since been paid back (with interest),

Was the $800B stimulus paid back? What about the two (and counting) rounds of QE the Fed has implemented (there will be consequences to such huge intervention, it's just not clear exactly what yet)? The financial crisis cost us a great deal more than just TARP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2

use PBKDF2 (plus a SHA-family hash function.) use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2. use PBKDF2.
Great feedback. Thanks! Can you help? shereef@classparrot.com
True, in fact, having played World of Warcraft and having observed other players, I think the satisfaction "pay-off moments" can be interleaved with huge stretches of monotonous activity (essentially waiting) - people show surprising reserves of patience for some games. In other words, the happiness of playing that kind of game comes from optimistic waiting, not the "pay-off" itself.
SkyDrive coupled with webdav and your favorite sync tool will get you 25GB free:

http://www.google.com/search?q=skydrive+webdav+25GB

And for completeness, here's a bunch of other file-syncing services:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_serv...
If it doesn't make sense to highlight search keywords that web masters wouldn't do that would they?

Highlighting "salmon" menu entries on web site could make sense for the user who is searching for "salmon", wouldn't it?

But let's be more specific: I run a job board (PostJobFree) and recruiters frequently find resumes on Goolge in queries like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Aresume+sharepoint+C...

If you open first result - you can see how these keywords are highlighted. I'm pretty sure that this highlighting is a convenient feature for recruiters who want to quickly scan resume.
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Why not actually link to the Forbes story and not another site's regurgitation of it?
Machines make better decisions than humans, says Gartner
You're overextending the logic here. Yes, that's a correct explanation of the difference between correlation and causation. But just because the B->A case matches logic doesn't mean that it works as a hypothesis. (In this case, I guess it would mean that children with speech delays are able to induce their parents to let them watch more TV -- that's absurd to the point of being nonsensical).

In fact, where there is a clear and sane hypothesis in play (e.g. "time spent watching TV is time not spent learning to talk") it almost always works out that further science shows the causation that you expect. That's true across fields, and it really shouldn't surprise anyone.

It's just that the experiments required to show that are harder. Simple demographic studies are a lot easier and cheaper. So you do those first, then work up the hard stuff when you know where to look.

Taking your point literally, it would never be useful to do demographics like this because you can't "prove" the causation. But of course that's ridiculous; these studies are immensely useful and improve all our lives.
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Turning off secure boot adds a (scary) step to the process of installing an OS, which will be enough to dissuade some users from trying.
The OS ABI basically defines what the compiler will do. While it's possible to run a compiler in ILP64 mode on Windows 64, you won't get too far if you try to pass a 64-bit integer >4^32 into a Windows system call.
I'm reasonably happy, but I'm currently working for a big corporation and there's nothing very exciting about what I'm doing for work. I have been doing projects in Java, Python and Ruby on the side, but my question is more about making the switch professionally. Most companies want to know how many years you've been working with a particular language or technology. If I switched I'd be going from 10 years experience in .NET to 0 experience in another. I'm guessing that switch in experience would result in less pay on a new stack.

I don't have any trouble learning new languages. It's more about how I'm able to present myself to new employers.
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> Many were expecting more and may hold off for the 5.

The target audience for the 4S is not 4 owners, it's 3G/3GS owners who have a subsidized upgrade burning a hole in their pocket.

> Sari is good for the first elitists that want to show it off, but people want to use their devices quietly- not talk to them. Although many don't want to admit it, it was a bad idea.

It's a phone. The primary purpose of a phone is to be talked to.

> When you have Gizmodo post a link to a Hitler video making fun of it immediately, you know it is bad.

The tech press is very different from the general public.
Folks, thanks for the great feedback. I'm especially curious what you think of our business model:

The first 500 credits are free. Every month we'll add another 200 free credits. (each credit is one text message to one person)

Users can also get more credits by inviting others to use ClassParrot. Inviteer and invitee both get an extra 200 credits.

Paid plans offer unlimited credits:

For a single teacher $9/month (or $90/year)
For schools up to 20 teachers $100/month (or $1000/year)
For schools with more than 20 teachers $200/month (or $2000/year)

Thoughts?
They paid TARP back but not the AIG backdoor bailout, iirc. That's the reason for the continuing brouhaha over AIG - Goldman (and other AIG counterparties) got 100% of what they had at risk with AIG, no haircut, all via the US govt bailout, and didn't pay it back (b/c it wasn't paid directly to them in the first place, hence 'backdoor' bailout).
my point is that electronic trading provides very little, if any benefit to society.

the usual argument they make is that they are 'adding liquidity' to the markets - which means that they make it easier for buyers to find sellers. electronic trading is an arms race - the guy who gets there first gets most (if not all) of the profit. so a ton of money is spent trying to be the first guy to get there.

for something like a house, adding liquidity is awesome, by saving time for both buyer and seller. for something like a spread contract, though, you could argue the reverse - a spread is complicated financial instrument, and nobody can really be certain how much it's worth. by adding liquidity, you're making it much easier for people to exchange items of dubious value.

in other words, market makers (which is what we were doing) provide the 'service' of reducing the bid-ask spread of given contracts. that spread is really a measure of uncertainty - the larger the spread, the more disagreement there is about how much the contract is worth. by reducing spreads, the market makers are saying 'we are more certain about the value of this option than the rest of the market is.'

if you believe that someone can know the value of an option that expires in three months, accurate to three decimal places, then yes, it does make sense that the market makers are adding value to society. but if you believe that the market makers are possibly overstating their level of certainty, then what they're doing is adding a false sense of certainty to the market.

when you then take into account that the extra liquidity means that people can trade these wildly complicated financial instruments in microseconds, the 'we are helping the world by adding liquidity' argument gets even more absurd. does the world really benefit as a result of people who want to buy pork belly futures being able to find a seller within microseconds of deciding to buy, instead of minutes or even hours later? is that benefit really enough to justify the enormous amount of compensation given to the people who make such a thing possible?

so the question you have to ask yourself is this: is it better to underestimate how much you know, and take longer to make decisions, or is it better to overestimate how much you know, and make your decisions much faster?
I simply don't believe this story. If you have $100+ million to throw at as fundamentally simple a product as Dropbox is, you have more than enough to make a good clone of it.

It's not like Jobs can deny it now.
Edit to my own comment, should be "I don't think any social network will dominate a teenager's attention."
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Thank you for the upload, I think this guys got a great point, and opens the game up to whoever wants to step up, The Anonymous Facebook.

He speaks to a lot of awesome points that hit home with me. Especially about the forums we used as kids, and the privacy with that. /endlovefest
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Yes, I agree that these are helpful as transcripts. I was merely stating that they make poor notes.
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Or simply be lying.
Children can usually learn to sign before they can learn to talk. My toddler had a vocabulary of about a dozen signs before he could say any useful words. It help relieve a lot of their frustration, and generally makes them happier when they can communicate.
I predicted this change in February... http://tompitts.org/external-search-keyword-data-living-on-b...

It will also stop other search engines like Bing from utilizing keyword referral data in their search algorithms.
I've created a website and Twitter application which allows people to write stories together. Please let me know what you think!
Here's the source code that anyone can use to independently test and corroborate the results: https://github.com/zencoder/cloudharmony-benchmark. We chose Cloud Harmony to run the benchmark on the basis of their independent reputation. However, we'd happily sponsor (pay for encoding fees) another third-party to run the tests as well. Feel free to suggest an additional, neutral person/company that could do this. Though the results will be the same, no matter who runs it. :)
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Right, which it does: we're talking about ABI variations within a single architecture. The OS and toolchain enforcing ILP64 vs. LP64 semantics on C programs has nothing to do with the i386's ability to operate on 16 bit chunks.
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The right decision, in my opinion. As popular as the are marketed to be, most people don't have iThings.
My advice to young aspiring programmers is to pick up more than one stack.

And don't plan for a reduction in pay; follow patio11's advice and think of yourself as a solver of problems, not restricted to any given stack.
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That's what I came here to say as well. The failure to provide an SSL version of AdSense is one of the biggest impediments to the implementation of SSL-only sites on the net currently. Until they fix that, they are not entirely serious about this.
http://db.tt/pjwduDB thanks!
I played quite a bit with the Meissner and the Flux pinning effect. But I was never able to change a flux pinning "on the fly". You always had to reheat the superconductor to something over the transition temperature and then cool it down again inside a magnetic field (in the desired position). But then, it was quite strongly locked in that position and would snap back to where it was when moved.

So, I'm quite curious on how this works ;) Is it because it's a very thin superconductor in this video?
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Having it so your baby can ask for milk long before they get upset or too hungry is great, having them tell you that they're finished eating is much better than having them just throw food on the ground ;) Babies are cognitively capable of communicating they just haven't developed the skills for speech yet.
There is a list here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Template_Haskell#Projects

I'm a Haskell newbie, and have not done much with TH yet. But I can imagine a bunch of TH code generating a lexer or a parser out of some meta-description. Like Happy, but with everything directly embedded in the source itself.
I don't like it because, often, the keyword I'm looking for is sprinkled throughout the whole page, putting highlights sporadically everywhere.

Curious: have you tested/surveyed user preference to having that feature or not?
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