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A lawyer can tell you what you can do legally. They are good at that. A lawyer can't really tell you what you should do to further your business agenda. They're unusually terrible at that.
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They told us they’d raise tuition prices, so we built an app for that
Amidst the Occupy Cal movement and the Regents’ decisions to raise tuition fees, a local startup has been trying to make one student’s story scalable to the rest of the community. Richard Berwick, San Francisco native and Berkeley undergraduate student, has been an entrepreneur since he was 12 years old; through his entrepreneurial efforts he has been able to finance his studies so far.

From a young age Richard discovered that clearance items in stores would often sell for 70-90% less than what they would sell for online. With this knowledge, Richard scoured the clearance racks of retail stores all around the bay and then posted his findings on the Internet to sell at a higher price. Watching a kid cram twenty cinema projectors into his car was a strange sight for store managers but as long as they were moving products, they were happy. Over time, Richard developed a strong gut sense for how much an item would sell for in an online marketplace. Armed with this skill, Richard has been able to generate enough income to pay his way through school. Today he is working with a team in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) to make an app that allows others to replicate his success.

The team of six students working on the project have come together from a variety of backgrounds to create a phone app that makes the buying and reselling process easier. They understand taking the risk of being unable to resell inventory is not for everyone, so they came up with a workaround. The app allows sellers to walk into a retail store, scan a discounted item, and post it for sale on Clearance Kart’s online marketplace for 30 minutes. The hook: users don’t have to purchase the item until they have a confirmed buyer -- almost like a risk-free version of eBay. The team’s goal is to make mini-entrepreneurs out of the sellers.

To see more visit clearancekart.com.
Is it fair to assume that because Apple doesn't let carriers modify phone software, the iPhone is likely to be free of this? (not saying Apple can't do something like this themselves, just that the carriers can't)
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I agree with the claim in this forum post. It is annoying to have all pages javascript generated, clicks hijacked to make some special sauce, and content popping in, up, down or out whenever you hover something. It is a growing mess that will have it "let's rollback and clean this crap out" time, like Google did with its famous blank home page.

Another example: trello.com is a very nice and free card tool for small projects, but because they wanted to avoid having an "edit" button on editable text, they hijack my clicks, so it makes it painful to select text, and quite impossible to use "middle-click as paste".

But, there is a more positive perspective liked to Google+. In fact, I think the midterm result of Google entering in the SNS arena could (and should) be to force open Facebook. I mean, right now G+ is not open, it doesn't have all the needed APIs, and this is probably OK because they they need a critical mass before opening, and one should not bash them for testing, pondering, adjusting a bit more before releasing some important changes. Time is on their side anyway.

But in the end, they will go, I hope, the full good-old Google way, which means:

- Read/write APIs for posts, followers, followees, etc.

- Ability to dump all data and go away

- RSS or similar subscribing hooks

These tools will allow a much higher interoperability for social content, similar to interoperability of emails today. Users will not really care if the comments on their baby pics are written using Facebook, G+ or any other Social Content Manager, they will read and respond to them in the SNS of their choice, like we do today with emails. (I wrote a bit more ion this topic there: https://plus.google.com/104035200377885758362/posts/A9r7twSD...)
If you are going to build a social network today, you MUST have two objectives: 1. Convince the user to get off Facebook and use your system instead. 2. Keep your users on your website as long as possible before they move back to Facebook.
Flash is transitioning from a platform for websites to a platform for high-performance code, such as gaming, graphical simulations, etc... Whatever strides WebGL might be making at the moment it's a long way from the kind of things Flash 11 is capable of. If Adobe can keep the barrier to entry lower on Flash than WebGL then they ought to have a viable product.

Unfortunately for many Flash developers the bread-and-butter site stuff is going away; if you're not skilled enough to transition into gaming and other such computationally intensive work then best to familiarise yourself with the HTML5 suite, and quickly.
I suspect it would be much, much easier to convince Americans to give up the ex post facto protections than the first amendment. This can simply be done by focusing anger at a series of high profile scummy but completely legal actions, and a proper amount of demagoguery against the "damn liberals and their ex post facto bullshit". Once that goes, the rest is easy to deal with.
I remember installing it a few weeks ago on ubuntu to update my cv.

The base system was 280+ mb along with 190+ mb of documentation. I found it mildly amusing that I had to download ~500 mb of stuff just to update my cv.
Making dissent illegal has already been tried, in a way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Co...

Further, retroactive punishment (in the form of harassment, being put on watch lists or no-fly lists, etc.) can still occur even in the absence of any specific ex post facto law.

Finally, with the retroactive extensions granted to copyright holders, the potential for this has already happened -- publishers have released new editions out-of-copyright works, only to find those works later placed back under copyright protection.
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This can simply be done by focusing anger at a series of high profile scummy but completely legal actions, and a proper amount of demagoguery against the "damn liberals and their ex post facto bullshit".

You could probably start with the MySpace bullying case. Add in some Wall Street bankers for good measure.
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the idea that LaTeX has a messy codebase is almost mindboggling to me--I had assumed that TeX--practically the only code that's published as a book (see: The TeX Book) would be clean. I guess the complaint is mostly about the Pascal + C that's code-generated by TANGLE.
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I was saying the same thing not a month ago. Until one day, i completely flipped out during a meeting, stormed out, insulted the owner, and never came back.

I had been working way to much for the past 4years, and on the months leading to the melt down, it was just unhealthy, and i kept going at it, using drugs to keep up (i am deeply ashamed looking back...), barely sleeping and eating. And slowly it creep up on me, until i completely lost it. By my foolish attitude, i had not only burn myself (its been a month, i haven't been out of my place, i haven't written a line of code - i tried, but just the sight of it makes me sick -), but also hurt my co-workers and company, who in the process have lost their Chief Engineer and probably the project i was working on as well -months of work, and in the 6digits investment-.

There are people you can talk too, if it's not friends, professional help is there, i know how hard it can be to admit you've screwed up your life and health, but for your own sake, go get some help, before it is too late.

Because when your mind says stop, it'll be past the point where you can fix this "easily", and you'll be stuck with your decision for months, may be years. Take control of your situation, before your mind does it for you...
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Can you expand on what you mean here? A Google search for "make piece manufacturing" returns to this post.
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LaTeX can't be 4GB. I think it is being confused with TexLive? You don't need all of TexLive to make LaTeX documents....
* As we have seen recently a few bad actors can bring an entire force, state or even country into disrepute.*

To be fair, its a few bad actors, a policy of denying the existence of bad actors, and near-total complicity through inaction by the "good" actors.
I'm not sure what it would look like in the video [d]ecoder world, but I don't think that would matter since most the time you'd want to use the 256-bit vector instructions (in practice this would hardly be a high priority until they're nearly ubiquitous...). For use cases where you are addressing large memory regions this hardly seems like that big of a deal. There are times when you can schedule tons of calculations without leaving L1 but for some odd reason people are finding 500GB+ of RAM useful.
The compression daughterboard didnt get finished, but that was the point of the device. I know, I own one.
The price of a LaTeX rewrite would be even higher: incompatibility. If one tries to rewrite TeX, the problem gets much much worse, since TeX is, for all intents and purposes, bug-free. A new implementation will certainly not be. Joel Spolsky said it very well
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

I disagree that the current situation is LaTeX developers' fault. TeX and LaTeX are complex pieces of software, that are developed over time. They were extended as the capabilities of their platforms increased, to take advantage of those capabilities. This requires full access to the OS utilities, and naturally LaTeX environment does that. If anything, this is Apple's fault. For whatever reason, they cannot allow applications to use the existing capabilities of the underlying OS. This goes against the Unix mindset; of course there will be unpleasant consequences, but one cannot hold Unix mindset responsible for these.
Western Zen is very western/scientific/rational. Most of the teachers in the lineage I belong to are also psychologists, psychotherapists or counselors (but your teacher is NOT your therapist). Stephen Bachelor has been a Tibetan AND a Zen monk, but is now neither. He wrote a book called "Buddhism Without Beliefs" which might suit you.

Note though that it is almost impossible to separate meditation as it relates to your mind, and meditation as it relates to your bodily actions. When you start to understand the way your mind works, and how everything fits together, you would have to be pretty ignorant to not alter your actions accordingly. Indeed, using your brain 'more effectively' can only happen by applying what you learn.

(IE, there is no state that you 'attain' and from then on you are 'more effective'. Meditation is a 'practice' and so you must practice it, you don't attain anything at all)

edit: correcting misspelled book title. Should be "Buddhism Without Beliefs" not "Buddhist Without Beliefs".
I can suggest the BasicTeX distro; it's only 69MB, and has always been sufficient for my (admittedly rather basic) TeX needs.

http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html
Vast numbers of packages to do just about anything you could possibly want.....

Things like inserting graphics with text flowing around them (picins), or document classes for resumes,or textpos (for absolute text positioning), or......

Basically you have nearly two thousand such packages in TexLive......
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Redbelt quote?
In the last week or someone posted a comment that contained a quote from the movie Redbelt that prompted me to watch it. I cannot, for the life of me, find that quote. Does anyone remember that comment?
Hear, hear! This post provides a perfect example of the utter failure of software engineering in the real world. I am reminded of it every time I try to install software, with all the ridiculous dependencies and multiple versions. Instead of addressing the serious foundational issues facing software development and architecture, the geniuses are busy inventing the latest, greatest programming language, creating even more problems.

Computer science and engineering departments should use these situations to train their students.
> Pretty analogous to software patents and combinations software-hardware patents like the iPhone's multi-touch.

Hardly. Software patents are a tangle of prior art, and software requires almost no initial outlay.
I didn't have that right, it seems the result certainly can be a class. And that would avoid the units problem. Though in the examples I've seen it wasn't clear if they were returning a class.

With raw numerical values the results are definitely unpredictable. For example maybe the program considers numerical values to be measured in ounces, in which case "2.2_lb" becomes the number "35.2"; or maybe it thinks everything is metric, measured in grams. There is not just one reasonable way to pick a number to represent an expression.

I am fairly sure that a leading zero cannot be a problem with custom literals; I'd expect the compiler to parse the whole thing and see the suffix before deciding what type of literal it is (i.e. the "_b" handler would get to read everything raw, including the leading zero).
This is an interesting solution, because the problem is that the original codebase is messy and therefore not portable. It seems to happen to most software as it ages.

Putting it on a server makes the architecture more robust against messy code (and changes in programming languages and environments), because pieces can be changed independently.
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> This article is impressively bad.

Cheers!

> While the 8-module chip does share a few things (mainly a vector processing unit, that becomes two when doing the 128-bit SSE operations)

A few things? No, it shares a lot of things. The entire floating point and SIMD unit. The entire front-end. The branch predictor is, I believe, a weird hybrid of shared and non-shared. The I-cache, and the L2 cache, also both shared.

The front-end is particularly troublesome. The entire decoder can either service one thread or the other. If both threads need instructions, the best it can do is round robin between them. This averages to allow just two instructions per cycle: less decode bandwidth than K10.

Likewise the integer units: there are fewer ALUs and AGUs per thread than in K10. Likewise the floating point unit. There's lots of sharing, and even the private, non-shared parts are resource-starved.

> But, they'll have sse contention if they schedule more than 8 256-bit vector operations (sadly intel won't bring this instruction set to market for a bit).

SSE contention will occur if a thread can issue more than two SSE operations per cycle, or one AVX operation per cycle.

> Bulldozer is pretty cool, but sadly the tech press decides to shit on the underdog in a market that multiple companies have successfully sued the monopolist for anti-competitive behavior. :(

I don't care about "the underdog" or which is "cool" or which multi-billion dollar corporation you might prefer. I care about which works better. It ain't Bulldozer.
I prefer to interpret the Singularity as the emergence of a fused global intelligence via the Internet and other networking technologies, rather than some high-powered AI in a box. I can't figure out why this isn't the dominant view.
"iPad is the most beautiful platform out there"

Sorry, but I fail to understand, why any serious TeX-Head would say that. The platform is crippled and your problem shows it. You are ranting in the wrong direction.

-jsl
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I guess I'm going back to using about:blank.
But what's the reason to be listening to the music you never heard before?
There is something like 20 milion different tracks in the wild. Why listen this unknown band with icky name (they all are) and not to something other in those 20 millions?

You still need to be pitched with the band to make you try listening to it.
My understanding is that it can give every cycle to a given thread just as long as the other thread doesn't need it to decode anything (if it's idle or whatever). i.e. it can give one thread 4 ops/cycle sustained, given the right workload. But for your purposes, that's probably not any improvement.
This is a total 'Bed of Procrustes' argument. In order to deal with the problem of this ONE device and in particular the App Store guidelines, you want to cut off the legs of the source code.
Depends on the radio station. Most radio stations are gatekeepers because they pay what they are paid (directly or indirectly) to play. Late night low-audience-count shows are curators.
So, if I can build a wagon with a lawnmower engine from parts, and it is able to putter down the street (barely) faster than I can walk, why should I use a car?

That's my question.

I'm a sysadmin. I have been for years. My coworker calls me "the encyclopaedia of Linux", because I know all the command line tools, their functions and features, and how to tie them together. I write one-liners that are 5 lines long. And I like it. I love the Unix philosophy and design and tools.

But, that doesn't make it a perfect fit for anything. Shell scripts are very limited and painful for a lot of things. When I'm writing something I expect to be 50 lines or less, shell scripts and *nix utilities will usually (not always, but usually) get the job done (especially if you include sed/awk in there). For anything more than that, I break out Perl and I never regret it.

Complicated logic, non-trivial data structures, multiple chains of processing, these are things that just don't do well with shell scripts and tools. It's also a lot cleaner and simpler using a real data structure, instead of forcing everything into pipes and temporary files.

Note: Your comment of "instead of reading entire files into memory the way perl does" shows your ignorance. Perl is an immensely flexible tool, and it gives you the ability to process files line-by-line, stream-style, or by reading the entire file into memory. Both methods are trivial, and having the choice means you can use whichever method is appropriate for the task at hand (your comment suggests that reading the whole file is somehow "wrong", but for many tasks it's a faster and cleaner method).
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Don't forget about prior work experience. A few of my college classmates did manage to find work after graduation, but that requirement held me back for a long time. I've tried asking companies to offer internships, but most have no concept of hiring below the journeyman level.

The bar has also been rising for entry-level experience in the rare cases these jobs are offered. Back in the 1990s, entry-level programmers were not expected to know SQL, HTML+Javascript, the LAMP stack, or how TCP/IP works. Now it is quietly expected that everybody knows all this, and except for SQL these skills are not taught at university. Students who do not pick up these skills on their own time will face an especially difficult time finding work.

All of the anecdotes I've heard of someone learning one language and getting a job in it involve hard-science postgrads and professors who already had very good analytical skills and were programming something related to their field of interest. It has been at least a decade since you could get a job by "just knowing HTML" -- which was not true at the time, since you were also expected to be an excellent graphic designer -- and fifteen years since I've heard anyone say you could get a programming job by being fairly smart and "good with computers". As for the presence of job opportunities, journeyman and senior positions each easily outnumber entry-level positions. Most companies do not hire at the entry level at all, and it is getting harder to find jobs that are slightly above the entry level in requiring only 2-4 years of experience rather than 4-6. It's a sign of the times.

Employers want experienced coders, and can get them with the economy the way it is, but everybody has to start somewhere. Most people who "can code" could barely code when they got their first jobs, and they got better by facing new challenges and having their code reviewed by more experienced supervisors. The experts-only economy is going to leave a lot of people behind by failing to give them these opportunities.
To answer your question, while it's not an offer I'd likely take up, I don't think it's slave-labor lame or offensive, so long as you make things clear as to the exact terms of the arrangement. Nobody is forcing anything to do anything, so IMO the only time you'd be in the wrong was if you misled anybody.

However, I'd like to encourage you to "shop local". While it doesn't appear to be the case, there are a lot of talented devs available locally. I'm part of a fledgling makerspace on O'ahu, and in the past few months I've met a ton of developers that came out of the woodwork. Did you know we had a startup weekend here? Our makerspace also had two teams participate in node knockout.

I can't speak for Maui, but I'm sure the situation is the same (and you guys have a more mature makerspace, why not join up and start networking?).

If you need any help networking (I can get you in touch with alohastartups.com), or are open to an alternate proposal, feel free to contact me (contact@freelancedreams.com)
I think I can agree with your points, however, the images of OWS protestors have failed to get this across. In the worldwide spread of the OWS theme, the further you get from Manhattan, the muddier the statements. My local occupy demonstration is a rag-tag collection of the usual suspects with signs calling for socialism.

I guess this is the problem with any protest movement - you have no top-down control, and so any good messages can get lost in the noise. I think the occupy 'brand' is pretty much damaged beyond repair for now, but if the core of the people believes what you say, then it's possible to create a new organisation and leverage from occupy before it's forgotten. But a new organisation would have to be top-down and control the message to get the point across.

For my part, I agree with the points about regulatory capture and corporatism. Large businesses pretend to like capitalism, but in reality, they get terrified of smaller startup companies stealing their lunch money and rendering them irrelevant in a decade or less.

Too big to fail is indeed too big to exist. The role of governments must be to prevent monopolies from forming, not to legislate them into existence.
1. That's the point of the article: spacing is not just spacing it can break UX to the point that things become unusable.

2. Intention was not to contact anyone.

3. "Is it a real problem, no." Maybe not for you. As a potential user I was confused at your site. That's when I bookmarked it for example. And as a designer I could understand where the problem is.

But then everything is an opinion. < Oh well, this too.