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I'd go with either Mondrian, or Pollock myself.
Impressionists, such as Monet began working towards abstraction for sure, but for Monet, it was more about capturing the fleeting nature of light on a canvas, however still within the confines of a landscape.

Surely painting as a pure form of expression, unbridled by anything more than simply paint, reached it's high point with the likes of Mondrian, Pollock, Kandinsky etc during the early 20th century. When composition, colour and form were key and principle elements of the canvas, not nature, and the natural world around. They may have drawn inspiration from the world around but they did not seek to visual represent it on the canvas per se.
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I seem to recall that what was more important than the amount of time spent studying, was that the students were engaging in deliberate practice; they were putting in focused work intended to extend the boundaries of their skills. I think the analogy here would be that three hours of focused work (door closed, phone turned off, no checking email, no interruptions unless the building is on fire or someone is dying) would produce more, better quality results than 8 (or more) hours of work broken up by dozens of interruptions.
In practice, you can't type an IBAN incorrectly. The checksum is good enough that I force myself to never check an IBAN I've typed - because I trust the maths.
This was a really quick build using Rails and jquery. We're using Foursquare & Google places APIs, as well as our own set of "cool attractions". We use the Google directions API for routes & mapping.
It's actually a very small job.

The hard part I guess is learning to do things with the shell and UNIX utilities instead of Perl. And simplifying what you do and how you do it.

If you choose to do complex things and do them in complex ways, or you can only see complex solutions where simple solutions exist, I guess a module-powered scripting language like Perl becomes irresistable and using the UNIX base utilities becomes a prohibitively painful exercise.

I want to learn Perl. But I just cannot find the motivation because I never need more than what UNIX gives me.
Haha interesting point about measuring the avenues to see which method is more accurate.

I was primarily inspired by lines of latitude (streets) and longitude (avenues), but I'd definitely be interested to see what it looks like when both are treated as concentric small circles.
honestly, this seems like a no-brainer. i'm not sure what took so long to get this done. both 3d scanners and 3d printers have been around for decades. the fact that it was mere matter of procuring the scanned data in a standard, open-source interoperable format is a big fail.
>you're also good enough to get a job paying at least twice as much as a teacher.

This is only if you assume that pay is their primary motivating factor. The best teachers out there don't do it for the money.
Wow, could you elaborate more? This sounds like a very interesting viewpoint, and one that I've not seen before.
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His comment about "go work at Facebook" is just talking his book.

However, he is right about that the internet will consolidate as it matures. However, we should not forget as soon as consolidation happens in a certain industry the very next thing what happen is disruption.
So yes PC industry is consolidated, but whoever got of the PC train and jump on iPhone/iPad/Android did good.
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That's often not true; PCBs can be a significant cost on the bill of materials for a gadget.

Amortising the tooling / artwork costs into big volumes helps, but even then the PCB is usually one of the more expensive items on the parts list.
At Startup School, the Sequoia guy showed a bunch of slides which had two main points highlighted:

- Companies like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn raised very modest amounts of funding and has multi-billion dollar IPOs

- Cost of creating a company (and associated technology) is down over 90% from what it was back when a lot of these companies were started.

Given these two, it's amazing to see VCs pouring in millions into startups that have nowhere near the valuation they invest at. Color is the most famous example, but there are tons of other startups raising $2-5M at pretty ridiculous valuations. If you consider that in light what Sean Parker says, regardless of his vested interest in engineering talent going to companies he's backed, it feel like what he's saying makes sense. Companies are ridiculously over funded, and VCs are doing a disservice to their investors as well as to their portfolio companies by giving more money than they need.
Awesome, thanks for letting me know! :)
Well, the text talks about NeXT first, and then suddenly talks about MacOS. When he says that Apple used _some_ of NeXTs software and goes on to talk about the kernel, it seems like he gets it wrong and doesn't really understand what OS X was.

If he had, he would have realized its significance. For instance, I can't recall that he mentions how iOS relates to OSX, and the advantages this brings to Apple. He never mentions that NeXT was compatible with PowerPC and Intel and that Apple would have a working, parallel release running on Intel hardware internally.
> Is there somewhere where Bill Gates said "none of the NeXT code made it into OS X".

You're twisting Isaacson's words. He said:

> noted that Apple ended up not adopting the entire NeXT operating system

This doesn't mean none of NeXT's code made it in, it means not all of it.

But, putting aside the nitpicks, I, as a technical person, do not care much for the technical details. I'm much more interested in Jobs' hippie counter-culture history and his philosophical view than the technical details of which system was the more important precursor to OS X.
F# seems to have a Hindley-Milner type system, as described some years ago also by Daniel Spiewak[1].

Which is a vast improvement over more mainstream type systems, while not as powerful as traditional logic type systems, such as those used in First order and Higher Order Logic.

However, I personally rely more on unit tests than on type systems to make sure the code is consistent. And when I do that, specially when I write the test before the code, I find the type system getting more in the way than helping me. Rich Hickey, Clojure's creator, compared[2] these to guard-rails.

[1] http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/what-is-hindley-milner-...

[2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
[Ask HN]How can SaaS improve the medical industry?
Specifically apps and Saas to help patients and doctors interact and keep track of progress made. There are some out there like Practice Fusion, but that is a broad platform. What are some smaller services needed out there. I ask because my girlfriend is applying for med school and this field interests me.
ASK HN: Would you be interested in a user management service?
I had this idea recently of a system to manage users of a webapp. Some of the features it would have are:

1. Ability to register/login any user via Facebook/Twitter/Google/Email.

2. Tracking usage of the webapp by each user.

3. Classification of users based on their usage history.

4. Feature gatekeeping based on user clasification.

5. Single click communication with all users irrespective of service used to signup (don't have to jump through hoops and get email ids for each user and deal with the hassle of sending email)

6. Rapport building with users by automatically sending out emails based on predetermined events/conditions.

7. Posting to the service via which the user logged in without having to deal with their APIs.

Would you be interested in using such a service for your next webapp? If so, how much would you be willing to pay per month per 1000 users for it?
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You're right, I mis-spoke. There is a difference between donating actual marrow, and donating peripheral blood stem cells.

The latter is far more more common and isn't technically donating marrow, but can be used in place of it.
Thanks for sharing this...although while reading this I also chanced upon "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom"...which explains why I find working with random people on github more enjoyable and productive than with people from my organization.

http://www.benkler.org/wonchapters.html
job perks: competitive salary
If you think an engineer or product designer is better incentivized to do their own thing and you want to hire them away to BigCorp, you need to change your compensation offerings.
Doesn't pay as much as I would have thought.

(But the bennies are out of this world.)
Dude, are you sure you want to do that? I've got this buddy that's got this crazy thing going on on some gas giant. They're way past angel stage, they've got catered meals every day, a band practice room, a fooz ball table, and a carbonite freezing chamber.
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I'm using view based tableviews, which are only available in 10.7. Thanks for trying though :-)
Yes this is definitely just Mercator. But you could reproject in a Manhattan-relative way, such that this larger grid actually looks like a grid (just like latitude and longitude do in Mercator) and that might be a... pointless new projection.
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My roommate is a doctor, and I've been having some discussions on this topic lately.

The biggest concept is to use technology to support the existing dr's workflow. This can vary, a lot, between different types of doctors.

The thing he most often comments upon is the text replacement feature for his office's electronic records. He can type "issued XYZ medication due to past history of .HT." and the system will automatically insert the relevant heart history information (maybe a recent test reading, etc.) into the record.

Saves him time in recording info into the patient records. That seems to be his #1 desire for better tech -- saving time. And making complete entry into the medical records is a good place to work, as it solves a frustration that already exists.
You know this already, but it's ridiculously hard to get in. I know two people who have applied. One's a PhD cosmologist who does aerobatics on the side. One's a PhD geophysicist who's also an experienced pilot and a mission data scientist. They didn't get in.

OTOH, I know another person who's also qualified who doesn't want the job, because you have to live in Houston, do a lot of PR and outreach, and the chances of actually flying are not very good.
It kind of pisses me off that the US is having to buy seats on Soyuz launches. Of course I grew up reading Tom Corbett and watched the first moon landing on a 12 inch black and white TV...
There's currently a segmented control in the top left of the article to switch between article an comments, but your suggestion sounds interesting.
This is really cool - I can totally see using this!
Sorry but you're quite insane. Well maybe not insane, by certainly an egotistical nutjob. Just randomly cc'ing organizations takes away any credibility that you may have had (which wasn't much after not using a lawyer for a case like this). If you think you can win this without a lawyer you're completely delusional.

Also, isn't working on this taking away time to be working on your startup? Or is this just some dumb promotional stunt?

EDIT: Your filings against Airbnb, Facebook, Stanford, USC, etc... shows that you have lost your grip on reality. Do you really think thats going to help or just piss people off?

Aren't you the same guy who was claiming that Facebook ripped you off? How about you actually create something that people want to use, rather than complaining about everyone around you.
Interesting. In [1] he claims that languages with a nominal type system cannot have global type inference. Yet Nemerle claims to have both.
You can, it just looks like this:

map(functools.partial(operator.add,2), [1, 2, 3])
Every bank I've ever tried bill pay on (ING, Bank of America, E*Trade bank, Citizens Bank, Kennebunk Savings Bank) offers an option where you simply enter the account number and bill address, and they cut a check for it. No hassle. Maybe try some other bank, then?
> I can't wait for the end of this native app nonsense.

As an iOS developer I recommend that you try to understand how much more intellectually satisfying developing for the iphone is than android or HTML5!
My apologies, I didn't see that discussion.
Presumably because this article presents Dwolla as something new and fantastic, when it's something that's available in most European countries in one form or another right now.

(and of course the experience from Europe is that while it competes with debit and credit cards, it kills neither)
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Thanks for introducing Philippines to the discussion (in addition to Chile). Both countries provide an example of how to attract entrepreneurs. And both are emerging economies.

When I follow the discussion on "entrepreneurial immigration" in USA and in Germany I see the same flawed logic: Everything's OK now, "we're on the top of the world", "why risk letting people in, maybe there will be terrorists among them"... Essentially, it's the policy of building higher walls and being, in effect, repellent. But also not realizing that entrepreneurs are a rare breed.

Why do not intelligent people act differently? Why has the high civil servant from my story let a pretty sure bet (my friend) leave the country?

Yes, it's the risk of being accused for letting a foreigner in but that is the surface of the problem. Underneath is the hubris. "We don't need it, we've got it all" mentality.
That wouldn't have helped me when I was in college; my college stopped supporting my email address after I left. (They also had this weird email client called Simian that you had to use, and it wouldn't let you read your email until it had authenticated.)
1. X-Wing startup -- great idea

2. Dantooine -- this will put a hard, violent limit on the length of your startup's runway, perhaps choose a different location?
The original main street in this city was pretty much defined by the 12,000 year old glaciated tail behind the crag of a 350 million year old volcano. :-)

7920Ave, 62638St
I'm part of this group too. It's less about money and more about freedom to me. The freedom to work on what I choose and the near complete control I get over my own destiny.

No matter how good it is at a company like Facebook or Google, there will always be a point where they make you realize they have control over you. Whether it's working on a project you hate, ridiculous corporate policies, or having to kiss the ass of your manager. I've done it all for the past 15 years at a few different companies and I finally just got sick of it.
And is already ported:

"What Linux distros will be supported at launch?
Debian, Fedora and ArchLinux will be supported from the start." (Raspberry Pi FAQ)
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I think you guys are blowing it.. ISaacson blew it not because he goofed on tech details.. but because he put forth a failed thesis that a human being that fails at enjoying and passing on humanity to others somehow succeeded at device items to change humanity..

In comparison, the founder of Be Inc and MS come closer to matching Isaacson's thesis than Jobs does..
I was thinking the same thing lately. I've wondering if I was crazy to notice that Google was ignoring my " ".

It is quite infuriating.
It's not clear if IP addresses are 'assets'. The only thing keeping Microsoft from picking up IPs arbitrarily is the fact that their BGP peers will blacklist those ranges if they do something disruptive like that. If ARIN or the IANA declares the transfer invalid... well, who knows what will happen?
Yes, please, verbatim: or similar would be great, especially for use on a mobile.
Well, for starters:

1) On the front page, there are no explanations / visuals on what your app does.
2) If I wanted to try it out, I'd have to sign up with Facebook, where you're requesting virtually every permission available to request.

result => I don't care if this is the best thing since sliced bread, the perceived barrier to entry is too high.
I am not the one doing the purported twisting. Read the linked comment in my post above. My impression after reading that comment(written by someone else) was Bill Gates was quoted as saying that somewhere in the book(could be elsewhere for all I know).
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Basically he's saying investors are dumb for making it hard for his now large company to hire engineers. Get out the violins.
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They say the performance penalty isn't huge, but I guess it must be enough if people aren't implementing it.

There are other, social reasons why it may not be used. Academics are usually evaluated on published papers, so papers are often their end goal. Their code is usually proof-of-concept quality, not production quality. So it's not realistic to be able to take code written by academics and directly integrate it into real software stacks. And the people who are in a position to integrate new features into open source software stacks often have dozens of other features that are also important, so why work on this one? There really needs to be a champion for the idea in the already-existing community for that project.

This work also has the secondary problem of cross-cutting concerns. In order to provide better security in the kernel, they're modifying the assembler. So now you need a champion who works in the assembler, but cares a lot about kernel security.

Good paper, by the way. I've only read the intro, but I'm going to read the rest later. It looks to have a good primer on ROP.
Hmm. That's a pretty broad and open-ended question. Are you asking out of idle curiosity?

There are lot of software companies in the medical "industry" as it is. What are your interests?
scumbag meetup. Why u no know of other chicago meetup on same day‽

Sorry too much reddit. :-)
1. What the hell man, you dont make enough to spend within your means and not have to worry if you run out of cash by the end of the month!? I only use a debit card, because I know that if I even have to consider by the end of the month how much I have on the bank account, I am then doing something seriously wrong, either spending too much or my job is not bringing in the cash. And in Europe, among my friends, it seems this works out very well. Make enough cash so you dont have to worry, not make enough cash AND risk collecting debt (even for a few days) just because what, you want to feel you always can buy everything? I dont understand american mentality.

2. I have a rewards debit card, everything I buy at certain places gives me points and discounts at said places. Never going into debt.

3. interest-free loan? Thats a funny concept, coming from a bank especially. Are you serious?

Simply put, in Europe you make enough cash so at the end of the month you dont ever have to consider you will be in debt unless you want to buy a ferrari on your way back from work. You collect points using your debit card. Debt is only used for fancy house/apartement, brand new car to show off, or starting a business. Never for spending.
It always confuses me when I don't see people take pennies out of the change tray at gas stations; it's free money, just sitting there. It confuses me when people pay to ride the bus when they're so unlikely to get caught not paying. It confuses me that people don't just file for bankruptcy and forget all their credit card debt.

If you're still confused, people have their own pride and principles. Something being legal or otherwise doable does not mean that everyone considers it moral.

To me, it feels wrong to leverage a slimy Visa policy to bilk airfare from merchants who have to accept credit to compete and from customers who don't opt-in to the game.
If you want to listen to the podcast skip to 18:00. That’s when Siracusa starts with the book review. All the other stuff can be safely ignored if you are a first-time listener.
If I want to sue someone for my (alleged) patents, why not make me pay the legal costs for both sides, as the case goes to court (not after), until the case is decided one way or the other? that way, if a big fat ass company sues a small guy, the small guy can at least try to fight in court. May be he'll lose, but he'll at least have a chance to fight - it'll also make these big guys think a bit before suing for patents?
But of course my good sir.

My awesome puzzler fetched me a whopping $55.
I finished this bio a few weeks ago, and I remember just a sense of wanting more. There were a few parts I found very painful to get through, and I felt that some of the early apple II/Lisa/Macintosh stuff paraphrased from Folklore.org. I also kind of feel that Isaacson kept his analysis and insight into Steve very superficial. I wanted to know more about how he thinks than was presented. More about his creative process, more about his philosophy on design. While these subjects were addressed to some extent, they were very superficial and high level. I also recognize that I may not be the typical person who reads this, as I have spent time reading folklore.org and other sources. On the whole though, I just feel that it did miss they mark a bit.
> Using the usual sequence operators pretty much anything is possible

i would absolutely love if this is true. however, i don't know of anyone who has constructed a convincing argument that it is true. even if it were true, it is probably impractical to require all systems you interface with to be composed in these terms. is it cheaper to work with a ball of mud (which poisons everything it touches), or is it cheaper to rewrite the ball of mud in the style you describe?

"People build BIG BALLS OF MUD because they work. In many domains, they are the only things that have been shown to work. Indeed, they work where loftier approaches have yet to demonstrate that they can compete.

"It is not our purpose to condemn BIG BALLS OF MUD. Casual architecture is natural during the early stages of a system’s evolution. The reader must surely suspect, however, that our hope is that we can aspire to do better. By recognizing the forces and pressures that lead to architectural malaise, and how and when they might be confronted, we hope to set the stage for the emergence of truly durable artifacts that can put architects in dominant positions for years to come. The key is to ensure that the system, its programmers, and, indeed the entire organization, learn about the domain, and the architectural opportunities looming within it, as the system grows and matures."[1]

Maybe, you are correct. Probably. We all hope. But, practically, in the 'bigger' problem domains, you can put a lot of smart and experienced people on a project, and it still comes out a ball of mud. Maybe, there just aren't yet enough experts to go around.

[1] http://www.laputan.org/mud/ (conclusion)

BTW, any references you know that can articulate your assertion without hand-waving, I would love to read. I must read. I'm currently devouring everything I can about FP and there's a lot of concrete stuff, even more stuff with handwaving, and then some alarming articles about people who did their startup in haskell and wouldn't do it again, even if for out-of-band factors.