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Actually for your own stuff, not work, absolutely over commit. Eventually you will improve your performance to the point where you start finishing things, then you'll be finishing lots of things, and you might even end up with the kind of productivity that most teams wish for... also you will find where your limits lie for work through experience, instead of having to guess (which programmers famously get wrong) making it easier to not under commit yourself to tasks at work.

People say finishing is everything, and they are right, but like most skills finishing is not binary "yes" or "no", once you can finish things you can progress to being able to finish them better, faster and with less code. Ironically, owing to the nature of learning and the human brain in general you will have a hard time improving your finishing skills unless you regularly wind up in the situation where it is very difficult, or impossible to finish.
Hacking is such a broad term. Is 14 hours of pounding on a keyboard writing algorithms hacking? Is circuit bending hacking? "Hack the Planet" hacking?

Personally, I visit Y Combinator for a wide range of topics - from entrepreneurship and start ups to "hacking" and technology. This seems to fall in the second half? Or, am I wrong?
Wouldn't it be safer & a hell of a lot cheaper if drugs were regulated according to their harm? Grass is no worse than alcohol or tobacco, while cocaine doesn't cause any more social issues than those.

The cartels only exist because the illegality of those drugs creates massive profit margins. Remove that and many of the problems are solved.
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As the author of the article to which Gruber is referring, I think I'll simply say "Well played, Mr. Gruber, well played."
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This was a good analysis of why the prominent CouchDB companies didn't spent time/money evangelizing the project but it didn't cover the dramatic difference w/ how 10gen handles MongoDB.

10gen spends all their time and money marketing MongoDB. They appear to spend more marketing it than on engineering it. They can afford to do this because their "product" is MongoDB and not an alternative MongoDB based product like the prominent CouchDB companies.

Very little attention is paid to the fact that MongoDB is AGPL and that they are one of the first companies to bring the extortionware business model of the GPL to software as a service via AGPL.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Licensing
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The lack of women or black people in engineering isn't proof for their discrimination though. It could be that they simply choose to pursue different professions because their upbringing is different.
I would say that one major distinction is that Github is a tool designed to manage repos and make sharing code easier, with a ticket tracker bolted on. The whole Altassian suite is centered on JIRA, so it's more of a ticket tracker with code viewing and review tools bolted on.

It's a subtle but not insignificant difference and depending on your needs, either one could be a good fit.
The original cold fusion site is at http://www.ecat.com/, so, this new one is definitely is a deed of a domainer with a good sense of humor.
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Just thought I'd point out that you're running a service business not a product business, there is plenty written on this topic, there's nothing inherently wrong with running a service business but they are known to be harder to scale, for example VC's also tend to shy away from investing in service businesses. I'd recommend reading up on other service business and how they have dealt with the challenges you're facing as the challenges are bound to be different from a product business (which is what most web startups are aiming to be)
racism is a frictional cost. efficient tend to reduce these.
Guess it has a lot to do with having to be corrected automatically rather than a professor going through your process on questions with individual correction.

That might actually be an interesting AI research area, making computers better at marking based on process the student used rather than just the final answer. Wonder if much has been done in that area as it will become more important as more learning goes online and people want more than multiple choice/ final numerical answer type stuff.
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One thing most people never get with this topic is the enormous variation between groups, whether regional, socio-economic, ethno-cultural, etc. Fareed Zakaria has said something to the effect that America could be cleanly split into two nations, where the children of one perform at or better than the level of European and even some East Asian nations, whereas the children of the other perform abysmally, on par with the poorest of the developing world. In America, aggregate measurements are meaningless.
Of course not. Just that a less profitable but still high-risk business is less attractive and likely to be pursued less vigorously and by fewer people. Which is the outcome we want. Zero tolerance is not eliminating crime, and it is extremely expensive.
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And this is why PHP is used for web-dev. The "Hello, World" webapp in PHP is trivial to anybody who has ever done any html markup, and is usually the first example. That makes it a gateway like this:
1) Do some HTML to make a webpage
2) I want to add <something dynamic>
3) Oh, I just ad <?PHP ... ?> to my page, that was easy
4) I want to do <something harder>, oh, cut and paste
5) Now I need to tweak this...

Which is part of why PHP is so popular, especially among people with more of a web background and less of a programming background. I agree that it's better to have a handle on the langage first, then throwing in web stuff, but if you take that tact, many people will instead use the language that starts with Web stuff, then adds in programming.
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...voluntarily coming into compliance AFTER being caught in the act of non-compliance which made it a GPL violator.
oh yeah, and find some real companies as clients, by this I mean companies that have like 50+ employees, that have budgets and established products etc. I work for a company with 100, or so, employees that has an established web app product and I have heard our CTO talk on more than one occassion about the difficulty in finding a good English to Japanese translator for the web app.. If you find the right clients (and a lot of web app companies nowadays are "going global") then charging more shouldn't be an issue as, with bigger companies, cost isn't usually the main issue so much as quality of work. Limiting yourself to just doing Apple phone apps is going to put a major constraint on your growth.
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Tracing can be good as icing on the cake, but it alone won't get you good performance. With just the interpreter (super slow) and TraceMonkey (super fast, when it worked) the end result is still pretty slow, and perf can be really uneven.

The picking of types at record-time in the tracer doesn't always work well. In particular, you can end up generating code for ints when really you have floats, or vice versa, which gives bad perf. Likewise arrays-of-ints/arrays-of-floats.

TraceMonkey was also written in a great hurry, which partly explains the hairball-ness.
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The biggest problem with the new UI is that it is entirely new. I have to learn it all over again.
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Whoa, what? Which website? Everything in indianrail.gov.in and indianrailways.gov.in is developed by CRIS. The ticket booking in irctc.co.in is developed with IRCTC itself on top of a BroadVision product. IRCTC links with the PRS of CRIS.

TCS is not at all related to IRCTC online ticketing operations.

Whoa, the huge amount of misinformation in this item's comments is staggering.
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It's all gray. The only color is the compose button which is red.
But rdl said "using telephone in general" (which I assume was meant in the context of speaking with customers) and people do that even if they weren't hired specifically for communicating.
I can't agree more.
I used to work for a company that develops smartphones that still holds top 3 market share in US. The day-to-day work is eating up all my time. When I'm developing my own project, I never seem to accomplish anything. I planned out some huge tasks for myself each night and I was so determined to finish them all, but it all ends up with losing the focus.

After all, I developed a small app for myself, I hope it would help you while you're doing your side project ( I try to not sound like I'm doing advertising for my project... since it's free of charge, feel free to use it and give me some feedback if you like ).

www.vodolist.com is what I come up while I was still employed at my old employer. What I could do with this app is that, I decided to do only "3 tasks" for my side project. ( and only 1 task for some other smaller project. you can customize it ). With only a few tasks involved each day, I can force myself only work on the important and only crucial components of my side project.

This post gets a little long with the help of scotch so I guess I'll just stop here for now.
The point is that if you pronounce if(x=5) and if(x==5) both as "if x equals 5", then you are making things confusing for students. You as the teacher are saying the exact same words, but mean two completely different things. Kahn made this mistake and there are student comments showing the confusion.

Not correctly understanding assignment is one of the biggest failure points for beginners learning programming. The '=' operator has little relation to '=' in any form the students have encountered before. It means something like "evaluate the shit on the right hand side, and store it in a variable with the name on the left hand side". That meaning is not really even close to the meaning of the english word "equals".

You can personally call it whatever you want, but if you want to be a good teacher to beginning programmers, then you don't call both = and == the same thing. "x gets 5", "set x to 5" or "x is now 5" are all acceptable, but "x equals 5" is not acceptable for teaching purposes.
The key problem you mention, of not having enough specialist knowledge, applies to /all/ patents. Actually, like every other field, 99% of engineers will understand 99% of patents. The specialist areas are the small minority. I'm sure I can find 100 UI or web patents for every sound or graphics one... for instance. So I agree this is an intractable problem, but I disagree that its a serious one...
This is cool but it isn't new or any sort of news.
Yep, Washington is dealing with lots of bigger problems http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20128587-503544/house...
Thing is, there is no real purpose for many/most controlled substances to be illegal, unless you choose from the following list:

* Excuse for government overstep of constitutional provisions
* Money to the prison-industrial complex (i know, trite, but it's true)
* One more step in the notion that you don't own your own body

And those aren't legitimate reasons, IMAO.
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Does anyone have a video of this beauty ticking away the seconds?
I love computers and programming, and that's pretty much what I do now. But years ago I was far more into electronics, and seeing schematics and old layouts is powerfully nostalgic (I can smell the solder). Building even simple devices with analog and basic digital electronics is incredibly fun and interesting, but also relaxing and a great solitary experience. Sitting in front of my laptop with IRC, Twitter and 30 chrome tabs open while hacking is a different experience than sitting at a garage bench with some old photocopied article/schematic from a magazine and a pile of parts.

They're different things, neither better than the other, but they both stoked this engineer's interests. I hope kids today are exposed to the electronics field like I was.
Pretty sure they would have to withhold source code to be in violation.

Unless you mean that products in development have to have all the latest code available at all times, even when it's not finished yet. I suppose GPL could be interpreted that way, but it sure isn't normally.
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Wow, you get slight gains in tests when you start forcing teachers to "teach to the test".

It's like managing programmers by rewarding high LOC / day. There's pros and cons to this approach. The pro is you control the system, and don't just let brain-dead practices remain. For example, you sack the programmers who don't actually program, or encourage the teachers who don't actually teach to lift their game. Welcome back to the 1920s.

The con is that people start gaming the system.

It's like putting a patient in an iron lung. It keeps them above a certain minimum level, but it's also a sign that things were well and truly screwed before hand.
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> "Instead, it filed a flurry of appeals alleging (among other things) that having to pay the money would involve "the very real threat of being forced out of business or being forced to seek protection through bankruptcy."

Aww, poor baby. I feel so bad for them. Really, I do.

Copyright trolling people into financial ruin doesn't look so hot when it happens to you, I guess.
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Yeah, it's 70, not 80. Not sure what I was thinking there, and now it's too late to edit my original comment.

Anyway, the "Swing" assignments are there in the sequence for four reasons:

1) To break up the monotony a little bit.
2) To give them more practice copying details accurately.
3) To make them say, "That was kind of cool."
4) To explain why we're not doing "real" programs (a.k.a. GUI) yet. "It takes that much code just to display a blank window on the screen? Guess I can live with the command prompt a while longer."
I like Google's new design style for its services, but as soon as I saw the new Reader I realized something was off. I found it harder to read the headlines. Maybe it's because of too much space between them, or maybe because the lines between them are as dark as the headlines. I'm not sure, but I know I can't read through the headlines as fast as before.

I think the decision to integrate +1 is the right one and they should do it with all their services. I haven't tried it yet, but if what he says is true, then they need to lower the amount of clicks you need to share something.
They can probably infer it based on the distribution of answers.

They can probably infer the mistakes people made by looking at the really common but incorrect answers. I'm guessing that lots of people get the same wrong answers as each other.
“Knowledge Navigator” didn’t help Apple in any way. Apple never made such a product. It didn’t bring Siri to us any sooner than if that video had never been made. It only served to distract from and diminish Apple’s then-current actual products.

For all I know he could be 100% right about this (I'm not claiming he's wrong), but he just asserts it without giving any explanation or justification.
What does anonymity have to do with anarchy? I realize that they often go hand in hand, but that's a sad generalization.
Sure, but can they put a tap into all the fiber running through the US? That's what I mean by resources.
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I agree. I don't get to choose whether or not I teach Java; that's determined by the state. However, in my class, we write our first working program on the first day of coding.

We install the JDK, do a basic DOS primer, type in our first program (in Notepad), and compile and run it on the command line in a single 90-minute period, like the 3rd day of class.

Getting to the "bang" as quickly as possible is HUGELY important.
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Someone else has already given you the argument you wanted, I see, but here's more in the same vein.

Further explanation of the Haskell isomorphism you were talking about:

* http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Curry-Howard-Lambek_correspondence

People who have written the axioms for math (technically, ZFC, if you know what that is) as a computer program, allowing automatic verification and the like.

* http://us.metamath.org/

Finally, here two slightly more accessible explanations which do not employ the same isomorphism, but which try to explain the same idea.

Take special note of the second one, because it has a good explanation of what math is and many people seem to have math confused with whatever they happened to learn in math class.

* http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091111151305785

* http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110908075658894
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I find the DB classes and ML classes of much higher quality compared to the AI class.

Videos are of higher quality, teaching by Mrs. Widom and Mr. Ng is of higher quality, albeit the exercises for ML are a bit ... easy in a way, and I would like to see a little more on vectorization.
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I fail to see the connection. Akka appears to be a library for message-passing, which is great. Not at all like Rails, Django or Java's middleware, all of which the article tries to draw parallels with.

As far as I can tell, Akka has basically no relation to cloud computing, except that you could use a cloud server to run a Scala app doing some message-passing. But "cloud" is the new "cowbell" and the ReadWriteWeb editors are Christopher Walken.
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This is true but elance offers a monitoring software as well. Both companies show a steady growth but odesk is way more successful in the last two years. On top of that elance started the market entry in European countries. However odesk seems to grow twice as fast as elance.

Is the outsourcing market in USA and Canada still growing that fast? Seems that odesk is stealing from elance AND is drawing from network effects or a different market effect which could be a indicator that it is a winner takes it all market
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We have that: http://mkjon.es/friend.png. In addition to data from that, we also look at how many people click "not now" when someone adds them as a friend.

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Personally I prefer "becomes".

"David Gries recalled a time when he was lecturing with Dijkstra in the audience when he read "x=a" as "x equals a". This is of course a short hand for "assign a to x" and not a statement that x really is logically equal to a. From the back of the room Dijkstra shouted "becomes" and the room fell silent. Gries thought about it for a moment and said, "Thank you Edsger, for correcting me. If I make the same mistake again, stop me." Everything went fine until twenty minutes later he made the same mistake when the shout from the back of the room came again - "becomes". Gries once again thanked Dijkstra and claims to never have made the mistake again."
G1 is still under active development, but even with ideal implementation it wouldn't shine best performance

Reason 1. G1 is using SATB write barrier which is more expensive than crad marking barrier other HotSpot's collectors are using

Reason 2. G1 have to use STW pause to move object around. E.g. if your heap is fulled in half we life objects, you have to physically move 1MiB live data in memory to reclaim 1MiB of free space, cleaning sparse regions first will effectively reduce this proportion but G1 is still have to work very hard to reclaim each meg of free space

If you need low pause GC in JVM today. use concurrent mark sweep
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Yeah, I don't like it either. The line separation between content boxes is not clear. It reminds me of a news paper layout instead of being a web app.

I am using Reeder for now, before I can find a suitable theme.
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