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It is still Fizzbuzz++: they're not looking for computer vision researchers. They're looking for programmers who are competent enough to be worth their time interviewing. If you can go from hints in the direction of the solution to a) reading library documentation, b) coming up with an innovative solution to an only-partially specified problem, and c) actually producing functioning code which implements your solution, you are heads and tails above the hiring pool.
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Collected here are selling the most kids watches! To ask what children watch the most popular? Of course, most watch sales strategy! Buy hello kitty watches on the most popular choice here, the best gift to the children, packing sophisticated, stylish, so a variety of classic animated day and night, accompanied with your child, your child an idea of punctuality.
I cant help but think this is analogous to a desperate guy offering free sex and all quality women rejecting his offer!

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When I can hand the user source code and they can experiment on their own and they don't come back and blame me the engineer who created it for doing something wrong.

There is an inherent disconnect between cooking and programming. In cooking; experimenting and throwing in an extra ingredient or leaving an ingredient out most likely won't cause anything bad to happen to the outcome and it will most likely still be edible.

In programming if the end user leaves out a line of code or doesn't have the correct logic the program will most likely do something it wasn't supposed to and could destroy the users files, could cause them to lose countless hours of work.

Burnt chicken can be thrown out, and you can try again, if your hard drive has been formatted it is going to take a while to get going again. Also, since when is programming, compiling, linking as easy as following a recipe?
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Except this was neither hate-filled nor superficial.

The toolbar buttons, for example are a great example of a major usability mistake: what we used to call "mystery meat navigation" back in the day, because it was difficult or even impossible to know in advance what would happen if you clicked a given button.
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Cut him some slack.
He is trying to get out of the catch 22 phase which most frankly most of us, autodidacts experience. No previous projects = No future projects.

Though my advise is, work on some cool open source projects instead. You don't have to be committed to all though the project. You can try getting into GSOC http://code.google.com/soc/
I was an intern at Google when this change was first rolled out internally. Google employees had quite similar reactions.

The change was not implemented because people liked it, or didn't like it -- it was implemented because there was cold, hard data showing that new users utilized the new design more effectively than the old design.
Yeah it was fascinating, there's a whole article on it from Wired:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_sta...
Just as I started to have hopes that they were starting to focus on the future and really learned their lesson I read something like this and it makes me sad. If they feel they were tricked into this or that Steve sabotaged them by making a deal with google and Microsoft behind their backs it shows that they haven't learned a damned thing.
AllThingsD needs a lesson in basic grammar.
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"Fatdoor founder Raj Abhyanker on Thursday filed a complaint with against Benchmark Capital for interference"

with against?

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..."agreed at least informally to advice Fatdoor."

advise?

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Besides the poor grammar, this case will be difficult to win without some strong evidence. I'm not sure he'll have access to the discussions between Benchmark and the current company called NextDoor.
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At a company I used to work at, one of the elite hackers used an old Wacom as a mouse exclusively. Wanting to try it out, I dove in and dropped $200 on an Intuos 4 small. Combined with a Das Ultimate Silent, I have a desktop input system that rivals pretty much anything. Using a stylus for desktop computing lets you move things around with rapid speed and precision since the cursor maps directly to what your arm is doing. Scrolling involves a tiny bit more work (although the Intuos has a scroll wheel that works decently well). Another neat thing is the ability to instantly open MyPaint and jot down notes when I need it. It doesn't hurt that my entire desk is jet black :).

Going from a stylus back to a touchpad feels like going from pens to finger paint. Mice feel clunky as well. Try it out!
How does Erlang compare to a theoretical functional programming language that comes with parallel primitives?

e.g.

fold (+) 0 myArray -- return sum of elements in myArray, in parallel

map (*2) myArray -- return a new array with each element in myArray doubled,
-- in parallel.

You can see that `fold` and `map` abstractions that hides underlying parallel execution. Parallelism is transparent to the programmer.

My current belief with regards to the future of concurrent programming: concurrency will be hidden behind abstractions from the programmer to the point that the programmer won't (need) be aware of it; Just as when you are programming ruby & python you are not aware of the underlying assembly instructions that are being executed.[1]

Is this what Erlang is like, or, do you still have to deal with race conditions?

[1] Haskell Accelerate is an experiment in this direction: https://github.com/mchakravarty/accelerate/blob/master/accel...
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No way! You'd lose all spatial information in the frequency domain.
Surely Logitech set the price, not Google?
The one thing which I hate most about Gmail's new design is the damned feedback button is always there the next time, no matter how many times I hit "X".
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Thank you for your words and your service. I too was in the enlisted ranks spending 6 1/2 years in the Army in Combat Arms (Scout) and Special Operations (PSYOP) and then was granted early discharge to start fall semester at UNC in 1997.

The article does a great job with the mention of accepting diversity. Understanding ethnocentrism was one of the fundamental teachings from PSYOP and enlightened me in ways like nothing else.

Codeslush's words ring true and reflect what I would say regarding another poster's comments about capitalizing on skills. The Army allowed me to capitalize on life. My sacrifices were miniscule for what I think I gained with my service.
We are fortunate that military service today in the U.S. is voluntary and as such is a very personal choice that is often misunderstood by many (even friends and family).

Be a generalist and open to any opportunity. If you are good at what you do and are dependable you'll make great connections with all ranks whether their enlisted or officer(commissioned/non-commissioned or warrant). And if you really excel there will be plenty of opportunities to work directly for (and yes with) O-6s and higher and see an entirely different military. If you're able and willing, the world by way of the military can be simply amazing.

I have always been a techie and still remember being playfully bashed for carrying around my Sharp 286 laptop after rotation back to staging at Hohenfels in Germany. The next hot startup, the successor to Geocities -> Friendster -> Myspace -> Facebook and the next bubble will be waiting for you to provide your date of birth and phone number whenever you're ready. Social media will still be around and solutions will still need to be solved. What won't wait for you is your youth and the opportunities that are tied to it.

I would choose the same path all over again today if I was 18 (or even 30) and wondering about what life might have in store for me. Toujours Pret!
> Unregulated markets do lead to monopoly.

Can you give an example of a company that achieved and maintained monopoly control of a free market?

> With monopoly comes political power and this leads to crony capitalism.

I think it's actually the opposite: monopoly is born out of crony capitalism and political power.

The only monopolies I'm aware of (railroad, telecom, power) are government granted monopolies.

Anyway, I'd be curious if there are any free market monopolies because I've never heard of any.
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I just check the stats on DistroWatch: http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity

It's based on pageviews as I recall, but that's a decent metric for getting a feel for a distro's "buzz". The data suggest that Mint started to surpass Ubuntu nearly 6 months ago-- not 2 like this article's author implied.
There's no real "standard" CS curriculum, so it's hard to say for sure. Schools range from more math-heavy to more engineering-heavy, often still correlated with where the department originated (was CS broken off from EE, or was it broken off from math?). You sound like you've covered a decent portion of the common core. At a more engineering-heavy school, you'd probably be missing a few lower-level courses (circuits, operating systems, architecture, etc.). At a more math-heavy school, you'd probably be missing a few more mathy courses (discrete math, dynamical systems, formal logic, advanced complexity/computability theory, etc.).

What I'd probably do next is pick one or two specialty areas and learn a solid amount in it/them, equivalent perhaps to a two-course sequence, so you could say that you have a solid grounding in its fundamentals and some advanced aspects. A few possibilities include: graphics, operating systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer interaction, computer architecture, compilers, formal methods, numerical algorithms / scientific simulation, software engineering, distributed/concurrent computing, security, etc.
So blame Apple for Flash player showing up the most as the root of crashes in the Safari crash logs? Thats rich, the amount of segfaults I saw that plugin produce just in my own use doesn't lead me to believe Adobe knows how to make Flash innovative.

To be honest I'm happy Microsoft followed Apple's lead with the statement that Metro IE has no plugins. Given the amount of Java/Flash security problems sticking to straight web technologies is just a good idea. I'm sorry Adobe doesn't seem to want to open source or make a standards approved runtime specification. At this point I think we know Adobe can't make a language runtime that is cross platform and low in power consumption. Now if only Google would drop the builtin flash or disable it by default. This is one area where Chrome isn't helping things along.
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Do you mean the total revenue isn't that substantial, or the cut of the income that flows downhill to respective people (like the artists, managers, etc) isn't?
My grandfather was a reservist and a chemical engineer -- so I think you're overestimating your own qualifications to think the military would not be able to utilize them adequately.

And as an example of a possible use for your "media technology skills":

http://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job...
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The best system was the Samsung Omnia. You attached the stylus to your keys (it telescoped so was quite small when stored). I keep my keys on me all the time, so I always had my stylus. The unfortunate part was it looked like a little thing of mascara which (as a dude) I thought was awkward.
Ward Bell is right and a visionary to boot.

I hope all our competitors read this blog and follow his advice.
Has it moved to Racket, then? As I recall (but I could easily be misremembering) Arc required some old version of PLT Scheme that still came with old fashioned mutable pairs. (And I think they switched to immutable pairs before they switched to the name Racket.)
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On my netbook, Gmail is now almost unusable. All the position:fixed elements at the top and botton and left side take up so much space, that the square left for the actual email message has become rediculessly small.

If they offered simply a "super-compact with no fixed bs" option, I would be happy. The rest of the new design I really don't care about.
Seems to work for satellites too http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead
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This is a pointless rebuttal, because it's not about who contributed what, or how hard a chef worked, or whether their job was worth it. If you make a deal with someone for x amount of stock, or whatever, they get it. You don't try to strong arm them into giving it back later on - that's dishonest. It doesn't matter if it's worth 20 million or 20 cents.
You mean:
>> the cost of a pre-recorded piece of music is practically $0.

The value remains the same; The sum of the marginal benefit of hearing the music each time, which is likely greater than the $0.99 that people pay for a song on iTunes (otherwise they wouldn't pay it). If you aren't willing to pay for the song but is willing to copy it from someone's iPod if given the option then the value of the song is the opportunity cost of doing the actual copying.
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Excellent! I'm looking forward to that becoming one, then zero.
Thanks for listening to my suggestions! Again, I appreciate the article.
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Aside from the low sales (they never truly explained the benefit of it), my friend from Best Buy also noted that it had an astronomical return rate. No ordinary consumers made it past the setup phase. And, in certain Comcast markets, Google TV isn't compatible (read: cannot be used with) the default Comcast cable boxes.
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- Don't generate code -- host the forms yourself. Otherwise all your users will ask for this constantly and you'll never make money. Compete with Wufoo.

- Color scheme literally hurts my eyes.

- Keep the front page something like this, let people dive right in.

- FormBakery is an okay name, but it's not awesome. You can probably do better, but don't let that slow you down.

- You're off to a great start. Keep going.
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It makes perfect sense not to use Erlang because of its string manipulation caoabilities if you're used to working with strings.

The programming languages we use and the problems we solve with them will influence the way we think about building applications in major ways. In many day-to-day operations, you won't feel the need of powerful string handling. Then at some point you find yourself handling unicode and you find out that the support for unicode is only partial, weirdly documented and somewhat confusing. Then you wish, for that string-heavy problem, that you had a language that handled them better.

Of course you can get Erlang to communicate with other languages, but it's not the same; it's more tedious, comes with its own share of problem.

Erlang is only one of the many available concurrency models: Actors, CSP, Join calculus, models based off pi-calculus, etc. Erlang's model has grown from pragmaticism, but is far from the only good option out there.

Deploying Erlang isn't especially hard (hopefully less than before after re-documenting a few features like releases and relups), although live code upgrades of releases is way too complex for the common project without some solid OTP experience.
The old Gnome UI was about 2 clicks away on the login screen in 11.04 (unless you didn't have a password on your account, for some reason).

In 11.10, you can manually install gnome, and then you get gnome 3, which is certainly not what you wanted (and not necessarily an improvement over unity).
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I don't have a college degree and I was offered a job. Believe me, there's no chance in hell google would hire me if I put in a resume. Hell, even if they like my resume, they wouldn't have likes my crap interview performance. :-)
I don't have experience with 11.10 yet but I am running 11.04.

1) On a number of occassions the sidebar has entered a wedged state and required a logout tofix even though I tried to find a process to kill to force it to restart.

2) Often windows will pop to the fore-front but fail to capture focus and the previously focussed window will only have partial focus, where application level keyboard shortcuts are registered but window manager ones aren't. This mainly happens when running most windows full screen on my netbook.

3) Often the update manager window will pop up and enter some weird state whereit doesn't have focus, and it renders as if it's in fullscreen mode (no titlebar) but it's at the regular windowed size.

4) There is also the attempt to generate the osx MDI-esque interface, even though it's only hal-implemented. (from what I understand they have improved this in 11.10, but they should have waited, IMO)
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Works fine, just make sure you give people an email sign up option as well.
Google TV tried to do too much too soon and failed at everything. They tried to beat TiVo without a built-in DVR. They tried to take on Apple without iTunes-enabled streaming from computers. They obviously can't touch XBox with what they've got. They tried to replace PC-based media centers and fell short with a clunky version of Chrome and a terrible app-based experience (HBO Go, the thing with the most promise, is horrific to use on Google TV).

Some problems can be fixed with incremental software updates, but others are doomed by their lack of foresight. I'm all about releasing early and iterating, but at least understand the right time to pivot.
Erlang isn't exactly about parallelism as much as concurrency. There is a different to both; concurrency is about running independent units of code (at the same time or not) while parallelism has the explicit requirement of things running at the same time.

Erlang can be concurrent on a single core, but things can hardly be truly parallel that way.

Erlang's parallelism will thus be coming from being able to parallelize concurrent units, something that usually takes place at a higher level than function application for lists and whatnot (although you can use rpc:pmap for your map example). They're not exactly the same.

Erlang's concurrency is organisational and explicit; the objective is to delimit subcomponents of a system in well established and isolated units, which can then communicate through message passing. The main objective is not to get things to run faster, but to help manage complexity in large systems.
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A secret of rock solid concurrency is communication, but there are many sane concurrency models. Consider people are already fast efficient safe sane code over hundreds of cores on GPU's which looks nothing like Erlang. Still, when you actually start to care that your concurrent code is accurate not just FAST you need to validate your calculations and Erlang does little to help you there. So sure it's better than C, but turn up the memory errors and it still falls down hard.
That stuff sure does sound awkward but it's common in news writing.

I've always thought they did it to get the subject up front and entice a reader to read the rest of the paragraph.
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The killer app for these things is some fucking content, and that's never going to happen. Copyright holders are lounging around trying to figure out the best way to gauge as much money as possible out of consumers and distributors, and every day they sit on their fat asses finding new ways to degrade service across the board is another day that many thousands of people get comfortable with distribution methods completely out of their control and through which they derive no revenue (i.e. piracy, of course).

I wouldn't buy one of these things even if they did have content. Who knows if so-and-so would pull the plug after a year or two. The time for this kind of device was ten years ago. The ship has sailed because consumers have absolutely no trust in any of this shit, nor should they.

And I'd be quite satisfied with the whole spectacle if they weren't also dismantling civil rights and ruining the internet in the process.
If you think about it long enough, it inevitably turns out that nothing really matters.

The bad part is that it's technically correct[0]. The good part is that once you know it, you have the advantage. Things stop being divided into things that have a point and those that don't. Hence your life stops being full of unimportant things, as ultimately they're all equally significant (or insignificant).

After that, my thinking usually goes the following order: 1) Why do anything at all in such circumstances, life has no point, etc. 2) Wait, I still might as well enjoy the process.

For some reason, the latter normally looks superior (if I'm in good shape), so I'm trying to learn to enjoy the process. Turns out it's not as simple as doing what is pleasant. For me, it's pleasant to drink beer and eat junk food, but it hurts the enjoyment part in the long run. The trick is more about ‘loving what you do’. I'm not really there yet.

I'm a dropout. I guess if I had come to above reasoning back then, I would probably finish.

[0] http://twitter.com/#!/codinghorror/status/27857264505257985
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Interesting. I actually tried a few different variations of Jupiter's symbol (like making the curve more or less exaggerated, higher and lower, etc.) and couldn't get it to work.
even though i think windows is wrong by not unpleasing users with design changes for the better... and not agreeing that white space may be ok to separate the tag list and the message, there's no excuse to:

1. the buttons without labels. your user WILL have to hover the mouse every time he forgets one button.

2. the fact that it moved from a huge clickable area to 17x17px button to see the message headers (and that the header information was vastly reduced)

maybe some huge user testing proved those right... but my constant cursing says that at least a 5% exist.
I'd never thought about that! The whine of TVs used to drive me nuts as a kid, but some time in my late teens, I stopped being able to hear it.
After getting used to the icons and learning to switch on "compact" mode on my laptop, I like it about as well as the old version.