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You can turn off all that bullshit. I had no idea what the OP was talking about because I have always had it turned off. I'm not sure the exact setting (they seem to always change the wording), but I logged in and in privacy settings for Apps, Games and Websites I have "You have turned off all platform apps, games and websites.". I have no instant personalization and I don't see anyone else's. I've also hidden pretty much every app from appearing in my feed, so all the game/poll notices aren't there either.

I also use Facebook Disconnect, which works to get out all the widget clutter.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...

It's crazy that you have to go to such lengths to not be harassed, but at least those lengths are there. That Facebook keeps making the same mistakes is a good sign that as a whole they just don't get it. It should prove interesting how it all shakes down.
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I'm already using the memoir class, albeit with a fairly minimalist theme. And indexes can be partially pre-computed if necessary, though it may require some changes from how it's done in stock LaTeX.

The reason we're talking about PDFs is because that's the quickest and easiest way to get good typography on screen. And being able to scroll to put an arbitrary line at the top of the page is not a killer feature for a book replacement, and certainly doesn't make up for a book that is hard to read due to poor line spacing, justification, and kerning.
I never thought of this distinction. Excellent point.
I'm curious about the practical side of these courses as well as the intellectual side.

How much time does the course use up? I expect everyone is different - so it's a personal question of your time.
Are there homework assignments or exercises? How are the practical aspects handled for example with learning a programming language?
I've been doing ML class this quarter, and it has been very good. Andrew Ng is a great teacher, and the programming exercises are a great addition.
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This may have been answered in one of the many other threads on these, but are they going to run these regularly? There's so many I want to do but I don't have time to do them all at once. Have they said that they will run them later next year?
>So yes, they can be pricks, but to no discernible effect.

They won't get more data, but they will send a clear signal to other users of this stuff to behave themselves.
If they succeed, like Android, Google is VERY committed. It's like they get other companies to test their grenades, and the ones that don't blow up in faces, they stick with. Hence Google buys Motorola, but not, say, Acer.
Might as well been chanting 'please shoot the students!' since almost everyone there wanted that to happen. It helps make the story bigger and their heroic roles in it more important.

Why were they blocking the sidewalk in the first place? Doesn't matter. POLICE BRUTALITY!
For what it's worth, Emacs 24 has built in package management. It's arguably easier than using eclipse's package management.
For those of us without MBAs, which is which?
It's hard enough to design a good game when the only constraint is that it has to be fun. Designing a fun game that also covers an entire year of calculus requires a stroke of genius. You have to find the fun that is inherent in the subject. Unless you're the type of person who just naturally finds calculus to be fun, it's unlikely you ever will.

There are games that find fun in seemingly mundane things, like parking or washing windows, but these are very simple things. And even then, the game takes many liberties with realism in order to make them fun.
Thank you for pointing this out. I thought Amazon still required you to order a hardware dongle for the root AWS account.
I'm generally a fan of what Google does, but I really really don't understand what they're doing with ChromeOS and the Chromebooks.

Why one network oriented mobile operating system when you can have two? (where one has tons of applications and the web, while the other just has the web).

Why get vendors to build one dedicated tablet/netbookish type device (ref:Asus Transformer) when they can build 2 or 3 (ref:netbooks)?

Why improve netbooks, which are cheap and have decent battery life and are intended for network connectivity (while offering the benefits of local apps) when you can compete with them with similar devices with less functionality at twice the price?

On top of these obvious problems, the OS was announced very early (probably before there was any code written) and it took forever to come out, wasn't really available for people to just use on their own devices conveniently (I'd much rather install this on my old laptop and turn it into a halfway decent web oriented carry-around then buy some new fangled device at 600 bucks) and Google never successfully answered the questions around having Android and this at the same time.
Minor troll point, you should probably include Function.prototype.call as well. :)
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I don't believe the ai class profs have mentioned it yet. The db professor sounds like she is going to do it again next year same time, but hasn't said so definitively. ML class is happening next semester again.
A good point. The question then is "does civilization change human nature itself or just the contract between members of said society?" Extreme circumstances seem to break the social contract of a civilization and reveal that human nature didn't change much if at all.
With regards to the current classes, it typically takes 2-3 hours to consume the lectures (unless you have ADHD like me). 20 minutes to finish weekly exercises. 1-2 hours to finish the programming exercises in the ML class. The ML class also gave a crash course in programming Octave, which handled any language issues you may have for that course.

I took 2 classes, which is a huge time-sink (I can't even go through the textbooks). I think for a person with a full-time job, 1 course would be enough for a particular semester.
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I find _this and that are the most common ways of referring to the enclosed this. I would avoid using self like the plague because of window.self though.
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El-get is a package manager that really helps with the plugins. It allows you to install them very easily and update them with just one command, among other things.

https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
My MBA is circa 1997, and I shared your experience. A friend with a much "better" MBA than me (his from Harvard) once remarked, "Modeling is a great way to determine if a business idea is awful, but it's not going to tell you if you have a good one." I might argue even further that modeling can lead one to dismiss profound ideas through the erroneous presumption of a static future. It was said that the original business justification for Xerox counted the number of typists in America and multiplied by the number of mimeograph copies produced from each document. Obviously, the copy machine found many more purposes once introduced into offices -- a much more dynamic effect than most could even imagine.

Perhaps Dell's artificially static future was the presumption that shipping a laptop or desktop with a pre-installed OS would continue to be a viable business model? What if Steve Jobs had been forced at gunpoint fifteen years ago to lead Dell? What would the outcome have been? He likely would have spoken harshly about the elephant in the room -- Dell produces a commodity, and its future depends on Microsoft's continued prowess. With such an admission out in the open, what actions could have been taken which would have been nearly impossible to quantify via traditional B-School modeling techniques?
The root cause of the problem is the separation of ownership from control. This lead to the rise of the class of "professional managers", whose interests are intrinsically short-term. In the times when American wealth was created, the owners called the companies with their own names: Boeing, Ford, and MBAs did not exist. Their interests were to pass the earned wealth to their children. The historical mission of the MBAs and the professional managers is to dismantle the salvageable assets and sell them to more vibrant economies.
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> Imagine if Apple released products as unsuccessful as GoogleTV and Chromebook — it would be a bloodbath.

AppleTV? iPod Hi-Fi? MobileMe? Need I go on?
How is this any different, like using any tool used by any profession by a professional frequently.

Programmers, Musicians, Carpenters, Chef's, Drivers and almost everyone in those lines use their tools frequently enough such that their usage is committed to muscle memory and not the usual think-act-think cycle.

That's also because most problems are matched to solution patterns. You might have seen this while working with the programming language you have mastered. If there is syntax error, you generally don't read the entire error message. You just ideally read the template and the 'fill-ups' in the template and the line number. You go straight without bothering much and fix it.

Same with an editor. There are some things that you do so frequently, its actually better and efficient if the editor enables muscle-memory use cases than Apple product's kinda UI design.

Its precisely this 'problems matched to solution patterns' thing that will some day enable us to do drag and drop programming.

There will ready templates for each problem each of which will match a solution pattern. We will just parameterize the templates. To an extent this is already there auto-complete, macros, template driven programming etc. But in future we may see full scale stuff like this.
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Not that I pay attention to ChromeOS, I wonder why they aren't using Android. But, that's really hard to believe they sold only 5,000 by the end of July 2011. An org I work with ordered a couple hundred or so (in June-ish), alone.

DigiTimes doesn't cite a source, so if anyone has a source, drop me a line here.
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Instant remote control over them as well. Seems like the perfect medium to apply "spooky action at a distance". Mind boggling trying to under stand why or how it works, but it does.
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That's pretty much the rule for modeling in any domain. It can tell you with good confidence if an idea is bad and with fair confidence whether an idea might be viable, but it can't do more than guess and it won't tell you whether you're asking a stupid question.
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The standards you will probably care about the most are known as HL-7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7

HIPAA compliant web hosting can be had, but it's outrageously expensive compared to what you're used to; and the quality of the providers can vary.

Amazon has recently begun offering server-side encryption of data in S3 http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/new-amazon-s3-server-side... which means that you can use it for storing PII at rest and be compliant.

Whatever you do don't do a half-assed compliant to the letter of the spec but ignoring the spirit of it implementation; health care information is dealing with peoples lives.
Well I was hoping to use Google Music as a safe place to keep my music instead of having to keep them on a hard drive some place.
I regarded my MBA classes as semester-long courses in applied critical thinking. There were few right answers although there were those which clearly were wrong. At no point did any professor say, "Make business decisions based on the values of these metrics."

A good analogy might be found in some software I'm working on now. Part of it is a specialized serialization scheme designed to produce small serialized forms of large numbers of similar tree graphs. It is easy to quantify the size of the serialized form of N million trees, and it is easy to measure the CPU/IO time required to produce this form. However, when making design decisions, I only use these metrics as one input into my thought process. If I do X, how easy will it be for others to maintain after I leave (I'm a contractor)? Does a proposed design decision limit future opportunities for this module's use? Does "brittleness" increase? Does this decision move the design further away from using Mongo/HBase/whatever in the future, or does it lessen the current impedance mismatch? The easy metrics are time and space, but the might not be the most important ones.
Anybody's mom need not has to be as proficient or even use Emacs as much you or I need to be proficient playing a violin or a piano.

This also means musical instruments have to be designed to be optimal for musicians who play them regularly not for general amateurs like us who play them once in a while.

Same for a code editor. They need to be optimized for programmers not general masses.
Very good points!

But rationally speaking, if someone who bought the ebook tells the publisher that they would have liked it better if it had feature X, the incentive for the publisher to implement that feature is still pretty low - after all, the guy complaining bought the ebook anyway.

It may have a long time effect though, because the same customer might not be willing to buy the next ebook from the same publisher unless the perceived annoyances go away.

And competition from other publishers might help too.
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"isn't driven only by profit"

I will argue that establishing such a reputation, even at the expense of short-term profits, likely is profit maximizing. So, you are profit driven -- just in a way which also happens ot feel good ;)
What if your mutation functions accepted a flag that set the saving behavior, and you used a sensible default?
Economists call these differences in incentives "agency costs". I learned this term in my MBA program :)
Apple TV 2nd gen is selling over 500,000 units per quarter?
Yea, I know, the legacy MBA culture of greed:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-31042419/alum-harvard...
Your mom might select a kindle fire if she hears from all her savvy friends and family that the kindle fire delivers a better experience. She may even hear why it does, but she may not care about the why, just that trusted sources inform her it is better.

I believe this is true in general. A few savvy people catch on that a product is better and it becomes a meme that others rely upon for their decisions.
I took a look and it seems to work well enough... I'm not sure how well what it does would translate to an e-reader.
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Whilst that might be an interesting idea, it would probably drive people away from focusing on great content. "Ooo I want comments and I'm only two blog posts away!"
It's in their interest to get as many people to pay for their content as they can, and one would think that multiple channels of distribution would be a means to that end.

It's obvious why they don't want to, of course. If they control distribution, the theory goes, they can charge basically whatever they want. And of course they can control legal distribution quite easily, but that's not enough, is it?
Not really sure in how far this is a new insight. Based on Drucker's old mantra Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation it is pretty obvious that in production based industries manufacturing and innovation are stronger related.

But it is great to see that influential business academics like him increasingly promote the fact that business success is not (only) about juggling numbers. Or to quote from my favorite paper by Christensen:

And all data are subjective. Each form of data is a higher-level abstraction from a much more complex reality

(2004 Carlile & Christensen - The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research)
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Funny you should mention history, as it is one of the easier topics to teach via games. The history channel has their name on several RTSs based on historical wars. You go into battles with historically accurate forces and goals with the cut scenes between battles delivering the political and historical background. Then there are RPGs like Romance of the Three Kingdoms where sure it is more historical fiction than historical fact, but the events and setting portrayed are fairly accurately captured.
Good point. For my particular app/use case, the user quickly opens the app, uses the camera, then closes the app and moves on -- which is why I'm optimizing load time.
But even for that case, that technique is a great suggestion, and probably what I should have tried first. I'll try it next. :)
Yes, I have tried viper mode, and it's a good effort. But it can only handle the basics, or at least when I tried it was just the basics. I have a ton of vim scripts customizing vim, adding features, etc., that just don't work with viper mode.

Part of me thinks that if I go over to emacs, I ought to go with the 'native' experience of it.

I appreciate the reply; and others may find Viper mode very useful.
Well changing to another editor, just for the looks of it. Looks like a very bad idea. Editors are productivity tools, not religions that if you don't use one you will end up going to hell.

Learning is good. But if you are using vim and you are productive enough then building on top of it will help you more than learning Emacs from the scratch.
This has a lot of really valuable information - thank you for sharing. I only entered the working world a few years ago and I wish I had read something like this before I had a job offering options so I wouldn't have been so clueless about how to look after my long term interests.
I had this grand idea of re-working my personal web site and having it be redirected to a GitHub hosted instance. All very clean/elite and all. And I did set it up and made 3 posts...

But then I stumbled onto or more so realized that I had a road block. Namely that of practicality.

I mean it meant that I needed to be on the command line to actually post and I needed to run Git commands to add files/posts and then push to the server. I couldn't post from my cell phone or iPad. Most of my browsing these days is from my iPad.

I mean blogging from WordPress/Blogger isn’t as clean/elite but at least you can edit through the web as well as optionally via a separate application. So if the barriers to create are too high I may as well be using WordPress/Tumblr/Blogger.

I tested out Cloud9 IDE since it ties in nicely with GitHub repositories and covers the base of being able edit througth the web... But the workflow still didn't work. Everything besides blogging 'got in the way'.

If you want to blog like a hacker, start by writing content that doesn't suck.

If you want to feel elite and 'static HTMLy' about it, then:

- Set up a simple content creation site that supports your content creation workflow best.
- Set up your elite Jekyll site.
- Set up a cronjob and a HTML parser which downloads and reformats your posts from your simple content creation site and feeds them to Jekyll.
You are not using indexes if you are laying out 800k of text in 30 seconds with memoir+fontspec+microtype. I'm not sure what a partial index even is but whatever it is you are right its vaporware at the moment.

As far as PDFs go what ebook reader uses pdfs as the native ebook format?

Out of curiosity if you set the paper size to ebook in memoir how does the compilation time change?
Eclipse largely wins because for verbose languages it fills in the gaps in the templates pretty well.

But for large text manipulation, automation, and non linear gains in productivity, Emacs is better designed to enable those than Eclipse.
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People in power have never been short on excuses for abuses thereof, this aspect of this issue is just another in a huge ocean of existing valid and arbitrary ones.
I see this as a complement to a recent Planet Money podcast "How Money Got Weird"... about the rise of financialization in america.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/30/140954343/the-frid...

The validity of a particular metric is irrelevant. The point is, on a broad scale, we're collectively worshiping on an altar of financial indicators instead of managing businesses.

I've worked at a bunch of places where people who are utterly clueless about the business make really lousy decisions by applying magic formulas. Sometimes they are MBAs, other times they are wannabes that read Deloitte magazine on an airplane. In either case, because they are clueless, they have no way of assessing the validity of the metrics they are using to run the business. The right formula with the wrong inputs yields the wrong answer.
The doc at http://www.phzbox.com/moka/index.html is pretty complete. The only thing I find is missing is a few words about efficiency. Does calling List(l) copy the list l for example?
You could argue that unlike in earlier generations, MBA's have less or even no skin in the game.

If it is more or less a given that they will move from company to company to company in the course of their career, why should they care if a particular firm does not survive _long-term_? If the shareholders want short-term results, then they are just doing their job to deliver them.

If they can improve things for a company in the short-term, their job is done. They themselves can lead "successful" careers and live comfortable lives with that approach. And leave wealth to their heirs. No long-term survival of the company is necessary.
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That looks interesting. I hadn't heard of it before, I think I will give it a try. Thanks for the link.
Its unbelievable how business (school) buzzwords and tactics tend to overlook the most important aspects of a particular industry / problem / scenario that are non-financial in nature. There is an important strategic perspective(s) which cannot be accounted for in IRR, RONA or any of the other hundred such terms. Loved the quote from the founder of TSMC.

It is also surprising to see that most Asian conglomerates ( in India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China etc.) seem to have strong vertically integrated businesses where are they continuing to build and expand expertise in the core areas, while letting the west become their marketing managers.
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You have to understand the publishing industry to understand why eBooks fail so terribly in design and typography. Most publishers could care less about the eBook format. They still have this idealistic vision that eBooks will die off. Publishers are truly idiots. I work for a startup in the digital book space and we get so many ePubs that do not meet standards and are formatted incorrectly. We end up having to hack our code to cater to each publisher. Some publishers are better than others but most of them honestly do not care about eBooks.
I didn't claim an immediate and obvious use for this info, I merely claimed that it was a true statement rather than a bias.
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