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Excellent advice from Matt as usual.

The memories of stressing out over the grad school letters are still vivid after some 8 years. But I did my homework (research with two of the letter writers and TA-ship with the other), and it paid off.

I do remember one episode when a recommendation letter was due at midnight, and I've been emailing reminders to this professor up to the hour the submission was due. He eventually replied saying that his plane was late, and he wouldn't be able to submit until 1am.

It was for a national science foundation fellowship, which I got, so I suppose the late submission was accepted in the end. Fun times.
I think that's what the $50,000 is for:)
The contributing factors you pointed out seem to signal the message that minorities should expect hatred and suck it up. That's a normalization of the status quo and does not address the issue, it's just being complacent with behavior that should be reprimended but is often taken with the same lack of empathy and thus is ignored.

Most men can't empathyze because they are priviliged (as in, they do not suffer from the same kind of sexism) and completely miss the point.

If you want to understand, truly understand, then read more on feminism, read everything on Geek Feminism and then read on feminism from other sources (they link great sources).

If you reach a point where you you realiza that you ARE privileged and take for granted simple things, that men make the world UNFAIR to women and rile them for being oversensitive, then you may have just grown a bit.
The mechanisms of traditional genetics, which include (at a simplified level) random variation at the base-pair level, are extremely well understood.

The impact of this potential new mechanism of inheritance is unknown, but it will only add to our current understanding of how things work. It will not tear down our understanding.
Do not lump PHP with Python and Ruby. It is incredibly rude and betrays a lack of understanding about the pedigree of these languages.

Python predates JavaScript by nearly half a decade.

Perl's big inspirations were sed, grep, and awk, not ksh, according to Larry Wall. However, there is no reason that Larry might not have known about ksh, and it's entirely possible that he was thinking of ksh when he implemented Perl.
Decades ago shredders weren't nearly as good as they are now either. It isn't a static problem that will remain solved.
So, does this mean they can't monetize ads on maps?
In current usage, a startup means a new business that is designed to scale rapidly. (Most don't actually manage to, but they're at least intended to.) It would be inconvenient if people started using the word to describe new businesses generally, because then we'd need to invent a new word for the subset designed to scale rapidly.
No, it can do glorified bank-switching. That's not an increase in address space, it's a hack that assumes applications will still keep their memory usage to no more than 2-3GB.
>Of course not. We just want to encourage them to do so.

well, i doubt that Coens would stop creating if this copyright/IP system didn't exist. What i'm sure about is that there wouldn't be those crappy patents with my name on them. You get what you encourage. Enjoy.
> From a developer standpoint, the Major version releases are far more important.

Sure, but the graph seems to take user-point considerations foremost (#1), before developer-point considerations.
I agree with you, it's a distinction worth making. The software makes money and then releases software as GPL after it has stopped making money. The GPL'd engines have had a secondary influence, increasing demand for future licences of his engine technology. So the act has made them money, just not as their primary source of income. It's not completely tangential to the way the company makes money.
What happens to the date you put in? How hard is it to get a JPEG with backdated EXIF?
Why aren't there many men in dance, ballet and elementary school education?
the parody is worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0USn7eufXps
Unfortunately for your Slashdot submission, it's hard to get people outside Google to take the gagging seriously, because of course people who are inside Google won't talk about it because they don't want to be fired. (And those people inside Google who _will_ talk to say "no, there's nothing like that" are the ones who are un- or mis-informed, and thus are willing to talk freely.)
If we can't say what we think, then we don't really have freedom, do we? :c
Go out Love life help jumpstart the economy instead :)
Yes. RMS may take rather unrealistic positions in today's capitalist society, but he's the only one around who has internalized Ben Franklin's famous quote:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
The FSF sells a printed version of this as well. http://shop.fsf.org/product/Intro_to_Emacs_Lisp_3rd_Ed/
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Don't forget the cost of the actual data. Remote sensing satellites are not cheap. Google Maps is heavily dependant on a few companies who provide the bulk of the data.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with you.

1. Cell phones may cross over the 2 GB boundary soon,
but ARM can already comfortably address terabytes
of RAM through segments, as mbell notes. At worst,
we're limiting individual applications to under
2 GB of RAM--not the end of the world.
2. While being able to address 64 bits at once is useful
for some computing tasks, *most* of those (scientific
computing being a biggie, but also some parts of video
editing or sound mixing) just aren't ones people
currently do on a cell phone. They likely will
eventually, but the hold-up there is as much about
getting the data onto the phone in the first place as
actually doing anything significant with it.
3. Adding 64-bit wide paths adds a *lot* of silicon for
something that would currently not get used at all,
and in the future won't get used much for quite some
time. More silicon means a shorter battery life and
more heat--not exactly what you want in a cell phone.
Look at how much effort ARM's going to in big.LITTLE
just to let them go superscalar, let alone 64-bit.
4. Finally, the on case where you might get good
benefit--games--are better served through GPUs and
ARM's existing NEON instructions, which already work
on I believe 128-bit-wide values.

So those are all the reasons why I don't see the lack of 64-bit ARMs right now as a real problem. And, indeed, if ARM were only getting used in cell phones, I wouldn't honestly see a pressing need to go to 64-bit chips, period.

But ARM wants to move into servers, and there, the situation's obviously very different. 64-bits is a no-brainer for any moderately sized database, and that's where I suspect ARM really needs this ISA. But those will take a few years to build and gain acceptance, anyway; they've got time.
The other point is that iOS is chockfull of crapware, though for some reason people ignore crapware if it comes straight from Apple. iOS 5 even prevents you from hiding some of the crap inside folders, I noticed this with the Newsstand app.
OK, so give me some real examples of what she/you consider 'harassment' and 'ordure'. Maybe I live in a bubble, I don't know, I just can't picture things that I would qualify as such and that wouldn't be illegal.
I'm pretty sure the definition of privilege is not lack of perspective.

Maybe Zed Shaw should quit too, he seems to get a lot of online harassment, too bad his white straight male privilege isn't stopping it. There are a lot of shitty things in any community, lets focus on fixing the community and not trying to figure out which genders / sexual orientations / races are to blame.

Maybe people should stop trolling everyone and not just women.

Have you considered that the troll is anonymous because the community would never put up with this kind of behavior? This isn't an issue of community standards, it's an issue of someone being an asshole who possibly happens to share a gender / race with myself.
The most important reason x86's are relevant today (and why we are stuck with them) is because they run Windows. ARM doesn't need that and, even if it did, Microsoft needs ARM enough they are promising Windows 8 and Office for it.
Writing your own letter happens, but usually in academia, the prof will request a .txt file to modify/strip the adverbs.

If it's been a few years, update the prof on things you've done since then, how what you learned in their course helped in your job, etc.
I - a developer who open sources some code - totally agree, it is sad that, ios app store emerged in 21st century, to control what people can use, for their own safety (and not apple's walled garden dogma); governments in oppressive countries use exact same arguments to filter internet; to protect users (children etc) against evil ...

for startups, an apple-minded world would be detrimental.
I thought this until last weekend (I got to fly right seat on a cross country trip).

(Forgive me if I get some of these terms wrong. I'm not a pilot)

The iPad has completely revolutionized the way that pilots interact with their navigation equipment. Normally, pilots carry around a stack of maps called "sectionals". These have got things called IFR cooridoors, which are like interstate highways for aircraft, VOR intercepts (like checkpoints), radio frequencies, airport information etc.

They're annoying, and they change every so often, and you have to keep them up to date.

My pilot didn't have these. He had an iPad that automatically updates its maps (with FAA approved "sectionals"). The iPad has a moving-map (like what you see in a car's satnav) with terrain (this is a big deal. Terrain means "There are mountains here, here, and here. Judging by your elevation, you will run into a mountain if you go that way, so don't.).

This isn't just private pilots, either. I guess major carriers are putting iPads in all of their cockpits (I think the carrier a pilot friend was telling me about was fed ex).

This $800 device is literally replacing thousands of dollars worth of cockpit equipment, and it can also watch netflix.
Agreed - I find getting email from Meetup focuses my attention on events I either wouldn't have seen or wouldn't have known to look for.

If people are interested in setting up a Bay Area meetup sometime soon, we should look into creating a group.
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Sadly I agree. Its also why I'm not too concerned that my n1 wont get a supported upgrade - I'll be needing a device that's down where the users are to dev & test. Ics will have to wait a bit.
I disagree. If they want cheap and easy to deploy, add it to the spec. As it is, a prize is offered to get the attention of talent. $50K won't get the attention of anyone even remotely talented enough to produce "best of show" solutions. I suggest $1million will get their attention.
Yeah well if the recipient is stupid, that doesn't make whoever said it an asshole, does it?
This is only hypocritical if when Stallman says "phone", he always means "cell phone". Just to be a devil's advocate, he could be talking about a landline which generally doesn't track movement, doesn't run software, and doesn't get turned into a listening device.
There is no reason why you should even have to ask Apple to install software on a device you own. iOS is a jail operating system.
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We're a new, predominantly local web design office looking to expand our customer base, but find it difficult to keep the number of projects we get steady month-to-month - sometimes we're suddenly deluged with a ton of work and sometimes it's obnoxiously slow. What do more established web design companies rely on to keep the client work flowing? Is it online advertising, word of mouth, having an ultra-snazzy portfolio website for people to stumble upon, freelance project postings, or what? What do you think is the most important thing to do to acquire new customers?

Thanks for any insight!
Emacs is an insanely great product.
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You seem like a smart kid. I would stick to what you're doing. Seek out other geeks and program with them. Contact companies that interest you and offer your services for free. Show them what you've already done. Keep working on your projects...remember, this is your portfolio. So when ever you get lazy, or lose interest in a project, just remember that at the very least you should finish for the sake of this portfolio.

I'm sorry, I don't have any links to interesting open-source projects.

Keep at it. Sounds like you're on your way to great things.
The NeXT Operating system, upon which OS X is based, was created in the 1980s. It's not accurate to say it "wouldn't exist" without Richard Stallman.

I am glad to see that Apple has stopped using GCC and moved to LLVM - a project it helped create. I'm tired of hearing "Free" software advocates use the fact that people use "Free" software as a justification for claiming that these same are hypocrites for selling software (even though they are complying with the terms.)

The thing that keeps GPLed software out of the App Store is the terms of the GPL, not Apple. Yet, Stallman attacks Apple for this...
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In many cases, they need to.

At the end of the day, Dropbox can do whatever it wants, but that feature basically eliminated many potential customers from ever using it.
Not quite sure about this comparison. AFAIK Ghandi is famous for living by example. I have never heard or read about RMS saying anything about living by his example. I have however, heard him talk about that he lives by his own principles because they matter to him. And he tells you explicitly what he considers you to be, if you have other opinions than him.

Last time I went to one of his lectures he clearly stated that you should do you best to avoid using proprietary software _for your own good_, while he said that creators of proprietary software were evil.

I have a hard time seeing this as hypocritical, unless he actually goes on record stating that «you should not own a mobile phone, and you should never ask to borrow a mobile phone when needed».
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See here (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3164269) on why i'm not victim-blaming. I am not trying to imply anything. I'm simply pointing out what potentially motivates sexist assholes.

I only advocate a "grin and bear it" attitude when it comes to getting trolled on the internet in relation to publishing material you know some people will disagree with greatly. You can not wipe out sexists completely just like you can't wipe out racists and religious extremists. These people will always exist. I AM NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO TOLERATE IT. I am saying, expect it, don't sit there with your head in the sand pretending they don't exist. I'll say it again for dramatic effect: I AM NOT ADVOCATING PRETENDING SEXISM DOESN'T EXIST, I AM ADVOCATING PEOPLE USE COMMON SENSE AND EXPECT EXTREMIST ASSHOLES TO ACT LIKE EXTREMIST ASSHOLES, THEN DEAL WITH THEM ACCORDINGLY
"the daily life of most women is filled with navigating a hostile space that may break out into sexual violence at any time."

If you live in a warzone in Africa, maybe. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'd ask the women around me if they feel that way but I'm afraid they'll think I'm nuts if I were to ask them such clearly outrageous things.
I read a statistic that companies related to MIT account for like $1 trillion in GDP. That's a lot of contributions to the 'ole endowment.
it is always the time to discuss opinions about the doings of anyone of us after we are dead; and i believe most of us here would prefer to be discussed, criticized, supported in what we did rather than a fallacious silence in the name of respect.
Why? I don't own and I don't like Apple products. Most people I know don't own Apple products and they don't have any impact whatsoever.

I respect a lot of aspects about Jobs' life, but making a successful software and hardware company is no more important a milestone than any other. If anything, Stallman's legacy will probably be felt for much longer into the future.
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VMware was probably based on M Rosenblum's graduate work on SimOS, which was GPL.

If it's fair to call Perl "mostly a synthesis ideas present in ksh," I think it would also be fair to call Mac OSX "BSD plus a display server driven by postscript and a UI written in Objective C."
^VIX is down 14% to 25.51 as of 12:25 Pacific - The Greek Bond Default is, today, widely seen as a positive step.

I agree with you that, two years ago, Bond (or, for that matter, Municipal or state bonds in the US) debt in politically stable countries was seen as very low risk.

But, in 2006, Real Estate was seen as a safe investment as well. In fact, I was openly mocked, not just debated, but mocked, as being uneducated and unsophisticated when I tried to draw parallels with the US Real Estate Market and what had happened in Japan, just 10 years earlier, in attempting to suggest that perhaps Real Estate doesn't "Always go up."

If the last 4-5 years has taught us anything, it's that there is risk in everything. One of the few bastions that still seems to remain standing is people's belief in the FDIC, and the fact that if they put their money in a US Bank, that they are protected up to $250,000.

People need to realize that there are no "Risk Free" investments, that everything has a chance of default. People need to start relying on Capital Asset Pricing Models (CAPM), and diversifying their investments across a broad portfolio - including hard stock such as land, livestock, and shelter. This is the only rationale response in the face of default risk that we are surrounded by - and the sooner we start practicing that consistently, the sooner we will become more resilient as a society.
The problem is people's unwillingness to acknowledge the fact that free speech has boundaries, and that some people abuse their free speech rights in ways that go far beyond being disagreeable. For example:

Go to the local women’s group office and liquidate it (kill the feminist women there). Wear a dark suit and drive an expensive car (these are more likely not to be suspect). Continue destroying the people who have helped to destroy countless of your fellow Men untill you are killed. Go from women’s rights organisation’s office to women’s rights organisation’s office, maybe throw in a few domestic violence shelters and abortion clinics if you wish.

This isn't illegal speech, but it's getting perilously close to that threshold. If similar sentiments were sent via email rather than posted on a blog, it would be reasonable to classify it under 'death threats,' and that does cross the threshold of criminality in some jurisdictions. Free speech is not unlimited, either in theory or in practice.

Reading a variety of MikeeUSA's online proclamations suggests he's a rather disturbed, and disturbing, individual. I'm not a psychiatrist, but he presents as someone with a high potential for violent behavior. It's a problem to dismiss that behavior or insist that it be tolerated in the name of free speech. In the US, the constitution protects him from governmental censorship, but it does not mean he's entitled to a platform for promoting his themes of violent aggression or that other people's concern about the dangers he presents is dismissable. Sure, there is lots of sexism on the internet and much of it is silly, harmless, and ultimately inconsequential. But there's a significant qualitative difference between sexism of the 'LOL boobs' variety and indirect threats of terrorism. To pretend that the latter is of no more concern than the former, or that the concept of free speech validates all utterances equally, is to provide such threatening language with your implicit endorsement.
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your "etc" glosses over a lot of other reasons apple will reject your app, ranging from "we're not going to tell you why" all the way up to "your superior implementation makes our built in functionality look dumb, so we'll ban your app to prevent users from getting confused."
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No point in duplicating existing, successful groups.
I install whatever software I want on my iPhone, and I don't have to ask Apple before I do it. I can install software with any license I want- apache, GPL, whatever. And I haven't jailbroken my phone.

You're shifting the goalposts. Stallman is complaining about the AppStore which is where Apple sells software and Apple chooses not to sell pornography. That's their choice.

Any consumer, with an iPhone that is not jailbroken, can install whatever software they want, provided it is written in HTML and javascript. The iPhone is a totally open, standards based, host, and Apple exercises no control over it. You can even go visit porn sites.

Further, Apple has worked to make this platform a first rate citizen in its operating system. HTML/Javascript Apps can be installed, added to the home screen, can have local data, and can run when there is no network connection, and they can do absolutely whatever you want.
But Plus is a consumer service (just like Picasa, Youtube, and everything else outside of the core suite) and even though it can theoretically be covered under an enterprise agreement, there is no audit or control capability for domain administrators on the consumer services.

This is a deal-breaker for most enterprises, as is the current requirement of public profiles.
Wasn't the NeXT OS based off BSD? I believe that is open source.
I was thinking the same thing. I work for a services organization in a huge IT environment, and we do everything by the month.

But in this case, Dropbox is competing with people who are going to buy a Windows server to host files. And $795 is cheaper than a server+windows+vpn+...
BTW, I am posting this submission not just to get people to take the specific case seriously, but to get people to take the general problem seriously. Because while I am not for real name policies, I do want the problems with using real names to be fixed if possible.
For decades heavy regulation of the banking industry has kept out competitors, cementing the advantages of the biggest banks. But it has also held them back from basic innovations that should be ubiquitous in the 21st century. Every bank should natively support the same features as PayPal, and more.

That situation is not tenable, eventually more and more banking will migrate to "non-bank" entities who aren't stuck in the mire of traditional banking and banking regulations.
Oh? How does it handle this? Something similar to PAE? To PSE? Explicitly using cooperative coprocessors? A completely different scheme?

Also, isn't it relevant to process-addressable (virtual) memory? Barring explicit APIs such as AWE. As far as I know, ARM registers are 32b so a process should not be able to load data from an address higher than the 4GB mark (in its virtual memory), am I wrong?
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Apple does not reject Apps without citing chapter and verse in the standards book, and often providing screenshots.

I'm not aware of any examples of the latter, but since the App Store has been created, there have been no manner of false stories from Apple bashers along these lines.
A) I am a huge Dropbox fan (I stopped by to see their office when I was in sf a few months ago).
B) the price for teams does seem a bit steep for many small businesses certainly businesses that only have 5 users.
C) This is old news. Nothing new to see. Why was it posted?