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I like Chuck Klosterman's take on this show: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6763000/bad-decisions

tl;dr: "Breaking Bad is not a situation in which the characters' morality is static or contradictory or colored by the time frame; instead, it suggests that morality is continually a personal choice. When the show began, that didn't seem to be the case: It seemed like this was going to be the story of a man (Walter White, portrayed by Bryan Cranston) forced to become a criminal because he was dying of cancer. That's the elevator pitch. But that's completely unrelated to what the show has become. The central question on Breaking Bad is this: What makes a man "bad" - his actions, his motives, or his conscious decision to be a bad person? Judging from the trajectory of its first three seasons, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan believes the answer is option No. 3. So what we see in Breaking Bad is a person who started as one type of human and decides to become something different. And because this is television - because we were introduced to this man in a way that made him impossible to dislike, and because we experience TV through whichever character we understand the most - the audience is placed in the curious position of continuing to root for an individual who's no longer good."

I've only seen the first few episodes, but am hoping to find some time to go through it now. I get plenty of morality from shows like "Mad Men" and "The Wire" in which we feel conflicted because the characters we love are doing bad things (in fact you could say that this is the main theme of serious, dramatic TV shows now), but I think the appeal of "Breaking Bad" is watching a desperate man make the conscious decision to become "evil."
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Ask HN: Any great books on Sales and Marketing?
Over the years, I've been lucky enough to find mentors in various fields, Warren Buffet and Joel Greenblatt for Stocks, 37 Signals for Company and App building, Michael Lewis for spending money (Money Ball). Zappos for Customer Service. I haven't found great books on Sales and Marketing, I was wondering if there are any great mentors out there that you guys know of or any great books?
“And it’s type system and object model are better than CL anyway. ”

Would be nice if you could expand on this, as it surprises me that an [ex-]Lisper would not prefer CLOS above all! :)

Also, we call it Lisp nowadays. <g>
> Of course that's going to be faster than a system which flushes all changes to disk individually.

Even that is tunable these days. You can have unlogged tables, turn off fsync or have a high commit delay etc.
> During the last weeks we were more focused on reducing RAM consumption of our databases as that is currently the main driver of cost and operation overhead. <

I can imagine that.

> Regarding your idea: Wouldn't then the Node.js server have to keep the whole user state in memory? <

Yes, but I think it would have several advantages:

(1) The Node.js server code could decide which working sets it keeps in memory based on very simple rules. The details of this would be abstracted away from the application code itself, because the app just issues read and write requests on a user's dataset. So in essence, by splitting up the problem in two, it becomes relatively easy to handle (and optimize) on each end.

(2) You just have to keep the active datasets wired in RAM and it wouldn't be necessary for the Node server to know whether a user has disconnected recently or not. All it knows is when the data was last accessed and it can then vacate RAM slots that have become stale. Compare this to Redis, which I believe just keeps everything in memory no matter what. So overall RAM usage would probably be considerably less than what you're doing now.

(3) The idea beats "dumb blob caching" such as memcache, because it makes small operations economical. It seems to me that Node is well suited for this kind of task since it makes it very easy to build small server scripts that handle a huge number of small transactions. This would probably mean you need less machines for the same amount of users.

(4) I believe it's relatively easy to implement replication and scaling.

Anyway, just an idea. I have no clue whether this works in practice ;-)
Thanks, taking an Epic walk through it now. Nice of you to have done this.
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actualy, it was great way to be motivated ! I always look for ways to do things with my kids that they love and I love, and I also thought it was a great way to show them what is "working"
Can you really compare Economic models to Physics models without discussing the simplifications necessary to create an Economic model?
That first referenced paper is very much in 'don't try this at home' territory.
God willing we will someday have a computer which, when you tell it "Launch the nuclear missiles," is smart enough to say "No."
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Looking at the specs:

http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/specifi...

It says it does 850 and 1900, which are T-Mobile bands, no?
The amount of times I edit my CSS right from the browser console and then copy it over manually to the SASS file would make something like this for SASS totally amazing.
FWIW, there is talk of adding folders to WP7 in the next incremental upgrade.
Sorry to be a downer, but it all depends depends on how you look at it. To me it looks like this group of executives has decided to celebrate itself under the guise of humor. I'm more of an egalitarian than that.
They didn't have much choice in the matter. For a few months now there is a torrent floating around with most of this stuff in it.
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It's a sign that an OEM needs to up their game. Do we care about Dell whining that Sony makes better looking laptops? Get with the program, this is how MS took over the PC market, by making the OEMs compete on all things thus benefiting the consumer immensely.
In person? Not sure about that, but I know that recently I tried to set up payments between BofA and WellsFargo and I wasn't able to do automatic or online transfers of amounts over $1000.

When I was younger I had a joint custodial account with my father, for a similar purpose, though it wasn't my primary checking account. It's much, much easier to move money between two accounts you control.
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How does it avoid lots of pocket/purse pictures?
I agree. LightningJS was originally written for third-party Javascript providers to improve their own embed code, though I think it would be awesome if end-users could easily take matters into their own hands. Maybe something for future development...
Modern Perl's author, chromatic, offers some pretty good advice on how to learn Perl:

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2011/09/how-to-learn-perl....
I think it will, and Apple have made a brilliant design choice in allowing Siri to fire up when you bring the phone to your ear (and you're not in a phone call). People are already comfortable talking on the phone in public, and it's not immediately obvious to onlookers that the "person" being talked to is the phone itself.
Disclaimer: I have never owned a handset from a maker other than Nokia :) I just want you guys back to the smartphone game.

> On the one hand, maintaining two OS teams for the same hardware would be a waste of resources.

Nokia will have to make a very serious platform decision in the not-so-distant feature. If resources spent on developing both will place that decision on sound arguments, I say it could be worth it. The tech scene is not (yet) persuaded that Meego is a dead end and a re-invented, unproven Windows Phone platform is the last chance to save Nokia.
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The flip side of this is the Allied codemaking operation, which was a hell of a thing as well.

Between Silk and Cyanide is an account by Leo Marks, the man in charge of that effort. It's a fantastic read.

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I agree with the writer of the article in that we are always building on the ideas of others, but I also see the side of the holder of the patent.

When so much is invested (time, money, resources) into R&D, the first mover tends lose in the end. All a competitor needs to know is that it is possible. As Seth Godin has said several times, once something can be put on paper, it can be produced cheaper by someone else.

So, if we are to get rid of patents, then startups and other inventors will need to find creative ways to capitalize/profit on the ideas benefit from being first mover.
The OS is very fast. I have a Samsung Focus with a 1ghz processor and it runs much better than any android 2.x phone I've seen. I think Ice Cream Sandwich will finally add hardware acceleration (which Windows Phone 7 has had since launch) so maybe it will perform better.
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It takes 18 months to design a phone and get it to market(along with the carrier approval and changes and all that nonsense). The MS deal was announced in Feb of this year. What did you expect?
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There are high-variance (passionate) and low-variance (professional) people, and various gradations in between. HV tend to swing (in work performance) between 2 and 10, while LV tend to swing between 5 and 7.

I'm not sure that I'm convinced by this model. Truly great work is often a result of consistent professionalism combined with ridiculous productivity.

Consider jashkenas, for example: Over the last few years, he's written an impressive number of solid, professional libraries and released them as open source. So he was working from a high baseline, and he gave himself lots of chances at success. Sooner or later, he was bound to write something 1 or 2 standard deviations better than his personal average.

I'd say that CoffeeScript is at least a 9, but it's an outlier from a pretty large group of 7s.
How long after release did it take you to reach those 100-200-500 sales per day? I've had some moderate success with an Android app, but nowhere near 200k. :)
Only if you're looking to work for a 400+ employee organization where people think that this sort of thing is of such importance.

If my CEO stopped by my desk with a bobblehead of himself, I'd have to step out fo character and go Biblical for a moment.
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what do you mean exactly ? I just wanted to say that it was an investment because I did not work as a contractor or employee while creating apps. But in a sense, I could estimate the cost because for the first 8 months I was not profitable and have to use some money I've have in the bank.
i guess that's pretty hard. I live in germany, and they have this health insurance thing where you can get private insurance, which allows doctors to charge you more (crude picture here). But it also gives you a few advantages (for which you have to pay more of course) like being able to go right to the head of department (chefarzt-option), and that's one option i never regretted taking. So basically I called the hospital, and it went like this:

me: "i'd like an appointment with the head of psychiatry"
secretary: "i'm sorry we don't take any patients"
me: "i have private insurance"
secretary: "how about tomorrow morning"

If there is something similar you can do in england, I would go for it, maybe just try to get an appointment with someone "higher-up". Maybe you have some friends who are or whose parents are in the medical profession, or something similar?

The bad experience I had was with someone similar to what you depicted, low-level student counsellor, who the minute I saw her I knew "this is not going to end well at all".

I wish you the best, don't give up. On the more prosaic and maybe a bit blindsighted side of advice, regular sleep, healthy food, a bit of exercise is the bottomline that I know I have to execute like a robot, not questioning it, not think about it. I have alarms all over my iphone for that kind of stuff: take out the garbage, clean your flat, do sports, shower. People think I'm crazy, but I know that when things are not going good, that little piece of technology is going to keep me on track.
You're very possibly right. That said, the "Add ketchup to my shopping list" version only sounds good for shopping lists.

If I wanted a list of work reminders, I might have: "Add send contract to john to my work list." which would be less natural... also, in my mind, what I was adding to my reminders was the task to buy ketchup, not "ketchup" by itself.

Anyway, I'm sure they'll add more supported syntaxes, and in parallel people will learn and adapt to the syntaxes that are actually supported.
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As much as I love stackoverflow, I don't know that I want to create a hiring culture/environment in which the top thing on a resume is what % of users person x is in with regards to answering questions (or creating answers people like) on a specific (for profit) website. I do agree with the underlying premise that judging people by resumes is a tired tradition and I don't know if I have a better answer - yet? :) This isn't a dig on gamification either, traditional resumes might be the original 'career gamification'. Just not sure that having an entire industry base expertise in some manner on the weight of one website's ranking algo is a smart move.
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No idea but I haven't seen one in six months of use.
+1 to everyone else saying it's not a common word. My Cuban family and I certainly have never used it, and I don't know any other Hispanics/Latinos who have used it before.
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t-mobile us 3G band needs 1700 mhz (I believe that's the receiving frequency). example: even an unlocked iphone supports 850 / 1900 / 2100 hsdpa/3G, but won't get more than "edge" speed due to the non-support of 1700 mhz
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It's called BlueBiped and has 3 legs. Not impressed.
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out of interest, what would someone say if they had been spending the last year working at a job that required iOS apps that interface with a PHP backend? 0.5 years each?
How about costumizeable row/column-sizes?
It's a very interesting point but personally I couldn't disagree more. While being human means we'll never get rid of the chaos, I think a new paradigm can take us a huge way towards managing that chaos and abstracting it away to a great degree.

I remember a lunch I had with Kent Beck in Zurich in 1998 (I think) and I was all set to pounce on him with this idea I had of a new approach and he instead pounced on me first with XP. I was utterly unconvinced, not because he didn't make a fantastically convincing argument, but I was -- and am -- convinced the failure stems from somewhere else.
Ah, you're right. How confusing/annoying.
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Point taken. However, my point wasn't to play gotcha. Of course everyone googles for solutions, that's how things work. It's how they should work. The point was this: what if you need to innovate something new, that necessarily needs to draw from deep results in pure theory. Those without a formal background in CS, by and large, are not equipped to make these discoveries and breakthroughs. Among dropouts I think there is a certain cognitive bias of WIKIATI (What I Know Is All There Is) - they presume their success in their achievement, and in getting professional respect and a salary allows them to say "told you so!" to the weak-willed people who stay in school, without realizing they don't know what they don't know.
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To attempt the argument that there are bad developers in comparison to the amount of bad recruiters is weak. Less than 50% of developers are actually incompetent whereas more than 90% of recruiters are useless.

I'm a Tech Recruiter in London and I work hard to keep myself in that 10% bracket and I blog regularly about the horrible state of the recruitment industry. Most of the arguments on this page are valid and the large brush we've been painted with is deserved.
"The speed of the computation will only vary based on the length of the supplied plaintext password and leaks no more information than has already been supplied."

The devil's in the details.

General a way to compare the passwords (chunks of memory) would be memcmp or strcmp. The default versions of these functions break out of the checking loop on the first inequal byte.

Unless they're using a cryptographically safe memcmp (which should XOR the memory to 0 or similar), the speed of the computation will vary based on how many leading characters match between hash(supplied password) and hash(saved password).

If the hash function is known, the attacker could use a chosen set of plaintext that they know give a different leading value once hashed. One of these inputs will take slightly longer than the rest. The attacker now knows the first byte of the hash. They repeat the previous step as many times as computationally possible (it will get harder to find inputs such that hash(input) starts with a chosen substring as that substring increases in length).

Then finally, using the known start of the hash value, use a dictionary attack to reduce the number of searches to a minimal set (by dropping all entries from the dictionary that don't start with the precomputed hash substring)
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It does, on the phones I've seen. They are a rare sight.
No. I Just tested in FireFox (7.0.1; Private Browsing) and Chrome (14.0.835.202 m; Incognito.) Both still run the applet without prompting and allow it to read & write the muffin store.
You usually have to make a large number of simplifications to create a Physics model too. The question is how those simplifications change the accuracy of the model.

"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful"
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I "get" live tiles and I kind of like the concept. I'm saying that their size has disadvantages, though.

Three "pages" of apps on an iPhone (which is pretty average) hold 52 apps (16 x 3, plus the 4 in the "dock") that you can quickly navigate between. From what I've seen, anything more than 20 apps on WP7 seems to be more trouble than it's worth. At that point, you're exhausting the limit of "glance and go". Anything beyond that you relegate to the drawer of apps that few people actively use.
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I appreciate the author's honesty.

To be perfectly honest myself, the last time I looked at Perl was about 4 years ago, and I despised the experience. I used it for about 10 months because the company I worked at had their entire infrastructure running on it, but it was the worst code I had ever seen, so I quit. If I remember correctly the code that broke the camel's back for me (pun intended) was:

$a = $src[$src];

I've forgotten my Perl syntax so the syntax may be incorrect, but essentially what happened was that the original author had defined two different variables with the name "src", one being a scalar variable and the other being an array, and apparently those have two different namespaces.

So when I looked at the perl tutorial that the author points out, it looked like regular perl to me. However, if the syntax of Perl has changed since 2007, then I'd be willing to give it a shot. Although I've recently started learning Python, and I'm enjoying it, except for the dynamic typing and the GIL... which is a rant for another time.
Just because there are a lot of transactions at a low level doesn't preclude the possibility of larger transactions with cash and the USD. The credit card systems, banks and all other parties can handle transactions up to enormous sizes (I am not sure if/what the limit even is) and all that happens without affecting the USD. There are other currencies I would consider toys as well used by real countries. Many of the smaller ones that don't allow you to convert them freely are basically toy currencies as well. They are models, they work in small scale, but for whatever reasons are very limited (in those cases the limitation is often governments cant handle foreign exchange and speculators). Bitcoin is a toy because it can't handle size to the extreme.
I tried to learn git a few times and could never quite grok it. I think I just suck at learning by reading. I mean, I was able to do basic (non-branching) source control by just following simple tutorials, but I never understood what was going on. Then I ran across "A Visual Git Reference". Changed my life.

http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/index-en.html
Yes, this might work. But I would be careful about replication and scaling - this could make things somewhat complicated. ;-)
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Times out in a normal browser at the moment.

If you use a text browser like elinks it looks like any other normal page. Although in text mode it would have looked better if everything was lined up left with minimal spacing between lines.

Ah, it just loaded, but only one of the heads showed up. Cute.
Like others have said, there is an app. Prior to the app (and still available), you would scan both sides of the check and email the images.

They also have a deal with UPS that allows you to go to a UPS store where they swipe your ATM card, scan the check and process the deposit. It's free. I believe the UPS method is the only one available to USAA bank customers that are not eligible for the insurance products. It's not too bad. There are a lot of UPS stores and their hours are at least as good as most banks.
I work as an iOS developer, for a commercial enterprise development shop that has iOS and android developers. We can find ok iOS developers. We cannot find any android developers at all. Definitely none that are senior level. Every time I get a call from a recruiter the first question they ask is: do you do android? Android is growing like crazy. I personally expect to be doing both iOS and android development in the next year. Go with the platform you can put your heart into and become a top developer. I think either track will be viable for you.
Time and energy? Perhaps. I think the primary issue is math and accounting illiteracy. Most Americans have no financial education whatsoever.
Nokia reportedly was in talks with Google, but Google wasn't willing to make enough concessions to Nokia, so they went with MS.
This device looks great, but might not be usable in some municipalities. Some building codes mandate that a thermostat must be individually programmable for a different temperature for each of 7 days a week, and specify an energy-saving min-max range.
I could be wrong, but I think that would be the proximity sensor at work.