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Genius isn't really a measure of IQ (although a high IQ helps) — genius is an extreme form of insight. I like to think of it in terms of perspective and thus measure it by how rare and valuable a perspective is.

The thing Jobs and Einstein had in common was an insatiable curiosity that helped them get to a place where they could see the world in a way that few others do. Jobs saw the connections between technology and humanities and relentlessly worked toward making his vision reality.

Einstein became a genius because he would relentlessly explore a problem, following it out farther than anyone had taken it before. This allowed him to see how the universe connects in a way that no one had seen before, and his discoveries were valuable to humanity.

Getting to these rare perspectives is usually a product of building up a mental framework and then seeing patterns in- and making associations or connections among seemingly unrelated phenomena. True genius is seeing associations among things previously unseen. A high IQ gives you more ability to build the mental framework needed to see these associations, and a genius has actually applied it.
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Who will be the CA? Is there any reason why Linux vendors can't sign their mainstream releases? Cost?

I'm sure it won't help if you want to boot a custom kernel or similar, though presumedly in that case you'd be capable of changing the BIOS settings.
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I think it's a combination of big ego(look,I make this in one day!i'm smart!) and self diffidence(it's only one day work. Even if it sucks, i still win. I rock).
Klout already has arrangements with third-parties to offer perks to influential users. (I don't see anything wrong with that, personally.)
And a Google Tech Talk about the same: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567
I really appreciate your humility. It's obvious you're genuinely looking for something and that's heartening.

You might want to check out some interviews with John Lasseter. I enjoyed this video that documents one of his days at Pixar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5HN3-l_f-U
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This is typical of the misinformation in the recent Klout backlash. Their long game is not about a single number that places you higher or lower than Snooki. it's about which communities you influence, and how much.
Consider an icosahedron. At each vertex a person with a vector pointing outwards. In this example, people are normalized and can be understood by 3 dimensions. There you have 12 unique persons, each of them an average of the 5 surrounding it. Pick one of them as the best, you will see that doesn't in any way violate that it is still the average.

Anyway, yeah, it also smells bad, but it could have a grain of truth.
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/usr/bin/touch: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/touch (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/usr/bin/touch (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386

So actually touch on Lion is ~half of 44016. But that's being nitpicky ;)
It's the other way around, most loans are forgiven in bankruptcy with student loans being an exception.
It'd be nice if there was anything out there one could install that was as good as GMail's frontend, but sadly that doesn't exist.

I don't miss it at all though - I find that 99% of my email needs are on desktop and mobile, and the native clients on just about any such platforms are more than a match for GMail.

I still have a webmail client I fall back to - nothing quite as good as GMail, but that's more for when I need to look something up on a public terminal.

On the flip side - I gain an unhijackable account. Worst case scenario they make off with all of my information, but I never lose ownership of the account. I also know my server's backup policies, so short of cracking my host wide open they can copy my data, but never destroy it.
Google hasn't succeeded yet? it's certainly a useful site already as well as a profitable one. Like Google, Klout will always be a work-in-progress. You don't have to be perfect to be useful.
Presumably, Gould had delivered a useful and valuable invention to the world and the patent sets him up to be compensated accordingly, if the premise holds.
You could have just said this: "M for mega, m for milli."
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I wonder how many people out there would like to build a game but just don't know how to get started creating one? Or maybe you are a game designer or game artist but just don't have the programming skills? I was apart of the former case and thats why I created GameBuilder Studio. I would like to get feedback on what you guys think of what I've built. http://vimeo.com/31183644
Google Apps will have the same vulnerabilities as the real gmail - they are the same suit of software after all.

The only consolation is that google apps do run a version or two behind, so it is probably better tested and have most problems nutted out.
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I was at a store opening on Friday and they had a small (4x4) QR code in the window. The caption was simply: Shop Online

I thought that use case was pretty compelling.
I wish you were right, but unfortunately I disagree.

The fields where we toss around the word "genius" like it's lettuce are all, IMO, severely undermanned and under-appreciated. Fields like physics, engineering, mathematics, atronomy, biology, music, etc. When we think "genius" names like Mozart, Einstein, Hawking, et al come to mind. I wouldn't mind if people flocked towards said fields.

Instead, we have a giant talent drain into fields where we do call people "greedy" for their participation. Investment banking, for example. The labeling of people as "greedy" hasn't stopped the deluge of people pouring into said fields, and the label of "genius" hasn't really helped the ranks of academics and artists.

I would be very delighted if indeed people flocked to a field known for "geniuses".
Ah, and I had assumed we were scalars!

But you're right, and what's even better is that the icosahedron case generalizes to people walking on the surface of a sphere (assuming they're evenly spaced).
manually?

so you're saying you're incapable or just too lazy to write your own "rss". the second s is for simple. you have all the tools you need in any base unix installation to automate this. it would take you minutes to do.

perhaps this is precisely the point of the recovering programmer comment. there is a reluctance to doing anything for oneself. fear of implementing something for yourself, your own way, because someone else has implemented it their way, placed it in a repository and it's managed to gain a following of users.

god bless the people who still enjoy diy and writing negative code.
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When i first heard about the Project i was impressed, good to know they won some award, but it is boring after a while as nothing is being shipped even after so many years, just hype, they should remove the 25$ tag till they ship it
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Really?! Pity that Visual C did not exist at the time.
Steve is not technically limited. Just because he had limited formal education and training dosn't mean he's technically limited.

That's just how insecure people describe him so they can feel better about themselves.
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My bet would be natural silting and settlement. Easter Island was deforested at some point in its history. New groundwater patterns and a few hundred years could easily sink a few stone statues up to their eyebrows.
Learning about software is more important than learning about hardware.

I learned (Z80 then 8086) assembly as a kid, and now my mental model of how a processor works is obsolete.
Reasons for down voting would quickly end up in many arguments.

[downvote]
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I don't know, it's a while back that I read the article.

I should check again, I suppose (or hope) the ones I don't know about, at least I know I don't know about? :)
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This seems more like a video of a very cumbersome interface for coding than a video of building a game without any coding. To build a simple vertically scrolling shmup with no complex behavior, the user has to understand a great many concepts and metaphors that would normally be completely unnecessary for such a game. He must type values into a text box to move a flame by trial and error when he could do it by dragging it into place much faster.

The user also gets to use member variables of the in-game entities to compute each other, which is powerful, but seems to be programming.
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Ah, I was actually thinking about art and literature, not math and science. Perhaps I'm wrong (and no disrespect to artists who genuinely know their process and value hard work), but I've felt for a while that art/literature are assumed to be fields of endeavor where you can get to the point of being called a creative genius without doing all the work required for being called such in math/science and without having to detach yourself socially. I've simply seen too many bright young people take that path without quite knowing where it leads (I myself almost took it).

Regarding math and science, I do observe that academic pursuit in those fields is undervalued in social terms (in my opinion at least). Being a logical person, I conclude that it must be due to the law of supply and demand and, and that the supply (the number of average-quality science grad students) outweighs the demand. Now you can disagree with me all you want, but a lot of middle-of-the-road grad schools I've seen are depressing places filled with kids who have no idea what to do with their lives (if they did, they probably would not be in grad school at this day and age). They would probably be much better off working for a company yet seventy percent of them can't get a U.S. visa. Now most American students in their turn aren't that interested in spending six years of their young lives in classes and labs filled with people who speak mostly Mandarin, for example, so they don't go into STEM fields either.

I really think that the practice of U.S. graduate schools to make money off foreign students without offering them visas that allow for U.S. employment is something downright awful. Either give the graduates U.S. employment/visas or don't let them into the country in the first place. I'm leaning towards the first option.

It's all supply and demand. More people joining a particular field does not mean higher prestige to people who are already there -- often it's quite the opposite.
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Erm, I could be wrong but wouldn't the icosahedron be the maximum "evenly spaced" set of people on the surface of a sphere (that weren't all confined to a great circle)? Lots of regular polygons, rather fewer regular polyhedra.

(Of course if we make the jump to a 4D sphere we can put 600 people into the largest regular polytope, the hexacosichoron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_regular_4-polytope)

EDIT: I am wrong, it'd only take a uniform polyhedron, not a regular one. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosidodecahedron
Agreed, it would have read clearer had the (a) sarcasm been more apparent, or (b) the effect been immediately described as beneficial.
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If I had the time I'd probably try it out, it looks pretty slick.

Where it says play anywhere on your front page, I didn't know what that meant. Web on your server? Web on my server? Cross platform? I was reluctant to sign in and find out.
This article simply repackages the negative comments from DCYAP into an emotion-laden blog post. Sorry, but the author of DCYAP hit it on the head.
"Kernighan's and Ritchie's seminal work came in the 1970s, when Kernighan said the computer field still presented "low-hanging fruit." Partly because they and their cohorts did so well, we don't have much more to do in the basic computer development that underlies the ever-changing cornucopia of protocols and applications that are the current focus of programmers. New algorithms will continue to develop, particularly thanks to the growth of multiprocessing and especially heterogeneous processors. New operating system constructs will be needed in those environments too. But most of the field has moved away from basic computer science toward various applications that deal directly with real-world activities."

That last line prevents me from tarrying with C as much as I think I should, in the real world. I've ready my K&R, done a number of its exercises, read some other books by the same publisher, but I keep coming to Perl for all my real world work. I guess I work at too high of a level for C to really come into my sphere.
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The degree to which people conflates the two is a matter of marketing, not value.
thanks @anonymoushn I agree, the interface could be simplified. The terms are more technical terms so that the concepts aren't watered down and to allow the user to get familiar with the lingo so that if they decided to add to their skill set or work with other programs they would have learned it here first. The fact that you have to type in values is a pain and noted, I want to add a browser for you to just select options that go in those fields instead of you having to enter them.

What do you think about the amount of environment setup that is not needed the ant build scripts and knowledge of frameworks that is not needed to get something up and running and very soon be able to deploy to mobile with a click of a button. Is that not a big time saver?
The project only went 'public' a few months ago (I think http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9504208.s... was the first coverage). The 2006 prototype is simply evidence of the massive amount of commitment to the project shown by Eben and the trustees. It's far from just being hype. Alpha boards are with developers (I'm lucky enough to have one sitting on my desk) and they're hoping to start manufacture in the next few weeks.

I understand your scepticism, but look at the people behind the project. It's going to happen and it's going to be awesome. The launch this December is mainly targeted at the hacker and 'maker' community, with aims to target the educational market next year.
@sixtofour It should probably be "deploy" everywhere
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Free stuff to influential people are fine.

What callmeed fears is that businesses will use klout score to create a public appearance of good service, without actually providing good service.
How is this substantially new? This type of article makes the US patent system laughable.
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It seems any unique process can be patented.
No but its true - she hasn't even created an account but when I logged in last week it said she was one of the facebook profiles I no longer influence!
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I can't comment on conversions with both a free version and non free, but I can comment on just a landing page optimized to sell. With very targeted traffic coming from a recommendation such as a positive blog or a glowing youtube review I've seen conversions of up to 20%. Very specifically targeted traffic without reviews (or what one might be called a pre-sell) can get up to 8% conversion, but that's if your software solves a really specific issue and you've got great copy hitting the benefits you will offer and a good funnel urging people to buy. If you're just getting people who are only vaguely related to the problem you're trying to solve, you will not even see 1% conversion.

This of course depends a lot on the price point, target audience, and most importantly source of traffic. If you're getting very targeted traffic and you've got a great landing page emphasizing the benefits, you will see better conversions if you're not hitting those points.
Sarcasm? Not every JavaScript developper wants to use JavaScript for everything.
A couple of questions I don't see on the list:

Will writing the script be fun/rewarding? (arguably related to the "Will I learn something new?" question, but not exactly the same).

Will doing the job by hand be soul-crushingly boring?

There are long-term quality of life/job satisfaction metrics that aren't necessarily apparent when you only focus on the task at hand. :-)
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Very nice notes here. Well worth reading if you want to hear or recall most of the highlights.
>Klout is so bad at measuring anything approximating influence that it's more of a scam than a real problem

>they're able to sell it to people who are even more clueless than themselves.

That's why it's a problem! Those clueless people use it for hiring decisions, or other stupid reasons.
Steve is a great business man. He knows how to manage,manipulate and bring out the best from his designers and engineers. He didn't design and he didn't code. He didn't invent ipods or iphones or ipads. Sure he approves it and demands it.But he didn't create any of those things. He is not an inventor. He is a great CEO. Comparing him with Einstein just disgust me. I'd feel better if he was compared to Jesus.(not an inventor either but knows how to influence people)
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I think this might be because it's only with the hindsight of having access to good-quality search that we see how important search was going to become.

If you're solving a problem that your stronger competitors could be solving, and everyone knows that it's a valuable problem that needs to be solved, they'll probably squash you. Or be willing to buy when you offer up your solution.
That's a stable project.

1. Started as Desktop Linux...
2. then went via a Ubuntu Server...
3. to now become a smartphone Linux?

How about sticking to #1 and let those that are specialized in #2 and #3 do theirs? It's not like the desktop environment will disappear any time soon.
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But hardly a "virtuoso" of computing, n'est-ce pas?

Face it, you can not have it both ways. Either Steve Jobs mastery was in taking ideas that were already there and putting it together in a way that was appealing to the common man (the "Bob Dylan"), or he was someone so ahead of its time that people could not comprehend him, pushing the state further to a level that others could not keep up - the "Satriani".

As for your childish insult... I could go on a long diatribe about how the insecurity usually lies in people that need to put others on a pedestal, but you'd need to get out of the Reality Distortion field to be able to understand it.