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Scanning all the headlines is more difficult now. Additionally, seeing what rss feed has new articles was also not very easy for me.

I couldn't find the +1 button instantly. Overall, I am not very satisfied. I am looking into alternatives now.

Overall, I like they new layout googles is rolling out on al l their products. Reader was the first were a felt something is not working here.
Right off the bat you guys need to spend a teeny weency bit of time and rebrand yourselves. The logo reminds me of a counter-strike clan from 2001.
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Even if you triple the number of Redstone machines, you'll still use just ~30% of the energy and 7.5% of the cabling.

And each 4 ARM cores have their own memory channels and I/O ports, vs every 6-12 on the Xeon [corrected] (point being that CPU speed is not the only variable here).
This user style was posted in the reddit comments: http://userstyles.org/styles/55556/google-reader-new-interfa...
I got some feedback from HN about the pricing which made me think honestly about the pricing structure I was adopting.

So I have now made a free version sans the text messaging facility. Please do let me know what you guys think
It is a solid argument in some cases. Consider that software is written to solve problems - this directs the choice of math needed, and choosing math is essentially what invention is. The same applies with mechanical inventions, you apply physical theories (maths) to describe or make something - the problem with software is it is unfamiliar.

The example I like is the "Carmack's" reverse shadow algorithm which famously was patented. Its easy enough to invent - I remember thinking in passing and never following up that it could be done when first reading about the "classical" broken stencil shadow implementation. It is a consequence of trivial geometric observations, and the precise operations needed are so simple that there is pretty much one best way to implement it in-terms of an algorithm. "count how many times a ray cast /to/ the camera /from/ infinity enters or exits a shadow volume before hitting the front face of the object we are shading, odd means it is in shadow, even means it is not". sure we can use stencil buffers and xor to implement it efficiently, but its still very simple. Now if we compare it with, say, some cascading shadow map solution then we do have a simple algorithm in shadow mapping "cache the distance from the light to each point in buffer by rendering a z-buffer from the light's perspective, then use the light direction to reconstruct the distance from the light in the main render - if this distance is greater than the value in the buffer then we are in shadow", but the details of the implementation are much more variable - you have a whole choice of buffer types and layouts, rendering techniques etc. and the nature of the algorithm doesn't map well to hardware making for odd things like bias and slope on depth reads/writes. In short they are much more complicated - I think they are probably patentable because the chance of me coming up with that if asked to find some shadowing algorithm with no prior knowledge is extremely low - mostly because it is a very hardware specific approach which makes no sense unless you have z-buffers etc. The Carmack approach is conversely doable on pen and paper by hand very easily... having a patent on it is madness imo because it equates with trivial, intuitive geometry that I'd bet most programmers who never heard of the problem can reinvent on the spot...

You don't need Haskell in particular btw all code is maths owing to lower level things (CPU instructions) - you don't need to convert it to anything for this argument to hold. i.e. All software is isomorhpic with a subset of math.
I don't care for the new interface and I agree that it's slower, but that may just be because I'm not accustomed to the look. GUI changes are minor to me and easily fixed with a greasemonkey script anyway.
The real problem is that they stripped out tons of functionality and didn't replace it with anything. Google+ is not integrated. They added a button to share in google+ . That's all. that's not integration. There is no way to get my friend's content on google+ back into google reader.

That is the entire point of sharing in google reader. It's not a 'social network' per se, it's specialization in going through RSS feeds. I find a 'friend' that looks at funny photos all day and he pics out the 10-20 good ones so I don't have to look at funny photos all day. My feeds can be focused around other topics.
but this only works if sharing is super easy (like pressing shift + s) and there is some way to get shared content back into my reader.

Without that the social network is completely useless. I might as well be emailing/IMing links to my friends.

I don't mind that they are using google+, but they need to think about this for moment and actually make google+ useful in some way.

This would be roughly analogous to twitter removing hashtags and replies and replacing them with a 'post to Facebook' button. What's the point?
Its trivial to do this. This is how computing works to begin with o_0, the translator is called a compiler and the subset of math with which the relations are described is machine code...
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Yeah, that may be pushing it, not sure how general they really meant.
The Calxeda chip is quad-core, so there's still sharing.
A Masters Degree, in my opinion, is something you take to learn. It's about delving deeply into an area you want to learn more about.

If you're in the program purely to pick up skills that you need in an average programming job, then you're going to be frustrated and you're being inefficient.

If you quit your masters and light the money you're spending on tuition on fire and then spend your days hacking on an interesting project using technologies that you want to get a job in, then you're going to be farther ahead than if you get a masters.

If you're in your masters to learn something that fascinates you, or to pick up some deep understanding of an area that you want to work on, then stay in. If not, then seriously consider dropping it.
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See the easy for developers part on why I think this has better chances than PEAR did.
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I share your opinion.

I wish I could spend the whole week to dive into AI, IMHO without previous knowledge a regular person can't catch up with course progress. Unfortunately I can't leave everything behind to study the deeps of AI and in this case the ML does a great job, Professor NG presets lectures and a few quizes to see if you understand that sensible topic, then you can apply those concepts with programming exercices and homework.

I'm almost giving up about my dream that is attend a course in Stanford. I'm a 28 college dropout who had to start working to help family. I don't live in US, I'm married, I have a great job (that I believe is far more interesting than most of you guys). But I have this itch for Academics. *

I'm glad I've been playing around with both ML and AI classes but I think that Stanford should stick with Professor NG didactics.

ps: I know that my statement sounds like the "occupies" but is hard to see dreams not becoming reality. I feel sorry for those who dropout Stanford/MIT to create a landing page startups.
No, there are degrees to which something is harmful, and mechanics to how they're deadly. Alcohol usually kills in car accidents. Heroin does not require a car to kill, and there is no such thing as moderation with drugs like heroin and cocaine. People don't exactly stumble about after drinking fine wine usually.

(Edit)

To clarify, alcohol does not need vehicular accidents to kill, it does cause damage to the liver, but my basic point was that while there are substances that are legal which are harmful, such as nicotine and alcohol, these are far and away much less harmful than other illegal controlled substances which have more overdose potential.
I think the grandparent post may have been thinking of this: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/223241 ('Dating' Site Imports 250,000 Facebook Profiles, Without Permission)

For the site linked in the parent post, it looks like the site uses the Facebook Graph API search function for public posts and then makes additional queries to show information about the creator of each post. Since you don't need a Facebook account to use it, I suspect they are making the queries via the server. They might be accumulating the profile photo data as they retrieve it, but it doesn't look any different than any other site that uses the server-side Facebook APIs.
I was just following a train of thought and making a comparison, not a real correlative relationship.
I had this problem as well. A lot of people do. In a way, it's not a bad thing, if you're oversubscribed it makes prioritizing things a lot easier than if you feel like you have time to do everything but aren't sure what's the most important.

I am not completely cured of the habit, but what helped me with this -- and more importantly, what helped me actually begin finishing things -- is simply being very careful to only talk about what I've done, not what I'm working on or what I'm planning.

There's this thing called "substitute for completion" where if you talk about some project, even one with hundreds of hours of work remaining, your brain gets the same reward as actually completing it. A smaller dose, perhaps, but essentially the same thing. So your brain figures out that it can just keep coming up with new ideas and telling people about them and it will get an echo of the same feeling of accomplishment as actually doing it, without the hard work.

So what seems to work for me is only talking about my projects in the past tense. When I want to say "I started a new game last week and it's going to be the most awesome augmented reality zombie squirter ever", instead I say, "I wrote a new game event system last week and it turned out pretty good," because that's as far as I got. It's also motivating because I can't wait to tell people about all the cool stuff I have planned, but I have to wait until I actually do it.

I put out a second beta of my current project on TestFlight yesterday. It was a good feeling. It's been a ton of hard work so far. But it's not in the app store yet, so I'm not going to post about it until it is.
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Does anyone have suggestions for Mac RSS readers that sync with google reader? I'd like the sync because I use Reeder on iOS.
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I really can't see this flying. Not even most Java guys want the added complexity of an "enterprise application server" anymore.
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The answer should depend on what kind of programming you like to do in your spare time.
I have to admit, by the end, the OP's responses were classier than mine would have been. Kudos to you.

I'll never understand the sense of entitlement that says you must drop everything you are doing and pay attention to me and only me.
In 2005 Ruby 1.8 was already out, I don't get your comment...
Come on, it's the Basic of this decade.
And, if I remember correctly, it never introduces loops.

On the other hand, you learn about laziness, higher-order functions, deterministic and logic programming and how to implement the aforementioned, on top of a bunch of stuff you would learn in a Java class like recursion, OOP and networking. All this in the first four chapters; the fifth one introduces a low-level register based language but my class never got to it :( It is pretty cool.

Ultimately, SICP just has drastically different (and I think better) priorities and topics than any course taught in Java or Python. I also suspect that a good SICP course moves even faster than the material here, simply because of the sheer density of big ideas in the book and the simplicity of Scheme.
I agree with you on libertarian grounds that, in principle, a person should be free to ingest whatever he likes. However, looking at civilized society as a whole, I don't see making most controlled substances legal useful. With the exception of marijuana and a few anxiolytics (which I'd encourage to be legalized), I think they'd be counterproductive to the working order of a society. Society needs someone to clean the toilets, and do other labor intensive jobs. But if you have a legally accessible ticket to happiness through drugs, why go to work?
I think that just starting out with the assumption that OOP is the "one true way"--AP CS really comes across that way--is flawed. A languages like Scheme would be a much better choice for an intro CS class.
I love this strategy, it's great for config. For example in the RocketSled microframework I mentioned earlier[1] you have a config file to instruct the system which class to execute by default in which you just put:

<?php return 'Hello World';

Being able to include a file like that in your project which returns a value has the advantage (in my opinion anyway) of not cluttering up the namespace with lots of defines(), of not requiring any magic naming convention, and of not having to call out to any external functions or edit config files that are part of the core system's version control.

[1]https://github.com/iaindooley/RocketSled
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My bad. The tray picture shows 36 boards, I didn't pay much attention and thought those were 72 single-core nodes.
But not nearly as space/power-efficient.
I think JavaScript would be a great option here: you could have them show off what they've written online, the language makes drawing pretty pictures and the like relatively easy and JavaScript is simply a nice language overall.

I can't imagine anything that would have pleased me more than being able to show off my own web site when I was that age. Of course, making silly web sites for myself is how I got into programming in the first place, so I'm probably biased ;)
I like using Reader to manage my feed subscriptions, but nothing more. I don't want to share my content on any social network. Nor do I want to view the content in an iframe. I would prefer to just click the row of the feed item and have it open in my browser like normal links.

So for me the gui updates are sort of mixed. I agree its wasting a whole lot of screen space, but overall I like that it shares the same look every other google product is moving to.

I feel like I use Google Reader incorrectly because it has so many extra features I have no use for. Anyone know of a product that does exactly what I described above?
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I taught myself programming from outdated JavaScript tutorials. What does that make me? (Probably a little crazy.)
There's even a list of long-lasting bulbs on Wikipedia [1].

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Then why not use its bigger brother http://reederapp.com/mac/index
And of course it won't amount to anything. If the company goes into bankruptcy and "disappears", is there any legitimate recourse, or is Randazza just up a creek?
well, i am very excited to learn about your project, i don't think i will be able to contribute anything valuable anytime soon, but i would love to test once it's released, specially since you mentioned Wayland!
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Wasn't this LinkedIn instead?
So, correct me if I'm wrong, is your argument that it's better to choose the lesser of two evils? In other words, we should legalize drugs because they are obtainable anyway and we need to reduce the number of people in prison?
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Perhaps decisions like this will make other copyright trolls think a little harder about their actions. Up until recently, they got to go about their business with impunity- no risk in failure, and huge payoff in success. U.S. Marshalls... as 4chan might say, 'sh*t just got real'.
I think Scheme is a much better option than Python for complete beginners, in the context of a class.

However, if I was just hacking around on my own, I'd probably go with JavaScript just because of how easy it is to make something cool and show it off.
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Redis is a series of tradeoffs between simplicity, performance, and power. For the moment, simplicity won as far as keys go -- they're all strings, period, end of story.

Supporting other key types is potentially useful, but brings complications, some of which will be visible to users of Redis.

Your own measurements are telling. Your memory usage went down by about 82%, packing the integers brought that to a bit less than 86%. It's easy to justify a small increase in complexity to save 82%, it's a lot harder to justify even more complexity to bring that number to 86%.
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Given all that, I'd still rather be called a programmer. Anything else sounds like I'm showing off.
Immigration in the US has never been a "took our jobs" thing. Not sincerely. It has always been about xenophobia.
I wonder if this experiment will just remain an experiment because politically Stanford is not ready for open free education. I remember reading an article recently in NY Times that highlighted how Stanford had two opposite camps of opinions. They are bidding to open an engineering campus in NY, which expands their formal education at the same time as starting these free courses, which is all about informal distributed learning. From Stanford's president, it didn't sound like something he was keen on expanding... a classic disruption in the education industry. Reminds me of newspapers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/opinion/the-university-of-...
I'm going through a very good book right now that this reminds me of. It's more about the middle east than Latin America, but I think it applies:

"Poppy cultivation had become an agribusiness and the dealers for the Afghan drug barons now had technical advisers who were visiting Nangarhar to advise on the crop and the product, paying in advance, and so concerned about the health of their workers that they had given them face-masks to wear in the opium factories. Some said they even offered health insurance. This was capitalism on a ruthlessly illegal scale. And when I asked a European UN official how the world could compete with it, he drew in his breath. "Legalise drugs!" he roared. "Legalise the lot. It will be the end of the drug barons. They'll go broke and kill each other. But of course the world will never accept that. So we'll go on fighting a losing war."

-- The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
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Nice. This fixes many of the worst issues with excess whitespace, lack of visual separation or contrast, highlighting the most useless button on the screen, etc. Thanks for the pointer.
Aren't you just making the argument that legalizing drugs would increase wages?
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Hacker News has always been broader than just startups and programming.
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Luckily, there are things like git bisect to help you. On the flip side, finding the commit that caused the bug is much more valuable with smaller commit, particularly if you limit each commit to one logical change in the code.
When looking at the question of whether to continue in your masters, it is a fallacy to consider the (non-refundable) tuition you've paid. This is a "sunk cost" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs ). The question you should ask yourself is simply whether you can pick up the knowledge you want cheaper and better elsewhere. You've not mentioned your other possible options at this point (do you have friends with these skills?), nor the amount of time remaining for the masters degree.
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The article mentions Hadoop, big data crunching, web serving and web caching. They may or may not be embarrassingly parallel, but that doesn't mean any of them are typically compute bound.

Look, today's multichip, multicore servers tend to be unbalanced for a lot of workloads. Their massive compute performance often burns power waiting for main memory, disk or network.
"Alcohol usually kills in car accidents. Heroin does not require a car to kill"

You are entirely deluded.
Alchohol doesn't require a car to kill either. How many cases are there of spousal murder while intoxicated? Also, heroin generally kills when people try to rob others for money to get heroin, not when people are on heroin, because it is a strong depressant and people tend to just lounge around like with pot. If heroin were legal and cheap that problem goes away.
Don't be short-sighted. Finish your Masters as you've already started - AND PAID for it.

My advice is to spend an hour or two each weekend day learning the practical programming skills that interest you.
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It always did in JavaScript from day one, given host objects.