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For the argument that "my father taught me to work hard...":

If I get more done in an hour than you do, should I continue to work as many hours as physically possible just to get ahead? What if the experience I've gained over a decade of doing this allows me to do twice the work that you do in an hour?

Simply working more hours is just a race to the bottom. There's nothing there. In fact I'd argue that it stifles the mind from seeing the bigger picture. A good mind built for solving problems doesn't try to exhaust itself with repetitive, menial tasks. You may work 16 hours a day but I argue that you will get less and less done per hour. And in the end whether you get rich or not all you'll have to show for it is diabetes, some form of erectile dysfunction (if you happen to have those bits), coronary disease, and an amphetamine addiction.

Instead cultivate your mind and aim higher.

Perseverance does pay off. That should be the lessons of your fathers/mentors/etc who "worked hard."
This is basically for wordpress.com users who purchase something from Automattic (domain) to sell something to the world (Ads). There is no indication on what you, the blogger on wordpress.com, may be earning in return for this transaction, but Automattic certainly knows what they'd be earning. Good luck!
I'd also observe that carefully read, this article is really about how important assumptions are, and not about the problem per se. The Peter Winkler quote is key.
Besides the obvious advantages of open source and hackable, how else is this better than the ipod-nano as a watch design?

Oh interesting that someone thought of comparing the sizes:

http://www.sizeasy.com/page/size_comparison/31203-inPulse-vs...
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You could argue that Javascript is a language with the hashmap as its central data structure. It doesn't have a macro system/quotations/other LISPy things, of course, but you can certainly frame your argument as "would JS benefit from <LISP feature>?"
Well...they're not Hindu, they're Sikh. Never heard of Siri referred to has a Hindu name, but India is a big country...
I still do this kind of thing, and literally thirty minutes ago logged back on to an old server to fix the scraping script to deal with some bad data on the origin website.

It's quite pleasing when it works, and a hell of a lot easier to deal with as you just read the web page and scrape away.

I think when web pages become more clearly marked up we'll start seeing less and less of the API mess we've got ourselves into. If the websites did what we would hope they would, there wouldn't be a great need for a RESTful aspect of them.
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Siri is invaluable while driving. And I say that as a Canadian who doesn't have map integration with Siri yet.
Quote prevents evaluation.
If you didn't quote it, x[1] would get evaluated as code.
I think my HP printer had that worm pre-installed.

We dusted off an old, wired, B&W low res Cannon laser printer last year. It's our utility printer for internal docs or stuff you'd prefer to review on paper. It feels like an old reliable car. I think we're still using the same toner from last year's rebirth.

I bet there are a ton of these old printers sitting in corners shadowed by some glitzy full color, wifi, Internet enabled new hotness printer. It's probably a smart move to grab one of these old workhorses off Craigslist if you just need to print plain docs.
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I agree. This may well be an excellent book, but the linked page triggers a huge number of my scam/self-help/multi-level-marketing/blowhard alarms. My first impression on seeing that page is that it looks remarkably like one of those "Work At Home, $80/hour, This Housewife Got Rich In Her Spare Time!" sites.
I'm fully aware of who you are, and at least some of your successes (I've used Redis in several projects now, and love it).

For me it's an age thing. I put in some extremely long hours in my youth, and I think it paid off. I'm not putting in as many hours these days, but then again I feel like I'm quite a bit more productive with my time than I used to be.

I think it's the experience itself that's the differentiator, and not the fewer hours. In fact it's the experience that enables me to work fewer hours. When I was younger I really had to bang away trying many more approaches to solve a problem, and that meant longer hours.
It's not shocking at all that they allow firmware updates through the print port. That's very typical.

What's shocking is the claim that the update isn't signed. I'm at a loss as to how to describe how terrifically awful that is. It's /so/ shocking to me, I have a hard time believing it. If true, it's astoundingly negligent on their part.
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Thanksgiving was the cutesy (but needed) Upgrade Your Parents' Browser Day.

$winter_holiday_of_choice should include a Explain SOPA To Your Parents Lunch or something - we need to get as many level-headed against SOPA as possible.
I wonder if anybody here proposed to grant any government "complete and unhindered powers of surveillance".

It's a straw man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
That makes some sense to me, but technically that object at that point is not an "Enumerable" so you are essentially faking it knowing that it would be once executed.

Is there some significant benefit to it returning true for Enumerable that I'm just missing?
I disagree that the Tuesday bit means anything, since the question doesn't ask about the day of the week. They're saying you can change the odds simply by giving ANY information, but that's not true. Only information that is reflected in the question is relevant.

In case that isn't enough, they've counted 2 boys twice 7 times, not just once. It doesn't matter which is older, as we already established in the original non-Tuesday question. But in the Tuesday question, they suddenly though it was different whether the younger or older son was born on Tuesday. The question doesn't ask about that.

At any rate, it's a bunch of hand-waving and deliberately confusing words. The chance that any child is male is 50%. (In reality it's not, but whatever.) Knowing another child's sex doesn't change that. Let's de-confuse it a bit:

The younger child is male. The older child could be male or female.

The older child is male. The younger child could be male or female.

See how nicely that lines up? 50%.
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I understand thanks to a comment I found here: http://helives.blogspot.com/2010/07/tuesday-child-puzzle.htm...

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Unfortunately, these questions you ask are ambiguous, and it is the failure to recognize how they are ambiguous that causes the results to seem unexpected. Consider two versions of what led up to the first statement:

Case #1: A father is chosen at random. He is given a slip of paper as he is led onto a stage. The paper says "Pick one of your children. Tell the audience the number of children you have, the chosen child's gender, and the day of the week on which it was born."

Case #2: A father is chosen at random from all fathers who have two children, including one boy born on a Tuesday. He is also ushered onto a stage and given a slip of paper that instructs him to tell the audience the criteria used to select him.

Now shift scenes. You are in the audience when a man is ushered onto the stage. He looks at a slip of paper, thinks a moment, and says "I have two children and one of them is a boy born on Tuesday." What is the probability that he has two boys?

The answer to the question depends on which case applies to the man you listened to. In Case #1, it is 1/2. In case #2, it is 13/27. Your simulation only covered the second case. To get the first, after you have two children, flip a coin to see which one the father will tell about. If it is not a Tuesday Boy, don’t keep that trial even if the other child is a Tuesday Boy. You will find that the 27 cases where you have a Tuesday Boy reduce to 14 (just over half, since one father didn’t need to flip the coin), the 13 where you also have two boys reduces to 7, and the answer is exactly 1/2.

If you simulate the simpler problem, where you don’t worry about the day of the week, the answers are 1/2 and 1/3 for the two cases, respectively. The reason 13/27 seems unintuitive, is because the fact that a Tuesday Boy was REQUIRED in the second case is not intuitively obvious from the statement "one of them is a boy born on Tuesday." In fact, as you point out, the puzzle could equally well be named after either of your two children, which is probably two different names. You choose one, just like the father in case #1, so the better answer to your question is 1/2, not 13/27. It is still ambiguous, but there is no valid reason to assume that case #2 applies.
Many people seem to confuse lisp's expressiveness with its syntax.

Syntax is just the beginning.

How you abuse it, to get things done is the more important thing. Please take time to explore this aspect more than those silly fracking parens.
Except

chief -> chiefs

brief -> briefs

Maple Leaf -> Maple Leafs (Canadian Hockey team)
yeah it does reek of it when you drive through
Gotcha. I guess we wait, unless you have contacts / $$.

:)
Brother already does this. When the printer tells you that toner is empty on a Brother laser printer, you usually have about 15-20% left. However, the printer will refuse to print anything. The solution is (no joke) to put tape over the sensor window on the cartridge, and you can get another 1000 pages or so.

http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/laser/39806

Proud owner of a Brother laser printer here. My guess is that this is how they can afford to sell the printers for so cheap (usually underselling HP).
Much of the stuff in the starter kit (but not all of it) is actually in emacs24. Phil has been influential in making this happen, I think.

I too got started using emacs with technomancy's starter kit.

BTW I am not a fan of js2 mode based on my initial use of it, but perhaps I'll try the tweaks.
i like the machine. have you thought about pitching it to businesses for receipts, movie stubs, raffles, parking tickets, checks, contact info...etc
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I vote for "prove". All those extra and unnecessary quotes and commas. Blech. And all that extra ugliness just so you can re-use the JS parser? IMHO there's no excuse for this. It's really easy to write a parser that does the Right Thing, e.g.:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/l.py
This:

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

which is low, but better than nothing.
Every Mac shipped with a mouse in the past 6 years has had a continuous scrolling mechanism built into the mouse. First with the Mighty Mouse, which had a scroll ball, and then with the Magic Mouse, which you can scroll directly on the surface of the mouse.
Seems more like a novelty item.
At my current job, I divulged my salary during the interview, and I'm positive I make less money because of it.

However, what I'm getting paid is still quite good and way higher than I was making... Partly because I asked for more during the negotiation. So I'm not upset about it.

For my next job, however, I won't be telling my previous salary, and I'll be using that 'I don't divulge company policies' line. I've never found it a good idea to tell people that stuff anyhow, friend or co-worker.
While it's hard for me to see any practical reason for this product to exist, there's a certain sort of optimistic retrofuturism to it, on-demand printing being the primary method of data display in early Asimov-era science fiction.

If this product succeeds, it will be through tapping that cultural association with a world of flying cars and other high-tech impracticalities.
Understand your desire around consumer experience, but you really need to engage now with a few stations to vet your assumptions.
Don't switch from Adwords yet: optimize. I don't know how your campaigns work, but we have clients in the same niche and run hundreds of campaigns each with hundreds of creative. Then look at the heuristics of buying cycles and ramp up in periods of lower buying cost and higher output. Also make sure you try Facebook, that also works very well when you undersand the targeting and optimization. Ads are mostly persistence and optimization. I would forgo affiliate. Try to avoid eBay as it will commoditized your product. Focus on the experience, your site is already quite nicely appointed. Also try specific branded experiences to draw people in, take a cut from how the open heart pendants are sold by a reputable retailer.

If I can answer any specific q's, hit me up at omid at Rennzer dot com
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I'm used to seeing a close button on these types of messages on Stack Overflow. Kind of a nuisance to have it stuck there even after I've signed the petition. Maybe if it were a different color, or I hadn't been trained to read all of the yellow status messages on each SO page, it would be less annoying..
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It’s worth noting that other (non-HP) printers, copiers, and all-in-one thingamajigs are probably vulnerable to a similar attack, too.

Well anything produced to be mass/IT-managed probably provides an easy method for firmware upgrading. And all firmware encryptions/checksums/etc are of course (at least theoretically) crackable.

I don't see how this could come off as a surprise to anyone in the industry.
I'm having an extremely hard time wrapping my head around the usefulness of this product. The Little Printer is generating hardcopy of snippets of temporal events. These snippets are reduced to headlines without content to put them into context. It is using thermal paper, which HN has identified does not have longevity for scrapbooks or archival purposes. I can't find the value of this. Why consume resources when my phone can provide me all this? I was very surprised to see it as a trending topic on Twitter. Why does everyone want one so terribly so?
This is great but surely we need to be targeting a wider audience? SO is made up of tech enthusiasts, I imagine a large percentage of them have heard of SOPA and understand the issues. However they probably represent a tiny fraction of the population.

Really we need the eBay's, AOL's and Craiglist's of this world to be running campaigns like this, getting the message out to the more casual internet user.
But seriously, folks...

What characteristics of someone appearing like this would make him or her (or it or them) believeable? How could you "prove" you actually arrived from The Future?

A sort of corollary: what characteristics would some artifact have to exhibit to allow one to consider it "alien", the product of a non-human intelligence?
The MitM attack inserted into the HTTPS implementation is the most depressing part. I'm just stunned that serious people would have ever agreed to this. Now how long until an on-device attack against CiQ compromises real data?
They cite that their employees get 200+ emails a day.
Yet they want them to revert to a chat based system.

They'll still get the same amount of communication but be expected to give an immediate response.

How long will it be before people just mark themselves as "Away" and treat their IM's as a new mailbox.
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run away, seriously, the fact that you are even considering this means you need to turn away from startups for now and focus on getting a job with a solid company to get some experience
Yes, it's strange isn't it? But since the big media copyright lads want to go further than the DMCA, that would imply it was OK. And the USA has the DMCA now, how has the last 10 years been for internet freedom? Not too bad, so it probably wasn't that bad.
I like to think of Noir as being a composable framework in the sense that in cases in Sinatra, Rails, etc., I would remove duplicated code using before/after controllers, with Noir I write helper functions for login checking, wrapping a partial for similar web pages, etc. I nest these function calls as appropriate.

So there is really not as much duplication of code as you might think.

Off topic, but: one of the biggest productivity boosts with Noir (and Compojure) is simultaneously running a repl with the code to try stuff out, run 'lein run' with auto-reload of changed files, and a real editor like Emacs or IntelliJ with the Clojure plugin for permanent code changes. Auto-reloading of CSS and Javascript assets also works fine. Sweet dev setup.
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When the sites are down for more than 1 hour and the hosting support has nothing but to say "Sorry for the inconvenience but we are looking into it"<p>I've encountered this problem over and over again. Currently facing the problem with ServInt. Is there any thing we can do about this?
Fresh out of college and your first job, you didn't hold many cards. I think you made exactly the right decision. (And I'm not just saying that because it was mine, either!)

But yeah, in the future, look for a job while you don't have pressure and you can afford to be pickier and ask for more. (I did this, also.) You might be amazed at the results.
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I read that as being "Look women! You are not shackled by your sex! C'mon, you can do it! Haggle more!"
It's highly unlikely that the EU decision would alter the outcome of Oracle v. Google in any way regardless of timing. This is a US case involving completely different parties and a significantly different set of facts.

Decisions of non-US courts usually have little influence unless statutory or case law is severely lacking or highly ambiguous, and even then they are treated much like one might treat a book by a legal scholar. Decisions by courts that do not share the English common law traditions are of even more attenuated influence.
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Their front page animation makes me think of Enemy of the State.

The most frightening thing is almost how proudly they present their level of surveillance.
Yeah you right didn't think of that. But I'm sure there is something ;p
right in which case I'm assuming you'd remove your work and leave the original version instead of pulling down work which wasn't yours.
I think a large part of the problem is that there is no way to figure out how much each person is actually worth.

The Labour Theory of Value is not correct. 'Worth' is not based on how much you put in, but also on what the company is doing, and what their other options are. etc.

Things are worth what people will pay for them.
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Response from CarrierIQ on their site [PDF][http://www.carrieriq.com/Media_Alert_User_Experience_Matters...]:

Mountain View, CA – November 16, 2011 – Carrier IQ would like to clarify
some recent press on how our product is used and the information that is
gathered from smartphones and mobile devices.

Carrier IQ delivers Mobile Intelligence on the performance of mobile devices and
networks to assist operators and device manufacturers in delivering high quality
products and services to their customers. We do this by counting and measuring
operational information in mobile devices – feature phones, smartphones and
tablets. This information is used by our customers as a mission critical tool to
improve the quality of the network, understand device issues and ultimately
improve the user experience. Our software is embedded by device
manufacturers along with other diagnostic tools and software prior to shipment.

While we look at many aspects of a device’s performance, we are counting and
summarizing performance, not recording keystrokes or providing tracking
tools. The metrics and tools we derive are not designed to deliver such
information, nor do we have any intention of developing such tools. The
information gathered by Carrier IQ is done so for the exclusive use of that
customer, and Carrier IQ does not sell personal subscriber information to 3rd
parties. The information derived from devices is encrypted and secured within
our customer’s network or in our audited and customer-approved facilities.

Our customers have stringent policies and obligations on data collection and
retention. Each customer is different and our technology is customized to their
exacting needs and legal requirements. Carrier IQ enables a measurable impact
on improving the quality and experience of our customers’ mobile networks and
devices. Our business model and technology aligns exclusively with this goal.

For media Commentary, contact:
Mira Woods
Phone: 617-513-7020
Email: mwoods@carrieriq.com
When I spoke to my supervisor, he said this is acceptable as long as you don't do it too often (matching a 30% higher offer once every three years was the figure quoted). However I expect this might vary greatly depending on your specific industry and company structure.
Any leads on the device ?

I'd love to be able to replace my ageing, worn Nook with one of these.
Actually, as pointed out in the article much of this behavior is counter to the stated privacy policies of the carrier. That's a breach of contract, and I suspect an enterprising lawyer could turn this into a class action suit.
> used the information to launch http://os-blog.com

What engine are you using?
Another factor could be that earlier interviews weed out the forceful negotiators among the women, because that personality trait makes women less likable. On the other hand, a lack of aggressiveness makes men appear weak.
Scott Page who is the guy who is giving this class wrote an excellent book called "The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies": http://tinyurl.com/cbv2pm9

Certain types of mental models are covered in the book, but not in a concentrated way. The book was also highly recommend in one of Nassim Taleb's books (I think it was "The Black Swan").
In fact, you have to if you want to have WordAds.
It is easiest for a lot of people. I know someone who did this a lot and ended up with an extremely high salary just a few years after dropping out of school. He would look for different companies after 1-2 years of working at his current one, apply, and try to get a better salary. It got to the point once where the companies he was working for were bidding for the person with the companies he applied to. This wasn't at Silicon Valley, and wasn't with startups, and he never quit his current job unless he had secured a better job.
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Have a look at: http://www.presto.com/
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Really curious: why did you use l2cap over spp? With spp you'd at least have full coverage of all Android devices since 2.0, independent of platform-specific stacks. Is spp an option at all?