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this isn't the new skin. check out the video or log into a regular gmail.
You said it best the first time when you said you missed pf.
You an check out Barnaby' previous work on hacking ATMs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDMu7USsZQ
Risk vs. reward, I think we all know what the reward is for security theater vs the reward I get when I eat a good poutine. Mmmmm poutine.
For the record, Khan Academy is going to eventually scrap all the Python videos. John Resig, creator of jQuery, is going to redo all the videos narrated by him and with the code written in JavaScript.
When company A needs company B to buy into building new types of hardware, far-out concept videos can go a long way.

Compare this to how far (and how fast) one can get by letting your purchasing power do the talking, rather than a concept video. I like concept videos, personally. They are techno-lust candy to me. If this is a big part of how they move other players in their industry forward, however, then this is an inherent weakness in their business model. Industry players respond much more quickly when you're handing them money.
It's going to be a while before widely adaptive learning software comes around. Learning Assessment is already a difficult problem, and when it's done well, takes a lot of insight and wisdom on the part of the teacher.

As yet, there isn't a way to replicate that in software. One day it will be, but until then, khan academy and those like it can't even come close to having a good teacher.

That said, I can easily see how it could take the place of a bad teacher.

EDIT: I do see now that the CM software you linked to does have a human component. That's an interesting aspect and I'm going to have to take a careful look at this.
When you say "Social game" do you mean like Zynga , Nintendo, or Blizzard?
Agreed. A petition was worthwhile to elevate the attention given to the matter. It could be the response was a brush-off, but it might also be an invitation to the party.

It's pretty hard to overestimate the impact that executive branch policy has on the PTO. If there truly were a "quality-first" directive, with mandates to reject hard-to-understand and overbroad applications on teachability and novelty doctrines, that would have a huge impact on the patent landscape. But there's a ton of work to do in crafting a suggested directive that would accomplish that, and petitions aren't really the proper vehicle for such suggestions.

It might be more productive to interpret the press release as an invitation to work on that document, and the pointer to the AIA page as a forwarding address to take the initiative to the next level.

So: what ought be the content of "Executive Order N to the Patent and Trademark Office?"
There's a term for these tendencies: the Power Distance Index. (http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/real-reason-outso...) The idea behind PDI is that leaders in some cultures expect, and even to an extent welcome, subordinates who question them. And there are other cultures where leaders expect obedience above all, regardless of any objective measure of correctness.

India is a high-PDI country. If you're taking orders from an Indian manager, for the most part they will expect you to keep your head down, shut up, tow the line, and do what you're told. This also partially explains Westerners' complaints about Indian subordinates: that they don't speak up, don't take responsibility, don't innovate. They have been very thoroughly taught not to. On the other hand, this also explains the at times amazing attention to detail -- if details are all you are allowed to control, you will control the living crap out of them.
"useful tools in securing budgets and coordinating teams"

This is exactly what Gruber is referring to. If crazy videos like this are being used to determine budgets, then the company is being led by fools.

Any manager that would watch this video and then declare "Yes! Build me that!" doesn't understand how products get made and should not be let anywhere near the Product team.
An interesting breakdown of top cities for the jobs right now:

San Francisco (City) - 41
New York - 15
London - 13
Boston/Cambridge - 11
Palo Alto/Mountain View - 10
Seattle - 9
Chicago - 8
Los Angeles - 4
Philadelphia - 4
Toronto - 4
Berlin - 4
Amsterdam - 2
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Plain FreeBSD has also had pf since 2003. OSX also comes with it.
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I think your second analogy is spot on. I'm curious to know what kind of tablet people are envisioning when they answer these questions: an iPad-style device running Windows or a better-designed version of a convertible notebook? I honestly can't believe that nearly half of the ready-to-buy-a-tablet market is holding off for Metro.
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During startup school Zuckerberg said something along the lines of 'a company is the most efficient way to align a large group of people to solve a problem' and this is going to be the fundamental obstacle to a true crowdsource model.

You need to be able to build up your domain knowledge as a company, not just tap into the knowledge of others temporarily. There is also the 800 lbs gorilla of support which can probably never be effectively solved via a pie-in-the-sky everyone does what they enjoy model. Pursuing your passion is simply not scalable, sure there will be plenty of people that get away with it but it is not feasible to say everyone will be able to. Someone needs to mop the floors, clean the toilets, and answer calls to the help desk.

At the end of the day I agree that freelance will probably become more prevalent and the commoditization of software components will certainly reduce the need for in-house expertise. These forces will bring us closer to the authors vision but the demand for support and in-house knowledge will herd us into monolithic organizations for the foreseeable future.
We don't have "software patents," since software (as code) isn't patentable subject matter. Instead, we have "business method patents," which cover the systems and methods used by the software in conjunction with an operating environment that are putatively novel, non-obvious, unique, and enabled.

I'd imagine most people fall into two camps: (1) business methods shouldn't be patentable subject matter solely because they satisfy the machine-or-transformation test (as articulated in a trilogy of cases from the 1970s and most recent in Bilski); and (2) even if they should be, many of the business methods today fail on non-obviousness grounds.

Proscribing the issuance of 'software patents' isn't the problem. The problem is that in this digital age, we're relying on the machine-or-transformation test for business practices that exist in the virtual world. Because of the prevalence and impact of the internet in the global marketplace, there's now a fundamental difference between a ROM chip in a device containing instructions interpreted by a microprocessor and a software program compiled into machine readable code stored in RAM and processed by your computer's CPU.
Yes. But what if the problem was actually with you. Why email you in the first place? Just tell us your story in few short lines, and everyone will judge from his perspective. The other party can have the ability to reply, too.
Could someone explain to me why people even consider results collected via third-party browser toolbar to be relevant in any way[1]? I mean... I don't remember ever seeing anyone in IT with a browser toolbar, and I remove them on the spot from my non-IT friends' browsers. Call it selection bias, but I think that most of the time someone has a toolbar of this type is when one's IT friends haven't have time to get to ones computer and remove it.

[1] - this is a serious question that bothers me; I can't see how this kind of selection gives any kind of representative sample.
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We're a growing team and about to move into a killer office on South Park. email:klaas@zite.com
So, is this real, or is this a spoof of the mess with Google Reader?

(PS: I know whether this is real; I'm just phrasing it this way for ironic impact.)
Video search is coming along quite nicely. In one of my previous jobs, we employed Everyzing and the results were pretty good.
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jQuery is great for adding enhancing effects that would otherwise be impossible with just HTML and CSS. In this tutorial we’re going to use jQuery and two plugins to gradually change a website’s background as the user scrolls the page.
Looking at our traffic, the "common case" is fairly low resolution displays:
1280x800 (25%)
1024x768 (16%)
1366x768 (14%)

Luckily the new Gmail interface has three settings for display density.
Nokia did it too with the Nokia Morph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

Doesn't seem they are doing too well now either?
Nokia Windows Morph phone 7 anyone?
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Their math selection goes through calculus, differential equations, first-semester statistics, and linear algebra. I don’t see anything beyond that.
This script may help out [a lot] if you're consistently using grid layouts but have the occasional li-located items that have inconsistent content that will break up a predetermined grid layout.
JS doesn't sound like a wise choice to me.
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If we required patents to be commercially exploited for a period of at least 5 years and required people/companies to renew them every year for a fee with an included statement that they were or were not using them commercially, I think it would go a long way towards eliminating a lot of ridiculous patents.

Plus it would give the USPTO plenty of money to actually approve patents in a timely manner.
In a competitive analysis back in January. http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/01/24/what-microsoft-re...
It's also a federated authentication project for the non-web: http://project-moonshot.org/
What are these incentives?

(I recently learned that examiners at the European Patent Office have no direct incentives for granting a patent and may internally bill more working time if they reject a patent application instead. However, as rejecting an application requires a lot more research than granting a patent, examiners still might have an incentive to just grant a patent.)
Hi cperciva, I actually think that comments are not a so important part of code quality. I tend to add comments where my code risks to be not clear by itself, and the zipmap.c code is indeed more commented than my average code since it is all about encoding stuff in a binary blob string, playing with pointers, and so forth. So actually too much comments may even be a sign that something is bad about the code.

IMHO good code should be readable since the purpose of different files, functions, statements, data structures, should be obvious (at different levels of course), and every time it is not obvious there should be a comment helping the reader to understand what is going on.

My idea is that programmers with time develop a feeling about when a comment is needed. For instance a comment is needed all the times you are writing something that avoids a specific problem but you'll likely not remember why it was needed in a few weeks. Other times comments are useful since the flow of the function is complex and there is no easy way to refactor it into many pieces, so comments help to organize the function in smaller conceptual parts, and so forth.

There is no absolute rule, but the reality is that IMHO the test is simple to do for external people: good code is easy to understand and modify without being an expert of that code base.

This topic is a good idea for a blog post, since I thought a lot about this issues lately. For instance if you want a place in Redis where code should be improved is in the handling of blocking operations: there are a few things in that code that are absolutely non obvious even adding comments, and you either are a lot "into it" or you'll not have an easy time understanding it. I'm planning a refactoring of that piece of code.
I wrote this article (thanks for linking). If you have any corrections or issues feel free to bring them up here.
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There are two other significant problems here.

1. Job security. Most people seem to appreciate having a steady source of income. For a company to regularly outsource their jobs to the "smartest person" means that all the other "smart but not smart enough people" are without a job. So long as those other people are still able to find regular employment (i.e., exist within the traditional model), they'll do that, leaving fewer and fewer people available in the crowdsourcing pool.

2. Quality of job seekers. While it's true that in a meritocracy, the best rise to the top, this works best in a fairly small environment. If the entire ecosystem of web developers was required to compete for every single job, and anyone seeking a developer had only the entire ecosystem to look through, finding an "appropriate match" would become far too daunting, and the employers would be forced to reduce the rigor with which they vetted potential employees. This allows weaker candidates to get potentially good jobs. As a result, the more qualified candidates leave, and the meritocracy system is ruined.
I think this is a highly significant move by ARM. It's amazing when you speak to datacentre people and they tell you how much of your server charges go on electricity and cooling. My recent example was £200 extra/year for an additional Opteron 6128 and £400 extra/year for the increased power usage from that processor!

There is an obvious gap in the market for low power, low heat generating, high memory throughput server processors. I'd just like to see a reference Linux distro which supports 16 ARM cores as well as a reference server card...

The specs:

http://www.calxeda.com/products/energycore/ecx1000/techspecs

only refer to 32-bit memory addressing as well (ie. <4GB of memory). Seems like the wait will be for the ARMv8 64-bit processors to be integrated.

Interesting times!
> Couldn't they just provide a "netbook style"?

How did we lose sight of the fact that this is the entire purpose of stylesheets? To separate the display of information for various devices/platforms/needs. So yea, they should provide a "netbook style", and any other. That's really the point of it all.

> I'm not seeing the new theme

When it rolls out to your account, you'll see a little black notification bar/box in the bottom-right asking you if you want to try the new theme.
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Ditch diggers have to exist.

I'm not certain this is really true. Certainly the number of people required to dig a ditch has plummeted over the last 200 years. A few skiploader drivers can do the work of thousands. As robots get cheaper and more capable, it's not too hard to imagine a future where humans stop doing purely physical jobs entirely.

I also think the thesis of "everyone should be respected" is inconsistent with the thesis of "education is good". If knowledge and education is good, then lack thereof is inherently not-good. This doesn't mean you should spit on the binman, but it does mean you will probably steer your kids away from that career path.
Really? Scholr.ly is lumped with those? Scholr.ly is probably the result of scholar.ly and scholarly.com both being taken, and likely a domain name acquisition issue. Other than that, it's quite clear in its connotations, and hardly inscrutable. It's only mildly unspellable (an omission that's easy to remember, if problematic). Unlike Sqord, or really the others you listed. Not sure it belongs in that list…
John goes over how and why the new CS videos will be taught using JavaScript+HTML5 in these youtube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Fi8EnSInE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_EU6w8iIGQ
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It's against HP's immune system to sell machines without Windows. They already try hard not to sell their HP-UX and NonStop boxes, but clients insist on relying on them.
Has anyone else been in the Microsoft "Future Home" and "Future Office" in Redmond? They're similar to this concept video, but actually have some working features (although you quickly realize they're mostly staged).

They're more private than the video (used only by internal staff/guests/partners), but a much bigger waste of money.
It only gets respect because it's a kind of lie. You aren't an architect. You aren't an engineer. You write code, making up programs.

A secretary is a secretary. If people decided that's a bad thing to be, that's a shame. But it doesn't help to change the word to 'administrator,' which means something different.
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And it's the Legislative branch that can change things here, not the Executive!
> Compare this to how far (and how fast) one can get by letting your purchasing power do the talking, rather than a concept video.

This makes a lot of sense when you're Apple, and very little when you're Microsoft. Going to Samsung and saying "I'll buy 10MM units, guaranteed" isn't very fiscally responsible if you don't sell hardware.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft
Fascinating article. Maybe I'm old, but I remember when TraceMonkey was the wave of the future that was going to outperform everything, not a hairball they'll be glad to see the back of.

I would be very interested to read their learnings from TraceMonkey, though.
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Linkbait. They're talking about 30MB pushing you over a 2,000MB limit. If you're within 1.5% of your monthly allocation, there are many things that might push you over.
From what I've heard, it's combination of time restrictions for reviewing a patent and penalizing rejections that later get overturned when the applicant appeals the decision.
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Because being a racist nowadays tends to cause one to be marginalized by others, and not be as successful. Today's business environment favors the person who can work well with anyone.
this seems like it should be part of mint's site..
The idea that there are people out there who can magically solve your company's problems is horse shit. The few really talented people who would "get it" and hit the ground running probably are already super busy.

As it becomes easier for people to find work, folks who could have done some work but were never given an opportunity to do so will get those opportunities. Basically the talent pool will expand.
I wonder if the Redstone part of the name came from a secret Minecraft fan at HP's headquarters.

I hope it succeeds, just to give Intel a run for their money. I really think that ARM is the future of computing (including the desktop).
Yeah that's slightly disconcerting. I'm not a compsci expert, I know enough scripting to get by as a full-time web developer, but javascript seems like it has a lot of hard-to-grasp idioms that would be hell for a beginner. I've read The Good Parts and I still don't totally understand the intricacies of prototypal inheritance. :p

I'd say stick with something a bit simpler, especially given that it's Khan Academy, not Stanford, so it's likely to attract far more casual lay-users who just want to know "a little bit about programming." The casual nature of the engagement means there is probably a very low threshold for quitting if the program is resulting in more confusion/frustration than "aha moments."

I think it's great they're doing it, tho! More people should learn "a little bit about programming."
Very interesting.

(PS: "toe the line" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line )
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Interesting. Care to elaborate on why? Because it seems like a perfect fit.
Give HN: Location-Based classified ads (Phonegap) app with backend
Surprised the car in the beginning wasn't a self-driving car
Why use the whole Media ID as the key within the bucket, rather than just the last three digits?
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They didn't intentionally make it public. The videos and so on were leaks.

The internet seems to have decided that Microsoft intentionally leaked this stuff to disrupt the iPad launch, but I find that very unlikely considering that according to these and other stories, the project was already in severe danger of being killed by the time the videos came out. It's more likely someone on the team leaked them out of frustration with the impending cancellation - leaking something you're about to kill is not a PR win (as we've seen).
Nice, but what really remarkable about the German project is, that it is completely electric and battery powered.

This should be the first battery powered non fixed wing human flight ever, no?
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Here is a petition that calls the WH out on the petitions just being PR stunts; somewhat tongue in cheek, but mostly serious.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/actually-ta...
For those concerned about the total costs: Don't worry. Looks like there's a bit of a discount at the higher levels. http://i.imgur.com/8A9Dx.png
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The legislative branch is who needs to act here, they decide what is patentable.
So, my "reward" is an advertising opportunity for banks, insurance companies, etc.? They better be offering some sweet deals.
Wow. You just expressed disdain for the 1% because their worth is due to the shallow reason that they were born into wealthy social networks. Are you a liberal arts major?